🎞 How do you react/respond to an Unhappy Ending?

[Rosexøxø]

Do you ever look at movies- see a sad ending,

and then think up ways you could have solved it, “done it differently,” or saved them?

Or am I the only one who does this? Lol

Cry about it / try to accept it

Think of ways it could/ SHOULD have ended

Question everything in life

Vow to never see it again

Try to forget you even ever saw it

Treat yourself after the movie

Write a letter to the director

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+1 y

And let’s be honest for a sec.

At some point, we’ve been all of these options, in a span of.00001 seconds 🙋‍♀️🤣

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@Chazmatazz269 also deserves mho. Love the resolve and good posture about a movie! I admire that 🤜🤛

[God_of_Thunder]

I actually like the occasional "sad/bad" ending, so long as it's realistic.

Movies that magically wrap up even the most tragic stories into a nice, sugar coated happy ending annoy me. It's just so improbable that it's immersion breaking.

Things don't always turn out perfectly. Sometimes people die. Sometimes they don't get married. Sometimes the hero doesn't get what they want.

Maybe that's just me, I don't know. I'm just a realist, so I hate seeing everybody live happily ever after, every single time, 'cause it just doesn't work that way in real life, and reinforces that I'm watching a fantasy.

[Rosexøxø]

I see 🤔 want that relatability and to feel like your emotions and life is valid!

As it is!

We all have tough times and sometimes we need to see those who experience sad endings and still standing strong!

And if they crumble! We relate!

It’s a vibe 🤔 yeah, I see it

[Chazmatazz269]

Well, happiness is subjective. So i’m not always broken by the same things as other people, and some people would laugh out loud at the stuff that does break me.
I tend to get sucked into good movies and shows the first time around. If i’m tryna solve the protagonist’s problems, the filmmakers messed up pretty badly. So my response will usually be emotional at first and relative after a fashion. If it really sticks with me, i’ll become resolute in time.
With the bad ones, yeah, i’ll be like, “Howdahell they didn’t just…?”. Ell oh ell!

[Rosexøxø]

I love this comment BUNCHES THIS DESERVES MHO

[DizzyDesii]

A lot of the time it just ruins the film for me. Like For Colored Girls had extremely sad middles. One of my fave actors played a rapist... kids were guilt in another part... A closeted gay man gave his wife aids. Jut too many bad middles in that movie that i didn't even care about the silly “come together for support” ending. I have no intentions of rewatching films like that

[Rosexøxø]

I know right! Some movies just beat me up lmao. I need to sit in a movie with a pyshiatrust 🥲

#SendHelp lmfao

[DizzyDesii]

I meant killed not guilt

[WhitneySnow]

I did the opposite lol. When I watched the Clint Eastwood movie In the Line of Fire I imagined that Clint East wood’s character died heroically taking a bullet for the President instead of miraculously surviving. And I was one of the few people in my friend group who was happy with Tony Stark and Natasha dying at the end of Endgame.

[Rosexøxø]

😱😆🤣 omg I mean, maybe I get the die with honor. Maybe that’s subconsciously what you feel is right, and you don’t wish to die any other way, or running from things? That’s admirable

But if not this, I will just say..

Happy birthday 🤲😀🤣

[WhitneySnow]

I think you’re right! Honor is important to me.

[Rosexøxø]

Yess! I relate! Just don’t have death wishes Whitney! 😂 I don't know maybe you do

I can’t stop you!

I salute you sis! For the causes!

☝️🤧 I need a Kleenex

[WhitneySnow]

No death wish lol. And thanks! For the salute 🙂

[Rosexøxø]

It is a most true honor 😌🤜🤛

[NamerOfStars]

Sometimes a downer ending works- for a topic example, Lord of War. Then, I'm okay with it. But sometimes... cripes.

[Rosexøxø]

Yeah, I can see that. 👀👐

[lightbulb27]

don't watch movies anymore, total waste of my time usually... most. I watch youtube "information" and read. I watched plenty when I was young...

