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Old 12-31-07, 07:54 AM
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Old 12-31-07, 10:45 AM
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I haven't seen them in a while, but from what I remember these Polanski films end on bleak notes:

Chinatown
Rosemary's Baby
The Tenant
The Ninth Gate
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Old 12-31-07, 11:10 AM
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"There Will Be Blood" was pretty bleak.

Great movie, crazy ending. Daniel Day Lewis killed it - haven't been that riveted by a performance in a long time.
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Old 12-31-07, 11:22 AM
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Can't agree with that one.
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Old 12-31-07, 12:24 PM
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Children of Men comes to mind for me.
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Old 12-31-07, 12:25 PM
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Children of Men comes to mind for me.
Can't agree with that one either.

Both endings were hopeful in my opinion.
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Can't agree with that one either.

Both endings were hopeful in my opinion.
yeah, i thought CoM or even "Pan's Labyrinth" , but those endings while sad did point to a positive outlook.
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Mr. Brooks was kinda bleak, but in a good way.
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Old 12-31-07, 07:53 PM
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I just watched The Kingdom tonight and that has a pretty bleak ending.
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Old 12-31-07, 10:15 PM
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Old 12-31-07, 11:45 PM
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William Friedkin's Sorcerer. Holy cow, what a movie, and what an ending!
Fantastic choice. It is a truly great film and what an ending indeed.
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It's been forever since I've seen it, but The Man Who Saw Tomorrow ruined many nights of my childhood, being that it dealt with the destruction of all mankind. It didn't help that Orson Welles narrated the damn thing with his most serious voice.
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Old 01-01-08, 03:50 AM
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Some of these I disagree with. A sad ending, for me, doesn't equal a bleak ending. Like The Fountain, the ending was sad, but was about ultimate redemption and was actually moving, beautiful and hopeful on a higher level. Same with American Beauty, in the end Spacey's character got the fulfillment he always wanted, so it was sad, but not bleak.

Bleak to me is Awakenings, with Deniro and Williams....that ending left me so spent and depressed.
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1984. The book and movie really drive the point home well.
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Beneath the Planet of the Apes would have to be right near the top.
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Originally Posted by Matt Millheiser
William Friedkin's Sorcerer. Holy cow, what a movie, and what an ending!
Also should mention the original film, Wages of Fear, which that was a remake of. (Although, interestingly, the end scenes were different).
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Old 01-01-08, 11:33 AM
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Yes! This was my first choice. It's too bad the U.S. remake went a happier ending - the original ending was so unsettling.
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Some may disagree, but I thought the end of Citizen Kane was devastating.
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