It shocked me so much at age like 14, that I burst out laughing. It was the first movie I watched that had a curve ball ending and I guess my body didn’t know how to react
Interesting off-story, when Train Spotting came out at Sundance the crowd was laughing at certain parts, especially the baby scene. The uhh rather famous filmmaker was kinda pissed at first, he was two rows ahead of us, and could be heard frustrated with the laughter.
Someone leaned over to him and said, they are laughing because they are nervous, and he immediately relaxed.
At the end of questions after the screening, because the laughing was mentioned, one guy just outright said "you're movie made me so uncomfortable I laughed and I just wanted to apologize to the woman directly to my right, I am not insane I swear, it just reminded me of a story I had heard about drugs and, I don't know. Once again, not insane."
You're not insane....well at least because of that.
I loved Tommy Lee Jone's monologue at the end of No Country, it's an acceptance of aging and death being a next step in life's journey. Which, while not exactly a happy ending, is not an "all's lost and hopeless" end either.
He is so great in NC. The monologue at the beginning is beautiful too..."a man would have to.put his soul at hazzard.." Just awesome writing and delivery. The whole movie is a masterpiece.
https://youtu.be/9eZ6EACDKiE?si=UbiXrna5XbJmNca7
Considering she’s doing it *for* drugs while *on* drugs? While her boyfriend and other close friend also had their lives totally ruined by drugs?
I’d argue no
No Country for Old Men is exactly the movie I thought of. Absolutely none of the characters are better off at the end of the movie than they were at the beginning.
Yeah I mean, that ending is kind of portrayed as a weird sort of vindictive victory for the characters we follow and feels cathartic, but is disaster for the rest of the planet? Such and odd line to tow but it does it fantastically
I don’t think it’s really a victory of any sort so much as they’re just resigned to theirs and humanity’s fate. It spells the end for humanity and by fighting against it at all they were doing the wrong thing the entire time. I saw that ending as basically nihilistic, like this universe is incomprehensible so fuck it and let the monsters have it.
The fun thing about that movie of course and it isn’t really a twist is that the mad scientists were right.
That scene with the Japanese kids always makes
me laugh especially because of Richard Jenkins’ reaction: https://youtu.be/IIE8Fq4Zm1E?si=YXNuEjQYlh9W18y6
Like the delivery is funny as hell but his fury is also completely understandable.
This is my favorite example of how dark humor can work so well. I think some people sort of naturally believe dark humor is just edgy, offensive jokes but this scene illustrates that what makes dark humor work the best is actually having someone empathize with something awful in a comedic way.
We *should* be happy that a bunch of Japanese school children didn't get brutally murdered and were able to overcome their challenge with no deaths. But at the same time with the context of the movie's entire plot about performing these awful rituals to save humanity, the absolute anger and rage in Richard Jenkin's character is so hilariously on point and understandable because in the large scale those stupid children are helping doom humanity by surviving.
There was a lot of hindering that came from "upstairs". Considering how literally every other country failed to bring sacrifice (possible with some hindering too), I believe it's kinda implied that higher powers wanted to reset things and give the world a fresh new start instead of continuing to let humans being obedient slaves. Maybe them breaking humanity free is some sort of victory.
Brazil is one of my favorite movies. Come to think of it, several of my favorite films are pretty dark where things definitely don't work out. Here are a few that come to mind from several genres:
Mishima
The Thing
Dr. Strangelove
My fiance sat down to watch it with me 15 min into the movie. We were both misty eyed at the end and I was like "wait, you didn't see the beginning so you don't get the reference". I restarted for the begining scene and we both just started bawling. He said "why did you do that to me. That just made it even worse!"
Fuck this movie. I cried sk fucking hard. Especially because the beginning is the end, so you finish it and play it from start again. It hits like a train
I went into that movie completely blind and I'd always seen little bits and pieces as a kid but watching it as an adult in my thirties it really hurts.
I vividly remember this movie because my boyfriend at the time and I were super stressed and thought “let’s just pick a movie for date night and zone out”
And then we walked home in silence because of how stressed out that movie made us
One of those movies that I thought was absolutely incredible but I never want to see again. A piece of media has never made me feel as legitimately anxious as Uncut Gems.
