Bleakest/saddest movie endings?

For some reason I like sad and bleak endings for movies. These though are my favorite bleak/sad endings.

Night of the living dead

The Descent

The Vanishing- The original dutch film not the crappy remake with the terrible happy ending.

Chinatown

Jacobs ladder

Galipoli

The Pledge

Let the right one in- Most see this as a happy ending, but I take a much bleaker view of the film.

East rider

elephant man

Breaker Morant

The Wicker Man

Leon the professional

Grave of the fireflies

Bambi meets Godzilla

My dog skip

Gone baby gone

Welcome to the dollhouse

Bug

Dead Man's shoes

The Omen

Apocalypto

La Haine

Brazil

Tideland

12 Monkeys

Braveheart. It's not bleak, but it's so emotional. The music is just beautiful.

American Beauty was sad. The ending felt so real. CleanPlayer

A.I. has a pretty miserable ending.

Hmm probably Pan's Labyrinth. Just the fact that as the film progressed it became more and more saturated and dark.AAllxxjjnn

Since you have seen let the right one in, did you think the ending was bleak?

A.I. has a pretty miserable ending.

il-cattivo

That whole film is miserable, as in terrible.

Bicentennial Man- after 200 yrs. and him turning from robot to human he dies

Boyz n da Hood- Ricky, whos about to get a scholarship gets shot n killed. Then his brother doughboy goes out lookin for the dudes that killed him and kills them all. Then 2 weeks later he dies lol

That whole film is miserable, as in terrible.

Film-Guy

[spoiler] Don't say "aliens". [/spoiler]

[QUOTE="AAllxxjjnn"]Hmm probably Pan's Labyrinth. Just the fact that as the film progressed it became more and more saturated and dark.Film-Guy

Since you have seen let the right one in, did you think the ending was bleak?

That whole film is miserable, as in terrible.

It just tried too hard to be sentimental but it the end it just seemed a bit sily. Soielburg was trying to be Stanley Kubrick who was the orignal director before he died.

It just tried too hard to be sentimental but it the end it just seemed a bit sily. Soielburg was trying to be Stanley Kubrick who was the orignal director before he died.

Film-Guy

Xiu Xiu : The Girl Sent Down

Lilja 4-Ever

Winter Light

Requiem for a Dream

Naked

Those will do for now.

[QUOTE="Film-Guy"]

[QUOTE="AAllxxjjnn"]Hmm probably Pan's Labyrinth. Just the fact that as the film progressed it became more and more saturated and dark.AAllxxjjnn

Since you have seen let the right one in, did you think the ending was bleak?

Well that and the fact that even if he doesnt become that, he will grow up and she/he wont. They think being away from their parents and their old lives is great now but what about the cops looking for them and the complications with him growing up. Also there is a theory for the ending that the director brought up that really makes the film grim.

[spoiler] The whole pool scene where eli kills the bullies was Oskar's imagionation and what he wanted to happen. He actually dies in the pool scene but he has one last vision of being saved before he dies. [/spoiler]

Heck the book even describes that scene as a winged angel coming to rescue him, which in the book is taken literally, but in the film the director may have taken the metaphor for the angel to be well death coming to take him away.

That whole film is miserable, as in terrible.

It just tried too hard to be sentimental but it the end it just seemed a bit sily. Soielburg was trying to be Stanley Kubrick who was the orignal director before he died.

[QUOTE="Film-Guy"]What's terrible about A.I.?

Paladin_King

It just tried too hard to be sentimental but it the end it just seemed a bit sily. Soielburg was trying to be Stanley Kubrick who was the orignal director before he died.

Yeah that was the part in A.I that pissed me off, it was so dumb. I agree it should have ended at the blue lady part then maybe it wouldnt suck so much. I kinda liked the part before though. I wonder how Kubrick would have handled the film if he was alive to direct it. Also did you know that Indiana jones 4 didnt used to have aliens? One of the original scripts was written by Frank Darabont and it was apparently a fantastic alien free script.

Speaking of Mystic river, did anyone see the film Sleepers? It has a similar plot and imo it is almost as good if not better. It has a great cast too, Kevin Bacon, Robert De niro, Dustin hoffman, and Brad Pitt.

It just tried too hard to be sentimental but it the end it just seemed a bit sily.Film-Guy

Soielburg was trying to be Stanley Kubrick who was the orignal director before he died.

Film-Guy

Edit: In Kubrick's version the mechas couldn't keep his mother alive, so she disappeared in front of David.

i came in to say grave of the fireflies and ill agree with chinatown.

Requiem for a Dream. I remember hearing the experience equated to "skydiving without a parachute, and the movie ends five minutes after you hit the ground" And the final game show clip really twisted the knife and pissed on the wound.

