Swordfish is very good.
The Villain was Kirk Douglas… and I always considered the movie more of a live action Road Runner movie than anything else.
For those looking for it, I believe that outside the US, it was simply called Cactus Jack.
This movie ruled. According to my somewhat unbalanced mind. The years have probably not been kind to it though.
An exhaustive exercise in this concept is the German film Funny Games. The filmmakers, by use of unique camera moves and the villain speaking directly to the screen, make the viewer a participant in the crimes. You can’t help being nauseated and traumatized. The scene where one of the villains is borrowing eggs is excessively creepy. Also IIRC there is no score after the opening credits, so you feel like you are watching something real.
Peirce Brosnan’s character in The Tailor of Panama gets away scot-free. He was such a slime ball. I kept hoping someone would shoot him.
Payback
Mel Gibson (bad guy) gets revenge on rest of cast (worse guys). Mel gets away with the girl.
A great movie, to boot.
Oh, as for Brosnan bad guys escaping, how about The Thomas Crown Affair?
Well, depending on how you look at it, “Runaway Train”. The convict escapes prison and (apparently) kills the police guy. But the girl and other prsioner live. Love this movie.
The best one ‘where the bad guy wins’, the first Rocky. although Apollo Creed may not really be a bad guy, just a very flamboyant one.
The Empire Strikes Back at the end had Leia and the gang nursing wounds, and Luke having to get a new arm.
Natural Born Killers. <<Spoiler>> They killed the TV interviewer/cameraman that was tagging along with them during the second crime spree, and walk away. I find the second half much more interesting than the over-the-top imagery-laden first half.
I can’t remember the name of this movie, but it’s about a bunch of guys stranded somewhere when one of them gets infected by some kind of mutation disease. One by one each man grows a bunch of tentacles, or a set of shark teeth in his chest, or his head comes off and grows spider legs, and the others have to kill him. At the end the last two guys are pointing their guns at each other, but it cuts to credits so you have to figure out for yourself what happens.
Sturm is obviously thinking of John Carpenter’s remake of “The Thing.”
I liked the Carpenter version much better than the Howard Hawks version myself, and Carpenter was much truer to “Who Goes There,” the John W. Campbell story that both films were supposed to be based on.
The “thing” could kill and replicate any living being, so through most of the film, you had no way of knowing whether any character was human or an alien who’d replicated that human. At the end, Kurt Russell and one other character survive. We KNOW Kurt Russell isn’t an alien, but the other guy might be. They both just sit there in the Antarctic night, each wondering if the other is really who he seems to be.
So, did “the bad guy” win? We don’t know. There’s a CHANCE, just a chance, the alien has survived.
All I really remember was it freaked the hell out of me when I was a kid. Not that I stopped watching.
Possible Spoiler
Last time I watched this masterpiece, I noticed
that we lose sight of Kurt after the explosion. It’s
only for a few seconds, but that would be long enough.
The Thing is one of the all-time-great horror films. Besides some marvelous monster-pops-up-and-the-audience-wets-itself moments, there is a constant sense of paranoia and creeping dread. The Thing could be anyone, and it's clear from the first that the heroes may not survive, let alone win.In “The Great Escape”, the Germans win, and Steve McQueen is back in solitary, ceaselessly tossing his ball against the door.
Although he started as a good-guy, didn’t Mario Van Peebles
turn into (litterally) a bad-guy at the end of “Full Eclipse”?
Didn’t Robert the Bruce win Scottish independence? The good guy died, but he still won.
You’re oversimplifying. Yes, the Germans recapture or kill all but three prisoners. But keep in mind that Roger Bartlett planned such a massive escape to disrupt the Germans. The idea was that they’d have to pull soldiers off the front lines to round up escapees. In this sense, the prisoners won.
It’s a Wonderful Life
Sure the guy decides to live and everyone is all in love with each other; but that slimball bank guy gets away with stealing everyone’s money! I HATE THAT MOVIE!
(I do love, however, the SNL skit about the “lost reel” that shows the mob of townspeople hunting him down and kicking his butt right out of his wheelchair.)