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[–] [email protected] 90 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Totally fake.

However, if it weren't for the greentext formatting, this could be a hell of a hallmark movie.

It's cheesy for sure, but there's a good idea buried under that. I'd go as far as to say that, with a delicate enough hand, this could be a solid to great short story or novella. But you'd have to really go easy.

[–] paddirn 60 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

This would be depressing as shit if it were true, not really a hallmark movie. I’d be traumatized if I found out a dead brother had done something like that for me and I just blew it off.

[–] Ledivin 41 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

Right? Where's the resolution? You just finish the movie feeling like the main character is an even bigger piece of shit than you realized? That's... almost the exact opposite of a hallmark movie - you need everything tied up in a pretty little bow by the end

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago

It turns out his brother didn't die but was so close to dead they thought he was, he makes a miraculous recovery, and they play Minecraft happily ever after?

[–] SkunkWorkz 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It’s the protagonist’s backstory. In the movie he tries to help two brothers reconcile and when they ask him why he is trying so hard he tells about this story and that he tries to make sure others around him don’t make the same mistake as him and suffer from life long regret. Then the two brothers make him honorary big brother.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, that's more like some Star Wars level plot twist that turns the character Sith or so.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Sounds like Love Actually

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago

I dunno, it's sad but powerful. Maybe not actual hallmark material, you're right, but the same basic idea. As it's written, it's cheesy, overdone, like hallmark movies, which is why that popped in my head as the comparison. It's so predictable and obvious that as written, the only kind of audience that would buy in without it breaking immersion is the kind of audience that watches hallmark movies.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Kinda reminds me a little off the TV show Monk.

[–] arin 1 points 3 weeks ago

Could be true but op is the lil bro

[–] Tattorack 10 points 3 weeks ago

And today in "things that never happened" we have another wonderful story from sunny 4chan:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

This seems really generic. I've read the same basic story loads of times