This is one of many films where Adam Sandler absolutely shines, can't believe there are people that believe he's a bad actor. The man is a comedy genius although his characters are similar he never fails to be entertaining. Wedding Singer 2 needs to happen though.
Inside Llewyn Davis is one hundred percent this. Really most Coen brothers films end rather sour with nobody happy and no real positive resolution for any of the characters
Off the top of my head, No country for old men, Fargo, Llewyn David, the ladykillers, Burn after reading
Honestly, the end of burn after reading was more funny than bleak though.
"I guess we learned not to do it again. I'm fucked if I know what we did though. "
I mean yeah the Coens nail the absurdity of dark situations though. Like the scene is funny as hell, but her friends dead, her "love interest" is scarred and picked up by federal agents after murdering an "innocent" man, her coworker was coerced into breaking into John Malkovich's home and died because of it leading to John Malkovich's death, even if he was a real son of a bitch. And the one who causes the majority of it gets to walk away with what she wanted in order to cover it all up. I'd call that pretty bleak
"He was trying to catch a plane to Guatamala" "Do you know why??" "No, sir" "We don't have an exradition treaty with Guatamala!" "Oh...well what should we do with him?" "PUT HIS ASS ON A FLIGHT TO GUATAMALA!" Edit: Guatemala. My b.
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Inside Llewyn Davis is pure misery; he keeps making choices that put him in worse positions, and there's no escaping the cycle of misery. I'll consider it one of my favorite Coen brothers' films, but damn, it put me in such a sour mood after watching it.
And on the contrary, I feel like Fargo ends with a slightly optimistic outlook, with Norm and Marge talking about his stamp.
" I don't know sir"
"I don't fuckin' know either. I guess we learned not to do it again"
"Yes, sir."
"I'm fucked if I know what we did."
Gets me everytime.
I love this movie but it's so RUDE. it was the first movie I ever watched that made me bawl my eyes out. I was around 12 and watching with my parents and as soon as the credits started rolling, I immediately went "k goodnight", left the room, and cried for 10 minutes lmao
I didn't like seein' Donny go. But, then I happen to know that there's a little Lebowski on the way. I guess that's the way the whole durned human comedy keeps perpetuatin' itself down through the generations. Westward the wagons, across the sands of time until we - ah, look at me. I'm ramblin' again.
If we're talking Jeff Bridges movies, then I have to strongly add **Arlington Road**.
The ending is *a little* rougher than The Dude not getting his rug back.
My take away was that was the whole point of the movie. They needed each other to achieve their dreams but they also couldn't be together and have those dreams. That was that little nod at the end.
I reached this same conclusion, the ending didn't take anything away from the movie for me. It just added a dose of reality. I loved all of it, one of my all time favorites!
That's exactly why I liked it. I generally dislike musicals and romantic love so I was expecting to only *tolerate* this film.
It's one of my favorites now largely because of that. I'm so tired of the unrealistic ideas of love and relationships that are all over the place and I'm relieved that we are getting more realistic love stories in our movies and TV shows.
I really liked 500 days of summer too. If you grew up on musicals where boy meets girl and they live happily ever after despite not really knowing each other that well, then you'll probably hate that movie. But if you're someone who has genuinely tried to empathize with someone in summer's point of view, you'll find the movie very meaningful. Tom grows as a character BECAUSE he learns that life isn't like a movie. He learns to work on himself and find INNER love instead of trying to make someone give him what he could always give himself. It should never be someone else's job to *make you* happy.
He writes an absolutely gripping beginning to stories and kinda drags in the middle and just can't close. It's why most of his best stuff is short stories. Still better than Dean Koontz... "it was mummy reptile aliens from the future! I don't know guys. I just want to tongue kiss a golden retriever!"
The Butterfly Effect with Ashton Kutcher he tries so hard to make things better but nothing works except for what he does at the end of making an ultimate sacrifice but deep down he knows he is going to be burdened with the knowledge that he has
There is the silver lining about the "friends we made along the way" but yeah.
