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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 09:27 AM
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Favorite movies that do not have a happy ending
I think on of my favorite 'Unhappily Ever After' movies is Map of the Human Heart. I bawl like a baby everytime I see that movie!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104812/
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Arkham House Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 09:29 AM
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1. Chinatown...
...and believe it or not, the original screenplay by Robert Towne actually *had* a "happy" ending--Jake and Evelyn driving down to Mexico together... Polanski, thank God, knew better, and knew how the story had to end...
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bertha katzenengel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 09:30 AM
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2. Thelma & Louise. But actually, it did have a happy ending:
Callie Khoury's Oscar.
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 09:37 AM
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3. Dr. Strangelove
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NightWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 09:41 AM
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4. Romero's Night of the Living Dead
You make it through the night of fighting with zombies only to...............
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China_cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 12:29 PM
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26. Wake up and realize those zombies
are relatives.

(Original NOTLD made in my hometown. Cemetery in the opening of the movie is where a lot of family is buried, and many, many cousins earned $5 each being zombies.)
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qb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 12:49 PM
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34. NOTLD was my choice too. You have some awesome cousins! nt
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meegbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 09:42 AM
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5. Brazil - the original ending ...
I've seen both endings and the unhappy one is much better (and it makes sense in regards to the what happened in the final part of the movie).
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REP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 09:55 AM
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8. Another vote for Brazil
As far as I'm concerned, there is only one ending, though there are two versions (original edit and 'final'); the "love conquers all" just doesnt exist even though I've seen it!
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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 01:07 PM
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37. "I think we've lost him, Jack."
Yep, pretty sad, even though he is stuck in his own happy fantasy, at least the real ending shows us the real world outside of him.
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 09:51 AM
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6. I've seen a bunch of great movies lately with unhappy endings
Pandora's Box, with Louise Brooks
Pan's Labyrinth
Midnight Cowboy
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 10:39 AM
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18. Pan's Labyrinth?!?
I suppose that a case could be made either way...

But it's an astonishingly good film in any case.
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 01:07 PM
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36. It depends on whether (WARNING: Spoiler!)
You think Vidal's getting it more than makes up for Ofelia's getting it. I don't know. (I do know I said "Thank you!" when Vidal got it. But that didn't make me feel good in retrospect.)
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 01:09 PM
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40. Or how much reality we choose to ascribe to Ofelia's fairy world
Regardless, that slice-through-the-cheek was a nice bit of come-uppance.

As was the gotcha line right before they shot him. Bravo!
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 01:14 PM
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42. Amen.
And Mercedes' line: "You're not the first pig I've gutted."

:applause: :woohoo:
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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 09:54 AM
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7. The Mist had a very disturbing ending.
nt
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 10:03 AM
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9. Very few of my favourite movies have happy endings.
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Burma Jones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 10:19 AM
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10. Apocalypse Now
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Mad_Dem_X Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 10:20 AM
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11. Brokeback Mountain. nt
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 10:20 AM
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12. "Longtime Companion"
It's a terrific film...but I still cry when I see it.
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ThatsMyBarack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 10:21 AM
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13. John Q
Unfortunately, this came out in 2002, and nothing has improved in healthcare since then. :(
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MrCoffee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 10:34 AM
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14. Requiem for a Dream
i've said it before and i'll keep on saying it...Requiem for a Dream is superb.
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 10:36 AM
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15. I have nothing against the film
But that's got to be about the most pretentious, faux-artsy title I've ever heard.

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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 10:40 AM
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20. Ellyn Burstyn was robbed of an Oscar that year
and Jennifer Connelly should have been nominated - she was way better in that role than she was in "A Beautiful Mind"

But come on Julia Roberts over Ellyn - I don't think so! Burstyn had one of the most disturbing and very unglamerous roles. And when she was sucking face with Christopher Macdonald - you really believed this woman was truly off her rocker.

