Heh... I'm watching this tonight for the very first time.
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EDIT: Holy shit...
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Movie endings you found devastating
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EDIT: Holy shit...
This movie was such a downward spiral, truly devastating ending, there is no hope in addiction.
It's probably 70% just the Michel Legrand score, but the ending to Les parapluies de Cherbourg is just gutting to me. You've got these two characters who have spent the whole film desperately in love with each other and, in the last moment, you flash forward and they suddenly don't mean a thing to each other. He's the father of this kid and he can't even stand to see them. Just a cold, gutting, icy ending to a wonderful musical.
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The ending of Snowpiercer was a bit confusing to me.
By showing the polar bear, it's a sign of hope for survival. My question is the practicality of it all. Are they suggesting that there are other humans alive outside of the train, or just other animals? Also, didn't everyone die on the train but the two survivors who left it? It gives you a glimmer of hope, but the survival of the human race still seems extremely fragile based on what we see.
idk if devastating is the right word but as a jew I deeply connected with the endings of Uncut Gems and A Serious Man ending. Idk if it comes off the same to non jews but those movies endings are deeply, deeply jewish meditations on life
Always thought the ending of The Mist was funny ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Carol from The Walking Dead riding by on the truck with the "You done fucked up" look on her face
Carol from The Walking Dead riding by on the truck with the "You done fucked up" look on her face
I'd been searching each page to make sure that this movie hadn't been posted yet, beat me to it. I understand why La La Land got posted first but as great as that ending is (made me mad how little I liked the rest of the movie, honestly) Cherbourg has it beat handily.
The other movie I was searching for that I'm shocked hasn't come up is In the Mood for Love. That movie absolutely destroys me emotionally in the best possible way.
It's even worse than most of the examples here as the movie is based on real events, with the most notable exception being that in real life the older kid survived, blamed himself for his sister's death for the rest of his life, and went on to write the short story the movie is based on.
This was a pretty traumatizing one for me back then. The whole movie is rather horrifying but I guess what makes it worse is the contents of the box not being actually shown, leaving the mental picture up to your imagination which is almost always worse.
The ending of Vanilla Sky is one of the most emotional experiences I've had. The revelation (read below) is both beautiful and soul-crushing. It's also the best use of a Sigur Ros song in a movie that I've heard. When the volume is turned up and all the random footage goes by I can never hold back my tears.
The protagonist discovers that due to a profound tragedy in his life he decided to be put in cryo sleep. Half of the movie is then spent in his dream state where his subconscious is fighting against him - eventually forcing him to make a decision to wake up. The issues is that so many years have passed since he was put to sleep that everyone that he loves has passed away, including the love of his life. His old life is basically erased and he is now completely alone.
Toy Story 3 destroys me every time. Sure it's happy, but growing up with Andy and seeing him give up those toys... Devastating.
Get out of my head. This will haunt me forever
I don't usually get emotional over fictional media but The Road made me sob when I read the book. Once the movie was out I thought to myself 'yeah, no way it'll get to me like the novel did'. Still fucking sobbed.
Something about the man stewarding the kid across this nightmare world and finally delivering him to something like a normal family before dying is just.. Hoo boy. Really gets to me.
The ending of Vanilla Sky is one of the most emotional experiences I've had. The revelation (read below) is both beautiful and soul-crushing. It's also the best use of a Sigur Ros song in a movie that I've heard. When the volume is turned up and all the random footage goes by I can never hold back my tears.
The protagonist discovers that due to a profound tragedy in his life he decided to be put in cryo sleep. Half of the movie is then spent in his dream state where his subconscious is fighting against him - eventually forcing him to make a decision to wake up. The issues is that so many years have passed since he was put to sleep that everyone that he loves has passed away, including the love of his life. His old life is basically erased and he is now completely alone.
Glad to see this movie getting some love. I feel like it was unfairly hated on at release.
Was gonna post this. Really made me meditate on death in a way I wasn't expecting.
Wit is also an emotionally brutal movie about a woman who has cancer and lets her doctor use experimental drugs on her. Shows you how truly destructive cancer is.
Remains of the Day too, probably Anthony Hopkins' most heart-breaking performance.
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Poor David wanted to become a real boy so he could be a real son to his mother. When he wakes up, not only his mother and his family is long gone, the entire human race is gone.
But he gets to see his mom again... for only 24 hours and after that she dies right next to him holding his hand.
Also The Bicentennial Man. Andrew living long enough to see everyone he considers Family get older and die and his lifelong wish to be accepted as human comes true in the moment of his death.
Poor David wanted to become a real boy so he could be a real son to his mother. When he wakes up, not only his mother and his family is long gone, the entire human race is gone.
But he gets to see his mom again... for only 24 hours and after that she dies right next to him holding his hand.
Also The Bicentennial Man. Andrew living long enough to see everyone he considers Family get older and die and his lifelong wish to be accepted as human comes true in the moment of his death.
Great movie but the spanish original (which penelope cruz is also in) hit the note better imoThe ending of Vanilla Sky is one of the most emotional experiences I've had. The revelation (read below) is both beautiful and soul-crushing. It's also the best use of a Sigur Ros song in a movie that I've heard. When the volume is turned up and all the random footage goes by I can never hold back my tears.
The protagonist discovers that due to a profound tragedy in his life he decided to be put in cryo sleep. Half of the movie is then spent in his dream state where his subconscious is fighting against him - eventually forcing him to make a decision to wake up. The issues is that so many years have passed since he was put to sleep that everyone that he loves has passed away, including the love of his life. His old life is basically erased and he is now completely alone.