Here's the scene:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuzNohk5cYw

night of the living dead

diary of the dead

drag me to hell

king kong (original and peter jackson)

Let the right one in (becouse of what oscar will become)

mystic river

pans labyrinth

the orphange

cloverfeild

saw 1

the wolf man

an american werewolf in london

Alien

the fly :cry:

1-A.I
2-terminator 2
3-spun
4-the pear tree
5-the butterfly effect
6-atonement(though it's a bit lame IMO)
7-pan's labyrinth
8-the wrestler
9-mysterious skin
10-spider

one of my favourites would be one of the alternate endings to the butterfly effect where he strangles himself inside the womb as a selfsacrifice effort

Lilja 4-Ever

Samwel_X

one of my favourites would be one of the alternate endings to the butterfly effect where he strangles himself inside the womb as a selfsacrifice effort

lexxxy52

Hmm probably Pan's Labyrinth. Just the fact that as the film progressed it became more and more saturated and dark.AAllxxjjnn

Easy Rider and The Wall.

The Departed is bleak until the VERY end. Then it's awesome again.

[QUOTE="il-cattivo"]

A.I. has a pretty miserable ending.

Film-Guy

That whole film is miserable, as in terrible.

I just watched Tears of the Sun. It's not bleak, butit made me cry a lot. :'(

I just watched Tears of the Sun. It's not bleak, butit made me cry a lot. :'(

effena

Good film, and quite emotional in places, but I don't see how it could make you cry.

[QUOTE="Paladin_King"][QUOTE="Film-Guy"]

It just tried too hard to be sentimental but it the end it just seemed a bit sily. Soielburg was trying to be Stanley Kubrick who was the orignal director before he died.

Film-Guy

Yeah that was the part in A.I that pissed me off, it was so dumb. I agree it should have ended at the blue lady part then maybe it wouldnt suck so much. I kinda liked the part before though. I wonder how Kubrick would have handled the film if he was alive to direct it. Also did you know that Indiana jones 4 didnt used to have aliens? One of the original scripts was written by Frank Darabont and it was apparently a fantastic alien free script.

One little trivia not many like to know or hear. Spielberg used Kubrick's directing notes to film the Ice Age section of A.I. While it was still Spielberg who had to do the direction much of the tone of the future with the advanced robots 1.000 years into the future was Kubrick's vision. Spielberg actually set the tone of the first half with the Pinocchio-themed first-half.

As for bleakest endings.

• The Thing (Carpenter)
• Night of the Living Dead
• Dawn of the Dead
• Day of the Dead
• Who Can Kill a Child?
  
• The Birds
• The Tenant
• Brazil
• The Searchers
• Jacob's Ladder
• No Country for Old Men
  
• The Wicker Man (original)
  
• Don't Look Now
• Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
• The Wild Bunch
• Session 9
• The Seventh Victim
• The Mist
• Se7en
• Funny Games
• Irreversible
• American History X
• Old Boy
• The Machinist
• Fukkatsu no hi
• The Girl Next Door

And quite a ton more that'll be too much to list.

• Brazil

Buck_Hotep

Also: Leaving Las Vegas.

12 Monkeys

[QUOTE="Buck_Hotep"]

• Brazil

il-cattivo

Also: Leaving Las Vegas.

I hope, like myself, you also mean Gilliam's original ending. :)

[QUOTE="il-cattivo"]

[QUOTE="Buck_Hotep"]

• Brazil

Buck_Hotep

Also: Leaving Las Vegas.

I hope, like myself, you also mean Gilliam's original ending. :)

[spoiler] Sam losing his mind after being tortured? [/spoiler]

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Lets see...

Children of Men

City of Violence (best ending line ever though)

The Big Boss

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Tears of the Black Tiger

From what I've seen

Bicycle Theives

Dog Day Afternoon

Fight Club

Unforgiven

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

That's only a few though.

[QUOTE="Buck_Hotep"]

[QUOTE="il-cattivo"]Good call. Brilliant ending, though.

Also: Leaving Las Vegas.

il-cattivo

I hope, like myself, you also mean Gilliam's original ending. :)

The studio happy ending.

The Mist. I mean ,wow, killing your kid and three other people right before the military came in was just...wow. CatMasterClaude

[QUOTE="CatMasterClaude"]The Mist. I mean ,wow, killing your kid and three other people right before the military came in was just...wow. DerkaDerkaJihad

I think people criticized it because it was such a punch in the gut. What I'm surprised of is why people thought there would be any other ending other than what was shown. Even Stephen King thought the film's ending was better than what he wrote.