Heavy-handed 60s antiwar allegory
The Sand Pebbles
Which season didn’t end this way?
Blackadder the Third.
Two out of four versions of:
The Body Snatchers. (1956, 1978, 1993, and 2007) The other two, and the novel, had happy endings.
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.
The only one of the series worth watching, I might add. Casino Royale (1967, of course)
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
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!
Agatha Christie herself adapted the novel for the stage. The play version has survivors, as the movies do.
Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance, Korean movie from 2002.
I’d have to check closer, but I’m pretty sure that The Blair Witch Project fits the bill.
Lost
All Quiet On The Western Front
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.
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.
1989 comedy movie about a couple magicians in which Penn & Teller Get Killed. They get, well, killed.
And (if it counts as an adaptation of Hamlet), Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. (The story is in the title )
I disagree. It’s pretty much an accepted fact that Mister Pink survives at the end.
The 1949 Ealing comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets
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.