Realy, they had to kill him off for a boy we never saw before
Whats wrong With a happy ending
shareI agree that was a real downer to what was otherwise a great movie
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Yeah, I was sad too. I guess he had to throw a twist in there somehow.
shareI wasnt sad, i was angry. It was a not sad. I couldnt care less if the boy died because he wasnt in the story before and couldnt relate to his accident. It was more like, oh i want a sad story, i get the kid an accident and the man killed. Didnt work.
shareI believe a happy ending always works even when the viewers know it's coming. People just want to see it. Ofcourse there's always some random oddballs that root for the hero to die at the end and not get the girl because they think it's a little more realistic and because life doesn't always work out for the best. But most people like to walk out of a movie with a good feeling, not a sad one.
shareSparks does kill of main characters often. Mostly its useless like this. Kevin Costner drowns in message in a bottle, Richard gere dies in an accident in Nights of Rhodante. Both offscreen. Why. ITS just stupid. Look, that the girl in Walk to Remeember dies i understand, she was sick and dying anyway. The only time Sparks did a good job ( or at least the screenwriter) was killing the old people of the Notebook while sleeping tgether in the hospital.
shareWell, gee, glad I wasn't planning on watching any of those. (Complete sarcasm!) Spoiler alert next time!
shareDo you know what a spoiler is?
shareWhat I think is stupid about that is why was he miraculously saved in the beginning only to let the bad guys win in the end? That kid could've gotten a transplant from anyone. And how could he have died from a shoulder wound?! Ridiculous!!!!
shareUm, Selena died from a shoulder wound. She was shot in the back (right shoulder area) And the bullet severely damaged a major artery, which caused her to bleed to death. Shoulder wounds can be extremely lethal, too, so Dawson dying from a shoulder wound is not unusual.
shareGunshot wounds in real life aren't the happy making souvenirs that they are in the movies. I've been shot in the leg and it severed my popliteal artery. I almost died and now I have nerve damage from the knee down. Movies make it seem like if you don't get shot in the head or the heart that it's just a scratch that you can bandage up but that's not always the way it is in real life.
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Realy, they had to kill him off for a boy we never saw beforeOK, the movie was shít, but wasn't the boy they had to save her son that we did in fact see a few times and watch him and his mom have a conversation?
Rodents of Unusual Size?...I don't think they exist. share
now wait a minute, they did thow the boy before, he was in like 3.scenes.... and plus I am sick of every movie being a happy ending. I liked what they did with it.😭
shareThis guy has his formula. True love found, true love lost (conflict), love rediscovered...hope...redemption...a second chance.. and then tragedy.
Rinse and repeat.
The closest of his story with a happy ending was The Notebook because they did get to live happily ever after. We just didn't see that part because it's boring to watch. But having so many stories follow the very same formula is boring too.
I could see what was coming as soon as the son was in an accident. Yep, Dawson will get killed and boy will get his heart...yawn.
What's wrong with a tragic ending?
shareI didn't want a happy ending. But this would have been a better movie if it ended ambiguously after she went back home. The whole heart donor / accident *beep* cheesy *beep* broke my suspension in disbelief.
I wanted it to end with her unhappy with her marriage and thinking about her life.. Credits roll. would she leave her husband to go back with him? would she stay with her family and try to make it work?
The fact that he is a donor match for the unrelated kid is for me 1:100000000 chance. unrealistic. You can argue that it was destiny and that he was allowed to stay alive after the oil accident to be able to say sorry and to save the kid, but this is anyways f**ng stupid.
You want a cheesy ending that would work better? The drunk husband after her confession has an accident while drunk driving, the kid is in the car with him. He dies but can donate his heart to his son. The son lives and she is free to go back with without having to deal with her conciense
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d-trumpler, I agree completely. The only way Dawson should have matched hearts with Amanda's son is if he had been the father ... which could not be due to the length of time apart.
Thus, when Dawson died and his heart was used to save the son, I shook my head at another of Nicholas Sparks's ridiculously forced and, therefore, predictable attempts to wrench tears from his audience.
I much prefer your ending, cheesy or not. The best of me could have been the true father's parting gift to his son.