Bleakest/saddest movie endings?

The studio happy ending.

Buck_Hotep

the end of The Wicker Man just pissed me off. I didn't know what to think. The cop is gonna die and all those idiots are dancing and singing a stupid song. I thought I was going to break something.

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The studio happy ending.

il-cattivo

I actually watched it just to see how it made Gilliam's own preferred ending that much more better.

"Easy Rider" definitely hit me pretty hard.

The Myst is pretty nasty. I've seen worse but I can't think where.

Watch the movie "The Mist" if you want to see a sad screwed up ending.

given the fact that it's a comedy, the ending to Fat Albert is bleak. like you wouldn't expect a movie like that to have such a bleak ending.

Dancer in the Dark. You see it coming miles away, and yet it still works.

Revolutionary Road, in fact, the whole movie is sad.

Half Life 2: Episode 2...oh wait, you said movie. :P

pan's labyrinth-depends how you look at really, but thats my favorite part of the movie (despite being unintentional)

unforgiven

oldboy

synecdoche new york

no country for old men

planet of the apes-original (do i really need to specify?)

the wrestler

million dollar baby

barton fink

mulholland dr.

The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Not bleak, but quite sad)

Saving Private Ryan

Star Wars 3 (REALLY bleak if you hadn't seen the originals beforehand)

Gran turino when oh wait spoilers I wont post it.

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

Yankees_Dynasty

Off the top of my head:

• Gladiator
• A Scanner Darkly
• Donnie Darko
• Brokeback Mountain
• Less than Zero
• American Psycho
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

All of them had pretty sad endings.

The Mist. Its just a kick in the balls.

The Mist. Its just a kick in the balls.

foxhound_fox

Pan's Labyrinth

Donnie Darko

Munich

Saving Private Ryan

Full Metal Jacket

The Last Samurai

Dawn of the Dead (remake)

Star Wars Episode 3

Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (sad)

The Matrix Revolutions had a sad ending

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The Mist. Its just a kick in the balls.

TheGreatOutdoor

Terminator 2. The scene where the terminator had to go was really sad, and in the end scene, it's like saying "Where do I go now?"

i seen a movie and at the end the family brock up because of a dog which died from stress.

The Mist was pretty sad, anyone whos seen it will understand.

perfect storm

The Mist was pretty sad, anyone whos seen it will understand.

htotheo

Beneath the Planet of the Apes

Granted, it was a mediocre movie, and cannot hold a candle to the original classic, but it does not get much more bleak than...

[spoiler] Destroying the planet. [/spoiler]

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The Mist. Its just a kick in the balls.

Santesyu

I loved the ending, it was bleak and depressing and we need more endings like it. THe Descent also had a great ending, well it did in the U.K at least. THey changed the ending to a happy one in the U.S for some stupid reason.

American History X. I honestly didn`t see that coming. Also, Apocalypse Now Redux had a perfect ending.

I'm surprised no one has yet mentioned There Will Be Blood. The ending (and, really, the movie as a whole) was so bleak and fruitless that I wanted to kill myself by the time it was over. :P

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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

VaguelyTagged

not sure i had a copy from thailand that has an alternate ending than the normal australian release instead of just ending his friendship with amy smarts character he kills himself in the womb its a much better ending i think.

also to buck_hotep why do you include the girl next door as having a bleak ending its like the happiest ending ever.

and the ending to the departed is very wtf but i loved it so much

The Terminator series... The Diehard series AVPBaconbits2004

Idunno I really love and enjoy "sad" endings, especially the ones you listed Guy. Its hard for me to think of them as "sad" as well;

*spoilers, though ten year old or older they might be*

at the end of The Professional, I dont see that as a useless, sad death...I see that as a great, rightious sacrifice to save something nobler than himself. Martyrdom is a beautiful thing.

Even in Jacob's Ladder, where Robbins is suffering the entire movie, I find his acceptance of death (and thus peace, as stated by the medic that pronounced him dead) a beautiful thing.

*end spoiler*

To me a bleak ending is something like Requiem for a Dream...no one died, they just all suffered and had their lives ruined. Thats likely the way I ****fy sad endings...death and suffering for no apparent point or purpose.

[QUOTE="Baconbits2004"]The Terminator series... The Diehard series AVPvaultboy_ninja

I still cry, to this day, at the end of Terminator 2. Even when Arnold is like "I know now why you cry", kind of a corny line, but damn it gets me teary-eyed just thinking about it.

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[QUOTE="Baconbits2004"]The Terminator series... The Diehard series AVPmrbojangles25

I still cry, to this day, at the end of Terminator 2. Even when Arnold is like "I know now why you cry", kind of a corny line, but damn it gets me teary-eyed just thinking about it.

But it is something I cannot do.

I'm surprised no one has yet mentioned There Will Be Blood. The ending (and, really, the movie as a whole) was so bleak and fruitless that I wanted to kill myself by the time it was over. :P

GabuEx

Definitely Dancer in the Dark. So horribly sad...

Pan's Labyrinth, great movie very sad ending