War Machine And Endings
Spoiler Alert – This post will talk about War Machine, starring Reacher’s Alan Ritchson, and it WILL contain spoilers. If you haven’t yet watched this military movie with a dash of alien invasion, you might wish to skip this post.
The Dear Wonderful Hubby and I watched War Machine, a military movie with a little bit of alien invasion. We wouldn’t watch it again but it WAS entertaining.
One of the things I really liked about the movie is
it didn’t wrap up everything at the end.
The aliens Alan Ritchson’s character was facing were defeated (as is expected in one of these movies). ALL of the aliens weren’t defeated. The war is definitely not over.
Which makes sense.
No species would send all of their warriors into a first battle with an unknown enemy. And a species that has traveled through space has likely encountered a LOT of surprises, things they haven’t expected. They wouldn’t assume an easy victory.
I was happy with the temporary ending.
We, storytellers, don’t have to solve all of the world’s problems in one story. We can end stories on a small satisfying victory.
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Wicked: For Good And Romance Endings
Spoiler Alert – This post will talk about Wicked: For Good, the second and final movie concluding the story of the Wizard Of Oz’s ‘Wicked’ Witch, and it WILL contain spoilers. If you haven’t yet watched this magical movie with a solid romance novel-worthy ending (YES!!!!), you might wish to skip this post.
I was dreading watching Wicked: For Good. I loved the first movie so very much and the trailers looked like the second part of Elphaba’s story would ruin that for me.
It didn’t ruin it. At all.
It made me love the story MORE.
I LOVED Wicked: For Good.
The characters held true. The relationships evolved and grew stronger. The tie-ins to the original Wizard Of Oz were magical. The girl power and friendship rocks messages remain.
And the ending…the ending, my friends. It had all the aspects of a great romance novel ending.
It was unexpected and hard fought for.
During the dark moment, I truly thought all hope of ANY sort of happy ending was impossible. I definitely didn’t think there would be a romantic happy ending.
Yet there was.
And it was delightful and different, not-at-all what I thought their romantic happy ending would be like yet it was perfect for them.
This is definitely a movie to rewatch when writing an ending to a romance novel. It is inspiring.
(smiles)
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