Deep down in the far reaches of our very human essence, we all pray for a happy ending. Well, that’s probably a slight over-exaggeration, but we all love a happy ending, don’t we? Sure, leaving the movie theatre feeling drained and shocked has its good points, too, but there’s no feeling quite matched by that of catching a flick that makes you feel all warm and gooey inside.
And in the case of most “happy endings,” the plot has been resolved and the characters safely returned to their former lives. From now on, things are gonna be allllriiiighhtt. Well, except in the movies we’ve assembled here, all of which cluelessly brandish faux-happy endings in preference of avoiding the bigger picture. Here’s 10 movies you finished watching with a smile, only to have missed out on some seriously horrific consequences implied by their (ahem) “happy” endings…
10. Um, What Happens When Bonnie Grows Up? – Toy Story 3 (2010)
Despite being a series of animated films about a bunch of plastic playthings that come to life and go on adventures, the Toy Story franchise is crammed to the brim with heartfelt moments and some seriously affecting scenes on the nature of growing up, loss and friendship. It also has a soundtrack by Randy Newman, which is positively rockin’.
Over the course of the trilogy, Woody and company are constantly plagued with the fact that Andy, their owner, will grow up, get bored of toys, and abandon them. He eventually does this, though not in a nasty way or anything – the guy is eighteen. He’s not gonna play with toys. He’s off to college to get laid and get drunk. Which we completely understand, ‘less this becomes a bizarre franchise about a grown-up who still plays with a piggy bank and Mr. Potato Head.
At the end of Toy Story 3, Andy, instead, passes his wonderful collection of toys onto a cute little girl called Bonnie. She’s like, four years old or something, so, yes, Woody and Buzz and the gang have got a good eight or nine more years loving life with their new owner. But Bonnie, like Andy, will grow up. And then what? She might become a teen tearaway or something, and throw her toys out. Which is fine, ’cause these toys can handle anything, but are they doomed to repeat such a vicious cycle forever and forever?
The likelihood is that their relationship with Bonnie is just as non-permanent as it was with Andy. And unless another Bonnie comes along at the exact right time, the Toy Story crew are destined for a life of abandonment and suffering on an endless loop. What about the Daycare Centre, you say? There’s always the Daycare Centre! Well, sure, that’s one possibility, but what are the odds that it’ll still be there in ten years or so? We’ll have robots to look after our kids then. Probably.
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Im glad you put Toy Story 3 up there. I think they are just glad to be played with for a few more years.
Recess Schools Out, I watched it recently and I felt quite depressed after watching it, due to the kids growing up, and not being together for that much longer
I think in the case of Bonnie she could end up like Andy (who was originally planning to keep his toys in the attic) or at that point Andy will have his own children and Bonnie would give the toys to them
To put your Independence Day point into context, the size of Texas as a demonstration of scale was also the size of the “global killer” asteroid in Armageddon….
To put YOUR comparison into context and bring up a whole new movie issue, the idea in Armageddon was to blow up the asteroid before it hit earth D-:
Uh, most of these after movie premises are based off of pretty flimsy pretenses that could be picked apart as easily as the movies they’re claiming to do so to in the first place. The reason why asteroids or comets can cause so much damage is because they’re traveling at incredible speeds. As we all know speed is the biggest factor in determining force, way more than mass. Asteroids travel anywhere from 20-30 km/s. The debris from the ship would hit the ground probably no more faster than terminal velocity. Since it’s not a solid mass like a giant rock a huge majority of it would probably burn up, not to mention the vast majority of it would fly off in other directions and never hit the earth.
Bear in mind, these are SPACESHIPS, not rocks, though: they were DESIGNED to enter a planet’s atmosphere without breaking up. There’s a really good chance that most of them will come down, relatively intact.
A. ROBIN John Blake was never going to become Batman since Gotham saw Batman die and gave him a memorial!
B. You read WAY too much into Bruce Wayne living after everyone thinks he’s dead, it’s just a movie and doesn’t need a pathetic “people will still notice him” explanation. And if you MUST have one then here ya go: Bruce and Selina stopped off in a cafe in Florence (in another country half way around the world where people are even less likely to know/give a crap who bruce wayne is) to say goodbye to Alfred to let him know he’s safe and happy, they then leave for a remote countryside area to live in a house which is far away from any big city area and the nearby village and its residents dont know in the slightest who he is since they dont have computers/cell phones etc
DONE. get over it ; ).
Let’s not forget to mention the “Fresh Start” software that Bruce most likely used on both his and Selina’s names, which would, in theory, erase everything remotely linked to them, including online photos. So in reality, they would just have to lay low for a few months to a year before walking around in a world that would have mostly forgotten what they look like. And the movie never mentions WHEN Alfred sees them.
you’re right. but, i think you’re neglecting to consider the size of the chunks of asteroid that would surely exist after the nuclear explosion; of this asteroid the size of texas. these chunks would have to be at least a mile long, which would end man kind, soon as the pieces were sucked in past our atmosphere.
