- Just when you thought you liked the ending of your favorite movie. - You should be dead. You should be dead. - You know, you probably
think you fully understand the endings of some of the
most popular movies out there but if you pay closer attention to the details of these movies, their endings become something other than what you thought they were. These are 10 movies that didn't
end as happy as you think. Number one is Taken. Taken is an action-packed adventure movie that was released in 2008, that follows Liam Neeson's
character, Bryan Mills, as he travels across Europe leaving dozens and dozens
of bodies in his wake as he tries to save
his kidnapped daughter. Now, he does ultimately rescue her and the audience feels good
that their family is safe however, they're overlooking
one little thing. As the Mills family hug and
we start seeing credits, nobody seems to think
about the amount of people left super pissed that
some American badass just trashed a few city blocks
throughout the continent. Every single wealthy European criminal who lost men or money
in the sex-slave ring is now trying to hunt
down Bryan and his family and not only that, but
he could be brought up on several international criminal charges for all of the damage that
he did to these cities, so realistically, he is not
out of the clear at all. Number two is Monsters Inc. When it comes to animated kids movies, few would ever leave you distraught or worried about the
fates of the characters but maybe some of them should. This Pixar movie took the legend of a monster in a kid's closet
and flipped it on its head with the monsters requiring the screams of children to power their world. By the end, the monsters
discover that laughing has ten times the power that screams do and decide to switch
to making the children that they visit laugh instead. So Matt, what's the problem? It's all happy hunky dory. Well, what happens when you give a society that's already got plenty of
power ten times the amount? Well, you get a huge workforce lay-off when they don't need as
many scarers as before and you also get a number of
Monster University graduates whose degrees are now meaningless. What you end up with is
a number of unemployed, angry monsters who likely
hold human children responsible for their current predicament, yeah, think about it. Number three is Total Recall. Just to be clear here, we're talking about the original film with
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sharon Stone, not the 2012 remake. In Total Recall our hero Douglas Quaid, played by Schwarzenegger,
takes a fake vacation to Mars by having the memories of
it implanted in his brain only to uncover that he's actually been a secret agent this entire time and the memory of his work has
been suppressed in his head. After a fight to the
death with Vilos Cohaagen, the movie's main villain,
Arnie becomes the victor and the movie ends with our hero saving Mars and getting the girl, yay. Well, almost, yeah, see, however, in a scene near the
beginning of the movie, someone tells Arnold that
he's going to be given the memory of being a secret agent on Mars and he's even shown the woman at the end that he's going to kiss, so, as it all turns out
it may have just all been part of the poor guy's false memories and the fade to white at the end is actually him being lobotomized. Number four is The Dark Knight Rises. There's actually a couple ways Christopher Nolan's Dark
Knight trilogy's final chapter, The Dark Knight Rises,
didn't have a happy ending that many of us left theaters
thinking that it had. For one thing, the nuclear bomb that Batman flies out over Gotham Bay, doesn't get that far from civilization, which means that the fallout alone would more than likely ruin Gotham and kill thousands of its citizens but even if we ignore that fact, it's hard to ignore Batman's
proximity to the blast after he bales out of the Bat. We see Mr. Wayne just
seconds before the explosion still sitting in his flying vehicle but then we're expected to believe that he just whoop, got away. Then, we get to the end,
when Alfred sees Bruce and Selena at a cafe in Florence, Bruce has absolutely no disguise so it's beyond likely that anyone, at any moment is going to notice that one of the ex-richest
men on the planet is alive in their midst. What many think is truly happening is that Batman actually died in the blast and that Bruce that we see in the cafe is actually Alfred's
grief-fueled hallucination. Number five is The Jungle Book. One of the most beloved
Disney animated classics, seems to have a clearly
happy ending, or does it? In The Jungle Book we see
young protagonist, Mowgli, raised from a baby, in
the jungle, by wolves and panthers and all
other sorts of wildlife. This man cub learns to
speak with the animals and the only life he
knows is amongst the trees and temple ruins in the jungle. So when, at the end of the
movie, when Mowgli meets Shanti, a young female villager
and becomes enamored, he decides to leave the only life he's ever known for villager life, but what's the problem with
that ending you might be asking? Well, A, Mowgli can't speak any language other than panther and B,
