10 Movie Endings That Wanted To Piss You Off
4. La La Land - Not Your Average Love Story
La La Land may have not won best picture but it did win at making its audience cry.
In 2016, rom-coms and romance movies had pretty much grown stale. So the creator of the Oscar-winning drumming movie Whiplash decided to do for romance what he'd just done for Miles Teller: give it fleeting relevance.
Jokes aside, filmmaker Damien Chazelle once again made a hugely popular, intensely emotional movie. And while we spend the movie falling in and out of love with the main couple Mia and Sebastian, it's the bittersweet ending that had the real impact.
You see, audiences are used to the romantic leads ending up together at the end, but Chazelle intentionally subverted those expectations. Instead of the couple settling their differences and learning how to love each other and appreciate each other's career dreams, the movie flashes forward five years to show how the two moved on in life without each other.
Mia, after becoming a successful actress, met another man, married him and had a daughter. And Seb opened up his own Jazz bar, leaving the sell-out band that he had joined, just as Mia had encouraged him to do.
You get the impression that neither would have ended up as professionally happy as they did without the push from the other. But for audiences, that wasn't enough of a pay-off for them to leave the movie satisfied.