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well thats two cormac mccarthy works, i wonder, is all the pretty horses about pretty horses or are the pretty horses a backdrop to a series of grisly murders
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dookifex_maximus posted:well thats two cormac mccarthy works, i wonder, is all the pretty horses about pretty horses or are the pretty horses a backdrop to a series of grisly murders It's always grisly murders
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!Klams posted:I'm surprised no one's said "the road" yet, but maybe that's because when we watched it, my friend and I started singing over the end credits "everyone dies: the end!" Which became a refrain for whenever anything overly depressing happened. Off topic, but all I can think of when The Road gets brought up is:  "Oh, man. This is HILARIOUS!"
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Labes for days posted:Off topic, but all I can think of when The Road gets brought up is: Stone cold
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cormac mccarthy has truly found the key to printing money all you have to do is barely describe a series of excruciatingly painful events, some grisly murders, give it a catchy wistful title and watch the checks roll in. punctuation: totally optional
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BLARGHLE posted:Yes, everything is hosed, and everyone dies in the end, but was kind of the point The one thing I dislike about the road is the slight sliver of optimism with the kid meeting up with people immediately. I also disliked that the kid was the moral conscience, when a completely amoral and desperate world is all he has ever known, but i guess it was necessary for the theme.
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Cabin in the Woods. My only compliant about the ending is that the Old God at the end was clearly just a giant human(hand) and not some tentacled monstrosity.
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Moon Atari posted:The one thing I dislike about the road is the slight sliver of optimism with the kid meeting up with people immediately. I also disliked that the kid was the moral conscience, when a completely amoral and desperate world is all he has ever known, but i guess it was necessary for the theme. The sliver of optimism is tempered by the fact that his dad is dying. He's constant;ly dying, and that's the one real constant through the entire story, he's drying, and he knows it, but he's trying to put together a less than utterly garbage life for his son
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Brazil https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5vzNsT1FPc
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BLARGHLE posted:The sliver of optimism is tempered by the fact that his dad is dying. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mwq0mgvC1eY And then he dies
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Sep 28, 2016 08:14
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and the real ending https://youtu.be/BlHe-hYMkqk?t=87
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Requiem For a Dream everyone is still alive at the end and it's more depressing than if they'd died Das Boot The Thin Red Line Not a movie but the Six Feet Under finale Cat Hassler fucked around with this message at 08:34 on Sep 28, 2016 |
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Sep 28, 2016 08:31
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Keith Atherton posted:Requiem For a Dream everyone is still alive at the end and it's more depressing than if they'd died rear end to rear end.
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Sep 28, 2016 08:36
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Even though Terminator 3 was sort of bad, I liked that the nukes killed everyone at the end. The apocalypse was unavoidable and even though our 'heroes' survived, the population of earth largely didn't. It's not really a sad ending though I guess. Not compared to the Mist or the Road or the Thing or the Wicker Man or various other films that begin with 'the'. (Even Das Boot's ending was pretty bleak.)
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American History X https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5wSSZmdFT8
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Memento The ending i am referring to is left ambiguous because the movie implies he's stuck in a time loop
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A Most Wanted Man has a crushing ending, standard for John le Carré, made even worse by the fact Philip Seymour Hoffman died after it was made. Protagonist spymaster spends most of his time deflecting blinkered War On Terror hardliners from getting their hands on his Muslim asset. He spends years of his life setting up a perfect sting against international money laundering, which is ruined when his short-sighted rivals in the intelligence service send in a snatch squad of brutes to capture his man and send him to a black site for torture and indefinite detainment because Muslim = bad, and the film concludes with Hoffman screaming in impotent rage in the middle of the street.
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Oculus, turns out if something has complete control over your perception of reality it can be a right bitch to beat up.
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amityville anus posted:Memento No it doesn't? It implies he started the entire sequence we watched on purpose.
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The Pledge in which Jack Nicholson uses his girlfriend's kid without her consent to try and catch a child serial killer that no one thinks exists. But whoops the killer dies in a car crash on the way to Jack's sting operation, everybody hates Jack, his girlfriend leaves and he ends up crazy.
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Dire posted:It's not really a sad ending though I guess. Not compared to the Mist or the Road or the Thing or the Wicker Man or various other films that begin with 'the'. (Even Das Boot's ending was pretty bleak.) 'Das' is also german for 'The'.
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These Final Hours on Netflix. Super loving depressing and it's basically a two hour unhappy ending.
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A Scanner Darkly Undercover cop Keanu Reeves is manipulated into becoming an addict without his consent or knowing by his superiors in an attempt to infiltrate a rehab organization that is producing dangerous drugs. His life and mind are destroyed, the movie ends with him working in the rehab/labor camp that is producing the drugs.
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"Kids" Everyone gets AIDS.
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"I Saw the Devil" twists the knife a bit harder than most of the other Korean movies I've seen mentioned. I haven't seen the Chaser, though, so I'm going to have to get on that.
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Sep 28, 2016 16:17
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Sponge Baathist posted:Memento I don't think you understood Memento The ending does fit the thread though
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The original ending to the Rick Moranis version of Little Shop of Horrors. It was thought for decades that the color print was lost but they found it in 2012 and put it on blu-ray. I highly recommend it since it's like a 22 minute ending. The black and white print leaked a decade earlier does not do it justice. Also my favorite movie is The Machinist which does not have a happy ending. Though I suppose you could say it does because he finally frees his conscience.
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manos the hands of fate
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The Vanishing, the 1988 one. Not only was the ending hosed up, it retroactively reveals how hosed up the beginning of the movie is.
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Arlington Road in which the Terrorist wins.
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In The Mouth of Madness has the best unhappy ending because the whole film was just an intentional lead in to sam Neil going bugshit crazy and kicking a dude in the balls.
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Much like everything else about the movie, Videodrome's ending was amazing and terribly bleak
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Miserable endings are the best.
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John Denver Hoxha posted:Much like everything else about the movie, Videodrome's ending was amazing and terribly bleak I have this theory about videodrome, that I haven't seen anywhere else, but it's that the whole movie is basically the crazy invention of the homeless man (I think it might be a David Cronenburg cameo?) outside the tv station. He sees them both go into the tv station and just concocts this whole crazy story about them.
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Starship Troopers. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
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Perhaps if you are looking for a place to look down on others film opinions CD might be more your speed.
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Blue Velvet. Oh, you think it's a happy ending but the happiness is relative. Contrast the opening scene with the ending scene. The former is an ideal of life in a small town, pure joyous Americana. The last scene is a slight change in perspective that kind of points out that the scenes aren't really different, but that the actors have changed enough to see the darker reverse of their lives. Not wholly tragic, but bittersweet.
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Jastiger posted:Starship Troopers. But they'll keep fighting. And they'll win.
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I watched Paths to Glory a few weeks ago and while Kubrick isn't the cheeriest filmmaker in the first place, I found it more cynical and depressing than his other films. Even more than Dr. Strangelove, which ended in nuclear annihilation.
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What about "Parts: The Clonus Horror" It has a bittersweet ending and it isn't a terrible movie. Perhaps limited by the technology of the time. It had more exposure probably because of the MST3K Riff of it. It's hard just to get the ending without the riff. I can link a vid from Good Bad Flicks that shows how it is very similar to Michael Bay's "The Island." In fact if you've seen The Island, then you've seen Parts and they are the same except for the ending. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjKeLvwG-5w Eh, it probably doesn't fit your criteria but gently caress it. I'm  ing it anyway.
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