Not only that but she dumped a great guy who’s only fault was he had allergies for a guy who lives 3,000 miles away that may not be compatible with her.
As with a lot of movies mentioned I’m not sure if some people have the same definition of happy ending as I do.
Many action movies have what would be the largest slaughter of police officers in history but that’s just background. There could be 20 good guy bodies laying around but no one cares unless it’s the red shirt partner. Recently the Punisher series was guilty of this.
I’m not sure this fits the nature of the OP but I always thought the end of Avatar was really just the beginning of nothing but bad endings for the Na’vi and Pandora. As if humans starving for energy would just throw up their hands and give up all that unobtanium. Get ready for a rain of fire and death from above, Pandora. Humans will attack you from space until there is nothing living left and sweep up what they want from the ashes.
Dorothy leaves her new friends and a colorful land where she could be queen to go back to miserable, colorless Kansas where she still has to give her dog up once Almira Gulch realizes Toto escaped her basket. Not a single thing is resolved other than Dorothy’s rash decision to run away from home during a tornado.
Pretty much the same thing happened to Frank Sinatra in The Manchurian Candidate. :eek:
While we’re at it, I’ve never really understood the logic behind that movie. Angela Lansbury is a John Bircher who wants to establish a dictatorship in the United States so she can battle the Communists, whom she despises. For help, she turns to … the Soviets and the Red Chinese, who freely offer their help because they loathe and detest the United States and actually *want *a Joe McCarthy–type to become president. She then lets them brainwash her son right in the middle of the Korean War because she has an incestuous relationship with him. After deservedly whacking her and her husband, he then shoots himself, a great happy ending.
My take on it is that Mrs. Iselin (played by Lansbury) was a communist who was pretending to be an anti-communist conservative so that she could gain power and destroy the U.S. government.
At least now she knows that if there’s another tornado, her aunt and uncle will lock her out of the storm shelter without a second thought.
To add insult to injury, that creepy Professor Marvel is still around; he shows up at Dorothy’s bedroom window in the final scene to see how she’s doing. Think about it: he already knew which window was her bedroom.
We saw Miss Gulch in the tornado, but that was only after Dorothy’s house was ripped off its foundation. Since Dorothy wakes up and her house is fine, I assume that Miss Gulch in the tornado is part of the dream. She may have avoided the tornado entirely.
At least, that’s how I remember it. Been ages since I watched that movie.
Or he just stuck his head in various windows until he found the right one, which is not much better, really.
One that pissed me off was What Women Want. Yes, I know, it was a lame movie, but I did find it fairly enjoyable nonetheless – until they added the last scene that just turned it into pap. Like when they show Brazil on broadcast TV and cut it off early. Come on, people, learn where the end of a movie is supposed to be.
Probably sadder and bleaker than the end of Delicatessen, but only just.
