Shadowman wrote:Dragonslayer wrote:Watched 47 Ronin last night with the missus. Meh, it was okay. Kind of a different-looking samurai movie with the magical and spiritual elements in it. The wife hated it though since at the end 46/47 of the ronin killed themselves for honor.
Yeah well...that's what happened, sorcery and mysticism aside. Spoiler tags removed because this spoiler over 300 years old. Statute of limitations and all that.
Fair enough, though neither of us had heard of that story going in (I knew about the honor suicides historically, of course).
But in my wife's mind, if a movie doesn't have a happy ending and/or everyone dies in the end, it's a terrible movie and she hates it. I know, she's missing out on a lot of good movies because of that mindset. I've made peace with that, so now I just when she tells me, "That movie was awful!" when I thought it was okay.