- Just when you thought you liked
the ending of your favorite movie.
- You should be dead.
You should be dead.
- You know, you probably think you fully understand
the endings of some of the most popular movies out there
but if you pay closer attention
to the details of these movies,
their endings become something other
than what you thought they were.
These are 10 movies that didn't end as happy as you think.
Number one is Taken.
Taken is an action-packed adventure movie
that was released in 2008,
that follows Liam Neeson's character, Bryan Mills,
as he travels across Europe
leaving dozens and dozens of bodies in his wake
as he tries to save his kidnapped daughter.
Now, he does ultimately rescue her
and the audience feels good that their family is safe
however, they're overlooking one little thing.
As the Mills family hug and we start seeing credits,
nobody seems to think about the amount of people
left super pissed that some American badass
just trashed a few city blocks throughout the continent.
Every single wealthy European criminal
who lost men or money in the sex-slave ring
is now trying to hunt down Bryan and his family
and not only that, but he could be brought up
on several international criminal charges
for all of the damage that he did to these cities,
so realistically, he is not out of the clear at all.
Number two is Monsters Inc.
When it comes to animated kids movies,
few would ever leave you distraught
or worried about the fates of the characters
but maybe some of them should.
This Pixar movie took the legend
of a monster in a kid's closet and flipped it on its head
with the monsters requiring the screams
of children to power their world.
By the end, the monsters discover that laughing
has ten times the power that screams do
and decide to switch to making the children
that they visit laugh instead.
So Matt, what's the problem?
It's all happy hunky dory.
Well, what happens when you give a society
that's already got plenty of power ten times the amount?
Well, you get a huge workforce lay-off
when they don't need as many scarers as before
and you also get a number of Monster University graduates
whose degrees are now meaningless.
What you end up with is a number of unemployed,
angry monsters who likely hold human children
responsible for their current predicament,
yeah, think about it.
Number three is Total Recall.
Just to be clear here, we're talking about
the original film with Arnold Schwarzenegger
and Sharon Stone, not the 2012 remake.
In Total Recall our hero Douglas Quaid,
played by Schwarzenegger, takes a fake vacation to Mars
by having the memories of it implanted in his brain
only to uncover that he's actually
been a secret agent this entire time
and the memory of his work has been suppressed in his head.
After a fight to the death with Vilos Cohaagen,
the movie's main villain, Arnie becomes the victor
and the movie ends with our hero
saving Mars and getting the girl, yay.
Well, almost, yeah, see, however,
in a scene near the beginning of the movie,
someone tells Arnold that he's going to be given
the memory of being a secret agent on Mars
and he's even shown the woman
at the end that he's going to kiss,
so, as it all turns out it may have just all been
part of the poor guy's false memories
and the fade to white at the end
is actually him being lobotomized.
Number four is The Dark Knight Rises.
There's actually a couple ways
Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy's final chapter,
The Dark Knight Rises, didn't have a happy ending
that many of us left theaters thinking that it had.
For one thing, the nuclear bomb
that Batman flies out over Gotham Bay,
doesn't get that far from civilization,
which means that the fallout alone
would more than likely ruin Gotham
and kill thousands of its citizens
but even if we ignore that fact,
it's hard to ignore Batman's proximity to the blast
after he bales out of the Bat.
We see Mr. Wayne just seconds before the explosion
still sitting in his flying vehicle
but then we're expected to believe
that he just whoop, got away.
Then, we get to the end, when Alfred sees Bruce
and Selena at a cafe in Florence,
Bruce has absolutely no disguise
so it's beyond likely that anyone,
at any moment is going to notice
that one of the ex-richest men on the planet
is alive in their midst.
What many think is truly happening
is that Batman actually died in the blast
and that Bruce that we see in the cafe
is actually Alfred's grief-fueled hallucination.
Number five is The Jungle Book.
One of the most beloved Disney animated classics,
seems to have a clearly happy ending, or does it?
In The Jungle Book we see young protagonist, Mowgli,
raised from a baby, in the jungle, by wolves
and panthers and all other sorts of wildlife.
This man cub learns to speak with the animals
and the only life he knows is amongst the trees
and temple ruins in the jungle.
So when, at the end of the movie, when Mowgli meets Shanti,
a young female villager and becomes enamored,
he decides to leave the only life
he's ever known for villager life,
but what's the problem with that ending you might be asking?
Well, A, Mowgli can't speak any language
other than panther and B, he's basically a feral child
who is completely unaccustomed to civilization.
