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Jack
The "Happy" Ending: Robin Williams plays the titular character, an elementary school child trapped in the body of a middle aged man (so he's essentially playing himself). By the film's end, Jack's formerly intolerant classmates learn to love and accept him for the horrifying genetic aberration he is. Wait a Minute... All of this just makes it even sadder that Jack won't live to see college.
There's a reason why in other "kid becomes an adult" films, the transformation is brought on by some fantasy element such as a magic ring, or a wishing machine, or a goat sacrifice to Ba'al. In Jack, the main character is instead said to have a rare genetic condition that causes him to age four times faster than normal. Now, the problem with this is that it strongly resembles an actual medical condition known as Progeria. And, sadly, most people afflicted by this disease don't live past age thirteen, as you'd suspect for a disease that makes you age really, really fast.
So Jack won't get the ending Tom Hanks got in Big, where he magically shrinks back to child-size with the knowledge he'll get to live a normal, full life as the only kid in 8th grade who's boned a grown woman. Of course, knowing that Jack will be walking with a cane by high school is still less depressing than what this movie did to Francis Ford Coppola's career. #2.
The Matrix Trilogy
The "Happy" Ending: Thanks to the triumph of the human will and several baffling plot contrivances, Neo sacrifices himself and convinces the machines who are enslaving humanity to stop enslaving humanity quite so much. Over a beautiful sunset, the machines send their Colonel Sanders avatar to announce that any humans who want to be freed from the matrix will be allowed to do so. Thanks, Neo!
Wait a Minute... Hey, remember in the first movie where they said they don't pull adults out of the matrix? You know, because finding out that every experience they ever had was false and that the real world is a frozen wasteland destroys their mind? Well, in this new world, the whole, "All of society, history and culture is a computer generated hoax" thing isn't going to stay a secret for long. How do you think society would react to finding that out? How do you think the major religions would react? Why would anyone get up to go to work after that ("Build a house? Why can't the matrix just freaking generate one")? How do you think starving third-world nations would regard their machine masters, knowing that their misery is purely the invention of the machines, and that the matrix could in fact have rained food down from the sky any time it wanted, but just chose not to?
The world would descend into utter chaos. Luckily, the people can escape the madness any time they want by exiting the matrix! Oh, wait, they can't. The one city where people can live has been devastated by the robot attack, and there is nothing close to enough housing, food, clothing, fresh water, etc to accommodate even a small country. Fuck you, Neo! #1.
Back to the Future
The "Happy" Ending: While on a time-travel adventure, young Marty McFly helps his father become less of a pussy and meet his future wife. After returning to his own time, Marty finds that his formerly dysfunctional family is now happy and affluent, the school bully Biff has been made into an indentured servant, and he has a cool new truck. Wait a Minute... Marty's family doesn't exist anymore.
Sure the people in his house look the same, but they have completely different personalities from the people he knew and loved before he hopped in the Delorean. The utterly different direction their lives took basically gives his parents personalities as alien to him as pod people from Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Not to mention the fact that every single conversation and interaction with his parents will be based on a history he has utterly no memory of. How long until they push to have Marty institutionalized, since every memory from his childhood is from some bizarre alternate reality that no one else shares? On top of all that, while the movie wants us to cheer Biff becoming a menial laborer for the McFlys as a nice bit of karmic comeuppance, we can't help but think that it's a bad idea to give a house key to the guy who once tried to rape your wife.
But hey, at least he got a cool ass truck out of the deal. For movies that are depressing for a whole other reason check out Rick's look at 5 Awesome Movies Ruined By Last-Minute Changes. Or find out about some action stars whose careers had a less than happy ending in 5 Movie Martial Artists That Lost a Deathmatch to Dignity. |
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I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed that Biff was an attempted rapist and should've been in prison. Waxing a car was the weakest karmic punishment imaginable.
you want to know something really fucked up?
Andy going to college and abandoning the toys is the alleged plot for Toy Story 3, due out in 2010.