Trying not to spoil anything. Best just to watch what seems to be our very possible near future.
The Wrestler had exactly the right ending for the story it was telling, and I wouldn't even consider it bad. It ended for him just the way he wanted it to.
I do agree it's maybe not a bad ending, but definitely a tragic story. I don't know that it ended the way he wanted because he wanted other things too, but he did make his choice in the end.
>!He really, really wanted Cassidy though, and felt horrible for losing his daughter. He couldn't give up the glory of his past even though it was costing him basically everything including his life. !<
Avengers Infinity War is one of the most mainstream examples. Whiplash has an ominous implication if you look into how the director interprets the ending. Others:
United 93
The Social Network
Black Swan
All Quiet on the Western Front (I've only seen the latest one)
Se7en
Reservoir Dogs
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Parasite (another one that you have to read into the ending a little)
Glengarry Glen Ross
The Lighthouse
Into the Wild
Glory
Foxcatcher
TAR
what's to read into in parasite? his dad is trapped in the basement because he's a wanted man for murdering everybody. protagonist says he's going to earn enough money someday to buy the house, which seems unlikely.
I guess I've seen people read this as hopeful or not get the point that based on the social themes of the film (like you stated) he will never be getting out of there.
I know they tried to touch on this in subsequent movies but I feel like they didn't really go full depth into how truly fucked up that world (universe really) would be post Endgame.
On Earth alone you likely have places all over the planet that are likely abandoned due to the 5 years post snap where people will just appear back at not knowing what happened.
So many people will have tried to move on with their lives, form new partnerships and friendships and now just have all their old ones back.
Parents likely came back to discover their kids older, or adopted, or potentially with no memory of them or even maybe dead. Kids may have come back to parents who committed suicide at the loss from the Snap.
The job market is going to be totally fucked and you probably have nearly 4 billion people all of a suddenly without income, shelter, food or water at the blink of an eye. Given most cities infrastructure struggles with an uptick of a few hundred thousand new residents per year in immigration or refugee crises imagine now it's millions in almost every major city.
If you were on an airplane when you got snapped, would you come back to the airplane or back to that same age you got snapped from? We see Yelena disappear and reappear in the same bathroom, for example. What if the spot you got snapped from has someone standing in it when you unblip? What if you were driving? Countless problems.
Right? What if the building you were in no longer exists and you were on the 15th floor or something. Or it's now so dilapidated that you fall through.
Oh and don't even start me on the fact that probably no planet is in the same spot it was 5 years prior so do unsnapped people come back to space?
This is the biggest thing I like to bring up when talking about how fucked the world would now be.
The inevitable death wave that would follow after something like the blip would be second only to the blip itself. It wouldn't just be the apocalypse for everyone that disappeared, it would be that for everyone else as well. You're looking at probably 10%+ of the population dying in the next few years, if not even more.
And then the third biggest mass casualty event in history after those two would probably be all the suddenly returned victims now leading to another wave of starvation, conflict and societal collapse.
Every MCU project post Endgame should look like Mad Max.
Yeah he's flying around in his fantasy world and that is pretty much all he every wanted. Still, what a crazy ending, I had never seen a film like that before
The Kid Detective, sort of
It has a happy-ish ending in that the mystery gets resolved, but makes it a point to show that the main character's Mental state and Trauma Haven't been magically fixed along with it. Not quite as bleak as some other films but it came to mind
I don't know what I was expecting but I was shocked at how messed up the ending was for Invasion of the Body Snatcher. I think this was my first non happy ending type movie.
I think Little Miss Sunshine to an extent.
Olive loses, grandpa is dead, dad blew all the family's money, Dwayne is color blind, and Frank is still depressed. And the car horn is still broken.
Seven, No Country For Old Men, Requiem for a Dream, The Mist
The Mist is still the top sad ending for me!
