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Really hated the ending to Pay It Forward


An otherwise decent movie, but my God the ending was terrible! I've never seen the ending but he accidently gets stabbed to death by a bully, WTF!? Haley Joel Osment was good in that film, but the ending should've been taken straight out of the novel. That was just "Lord of the Flies" levels of bad and the movie is a drama, not a damn horror movie!

This is the crap you'd see in a Stephen King movie, not some damn motiviational drama about a 12 year old schoolboy who wants to make the world a better place. One of the worst endings ever!

I kinda like The Sixth Sense and his character of Cole was played very well as this disturbed 10 year old boy. Again, he was good in Pay It Forward, but oh my God the ending to PIF was shit! I understand in the original novel the kid dies, but it was done way different and there wasn't any bullies involved and the thug who kills him feels remorse for his actions, unlike the goddamn bullies in the film adaptation. I wasn't expecting a fairytale happy ending, but the actual ending was utter shit.

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