Some movies make you happy, some movies make you want to fall in love, but other movies want to make you throw your chair through a window and scream at the top of your lungs.
Even though your furniture may disagree, not all good movies need to have a happy ending, according to avid movie watcher Kyle Humrichouser, junior.
“When movies leave a more open-ended ending where I have to interpret it myself, I like it because it makes me think and want to watch the movie again,” Humrichouser said. “If the audience is angry at the ending of a movie, it’s not really a good sign because it shows how the film did not really succeed in telling the audience whatever it wanted to tell.  But if a movie that doesn’t have a happy ending has a reason behind it and if the audience can understand that reason, then that could be a very good thing.”
What is not necessary, however, is sloppiness on behalf of either the writers, actors, or directors, which can make a movie seem unfulfilling, according to John Cotter, junior who is starting a cinema club at LZHS.
“An aggravating film can have sloppy or lazy directing, with no real consideration for what the intent of the film is to be: a bad screenplay, with underdeveloped characters and an uninteresting concept, and so much more,” Cotter said. “But one of the main things that makes a film bad or aggravating is just being able to tell that the directors and/or writers had no drive in them to make a good movie. This can be done by making blatant and obnoxious themes, or even lacking of a theme, no point of the film, or just plain lacking of creativity.”
A creative decision that can come off as lack in ambition is leaving the ending ambiguous, but this is not always the case, just as in not having a happy ending, according to Nicole Hu, senior.
“I understand how it’s aggravating when directors leave you to your own choice [at the end] because you just want to know what happens,” Hu said. “But then I also feel like it’s better to have your own imagination about [the ending] because then your own imagination can actually better than what would have really happened.”
Whether or not directors have an open-ended movie, a bad movie is just that: a bad movie. Here are a few that will irritate viewers to no end.

Transformers: Age of Extinction

Some say the more the merrier, but those people have never seen the latest installment in the Transformers series.
In this fourth installment, Mark Wahlberg plays Cade Yeager, an inventor who stumbles upon the remains of Optimus Prime, leader of the Autobots a.k.a. the good aliens. The government catches wind of this and comes to destroy Optimus Prime in their attempt to exterminate all transformers from planet Earth.
The plan to exterminate Autobots and their evil counterparts, the Decepticons, stems from the work of KSI, a company who is working to build transformers of their own for military use. This, however, backfires when all of the prototypes are taken over by Megatron, the leader of the Decepticons.
To help keep the audience from leaving mid-movie, the directors use a really unique strategy: a plot filled with car chases, explosions, fights, explosions, and oh, did I mention explosions? The overworked plot is matched by the overbearing noise. It gets so old that it becomes tempting to turn the movie on mute, Hu said.
“I really liked the first two because Shia Labeouf was funny, but the fourth one was just a bunch of noise; it was just so dumb,” Hu said. “I think they made it just to make more money. Half the movie was just the robots fighting and there wasn’t a plot. If there was, it was the same as the other movies.”
The inability to be creative and come up with a different plot continues on with the government being pegged as the bad guys who are so misinformed that their actions are almost laughable, like striking a deal with a space assassin in exchange for a bomb that can wipe out mankind and keep it on Earth because that’s exactly where you want to keep the bomb.
After watching three hours of this movie, you’ll wish the bomb is real to stop production on another installment.

White House Down

If you are looking for a movie with deafening explosions, unbelievable extremist groups, and an unrealistic plot to take over the government, then this is the one-of- a-kind movie for you.
This mostly unoriginal plot features Channing Tatum as John Cale, a slacker who handles security detail for the Speaker of the House. But on one fateful day, Cale and his daughter, Emily, go to the White House and in a case of wrong place wrong time, an extremist group bombs the Capitol and infiltrates the White House and easily kills off all of the security.
Guess who comes and saves the President, the hostages, and the day? Get ready for it: John Cale. Shocker. But not after a series of shootings, bombings, missile launches, and a car chase, offering a predictable and over-exhausted ending, according to Cotter.
“It’s bland, generic, patriotic in the worst way possible,” Cotter said. “White House Down is the epitome of awful American cinema. It’s like mixing every bad condiment that have been sitting out for years and shoving in your face. It’s just that bad.”
Regardless how predictable the entire movie is, you still find yourself intrigued by the relationship between Cale and President Sawyer, played by Jamie Foxx. The banter between these two, such as Sawyer shooting a rocket launcher from the backseat of a car and his refusal to follow Cale by jumping across an elevator shaft, adds some originality and comic relief.
Overall, White House Down is just another movie where the plot to overthrow the government is stopped by a single man. If you have an extra two hours and want to see a movie where a five year old can predict the outcome, here is the movie for you.

After Earth

If you are looking for a good post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie to watch, you should keep searching because you’ll want to leave Earth after watching After Earth.
Will Smith plays Cypher, a human militia leader on the planet Nova Prime who follows the strict protocol of the force. His real-life son, Jaden, plays Katai, who is trying to follow in his father’s monumental footsteps and become a leader of his own accord, but his insubordination prevents Katai from officially being on the task force.
In an attempt to reconnect, Cypher invites Katai along on a training mission on another planet, but during the travel, the spaceship hits an asteroid storm and crash lands on the abandoned planet Earth. Katai is forced to travel across the land to retrieve a distress signal so he and his father, who was injured in the crash, can be rescued.
Throughout the adventure, the more prevalent aspect of the movie is Katai’s terrible accent. It seems to be some combination of Australian and Scottish, but regardless of what it is, it was hard to focus on any other part of the plot, according to Humrichouser.
“The shots were really cool, but everything about it was so cliché and didn’t feel unique in any way,” Humrichouser said. “But mainly Jaden Smith did such a bad job pulling off his accent that it was just laughable and completely took me out of the movie. Sometimes it’s little things that can just make or break a movie for me.”
Another aspect that takes a person out of this movie are Katai’s random encounters with the dangerous animals that inhabit the planet. He gets chased by what seems like rabid monkeys, scooped out of the sky by a giant bird, and attacked by a tiger-type animal in the giant bird’s nest. Each scene of which lasts only a few minutes, so the audience barely has time to react to what is going on in each horrible scene.
Those snappy scenes carry all the way through to the ending, which is so abrupt and predictable that for about five minutes into the credits, you wonder what just happened, not only in the last minute but also the whole hour and 40 minutes of your life you just wasted watching it.