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God Bless America
Sinners. What a great time; I was sure everyone was gonna die before I knew the theme of the movie.
Train to Busan
Needless to say, every answer on this list spoils the movie. But, really, how it happens is as essential as what happens.
Everyone
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Melancholia (one of the saddest movies I've seen)
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Knowing (a little Nicholas Cage never hurt anybody)
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Don't Look Up (so well done, great soundtrack)
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On the Beach (1959, classic!)
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Sunshine (Alex Garland's swing)
Religious undertones
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Constantine ("coffin nail")
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Dogma (God/Alanis Morissette is the real hero)
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Meet Joe Black (the first death is the hardest)
Anti-Heroes
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Logan (heroes never die, right?)
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White Heat (1949, classic!)
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Kiss Me, Deadly (film noir, "the great whatsit")
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Dancer in the Dark (Björk, another saddest film)
Idk if "In Bruge" counts since you technically dont know if he lives or dies.
Great film! The transformation scared the crap outta me when I somehow saw it on tv as a kid.
Children of Men was also a good one. Trying to think what others, but I love when the hero dies because life is rarely fair and just and an unlikely happy ending ruins a story pretty effectively.
There have probably been dozens of movies where the hero was supposed to die at the end but audience screenings or studio execs interfered.
Excalibur (1981)
Arthur is impaled, pulls himself down the length of the spear that has impaled him, and uses Excalibur to impale his godforsaken son.
The greatest Arthurian movie ever made, bar none.
And it has a bunch of "before they were famous" people in it.
Including Sir Patrick Stewart, may he Rest In Peace.
Pan's Labyrinth
Absolutely fantastic, I consider it a masterpiece. Definitely one of my favorite movies.
She isn’t dead she was just whisked off to that very real magical place! Right? RIGHT!!?
Yup. The fascist is dead though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prestige
The Prestige
I love this movie. It's one of the few I'll gladly rewatch because it keeps me engaged and the story keeps unfolding until the very end. Plus it has David Bowie playing Tesla which is one of my favorite people from history. If you haven't seen it, watch it!
Fantastic movie. Somebody suggested I watch it and they were going to tell me about it an I was like "No don't tell me anything, I like to go in blind". I didn't look up anything about it either. Went in completely blind and holy moly what a wild ride. If you're reading this, and you have never heard of this movie, I highly suggest you go watch it.
I suppose the fact that it's in this thread gives something away, but it actually doesn't.
I will add that while I love The Prestige, its sister movie The Illusionist is also worth a watch or two.
law abiding citizen
18 hours and nobody has said Avengers Endgame?
Also, to be topical since it's early November: V for Vendetta
I am.. Iron Man.
John Dies at the End
Spoiler:
spoiler
He doesn't
If that's true that's a pretty hilarious twist
Oh it's true lol.
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Iron Giant
... okay well sorta
Rogue One
Came here to say this
Ex-wife and I walked out gobsmacked.
"That was a war movie not a Star Wars movie."
Forced to point to a favorite, it's probably Rogue One.
As good as this movie is, it still has that Star Warism about it that makes it lesser compared to the Andor tv show, Andor changed my opinion on what Star Wars could be, if it was left to competent writers and didn’t have Disney corpo suits calling the shots to sell merch and appeal to the 4 quadrants
Andor is on its own level.
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Green mile?
I'm tired, boss.
The Fountain
Cabin in the Woods. Doesnt even matter who your favorite character is!
Gladiator
The Professional
Alien
James from 12 Monkeys.
Terminator 2
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