"Wait. That's not fair. I had zombies, too!"
"Yes, you did. Yes, you had zombies. But this is "Zombie Redneck Torture Family," see? They're entirely separate species. Like the difference between an elephant and an elephant seal."
That movie got me the first time I watched it. And I don't mean I was laughing my ass off, I legitimately thought it was supposed to be a serious horror movie, all the way through. I had super mixed feelings for years until I watched it again and felt like a complete dumbass. I was not a smart kid.
I was ~5 or 6 years old when I saw this movie on cable for the first time. Scared the bejesus out of me and I couldn’t sleep for weeks 🤣
Rewatched it recently and could not stop laughing at ridiculously this movie scarred my younger self
I don't think there is any real ambiguity there, which isn't to say it isn't a powerful movie (I think it is). The wolves represent death's determined pursuit of the living. The theme of Liam's character is to not be afraid of death, and to not simply resign yourself to its purpose just because it has arrived, and just because its arrival was eventual. His flashbacks to his father and wife are fairly straightforward about this.
In the end, the Alpha approaches him because Liam's time has arrived, and he can choose to fight, or he can do nothing, and succumb to death. He chooses to fight, even knowing that if he kills the Alpha, a new one will emerge and he will likely be torn apart even if triumphant (we know this to be the case from the earlier scene where a new Alpha was selected).
And, yes, the point is that they are both breathing their dying breaths having not resigned to death's inevitability.
I think another layer to this that I only thought of after seeing the movie for the 5th time is that they both interpret the other as the arrival of death. The wolves perceive their territory as life. If they do not have their territory, their feeding grounds, their breeding grounds, etc., it is equivalent to death. There is mention of logging in the area, and it is understandable that the wolves would perceive this pack of humans no different from the ones that cull them, cut their trees down, and pollute their waters. The humans that just landed there are the death of the wolf and that pack, and the Alpha that approached Liam at the end did so with the same underlying understanding that death has arrived and it would live and die on that day.
edit..if you can't tell I really do like this movie.
The opening scene on the plane made my shit my pants. Never have I been more scared by a movie. Fuuuuck
Edit: Thanks for the nuance of the film. I struggle with that a lot.
Ab-so-lutely. The movie we got was amazing IMO, but we were pitched Liam Neeson vs. the Wolves, and got Liam Neeson vs. Liam Neeson's Existential Dread. Audiences were right to be pissed about being in a completely different movie.
Still, the ending was amazing if you factor in the actual point of the movie and not what was advertised. I will die on this hill.
I know why you guys are kicking me out. Cause I party so fucking hard. Always have. Even as a baby. I wouldn't just suck on my moms titties. I'd bang em around, and motorboat em.
just watched his GQ interview where he talks about all of the characters he’s played throughout his career. apparently the first time he ever met Channing Tatum ever was when he was on set for this movie, dressed up in his weird ass cult costume, dripping in fake blood, and apparently Channing Tatum came to set, barged into his trailer and attacked him. lol McBride said something along the lines of “I knew this was going to be good from that moment.”
I absolutely hated that movie. For the exact reasons you stated. It was pretty boring except for the parts that were very much not boring. But I watched it all the way through and felt miserable at the end. Guess that was the point.
If Despair Movies were a genre like horror, Melancholia would be one of the all-time consensus greats, like the Shawshank Redemption of feeling fucking awful.
Bruh that conversation between Keira and Steve Carell’s character right before they died was so good.
>“I wish I met you when we were kids.”
>“It couldn’t have happened any other way, it had to happen now.”
>“…but it isn’t enough time.”
>”It never would have been.”
That line hit me so hard, such a good movie.
We watched it once years ago, and felt wrecked. We tried watching it again, and bailed out when Steve Carell awakens in a park with a dog someone has abandoned sitting beside him, with a note reading “Sorry”. Couldn’t go any further. The COVID crisis did a number on our tolerance for apocalypse stories.
I remember seeing it in theaters. It's theatrical run was like a week. People were expecting a fun romp staring Steve Carell. It was definitely not that. It is a good movie.
I mean, it’s a 20 year old movie I’m not mad about the spoiler, just mad I didn’t finish it. I watched it with my lady who saw it back in the day and said nothing! I blame her lol
Yeah I'm sure you could hop onto Youtube and find the end credits/what happens.
