It's funny about Julia Roberts. She is one of those very few who I either like or can't stand, depending on the movie itself.
For example, that movie where she has an abusive husband, and she runs off in disguise - I forget the name. I like that movie, and I can watch it over and over, as a background movie, when it comes on TV (cause I use TV as a background to working in
SL, or cleaning house or something, and not every movie qualifies as a good background movie).
Other movies with her in it, I'll avoid because she's in it! Cause I hate her in them! Like, so much that I won't even watch the whole movie, even if it is one EVERYONE has seen!
So why don't I hate her in that movie? I don't know.
Asking about bad endings to movies - bad endings to me aren't necessarily sad or depressing ones, but ones where they never answer some burning question you've waited all movie for.
The Birds was one of those. When I first saw this
Alfred Hitchcock movie as a kid, I fully expected this birds attacking thing to get EXPLAINED, and waited patiently for the explanation. Boy, was I let down when it was not! (Now that I'm older and have seen it bunches of times, I no longer care so much, and it doesn't matter to me at all that there is no answer, and just appreciate the movie itself anyway.)
I hate movies that just sort of END - leaving questions unanswered, as if there is supposed to be some underlying moral we were supposed to grasp at that point, and never do. Some old sci fi movie, for instance, is trying to come to the fore of my brain on that one, but I can't remember it.
If I think of those movies that leave you hanging - I know there have been a number like that - I'll add them.
coco
P.S. Richard Gere is another. I can watch the movie where his wife is unfaithful (with that total HUNK frenchman, and boy, the scene where she is coming home on the train and remembering - and the looks that go across her face - perfection!) lots of times.
But I hate any movie where he starts off all smarmy and aren't I cute, and I can't watch those movies either, even though everyone else has.