Reply: Now, I hate to sound like some brainless Hollywood insider, but I found an actual script for Toy Story 3 and it doesn't have that plotline in it. I can email it to you if you want to see it.
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The Noghri were some badass fighters. I guess you would be pretty pissed to if you found out someone had been lying to you and holding you in bondage while using you as suicide commandos. The Thrawn trilogy is still my favorite series of all time.
If you ever read any of the star wars books. basically what you said would happen did happen.
it wasnt the rebellion that killed the empire
it was the empire that killed itself
one guy grand admiral thrawn had s**t together for a few months
then his own assassins killed him in cold blood
then the emporer came back to life for no reason
it took eight freakin years for things to calm down
then s**t just got worse
Hey Dax, the battlecruisers so touted at the beginning of WWI took your idea to some extent, placing the steering in a protected lower part of the ship, but the truth is that instruments just are not as good as seeing it for your self. For support, look to helicopter pilots. Even though they can do "instrument flying" they hate it. Anyway, the only reason that the bridge was destroyed was because the main shield generator was taken out.
The shield generators are the two big spheres on top of the bridge superstructure. At one point in the fighting before Executor is destroyed, you can see one of those balls get blown up.
That is why the ship was destroyed, and why the bridge has to be exposed.
Uh, in Regards to the "Plot holes" by WuWu whats his face. That Shadowcran didn't cover.
As best pointed out by f*****g Akbar about why the hell an "uncompleted" death star was in the middle of bumfuck no where, was because it was, indeed, a TRAP. The rebels thought it wasn't operational, being only partially constructed, and thus went to f**k it.
Turns out it was fully operational.
*Spins in chair* "ITS A TRAP!"
Imperial fleet closes the net, much excitement ensues.
As for the shield dealy, I guess they were super devious and didn't suspect ten rebels and a f**k ton of god damned ewoks to f**k their s**t up.
BROUGHT DOWN AN AT ST, A CREATURE BUILT OF STEEL AND HATE WITH f*****g LOGS.
So that was just bad planning and underestimating the primitive ewoks and their super destroyer log systems.
Also, for ALL you fuckers that NEVER listened, the death star "magic missle recepticle hole" was a GOD DAMNED EHAUST PORT. Consider the missiles to be the bananas Eddie Murphy put in that guys exhaust pipe in I think beverly hills cop...I dont remember but you do is the point.
As for the Executor being brought down via A-Wing to Bridge...well, thats just a common military problem mankind has had forever. Putting the command bridge where it can easily get fucked up so the ship looks prettier, basically. We still have this on our aircraft carriers today, even.
For some god awful reason, mankind sees fit to put the place where the most important people ON the ship have the best view of, considering the ocean and the vastness of space...generally god damned nothing. Why not stick the god damned bridge in the center of the ship so its protected and read out everything on the instruments we have to be able to tell whats going on rather then put them RIGHT IN THE GOD DAMNED LINE OF FIRE? Because god if it don't look like s**t. Captains demand to be able to see the 'splosions!
Any and all other plot holes can be solved with this: George Lucas' gradual descent into buttfuck crazy town. You all saw the first three! Mother f****r went s**t ass insane!
Also, fictional universe, maybe their physics are different or some s**t, I dont know. It sure was a long time ago, in a galaxy I'm guessing was far, far away.
Also donnie darko was overrated and boring, and many said the director's cut ruined it because it was the kind of movie you were suppose to figure your own meanings out on...if that sentence is proper english, DOESN'T MATTER.
All I got from the Matrix was that Neo beat Smith and therefore the machines would leave Zion alone. Not all this crazy crap that sounds like it came from a book.
One thing that confused me about the ending of Toy Story 2: When Andy is helping his little sister start to walk, he asks his mom if he can teach her how to drive...and he's like ten years old...?