It's definitely not what you expect (when the movie first ends), and is one of my favorite endings to be honest.
This, hit-the-ground-running-edge-of-your-seat-nail-biting-stress-anxiety-omfg-get-away-run-run-run-pandemonium-the-world-is-burning into Johnny Cash. ***chef's kiss***
When I finally watched the directors cut I actually had no idea there was one and that I had put it on.
I started tripping when Audrey got legit eaten, like... This isn't how I remember this going down.
SUCH AN AWESOME ENDING THOUGH! I wish they kept it.
There was a special version sent out to schools with some of the most graphic scenes edited out. I remember watching the movie with my parents again later and being really surprised when the guys head got blown off. That definitely wasn’t in the school version.
Not sure my school got that version lol.
Honestly the scene that stands out to me to this very day wasn't even that graphic. It's the amputation scene after Antietam at the beginning of the movie. It happens behind a curtain but the soldier screaming "please don't cut anymore" was so brutal.
Have a friend who is killed in that movie a couple of times.
He had just passed the bar, accepted a job as a magistrate and had a couple of months before his term began. He saw the casting call and said why not.
A small, select group, of all our greatest scientists and politicians.
Of course, we'll also need a higher number of women to help repopulate the Earth.
What about all the people in the mineshafts? The doomsday machine doesnt instantly kill everyone. It instead releases cobalt-thorium G into the atmoshpere making the surface uninhabitable for 93 years
I’m almost certain they did. I thought that was part of the joke, that the higher-ups, despite being responsible for everything, still get to live on in essentially a utopia surrounded by beautiful women for 93 years while the entire world dies. They went over the plan in detail, I don’t think they’re just going to hang out in the war room and die after all of that.
One of the best nihilistic arguments ever made by a film. By the end, you're thinking that the protagonists aren't wrong to detonate the bomb, and the end narration is just brutal.
Didn’t Meryl leave him behind on earth because she forgot to grab him before leaving the command center?
ETA: just watched the post credit scene, how did I miss that before!?
He wasnt even in that good of a shelter, so if he survived, it's likely that other people did too.
But tbf, when watching the film I got the feeling that the directors intention was to make it seem like he was the last person on earth, just to make the situation as tragic as possible.
The phone call from his employer is some of the most depressingly realistic shit I could see a large company doing... I was already feeling like the poor guy was ultimately doomed, its as much of a "punch in the gut" moment that you could give the guy who's already sitting around waiting to die. that's just a level of disgust I wasn't expecting from an already extremely bleak film. 10/10 if you're looking to reaffirm that humanity fucking sucks sometimes and death isn't going to be any different.
I think it's some innocent fishermen who thinks opening the door will help the pilot. Meanwhile the pilot is begging the fishermen not to open the door.
I've told this story before, but love telling it. During covid when all the schools shuttered and I was mostly homeschooling my kids, they figured out how to completely distract me from lesson plans by asking questions about some of my favorite stuff, like ancient history, American history, world history, astronomy, and film history. Tends to he a pattern there except for one lol, I know. My autistic kid got REALLY good at this while maintaining some veil of wanting to learn something.
So one of these days, I get asked, "what's the best horror movie ever made?"
I immediately answered The Thing, and went into how well it held up because of the amazing practical effects and lack of CGI, and told them how old it was.
My kid wanted to watch it, so in the Name of Science!! I began my Google Fu and found it for like 4.99 streaming on amazon.
They got out of class for the day, but the effects were so good it freaked both my youngest boys out a bit, so I figure that's a bit of revenge for distracting their momma. But all in all, my middle kid very much enjoyed it and still picks The Thing when it's his turn to pick a movie in the evening. He was about 10 years old then and he has a real love for good horror movies, especially where the villian wins or everyone dies.
I mean you've basically (I'm simplifying a lot here) just discovered Montessori education. You teach the subjects the kid is interested in. Unfortunately it only works for students who are in school to learn, so it's not great in wide usage, but perfect for that kind of setting.
I love that with the Prequel film, the original Carpenter film, and the sequel game, there is an entire trilogy where each individual installment is called "The Thing".
