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Favourite movie with a depressing ending.

POSTED BY: CHRISISALL
UPDATED: Sunday, March 4, 2007 03:46
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Saturday, January 20, 2007 8:43 PM

SERENITYSEEKER


Glad to see some of my favorite movies like Braveheart, Gladiator, and Butch Cassidy and Sundance mentioned.

Three others to note:
Lightning Bug - misunderstood kid growing up in a very harsh region of the Bible Belt. Reminds me of me.

Down in the Valley - Edward Norton delivering a very strange yet haunting view of a "lost cowboy" of sorts

And The Green Mile - I know, not THAT depressing of an ending but just a rather dark take on the idea of being somewhat immortal

Keep flyin'.

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Saturday, January 20, 2007 9:00 PM

BABYWITHTHEPOWER


How does Empire Strikes Back not get one the list? I can't believe I'm first to mention this. You all get an 'F'.

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Sunday, January 21, 2007 5:59 AM

DIETCOKE


Saw it. Daniel Day Lewis was great! Still a depressing movie. Just saw Children of Men. That was a pretty depressing movie too.

NY/NJ/CT Browncoats: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/firefly_nyc

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Sunday, January 21, 2007 3:02 PM

WANWEITRIP


Has no one said Bladerunner?

Well, I thought the ending was sad. Either version: Cinema release or Director's cut.

They still have only a brief time to live once they learn what they are.


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Sunday, January 21, 2007 3:13 PM

CHRISISALL


Quote:

Originally posted by WanWeiTrip:
Has no one said Bladerunner?

Well, I thought the ending was sad. Either version: Cinema release or Director's cut.

They still have only a brief time to live once they learn what they are.


In the cinema one, Deckard still might be a Human, and Rachael has no termination date; in the Director's cut he's most probably a replicant- in either version they will be hunted, and are looking at a difficult, and probably short life together, so yeah, sad either version...

Tyrell like Chrisisall

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Tuesday, February 13, 2007 7:24 PM

OUT2THEBLACK


Legends of the Fall . Whoa .

" It was a good death . "

If you haven't seen it , you owe it to yourself .

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Tuesday, February 13, 2007 7:55 PM

WHIMSICALNBRAINPAN


Donnie Darko although I kind of found it uplifitng in a way and I third Requiem for a Dream. That movie was brilliant but depressing.

"Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle." http://whimsicalnbrainpan.blogspot.com/

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Tuesday, February 13, 2007 9:09 PM

CANTON


Ok, the most F*d up movie I've ever seen has to be Requiem for a Dream. . .I swear I felt weird for like 3 days after I watched that the first time.

Why the mom!?!?!?

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Thursday, February 15, 2007 4:41 PM

RMMC


Awakenings, The Prestige, and The Great Escape.

EDIT: Oh...why.

Awakenings

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They all end up back in comas again.



The Presitge

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All the main characters, except Michael Caine and one brother, die. Horribly. Actually...Jackman's character dies...over and over and over. It's rather disturbing.



The Great Escape

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All but three of the escapees either get killed. A vast number get recaptured, herded into an open field and gunned down.





*****
RMMC

When we're down, don't frown. Come join the camp-out at serenitymovie.org.


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Saturday, February 17, 2007 9:47 AM

KHYRON


Quote:

Originally posted by ecgordon:
One of my favorite movies of all time, which hardly anyone else seems to have seen:

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

They actually made a movie!? It's one of my favourite books, but I had no idea they made a movie. Damn, how did I not know that?



The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.

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Saturday, February 17, 2007 10:52 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


The Natural


The way Roy's son throws the baseball when the 2 are playing catch??? Worst thing a father could see, the son who throws like a girl.




People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy. - Joss

" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "

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Tuesday, February 20, 2007 9:10 PM

FASTMOVER



The Chronicles of Riddick - Kyra dying and Riddick in the horribly awkward position of commanding those who destroyed her.
LOTR Return of the King - Frodo and Gandalf having to leave Middle Earth and their close friends.
Gladiator - Maximus finally achieving his goal, but tragically dying
Serenity - Book and Wash gettng killed.
Star Trek: Nemesis - Data sacrificing himself, and the crew finally parting ways.
Star Wars: ROTS and ROTJ - Anakin's tragic descent and Luke's loss of his father after knowing him for such a brief time.

I am evil, I am sly, and if you get eaten no one will cry.

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Tuesday, February 20, 2007 9:14 PM

GHOULFISH


I would have to say serenity

I was so bummed that wash died, all i could do is sit in shock and mourn the loss of my favorite charactor and because of his death he may not be in the sequal (besides flash backs). I think that is a preety damn depressing ending

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Tuesday, February 20, 2007 10:58 PM

ODDSBODSKINS


Bittersweet endings? M'favorite's ^^

as for absolute favorite, i'd have to go with 'Inside I'm Dancing'

and instruct all of you who haven't seen it to buy/rent/beg/steal/borrow a copy ^_~

Do you like bread?