Reply: No, that was from the first Toy Story, and it was Andy asking his mom if he could drive (with Andy's mom saying she'll do it when he turns sixteen) when they're at the gas station.
you want to know something really fucked up?
Andy going to college and abandoning the toys is the alleged plot for Toy Story 3, due out in 2010.
One thing that confused me about the ending of Toy Story 2: When Andy is helping his little sister start to walk, he asks his mom if he can teach her how to drive...and he's like ten years old...?
am i the only one that really hoped that ASS! magazine was real?
Answers to WWu's questions:(hint is to read a few of the books but only a few as a lot of them suck the biscuit)
The Death Star was a top secret project that most of the empire had no idea was going on, hence the opening chase scene of the first movie where they capture Princess Leia to prevent her from telling the plans for the Death Star. Therefore, that's why it was in an out of the way place.
In later books, it's revealed that the emperor or Darth Vader's presence by way of the force causes their forces to fight better in a more coordinated fashion. They call attention to the fact that the big S.D. crashed right after the emperor's death and so on.
No idea about why endor was used.Perhaps what fuels the death star is the corpses of midgets in furry costumes? another design flaw.
The bridge thing? I have no idea. Maybe there was a nuclear reactor there?
Blowing up death star by blowing up one thing? A design flaw? Using cheap Taiwanese parts?
Where was the rest of the Imperial Fleet? In the books, it's explained that the empire never expected a sudden suicide frontal attack so their ships had a design flaw which Commander Calrissian exploited. The flaw was that in close quarters or something laser blasts caused some sort of retardedly explained effect.
I guess the lesson the empire learned from this failure is not to build their entire military around the lowest bidder.
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wildlife15,
1) I'm 22 and I've never ever watched *Star Wars*;
2) I love you for actually reading comments.
Gemoxcore,
If you correct someone, try to be correct. You said...."Dude, get your s**t right. Deus Ex is Latin for "THE MACHINE"
Deus Ex Machina is Latin for "The Machine God."
"Deus Ex" is "god from" and
Deus Ex Machina means "god from the machine", you know..ex...from, out of...A reference to characters in Greek plays suspended by wires and representing gods or godly forces.
A general comment about "Star Wars"..if you're older than 10 and you think these steaming piles are good sci-fi, you have no idea what good sci-fi is. I wish to god these utterly horrible pieces of flotsam had never been made. I feel embarrased for adult fans. Just my opinion.
The thing that sucks the most about progeria is that you do age rapidly, but you don't GROW any faster. That means in real life, Jack would have just looked a frail, shriveled ten-year-old instead of a middle aged man.
wow..WW777..how can Lucas be a disgrace to the Star Wars characters? Didn't he create them? At the least, he owns them? And its fictional..meaning NOT real..my 6 year old child gets that. How come you can't?
WWu777, bob42 and all you other star wars fan boys out there: Shut the f**k up!
When I was a kid who loved star wars almost as much as (somtimes more) than life itself, and so did all of my friends, we were cool. So I never understood the stigma towards the adult star wars geek portrayed in tv and movies etc. Now I do. It was a film, it was a fantasy, it had a PG rating, it was directed at kids. Please stop making up bullshit and assuming "facts" about the star wars universe just to make your s****y point on the internet about which plot lines were plausable and which weren't. It's intolerable the way you all try to be the authoritarian when it comes to star wars. Get a grip. I did.
Star wars worked because it was a fantasy story in a sci-fi world. It was a character driven, visually appealing film that stole good plot lines from classic westerns and samurai films. What made it great on screen had NOTHING to do with being in the realms of believablity, even for its own rules. f**k, listen closely and you'll find that the dialogue was woeful and unbelieavable. Try talking to a girl like Han Solo does to Leia and you'll see what I mean.
Can we all please move on!
For the love of freaking christ, can somebody, anybody, give us a new fantasy world to be emersed in? And no, not Harry Potter, something better. PLEASE!
I'd make it myself but I'm too lazy/untalented.
OH, and this cracked article was pretty good.
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