Favourite movie with a depressing ending.
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Sunday, March 4, 2007 13:46
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The Natural
The way Roy's son throws the baseball when the 2 are playing catch??? Worst thing a father could see, the son who throws like a girl. 
People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy. - Joss
" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "
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The Chronicles of Riddick - Kyra dying and Riddick in the horribly awkward position of commanding those who destroyed her.
LOTR Return of the King - Frodo and Gandalf having to leave Middle Earth and their close friends.
Gladiator - Maximus finally achieving his goal, but tragically dying
Serenity - Book and Wash gettng killed.
Star Trek: Nemesis - Data sacrificing himself, and the crew finally parting ways.
Star Wars: ROTS and ROTJ - Anakin's tragic descent and Luke's loss of his father after knowing him for such a brief time.
I am evil, I am sly, and if you get eaten no one will cry.
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I would have to say serenity
I was so bummed that wash died, all i could do is sit in shock and mourn the loss of my favorite charactor and because of his death he may not be in the sequal (besides flash backs). I think that is a preety damn depressing ending
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Bittersweet endings? M'favorite's ^^
as for absolute favorite, i'd have to go with 'Inside I'm Dancing'
and instruct all of you who haven't seen it to buy/rent/beg/steal/borrow a copy ^_~
Do you like bread?
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That’s hard to say, but if I were to pick one, I would have to go with The Grey Zone. You just don’t get a more depressing ending then that.
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I catch fire quickly. The first part of me rises in dense smoke that mingles with the smoke of others. Then, there are the bones, which settle in ash. And these are swept up to be carried to the river. And last, bits of our dust simply float there, in air, around the working of the new group. These bits of dust are grey. We settle on their shoes and on their faces, and in their lungs. And they become so used to us, they don't cough and they don't brush us away. At this point, they're just moving, breathing and moving. Like any one else, still alive in that place. And this is how the work... continues.
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum.
Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.
-- Cicero
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The Chronicles of Riddick - Kyra dying and Riddick in the horribly awkward position of commanding those who destroyed her.
LOTR Return of the King - Frodo and Gandalf having to leave Middle Earth and their close friends.
Serenity - Book and Wash gettng killed.
Ok, had I been serious for more than ...5 seconds, my list would have looked pretty much like yours.
The reaction of Merry and Pippen, especially tough. I have to assume that Sam always knew......
Wash AND Book? One was tough enough, but the two of them.... ouch.
People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy. - Joss
" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "
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The Chronicles of Riddick - Kyra dying and Riddick in the horribly awkward position of commanding those who destroyed her.
LOTR Return of the King - Frodo and Gandalf having to leave Middle Earth and their close friends.
Serenity - Book and Wash gettng killed.
Ok, had I been serious for more than ...5 seconds, my list would have looked pretty much like yours.
The reaction of Merry and Pippen, especially tough. I have to assume that Sam always knew......
Wash AND Book? One was tough enough, but the two of them.... ouch.
People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy. - Joss
" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "
Those three were really tough for me, and especially Serenity with Wash and Book getting killed because it was completely unexpected. I had become so used to and spoiled by the light nature of the series and the happy endings with them blasting off to their next adventure.
I also forgot to mention that the minor role of the Purifier in Riddick really got to me, although that wasn't really at the end. The final moments when Riddick embraces Kyra for the last time were touching because it's probably only the second time he shows any deep emotions towards anyone else, the first time being his shock of Carolyn Frye dying while trying to save him in Pitch Black. I think he had come really far from his bad-ass without compassionate character to "rejoin the human race" as Frye put it.
Finally, the ending of ROTK was probably the deepest I've ever been affected by a depressing ending. After all they had been through together with the Fellowship breaking, they finally had to part ways, possibly never to see each other again. I was reading some of the backstory on Wikipedia, which describes the rest of all the character's lives and it says that Sam eventually journeyed to Frodo after his wife died, but I'm not sure how canon this is. The ending was a bit long drawn out I must say, but what really had it tough was how everyone returned from their adventures to reunite and have good time just like before, only to be split apart once again, this time for good.
I am evil, I am sly, and if you get eaten no one will cry.
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i heart huckabee's
a very layered and complex depression... mostly about how i lost $8.
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any film where you get right - into it - it makes me sad that its ended e.g. Evolution, stargate, starwars
Fave charater is River Tam followed by Wash and Mal at joint 2nd
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Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry (Peter Fonda)
Vanishing Point (Barry Newman)
Both end the same way, but Vanishing Point is a bit more upbeat, since Kowalski managed to find the "crack in the fence", as the director put it, and escape from his personal deamons.
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