Films with MASSIVE downer endings.

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07 Mar 2015, 10:35 pm

Edward Scissorhands :cry:

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07 Mar 2015, 10:45 pm

The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug had a horrible ending, almost to the point where it was just highly frustrating.

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08 Mar 2015, 10:47 am

Lolita.

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12 Mar 2015, 5:30 pm

mad max always makes me down

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13 Jan 2016, 6:35 am

Sicario

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30 Mar 2016, 2:57 pm

The Hateful Eight

Everybody dies. The two remaining are dying.

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07 Apr 2016, 11:58 am

Das Boot - Not entirely surprising since we all know how WWII ended.

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07 Apr 2016, 12:22 pm

Gladiator

Spartacus

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07 Apr 2016, 2:28 pm

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Gladiator

Spartacus

Not only were they downers, but they were also historically in error.
After Commodus was assassinated, no one was talking about reestablishing the Republic, but rather various powerful individuals started vying for who would be the next emperor.
The "I am Spartacus" scene never happened, as all the captive rebels were crucified without any offer of a bargain to give their leader up. Everyone was nailed to a cross, except for Spartacus, as his death on the battle field was confirmed by several witnesses.
Sorry to nitpick, but I was a history major back in college, and inaccuracies like that make me nuts!

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12 Apr 2016, 4:41 pm

Beneath The Planet Of The Apes.

It ends with the subterranean mutants launching their doomsday bomb to destroy their ape enemies, after Charlton Heston, the astronaut sent to find him, Dr. Zaius, and General Ursus are all shot. Then the voice over intones how all life has been extinguished on the planet formerly called earth.
Luckily, the sequels imply that future is not written in stone.

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To Live and Die in L.A.- Ohoho, boy. After an hour and a half of such heroic acts as raping his CI, getting an FBI agent killed, and mistreating his new partner, William Petersen finally gets a chance to bust counterfeiter Willem Dafoe. It doesn't work out as planned. Old Grissom takes a shotgun blast to the face, prompting his partner to chase Dafoe to his warehouse... where he finds Dafoe sitting on the floor in wait as all of the evidence of his crimes goes up in smoke. What's more, he knew that he and Chance were Secret Service agents. Chance's partner kills Dafoe, and goes to Chance's CI with a completely different personality: a new William Petersen. Five words: "You're working for me now." *shudder*

What was funny was that when it was test screened, it got nailed for the downer ending. So, they reshot the ending with a tag scene that had them sent off to a distant outpost for 'breaking the rules'. That tested so poorly that the original ending was reinserted for theatrical release. *But* kept in for the TV release LOL

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13 Apr 2016, 7:46 am

Kraichgauer wrote:

Sorry to nitpick, but I was a history major back in college, and inaccuracies like that make me nuts!

No worries. I, too, am a history buff, and while there inaccuracies bother me, I still enjoy those kinds of film.

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House of Flying Daggers]

Did you see the edited version for the Western audience or the original Chinese version? The original version had an entire scene cut at the end suggesting a never ending struggle between the two factions of thought. It was far more poetic than the western cut.

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13 Apr 2016, 7:51 am

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Zathura--well, kind of. More like "Recycled IN SPACE".

Actually, it was the Author that did the recycling.

"Zathura: A Space Adventure (or just Zathura) is a 2005 American science fantasy adventure film directed by Jon Favreau, and is loosely based on the illustrated book Zathura by Chris Van Allsburg, author of Jumanji."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zathura_%28film%29

Although, recycling in Hollywood is tradition dating back to the earliest days of film making.

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13 Apr 2016, 7:52 am

zkydz wrote:

KyleTheGhost wrote:

House of Flying Daggers]

Can't remember. I think I saw it when it first came out.

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zkydz wrote:

KyleTheGhost wrote:

House of Flying Daggers]

Can't remember. I think I saw it when it first came out.

It's the fight between the last two combatants. It goes from an open field of live grasses to an almost knee deep snow as they wear each other down. There was something else cut out that made it lose some emotional content dealing with sacrifice and devotion.

Kinda reminded me of when the first released Mad Max in the 80's. They dubbed everybody because they though all Americans couldn't understand Aussies.

Finally saw it without dubbing. Made a world of difference.

Why they change things like that mystify me.

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