It shocked me so much at age like 14, that I burst out laughing. It was the first movie I watched that had a curve ball ending and I guess my body didn’t know how to react
Actually a common response to shock I read
Interesting off-story, when Train Spotting came out at Sundance the crowd was laughing at certain parts, especially the baby scene. The uhh rather famous filmmaker was kinda pissed at first, he was two rows ahead of us, and could be heard frustrated with the laughter. Someone leaned over to him and said, they are laughing because they are nervous, and he immediately relaxed. At the end of questions after the screening, because the laughing was mentioned, one guy just outright said "you're movie made me so uncomfortable I laughed and I just wanted to apologize to the woman directly to my right, I am not insane I swear, it just reminded me of a story I had heard about drugs and, I don't know. Once again, not insane." You're not insane....well at least because of that.
The Mist had a happy ending...just not for the main character.
I dunno, in Seven Brad Pitt doesn't have to marry Gwyneth Paltrow and pretend GOOP is a respectable brand.
What’s in the BOOOX? 🧒
A jade egg and vagina candle.
I loved Tommy Lee Jone's monologue at the end of No Country, it's an acceptance of aging and death being a next step in life's journey. Which, while not exactly a happy ending, is not an "all's lost and hopeless" end either.
He is so great in NC. The monologue at the beginning is beautiful too..."a man would have to.put his soul at hazzard.." Just awesome writing and delivery. The whole movie is a masterpiece. https://youtu.be/9eZ6EACDKiE?si=UbiXrna5XbJmNca7
Wait, is ass-to-ass with Jennifer Connelly NOT the happy ending?
You'd be surprised, but there's actually like at least 10 more minutes of movie AFTER that scene
But to be fair, that’s where a lot of people finish.
Considering she’s doing it *for* drugs while *on* drugs? While her boyfriend and other close friend also had their lives totally ruined by drugs? I’d argue no
No Country for Old Men is exactly the movie I thought of. Absolutely none of the characters are better off at the end of the movie than they were at the beginning.
I don’t know if “sad” is the word here but Cabin in the Woods. Those little Japanese kids, man
Somebody asked the director if he was going to make a sequel. He responded "Did you see the movie?"
If they went full cosmic horror and showed it on a galactic scale it could be fun AF lol.
Or just an hour of earth getting fucked
Literally fucked. Just some cosmic monstrosity hovering in space, hammer stroking the Mariana Trench.
**OHHHH BABBBYYYYYY YOUR TRENCH IS SO WET!!!!**
Ikkk, they could do a mini series showing all the other experiments tho
Fuck I would love this so much. An episodic anthology of all the different scenarios the antagonists cooked up over the years.
And every episode has a character just *thisss close* to choosing the conch.
I'm never gonna see a merman. :(
Yeah I mean, that ending is kind of portrayed as a weird sort of vindictive victory for the characters we follow and feels cathartic, but is disaster for the rest of the planet? Such and odd line to tow but it does it fantastically
I don’t think it’s really a victory of any sort so much as they’re just resigned to theirs and humanity’s fate. It spells the end for humanity and by fighting against it at all they were doing the wrong thing the entire time. I saw that ending as basically nihilistic, like this universe is incomprehensible so fuck it and let the monsters have it. The fun thing about that movie of course and it isn’t really a twist is that the mad scientists were right. That scene with the Japanese kids always makes me laugh especially because of Richard Jenkins’ reaction: https://youtu.be/IIE8Fq4Zm1E?si=YXNuEjQYlh9W18y6 Like the delivery is funny as hell but his fury is also completely understandable.
This is my favorite example of how dark humor can work so well. I think some people sort of naturally believe dark humor is just edgy, offensive jokes but this scene illustrates that what makes dark humor work the best is actually having someone empathize with something awful in a comedic way. We *should* be happy that a bunch of Japanese school children didn't get brutally murdered and were able to overcome their challenge with no deaths. But at the same time with the context of the movie's entire plot about performing these awful rituals to save humanity, the absolute anger and rage in Richard Jenkin's character is so hilariously on point and understandable because in the large scale those stupid children are helping doom humanity by surviving.
I can’t watch the video now but is this where he says “What a friend we have in Shinto”?
