10 Happy Movie Endings That Ignored One Devastating Thing

[@johnanderson5558]

I always assumed the scene at the end of The Wizard of Oz where Auntie Em tells Dorothy, “Ms. Gulch got caught in the tornado, thrown into a lake and drown,” was left on the cutting room floor.

[@johnanderson5558]

Including Dorothy’s final line, “Oh Auntie Em, there’s nothing like karma”

[@patrickdoyle6201]

​@@johnanderson5558 "Here Toto, go play with her bones!"🐶😹

[@patrickdoyle6201]

@@CashelOConnolly L Frank Baum BUT I have seen RETURN TO OZ and it is seriously darker than the original

[@patrickdoyle6201]

@@CashelOConnolly I hope that didn't come off as condescending or insulting, that happens just as often as getting something wrong accidentally or having an electronic device AUTOINCORRECT us!🤪😹

[@patrickdoyle6201]

@@CashelOConnolly I've always wanted to visit Ireland. I had a friend I talked to online and she lives/lived in Belfast

[@Jurgium]

Baby Driver didn't feature "a gang." Each of them were effectively independent contractors brought together for each specific job. There was an early line on the second job mentioning how unusual it was for people working together in multiple jobs, as it is inherently a security risk. Doc didn't run a gang, he was a fixer.

[@TitularHeroine]

Customizable squad

[@hjspalenka]

Yeah, and Griff isn't an issue for Baby anyway. He pissed off Doc, then his last line in the movie was "If you don't see me again, it means I'm dead." That might not mean much in most movies, but if Edgar Wright puts a line like that in his movie, he means it. Griff is dead, and not an issue for Baby.

[@trinaq]

Stephen Spielberg now states that if he were to make "Close Encounters" nowadays, he wouldn't have Roy abandon his family to go off gallivanting with aliens, having not had a family of his own yet.

[@dearthditch]

I was wondering about the 100s of other people who were OCDed towards the mountain that didn’t make it. Their lives are also messed up, and their minds may be permanently damaged

[@trueinar9184]

I don't think it was established that all the goblins in The Labyrinth are kidnapped children. Just because Toby would be turned into one doesn't mean that's how all goblins come about. It also doesn't establish that there would be a physical change. I mean Jareth looks human and he is the goblin king.

[@Talsedoom]

The problem with modern audience is the Mesiah complex. People should care about themselves and their family, instead of trying to save everyone.

[@kaybee29]

I don't think Toto's fate was necessarily sealed. She had a sheriff's order to bring the dog in, but when Aunt Em tells her that Toto is gentle (with gentle people), Miss Gulch says that's for the sheriff to decide. Sounds like he was going to be assessed before being put to sleep. And yes, Miss Gulch had connections and owned half the town, but can we just have this one? Life is hard enough without thinking that crusty bitch got a dog put down. lol

[@trinaq]

The 2017 TV remake of "Dirty Dancing" actually had Baby and Johnny not end up together, with her marrying someone else, in a possible nod to "La La Land", but they'll always think fondly of that summer.

[@melendezab1]

“Little idiots like Slimer”. What did Slimer do to you, bro? Someone didn’t grow up with the animated series and Ecto Cooler, and it shows.

[@insanehiker5587]

Slimer isn't really a monster either, he's a cowardly glutton, plus he even help get Louis Tully to the museum in time to help the Ghostbusters with Vigo.

[@clericofchaos1]

sometimes a "happy ending" only applies to the characters that the audience are intended to like and that's ok. It's naive to expect everyone involved to get a happily ever after. movies like Taken, Pinocchio, and labyrinth are perfect examples. Our heroes can hardly be expected to break up human trafficking rings and defeat eldritch beings all on their own. Most governments can't even stop human trafficking and there are entire organizations out there dedicated to specifically that. As for the goblin king, well to quote Uncle from Jackie Chan Adventures "Magic must defeat magic". So, unless he kidnaps the kid of a powerful witch, wizard, warlock or the half breed child of a demon and a human, i don't see him as being stopped anytime soon. Just take the small victories where you can find em. That's pretty much life in a nutshell.

[@infernas]

Source Code's ending also implied that the "happy ending" branched off into its own separate reality, and that the explosion and deaths still happened in the original timeline. Which means that no matter what the agency did, there was no preventing that event from happening.

