Movie Fans of the Lounge: Is a movie with a happy ending cheating?

[darkstar]

Brazil: The "Love Conquers All" Ending

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RCvs3cA6PU

[DS1]

1. After seeing Brazil again recently, it ending is meta-happiness

[Starbucks Anarchist]

2. Only if the happy ending is not earned.

If it is earned (The Shawshank Redemption, for example), then it's great.

[charlie and algernon]

3. The Adam Sandler movie Click comes to mind

would've been such a powerful movie if it ended with that scene in the rain. Instead they had to throw that stupid curve ball to make it a sappy happy ending.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

5. But his movies suck, anyway, so it doesn't matter to me.

:P

[jobycom]

7. Come on! Waterboy was genius!

That wasn't really Sandler's fault, though. Jerry Reed, the Fonze, a weird nipple-rubbing old assistant coach, and Kathy Bates? What's not to love?

[HopeHoops]

4. Only films where everyone dies a horrible death are considered faithful.

In other words, most of the artsy martial arts films that have come out in the last ten years.

[jobycom]

6. Yes, because it concludes before the inevitable sad ending that will come.

Prince Charming loses his job and makes Sleeping Beauty work while he drinks beer and watches soaps. Beauty falls for the stable boy and has an illegitimate kid. One day Charming falls from his horse and suffers debilitating brain damage, requiring Beauty to feed him and change his diapers. She turns to pills to help her through. The bank forecloses on the castle, Charming finds hires a private investigator to paing sketches of Beauty and the stable boy Rolf, and uses those pictures to gain custody of the children--except the one with the Gypsy complexion that is so obviously Rolf's. The poor child, Gwendolyn, lives without friends in a tower, talking to rats and crows, unable to shower, using a corner of her room as a bathroom to avoid coming downstairs and seeing her mother's drunken, bloated form stretched out on the couch. Her hair grows so long it hangs from the tower window, and one day a young punk from the local tavern staggers by, notices the hair, and climbs up, convincing young Gwendolyn that he is a prince. In his drunken stupor he continually calls her by the name of his true love--Rapunsel. He seduces her, leaves her with child, and tells her his name is Prince Jack, and that he has a castle in the clouds above the beanstalks. Gwen spends her years searching for the young shit who left her with triplets and syphilis, so she can cut his balls off. She trains for revenge with a Ninja named Bill and a Spaniard named Indigo, with whom she has a second child, whom she names after her father--Indigo girl.

Yeah, the happy ending is a tale cut short.