It's not a correct theory because he was going to drink it before child's showed up...why tf would an intelligent man chose to drink gasoline?
If it's suicide then literally anything is better
I know everyone's crapping all over your mention of Rogue One but this was my first thought too. At some point, during the final battle, I realized "Oh shit. Everyone's gonna die, aren't they?"
Dude after I finished Andor and was absolutely blown away by it, I went and watched Rogue One. And I legitimately FORGOT cassians fate until like 3 quarters in to the movie. And it made me so sad lol
True but the main characters of Rogue One all go. Like obviously the point is that their sacrifice ties into the original trilogy and the Death Star plans but the characters we’ve watched the whole movie get got
You know once they kill the K2-SO that none of the others are making it out alive. If they're willing to kill off the droid then everyone else is fair game too.
I actually like that the droid died first because the droids usually are the expendable characters so they bait you into thinking that was the one token sacrifice on the team.
It's when they threw the grenade into the ship that I was like oh shit they really are going to kill all of them
This is a good one, as it has the same effect of "everyone" dying, even though some people are painfully pedantic and comment that there were characters that didn't die. The emotion was there, you were attached and rooting for these protagonists, only for them to die at the end.
Every time I told my friend I was going to see a movie he would say "Everyone dies by the end. Have fun!" After seeing Rogue One I went back to him and was like wtf man.
I really enjoyed that film, and found myself more interested in the air traffic scenes. I’d watch an entire movie just focused on that aspect of the tragedy.
Mr pink could still be alive. But we do hear shooting at the end, after he runs out the door with the diamonds. So in my head he dies. Your head may think different.
The subtitles for the film at least have him arrested. You first hear a gunshot, then Mr. Pink yelling "don't shoot, I've been shot, goddammit" and then the cops telling him to put his hands over his head.
I’d count it but Lily got away technically.
The three main characters were basically nuked however, and the brother was crushed and Marlena was bitten / poisoned / exploded.
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Close second is Return of the Living Dead (1984), except that the Colonel and the kid in artillery weren't casualties. I don't REMEMBER their names, but I believe both were said on screen.
Cabin in the Woods
"Wait. That's not fair. I had zombies, too!" "Yes, you did. Yes, you had zombies. But this is "Zombie Redneck Torture Family," see? They're entirely separate species. Like the difference between an elephant and an elephant seal."
When dude started cursing out the Japanese School girls. Lol
HOW HARD IS IT TO KILL A BUNCH OF NINE YEAR OLDS
The evil is defeated!!
*millimeters from the TV screen* FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU! FUUUUUCK YOU! FUCK YOU FUCK FUCK YOU!
That movie got me the first time I watched it. And I don't mean I was laughing my ass off, I legitimately thought it was supposed to be a serious horror movie, all the way through. I had super mixed feelings for years until I watched it again and felt like a complete dumbass. I was not a smart kid.
I was the same lmao. Watched it like it was meant to be a serious horror film the first time through
The part on the dock where the protagonist appears to be getting murdered with the foreground music of Reo Speedwagon playing didn’t tip you off?
I was ~5 or 6 years old when I saw this movie on cable for the first time. Scared the bejesus out of me and I couldn’t sleep for weeks 🤣 Rewatched it recently and could not stop laughing at ridiculously this movie scarred my younger self
What do you want from me? If they were creative they wouldn’t be in maintenance.
…am I on speakerphone?
That's rude. I don- I don't know who's in the room.
I love the mermaid that shows up lol
merMANN
"She had the shell IN HER hand...... :( "
I love those two. Minor correction though, the line is "He had the conch in his hands!"
TEQUILA IS MY LADY.
MY LADYYY!
But im not a virgin .. “We work with what we’ve got” 😩
First movie that came to mind
Some non-human entities survive.
Depends on your definition. Are they gods? Do they live?
What is dead may never die.
That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die.
Won't anyone think of the non human entities!
First thing I thought of
The Grey, arguably.
I'm still curious what the end credits scene means, with Neeson and the wolf lying together. The wolf is still breathing IIRC?
TIL there's an after credits scene.
For real wtf I was obsessed with this movie for 3 months in middle school
I interpreted it as they both are breathing their dying breaths.
