As A and I were watching an episode of Gilmore Girls (yeah, what of it?) the daughter was going away to college. It was all sentimental and emotional and blah blah blah. As the episode played out, I tried to recall my going away to college. I don't remember it be a huge deal. I'm sure that my mom cried as they drove home. Come on, her baby went away to college, how could she not? I don't recall having a fear come over me. I just started unpacking and meeting some people. Not too exciting. Anyway, the episode was almost cliched, but it was subtle, which is what I like about that show. Looking back at moments in that show, you see things that happen because it is a show. Plus the humor is extremely smart. You really need to pay attention to the jokes.
The other thing I want to tackle is movie endings. Particularly the happy ones. The good guys always win and the bad guys get theirs in the end. Why is that? I know that there are the movies where the bad guys get away and people get a bit disappointed. Take, for example, the Blair Witch Project. Hands down the best ending for a movie in the past fifteen years that I have seen. To see that guy stand in the corner and the camera falls, classic. I have two movies that would have been so much better had the ending been different. And this is just for the sake of the bad guys out there. For the pessimists who want to see the good guys fail. You are welcome
First movie: Star Wars: A New Hope
Plain and simple, Luke misses his shot to blow up the Death Star, Vader shoots him down and the rebel cause is bitched slapped into oblivion. The ultimate bad guys win, flying away laughing.
People are probably screaming at me through cyber space, but think about it. The hope was there to save galactic democracy and in one instant, gone. Wow, it would leave a movie theatre silent.
Second movie: The Matrix
As opposed to Neo being brought back to life by Trinity (and it was at that point that the movies started their decline into crap) and him 'killing' Agent Smith, he stays dead, the Agents walk away, and the sentinels destroy Morphious and Trinity and the movie ends.
End the movie that way and the other two (plus the Animatrix) don't get made and people don't get pissed about it. But once again, it is the system beating down a group trying to stand up against them. It would make for great cinema.
With those two endings, ten movies get trimmed down to two.
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