he's basically a feral child who is completely
unaccustomed to civilization. Seriously, who is going to
trust a boy who prefers sleeping on the roof of the hut
instead of in the hut? And he has no money and just wandered home
with a strange girl. And the boy might have rabies,
why didn't we think of that? Number six is the Man of Steel. In the Superman reboot Man of Steel, we see Superman battling
it out with a small army of fellow super-powered Kryptonians while powerless human
beings run for their lives. Superman manages to win out in the end sending all but one of them through a black hole and
into another dimension. Shortly after that he
breaks his final opponent, General Zod's neck, worries
about it for about 12 seconds and then goes and gets
a new job as a reporter. The world is safe, happy enough ending? Well, it is if you ignore
the tens of thousands of Metropolis' citizens who were killed when half the city was
destroyed in all of the fighting not to mention the fact
that Superman just appeared and people know he's as
powerful, if not more so, than the entire Kryptonian army. Just to put that into perspective for you, imagine if a Nazi came forward and said oh don't worry, I'm a good Nazi, I'm here to save you, mmm-hmm,
yeah, that's disturbing, go ahead and think about that one. Number seven is Gravity. Set way up in orbit around the Earth, Gravity is a gripping movie
about a doctor slash astronaut, played by Sandra Bullock,
hallucinating conversations with her recently deceased co-workers, while she struggles to
find a way back home. The ship she went into
space with is destroyed when debris from multiple satellites begins hurtling around the
Earth at 50,000 miles per hour. Bullock's character, Dr. Ryan Stone, manages to avoid multiple dangers and get to safety creating a happy ending. Well, except for the fact
that due to the growing amount of debris hurtling around in orbit, space travel or even the use of satellites is now gone for a few
generations of humanity. That's right, the villainous
debris is a real issue called Kessler Syndrome and
it means that no space travel is possible for at least 100 years. Number eight is Star Wars:
Episode VI - Return of the Jedi. The last of the original
Star Wars trilogy, Episode VI - Return of the
Jedi ends with a nice bow on the overall plot, the rebellion has won and the second Death
Star has been destroyed, what's not to be happy about that? Well, you don't have to
watch The Force Awakens to understand that the Empire is obviously still alive and strong. They also now have a very real reason to hunt down the rebel
scum and have their revenge for the death of their leaders. While Luke, Han, Leia and their friends dance around and smile,
there's an admiral out there who just got the biggest
promotion of his life and he's gonna ruin the
whole universe's day because of it, baby. Number nine is Sin City. Now, it's not really right to say that the 2005 Frank Miller
comic book adaptation, Sin City, has a happy ending seeing as
how Bruce Willis' character, Hartigan, winds up shooting
himself in the face and all but it does show Jessica
Alba's character, Nancy, being saved from her
kidnapper and whisked back to the safety of her home,
which is pretty happy, right? Well, see Hartigan only kills himself to keep the bad guys
from trying to get to him through Nancy again, so
that ties it all up, right? Well, if you watch an
earlier scene you hear the boss, Roark, say
that he won't let anyone tarnish his family's reputation and that he'll kill anybody
who's aware of his son's crimes, which obviously includes Nancy. So, Hartigan's dead, Roark
is looking for some vengeance and there's literally nobody left to stop them and protect the person that they were after in the first place. Basically, Bruce Willis died for nothing and Nancy's head is now
back on the chopping block. And number 10 is Harry Potter. You're a wizard, Harry. And it's depressing. Okay, first off, whether
they'll admit it or not, everybody seems to like Harry Potter, even if just a little bit. After eight movies, the series concludes with Mr. Potter defeating
the evil Lord Voldemort and saving the world to
the cheers of his friends. All so magically perfect, isn't it? Well, I hate to burst
any Potter fan bubbles but if you stop and think about those pesky happiness stealing Dementors, you'll see how both
the wizards and muggles might just have a pretty
colossal problem on their hands. See, the Dementors were
controlled by Lord Voldemort, so since he's dead, the
Ministry has fallen, and many of the most powerful
good wizards were killed in the final battles, who can stop them from stealing the souls
of basically everyone? The answer is nobody, nobody's left. They're basically free to fly about and reap any soul that they please. Welcome to the all you can
reap soul feast, poor muggles. So, those were 10 movies that didn't end as happy as you think, but what do you guys
think of these theories? Do they make sense or do the movies end exactly as they intended? Leave a comment below because
I'll be reading through them and I'll pin the best one to the top. But as always, thank you guys
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