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Watched threads the other night (after a forum post on here).
basically nuclear holocaust in sheffield.
I really have never seen something quite so bleak in my life.
cracking film though.
I hate films with sad endings.i like to be uplifted from the depravity of life, not drowned in it!
english patint is a kick in the nuts and the time travellers wife did for me recently also.
never again, its hollywood happiness from know on for me!bring on mary poppins!
But Mary Poppins (which is a madly anarchistic story, as you will realise when you've had to hear it as often as I did when my kids were young) does have a sad ending. She destroys the banking system, and the family's life then buggers off.
The Wild Bunch has a poignant ending, a gang of mates who had run out of time in both senses. Typical Pekinpah stuff but brilliant, Dutch shouting "Pike Pike" as he dies.
The ending of Two Lane Black Top always leaves me a bit morose.
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry was a suprise and pretty grim.
I quite like downbeat endings. It gives the storytelling a kind of grounded credibility, since we all know, deep down, that life rarely ends well.
One of the better ones is in Little Big Man, which not only gives a downbeat, though wry, conclusion with old Lodgeskins 'failing' to die, as he'd hoped, but has that bitter double ending with Jack Crabb, being left alone with his memories in the darkened retirement home.
bikemonkey - MemberI loved the ending to The Departed - looked like it was setting up for the very predictable ending (all round ace film, actually).
My favourite bit: Ray Winstone in the car....
"F*ck it..."
What about Vanishing Point, is that a sad ending?
It could be taken as a happy one.
Watched the first ten minutes of "Happy Go Lucky" last night and JUST KNEW that if I watched it any more I'd start harbouring feelings of extreme violence...
I watched A.I. years ago and sniffled... 😳
the BOY in the STRIPED PYJAMAS
😥
Did any one ever see the TMWRNG (Lee and Herring) alternative film endings, such as the alternative ending to Brave Heart.... 'This film is at best historically inaccurate and at worst morally and socially irresponsible'. Had an alternate end to Saving Private Ryan which was equally good involving the old lady at the end confessing to an afair. Brill.
Forest Gump 🙁
Zug des Lebens 🙁 🙁
Noce Blanche 🙁 🙁 🙁
I have never watched Titanic and I've always wondered what happens at the end?
Did the ship make it to New York?
I have never watched Titanic and I've always wondered what happens at the end?Did the ship make it to New York?
No the ship sinks and everyone is drowning, then just in the nick of time it pops back up again, everyone is saved and to celebrate they captain diverts to the caribbean where everyone is seen to relax on the beach drinking cocktails to indicate that everything is going to be alright for ever and ever and ever. But in the closing few frames the icebergs peeps into view on the horizon to let us know that theres going to be a sequel. In fact the iceberg later gets its own spin-off tv series.
Actually, I've not seen it either
To turn this on its head, a deeply sad film with a brilliant, put-a-smile-on-your-face ending:
[b]Birdy[/b] with Matthew Modine and Nic Cage.
english patint is a kick in the nuts
yeah but it's beautiful in a greek tragedy kind of way
sad endings are much more cathartic imo, especially compared to saccharine hollywood dross, although non-vomit inducing clever happy endings are great too, like Birdy, think there's a thread there...
Starship Troopers.
Now that SHOULD have had a sad ending. In the book all his friends, family and girlfriends are dead and there's no "Woop Woop Yearh!" victory.. Just an indeterminable future as a career soldier in an endless war.