Circling back to this movie, it isn’t just the ending that is dismal. My main “dismal” memory is that protagonist begins to realize another passenger is going to kill herself and possibly her child. When she gets to the living quarters…it’s too late. She did it.
Crushing sadness. Crushing.
Aniara was great, but I don’t think I can watch it again.
The lyrics to ‘Georgy Girl’ at the end when she gets into the limo with the baby after she and her old man are married - in the movie - are different from the song played on the radio. ‘who needs a perfect lover when you’re a mother at heart’. and other words to the effect she got what she wanted and at least he’s rich. I think she (Georgy) is resigned and may not be ‘happy’ - but she and the baby will be provided for. She never was pretty, or a swingin’ sixties dolly, and she really really wanted to be a mother. She got to be a mother at the end, even if her only option seemed to be getting married to the old guy.
Yeah, but the old guy is a creep. He was chasing after Georgy while his wife was laying deathly sick in bed. Maybe Georgy will have money and the child she’s always wanted, but she’ll still have to service the gross pervy bastard.
I mean, talk about lying back, closing your eyes, and thinking of England.
True. I agree completely. But these things happen, choices are made when there seems to be no alternative… At the time, Georgy probably wouldn’t make it as a single mother, even if she could adopt by herself.
Don’t Look Up
The world knows there’s a planet-killing comet heading towards us. We have a year or two to do something about it. But political squabbling, jockeying for power, denial, the-leopards-won’t-eat-MY-face-ism prevents the problem from being handled. In the end, humanity, along with all the flora and faua, all life on the planet, is killed by the comet, a complete and utter holocaust that could have been prevented had we not been such selfish short-sighted idiots. In the end, the movie’s heroes, who tried to warn everyone and stir up action against the threat, decide to spend their final moments holding hands and waiting for death.
But wait! It turns out that there were a few survivors after all. Some of the almost unimaginably selfish elite, who did after all believe in the threat while telling the masses that it was nothing, had secretly built a rocket and escaped, leaving their friends and children to die. They seemingly made it to paradise…only to be eaten by the local wildlife as soon as they stepped outside their ship.
The selfish escapees getting their comeuppance was satisfying. Watching the heroes confronting death, along with shots of all the animals and other innocents about to be obliterated was horrifying.
There was a similar scene in the Nick Cage movie Knowing. At the end of the movie Cage fights to get back to his family just so they can die together as the world ends. We are supposed to not feel too bad because aliens saved some kids. Or something.
That looks almost as if some cynic saw the 1951 George Pal movie When Worlds Collide (based on the novel by Edwin Balmer and Philip Wylie) and, after viewing the (relatively) happy ending as the survivors step out of the rocket ship onto the surface of the (unlikely) gorgeous and inviting landscape, turned to their friend and said "You know how this ought to end…?
Speaking of the world ending —the ABC TV series Dinosaurs ends with a volcanic winter with snow piling up burying the title family’s home with the implication that a new ice age was starting and all the dinosaurs were going to go extinct.
He also regained some level of faith, which was part of his journey. Something like, “God has a plan” or something, even if that plan included total destruction, etc.
The 2019 film The Lodge. Kids get snowed in with stepmother in remote holiday cottage and weird shit happens. I was NOT prepared for the ending. Oh my god. Stayed with me for days IMDB link
It’s pretty obvious that one inspired the other. The main characters share the name Randall. But Don’t Look Up is a satire aimed at the current political climate specifically the science denial during the pandemic which is when it was filmed. Even though it was a comedic satire (written and directed by Adam McKay) the ending was very poignant and yes, dismal. IIRC correctly the scene the followed the last supper was a mid credit scene after the end.
It was billed as a horror film, was it not?
That is why I dont watch horror films.
However, on that- Sucker Punch a piece of Zack Snyder crap- advertised as some sort of fantasy action film, actually a psychological horror film. There, you might think you are gonna get something like was advertised- but you do not. Among the themes- slavery, rape, lobotomy, murder, arson and all that fun. More depressing and mis labeled than Bridge to Terabithia- which is saying a lot.
Hooboy, you aren’t kidding. When it’s revealed that the children have been gaslighting her, I kind of wished something bad would befall them. Especially in light of the dog dying. But I was not expecting that.
How about Colossus, the Forbin Project
Or, Dangerous Liaisons?
I’d call the ending tragic, but not dismal. Yes, almost everyone dies or is ruined, but evil does not triumph, and Valmont even has a bit of redemption before his death. And Keanu lives!
(Wait - Peter Capaldi was in this? What a cast).
Yeah, that’s a weird one. Visually busy, stupidly plotted.
Actually, in a way, they advertised it perfectly. Don’t pay attention to the ads – pay attention to the title. That pretty clearly telegraphed what the film was going to do to the audience.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary online.
I mean, there’s no obvious other reason to give the film that title.
You make a point- a strange, weird point, but still a point. 
I thought it ended about as well as it possibly could given the circumstances. It wasn’t like Sam Lowry was ever going to heroically beat the system. But he saved Jill from falling into the hands of the antiterrorist police, and at least at the end there is nothing further the authorities can do to him.
Sorry, but I declare thread winner: The Last American Virgin.
Dude chases after new girl in town, get’s her pregnant, then dumps her when he learns she is prego. Gary takes care of her. Movie ends with girl back in the arms of guy who knocks her up. Roll credits.
Depressing as hell!