Said By Brad

I was going to write this up a couple of weeks back after seeing Hancock at the cinema. But I was lazy and sort of lost interest in the whole rant. However after watching ‘No Country For Old Men’ on DVD yesterday it sort of reignited my whole loathing over this subject.

Now my personal opinion of Hancock was mixed. I thought it started very well, had a very interesting and well thought out story at the beginning. But after that it went down hill very fast and by the end, it was nothing more than a cheesy, over rated, Hollywood piece of trash. The final nail in the coffin for me was the cringe worthy ‘and everyone lives happy ever after’ ending. Had it not been for this it may have been able to scrape itself out of the hole of seriously lacking story beyond the first 30 minutes and a rather weird revelation around half way through. Anyone who’s seen it will know what I mean. I’m not going to spoil it for anyone who hasn’t seen it yet.

It pisses me off the number of potentially good Hollywood films these days ruin themselves, and shoot themselves in the foot with blatant overuse of romance and cliche endings. Iron Man did this as well. There was no real need for the romance in Iron Man, the ending to Iron Man didn’t go as much downhill as Hancock, but it seemed to trail off without leaving any lasting impact. Although the final line was rather cool. Stupid romance and happy endings inserted to make films more main stream is just hard to watch.

Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not against ‘Happily ever after’ endings totally. But I think it should only be used when it is fitting to the story. I think far too many films just tack on a happily ever after ending to try and appeal more to the masses. Now lets be honest, the majority of people are so fucking pathetic they want a happy ending, regardless of the story. The majority of people also live with their head in the clouds, go figure.

Now on to my argument against happy endings. No Country For Old Men. I’m guessing at least a few of you reading this must have seen it. If you haven’t, go see it. It’s a bloody amazing film. It doesn’t have that much of a gripping storyline, But it’s very watchable. And well I don’t want to spoil the ending but unless you’ve read the book, I very much doubt you’d be able to guess what happens. I’ll tell you one thing though, nobody lives ‘Happily ever after’.

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