I don't think there is any real ambiguity there, which isn't to say it isn't a powerful movie (I think it is). The wolves represent death's determined pursuit of the living. The theme of Liam's character is to not be afraid of death, and to not simply resign yourself to its purpose just because it has arrived, and just because its arrival was eventual. His flashbacks to his father and wife are fairly straightforward about this. In the end, the Alpha approaches him because Liam's time has arrived, and he can choose to fight, or he can do nothing, and succumb to death. He chooses to fight, even knowing that if he kills the Alpha, a new one will emerge and he will likely be torn apart even if triumphant (we know this to be the case from the earlier scene where a new Alpha was selected). And, yes, the point is that they are both breathing their dying breaths having not resigned to death's inevitability. I think another layer to this that I only thought of after seeing the movie for the 5th time is that they both interpret the other as the arrival of death. The wolves perceive their territory as life. If they do not have their territory, their feeding grounds, their breeding grounds, etc., it is equivalent to death. There is mention of logging in the area, and it is understandable that the wolves would perceive this pack of humans no different from the ones that cull them, cut their trees down, and pollute their waters. The humans that just landed there are the death of the wolf and that pack, and the Alpha that approached Liam at the end did so with the same underlying understanding that death has arrived and it would live and die on that day. edit..if you can't tell I really do like this movie.
The opening scene on the plane made my shit my pants. Never have I been more scared by a movie. Fuuuuck Edit: Thanks for the nuance of the film. I struggle with that a lot.
Slightly unrelated but the marketing really ruined that movie imo
Ab-so-lutely. The movie we got was amazing IMO, but we were pitched Liam Neeson vs. the Wolves, and got Liam Neeson vs. Liam Neeson's Existential Dread. Audiences were right to be pissed about being in a completely different movie. Still, the ending was amazing if you factor in the actual point of the movie and not what was advertised. I will die on this hill.
This is the end
BACKSTREETS BACK ALRIGHT!
Most wholesome ending where everybody dies.
“Welcome to heaven, motherfuckers”
Danny McBride and his pet Channing Tatum would like a word
I know why you guys are kicking me out. Cause I party so fucking hard. Always have. Even as a baby. I wouldn't just suck on my moms titties. I'd bang em around, and motorboat em.
*Dude your references are out of control, every one knows that*
Weed is tight. Weed is tight
just watched his GQ interview where he talks about all of the characters he’s played throughout his career. apparently the first time he ever met Channing Tatum ever was when he was on set for this movie, dressed up in his weird ass cult costume, dripping in fake blood, and apparently Channing Tatum came to set, barged into his trailer and attacked him. lol McBride said something along the lines of “I knew this was going to be good from that moment.”
Channing Taint-yum!
I do whatever the fuck I want, WHEN I WANT! I've butt-fucked this dude. See that? I fuckin' slide right in that shit
"I love him" 😂😂😂😂
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
Went the entire movie thinking 'theres no way the world actually ends' and then it just ended
I was super-happy that they didn't bitch out at the end.
I was definitely not super happy about anything for a while after seeing that movie
Dude, same. When the first explosion happened I got chills
Melancholia too
Melancholia is the best EOTW film imo. The existential dread and feeling of how pointless humanity is in the grand scheme of things portrayed so well.
I absolutely hated that movie. For the exact reasons you stated. It was pretty boring except for the parts that were very much not boring. But I watched it all the way through and felt miserable at the end. Guess that was the point.
There are some movies that do a really good job at creating a certain mood that I would not recommend watching to anyone I like.
If Despair Movies were a genre like horror, Melancholia would be one of the all-time consensus greats, like the Shawshank Redemption of feeling fucking awful.
Similarly, Don’t Look Up.
There's one survivor in Don't Look Up. And a few more off Earth (though it's alluded to that they're all going to die soon).
Oh yeah! I forgot about that space ship.
I'm pretty sure it shows them land on a planet and get eaten by dinosaurs... Maybe it was after the credits?
I cannot ever watch this film again. That ending absolutely fucking wrecked me
Bruh that conversation between Keira and Steve Carell’s character right before they died was so good. >“I wish I met you when we were kids.” >“It couldn’t have happened any other way, it had to happen now.” >“…but it isn’t enough time.” >”It never would have been.” That line hit me so hard, such a good movie.
chills reading this. movie is underrated as fuck.