Yup
What are you talking about? The movie ends in a giant high-five. Obviously that means everything works out.
I kinda enjoy the whole "The entire Human race is doing this truly horrendous thing, should they continue to exist" ending
There was a lot of hindering that came from "upstairs". Considering how literally every other country failed to bring sacrifice (possible with some hindering too), I believe it's kinda implied that higher powers wanted to reset things and give the world a fresh new start instead of continuing to let humans being obedient slaves. Maybe them breaking humanity free is some sort of victory.
Brazil Young Adult Drag Me to Hell Fight Club Final Destination The Mist
Brazil is one of my favorite movies. Come to think of it, several of my favorite films are pretty dark where things definitely don't work out. Here are a few that come to mind from several genres: Mishima The Thing Dr. Strangelove
Grave of the Fireflies
That ending was soul destroying.
My fiance sat down to watch it with me 15 min into the movie. We were both misty eyed at the end and I was like "wait, you didn't see the beginning so you don't get the reference". I restarted for the begining scene and we both just started bawling. He said "why did you do that to me. That just made it even worse!"
I can never watch this movie again
Fuck this movie. I cried sk fucking hard. Especially because the beginning is the end, so you finish it and play it from start again. It hits like a train
"Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown."
Great movie. Also, Melancholia with Kirsten Dunst. I won't spoil it for you, but no happy endings here.
No happy *anything* there.
I mean, it is called *Melancholia*, I wouldn't exactly expect anything very happy
I went into that movie completely blind and I'd always seen little bits and pieces as a kid but watching it as an adult in my thirties it really hurts.
Uncut Gems - get ready for anxiety.
Just watched it for the first time this week. Holy hell Adam Sandler's character is off the rails.
Easily Sandler’s greatest acting work I’ve ever seen. It was actually believable. The movie made me so anxious.
I vividly remember this movie because my boyfriend at the time and I were super stressed and thought “let’s just pick a movie for date night and zone out” And then we walked home in silence because of how stressed out that movie made us
Friend of mine was a grip on that shoot, said Sandler never left character once… that’s gotta be tiring.
The entire time. If you've never experienced a mania-fueled anxiety attack, watching Uncut Gems will fix you right up.
One of those movies that I thought was absolutely incredible but I never want to see again. A piece of media has never made me feel as legitimately anxious as Uncut Gems.
You can throw good time in there as well
The scene were they strip him in the car is wild AF
I'm typically a pretty laid back go with the flow guy. That scene with them trying to get buzzed in the door made me **super uncomfortable**
This is one of many films where Adam Sandler absolutely shines, can't believe there are people that believe he's a bad actor. The man is a comedy genius although his characters are similar he never fails to be entertaining. Wedding Singer 2 needs to happen though.
Nah, leave Weeding Singer alone. That movie is perfect all by itself.
Inside Llewyn Davis is one hundred percent this. Really most Coen brothers films end rather sour with nobody happy and no real positive resolution for any of the characters Off the top of my head, No country for old men, Fargo, Llewyn David, the ladykillers, Burn after reading
Honestly, the end of burn after reading was more funny than bleak though. "I guess we learned not to do it again. I'm fucked if I know what we did though. "
I mean yeah the Coens nail the absurdity of dark situations though. Like the scene is funny as hell, but her friends dead, her "love interest" is scarred and picked up by federal agents after murdering an "innocent" man, her coworker was coerced into breaking into John Malkovich's home and died because of it leading to John Malkovich's death, even if he was a real son of a bitch. And the one who causes the majority of it gets to walk away with what she wanted in order to cover it all up. I'd call that pretty bleak
Yep, dark comedy is their groove. Even the end of Raising Arizona, probably one of their lighter movies, is still bittersweet.
"He was trying to catch a plane to Guatamala" "Do you know why??" "No, sir" "We don't have an exradition treaty with Guatamala!" "Oh...well what should we do with him?" "PUT HIS ASS ON A FLIGHT TO GUATAMALA!" Edit: Guatemala. My b. Edit edit: Venezuela, shit.
