Come on, it's a heart-warming fantasy movie with a lot of great scenes, but why end it on a sour not when 99% of the audience wanted Wynona and Edward to fall in love and be together. You basically wait around for 2 hours so they can realize they are destined to be together, but then they end up going thru life apart. Not cool for the audience
shareWell fairytale don't all have happy endings, and she was just telling her grand daughter a story, the events never took place.
A Tim Burton Fan
Tim Burton doesn't do saccarine endings in general.
And for me the ending was brilliant as it was. Gives me gossebumps everytime.
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I've learned that it's OK to be flawed - Winona Ryder
"and she was just telling her grand daughter a story, the events never took place."
Yeah they did. Remember, before the events, it never snowed.
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It's not just what I wanted. 99.99% of people would have liked a nice ending where Johnny and Wynona stayed together. Instead, ther only people who like the ending were Dinosaur Junior and Tim Burton
shareWow, 99.99% of people want a different ending??!! Well i must be the.01%. I think that the end is beautiful in it's own way and it does make better sense considering all the factors involved. How can you have a "happily ever after" with a guy with weapons for hands. They fell in love and then realised that it was doomed. Still one of my favourite movies and i wouldn't want them to change a thing!
shareHow can people say they should've been together? Okay so say yeah they get married, first off the police and towns people were hunting him down, so they would've had to run away. Secondly what about the whole scissors for hands things? If they had kids how would he ever hold his child? I think it was nice to see the love that they have for each other still lives even though they can't be together. I wouldn't change anything.
shareI guess I'm in that 1% that believe the ending is beautiful. There is no way they could have had a life together. To me what was important is that she still loved him in her old age.
shareIt was like Harry and the Hendersons LOL, Edward just did not belong in that world
Would you like some hot coffee - in your face?!!! - Bert Macklin, FBI
The sad ending is what MAKES this a great film! Real life isn't all smiles and laughter either. There is tragedy in the world!
shareHonestly, do you think that this movie would've hit you as hard as it did if everything ended up roses for Edward and Kim?
I've had it with these monkey-eating fiddlers on this Monday-to-Friday roof!
I think the ending is ok but I think if Kim truly loved Edward she would have stayed with him and not had children with someone else. I agree in that the ending is much more powerful the way it is though.
shareI remember a newspaper review of the film when it came out. It made a fair criticism of this great film. "Edward does not soar at the end and it disparately needs to soar". In a bizarre chain of events, a couple of years later I had a Thanksgiving dinner at that critic's house and asked him what he would have suggested. He didn't know.
I think I do but it wouldn't have made you any happier about the ending.
its a beautiful ending.
why end on sad note rather than a happy one? because thats the directors intent.. simple as that. he wanted to break our hearts and he did a damn good job of it. the last few minutes really do me in.