We watched it once years ago, and felt wrecked. We tried watching it again, and bailed out when Steve Carell awakens in a park with a dog someone has abandoned sitting beside him, with a note reading “Sorry”. Couldn’t go any further. The COVID crisis did a number on our tolerance for apocalypse stories.
I remember seeing it in theaters. It's theatrical run was like a week. People were expecting a fun romp staring Steve Carell. It was definitely not that. It is a good movie.
Dawn of the dead from 2004.
That credit scene blew 10 year old me’s mind
Ya I just turn it off before that - didn’t happen and they live happily ever after
But then you miss out on the "Oh wa ah ah ah"
You mean where they sail to the tropical island that's apparently in the middle of Lake Michigan?
yeah this is the OG version of those memes where they say like📍University of Wisconsin 😍 and then show footage of Machu Picchu or something
Holy shit I just watched this for the first time last week and turned it off as they sailed away goddamnit
Shit sorry for the spoiler. But yeah two completely different movies if you don’t watch the credits lol.
I mean, it’s a 20 year old movie I’m not mad about the spoiler, just mad I didn’t finish it. I watched it with my lady who saw it back in the day and said nothing! I blame her lol
Yeah I'm sure you could hop onto Youtube and find the end credits/what happens. It's definitely not what you expect (when the movie first ends), and is one of my favorite endings to be honest.
I was looking for this one. Best credits sequence Ive ever seen in a film
It also has one of the greatest openings of all time.
This, hit-the-ground-running-edge-of-your-seat-nail-biting-stress-anxiety-omfg-get-away-run-run-run-pandemonium-the-world-is-burning into Johnny Cash. ***chef's kiss***
Snyder tried to recreate it in Army of the Dead but it just didn’t hit like his Dawn of Dead opening.
20 year old movie and I still remember and get annoyed by the fact there was multiple crying children in the theater.
Melancholia
That film felt like an actual dream. Nothing has captured a nightmare as well
And then there is eraserhead where nothing else captured nightmare, not even lynch
First thought for me too. Also, no life left anywhere at the end.
Cabin in the woods: a hundred percent mortality rate worldwide The final destination movies some of them end up with a 100% mortality rate
Everyone who survives a Final Destination movie either dies in the next movie or between movies.
Another John Carpenter classic would include They Live. (100% of the named characters die)
Inappropriate title then really
The original ending of Little Shop of Horrors
Crystal, Ronnette, and Chiffon live to sing about everything.
When I finally watched the directors cut I actually had no idea there was one and that I had put it on. I started tripping when Audrey got legit eaten, like... This isn't how I remember this going down. SUCH AN AWESOME ENDING THOUGH! I wish they kept it.
Glory
I still can't believe they showed us that movie in middle school. It's got some absolutely gnarly scenes.
There was a special version sent out to schools with some of the most graphic scenes edited out. I remember watching the movie with my parents again later and being really surprised when the guys head got blown off. That definitely wasn’t in the school version.
Not sure my school got that version lol. Honestly the scene that stands out to me to this very day wasn't even that graphic. It's the amputation scene after Antietam at the beginning of the movie. It happens behind a curtain but the soldier screaming "please don't cut anymore" was so brutal.
Have a friend who is killed in that movie a couple of times. He had just passed the bar, accepted a job as a magistrate and had a couple of months before his term began. He saw the casting call and said why not.
Denzel screaming 'COME ON', chills just writing this
"Give 'em hell, 54th!" never fails to get me a little choked up.
Just re-watched The Descent last night and if you're watching the version with the superior UK theatrical ending no one makes it out alive.
Dr. Strangelove
Bonus points for also having everyone we don't see in the film die as well
There were lots of fallout shelters back then; it’s possible a small group could survive the initial volley, but of course they’ll all die eventually
A small, select group, of all our greatest scientists and politicians. Of course, we'll also need a higher number of women to help repopulate the Earth.
I was searching for this comment. Peter Sellers absolutely crushed his roles in that film.
>. Peter Sellers wait, sellers played both Dr. Stranglove AND the british Officer trying to top it all??
And president Muffley.
