When movie or dramas don't have a happy ending - Page 3

Originally posted by: 1t1svat1t1s

Titanic scarred me for life. It took my young mind forever to get over it but ultimately I was only able to forcefully put it away never being able to come to terms with the loss of Jack. I even hated Rose for a looong time for hogging that board like a queen while he was freezing to death. 😭🤣 I think it’s not an exaggeration to say that a piece of every girl’s heart died with Jack.

Same... Especially the part about rose

The USP of Hindi films is the happy ending. That said, as you grow older you tend to appreciate the exquisite beauty and irony of sad endings more. Lootera (and most sensitive gangster movies like Parinda) had to end on a sad note. There absolutely is no way to give them a happy ending. But I agree that there is no need for the whole movie to be a misery and depressing.

Sad endings stay longer and are more impactful despite happy endings deemed more commercially viable.

Last year when I watched GUIDE in theatres, I could see everyone visibly upset, some even teary at the poignant reunion of the protagonists when one of them was dying. A happy ending might have diluted the impact.

Originally posted by: 1t1svat1t1s

Titanic scarred me for life. It took my young mind forever to get over it but ultimately I was only able to forcefully put it away never being able to come to terms with the loss of Jack. I even hated Rose for a looong time for hogging that board like a queen while he was freezing to death. 😭🤣 I think it’s not an exaggeration to say that a piece of every girl’s heart died with Jack.

I hate sad endings.....when I was younger and knew a movie had sad ending....I would either not watch it....or leave it a little before it ended...

Now more than sad ending......a wrong end bothers me......even if it is practical....and happens in the real world.....like a lot of people defended the ending of KANK.......where two cheaters were united....because it happens in real world.....but for me....it was just a movie...they could have shown the cheaters not uniting and living alone...an ideal ending...

Originally posted by: Maroonporsche

There has to be a balance

Right?

If I have to watch him suffer through everything, there has to be a happy ending for it all to make sense 🤧

Originally posted by: BlurredLines

Exactly. Not everyone wants to watch reality of life in a tv show or movie. We want to see something happy and fun as well.

It is just even the shows that are tagged as comedy or romantic comedy nowadays are filled with too much of real life struggles that it fails to deliver the lightheartness one wishes to see on screen.

Some shows needs those sad moments to make it memorable and also because the plot needs those moments. But nowadays people are just shown to struggle on screen all the time instead even if the plot doesn't need such sad arcs

Nowadays writers are cruel writing things for shock value more than a creative desire to carry forward the story

Originally posted by: MochaQueen

For me, it mostly depends on the story. Like if the couple has been separated throughout the movie, then I would root for them to end up together, like in VZ I would have been heartbroken if they didn't reunite after so many sacrifices.😭 Then there's movies like Kabir Singh, when the couple do not deserve a happy ending but still get one!

Most of the time though, sad endings leave a bigger impact and make me more emotional and sympathetic towards the characters. This is the reason why my husband hates sad endings though, he says they leave him disturbed for days. I mostly find happy endings too cliche tbh, I like unpredictable endings

I am talking about Veer Zaara kind of movies only, them having a happy ending together gives you hope and happiness but if one of them had died 😭😭 I don't think I could take it

Aman dying in KHNH broke me and till this day, I haven't completed KHNH

Originally posted by: JayaBachan

That’s a major hell-to-the-no-nope-nada-I’m-outta-here-nice-to-meet-you-situation-for-me. I detest sad endings and in fact will refuse to watch any movie or drama if I find out it has a sad ending. Before purchasing any romance novel, I will read the last page to ensure the characters end up together.

I take sad endings personally and will cry harder than all the affected characters combined in the film. In fact, I’m the unpaid and unknown side character who will cry for the next 50 years over the ending. It’s actually not normal how much I cried over Kal Ho Na. Those weren’t just silent tears, I fcuking wailed from the depths of my soul. I went to bed and cried over Aman’s death for a whole week. My mum was WTFING seeing me sniffle with red-rimmed eyes everyday and I’d brokenly whisper ‘You don’t understand’. Twenty years later and I still cry just THINKING about the film.

I also accidentally watched a Korean drama ‘Scarlet Heart’ while it was ongoing. My mistake, as I always wait for a show to finish before I start it (so I can watch the last episode first to ensure they end up together). I WAS NOT OKAY. I cried for a whole month traumatised by the ending.

The list of all my traumatic reactions to all sad movies and dramas are endless. We’ll be here all day if I had to dissect the amount of times I’ve walked around as SRK’s widow mourning his characters death in every film.

Also a reason why I never watch Pakistani dramas. The hero and heroine almost always end up marrying someone else and 0.000000000000000000% likely to reunite at the end. Bam wam no thank you ma’am.

+1

I never watch the climax of movies where SRK's characters die because I don't think I can handle it, Raees was in theater so I didn't know what was coming 😭

I didn't want Raees to die

CDramas are no less in making you miserable but the quality is unmatchable, my current state of mourning is due to impending death of Ming Ye 😭

I like romantic thrillers with sad endings like beyhadh2 and Saubhagyavati bhava1 . Absolutely loved Beyhadh2, watched it recently. 😍 It's incomplete but they have given us enough story to imagine where the story is going to end. Maya will probably kill hero's father, her stalker and going to end up dead at the hands of hero (Rudra) or end up dead protecting Rudra or end up in jail.