I honestly don’t think Bruce Wayne could give it up that easily. At the least he would be running things from a headquarters.
good point but he would become robin not batman, i mean Lucius Fox is still alive to be able to help and second Bruce Wayne is known world wide it is a national company who makes product for many things that go all over the world something we learn in batman begins yes you made some good points but lets be honest Bruce Wayne is like Bill Gates as you could not just show up in public after his death
Wrong. Bruce is nothing like Bill Gates. He is not a global celebrity, and he’s been in hiding for 8 years prior to the events of TDKR. He already disappeared into obscurity during the start of Batman Begins.
Actually Robin becomes Nightwing, but not in Gotham (at least in the comics).
I assumed that John Blake was neither Batman or Robin but Azrael who took over from Batman for a while in the comics.
Regardless, Batman has to retire at some point and Gothim is now back in the hands of law and order.
They were trying to split it in two, not blow it up
Robin becomes Nightwing-at least in the comics.
John Blake IS actually a new batman. Earlier in the film when Bruce tells him that batman was meant to be a symbol and that “Batman” could be anybody, he also started to somewhat mentor him by relaying the importance of the cowl as a safeguard for those closest to you. Bruce passed on the legacy of the Batman to John Blake as his successor. Its all validated in the ending compilation of scenes when Commissioner Gordon sees the restored bat signal. It was a message that Batman Will, “live on” because Batman is not flesh and blood and cannot be destroyed, but as a symbol, he can be everlasting.
Basically, Batman is like Zorro, 007, or even the Dread Pirate Roberts: they are “immortal”, so long as there is someone around to fill their shoes.
Okay, people saw Batman die. But how many knew Batman was Bruce Wayne? I would think he would be able to live in peace without a problem and wouldn’t have to worry about needing to live in obscurity.
Granted, but maybe Bruce did it in order to avoid the need/temptation of donning the cowl once again
The whole point of 12 angry men isn’t to ask if he’s innocent or guilty, but if it’s stereotypes and preconceptions that will dominate in people who are supposed to remain impartial
In response to your 12 Angry Men comments, so what? The jurors are not required to prove if he was guilty or innocent. They are meant to decide, based on the evidence, whether he was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. That is how it works. Reasonable doubt.
They had reasonable doubts ergo they could not find him guilty. Even in a situation where the guy IS guilty, if the evidence thus presented doesn’t remove doubt then acquitting is the right thing to do.
Don’t feel bad for Garland Greene. He was discovered by an agent and currently stars in a series for HBO. :)
In Batman however, noone knows that Batman is Bruce Wayne so if they think Batman is dead, they wouldn’t expecet Bruce Wayne to be dead.
Well apart from the fact that Wayne has a gravestone…….
Yes but technically that was Bruce Wayne who decided to do that, the fact that everyone thinks Batman is dead has nothing to do with Bruce. If he wanted to he could have kill Batman and continued to live a his life like there was no Batman
But the world knows Bruce is “dead.” They read his will at the end. I’ll accept the clean slate thing though. But just know that everyone knows Bruce is “dead.”
Harlea: The world knows Bruce is “dead.” They read his will at the end. I’ll accept the clean slate thing though. But just know that everyone knows Bruce is “dead.”
Exactly, the Batman thing was not thought out whatsoever, they used the fresh start first of all to erase their names, also no one knows Bruce was batman except people that would never tell, stupid article
On INDEPENDANCE DAY again wouldn’t the spaceships have caused more disaster if they had fired from above the atmosphere?.
In regards to TDKR: Bruce has been out of the public eye for an extended period of time with no photos and very little press. Most everyone in Gotham had forgotten about him (when he comes out of the lamborgini at Miranda Tate’s benefit, the press disregards until somebody realizes who it is; but even then, nobody is able to take a picture of him because of that little device of his). People at the party don’t seem to register who they’re talking to. (the man Selina is dancing with makes no mention of him by name and is only upset that he let the pretty girl get away, not excited that he’s meeting the famous Bruce Wayne). If Kim Kardashian left the spotlight for almost a decade, then faked her death, but used the clean slate to erase all online references of her existence before moving to another continent, she would have minimal problems keeping a low profile and shooing away the curious with new IDs. Remember, to Gotham, Bruce Wayne is less Elvis, more Paris Hilton.
Kim Kardashian is probably a bad analogy. Bruce Wayne doesn’t have an arse the size of a pair of volley balls of keep out of the public eye as well as a pretty face. But I agree, that is the best logic for this ending I’ve seen.
