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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang.
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Gah! I thought of that movie in the shower this morning, and I was itchin’ to come back in here to bring it up. Great movie.
The Big House
Cube 2: Hypersphere. The original was better, but this is still a good popcorn flick.
[spoiler]Due to the bizarre warping of time and space from the hypercube, there are a large amount of copies of each character running around meeting their fate in different yet horrible ways. One of the characters goes insane and wanders the Cube killing the clones of this friendly guy, taking his watch, and eating him. At one point, a much older cannibal is met, his arms covered in watches, talking about how he’s been eating this same guy over and over for decades.
Oh yeah, and the female character who makes it out in the end actually worked for the evil company and just wanted to manipulate the group and steal the data disk from the virtuous hacker who made the entire hypercube but wished to rebel. And she’s shot in the head anyway. So the big evil company wins and everyone is killed.[/spoiler]
When the Wind Blows, another ultra-depressing animated film, though with great music and imagery.
…charming old couple slowly die of radiation poisoning in blind faith of the infallibility of their country’s leadership…
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Johnny Got His Gun
“For the love of God, I’m begging you…please let me die.”
“No.”
I second The Pledge. That movie is one of the few recent Hollywood releases that doesn’t even attempt to give you a crumb of hope.
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Where can I get a copy of “Johnny Got His Gun”? I saw it first run and would like to see it again, though it is a definite downer. I’ve tried to get through the book twice and can’t.
My choices: ***The Bedofrd Incident
Madame X***
And, Sorry, Wrong Number.
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Angel Heart. Not just a sad ending, but genuinely depressing.
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I recently re-watched this, and though it is not a “happy” ending, it is certainly a “the guy got what he deserved” ending.
But so far no one’s mentioned either:
“Gallipoli”
or
“Breaker Morant”
Of all the one’s mentioned, I think “House of Sand and Fog” is the downer of all downers.
Forgive me if this has already been mentioned, but I don’t ever recall seeing a non-porno movie concluding with a “happy ending”.
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But so far no one’s mentioned either:
“Gallipoli”
or
“Breaker Morant”
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Ooooh, yeah, good ones. I love both those movies, and completely forgot them.
“Shoot straight, ya bastards.”
Ohh…Gallipoli. All the sadder becuase is was basicaly true.
How about “Johnny got his Gun”? I can’t think of a least happy ending.
And “All quite on the Western Front”
I didn’t look through all the posts here, but The Rapture may qualify. At least, Mimi Rogers doesn’t have a happy ending.
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Requiem for a Dream
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My pick as well.
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The general consensus seems to be that the movie was meant by Kubrick to end when The boy gets trapped “forever” near the Blue Fairy,and that everything after that was tacked on by Spielberg for a feel-better (can’t really say feel-good) ending. I came to this conclusion, too, before I heard that anyone else did: a bunch of people seem to have thought of this independently.
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Except, despite what reviewers of the film have thought, the ending of the film seen on screen **is **the ending that Kubrick would have done.
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Except, despite what reviewers of the film have thought, the ending of the film seen on screen **is **the ending that Kubrick would have done.
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Cite?
Chimes at Midnight, Orson Welles’ adaptation of Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2. Of course, as in his adaptations of Othello and MacBeth, Welles was limited by Shakespeare’s script, which does not end happily for the principal protagonist.
Bonnie and Clyde – depending once again, of course, on one’s definition of a “happy ending.”
But the ending of Joe is tragic by any standard.
Longass thread – have Easy Rider and Cool Hand Luke already been mentioned?
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Cite?
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I’m trying to search Google but all I’m getting are tons of reviews. It was mentioned in the recent Spielberg documentary that was shown on TNT (I think it was TNT.)
Here’s one page that has an interview with Sara Maitland, one of Kubrick’s collaborators on the script
A bit different than the film, yes, but the ending is still the same, it was never meant to end under the water.
(That doesn’t mean I wouldn’t have preferred it to end earlier, I don’t much like the ending as it is, but it wasn’t tacked on by Spielberg.
And I’m the first person to mention Alien[sup]3[/sup]? Everything Ripley fought for in the previous film gets trashed in the opening five minutes, and the rest of the film just revolves around Ripley’s dawning realization that she has a chestburster inside her, and after she’s headed up the demise of the alien on the rampage, there’s nothing for her to do but throw herself into a blast furnace.
Leaving Las Vegas
Of course, Nicholas Cage does get exactly what he wanted, so maybe it has a happy ending after all.