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The Last Castle, 2001, with Robert Redford preparing and executing a classical revolution in a military jail, and in the end he makes the enemy shoot him just because of a flag.
Not the main characters but:
- Lucky Number Slevin (IIRC)
- Don't look up
The Professional
The original The Wicker Man is almost perfect in this regard.
Rogue One
One of the best Star Wars movies
The best Star Wars movie 🤨
Cool Hand Luke
Terminator 2
Star Trek II, Spock dies at the end. Oh oops they resurrect him in Star Trek III. Hmm.
How about Thelma and Louise? IDK if there is a sequel.
Dr. Strangelove, the Slim Pickens scene at the end? No idea whether he got brought back either.
I won't dispute the heroism of the act, but does Spock count as the protagonist of an ensemble cast?
Cabin in the Woods. Doesnt even matter who your favorite character is!
Donnie Darko and Hero are the only two movies I really like that I can think of where the main character dies at the end.
Arguably, Donnie dies at the beginning.
oooh. ooh. that makes me think about a movie where the protagonists parents die at the end by touching pure evil.
Time Bandits.
I saw that in the theater, at age seven.
My parents also took us to see Airplane! when it was released. No complaints. My parents were nuts, but we knew this.
Time Bandits!
James from 12 Monkeys.
Se7en
Spacey?
If you're gonna go dark, mean it.
Man On Fire
Fallen
Ooh, that's a good one.
Several films on my list have already been mentioned, so here's two that have been overlooked:
- Falling Down
- Gran Torino
Braveheart
Miracle Mile
30 Days of Night is the first one that comes to my mind.
Two things that come to mind are ones where it seemed that way. In the movie enemy mine about or maybe over an hour into it it seems like the protaganist dies and it was going to end on one heck of a gloomy note. Especially seeing it in theaters before cell phones when you did not know the exact time. Then also in the supernatural series at one point which I think was the season 1 finale it looks like everyone died. I was super hyped because I was thinking the show would follow a different group of hunters every season that bought it fighting the supernatural. Don't get me wrong the series was still good but it could have been so epic.