Not to mention Carmine Falcone’s line in Batman Begins: ‘You’re Bruce Wayne. The Prince of Gotham. You’d have to go a thousand miles to meet somebody who didn’t know your name’ So if you take that line literally, then Bruce Wayne, while a billionaire, is more or less a relatively local celebrity.
While we’re using movie quotes to back up our arguments might I add the line from Ra’s when he first meets Bruce in the asian prison cell.
“The world is too small for someone like Bruce Wayne to disappear…
…no matter how deep he chooses to sink.”
Yeah, but remember Ra’s was trying to recruit Bruce, He was pandering to his ego.
Fail. Ra’s was not “pandering” to Wayne’s ego in TDKR, you are failingly giving credit to the wrong movie. Ra’s was trying to recruit Wayne in Batman Begins. In TDKR, Ra’s, played by Qui Gon Jinn, was using the force to appear to Bruce Wayne and gloat about his immortality. This healthily ties back to Star Wars Episode 1.
retarded, a thousand miles for someone who doesnt know his name, there is noone alive today where every person within a thousand miles knows their name if your going to take it literally, hes obviously a super famous nut job mega celebrity
I am not sure what “plot holes” you are referring to in the TDKR but whatever…in regard to people “recognizing him.” Do you know what Amancio Ortega looks like…neither do I! He just happens to be the worlds third richest person (wealthier than Warren Buffet). Donald Trump is recognizable in America (in addition to the fact that he is a television personality so its a bad comparison). What you stated would make more sense if Bruce Wayne popped up in Los Angeles, but he is in another country.
I can never watch Jumanji again. Mostly because of my irrational fear of monkeys, but also because the ending was really bad. I never realized it until now, but everything makes sense. The movie, and the story it told, never actually happened. Since young Robin Williams was never taken into the board game, he could never be there to get himself out, meaning the entire timeline isn’t consistant, and that the world of Jumanji consists of several slightly different universes. Pretty tough stuff for a Robin Williams movie.
For Jumanji, there’s a moment after Sarah and Alan throw the game into a river – Sarah specifically states that she’s beginning to lose her memories as an adult and we can assume this applies to Alan as well. Not to mention there’s an epilogue that shows Alan and Sarah married and grown up, and they seem relatively fine – Alan’s parents are still alive, they live a nice quiet life and Alan doesn’t have a beard. Alan and Sarah probably retained the important aspects of what they went through, but not everything (similar to what happened to Rory on Doctor Who when he spent 1,000 years as an un-aging robotic being, then goes back to being a normal guy)
I didn’t remember Sarah saying that at the end. But even assuming that was what happened, how come at the end when they’re married they can still remember who Judy and Peter are, or the fact that their parents died in a car accident in Canada?
‘Alan and Sarah probably retained the important aspects of what they went through, but not everything (similar to what happened to Rory on Doctor Who when he spent 1,000 years as an un-aging robotic being, then goes back to being a normal guy)’
Steve answered that already lol
The riddle to ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ ending is a simple one; Bruce isn’t hiding in plain sight, he is in fact DEAD, and that’s just Alfred’s wish-fulfillment fantasy we’re seeing… no-one, and I mean NO-ONE, could have survived the nuclear blast after being seen in the cockpit of the Bat mere seconds before it went off, he’s DEAD people, at least, I choose to think so…
And as for that chick in the ‘Jumanji’ photo, I wouldn’t mind being trapped in her body anytime… in both the literal and biblical sense!
Minus the fact that the film cuts to Fox talking to workers saying the autopilot was fixed on the aircraft and Gordon found a replaced bat signal and the fact that Selina was sitting with him at the table. I don’t recall us being shown that Alfred knew of any relationship had developed between Bruce and Selina. So why would he magically dream her up there now? I interpreted the ending as this particular actor has come and gone as the batman but Bruce and the batman will endure. Probably wasn’t intended as such but like you interpreted it the way you did, I did in my own way.
Exactly. Amazing how many people want to believe Bruce Wayne is alive badly enough to miss the obvious fact that he died in a nuclear explosion. Watch the movie again: Bruce is tormented and ready to die for Gotham. If he made it look like he could have lived it was simply to give hope to his close friends (Alfred & Lucius), and to the audience (us).
comic fan, the script confirms that Bruce is alive. JGL, Bale, and Michael Caine have confirmed it too. Read the novel or the script and you will understand. The last shot we see of Bruce, he’s already away from the bomb. The cockpit is part of the ejection pod. It comes out the bat the same way the batpod came out of the tumbler
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Bruce fixed the autopilot. Remember that scene where Fox was talking to some engineers, post-explosion. He asked which code was used or something like that and it turned out to be Bruce Wayne who did the fixing – without him knowing. I was only able to fully comprehend by the second viewing.
