Incubus with John Cassavetes (but I guess since it’s a horror flick, that’s a given).
Basic Instinct with Sharon Stone and Michael Douglas.
Hamlet?
Now that you’re done throwing things, think about it - the bad guy does win. I forget his name (and I only studied the play 4 times in college!), but the Norwegian prince invades and takes over Denmark. Yeah, Claudius is dead, as is Hamlet, our hero, so there’s just no good feelings around. Yep - bad guy wins.
Snicks
You must have watched a different movie than the one I remember. As I recall, at the very beginning of the film the Empire lays the hurt on the rebellion in a very big way. And yeah, Luke gets away, but only because of a very-fortunately placed weather vane. Couple that with the loss of a hand and the capture of one of the rebel’s best leaders and I’d say the Empire had a pretty good time of it. My word, did anything go right for the rebellion in that film?
TESB is a stalemate only in the same sense that Monty Python’s King Arthur fought the Black Knight to a tie.
Otto became Minister for Justice in South Africa and Palin went to work at SeaWorld, or something.
Thief: The bad guys don’t win, they (he) gets shot. But the hero has deprived himself of everything that mattered to him thanks to the villain, so he sorta won.
eXistenZ: If you consider the two main characters to be the bad guys. If you consider them to have won. Confusing movie.
Spoilers on American Beauty below, dont read if you aint seen the film.!
American Beauty? - is there even a ‘bad’ guy? The man who murders Lester(?) is certainly repressive and narrow-minded, but by the end we realise he’s just in denial, so who knows.
“The Talented Mr. Ripley”. You are lead to sympathize with Matt Damon when he commits his first crime. The second one is almost understandable. But by the third one at the end…
Only a slight bit of incompetence on the part of the imperials. Admiral Ozzel brings the fleet out of hyperspace too close to the Hoth system, apparently warning the rebels.
If he hadn’t, one could presume that the fleet would have been in attack position before the rebels ever saw them, and far fewer would have escaped, if they hadn’t been crushed altogether. Granted this is all pure speculation, particulary since they had already found the probe droid.
Primary Colors
…second on Swordfish, they were cold-blooded murderers, they blew innocent people up, all for the greater good? Captain Kirk taught us that the needs of the one sometimes outweigh the needs of the few, or even the many, I just hated Swordfish…
And it’s a lot easier to find in the dictionary if you don’t mangle the spelling: it’s “Pyrrhic”.
One film that ends with the bad guys winning - and unfortunately, the film is wrecked if you know this - is
My Little Eye
I’d recommend you don’t reveal that box unless you’ve seen a film in the last year starring Cleo (of Cleopatra 2525) and the Red Power Ranger.
Requiem for a Dream. shudder
Did anyone really win in Reservoir Dogs? All of the major characters died except for Pink, who was arrested and had to take the rap for the whole caper. If you count the police as the “bad guys,” they weren’t especially victorious either, having lost at least a half dozen of their force in a relatively piddling diamond heist.
Only if the count the drugs as the bad guy. Otherwise, it’s more of things turning out bad for everyone.
Yeah, it’s more abstract, but I do count drugs as the bad guy, or at least a tangible common enemy. Could be argued, since it’s not as if the drugs themselves benefitted from everyone’s lives turning to shit.
Any film version of OTHELLO. True, Iago’s arrested at the end and presumably will be executed after they roll the credits–but hey, he accomplished his destruction of Othello and seems unconcerned about what happens to him.
What about ROSEMARY’S BABY? Mia couldn’t escape the forces of evil and had Satan’s kid after all. On the other hand, the baby’s half hers, and she loves him–so is there maybe a note of hope at the end that he’ll take after her? Or is that just wishful thinking on my part?
Everybody always glares at me when I point this out, but the “heroes” in The Matrix are all cop-killers…
That’s probably because it’s like saying George Washington was a murdering traitor. I’m sure he’d rather that the soldiers who were merely the catspaws of the government he was fighting had stayed at home rather than come out to get killed - but they didn’t, did they?
Didn’t the fist version of “Body Snatchers” end with the guy yelling at the camera to run for the hills, or something like that?
Didn’t everyone die in ‘Night of the Living Dead’?
Oh man… I hated that movie for the weird mood it put me in. I guess it did it’s job though.
Kingpin. Scumbag Bill Murray wins the bowling tournament.
However, Woody Harrelson gets the girl, parlays his “Rubberman” fame into a lucrative endorsement deal with Trojans, and saves the farm, so I guess it turns out okay for everyone.