[@asian-americanwithanopinio8954]

Source Code: Is basically one example of the thousands of time traveler's from the future occupying thousands of present humans in the Netflix Time Travel show "Traveler's"

[@dannygonzales3331]

Editing should’ve put the clip of Johnny getting arrested on family guy because of statutory 😂

[@yuliast5786]

0:34 Taken 1:26 Ghostbusters II 2:27 Con Air 3:21 Source Code 4:31 The Wizard Of Oz 5:48 Close Encounters Of The Third Kind 7:00 Baby Driver 8:17 Dirty Dancing 9:27 Pinocchio 10:18 Labyrinth

[@TitularHeroine]

Thanks 🙏

[@AFMountaineer2000]

Doc's gang in Baby Driver wasn't really a gang. Baby was the only person used across all of the filmed robberies. Didn't Doc say he didn't like using the same guy twice

[@jessicaconkey8574]

In Dirty dancing which is set in the 1960s Johnny was 24 and Baby was 18. There is gap but not a major one.

[@jamespope7669]

Don't forget how rich older women used him as a man-hoe.

[@tanguman2]

both Jareth and the Coachman in Labyrinth and Pinocchio are not evil but they represent a form of cosmic justice and education respectively. More than likely the children taken are unwanted or themselves have runaway from home. The coachman represented the moral justice of misbehavior having ramifications i.e. you cannot have fun all the time without paying a price. Jareth serves to teach lessons of morality and to assess ones life to see it is not as bad as one thinks it is, he is actually doing good and i do not think the goblins are children kept there but actual goblins who help him teach those lessons.

[@Tim_Raths]

A happy ending with a devastating thing that got ignored. Dumb and Dumber Harry and Lloyd got away with murder. There were several witnesses in the restaurant that they ate at and Harry’s fingerprints were on the container of rat poison. Nobody ever talks about that one.

[@metalchono]

"Gigolo Joe" in "AI". Sacrificed himself so David could be frozen under the sea until the aliens arrived. What was that?

[@TitularHeroine]

F···in' weird is what

[@Talsedoom]

Ending in Ai was ridiculously pointless.

[@TitularHeroine]

​@@Talsedoom Ending[S]. It was like four different endings just tacked on, and I agree, ridiculous

[@benjaminmccoy6828]

The best unexpected happy ending was Godzilla Minus One. You should do a video about unexpected happy endings

[@shmikex]

I always viewed the end of Source Code as this is his last moments of life in the real world but his dying brain perceives the simulation to be reality and in his head he is living his life.

[@Buggy-su4oy]

Steve probably detested his character knowing his kind personality...but that's makes him such a great actor...he needs a Oscar or an honory one.😊😊

[@eduardoalfonso4509]

And remember Clercks. Randall talking about the killing of independent contractors while working on the Death Star.

[@mkklassicmk3895]

The thing at the end of Con Air isn't supposed to be a happy ending moment.

[@gfear24]

exactly. It was meant as a happy ending for Nic Cage's character. Not the movie as a whole.

[@borntogazeintonightskies]

I always like to think that that little girl saved/cured Garland Greene with her singing.

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Love your content ❤❤❤

[@randyreese6413]

The snow in the Wizard of Oz was asbestos.

[@tomflynn8265]

Best Happy Ending in a movie? Chasey Lane in "White Wedding". Absolutely Awesome!!! 😉

[@kimarmstrong2010]

Ok so i don't know how anyone missed this but in Wizard of Oz Toto does not get killed - he escaped from the basket and at the very end he is literally sitting on the bed with Dorothy- geez

[@dhenderson1810]

I think he means Ms Gulch will discover that Toto is gone and try to kidnap him again. Nothing has been done to stop her.

[@antney7745]

He was going to be killed before being in Oz. He's still going to be killed after being in Oz. Nothing has changed.

[@brunozeigerts6379]

Return of the Jedi. The second Death Star is destroyed... which should have caused a rain of debris on Endor, devastating the planet. (Robot Chicken did a skit on this) Also, the Empire shouldn't simply end with the death of the Emperor. (a number of extended Universe novels dealt with this, the idea of Imperial governors fighting the rebels and each other for the right to rule.)

[@camgold2154]

Have you seen the Robot Chicken skit that dealt with that, the Rebels won because they blew up the Death Star and killed the Emperor.

[@brunozeigerts6379]

@@camgold2154 Yes... definitely tongue in cheek. Like killing any Roman Emperor would have ended the Roman Empire. Nope. Any of the extended universe novel, like Zahn's Shadow of the Empire or Rogue Squadron would have been better than the sequel trilogy we did get.