Gerry, th script confirms that Bruce is alive. JGL, Bale, and Michael Caine have confirmed it too. Read the novel or the script and you will understand. The last shot we see of Bruce, he’s already away from the bomb. The cockpit is part of the ejection pod. It comes out the bat the same way the batpod came out of the tumbler.
You never really think about it, but when you stop and do a lot of movies end this way. So what, a happy ending, now your life is screwed!
Maybe that’s what makes The Graduate so good. They get away with it, but realize on the bus the reality and the consequences of what they just did.
Thank you. Yours is the first comment I have seen that agrees with what I took away from that scene…Bruce Wayne did in fact die, and whatwe see at the end is Alfred’s daydream, just as he described earlier in the movie.
Of course, that is what Nolan wanted, to leave the ending in ambiguity, for audiences to make their own opinion.
Oops, that was supposed to be in reply to Gerry Mander.
bmg, the script confirms that Bruce is alive. JGL, Bale, and Michael Caine have confirmed it too. Read the novel or the script and you will understand. The last shot we see of Bruce, he’s already away from the bomb. The cockpit is part of the ejection pod. It comes out the bat the same way the batpod came out of the tumbler
There is no daydream at the start of the movie. Pay attention. Alfred tells Bruce about something that actually happened while he was on vacation years ago. It’s a flashback scene.
BMG the script confirms that Bruce is alive. JGL, Bale, and Michael Caine have confirmed it too. Read the novel or the script and you will understand. The last shot we see of Bruce, he’s already away from the bomb. The cockpit is part of the ejection pod. It comes out the bat the same way the batpod came out of the tumbler.
Alfred never had a daydream. Please pay better next time. He had a flashback of something that ACTUALLY happened to him.
The Graduate’s ending was actually an accident it was supposed to be a “happy ending” but at the end of the film the director was so enamored with the work he just finished he forgot to yell cut so they just kept rolling and then the actors didn’t know what to do after that.
Christ, I’m glad you’re not in charge of the judiciary.
If I thought someone was probably guilty, but not that he was guilty beyond reasonable doubt, should I vote to convict? Absolutely not.
I was thinking the same thing. Juror 8′s arguments are even (mostly) solid.
Let’s all pray Mr. Barnard never serves on a jury deciding anything of real import. If a jury selector ever sees this article and gets him up for selection, perhaps they can cite his views on jurisprudence as a conflict of interest.
Indeed
Wasn’t the whole point of the Toy Story ending and Andy’s big speech to the little girl about taking care if the toys and passing them on to others? Pretty sure it was implied the girl would grow up and pass the toys on to the next kid.
a movie with AN unquestionably happy ending
There’s nothing funny about an Ewok holocaust
Quality article though
I beg to differ on an Ewok apocolypse not being humorous.
Ewok: Nub nub!
Death Star: BOOM!
Ewok (looking up): NUUUB NUUUB!
Seriously, tho, it was a flub to not account for the Death Star debris, but it was originally a non-issue; the fight was supposed to occur above Had Abaddon (then the capital world instead of Coruscant), and no Ewoks were harmed in the destruction of EITHER of the new Death Stars (there were to be 2 !)
So you have script changes, but not all the parameters being tracked to consider consequences. . Gets ‘em every time.
Regarding Django:
For a good while, nobody outside the plantation will even know what happened. He killed everyone with any vested interest in seeing Django tracked down and captured. The only survivors are all other slaves. When next of kin or business interests start rounding them up, they’re just going to hear some incoherent tale about a black bounty hunter (riiiiight, tell me another one) who single-handedly massacred the entire estate (oh, do go on) and all its enforcers (uh huh), before blowing up the mansion (did he now?) with dynamite that he took from 3 armed miners that he killed even though he was unarmed and tied up (seriously boy, just what sort of fool do you take me for)? By the time they even hear that story, Django and his wife will be long gone, and in any event they’ll assume the entire thing was made up by a bunch of slaves who went all John Brown on their owners and together came up with some cockamamie story to cover for it.
To supplement your Django comments, what about those two slave ladies that Django “freed”? They were living about the best life a slave could live at that time, working in the home of a huge mansion for the master’s wife who treated them pretty well. After Django frees them, they’re on their own with no money and no realistic chance of ever attaining that same lifestyle or position again. They didn’t ask Django for that, and probably didn’t appreciate him for it.
The bigger question- HOW did Django blow up Candieland with dynamite in 1858 when it wasn’t invented til 1867? (still loved it, though)
A couple of movies with questionable endings:
At the end of “Superman The Movie”, Supe goes back in time to save Lois Lane from her car getting swallowed by the fissure opened by the quake. Does that mean the quake still has to happen? Or is there another Supe in an alternative timeline still stopping the rogue nuclear warhead and propping up the California tectonic plate?