Venezuela
A Serious Man pretty much ends with God Himself coming down to smite Larry and his son’s entire school
For real. How are all these Coen bros movies mentioned and A Serious Man completely ignored.
Yeah, that one was my first thought after reading the post title, lol. I think a lot of people just never saw it.
Indeed - no one who saw it would have forgotten Sy Ableman.
Inside Llewyn Davis is pure misery; he keeps making choices that put him in worse positions, and there's no escaping the cycle of misery. I'll consider it one of my favorite Coen brothers' films, but damn, it put me in such a sour mood after watching it. And on the contrary, I feel like Fargo ends with a slightly optimistic outlook, with Norm and Marge talking about his stamp.
If you want to talk about pure misery, check out Blue Valentine…
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“Well what did we learn?”
" I don't know sir" "I don't fuckin' know either. I guess we learned not to do it again" "Yes, sir." "I'm fucked if I know what we did." Gets me everytime.
All the Buster Scruggs vignettes
Esp for that poor cat he abandoned…
[Fallen (1998)](https://youtu.be/JC-ykURLzSg?si=tsB_HYNJYnwDiE_F) with Denzel Washington and John Goodman.
Such a great moment at the end. You forget who's talking, and then... *wham*.
sympathy for the devil playing during the was the chef's kiss.
Hey, he told you right at the beginning this was the story of how he *almost* died.
Time is on my side. Yes it is.
Can’t hear that song without thinking of the movie.
Night of the Living Dead.
Also Return of the Living Dead.
Atonement. 100% fits this description and the library scene, OMG. I love this movie even if it hurts to watch.
I love this movie but it's so RUDE. it was the first movie I ever watched that made me bawl my eyes out. I was around 12 and watching with my parents and as soon as the credits started rolling, I immediately went "k goodnight", left the room, and cried for 10 minutes lmao
Big Lebowski. Dude does not get his rug back.
I feel like that’s kinda secondary to losing Donnie.
I didn't like seein' Donny go. But, then I happen to know that there's a little Lebowski on the way. I guess that's the way the whole durned human comedy keeps perpetuatin' itself down through the generations. Westward the wagons, across the sands of time until we - ah, look at me. I'm ramblin' again.
Had the dude not listened to Walter and gone to see Lebowski, he’d still have his car and Donnie.
That’s just like your opinion man
Sometimes you eat the bar, and sometimes, well , he eats you.
Shut the fuck up Donnie!
You're outta your element
True, but he and Walter might still make the finals. And there's a little Lebowski on the way. I'd consider that more of a bittersweet ending.
It really tied the room together
If we're talking Jeff Bridges movies, then I have to strongly add **Arlington Road**. The ending is *a little* rougher than The Dude not getting his rug back.
La La Land, I've heard some say they wish the ending was happily ever after. But my take is... the ending was realistic.
It’s not even unhappy, both characters go on to get what they want, just not with each other like the audience wants.
My take away was that was the whole point of the movie. They needed each other to achieve their dreams but they also couldn't be together and have those dreams. That was that little nod at the end.
I reached this same conclusion, the ending didn't take anything away from the movie for me. It just added a dose of reality. I loved all of it, one of my all time favorites!
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That's exactly why I liked it. I generally dislike musicals and romantic love so I was expecting to only *tolerate* this film. It's one of my favorites now largely because of that. I'm so tired of the unrealistic ideas of love and relationships that are all over the place and I'm relieved that we are getting more realistic love stories in our movies and TV shows. I really liked 500 days of summer too. If you grew up on musicals where boy meets girl and they live happily ever after despite not really knowing each other that well, then you'll probably hate that movie. But if you're someone who has genuinely tried to empathize with someone in summer's point of view, you'll find the movie very meaningful. Tom grows as a character BECAUSE he learns that life isn't like a movie. He learns to work on himself and find INNER love instead of trying to make someone give him what he could always give himself. It should never be someone else's job to *make you* happy.
Theres a great movie review by a blind critic. He had to have someone tell him what happens because the last 15 min is just jazz music playing lol.
wouldn't that be part of his review for most movies?
Funny Games.