Seriously, who is going to trust a boy who prefers sleeping
on the roof of the hut instead of in the hut?
And he has no money
and just wandered home with a strange girl.
And the boy might have rabies, why didn't we think of that?
Number six is the Man of Steel.
In the Superman reboot Man of Steel,
we see Superman battling it out with a small army
of fellow super-powered Kryptonians
while powerless human beings run for their lives.
Superman manages to win out in the end
sending all but one of them
through a black hole and into another dimension.
Shortly after that he breaks his final opponent,
General Zod's neck, worries about it for about 12 seconds
and then goes and gets a new job as a reporter.
The world is safe, happy enough ending?
Well, it is if you ignore the tens of thousands
of Metropolis' citizens who were killed
when half the city was destroyed in all of the fighting
not to mention the fact that Superman just appeared
and people know he's as powerful, if not more so,
than the entire Kryptonian army.
Just to put that into perspective for you,
imagine if a Nazi came forward
and said oh don't worry, I'm a good Nazi,
I'm here to save you, mmm-hmm, yeah, that's disturbing,
go ahead and think about that one.
Number seven is Gravity.
Set way up in orbit around the Earth,
Gravity is a gripping movie about a doctor slash astronaut,
played by Sandra Bullock, hallucinating conversations
with her recently deceased co-workers,
while she struggles to find a way back home.
The ship she went into space with is destroyed
when debris from multiple satellites
begins hurtling around the Earth at 50,000 miles per hour.
Bullock's character, Dr. Ryan Stone,
manages to avoid multiple dangers
and get to safety creating a happy ending.
Well, except for the fact that due to the growing amount
of debris hurtling around in orbit,
space travel or even the use of satellites
is now gone for a few generations of humanity.
That's right, the villainous debris is a real issue
called Kessler Syndrome and it means that no space travel
is possible for at least 100 years.
Number eight is Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi.
The last of the original Star Wars trilogy,
Episode VI - Return of the Jedi ends with a nice bow
on the overall plot, the rebellion has won
and the second Death Star has been destroyed,
what's not to be happy about that?
Well, you don't have to watch The Force Awakens
to understand that the Empire
is obviously still alive and strong.
They also now have a very real reason
to hunt down the rebel scum and have their revenge
for the death of their leaders.
While Luke, Han, Leia and their friends
dance around and smile, there's an admiral out there
who just got the biggest promotion of his life
and he's gonna ruin the whole universe's day
because of it, baby.
Number nine is Sin City.
Now, it's not really right to say
that the 2005 Frank Miller comic book adaptation, Sin City,
has a happy ending seeing as how Bruce Willis' character,
Hartigan, winds up shooting himself in the face and all
but it does show Jessica Alba's character, Nancy,
being saved from her kidnapper and whisked back
to the safety of her home, which is pretty happy, right?
Well, see Hartigan only kills himself
to keep the bad guys from trying to get to him
through Nancy again, so that ties it all up, right?
Well, if you watch an earlier scene you hear
the boss, Roark, say that he won't let anyone
tarnish his family's reputation
and that he'll kill anybody who's aware of his son's crimes,
which obviously includes Nancy.
So, Hartigan's dead, Roark is looking for some vengeance
and there's literally nobody left
to stop them and protect the person
that they were after in the first place.
Basically, Bruce Willis died for nothing
and Nancy's head is now back on the chopping block.
And number 10 is Harry Potter.
You're a wizard, Harry.
And it's depressing.
Okay, first off, whether they'll admit it or not,
everybody seems to like Harry Potter,
even if just a little bit.
After eight movies, the series concludes
with Mr. Potter defeating the evil Lord Voldemort
and saving the world to the cheers of his friends.
All so magically perfect, isn't it?
Well, I hate to burst any Potter fan bubbles
but if you stop and think about
those pesky happiness stealing Dementors,
you'll see how both the wizards and muggles
might just have a pretty colossal problem on their hands.
See, the Dementors were controlled by Lord Voldemort,
so since he's dead, the Ministry has fallen,
and many of the most powerful good wizards were killed
in the final battles, who can stop them
from stealing the souls of basically everyone?
The answer is nobody, nobody's left.
They're basically free to fly about
and reap any soul that they please.
Welcome to the all you can reap soul feast, poor muggles.
So, those were 10 movies
that didn't end as happy as you think,
but what do you guys think of these theories?
Do they make sense or do the movies
end exactly as they intended?
Leave a comment below because I'll be reading through them
and I'll pin the best one to the top.
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