Why do so many (so called) Hollywood films have such sugar filled perfect endings? Why does everything always get sorted out in such a quick and efficient manner? Is it because the directors think we haven’t got the brains and don’t want to discuss the endings of their movies? I find it insulting that we get a really good movie (and some bad ones!) with an ending followed by here comes the bride, they got married after all, they go off on honeymoon etc. The recent Halle Berry film, Perfect Stranger, was slated because it’s ending didn’t fit in with Hollywood formula. Does that matter? Why should all scriptwriters have to follow the exact formula? Not all cinema visitors have an IQ count of less than ten, Hollywood.

Have you ever been to a movie that doesn’t have a “Hollywood ending” with you’re average, mainstream movie goer? One who doesn’t study movies obsessivly like I’m sure all of us here do.

Most of them get pissed when the main character dies or looses the girl or it has any kind of negative, ironic or bittersweet ending. And they forget how good the rest of the movie is or how no other ending would really work for that story or character. All they remember is being upset at the ending.

On a related note, has anyone noticed how Russian movies lately have tended to have these happy, Hollywood-style endings? They’re starting to look like the America of Europe.

ha,ha,ha.i think i agree with your comments.i must add one thing though.it is very difficult to accept a “bad” ending.and it is very easy to accept a not so great but good one.my late uncle would watch musicals and when you asked him why he would say “with all the things happening in our life i need not watch it in the screen also”.i must say he had a point ha,ha.but also,i must say again the bad ending is a bad bet to producers.i mean sure we have “chinatown” and “seven” and “one flew...” with such great but sad endings.but the movies where also masterpieces.what happens when a movie does not add up that big, a n d have a bad ending.dont tell me you have not walked in your life in that kind of a movie and said"boy,it was crap and the director gave it a bad ending also to make it even more crap.total waste of my time and money”.well,you will respond ,the movie was a crap it would not have been saved by a better ending.well, i am not that sure.let’s think of our date that went with us.maybe she did not like the movie but she loved richard gere in it. why kill him.now,she is sad.ha,ha.let’s face it a good ending is a safer bet.but i agree with you film lovers that for “us” a movie(or a movie producer) should be more daring.would you put your money to change the ending?