What is the best "bad" ending you've seen/read? [Spoilers abound]

[Fiery James]

Bad News Bears.

Rocky.



- James

 

[Klaus]

Bad News Bears.

Rocky.



- James

Dude, you're alive!

 

[Dagger75]

Matrix 3 that ending was horrible. It sucked. Very bad.

Ohhh thats not what you meant, whoops.

 

[Berandor]

Dude, you're alive!

Heee's aaaallliiiiiiiiive! Aaaliiiiiive! Rise now, my servant, and do my biddings!

Get me some tea, will you?

 

[argo]

Way of the Gun: the two main characters say frell it and decide to make their final play for the loot, knowing its a trap, and wind up bleeding out on the desert sand for their trouble. The final shot shows them completly unrepentant for their crimes and with no regrets about their deaths, they played their hand to the fullest and walked their own road, even if it lead to their own slaughter.

Really good movie.

 

[Abraxas]

This is a great topic. Particularly wrt movies. When I talk about movies with my friends I always bring up the fact that there just aren't many movies with good "bad" endings. Although I wouldn't call them bad - I would like to see more movies where the hero just flat out loses at the end.

I don't agree that some of the movies listed here count (Fallen for example since they give away the ending at the beginning and there really was no way for D.W. to win, plus any horror movie where the unkillable villain just keeps going)

The one that does come to mind for me is Spellbinder - The hero spends the entire movie saving the girl only to end up as the sacrifice.

I'll have to check out a couple of the other ones listed here.

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

Matrix 3 that ending was horrible. It sucked. Very bad.

Ohhh thats not what you meant, whoops.

That's what I thought the thread was about too. Coincidentally, that also would have been my answer. The Wachowskis had me in the palm of their hand for three movies until the last 10 minutes of that film.

 

[Captain Tagon]

I just watched The Boondock Saints and damn, is it scary. Well, technically the protagonists win, but that's a bad thing, because *they* are the mass-murdering fundamentalistic-twisted-religious nutcases . (As a side-note, I now understand, why it's illegal to sell where I live )

Some of us think that is a good ending. The antagonists, well some of them, are cold blooded mafia killers.

 

[Thanee]

Matrix 3 that ending was horrible. It sucked. Very bad.

Wait, Matrix 3? You mean there was a sequel, two even, to the Matrix?

Bye
Thanee

 

[Thanee]

Which ending? (There are two...)

The bad one.... Doh!

Bye
Thanee