At the end of the remake of “The Day the Earth Stood Still”, the alien sets off a sort of global EMP to stop the doomsday device he brought to the Earth. Given our modern dependence on electronics, the entire mechanized world has just been shut off. What with maybe 2 people out of 100 that still know how to produce their own food, and even they are dependent on modern mechanized farm equipment, there will be mass starvation. Within a year, 90-95% of the population of industrialized nations will be dead of starvation or disease from shut-off sanitation infrastructure.
So, your Dark Knight Rises comments are a wee bit void. I am pretty sure that in Batman Begins Bruce travels around the world unnoticed. Why can’t he do that in TDKR? Also all Selina wanted was a clean slate so yeah I am pretty sure she would be ok anonymously bouncing around the world with a man who faked his own death.
‘…shady government spies wielding walkie-talkies…’
If you were old enough to see the movie in the theatre — like I did in ’82 — then you’d know they all had guns, it was changed to walkies using CG for the 20th anniversary of the movie. There’s even a scene in the movie where you see a FBI agent is holding a gun, and then he turns and the gun automagically turns into a walkie.
I forgot to mention, I was talking about ETtET.
In a similar vein to Jumanji, I thought similar things about the first Narnia movie. The kids return from Narnia after living adult lives there. And, one would assume that most, if not all of them, had sexual encounters as adults in that world. So, here we have kids ranging from like 6-16 years old, remembering things like sex and other adult things. Subsequent movies seemed to allude that they remembered all their time in Narnia when they returned. So, how screwed up would that be?
I thubk that line was in jest
‘…shady government spies wielding walkie-talkies…’
Opps was refering to the post above
The thing about Narnia is that that entire movie is based off of christian ideals, so i’m pretty sure unless they were married, they never had to deal with remembering sex, or other inappropriate things that adults see.
They had no such relations. They lived heroic lives of courtly endeavours in other respects, but that sort of mushy stuff wasn’t happening to them. Hunts, battles, that sort of thing, yes. Building up the economy, sure. Romance? Not so much.
Actually, the doubts raised by juror 8 were entirely reasonable and not at all flimsy or grasping at straws. I’m not really sure where you’re coming up with that. Maybe the kid was guilty, but if I have to choose between the possibility of sending an innocent man to the chair or letting a guilty man go free, I’m going to let the guilty man go free.
That’s just what I was thinking, too. I recently watched the movie again on TCM, and most of Juror 8′s points involved fault eyewitness testimony–there’s no possible way witnesses could see what they claimed clearly, because one wasn’t wearing glasses and it was a dark evening, and another wouldn’t have been able to make it to the door in time. None of these are flimsy in any sense.
If you watch Batman Begins you will see that Bruce Wayne can easily become an absolute nobody. The Asian who arrests Bruce in Begins says “Tell that you the guy who owns this” and he kicks a box with the name “Bruce Wayne” labeled on it.
“The fact that we never find out whether the boy is innocent or not is kind of chilling….” This is one of the intentional messages of the play and movie. It was intended to provide a window into the positives and negatives of the jury system.
what about the ending of “It’s a Wonderful Life”? (Although a bit old for the 90′s-centric nature of this list)
George Bailey will STILL likely go to jail, or at least be ruined. Gathering cash donations to ‘cover’ for the loss does not absolve a bank president from the fact a fiduciary malfeasance happened.
The bank examiner tears up the warrant and throws it on the pile.
Thanks Sherrie. Laurence only manged to ruin that movie for a few seconds. Phew!
Sorry – meant to say my comment referred to “12 Angry Men.”
Back to the Future.
Doc Brown explains that when you change the past it creates a divergent timeline. So when Marty gets back and Biff is meek and his parents look good and his siblings are successful he is confused, because he is not the Marty that grew up in that timeline. There is another Marty out there who’s life has just been stolen.
Not to mention that Marty never returns to the original timeline and thus will be presumed deadin that original “world”, causing untold grief to his family and friends.
How about 2010: The Year We Make Contact? At the end, we’re all happy and amazed that a new sun has been created out in the solar system to nourish new life. Uh… what happens to earth, and the other planets, with a second sun where Jupiter used to be? Yay! A new sun.. oh crap, it’s getting kind of hot..
Jupiter doesn’t have nearly enough matter within itself to make a sizeable sun that would provide significant heat to the whole solar system. It’s only a local booster that was ignited to spark Europa’s latent potential. I might be wrong but I seem to remember from the book that the Jupiter-Sun only looks like a slightly-brighter-than-normal star from Earth.
Um…”Jaws” has been on a lot lately. It’s a brilliant movie, but you know how there are supposedly all those other sharks (one of which actually gets caught) swimming around?
I can’t watch it anymore without thinking about Roy Scheider and Richard Dreyfuss paddling all the way back to the coast through the ocean of chum they just created when the Great White blew up.
Maybe that’s just me…?