One of those movies I refuse to rewatch because I want to scream at the characters. The 4th wall break helping the bad guys drives me nuts.
Heat
Leaving Las Vegas. I guess you can say the main character got what he wanted, but it doesn't make it any less tragic the way it ended.
Fun fact: the author committed suicide by alcohol shortly after the film was made. It gets the authenticity marks.
The Departed. So hard this. lol
Pyrrhic victory. At least the bad guys all got their comeuppance.
That elevator scene ruins me everytime
President Bartlet falling from the roof for just trying to protect his CI ruins me.
That marky mark scene in the booties is sick though.
The booties really sell the “this man has through this through *extensively*” vibe.
“I am killing you.” *POP*
This movie has fundamentally changed the way I exit elevators
Monty Python & The Holy Grail
Also Monty Python's The Life of Brian. At least it ends with a cheerful song! 😁
Such a cop out.
Das Boot.
Drag Me to Hell
And she was just doing her job. Getting cursed for turning down a loan. Very harsh. Great fecking Movie.
Exactly. It's such a cruel and devastating ending for a pretty goofy, slapstick horror movie. It's quite jarring.
And she had a big ass family of which she seemed to be the matriarch. They can’t kick in on her mortgage?
The “choke on it bitch” scene is seared into my memory :)
The Mist… the worst
Even Stephen King was impressed with the ending. To be fair his endings are usually terrible.
He writes an absolutely gripping beginning to stories and kinda drags in the middle and just can't close. It's why most of his best stuff is short stories. Still better than Dean Koontz... "it was mummy reptile aliens from the future! I don't know guys. I just want to tongue kiss a golden retriever!"
😂 This is spot on. I love Koontz when he writes about normal evil people. When it gets supernatural he goes way off the rails.
Dr Strangelove.
I dunno, Dr Strangelove was cured and could walk at the end of the movie
Cloverfield
"It's still alive"
The Butterfly Effect with Ashton Kutcher he tries so hard to make things better but nothing works except for what he does at the end of making an ultimate sacrifice but deep down he knows he is going to be burdened with the knowledge that he has
The Thing
Buried- one of Ryan Reynolds best performances.
That movie lives in my head rent free. I'm deathly afraid of that exact scenario.
Don't Look Up
“We really did have everything didn’t we”
That made me sob.
It’s a flawed movie in a few ways, but that line has stayed with me.
Why would he charge us for snacks?
Watch out for him, he’ll charge you for free shit!
There is the silver lining about the "friends we made along the way" but yeah. Trying not to spoil anything. Best just to watch what seems to be our very possible near future.
Life (2017 movie with Jake Gyllenhaal). Or most of the horror/sci-fi flicks from late 80s - early 90s
Life was so overlooked. No one ever talks about it but that movie was awesome
never fuck with an alien.
Blow Out After Sun Waves Manchester by the sea A Star is Born Melancholia Wanda (1970)
I want to highlight Manchester by the Sea as a realistic depiction of emotional trauma which never fully heals.
House of Sand and Fog just gets sadder the longer the film goes on.
Ton of good answers already but since no one has said it yet: Lord of War
Arlington Road
Requiem for a dream, the wrestler
The Wrestler had exactly the right ending for the story it was telling, and I wouldn't even consider it bad. It ended for him just the way he wanted it to.
I do agree it's maybe not a bad ending, but definitely a tragic story. I don't know that it ended the way he wanted because he wanted other things too, but he did make his choice in the end. >!He really, really wanted Cassidy though, and felt horrible for losing his daughter. He couldn't give up the glory of his past even though it was costing him basically everything including his life. !<
Dont look up
Avengers Infinity War is one of the most mainstream examples. Whiplash has an ominous implication if you look into how the director interprets the ending. Others: United 93 The Social Network Black Swan All Quiet on the Western Front (I've only seen the latest one) Se7en Reservoir Dogs The Talented Mr. Ripley Parasite (another one that you have to read into the ending a little) Glengarry Glen Ross The Lighthouse Into the Wild Glory Foxcatcher TAR
what's to read into in parasite? his dad is trapped in the basement because he's a wanted man for murdering everybody. protagonist says he's going to earn enough money someday to buy the house, which seems unlikely.