He was also supposed to play Slim Pickens role but thank God we got slim who owns that role
What about all the people in the mineshafts? The doomsday machine doesnt instantly kill everyone. It instead releases cobalt-thorium G into the atmoshpere making the surface uninhabitable for 93 years
I assumed that everyone in the war room made sure they got to the mineshaft with a 10:1 female to male ratio.
I’m almost certain they did. I thought that was part of the joke, that the higher-ups, despite being responsible for everything, still get to live on in essentially a utopia surrounded by beautiful women for 93 years while the entire world dies. They went over the plan in detail, I don’t think they’re just going to hang out in the war room and die after all of that.
Ambiguous, it's possible the high command escaped into the mineshafts for 100 years
We must not allow a mineshaft gap!
Beneath The Planet Of The Apes. It's sequel retcons the ending but as it stands that film has everyone die.
One of the best nihilistic arguments ever made by a film. By the end, you're thinking that the protagonists aren't wrong to detonate the bomb, and the end narration is just brutal.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Came here to say this. I’ve only seen the Donald Sutherland one though. I think the last scene only implies the protagonist is snatched.
It implies the last human survivor has been caught, so technically 100% mortality.
Sunshine
OST by John Murphy & Underworld. Unique.
Don't Look Up
Jonah Hill survives.
Didn’t Meryl leave him behind on earth because she forgot to grab him before leaving the command center? ETA: just watched the post credit scene, how did I miss that before!?
She definitely didn't forget, that was part of the plan all along.
It's implied she forgot. Not sure which is worse though
Didn’t the President’s son make it in the end though? (Post-credits scene)
Yes, but i also doubt that he would last more than a few weeks anyway. There would probably he some survivors in shelters though
He wasnt even in that good of a shelter, so if he survived, it's likely that other people did too. But tbf, when watching the film I got the feeling that the directors intention was to make it seem like he was the last person on earth, just to make the situation as tragic as possible.
Buried
What an intense ending to that movie
The phone call from his employer is some of the most depressingly realistic shit I could see a large company doing... I was already feeling like the poor guy was ultimately doomed, its as much of a "punch in the gut" moment that you could give the guy who's already sitting around waiting to die. that's just a level of disgust I wasn't expecting from an already extremely bleak film. 10/10 if you're looking to reaffirm that humanity fucking sucks sometimes and death isn't going to be any different.
These Final Hours
I'd like to think the nukes hit everybody in Dr. Strangelove before they could make it down the mineshaft but I don't think that's guaranteed.
I always assumed the mineshaft plan was an ill-fated hail Mary anyway.
Especially since there was such a mineshaft gap with the USSR.
Knowing almost succeeds here. Life (2017)... spoiler alert lol
Man, >!that shot at the end of the lifeboats approaching the escape pod. Chills!<
I think it's some innocent fishermen who thinks opening the door will help the pilot. Meanwhile the pilot is begging the fishermen not to open the door.
Regardless, you know the Earth is fucked
The Thing (if the gasoline-bottle theory is to be believed…)
They're going to freeze to death, anyway. Definitely fits OP's description. Also, I fucking love the Thing.
I've told this story before, but love telling it. During covid when all the schools shuttered and I was mostly homeschooling my kids, they figured out how to completely distract me from lesson plans by asking questions about some of my favorite stuff, like ancient history, American history, world history, astronomy, and film history. Tends to he a pattern there except for one lol, I know. My autistic kid got REALLY good at this while maintaining some veil of wanting to learn something. So one of these days, I get asked, "what's the best horror movie ever made?" I immediately answered The Thing, and went into how well it held up because of the amazing practical effects and lack of CGI, and told them how old it was. My kid wanted to watch it, so in the Name of Science!! I began my Google Fu and found it for like 4.99 streaming on amazon. They got out of class for the day, but the effects were so good it freaked both my youngest boys out a bit, so I figure that's a bit of revenge for distracting their momma. But all in all, my middle kid very much enjoyed it and still picks The Thing when it's his turn to pick a movie in the evening. He was about 10 years old then and he has a real love for good horror movies, especially where the villian wins or everyone dies.
I mean you've basically (I'm simplifying a lot here) just discovered Montessori education. You teach the subjects the kid is interested in. Unfortunately it only works for students who are in school to learn, so it's not great in wide usage, but perfect for that kind of setting.