[@LeighWHeard]

"Everything you are doing is bad. I want you to know this." I thought of this quote when I saw the video title. And was doubly delighted when Ghostbusters 2 appeared on the list as well ;)

[@KJYKJY1985]

Some of the items on this list are really unimpressive examples. The reasoning seems to be "something else bad happened throughout the course of this movie therefor the happy ending is invalid."

[@hthrun]

Yeah, it's like saying every comic book movie has a sad ending because all the other villains around the world haven't been caught yet...

[@edvaira6891]

Here’s the reason why I don’t care about the ending of SOURCE CODE….the guy was DEAD, any way…better that he’s at least alive, as are EVERYONE ELSE on the train

[@Talsedoom]

It's still a stolen life.

[@pedropelaez]

He steals the body of someone who was going to die anyways.

[@draygoon69]

There is not a huge age gap in Dirty Dancing. I really wish people would stop saying this. She's 18, he's 24. Only 6 years. She's going off to college and he's a dance teacher. He could probably move wherever he wants. Plus, it's never really discussed on where they both actually live either. So they very easily could be close already.

[@Talsedoom]

Also her family could accept this guy in time.

[@draygoon69]

@@Talsedoom Yea. The ending suggests her mother had no issues at all with the situation. And her father realized he jumped to conclusions and might be more willing to start over.

[@lordofthemasks]

That's huge. Especially at that age.

[@draygoon69]

@@lordofthemasks no, it's not.

[@jacobdrolet4262]

Amazing video

[@PixiePrincess501]

Instead of the very mid live action remake, Disney (or someone) needs to make a "Return to Pleasure Island" movie where the source of the curse is destroyed and the donkey boys get saved. If I ever find the time, I'd love to make an original animatic about it.

[@sgt.marcusstacker]

Another happy movie ending that ignored one devastating thing was The Northman. Now the movie itself was terrible due to how many plot holes it had. Plot holes like the main character somehow sneaking onto a longboat without anyone noticing, the two main characters making their escape from a slave camp on a hired boat without the boat owner even being the slightest bit suspicious, or the main character having a showdown with the antagonist inside a volcano where the temperatures exceed over 1,000 degrees. However, the biggest plot hole comes in the ending where the protagonist reunites with his newfound love. Sounds like a happy ending, right? Well it would if the protagonist hadn’t been responsible for murdering her family, burning down her village, and forcing her into slavery. Either the writers straight up forgot about the most action packed scene in the movie where all of that happened, or the protagonist’s supposed lover kills him in his sleep after the movie ends.

[@kingjamos2422]

That Source Code ending always bothered me. Congrats my dude, but you literally stole everything from an innocent man so you can escape from death. Yeah... that is so fair. Looking back at it now, it is possible that the owner of the body could be watching everything the protagonist is doing, thus rubbing salt in the wounds. I'm not sure if that possibility was ever explained to not be a thing or not, but that would be hell.

[@nicknick6587]

The "innocent man" (I don't know character's name...thus adding a bit to the tragedy) in that reality would be gone/dead no matter what. It is tragic no matter what, but if you think of it like a battle where someone's going to die no matter what, the goal is to minimize the death. Protagonist traded the life of the doomed man for his own and the lives of everyone else on the train.

[@arinpendragon4344]

I like the end of D&D: Honor Among Thieves. The people of Neverwinter are now filthy rich, Holga DOESN’T die, Simon and Doric get together again, and Forge, like the sucker he is, is thrown in the very prison Edgin was stuck in, seemingly with no hope of escape. It's a perfect end to a perfect movie.

[@reaper0470]

I always wondered if they were intending to set up a sequel with con air because of that ending.

[@bradwolf07]

Yeah, I've wondered that for years

[@bbworks159]

ET: the government would still be after the boy even after ET is gone

[@michaelkramer6246]

In the Ghostbusters universe, they bust ghosts. Just because the Titanic ghosts arrived just then, they still didn't get processed properly. Illegal immigrants

[@joelbest2424]

Favorite happy ending: when Ronald Coleman returns to Shangra-la at the conclusion of "Lost Horizon." Always brings tears to my eyes.

