Films with MASSIVE downer endings.

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The Boy with the striped Pyjamas

My wife had been having a rough day so she picked out this movie thinking it would be about 2 boys who overcame Nazi Germany to become friends. It did not end on a positive note.

No one has mentioned The Empire Strikes Back? I mean, at least as a kid seeing it for the first time and not knowing what was going to happen in Return of the Jedi - the film closes with Han Solo frozen in Carbonite, Luke Skywalker missing a hand and the rebels seemingly reeling.

Mystic River was a real downer.

Black Rock- an Australian film about a girl who was raped by a guy and his friend who was the star character basically had his back and tried not tell anybody nor stopped him when he did that. Pissed me off.

Another movie I think was called Black Letter but not sure was about this girl staring Brittney Murpy who tried to figure out whether her boyfriend cheated on her or not and at the end of the movie they never told whether he did or not and that really pissed me off being the whole movie basically was about Brittney Murphy trying to find out.

Contact was sort of disappointing too.

Castaway was a bummer ending too being that his wife (which was the star's main movie in finding away off the island) ended up getting remarried and having kids.

Brazil - Jonathan Pryce's happy ending is just his own dreams he's been having, he ends up being tortured by his old friend Michael Palin after being accused of an international terrorist plot. He's left catatonic.

The Fly (1986) - Brundlefly, in a last ditch effort to reverse the genetic collision between himself and a house fly, takes one last, unwise trip in his teleportation device.A horrified Geena Davis watches the thing approach with a shotgun in her hand. Brundlefly's had enough - he gets hold of the end of the barrel and positions it on his head and Davis pulls the trigger, breaking out in tears.

The Descent - Sarah (Shauna McDonald) think's she's escaped the labyrinth of crawlers, but wakes up to find herself still trapped in the cavern itself.

I'd say "Full Metal Jacket", which is an awesome film, but it ends with the Marines marching through a hellish landscape singing the Mickey Mouse March. There was no resolution, and it was just very sad. They had killed a sniper who had pinned them down, and watching the movie you want them to move to some sort of moral 'higher ground' in the fighting. I guess the ending was Kubrick's ultimate comment on Viet Nam, that it went on and on and was never resolved.

The Return of the King: The Elves go bye-bye? NOOOOOOO!

The Boy In the Striped Pajamas

Artificial Intelligence: I will never watch that movie again. NEVER.

Any John Wayne movie where he dies.

Gran Torino: I was able to cope with this ending because those prick thugs got what they deserved. And he would have died either way. But I don't like it when actors that I grew up admiring die in film.

Mister Roberts: One of my favorite comedies (much to the chagrin of my age group) but Henry Fonda died.

Star Trek Nemesis: Data. Enough said.

The Notebook: If I could cry, I would have at this movie. It was a great ending but it was sad nonetheless.

Easy Rider

Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Jack Nicholson are, for no particular reason at all, murdered.

Pay it Forward - I watched it on TV the other night because I wanted a nice uplifting movie... I had forgotten about the ending.

Edward Scissorhands - Enough said...

I am Legend - I was expecting horror, ended up crying.

The Cure - The shoe made me cry so much at the end.

The first post in this topic mentioned the film "nMo Country For Old Men". I watched that film in English, and thought that the man who was killing everyone would get stopped, but no, I don't know what happens to him, it just ends with someone talking and that's it.

I can't think of any other endings, I don't watch a lot of films.

Let's see...

AI (Artificial intelligence)

Schindler's List

Saving Private Ryan

Inception

A Clockwork Orange

Another film I watched in English at school was "Lord Of The Flies". I found the ending incomplete. The boy is running for his life, and he runs into this man who came to the island, and that's it, you don't see if he goes home, or if the other boys go home or stay.

Chronicle

I really felt sympathetic for Andrew in the film. His downward spiral into becoming the villain was all founded on his abusive father and peers at school, something I believe everyone here had/has to deal with. His cousin was an ass well before they got telekinesis and so points Andrew makes as a villain and becoming friends was true to a degree.

Films with MASSIVE downer endings?

How about "Star Wars, Episode IV"?

"Open water"...the shark movie where the couple is stranded in the middle of the ocean. It had a pretty depressing ending.