What really bothers me about the movie is two things:
1. The beautiful children wind up never having existed. He loved them so much, and he will never see them again!!! How sad!! And stupid!!!
2. One of the points the movie seems to be making is that money isn't the key to happiness, and yet at the end, both of them are extremely wealthy. And seems to be one aspect of the happy ending.
1. That was his glimpse. He had a glimpse of what he missed when he decided to make his life without Kate. It's indeed sad, but I don't see how it's supposed to be stupid.
2. Jack was extremely happy in his life, and I assume Kate was as well.
It's just that, with the glimpse, the love Jack once had for Kate was rekindled, and the kids also grew on him. I think, in this sense, it wasn't a happy ending for Jack. Although he can have everything money can buy, no money in the world will ever buy him the life he lived in the glimpse.
I think they get married and have those kids!!
shareI think so too. That was my first thought. They have everything they did together but now they are both successful in their carreers. I think the message of the movie is what has to happen will happen.
shareThey could get married and have kids but they still wouldn't be those kids.
shareI like to think they did have those kids. The movie is about magic, so that same magic could make them have Annie and Josh.
shareThey live on in the glimpse timeline.
shareI agree about the ending being "less than satisfying." I feel like this movie "coulda/woulda/shoulda" been a "Holiday classic," but the ending doesn't do it for me either.
I really liked what someone wrote about Jack waking up on the plane and deciding to come back home as an alternate ending. I think that would have worked better than the actual ending.
I think there was a missed opportunity for this movie to be a classic.
I LOVE this idea. That would have been perfect!
shareI love this ending as well! I love the original because it is very heartfelt and makes you cheer for them. But yes, him waking up on the plane would have been perfect!
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