Erm… In the very last shot of “Jaws” (the one with credits), you can see both of them reaching the shore, actually.
How could you leave “Vertigo” off this list???
Because “Vertigo” did not have a happy ending by any stretch of the imagination?
“Thats to big to be a spacestation”- Obi-wan Kenobi
I really dug “Con Air” but cannot recall the Garland Greene character being described as a pedo. Serial killer/mass murderer yes, but not a “short-eyes”. Damn, what a dis’.
I was going to say the same thing. Definitely not a rapist or a pedo. Just a serial killer, and a total nut. I mean, it’s not a great idea to have him running around Vegas regardless, but still…
THANK YOU! Sure, I only saw that movie once and it was a while ago and I don’t remember much of it, but I was pretty sure there was no mention of him being a pedophile. Just bat-poop insane :P
Actually… #2 would be interesting. I mean, sometimes it’d be a real drag, but the girl would no not to make mistakes she made in life– yet still have benefited from them, because she still has the memories– and improve on skills she had acquired… Think about how easy driving would be, having already done it for thirty years? And as for the guy… well, he’ll never have to worry about being lost in a Jungle ever again.
Another devastating result of the Batman ending would be the Radioactive Fallout from a nuke being blasted so close to Gotham. There’s also the fact that it was blasted in the ocean where the fallout could travel through the water towards the city.
There would be very little radioactive fallout on Gotham. Most fallout is dirt and other particulate matter from the surface that is irradiated by the blast and thrown into the atmosphere, then rains back down heavily in the local area with some regional dispersion. Air blasts cause negligible amounts of fallout in the immediate area due to the much lesser density of matter to irradiate. What is created is dispersed over a global area.
Did you actually watch 12 Angry Men? It certainly doesn’t read like you did, either that, of you don’t fully understand what a jury is supposed to do. The boy is presumed innocent until proven guilty. He wasn’t proven guilty. Duh.
Also Duchovny’s wife was not “middle aged” when she did Jurassic Park III.
The Wizard of Oz. Dorothy wakes up in her bed and all her loved ones are around her. What about Ms. Gulch (the Earth version of the Wicked Witch of the West)? She was the reason Dorothy ran away with Toto in the first place. Ms. Gulch was planning to destroy Toto for ‘biting’ at her. Is Toto safe? Or will all dogs go to heaven.
The fact that Alan and Sarah get to relive their childhood is a good thing, because Alan thought he had lost his childhood life by living in a jungle with dangerous animals all alone for nearly 30 years, and Sarah thought she lost her childhood life too by having a mental breakdown and spending most of her young adult life in therapy. But now that they are back, they can truly appreciate their new childhood life they are gonna have. And they will now know how to do things better, since they were already adults, such as listening to their parents, that will surely lead to better decisions during their teen years.
However, if they were to have their memories erased after going back to the 60′s, they would have learned nothing from their journey, and would have gone back to living their regular lives, and Alan’s friend would still have gotten fired and become a cop, which he didn’t want.
Are you stupid?!?!!? Only VERY FEW people knew that Bruce Wayne was Batman that’s why he’s able to be himself no one knew he was batman!
hahahaha are you stupid?! Clearly is has not dawned to you that IT’S A FILM so stop crying about batman
I could be wrong here, but wasn’t the bomb in TDKR a clean energy one?? was there anything nuclear involved?? or did it just have the power of a nuclear bomb? also i just remember Garlund Green being a serial killer… never a pedophile.. although.. he wore a ladies head as a hat through 2 states hahaha…. pedophile or not that guy should be locked away
Totally forgot that line-freaking hilarious
in space (as for the return of the jedi) things DONT explode guys
They sure do if they contain fuel, which the Death Star most certainly does. What they don’t do is propagate the sound of their explosion since there’s no gas to convey it.
they sure don’t if there’s no oxygen but then you got the sound part right. and if we’re gonna complain about debris then what about Death Star 1, that one was almost complete and therefor would of had more but this is like complaining that there are rocks in space, there will always be rocks in space. I feel like the author fell flat after the first few and started making up B.S. to complain about and gather reader via controversy hence attacking TDKR and Star Wars cuz fanboys don’t like seeing you mess with their stuff.
source code… how many worlds/realities did they destroy just to be able to walk off into the sunset…
Wanted to name the same movie – but for a different reason.
Actually even the walk off into the sunset part does not quite work because Jake Gyllenhaals character assumed the body of another person. But he has no clue what that guys life is like. What about that guys family and friends? How is he going to fit into a life he knows nothing about? Where he lives, what his job is, his bank account number, his car…
I think this list should have included Gattaca. Hawke’s character makes it into space as he always dreamed, but the heart defect he was born with means he almost certainly won’t survive.
I dunno, maybe this was too obvious to appear on this list. It’s been a while since I’ve watched Gattaca.
