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If you think this movie had a happy ending, you're an idiot

posted 13 years ago by oddball_oddity-1
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I'll buy it if you didn't think the ending was dark enough, but this movie in no way shape or form has a happy ending. I get if the ending is transparently dark, you think it makes you deep for appreciating it, but to call the ending happy actually makes you pretty dang shallow.

Seriously, look at the ending. The entire world is afflicted with a singular infection. When they fix it, does it turn into a happy ID4 ending?

No, humanity pretty much picks up right where it left off. It's actually more depressing than the everyone gets infected ending. It's bittersweet at best. The thing is, yes, Nicole Kidman cures her son and they save themselves- but she's left with the realization that it's at the cost of people's tendency to destroy themselves on their own.

Why is the downer of that ending so hard for people to grasp? It was pretty much saying we don't need to worry about a greater being, we're destroying the world without any help.

[–] Jigsaw737 13 years ago

I completely agree. The movie showed that humanity in itself is worse than any alien invasion could be.

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[–] futurewriter78 13 years ago

"The thing is, yes, Nicole Kidman cures her son and they save themselves-"

Cures her son? Don't forget, he was never infected and couldn't be infected :)

While I think the word "idiot" is too strong of a word to describe people who think this movie has a happy ending, I do agree that it's not exactly a happy one. To me, it was pretty clear that she actually considered "joining" them because her love interest was trying to convince her that their world was peaceful, etc.. But then something rang inside her: her son. After she found out they would kill her son because he couldn't become one of them, there was no question she refused to join them in a heart-beat.

After watching movies like this one, invasion of the body snatchers (the original and the remake), and the faculty, I'm beginning to wonder if these movies were intended to bash the human race in some sort of way. They seem to be sending some message that our world may crash as a result of our continuous hostility towards other individuals and/or groups. The lack of forgiveness and continuous anger toward others will result in our world getting no better, if not coming to an end.

So it really doesn't matter how movies like these end. One way or another, the message it gives us is that humanity may become screwed eventually.

[–] bing-57 13 years ago

> No, humanity pretty much picks up right where it left off. It's actually more depressing than the everyone gets infected ending.

Yeah, but it's OUR world and the problems we have make us human.

Look at the aliens in the movie. They are without emotion. Sure, they have no hatred or jealously or meanness or greed, but they also do not have love or happiness or ambition.

Do you really want to live in a world where everyone is a peaceful and emotionless zombie?

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[–] futurewriter78 13 years ago

oh I agree with you on that, too, bing. I mean, without love or emotion, people just wouldn't care. For example, if you slipped off a building but managed to catch the roof and haven't fallen yet, someone sees you struggling but won't help you out because they have no emotion, that would be pretty crazy.

[–] bing-57 13 years ago

> For example, if you slipped off a building but managed to catch the roof and haven't fallen yet, someone sees you struggling but won't help you out because they have no emotion, that would be pretty crazy.

Actually, in that case they would help you out. Emotions would have nothing to do with the decision to save you or not. You are a member of society and it is logical to save you for the overall benefit of society.

In your example, people would not panic and would calmly go about rescuing you. And if you fell anyway and died, they'd simply dispose of your body efficiently and without emotion.

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[–] futurewriter78 13 years ago

I suppose that's possible. But then again, in the movie, that one dude that hit that one lady, didn't even get out of the car to see if she was okay. He just looked into Nicole K's eyes with a dead stare. Perhaps he didn't get out of the car because the victim was not one of them (an alien)? who knows.

[–] bing-57 13 years ago

> that one dude that hit that one lady, didn't even get out of the car to see if she was okay.

True. In the rest of the movie, however, we did see the aliens working together as if they were drawing information from one collective mind -- kind of like a beehive.

So maybe that fellow already knew that she was a human or was told not to help her. Or maybe he determined that the lady was so badly injured it wasn't worth saving her.

Also, since the invasion was underway and the aliens were not yet stable maybe the aliens were in "self-preservation" mode rather than "save-everyone" mode.

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[–] patrick_pkl 13 years ago

I think you can kinda call it a happy ending. Remember the scene when Nicole Kidman gave her counter-argument to the Russian Ambassador? That humans consciousness, philosophy, morality are constantly changing. So the ending wasn't a exactly a 'back to war' ending, it was a 'society progresses on' ending.

If the director intended it to be a dark ending, he would have simply made Nicole Kidman be at a loss of words as to how to address the Russian Ambassador's views.

[–] DreamsAgain 9 years ago

I agree with you, bing57.
The ALIENS were almost like "walking zombies"...no emotions, robotic, and heaven knows what else.
So really, the World was better off being "as it were", instead of invaded by a bunch of Aliens with possibly ulterior motives anyhow.
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[–] sage2112 9 years ago

That's such BS. You're saying that the happier of the 2 outcomes is humanity being taken over by the aliens?

Well, speak for yourself, pal.

[–] norman-dostal 8 years ago

I'm afraid you saying "Nicole cures her son" makes you the idiot. He was the cure, dumb ass!

[–] danzig138-668-939218 8 years ago

That's what the ending was meant to say, but what it actually said was "Blah blah blah, someone took a philosophy course and thinks they're thinking deep thoughts but they aren't, because holy *beep* this has been said countless times before and better almost every time."

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