Agreed. This movie hit me hard and how most audiences responded to it on its initial release made it even more frustrating.
Yes, the ending, as presented from David's perspective, is sweet, but the realities are depressingly grim. David's mother is gone, the rest of his family that may or may never have really loved him is gone, humanity as a whole is gone, the artificial beings that helped David are gone, climate change won because humanity was too busy making scapegoats out of automation, and it's all so bad that the robots of the distant future help/enable David to put himself out of his insatiable longing. The last line from the narrator hammers it home: "Should he [David] shake her [his mother], she would never rouse. So David went to sleep too. And for the first time in his life, he went to that place... where dreams are born." So many people would have preferred that the movie ended with David at the bottom of the ocean with the Blue Fairy because they thought the real ending "too Spielberg," but these people couldn't see anything outside of the film's perspective of an artificial child. If you think about this movie a little bit it and it's ending are very Kubrick.
I don't think I'll ever read it again after losing my dad last year, but I'm with you. Never saw the movie but I cried my eyes out at the end of the book.
this movie fucked up me as a 16 year old when I saw it. It's legit the reason I will never fuck around with drugs beyond weed.
I didn't know it was a remake. I'll definitely check the original out!
In my imagination, Episode III of Star Wars is pretty devastating. Obviously, Lucas and crew didn't pull this level of emotion off, but just thinking about Obi-Wan at the end - he just took out his best friend. His entire order, way of life, and even nation state is gone. Sure, there is this "new hope" with the twins, but Obi is now going to live in the wastes of Tatooine, spending the rest of his life watching over Luke as he grows up. Everything he knows/care about is gone, including his own future.
Man, this is the first movie I thought of actually. There's so many movies I love that have devastating ends but this one really fucks with me. The shot of the kid who's devastated over his dads death during the parade and his idiot mother running along side him always gets me.
Grave of the Fireflies
Indeed. I get teary-eyed just remembering it and I saw it like, once, and 20 years ago...
That's a good one.
yeah cruz literally plays the same part! The crow version is good and probably better for americans but I saw it while living in spain so it hit differently (the gran vía emptiness v time square emptiness) the escape also is a big different
abre los ojos is the movie
Yeah I knew I forgot something. I was so upset that my wife felt bad for wanting me to watch it. She had seen it before
The Mist
That ending was something else.
This is the first that came to mind.
That ending was something else.
Some good shouts in here. I'll add a few I don't think have been mentioned yet:
Make Way for Tomorrow (Leo McCarey, 1937). A classic, which inspired another great film, Tokyo Story.
Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt, 2008)
Burning (Lee Chang-dong, 2018)
Seconds (John Frankenheimer, 1966)
Kes (Ken Loach, 1969)
The Elephant Man (David Lynch,1980)
Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001)
Cold War (Pawel Pawilowski, 2018)
Stroszek (Werner Herzog, 1977)
Brief Encounter (David Lean, 1945)
Irrespective if it qualifies as a movie, the ending of Twin Peaks: The Return effected me for weeks. So deeply, chillingly unsettling.
Yeah, that final shot of the girl looking over the balcony, so powerful. Kore-eda films in general are quietly devastating: Nobody Knows (that pink suitcase), Maborosi, Still Walking, Like Father, Like Son. He imbues a very strong feeling of melancholy and the bittersweet into his humanist stories, and his films hit you hard without being overly dramatic about it.
Make Way for Tomorrow (Leo McCarey, 1937). A classic, which inspired another great film, Tokyo Story.
Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt, 2008)
Burning (Lee Chang-dong, 2018)
Seconds (John Frankenheimer, 1966)
Kes (Ken Loach, 1969)
The Elephant Man (David Lynch,1980)
Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001)
Cold War (Pawel Pawilowski, 2018)
Stroszek (Werner Herzog, 1977)
Brief Encounter (David Lean, 1945)
Irrespective if it qualifies as a movie, the ending of Twin Peaks: The Return effected me for weeks. So deeply, chillingly unsettling.
Yeah, that final shot of the girl looking over the balcony, so powerful. Kore-eda films in general are quietly devastating: Nobody Knows (that pink suitcase), Maborosi, Still Walking, Like Father, Like Son. He imbues a very strong feeling of melancholy and the bittersweet into his humanist stories, and his films hit you hard without being overly dramatic about it.
Whole movie felt too familiar. I remember staying up all night watching movies and this one was last. Sun was coming up by the time it ended and I was damn near in a full sob. My brother watched too and his eyes were watering lol.
It's a magnificent film that I want to watch again, but I'm scared of the emotional bludgeoning I will receive. There's another film on the tip of my brain with a similar revelation that was so upsetting I've blocked it altogether.
It's the part where Andy waves goodbye and the little girl has Woody wave goodbye which causes Andy to softly gasp. That short passing thought that Woody came alive for a brief moment really hit hard.
This was my answer, I won't recommend the movie to anyone because the ending is just so god damn needlessly tragic (in a narrative way).
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I watched the movie after getting hooked by seeing this scene. It's one Tubi for free if anyone else hasn't seen it. I would highly recommend.
Overall, an excellent film with an amazing ending. They seemed to be pushing towards the charterers escaping, with the main character finding the building with a helipad by pure luck under the sewer and the helicopter pilot returning. But they give you a glimmer of hope, making the deaths even more devastating. I also think a film where the nuclear attack doesn't happen, but many die in the panic of believing it will is still a great one with a strong ending. The film keeps you guessing and is highly unpredictable, but amazing.
Miracle Mile is great, but the optimal way to watch it is with no knowledge about it whatsoever. Anyone interested in it should avoid spoilers and youtube clips completely.