You neglected to mention that Grodin **dumps his new bride **(who was actually pretty hot!) while they’re on their honeymoon so he can spend the rest of the movie stalking Cybill Shepherd!
Exhibit A: The Great Drop Game
Exhibit B: Queenie Peavey
Representing an entire genre of tales about tomboys that show them taking on the world and beating the boys on their own terms, only to conclude with the main character deciding at the end to embrace her inner femme and start acting with ladylike decorum and to put aside all those boyish mannerisms and habits. :rolleyes:
None of them by themselves would have been so bad, it’s just that this trajectory was common enough that I came to regard it as a cliche.
Snowpiercer: the train crashes and the two young children are the only survivors, and they crawl out into a world where everything living thing has died. But wait! There’s a polar bear on a nearby hill, a sign that life can and does survive. The children have hope!
Except these kids have no idea how to find food, build shelter, or have any survival skills at all. Which isn’t even important, because they have maybe 15 minutes before that alpha predator eats them.
And then Grease turns that on its head by having Sandy act like a 50s era slut to attract John Travolta, so it’s all good. 
Weird, my worst one was right on the money.
That’s because Knives dodged a bullet. It was the happiest possible ending for HER.
Obvious spoiler alerts.
As Good as it Gets. OK, it’s the ending and Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt are walking off into the sunset as an official couple.
Except you know that five minutes later he’s going to pull another asshole move that forces her to dump him.
The real ending should be that he tries to make himself a better man, for her, and he succeeds, but it’s not enough. He’s turned from an intolerable asshole with no redeeming qualities into an intolerable asshole with some redeeming qualities.
Thanks for falling on that grenade for me, or I would have not been able to resist the straight line just dangling there for so many posts.
I couldn’t get invested in Scott Pilgrim because everybody I was supposed to like as a character was a rubbish human being, except maybe Knives, and she was underage.
I couldn’t get invested in Scott Pilgrim because I just couldn’t suspend my disbelief for the more outlandish elements of the story. I mean, two gorgeous young women fighting over Michael Cera? Please. There’s only so much I’m willing to accept in a work of fantasy.
I seriously couldn’t believe it took that long (which is also what she said).
I mean you really must have not known what to do with Juno and Nick and Nora’s Infinite Playlist where Cera is geekily attractive to Ellen Page and Kat Dennings respectively. For whatever reason Cera in the late 00s was considered the archetype of male adorkableness.
Anyway I loved the movie as well as the graphic novels…
Yeah, test audiences are stupid. Ducky and Andie belonged together, and I will brook no argument against that pairing.
I won’t spoil the ending of Oldboy, but it’s happy in a distinctly unhappy way.
Not exsactly a “happy” ending but Fatal Attraction was supposed to end with Alex framing Dan to make her suicide look like murder. Audiences hated that ending, so it was changed to The Wronged Wife cleaning up the mess her husband created.
That’s nothing compared to the ending of How I Met Your Mother, which managed to piss off every faction of fandom for different reasons:
- They introduced a character in the last season who quickly (and probably accidentally) became beloved, then killed her off at the end
- Half the audience was rooting for Barney and Robin
- The other half was angry Barney and Robin had gotten married in the first place
- Ted’s continued pining over Robin was even worse than Ross’ mooning over Rachel, AND spit on the memory of the (probably accidentally) beloved mother, AND reset the entire show back to Episode 1.
A perfect ending to a great movie. Wasn’t supposed to be happy.
Oh, forgot, I thought it was well known enough… (I don’t know what the ‘new version’ is like, it sounded horrible.) I thought Cybill Shepherd’s character ‘did whatever her daddy told her’, and it seems she married the creep just to piss her father off? I sincerely hope that marriage failed hugely.
It should be said that the character of Duckie was apparently heavily based on Molly Ringwald’s life-long best friend( who was on set during shooting ),who is gay :). Ringwald’s opinion( for whatever it is worth ), is that the character of Duckie is gay as well.
Silver Linings Playbook.
Spoilers below.
We are supposed to be glad that the cute-but-both-crazy couple ends up together in the end. But considering that their problems will probably reinforce one another, I couldn’t help but think they will both be institutionalized or more likely dead within six months.
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All of Pat Sr.'s money troubles are over when he wins his bet on the dance contest. Except they’re not. He’s a gambling addict, and will turn right around and gamble it all away again.