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Old 12-17-2009, 10:17 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Movies that DON'T have happy endings...

May contain spoilers.

Memento - Guy Pearce decides that the only real purpose in his life is to keep hunting.

The Mist - Thomas Jane kills his kid and friends for what turns out to be no reason.

The Thing - Kurt Russell freezes to death in a showdown after destroying the compound.

Taxi Driver - Robert Deniro's character isn't capable of being happy after extracting "justice."

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Old 12-17-2009, 10:25 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Independence day, they save the world with a mac. a virus from a mac....

right um... oh right you meant plot based? not how I felt after the movie was over? Cuz I mean I wanted to punch every person in the theater after I saw that.


mmm, maybe braveheart & troy

but I consider both of those to be neutral "martyr" style movies.

Requiem for a Dream, but that was so over the top with the simultaneous "hey these people are in the shitter" montage that I was just kinda like a cross between wanting to throw up or laugh uncontrollably

Not sure if it qualifies..

Fight Club. Not sure that was a "happy" ending. It was certainly an awesome ending I thought just because it fully delivered on the proper "fuck it all" attitude that the represented for the previous 2 hours.

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Old 12-17-2009, 10:28 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Old 12-17-2009, 10:30 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Drag me to Hell. I was hoping for more from this film, considering how much fun the Evil Dead trilogy was, but Sam Raimi did not make this good.
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Old 12-17-2009, 10:31 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Old 12-17-2009, 11:11 AM   #6 (permalink)
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Some of my favorites, actually:

Se7en

No Country for Old Men

Pan's Labyrinth
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Old 12-17-2009, 11:12 AM   #7 (permalink)
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Excellent choices everyone.

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Old 12-17-2009, 11:14 AM   #8 (permalink)
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Fight Club. Not sure that was a "happy" ending. It was certainly an awesome ending I thought just because it fully delivered on the proper "fuck it all" attitude that the represented for the previous 2 hours.
Movie vs Book ***SPOILER***

Spoiler: The movie had totally different ending than the book. In the book, Marla brings all the support group people up to the top floor of the building as the bomb should have gone off in all the buildings. Seems Tyler built the bombs wrong and none of them work. The Narrator gets throw in the loony bin and sets himself up as a kind of "martyr". He thinks he is dead and in heaven. He thinks his doctor is God and the orderlies are angels. As he walks past the orderlies with punched out eyes, they thank him for his sacrifice. They tell him everything is going according to the plan and they look forward to getting him back.

*****

The ones listed (Fight club, Requiem) and the martyr films (Braveheart, 300).

Empire Strikes Back. Han's in Carbonite, Luke is handless, Rebels are on the run, and Luke found out his daddy was a whiny bitch, I mean Darth Vader.
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Old 12-17-2009, 11:27 AM   #9 (permalink)
 
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Poor Thelma & Louise.

Their inevitable demise was the only route they could take.

They were victims of stereotypical writing.

Self-Painted into a corner, the filmmakers offed themselves, vicariously.

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Old 12-17-2009, 11:34 AM   #10 (permalink)
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Thinner

Dr. Stangelove

Thinner is a fucked up ending.

Strangelove KABOOM!

Kids.. "Oh shit, what just happened?"
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Old 12-17-2009, 11:37 AM   #11 (permalink)
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Old 12-17-2009, 11:38 AM   #12 (permalink)
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Oh, I love Bachman's Thinner. "Have some pie."
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Old 12-17-2009, 11:44 AM   #13 (permalink)
 
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From a human perspective,
I s'pose 'On the beach' might qualify.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Beach_(novel)
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Old 12-17-2009, 11:57 AM   #14 (permalink)
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Striptease: Demi Moore is very likely leaving the world of stripping for some clerical job. Boo!

Patch Adams: parents allow their sick kids around Robin Williams.

JAWS: the poor shark dies.
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Old 12-17-2009, 12:06 PM   #15 (permalink)
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The Departed




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Old 12-17-2009, 12:12 PM   #16 (permalink)
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Old 12-17-2009, 12:19 PM   #17 (permalink)
 
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Old 12-17-2009, 12:32 PM   #18 (permalink)
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Sex and the city,

I haven't watched it but I heard none of them died.
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Old 12-17-2009, 12:35 PM   #19 (permalink)
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Night of the living dead
the new dawn of the dead, uncut version
The original ending to Clerks.
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Old 12-17-2009, 12:41 PM   #20 (permalink)
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+1 for kids.

jaw dropping ending
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Old 12-17-2009, 01:01 PM   #21 (permalink)
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Irreversible... the entire movie is one bad ending.
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Old 12-17-2009, 01:20 PM   #22 (permalink)
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Robocop
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Old 12-17-2009, 01:52 PM   #23 (permalink)
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Old 12-17-2009, 02:38 PM   #24 (permalink)
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American History X. Sheesh.
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Old 12-17-2009, 02:44 PM   #25 (permalink)
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Heh, was just discussing this. Don't really have anything to add though as what we came up with was already said.

Oh wait, The Dark Knight, cause ya know Heith Ledger dies at the end
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Old 12-17-2009, 03:00 PM   #26 (permalink)
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Public Enemies

Zodiac (freaking hated that movie anyway)

Red Cliff

Audition

Gozu

Ichi the Killer

Hannibal

i hate happy endings.
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Old 12-17-2009, 03:02 PM   #27 (permalink)
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Old 12-17-2009, 03:56 PM   #28 (permalink)
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Time Bandits

I'm still shocked by what happens to the kid's parents. I wonder what Gilliam was thinking.
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Old 12-17-2009, 04:06 PM   #29 (permalink)
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Old 12-17-2009, 04:14 PM   #30 (permalink)
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3:10 to Yuma, although not unexpected

The Mist, already listed, but it is the most depressing ending I've ever seen

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Saving Private Ryan

The Professional

Dead Poets Society, this one actually brings tears

Fallen

Matrix Revolution, just a really crappy feeling at the end

Fearless

Cowboy Bebop series, one of the greatest unhappy endings ever
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Old 12-17-2009, 04:39 PM   #31 (permalink)
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Old 12-17-2009, 04:41 PM   #32 (permalink)
 
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one of my favorite in this line: Arlington Road. unless you like the bad guys.
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Old 12-17-2009, 04:51 PM   #33 (permalink)
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Rosemary's Baby
The Descent
Synecdoche, New York
The Orphanage
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Old 12-17-2009, 05:09 PM   #34 (permalink)
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Of the ones that haven't been mentioned yet:

Oldboy

The Butterfly Effect (the original, not the theatrical ending which sucked huge balls).

Jacob's Ladder

The Midnight Meat Train

Silent Hill

Secret Window

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Pay It Forward

K-PAX - not exactly sad, but doesn't give the feeling of closure, which is pretty different from a normal happy end.
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Old 12-17-2009, 05:28 PM   #35 (permalink)
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Does Seven Pounds count? It's not exactly a surprise.

Anyone put enough thought into Hard Candy enough to think about the implications of the ending? I definitely wouldn't class it as 'happy'
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Old 12-17-2009, 05:47 PM   #36 (permalink)
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Old 12-17-2009, 06:13 PM   #37 (permalink)
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Old 12-17-2009, 07:08 PM   #38 (permalink)
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Old 12-17-2009, 07:16 PM   #39 (permalink)
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Are we talking good feeling happy endings? Or happy endings where not everybody dies?

Thelma & Louise
The Little Match Girl
Terminator
Alien
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Old 12-17-2009, 07:24 PM   #40 (permalink)
 
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Dirty Mary & Crazy Larry looked pretty happy right before....
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