Everyone loves a happy ending.... *SPOILER ALERT*

Movies in general make a bad habit of having a happy ending. I disagree with the idea that everything has to have a happy ending. Life is not always happy and most endings cannot be considered so. Its unrealistic and its predictable. In "House At The End Of The Street" Alissa (Jennifer Lawrence) is saved from mentally unstable Ryan (Max Thieriot) who is institutionalized and Alissa and her mother move to a different house in a different city and BOOM! Happily ever after. There was absolutely no surprise that everything ended well for the protagonist and bad for the antagonist. If you really think about it some antagonists are loved more then their protagonists and deserve a better ending (Think Batman, Christian Bale, and the Joker, Heath Ledger.) I want to think about whats going to happen, i want to walk out of the theater and say "Wow, I really didn't expect that." Complete with a goofy smile on my face. In "Orphan" Esther (Isabelle Fuhrman) is adopted and slowly but surely inserts herself into the hearts of her new family (sometimes through threats). The murder of her adoptive father (Peter Sarsgaard) was an unexpected twist as was Esther's untimely demise in the frozen lake behind her house. Yes, another happy ending but the writers didn't make this good always conquers evil so explicitly obvious by showing that not everybody good wins in the end (HELLO SHE MURDERED HER "FATHER"). Older movies like "Halloween" can to be argued to have less predictable outcomes. Frequent movie watchers like myself want to be surprised by the next big movie coming out but sometimes you have to look back at past movies and compare. You'll be amazed to find that some of your all time favorites will have been out for decades before you even catch a glimpse of the title.