What are you talking about? The jumanji kids are going to have a great life. They know what to do and what not to do. How many of us wouldnt want a redo with what we know now. Them kids are going to be alright.
As far as the E.T. ending goes, there wouldn’t be any hassles. The government would cover everything up, no one would say anything, and everyone would live happily ever after.
The Forest Moon of Endor isn’t a planet, it’s a moon, so I might have a had most of the debris crash onto the planet it orbited. That planet is bigger than Jupiter, the biggest planet in our solar system. The moon is smaller than our own moon.
Also while I haven’t read the actual exepanded book or comic (or whatever) but The Rebel Fleet destroyed most of the debris keeping Endor safe according to wookiepedia.
You can find size comperision between the moon and Jupiter easily online. And take in consider the our Moon is better than the Forest Moon of Endor and Jupiter is still smaller than Endor
uuh, no edit button?
sorry for spelling mistake, can’t help it. Blame the lack of an edit button and a Dutch spellchecker
I believe Batman did die because there is no possible way he could have survived that bomb blast. Alfred just saw a hallucination of Wayne and Selina.
Also, why all the hate for the Ewoks? That comment at the end of the Death Star debris entry was very mean. Hate on Jar Jar Binks all you want, but god dammit, LEAVE THE EWOKS ALONE!!!
Chris, the script confirms that Bruce is alive. JGL, Bale, and Michael Caine have confirmed it too. Read the novel or the script and you will understand. The last shot we see of Bruce, he’s already away from the bomb. The cockpit is part of the ejection pod. It comes out the bat the same way the batpod came out of the tumbler.
Alfred never had a daydream. Please pay better next time. He had a flashback of something that ACTUALLY happened to him.
duh bruce wayne doesn’t need to lie low. “batman” died but not bruce wayne
Yeah Bruce Wayne didn’t die. . . . That’s exactly why there’s a giant head stone with his name on it outside his house that leaves Alfred blubbering all over the place.
The headstone is is a red herring. There couldn’t have been a body to bury if he was caught in the explosion and there was no evidence of excavation either.
Nolan stuck an extra five minutes onto the film proving that Wayne had an out having fixed the autopilot. Also the pearls Kyle coveted from her first scene were missing and the pair of them were seen by Alfred. I really do think he’s put too much effort in to that ending for it to be in doubt. I think a better question would be; is that’s what he originally wanted?
It means Greene is rehabilitated. Super unlikely if not downright impossible in the real world, but that’s what happens in the movie.
Wait. Did you really just ask if Selina Kyle was “okay with living a life of relative obscurity”? That’s all she wanted throughout the entire film!
You do realize Pteranodon are not dinosaurs right?
I hope you realize that though you think your tiny bit of technical trivia makes you appear smart, it just makes you appear to be a windbag to everyone else. I’m guessing few people like you.
Jeff Goldblum’s character uses Mac OS, just so know. Yay for Mac right?
There was no Endor holocaust and the Ewoks were fine. According to the Star Wars Extended Univers, most of the debris from the Death Star blowing up was sucked into a brief wormhole that opened up when the hypermatter reactor collapsed. This derbies was scattered all over the galaxy. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Endor_Holocaust has the citations
Independence Day – they may have killed the Aliens but the world’s infrastructure has been obliterated, not to mention that they NUKED HOUSTON!
For all the thick people out there, the script confirms that Bruce is alive. JGL, Bale, and Michael Caine have confirmed it too. Read the novel or the script and you will understand. The last shot we see of Bruce, he’s already away from the bomb. The cockpit is part of the ejection pod. It comes out the bat the same way the batpod came out of the tumbler.
Alfred never had a daydream. Please pay better next time. He had a flashback of something that ACTUALLY happened to him.
–When they crash land, you can say goodbye to London, Paris, Moscow, New York… The likelihood, in fact, is that actually destroying the aliens will have caused even more destruction and chaos than anything they might’ve ever brought upon humanity.–
We already watched New York get obliterated, and pretty sure most of the other cities were already destroyed, given they seemed to start with capitals. Aliens had been using their big guns for some time when the highly improbable virus blew the mothership, and not much infrastructure was even left by that point.
Independence Day – all the junk from the mother ship burning up in the atmosphere .. so pretty … wait… we destroyed that ship WITH AN H BOMB All of the stuff is insanely radioactive and even if it did burn up a cloud of radioactive dust is falling all over the world
They were on the second moon of Endor, not Endor. Take that person who spent a lot more time in school than me!
I have another theory regarding Bruce Wayne’s ‘death’…only those he knew he was Batman (Fox, Alfred, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Gordon) attend that sham funeral. Before then, he’d been reclusive for seven years, so it wasn’t common knowledge that he had ‘died’. Wayne shows that quartet that he is still alive in cunningly deceptive ways one at a time (Fox with the Bat automatic pilot, Alfred when he appears in Florence, Gordon by fixng the searchlight).
