Is Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid on the list?

The Mist

He blows away everyone holed up in the car, and right when he's about to off himself, the cavalry shows up.

Don't see that kind up ending in movies much.

Lurved it.

Another vote for The Mist.

Also:
12 Monkeys
Grave of the Fireflies

Mugato: To me that was just slapstick. I half expected him to yell, "D'oh!" with a laugh track when the cavalry shows up seconds after he blew his son away because there was no hope of the cavalry showing up.

Well, there was a lot in that movie that could have been done better, but it was a good rental. It was just an interesting O Henry type twist that you don't see often in horror movies.

Planet of the Apes

You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!

Also: State of Grace w/ Sean Penn

True Romance was one of those movies where I was fully expecting an unhappy ending. When it didn't happen, I was a little disappointed.

Turns out I was half right. Tarantino's original ending has the protagonist die.

Seven was brilliant. Good choice.

Mugato:

Anyway, I thought Heat had an unhappy ending because I was hoping for DeNiro to make it. And he almost did except for the one detail.


It's worse than that. Think of what will happen to Pacino's character career wise. There was the scene when DeNiro and Kilmer are trying to crack a safe but get spooked by the noise the cops make hiding in a truck. Pacino gets in a big argument about letting them go because at this point "they didn't steal anything. We arrest them now and it gets bumped down to some BS misdemeanor breaking and entering. 18 months tops and they walk." So he lets them get away in the hopes that he can catch them red handed doing something major later on.

That something major turns out to be a downtown firefight, dozens of cops and civilians killed and wounded and 2 of the 4 robbers get away. That dudes career is smoking crater. Killing DeNiro instead of arresting him actually makes it worse.

The Fly remake by David Cronenberg with Jeff Goldberg and Geena Daivs. Ending so bleak I was reeling from it for days.

The Brundlefly/Telepod fusion was really, reallly messed up.

Count me in for The Mist too.

One of my favorite lines--seemed appropriate here:

"Some people-and I am one of them-hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche stopping in its tracks a few feet above the cowering village behaves not only unnaturally but unethically."

From Nabokov's Pnin.

Electra Glide in Blue

Usurper4: Grave of the Fireflies

In every one of the Fark threads on this topic that one deserves (and gets) mention. Sadly, it is rarely in the actual linked lists. I guess it being a cartoon and all it gets passed by, but it is the saddest damn movie I've ever seen, and it's not like I only watch cartoons.

Every movie ever made by a Danish director.

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Layer Cake.

I know for a fact that I wasn't the only one blown away at the end of that one.

Leon: The Professional

Man on Fire

There's happiness in both, but I cried buckets the first time I saw Leon.

Anybody remember this?

What? nobody mentions the end of Empire Strikes Back?

/ends on such a down note.
//[Dante Hicks]

Quite possibly the most depressing film from beginning to end, but a great finale it was:

No love for Requiem for a Dream?

How about Adrian Lynn's Lolita?

Both depressing endings.

My pick for saddest ending: Goodbyeee (new window)

/last of the tiddlywinking leapfroggers from the golden summer of 1914

Favorites would be either AI or midnight cowboy.

Suprised there was no love for Vanishing Point.

sat1va: No love for Requiem for a Dream?

Holy crap yes.

That's the best film that I will never watch again. Just brilliant, but disturbing. I'd sit kids down in front of it as anti-drug propaganda.

Breaker Morant.

Mostly Harmless.

Adams was such a great writer, though, that I got on board with it. I competely understand the attitude of 'no, I'm not writing any more of these dammit' if that was the case.

farkeruk: That's the best film that I will never watch again.

Oh look, it's this comment again.

Sergio Corbucci's spaghetti western, The Grand Silence.

Spoilers:

The ending has the hero/protagonist go to the showdown with the villains only to be ambushed and slaughtered in cold blood. The prisoners he was trying to save are all massacred.

Cool Hand Luke

I think "The Mist" went too far with the tragic ending and overshot into slapstick comedy and self parody. What is it all of 30 seconds after Tom Jane blasts everybody that the army shows up ? Listen to the commentary track and learn that one of the survivors that passes him in the truck is the same lady that leaves the grocery store to go back for her kids she left at home alone. Nobody else dared leave the relative safety of the store to help her. SHE survives and those are her kids next to her in the truck.

The only thing that would have been more over the top was if her two kids were Nelson Muntz pointing and going "HA ha" and Eric Cartman going "Na na n-nya nah You had to shot your family". The credits then roll as a Mass state trooper writes him a $115 ticket for running out of gas on I-95.