And I loved how Requiem showed all aspects of addiction including the whole food & weight loss side
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Frank Cannon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 03:29 PM
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53. She certainly was
It was an iconic portrayal.
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Strawman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 10:37 AM
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16. The Vanishing (Dutch Version)
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Rambis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 10:37 AM
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17. The Wind That Shakes the Barley
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460989/
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bikebloke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 10:39 AM
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19. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Edited on Fri Jan-18-08 10:40 AM by bikebloke
They escaped and justice was never served.;-)
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 10:41 AM
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21. The Godfather
The end with Al Pacino swearing to Diane Keaton that he had no part in the killing, and then as she walks out, Michael's "advisors" move in to speak with him, and one of them shuts the door on her...
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MorningGlow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 10:44 AM
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22. Casablanca n/t
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HERVEPA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 10:45 AM
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23. Dup. Sorry.
Edited on Fri Jan-18-08 10:46 AM by HERVEPA
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HERVEPA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 10:45 AM
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24. McCabe and Mrs. Miller (nt)
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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 12:21 PM
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25. Paths Of Glory and Spartacus
Edited on Fri Jan-18-08 12:22 PM by MrScorpio
Kubrick knew how to end a movie
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lutefisk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 12:33 PM
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29. Lonely Are the Brave (1962) . . . Kirk Douglas again....n/t
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Tikki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 12:32 PM
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27. Miracle Mile.......n/t
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SallyMander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 12:33 PM
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28. Moulin Rouge

:hi:
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lutefisk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 12:38 PM
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30. Rouge (with Leslie Cheung and Anita Mui)
Edited on Fri Jan-18-08 12:39 PM by herbster
I love this film

edit: oh, wait...this isn't a word association film title thread, is it?
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Ryano42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 12:39 PM
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31. Glory
The assault on Fort Wagner and before on the beach is excrutiating and ultimately uplifting...

Blow the Horn
Play the fife
Let the drum beat....

For me....

:cry: :patriot:
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bif Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 12:43 PM
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32. "After Hours" The original ending. Not the stupid Cheech & Chong one
The guy was supposed to die in the plaster cast, but the studios would let the movie be released with that ending. Hence the stupid one that was tacked on.
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Jamastiene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 12:47 PM
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33. Suburbia
Edited on Fri Jan-18-08 12:47 PM by Jamastiene
The punk movie with Flea in it, not that other movie.

Also, Sid & Nancy.
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ironflange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 12:58 PM
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35. Pan's Labyrinth
Or perhaps it was a happy ending after all. I'm still trying to decide.
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 01:08 PM
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38. Franco is still dead.
:patriot:

I called it an unhappy ending. But it is ambiguous, which makes it one of the richer films in memory.
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CreekDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 01:08 PM
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39. Testament
Great movie. Definetely not a happy ending. :cry:
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CBHagman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 01:09 PM
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41. Matewan.
Amazing movie, one of the very best by John Sayles, and a must-see film for progressives.
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 01:15 PM
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43. The Departed.
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 01:16 PM
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44. None of my favorites have a happy ending; Taxi Driver, Aguirre, The Godfather...
Midnight Cowboy, Mean Streets, The Last Picture Show...

I like to laugh, and I laugh a lot, but I like my art dark
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lost-in-nj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 01:18 PM
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45. One Flew Over the Cuckoos nest
Edited on Fri Jan-18-08 01:20 PM by lost-in-nj


and I agree with Glory...


lost

edit: I forgot On the Beach
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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 01:23 PM
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46. I haven't seen "Map of the Human Heart" in ages
and I'd really like to see it again, too.

Here are my other choices:

Grave of the Fireflies
Dr. Strangelove
Failsafe
Psycho
The Haunting (original version)
The Shining
Heat
Solaris (orig. Russian version)
Silent Running
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noonwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 01:49 PM
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47. The Empire Strikes Back
Han's frozen in carbonite, Luke's hand is cut off-but we know there will be a third movie in which everything is resolved.


I just love the scene where the bad guys are lowering Han Solo into the carbon freezing chamber-Leia says "I love you" and he says "I know". It's so tough and funny.
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LTR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 02:02 PM
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48. Chinatown, Vertigo, The Departed, Goodfellas
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Proud Liberal Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 02:56 PM
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49. Transformers The Movie
It didn't have an unhappy ending per se but, although the Autobots destroyed Unicron and reclaimed Cybertron, it doesn't really make up (at least not to me) for Optimus Prime and a lot of other beloved characters dying (earlier) in the film. Maybe it would be better to characterize it as a "bittersweet" ending.
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 03:01 PM
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50. F9/11, Sicko, etc., etc.
but at least we can hope for some happy-ending sequels filmed after 1/20/09!
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av8rdave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 03:02 PM
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51. Cool Hand Luke, Million Dollar Baby
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Broken_Hero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 03:05 PM
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52. Heat,
Million Dollar Baby, High Plains Drifter....
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LanternWaste Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 03:36 PM
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54. In a sense, Schindler's List.
Although he and the supporting cast are alive at the end of the film with a new beginning on the horizon, the film's ending is a serious downer as Schindler laments on how many more he could have saved. I weep at the ending every time-- and they're certainly not tears of joy...
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