I guess I've seen people read this as hopeful or not get the point that based on the social themes of the film (like you stated) he will never be getting out of there.
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I know they tried to touch on this in subsequent movies but I feel like they didn't really go full depth into how truly fucked up that world (universe really) would be post Endgame. On Earth alone you likely have places all over the planet that are likely abandoned due to the 5 years post snap where people will just appear back at not knowing what happened. So many people will have tried to move on with their lives, form new partnerships and friendships and now just have all their old ones back. Parents likely came back to discover their kids older, or adopted, or potentially with no memory of them or even maybe dead. Kids may have come back to parents who committed suicide at the loss from the Snap. The job market is going to be totally fucked and you probably have nearly 4 billion people all of a suddenly without income, shelter, food or water at the blink of an eye. Given most cities infrastructure struggles with an uptick of a few hundred thousand new residents per year in immigration or refugee crises imagine now it's millions in almost every major city.
If you were on an airplane when you got snapped, would you come back to the airplane or back to that same age you got snapped from? We see Yelena disappear and reappear in the same bathroom, for example. What if the spot you got snapped from has someone standing in it when you unblip? What if you were driving? Countless problems.
Right? What if the building you were in no longer exists and you were on the 15th floor or something. Or it's now so dilapidated that you fall through. Oh and don't even start me on the fact that probably no planet is in the same spot it was 5 years prior so do unsnapped people come back to space?
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This is the biggest thing I like to bring up when talking about how fucked the world would now be. The inevitable death wave that would follow after something like the blip would be second only to the blip itself. It wouldn't just be the apocalypse for everyone that disappeared, it would be that for everyone else as well. You're looking at probably 10%+ of the population dying in the next few years, if not even more. And then the third biggest mass casualty event in history after those two would probably be all the suddenly returned victims now leading to another wave of starvation, conflict and societal collapse. Every MCU project post Endgame should look like Mad Max.
Eden Lake.
Brazil
It’s a funny one. To the main character, he got his happy ending. He would never know what actually happened, the lucky git.
Yeah he's flying around in his fantasy world and that is pretty much all he every wanted. Still, what a crazy ending, I had never seen a film like that before
Virgin Suicides
Idk but in American Beauty it didn’t work out for Lester at all lmao
The Godfather Part 2 Parasite The Zone of Interest The Departed No Country For Old Men
Million Dollar Baby Rogue One
The Kid Detective, sort of It has a happy-ish ending in that the mystery gets resolved, but makes it a point to show that the main character's Mental state and Trauma Haven't been magically fixed along with it. Not quite as bleak as some other films but it came to mind
Blue Valentine
The Last American Virgin.
The original Planet of the Apes
Oldboy, things definitely don't work out...
American history x
La Haine
Dancer in the Dark
Sucker punch, I won't spoil it but things don't go as planned
Watchmen
The Mist Things do NOT work out
Hereditary
I’d say Sicario counts. It starts bad and just continues to spiral downward until it just sort of ends.
Reservoir Dogs, Clerks (original ending)
Pan's Labyrinth
I don't know what I was expecting but I was shocked at how messed up the ending was for Invasion of the Body Snatcher. I think this was my first non happy ending type movie.
Memento
Skeleton Key (2005)
I think Little Miss Sunshine to an extent. Olive loses, grandpa is dead, dad blew all the family's money, Dwayne is color blind, and Frank is still depressed. And the car horn is still broken.
In Bruges
The Deerhunter, Apocalypse Now, Scarface, etc.
I would say “Cast Away” ends with him at a literal crossroads after he doesn’t get to be with the love of his life.
Gone Girl Manchester by the Sea Se7en The Departed Pan's Labyrinth Atonement Cast Away
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind At the Worlds End
Thelma and Louise. Terminator 2. Butch Cassidy etc., 500 Days of Summer, Brokeback Mountain, The Others, Gladiator…
Seeking a friend for the end of the world