Films with MASSIVE downer endings.

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17 Apr 2016, 10:52 am

Knowing (the Nicolas Cage movie about the end of the world).

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17 Apr 2016, 11:41 am

Donnie Darko has always evoked a sense of great loss within me I don't even know why because it's kinda the only thing that is supposed to happen but still... sometimes I've been really hurt by that ending, sometimes I'm filled with awe and a sense of magical resolution, it seems to change with each time I watch it.

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17 Apr 2016, 11:51 am

Dark City

Inception

Memento

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17 Apr 2016, 2:00 pm

DARK CITY, a downer ending? Well, I guess that depends on your viewpoint. The Strangers are gone, John knows what he is capable of, and can reshape the world as he likes...so, if he is a "good ruler", maybe not so much. Of course, they're still all stuck on a floating asteroid...does Earth even exist? Could they go back?

Yep - depends on your viewpoint.

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17 Apr 2016, 2:46 pm

conundrum wrote:

That was the only open movie ending that bugged the hell out of me simply because I am a firm believer that absolute power corrupts absolutely. And, absolute power without absolute wisdom would be a complete disaster. I had a negative impression of the ending due specifically to a viewpoint. Thank you for recognizing that

But, I do love the movie for everything else though. It was freaky.

Sunshine was a downer movie all the way around. But spellbinding.

Silent Running (With Bruce Dern, not the submarine movie) mainly for the overall implications and not the small hope at the end.

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20 Apr 2016, 4:58 pm

I was loving American Beauty till 'that' scene

Never watched it since .

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20 Apr 2016, 8:54 pm

Grave of the Fireflies by Studio Ghibli...one of the saddest movies I've ever watched.

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20 Apr 2016, 9:32 pm

Splice with Adrian Brody. Well, I guess it's more of a "well, that's really messed up" ending, than it is depressing. But the ending really does stand out.

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25 Apr 2016, 5:54 pm

Pay it Forward .

Why does 'thingy' have to die ! !??

What does it give to the film ??

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27 Apr 2016, 11:07 am

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest has a pretty miserable ending, it's quite twisted to be honest, nurse ratchet's piercing cold gaze should've been overlaid on the window to make it perfect though.

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