lol mensa.

Oh, Chippy. You're Algren but without...

Ah, nah, even I can't be that mean.

Feel free!

The film never even HINTED at a sad ending. Why would you even let yourself think it? That's on you. Not the movie.

HINT #1: He's pointing up.

HINT #2: Read what I quoted.

HINT #3: Take Ibuprofen to combat headaches brought on by excess brain function.

*calls Mensa* *reports*

"Hi there. I don't really think about movies. I'd like to report someone who does."

Exactly.

I'll just sit here and wonder if you'll ever realize what you quoted.

Film analysis from someone who's smarter than anyone on this board and can illustrate my feelings better than I can.

Yes, I'm sure.

Who else here has written for EW and The New Yorker?

Of course, you could actually read what I posted, but I suppose that would require some effort.

It would, yes. EW AND the New Yorker?!?! Must be a genius!

Chippy, what's your favorite movie, and why is it your favorite movie?

I'm not baiting you for an attack. I'm curious.

500 Days of Summer. Because it made me feel feelings. Was well written. And told greatly.

Movies don't have to SAY anything, as "The Hulk" so boldly proclaims that this movie should. It's a fucking movie.

He doesn't say that it should, he's saying that it does, and then abruptly stops so that all of its problems can be resolved.



At least you have a reason, so you do in fact think a little bit about film. Good for you.

Although I don't understand "because it made me feel feelings." Dozens of films a year make me feel feelings.

Movies have to end.

They do. And some of them end in ways that I don't like and I feel are counter to the film itself.

I imagine you're the sort of guy who wishes The Aviator didn't end on a down note.

I thought The Aviator finished fine.

Movies can have sad endings. But a movie that was always about things getting better and finding a SILVER LINING!!! it needed a happy ending.

I'm not against it having a happy ending. I'm not against those characters ending up together and being happy.

I'm against the movie cheating to get that happy ending. I'm against it coming down to a dance competition, where their score not only affects them, but his entire family as well. I'm against the fact that Bradley Cooper stops playing an intriguing, flawed character and in act three is simply Bradley Cooper with absolutely no development toward that change. He's simply one thing the first moment, another thing the next.

The film adopts the "movie" ending because it's the easiest way out of the problems it's established. It's lazy.

You felt warm and fuzzy walking out. I didn't because I recognized the incongruity as it was unfolding.

The whole movie built up to his characters change. Just because you personally couldn't see it, doesn't mean other, smart people, didn't. We saw it. And it wasn't a "cheat" ending. Sometimes in life, one singular moment can change many lives at once.

Sorry you're so cynical.

Sorry that you don't demand anything from films other than to "feel feelings."

I don't demand anything from films. What an idiotic thing to do.

"I'm gonna go to the movies. Because I don't want to feel anything" - The Dark Shape, probably