Simple solution, no-one else thinks he’s dead.
Thank you, someone who actually used “Detective Skills”.
big mistake — return of the jedi is episode three, not episode six. let’s not give in to lucas’ fascist brainwashing with pathetic excuses for movies that he released later. there are only three movies in trilogy, not six.
I didn’t read all of the comments but here’s some suggestions of Happy Endings that will end badly:
Super 8 (seriously – that alien was pissed, it’s gonna come back with buddies and blow the sh*t out of us)
District 9 (basically the same as Super 8)
Avatar (so…they just murdered like, 90% of the mining company’s employees and military personnel. They are going to be PISSED. Also, earth will still know that there is craploads of unobtainium on …that planet. So they’re gonna load up for bear and come back. Well, life as a blue person was nice while it lasted)
For Jurrasic park, wasn’t it established in the first movie that all of the dinosaurs are Female so they could control reproduction?? it’s been so long since i’ve seen any of them so I could be wrong, but that’s one thing I think I remember
The only problem with Con Air being on the list is that Garland Greene is not a pedophile, he is a serial killer. The worst serial killer in the history of the states. That little man killed everyone. There is never mention anywhere in the movie of Greene being a pedophile.
In “The Day the Earth Stood Still” from 2008, Keanu Reeves is an alien bringing destruction to the human race because they’re ruining planet Earth. However the story’s heroes manage to convince him that there is good to mankind, and that they can change. They say something like “all civilizations change when they face destruction”, so when the human race finds out that this intergalactic council was going to eradicate them because of their way of life, they’ll change. I suppose this is correct, but once Keanu is convinced, he just stops the human-eradication and leaves Earth. No one but the main characters find out what really happened, so there’s no way the governments are going to change everything, meaning the aliens will eventually come back and destroy humanity, now that they blew the chance they were given (but not made aware of)…
Maybe Alfred was dreaming in The Dark Knight Rises, because based on the film sequence before the bomb gets dropped, it would be logically impossible for Batman to get out of the Bat and clear the blast radius in that time.
You’ve got to watch 12 Angry Men again. There was reasonable doubt half way through the film. The last half was trying to “extra convince” the more prejudiced members of the jury.
I had reasonable doubt at the same time as the clock maker. It seems you’d need more convincing than Lee J Cobb!
Seriously. It was more that reasonable doubt, actually. There were huge gaping holes in every single piece of “evidence” presented.
@ Smash, 6:59 pm
“For Jurrasic park, wasn’t it established in the first movie that all of the dinosaurs are Female so they could control reproduction?? it’s been so long since i’ve seen any of them so I could be wrong, but that’s one thing I think I remember”
Yes they were, but they used frog DNA to make the dinos, and some frogs can change sex in a single sex environments. It was a major point of the movie, with Ian Malcolm’s “Life finds a way” speech. It’s how there was that whole island full of dinosaurs for the second and third movies.
Jurassic Park is still badass, and about to be out again in cinemas for a 20th anniversary release in 3D. Go watch it again because it’s awesome.
Just a quick note… you missed the premise behind Independence Day. It’s a remake of the 1950′s War of the Worlds. Go watch, I’ll wait.
Leann Rimes didn’t sing that version of the song in Con Air. That was Trisha Yearwood.
Dark Knight Returns Part 2, yes he lives underground for the rest of his life
Actually in one of the Star Wars books I read recently, there is talk about the damage to Endor.
As Good As It Gets & Silver Linings Playbook. The romances don’t change the fact that the characters have MAJOR issues to live with.
Lando didn’t bring back the Falcon in one piece. The dish broke off the top as he flew into the superstructure of DSII.
In case you did’nt notice, Blake isn’t just ‘a cop’… He is Robin.
Batman died – Bruce Wayne didn’t die. If Bruce Wayne disappears then wouldn’t that just tell the world that Bruce Wayne is Batman. The only people who thought Bruce Wayne died were the ones who knew that Bruce Wayne was Batman.
This is the worst thing I have read in a while. These websites that allow nobodies who no nothing about the subject and clearly have nothing better to do are an embarrassment.
Finally… THEY’RE FILMS. THEY’RE NOT REAL. WHO CARES IF BATMAN IS ‘EATING IN A TOURIST HOTSPOT’ OR THE CONSEQUENCES OF ‘BEFRIENDING AN ALIEN’
Get a job.
There’s no reason Bruce Wayne can’t just continue to be Bruce Wayne. He was declared dead before the events of “Batman Begins” and “came back from the dead” upon returning from the Himalayas. Financially he does sort of have to start over, so that sucks, but he can still be Bruce Wayne; the reckless billionaire who just lost all of his money.