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Wednesday, February 21, 2007 9:45 AM

FINN MAC CUMHAL


That’s hard to say, but if I were to pick one, I would have to go with The Grey Zone. You just don’t get a more depressing ending then that.

Quote:

I catch fire quickly. The first part of me rises in dense smoke that mingles with the smoke of others. Then, there are the bones, which settle in ash. And these are swept up to be carried to the river. And last, bits of our dust simply float there, in air, around the working of the new group. These bits of dust are grey. We settle on their shoes and on their faces, and in their lungs. And they become so used to us, they don't cough and they don't brush us away. At this point, they're just moving, breathing and moving. Like any one else, still alive in that place. And this is how the work... continues.




Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum.

Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.

-- Cicero

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Friday, February 23, 2007 11:57 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


Quote:

The Chronicles of Riddick - Kyra dying and Riddick in the horribly awkward position of commanding those who destroyed her.
LOTR Return of the King - Frodo and Gandalf having to leave Middle Earth and their close friends.
Serenity - Book and Wash gettng killed.



Ok, had I been serious for more than ...5 seconds, my list would have looked pretty much like yours.
The reaction of Merry and Pippen, especially tough. I have to assume that Sam always knew......
Wash AND Book? One was tough enough, but the two of them.... ouch.

People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy. - Joss

" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "

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Sunday, February 25, 2007 11:52 AM

FASTMOVER


Quote:

Originally posted by AURaptor:
Quote:

The Chronicles of Riddick - Kyra dying and Riddick in the horribly awkward position of commanding those who destroyed her.
LOTR Return of the King - Frodo and Gandalf having to leave Middle Earth and their close friends.
Serenity - Book and Wash gettng killed.



Ok, had I been serious for more than ...5 seconds, my list would have looked pretty much like yours.
The reaction of Merry and Pippen, especially tough. I have to assume that Sam always knew......
Wash AND Book? One was tough enough, but the two of them.... ouch.

People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy. - Joss

" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "



Those three were really tough for me, and especially Serenity with Wash and Book getting killed because it was completely unexpected. I had become so used to and spoiled by the light nature of the series and the happy endings with them blasting off to their next adventure.

I also forgot to mention that the minor role of the Purifier in Riddick really got to me, although that wasn't really at the end. The final moments when Riddick embraces Kyra for the last time were touching because it's probably only the second time he shows any deep emotions towards anyone else, the first time being his shock of Carolyn Frye dying while trying to save him in Pitch Black. I think he had come really far from his bad-ass without compassionate character to "rejoin the human race" as Frye put it.

Finally, the ending of ROTK was probably the deepest I've ever been affected by a depressing ending. After all they had been through together with the Fellowship breaking, they finally had to part ways, possibly never to see each other again. I was reading some of the backstory on Wikipedia, which describes the rest of all the character's lives and it says that Sam eventually journeyed to Frodo after his wife died, but I'm not sure how canon this is. The ending was a bit long drawn out I must say, but what really had it tough was how everyone returned from their adventures to reunite and have good time just like before, only to be split apart once again, this time for good.

I am evil, I am sly, and if you get eaten no one will cry.

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Sunday, February 25, 2007 12:22 PM

HIIAMJANET


i heart huckabee's

a very layered and complex depression... mostly about how i lost $8.

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Tuesday, February 27, 2007 5:32 AM

JERAXUS


any film where you get right - into it - it makes me sad that its ended e.g. Evolution, stargate, starwars

Fave charater is River Tam followed by Wash and Mal at joint 2nd

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Sunday, March 4, 2007 3:25 AM

REAVERINA1985RIVIERA


Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry (Peter Fonda)
Vanishing Point (Barry Newman)

Both end the same way, but Vanishing Point is a bit more upbeat, since Kowalski managed to find the "crack in the fence", as the director put it, and escape from his personal deamons.

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How many Jaynes does it take to change a light bulb?

Two. One to try to put it in and another to find a bigger hammer.

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Sunday, March 4, 2007 3:46 AM

MUTT999


Quote:

Originally posted by ReaverInA1985Riviera:
Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry (Peter Fonda)
Vanishing Point (Barry Newman)

Both end the same way, but Vanishing Point is a bit more upbeat, since Kowalski managed to find the "crack in the fence", as the director put it, and escape from his personal deamons.

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How many Jaynes does it take to change a light bulb?

Two. One to try to put it in and another to find a bigger hammer.



You beat me to it! Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry. Most depressing, and shocking, ending to a movie..ever!

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