Will Ferrell’s soulful and understated dramatic performance in 2006’s Stranger Than Fiction should have opened more doors for the actor.

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    I haven’t seen it since it was in theaters, but I remember feeling the ending cheapened it for me.

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      1 year ago

      That’s kinda the point. Rather than go with the ending that was right for the story she sacrificed the right ending for happiness. It’s fucking beautiful. I love it so much.

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        1 year ago

        No, that’s not what I’m talking about. Spoilers ahead: The narrator says he’s going to die. So this impending death is constantly looming. Then he technically dies because he was clinically dead for a second. It’s a total cop out.

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          It’s meant to be a cop out! It’s meant to cheapen the story. That’s the point! If he died it would have been a story that was powerful and evoked all of this feeling, but she couldn’t do it to him so she sacrificed the quality of the story to give him a happy ending. It’s supposed to make the audience feel kinda cheated.