I got the idea that she didn’t care about communism or capitalism, she just wanted to have the unlimited power of a dictator.
I saw a community theater production of Wizard of Oz in which Auntie Em explicitly said that Miss Gulch had been killed by the twister, so Toto was now safe.
Whether this was actually part of the theatrical script, or added by the director, I don’t know. Either way, it’s definitely not in the movie.
“That must have been a storm of extraordinary magnitude!”
The Runaway Bride
Julia Roberts is selfish and cruel, and breaks hearts all over the place on a whim.
But Richard Gere “proves” that it’s because the men in her life didn’t really know her or appreciate how awesome she is. Why, those bastards didn’t even know how she liked her eggs!
What a crock. A selfish egomaniac hurts everyone she gets involved with, but it’s the MEN’S fault.
Grease
Sandy, the only character who ISN’T a moron and a complete loser, decides to become a moron and a loser, just to fit in. Rizzo nearly got pregnant and dropped out of high school at the age of 45, so she’s a GREAT role model.
Changing Lanes
Gavin Banek (Ben Affleck) and Doyle Gipson (Samuel L. Jackson) engage in an escalating feud in which each commits acts that should have ended with them in jail. The result is that both their lives are nearly ruined. But then, at the end of the movie, Banek sees the light and magically fixes everything (the magic includes an off-screen converation with Gipson’s ex-wife in which he convinces her to forgive Gipson).
To me, this happy ending was forced and unbelievable. The movie would have been better if it ended with both men staring into space wondering how they could have screwed up their lives so badly.
To be fair, if you haven’t finished high school by 45, perhaps it’s time to explore other options.
I hated Rizzo when I saw her in the Broadway version of Grease back in 1975! But I hated her even more in the movie because Stockard Channing was old enough to play the PRINCIPAL!
HA! I had forgotten that scene. 
It doesn’t bother me all that much when actors’ ages don’t match their characters. Sometimes I don’t notice. If it’s really egregious I just kind of roll my eyes and try to enjoy the story.
But yeah, Rizzo’s not a nice character; she spews a lot of venom and pretty much gets her way in the end. I still remember the way Mad magazine phrased it, that to get the guy of her dreams, a girl has to become a slut.
I think it might be more accurate to say that the movie is very pro peer pressure. That’s not a message I particularly like.
In other words, she was the American equivalent of a beefsteak Nazi* (Brown on the outside but Red on the inside)? :dubious:
*Communists who voted for Hitler on orders from Moscow in order to subvert the Weimar government.
Can’t you also just say what the “lost ending” is so I don’t have to open another link?
At least you saw Grease in 1975, before it was infected with those terrible anachronistic songs from the movie. I’d love to see a production without the Olivia Newton John songs.
I was troubled by the end of To Hell and Back, where the hero is decorated with a fancy medal for taking a bullet in the ass. There is a nice formal ceremony on the parade grounds. On August 6th of 1945. That date just obscures the happiness of the ceremony.
Oh, and Audie Murphy lives.
They discover that Old Man Potter kept the money so they form a lynch mob and then kick his ass.
You know, of course, that it’s a true story? :dubious:
It always makes me roll my eyes when movie characters are going through, or have just been through, what would be the most traumatic experience of anybody’s life – and decide that’s just the perfect time to start making out.
For my contribution to the thread, I’ll add Sex and the City. Over the years, Carrie was dumped, ghosted, cheated on, and generally treated like shit by Mr. Big. But he’s rich, so I guess we were supposed to be happy she landed him at the end of the series.
But to make matters even worse, in the movie, he ditches her on their wedding day. Yet she still ends up with him in what is supposed to be a happy ending.
This is actually a thing in real life, for some people anyway. You go through an intense experience with someone and bond. But what happens when it’s next Tuesday and the guy who seemed so perfect when he was punching velociraptors in the face doesn’t seems so great when he’s getting fired from his 14th job for punching his boss.
I always thought people acted too happy at the end of the Star Trek TOS episode “The Ultimate Computer”. The M-5 computer prototype installed on the Enterprise malfunctions during war games, killing everyone on the Excalibur and 53 on the Lexington. The genius scientist who designed it is driven insane. Alright, Kirk manages to defeat the computer and save further lives on the three remaining Star Fleet vessels plus his own. But it is a major disaster for Star Fleet. Poor Spock. He had such a light in his eyes when he thought the right computer came along.
Thank you both! When I saw this thread, I was instantly reminded of that movie, even though I probably hadn’t thought of it for ~40 years, and couldn’t remember the title or the names of any of the actors, so it was going to be one hell of a challenging Google search. It was gonna drive me nuts, I knew.
Anyhow, totally agree. A world-class stupid happy ending. I vaguely recall some implausible plot turns along the way, too, but damned if I’m gonna re-watch it to jog my memory.
This. That they have no idea what they should do next is the whole point of that ending.