[@baxtersmom279]

Did anyone really think Baby and Johnny lasted after that summer? For real, even when I was 14 in 1988 I never even considered they were anything other a summer love/fling…

[@ClockworkEngineer]

The most significant and globally overwhelming making everything else trivial thing to happen since anyone was abducted in Close Encounters was finding out aliens existed. The abductees aren't going to notice much that cars are bit rounder now.

[@rockabillypug]

I always imagined what life must've been like for George Baily after the events of It's A Wonderful Life. He had to go decades without telling anyone about his visit from Clarence unless he wanted to be institutionalized.

[@scooby8930]

Baby Driver was originally going to have a sequel

[@TheVampireAzriel]

Toddler Driver

[@colettepot7350]

It is a known fact that Carlo Collodi, author of the original “Pinocchio” hated children. So the book was even grimmer than the Disney adaptation. I believe in the original version of the novel Pinocchio was hanged, but even in the period it was written in this was considered a bit too gloomy, so Collodi changed it.

[@camaronshoultz6137]

Here’s something that totally explains all of these. Dude it’s just a movie!

[@bradfry5403]

Fan theory, after escaping in las Vegas Garland Greene goes to LA where he takes part in a diamond robbery and is called Mr Pink.

[@brunozeigerts6379]

Close Encounters... Roy Neary is going to travel on an alien ship... BY HIMSELF! No other humans for companionship.(it looks like the military volunteers weren't accepted, and only one was female anyway)

[@johnnimbus8761]

One very questionable untalked about part of Wonder Women 1984 is how Diana and Steve uses 'Handsome Man's ' body for sex without his permission or knowledge.....then at the end of the film try to gloss over this by having Diana give him a knowing smile that he has no idea of its meaning. Jeez.

[@SouthernGreyShark]

😅 Wut? 99.999% of guys would have zero issue with being "forced" to have sex with Wonder Woman. 😏

[@KJYKJY1985]

"untalked about"? It's one of the main things people talk about in that movie.

[@TitularHeroine]

​​@@KJYKJY1985 I think they mean the characters don't talk about it except "wink wink nudge nudge" Edit: typo

[@antney7745]

@@KJYKJY1985 They talk about it when discussing the movie. They don't talk about it IN the movie.

[@BrianRollinsVO]

Isn't it more or less implied that everything in the Labyrinth is just in Sarah's head (all the characters are based on the dolls/toys in her room)?

[@kaoskwien]

Con air is an action flic and comes from An era in which the hero wins and everything is fine. Only viewers of younger days are so critical about the giant plothole

[@Jurgium]

Saw that shit when it was fresh out on video. We called it out as it happened.

[@Acidrain82]

"One girl, I drove through three states wearing her head as a hat". Called it out when it happened

[@AkaManah45]

Uh-huh sure cause ni one ever questioned things like that back in the days since they didn't make videos about or podcast huh 😒

[@justingerald]

I think Con Air makes it clear he's on the loose and it's kind of a deliberate joke?

[@michaelrue1400]

You could view the end of Labyrinth like The Wizard of Oz and none of it actually happened. Baby Driver could go on to be a Transporter. (Admittedly still not a legal occupation.) As for Ghostbusters, is there really such a thing as an innocent ghost?

[@matthewdrummond1340]

2:26 Sh*t I've never thought of that 😮

[@dhenderson1810]

There are no innocent ghosts.

[@AdLockhorst-bf8pz]

Ah 🙂 the Wizard of Asbestos snow?!? 😨

[@Grizzdrop]

In Source Code he didn't intentionally take the body.. it is not stolen. He was stuck in there without his choice and is going on to live because what else is there?

[@Cryme]

Pinocchio always bothered me for that reason!! Just tell someone about those other kids!

[@Talsedoom]

Point is: no one cares. It was a tough time. It's probably late 18 century. Child labor was a thing at those times. People were poor and there was alot of infants out there. Just watch Les Misérables.

[@dannygornall827]

With source code isnt the logic that hed be dead if he didnt take over?

[@scottwascher1505]

Free the ghosts!

[@alexius23]

🎥🍿🎬🎞🧙‍♂

[@gmlgml780]

Yeah. That's what we all do. That's what all life is all about. Ignoring the damage. Ignoring the pain. Ignoring the price. Ignoring all s@ffering. The show must go on. As a mantra. And that's what must end. This universe must be d@str@yed.

[@raypsychodad]

Who pissed in your cornflakes. Cant you just enjoy a happy ending instead of looking for negatives ffs. Talk about depressing