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
shareI love tragic endings - sometimes. A couple of my favorite films are Phaedra and Vertigo....that said, this ending was sad and I would've preferred something different. Not really that Kim and Edward get together, but something happier for Edward.
I think Kim was vain in wanting Edward to remember her the way she was. Especially since she married and had children and a happy life, and Edward was in that dark, cold castle all alone forever with nobody, and he obviously craved love. I think he'd still remember her in her youth, even if she'd consistently reached out as a friend to him over the years. Plus, Kim is cozy in her home with her family and it seems like a happy scene, her telling a story
to her granddaughter. Made me feel sorry for Edward that he was left alone up there. It would've been nice for him to not have to be alone, somehow....
"Are you going to your grave with unlived lives in your veins?" ~ The Good Girl
Most fairy tales don't have happy endings, just the Disney adaptations.
shareYeah most fairy tales/fables/parables don't have happy endings because their purpose is to teach a moral. Applications for real life. Shock, horror, real life doesn't have happy endings. Bad things happen to good people all the time.
shareI get the sense that Burton was trying to show that not all fairy tales had to end happily. But in my opinion, the ending is very bitter sweet. It doesn't ruin the film at all because the whole story is bitter sweet in it's own way.
Real is good. Interesting is better.
I also wish there was a happy ending for Jim as well like him redeeming himself and him making amends with his father and them having a good father/son relationship and him standing up for Edward and helping him out, I also would have liked to see Jim find a new girlfriend and him getting the car of his dreams, I didn't like seeing Jim being a bad guy because he started off as a decent, likable character in the first half of the movie.
shareBecause life isn't like that, people don't always live happily ever after.
The ending was perfect, grow a set and deal with it.
"I really wish Gia and Claire had became Tanner" - Honeybeefine
The ending is what gives the movie its impact. It's why you remember it. It's why you bothered to come here and make a post about it. I think the ending is perfect.
What if a squirrel wants a sausage?
I can't debate people who think it's a perfect ending when we're forced to watch two characters deeply in love get wrenched apart. Sadists!!
shareYes, but sometimes a poignant ending can be more beautiful than a happy one.
Of course it is sad that in the end two lovers who seemed to be destined for each other, simply cannot be together, for practical, worldly reasons......but perhaps they are more together than it seems....perhaps they will be infinitely together. Destined to be forever together, not in body, but in spirit.
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To be honest, no matter the outcome it would have been sad. He doesn't age, and if the townfolks let him be he would outlive her. She would grow old and die. So he would have been left alone with his grief for the rest of his unnatural life. Just like he is in the castl.e
shareThe townsfolk had believe he had become a hideous monster that must be destroyed and Kim had to make them think he was dead, so they can leave him alone and she did it to protect him. But, Edward was ageless and like all vampire stories, he would spend the rest of his immortal life alone.
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