# Movies in which Everyone Dies; unavoidable spoilers, but try to be kind **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 26, 2012, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044 "2012-04-26T19:04:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/21 "2012-04-26T21:04:13Z")
Heavy-handed 60s antiwar allegory The Sand Pebbles ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/22 "2012-04-26T21:05:58Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Or three out of the four Blackadder series. Which season didn’t end this way? ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/23 "2012-04-26T21:08:31Z")
> [@Krokodil](#): > > Which season didn’t end this way? Blackadder the Third. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/24 "2012-04-26T21:09:53Z")
Two out of four versions of: The Body Snatchers. (1956, 1978, 1993, and 2007) The other two, and the novel, had happy endings. ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/25 "2012-04-26T21:14:07Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > I could be wrong about this (I only saw it once), but … > > In **Contagion** , I believe the last scene hints that Patient Zero was mis-identified, so we are led to believe that the contagion isn’t contained at all and therefore … everyone dies. Eventually. I kind of doubt that. Whether or not that’s the case (and it probably is) the vaccine still exists. There is no “containment” of the contagion, merely control. Also, some people have demonstrated immunity, like Matt Damon’s character. Despite some shortcuts, it actually had a fairly realistic take on mortality rates, etc. for an epidemic. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/26 "2012-04-26T21:57:00Z")
The only one of the series worth watching, I might add. Casino Royale (1967, of course) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/27 "2012-04-26T22:03:29Z")
_Broken Blossoms_, a film by D.W. Griffith, released in 1919. One of the saddest silent films I ever saw. It stars three well known actors, Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, and Donald Crisp, and they all die. Gish is beaten to death by her father(Crisp), Barthelmess takes revenge and kills the father, then goes home and commits suicide. A real downer of a film ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/28 "2012-04-26T22:04:51Z")
Oh, how could I forget… _ **The Perfect Storm** _… George Clooney and his whole crew are lost at sea. Now, since this was based on a true story of a fishing boat whose whole crew diied, their deaths were inevitable… but for a minute, it sure LOOKED as if they were going to let Mark Wahlberg’s character make a miraculous escape! ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/29 "2012-04-26T22:22:28Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > I can think of a classic book in which everyone dies, but while there have been several movie versions, the movies usually cheat and allow for survivors. Are there any excpetions? I dunno- I haven’t seen all the movie versions. > > In Agatha Christie’s \*\*\*And Then There Were None \*\*\*(also called \*\*\*Ten Little \*\*\*_ **Indians** _), the Judge murders everyone on the island (all of whom were murderers who’d escaped justice) and then commits suicide, leaving an unsolvable mystery for the police. In the two movie versions I’ve seen, they changed the ending, so that one of the suspects was really a detective and the cute female was innocent of the murder the Judge accused her of (in the book, she was guilty as sin), and those two live happily ever after. Agatha Christie herself adapted the novel for the stage. The play version has survivors, as the movies do. ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/30 "2012-04-26T22:32:17Z")
_Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance_, Korean movie from 2002. ---
**Author:** ![mcgato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac8455/32.png) [@mcgato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mcgato)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/31 "2012-04-26T22:33:23Z")
I’d have to check closer, but I’m pretty sure that The Blair Witch Project fits the bill. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/32 "2012-04-26T22:52:51Z")
The most obvious example (from 1959): **[On the Beach](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Beach_(1959_film))** Where _everyone_ dies. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/33 "2012-04-26T23:00:35Z")
Lost All Quiet On The Western Front ---
**Author:** ![BrassyPhrase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@BrassyPhrase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrassyPhrase)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/34 "2012-04-27T00:23:24Z")
> [@Tom\_Scud](#): > > 1988 indy nuclear war-themed drama > > Miracle Mile Dang! I was going to post it—but I’d advise don’t read about it–b/c I saw it knowing nothing back in 88 and it made me love it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/35 "2012-04-27T00:43:47Z")
Man, spoiler boxes are going to be an endangered species the way this thread is going through them. I know you are trying to “be kind” whatever that means, but they’re utterly pointless the way they’re being used here. To know what’s being spoiled you have to look in the spoiler box. Even saying “1978 horror movie” or “80’s austrailian midget porn” whatever, that’s non non non helpful. Either it says enough to identify the movie, in which case it is a spoiler itself, or it doesn’t say enough to identify the movie and thus is useless. All those boxes do is make this thread a pain in the ass to read. You should have just left it at “unavoidable spoilers” and maybe asked people to box anything still in theaters or just recently out on DVD/itunes/whatevs. It wouldn’t be so bad if we still had the old “highlight to read” style boxes where you could just hit ctrl-a and see the whole lot of them, but all that clicking in every post, holy schnikeys. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/36 "2012-04-27T00:50:45Z")
1989 comedy movie about a couple magicians in which _Penn & Teller Get Killed_. They get, well, killed. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/37 "2012-04-27T01:02:16Z")
> [@bup](#): > > I’m not going to spoiler a 400-year old work. Doesn’t every adaptation of \*Hamlet \*count? The biggest character to survive is Horatio. And (if it counts as an adaptation of Hamlet), [Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosencrantz_%26_Guildenstern_Are_Dead_%28film%29). (The story is in the title 🙂 ) ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/38 "2012-04-27T01:03:12Z")
> [@Paranoid\_Randroid](#): > > 1992 crime/thriller: Reservoir Dogs, arguably, possibly disqualified by the above criteria I disagree. It’s pretty much an accepted fact that Mister Pink survives at the end. ---
**Author:** ![tellyworth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@tellyworth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tellyworth)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/39 "2012-04-27T01:10:44Z")
The 1949 Ealing comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets ---
**Author:** ![Bytegeist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@Bytegeist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bytegeist)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/40 "2012-04-27T01:30:41Z")
> [@PSXer](#): > > I thought they were making their plans to survive in bunkers when the bombs went off before they could The series of bombs in the finale are meant (I believe) to be the Soviet Union’s “doomsday machine” bombs going off, as described earlier in the film. They will be contaminating the Earth’s atmosphere with radioactive material, making the surface uninhabitable for a hundred years. Also, the men are discussing the “retreat into the mineshafts” plan _after_ they already know what the doomsday machine is going to do when triggered. They clearly believe that they themselves have a shot at long-term survival. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044.md?page=3)