villain victory?

SPOILER WARNING: This post may possibly ruin the endings of Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings. Can't say i didn't warn you now.

It's always funny when i'm watching a movie and my parents walk by in the middle of a fast-paced action scene. Of course, they're drawn in right away, they sit down and start watching with me. My mom does her usual shpeel, coaching each individual character; "duck! run! shoot! don't get shot! oh no!" as if they can hear her, and will actually take her advice... which they never do. Inevitably, she ends up very disappointed.

But then, when the smoke clears, the scene ends, and there are incapacitated bodies on the floor with one victor standing tall above them, they realize that they didn't know any of the plot up until that point; and had just cheered the villain to victory.

One of my biggest qualms with movies, video game plots, and tv shows is how the good guy almost always ends up winning. It's not uncommon for the bad guys to take away a couple of the mid-movie fights, or for a super-stud sports jock to steal away the chess club captain's dream girl. But in the end, that bad guy gets beat up, and that dream girl realizes that the football captain has an IQ of ln(1) GET IT!? Yeah, that was a bad one.

For once i really just want to see the bad guys win. I want to see the good guys in a movie actually fail for once, and not be redeemed. Wouldn't it have been super interesting if instead of Harry Potter vanquishing the most powerful wizard in the world in something like two pages of the book... don't even get me started on how disappointing that stupid book was, i mean really? Did you just run out of ideas Rowling? Or did you just want people to talk about how you lost your touch? I'll save that rant for another post though. But how cool would it have been if the "chosen wizard" had been killed by Voldemort instead of the reverse occurring? Maybe i'm just saying that because i never really like Harry's character anyways.

Lord of the Rings. How the hell did Frodo pull that garbage off? That was definitely a fluke. Sauron's fiery-eye-of-doom-tower was like half a kilometer away when he managed to destroy the ring. After all of the times in the trilogy that he was able to find Frodo in the most unlikely of places, he can't tell that he's right under his nose? That's dumb.

I wonder what Voldemort, Sauron and Darth Vader would have done if they had successfully taken over their respective fictional worlds. When there's no good guys left, what's there to do? I don't think villains party. I just kind of picture each of them sitting on a throne, the most powerful person in the the world... playing DS because there's nothing better to do... they already killed everyone.

Hey directors of movies, read this post and take my advice. Kthnx.