What's the most downer movie ending you've ever seen?
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Chinatown springs to mind.
And far worse than that is Threads, which is mostly nightmare fuel already and somehow it still manages to close on an even lower note.
And far worse than that is Threads, which is mostly nightmare fuel already and somehow it still manages to close on an even lower note.
The Mist, for sure. The written version, while gruesome enough, had an ambiguous ending and a sliver of hope. The film left me feeling like I'd been sucker punched and couldn't breathe.
The Black Death, featuring Sean Bean, aka The Actor Who Dies In Everything. It is a well written film about a group of knights taking a young monk to a village where the plague is rumored to be held at bay by witchcraft. It's violent and gruesome (as I suppose times would have been back then), but the psychological hook the young monk is dangled on is almost unbearable to watch. Sucker punched again.
The Black Death, featuring Sean Bean, aka The Actor Who Dies In Everything. It is a well written film about a group of knights taking a young monk to a village where the plague is rumored to be held at bay by witchcraft. It's violent and gruesome (as I suppose times would have been back then), but the psychological hook the young monk is dangled on is almost unbearable to watch. Sucker punched again.
I'd have to say Castaway
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I mean what is worse than surviving all that time on an island to come home and find that your wife has moved on?
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I would say The Patriot except that it ends well. but. . .
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Oh oh oh and The Pianist. Good movie though.
The church scene was crazy. I never get emotional in a movie, but that almost did it.
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I mean what is worse than surviving all that time on an island to come home and find that your wife has moved on?
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I would say The Patriot except that it ends well. but. . .
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Oh oh oh and The Pianist. Good movie though.
The church scene was crazy. I never get emotional in a movie, but that almost did it.
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Although it was slow to begin, melincholia was wonderful. Heartbreaking...the entire movie was depressing and the very last scene had me in tears. Its hauntingly sad movies like this one that leave me with a strange uber-sad feeling void. Although I'm glad I saw this movie, I will never watch it again.
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Well, that movie took the popular theme of the maverick cop, out for revenge, who plays by his own rules ... and showed the consequences of it.
Speaking of Willem Defoe movies -- I just watched The Hunter. Definitely not a Hollywood ending. Very affecting.
Requiem for a Dream is a pretty big downer. Hell, any of Aronofsky's films.
Most recent ones I've seen are Detachment (2011) and Rabbit Hole (2010). Both are good, but Detachment has Adrien Brody and Christina Hendricks and that's like an A+ combo.
Most recent ones I've seen are Detachment (2011) and Rabbit Hole (2010). Both are good, but Detachment has Adrien Brody and Christina Hendricks and that's like an A+ combo.
The Plague Dogs.
When I heard the film was animated, I was convinced it couldn't work, but it's exquisite. A gut wrencher, not just the ending. I cried from start to finish.
When I heard the film was animated, I was convinced it couldn't work, but it's exquisite. A gut wrencher, not just the ending. I cried from start to finish.
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I saw Melancholia as watching a family just deal with life as normal. They believed the scientists and didn't worry about it. I think if something like that would happen this is how most people would be just living their lives.
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I think my answer will reach to the hearts of everyone.
Indiana Jones and the kingdom of the crystal skull.
Indiana Jones and the kingdom of the crystal skull.