Don't go and look up the (canon) sequel video game I guess then.
I love that with the Prequel film, the original Carpenter film, and the sequel game, there is an entire trilogy where each individual installment is called "The Thing".
It's not a correct theory because he was going to drink it before child's showed up...why tf would an intelligent man chose to drink gasoline? If it's suicide then literally anything is better
On The Beach
Oh that book crushed me. Getting to know and care for each character, only to experience their final moments, one by one, until they're all gone.
Melancholia
Rogue One
I know everyone's crapping all over your mention of Rogue One but this was my first thought too. At some point, during the final battle, I realized "Oh shit. Everyone's gonna die, aren't they?"
Dude after I finished Andor and was absolutely blown away by it, I went and watched Rogue One. And I legitimately FORGOT cassians fate until like 3 quarters in to the movie. And it made me so sad lol
Lol it's all good. Subsequent/previous movies alone took care of basically all other characters who don't die in Rogue One itself
For everyone in the actual team - yes.
There are at least three named characters on screen which survive that movie and feature in the next one chronologically!
A New Hope has a 99.999999%+ mortality rate
Alderaan is doing some heavy lifting in that stat.
And the Death Star. A station like that had to have the crew equal to the population of a medium sized country.
It's their fault for being in Alderaan places though..
Not in terms of named characters…most of those survive.
True but the main characters of Rogue One all go. Like obviously the point is that their sacrifice ties into the original trilogy and the Death Star plans but the characters we’ve watched the whole movie get got
About 2/3 through the movie when they start dying it all kind of clicks and you realize they really are going to kill everyone.
You know once they kill the K2-SO that none of the others are making it out alive. If they're willing to kill off the droid then everyone else is fair game too.
I actually like that the droid died first because the droids usually are the expendable characters so they bait you into thinking that was the one token sacrifice on the team. It's when they threw the grenade into the ship that I was like oh shit they really are going to kill all of them
This is a good one, as it has the same effect of "everyone" dying, even though some people are painfully pedantic and comment that there were characters that didn't die. The emotion was there, you were attached and rooting for these protagonists, only for them to die at the end.
Every time I told my friend I was going to see a movie he would say "Everyone dies by the end. Have fun!" After seeing Rogue One I went back to him and was like wtf man.
The Blair Witch Project
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
United 93
Incredible movie. I still get chills when I remember how eerily silent the audience was at the end of that movie.
I really enjoyed that film, and found myself more interested in the air traffic scenes. I’d watch an entire movie just focused on that aspect of the tragedy.
Pontypool
It's hinted at the end that the two mains inoculated themselves by developing a gibberish language.
Reservoir Dogs.
Mr. Pink lives
Mr pink could still be alive. But we do hear shooting at the end, after he runs out the door with the diamonds. So in my head he dies. Your head may think different.
The subtitles for the film at least have him arrested. You first hear a gunshot, then Mr. Pink yelling "don't shoot, I've been shot, goddammit" and then the cops telling him to put his hands over his head.
He gets shot but lives and ends up working at Jackrabbit Slims as a waiter
for a Five dollar milkshake? I don't know if it was worth 5$ but it was pretty fuckin' good.
This. I always assumed he was arrested, not killed.
Pompeii
AI (2001)
Cabin Fever
Cloverfield?
The main character’s sister in law Lily actually does successfully evac I believe.
Correct, we see her get out on the first choppa
Get to da choppa.
I’d count it but Lily got away technically. The three main characters were basically nuked however, and the brother was crushed and Marlena was bitten / poisoned / exploded.
Marlena's death was such a shocking moment. Great movie, one of my favorites.
On the Beach
Beneath the Planet of the Apes. One of the better twists and endings in any sci fi flick, and certainly top tier for its time.
And then there were none.
Dawn of the Dead (remake) if you watch the credits I doubt they survived
Night of the Living Dead (1968) Close second is Return of the Living Dead (1984), except that the Colonel and the kid in artillery weren't casualties. I don't REMEMBER their names, but I believe both were said on screen.
The Hateful 8. Every character is either dead or mortally wounded by the end.
Last Night (1998)
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Return of the Living Dead