Americans don't understand this type of movie
All they want are happy endings, life isn't always like that, we need this in life and learn to live with it to be better.
shareInterestingly, as an American, I most commonly hear people complain that (whatever-movie-of-the-week) would have been better if it didn't have a happy ending.
There is something to the Hollywood cliche, and it's not actually caused by American movie-goers, in my opinion. It's caused by large production studios who aren't willing to make a risky bet. Movie cliches are known for bringing audiences to the theater, and even if it's not what most people would prefer to see, the studio is still confident that they'll make money at it. If they go completely off the map for things that haven't been tried (repeatedly and with large audiences), they might take losses.
Other countries don't have the same entrenched movie studio system the US has. I think independent movies are equally easy/hard to make in every country, but in the US it's particularly easy to crank out many cliched studio-backed films a year.
Typical Americans are as much to blame for the movie industry as typical Chinese people are to blame for lead paint being used children's toys manufactured there. Business people looking to make a quick buck exist in every country where both people and money exist.
^^^this. except that if americans wouldn't predominantly favor happy endings, they wouldn't be so prevalent, and if people would boycott toys made in China (I don't even know if they're sold there or only exported) they wouldn't be made anymore. the best place to hit someone and make it hurt is in the wallet.
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