The last time I saw an ending with that kind of ending was “The Fog” and it still gives me nightmares. Haven’t seen a horror movie since then.
The film “Knowing” looks like a pasted-on happy ending: The planet Earth is incinerated in a solar (event) but not until after aliens spirit away the children.
Then after fading away in flames the movie lurches into a scene of children frolicking in fields of alien flowers. The only missing element is unicorns...
[ROLL CREDITS]
The aliens/angels HAD to do something.
Why bother with the warnings/premonitions if they weren’t going to take action?
But, yeah, the flowering ending didn’t fit.
I must have watched the Earth being incinerated dozens of times. Really good special effects and it really ENDED any idea of hope for the planet.