I live real life and yes, if I had been more aware and made better decisions I could have made a difference in another animals life this year. It sadened me to find this baby creature dead, but it re-challenged me to do better... in real life.

[Rosexøxø]

I like your perspective on this 😃

[exitseven]

I did cry at the end of the Avengers Endgame. Not just because Iron Man sacrificed himself but because it was the end of a movie franchise that was entertaining for the last 11 years. I just figured that nothing lasts forever

[Rosexøxø]

It’s gonna be okay buddy 😭🤧🤜🤛

[exitseven]

hahahaha too funny.

[The_Shadow_Dweller]

Nope. Never. Not one of the options.

I watch movies from technical point of view. And I trust the director to kill off some character. So, that works.

[Rosexøxø]

Would you consider yourself a cinema lover/ enthusiast?

[The_Shadow_Dweller]

Yup! I like CGI rich movies. Like DC and Marvel. Those are awesome. More on the DC side this time. I feel bad, but not that bad. You know, when something happens in the movie. I tell myself that they are just characters nothing else.

[Rosexøxø]

I see 🤔 Veryyyyy interesting. I could differ on this, but really no need to exclaim. I appreciate this perspective you have on movies. Very enlightening, thanks. 😌👐

[The_Shadow_Dweller]

You know... I want to be like you. I want to feel the emotions you feel. But, I just don't feel the connection you know.
There are very few movies where I connected with them.

[Rosexøxø]

I am not offended 👀👐 I don’t want to say why you could benefit from something else. Your way is helpful to you, and everyone is entitled to their individuality 👐👀.

The way I would say it, could come across the wrong way, so I steer clear of it.

But thank you for this compliment and clarification. You have a good heart and mind 👐😊😌

[TheSpaceGnome]

Option B, and its not specifically about needing happy endings, but more just things that make no sense or that I feel was a bad direction to go with it.

[Rosexøxø]

It’s kinda fun sometimes when it’s like a really dramatic/ action filled movie 😁🤜🤛

[Aakash_Hangargi]

I didn't understand the option B you don't want to end things by using gun to kill them you want to slam them to death with ladder and a table?

Lol what are you WWE pro wrestler😆

[Rosexøxø]

Lmao THIS IS TOO HILARIOUS I TELL YOU.

Tell me you know who Jackie Chan issss 😭😂😂

[Aakash_Hangargi]

Off ourse he was my neighbour

[Rosexøxø]

😧 God level: 3000 🤯🙏

[Agape93]

I expect them so it doesn't really bother me. So, I just watch another movie.

[Rosexøxø]

This is oddly moving ☝️🤧

[Agape93]

Makes sadder movies like Marley and me, or bridge to terabithia, a lot easier to watch. You don't get attached to anyone, because they'll be dead or ruined soon enough. Star wars rogue one is a prime example of that.

[NathanDavis]

I tend to do this for every scene and decision... lol

and I often get lost in my own version of the movie, running through my fully blown and vividly technicolor imagination

which is why I like Netflix the most, I can just go back to the previous point and keep watching the actual movie, lol

[bigpauly]

Lol. I guess I accept it as is for the most part. However, when I rewatch a movie where I know something I don’t like is going to happen I always hope it won’t anyways. 😅😅😅

[Rosexøxø]

🤣 lol that is some twisted adrenaline rush you’ve got there!

🤣🤜🤛

#Wild

[bigpauly]

😂😂😂

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

Cry about it / try to accept it.

[Rosexøxø]

Sometimes even a good cry during a movie is just so THERAPEUTIC.

Timing is everything 🤧🤜🤛

[ibodi]

yeah but sometimes that is what I want

[Rosexøxø]

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[Rosexøxø]

Wrong meme, still funny, and Tom is among us 🙏😌😂

[moonpie89]

I'm like fuck

[Rosexøxø]

Well that’s one way to go… 👐👀

Lmao jk but I relate 🤧🤜🤛