Mad Max Fury Road. They defeat the tyrant, and get the control of the water valves. Then they open the valves and seemingly keep them open. One problem, how long is the water reservoir gonna last now?
Logan’s Run. The city dwellers are freed from the computer’s iron-fisted rule, and Carrousel. But their city is in ruins, and thinks to the computer providing everything. They don’t know how to live without it. The city dwellers are going to start dying off real fast.
Any apocalyptic or post apocalyptic that is supposed to end on a hopeful note.
That’s a needlessly pessimistic view, there are many apocalypses that are one-offs and the survivors will have the opportunity to rebuild.
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A lot of horror movies end with like two people surviving, or even a man and a woman who hug each other or kiss and walk into the sunset. Good luck with your PTSD and knowing all your friends and or family members dies horribly and you got to see it.
I think about this for most action movies as well.
I got a bittersweet happy ending last weekend at 좋은 시간 Massage Parlor. It was fun in the moment, but when I was paying a Polaroid of my wife and kid that I keep in my wallet fell out.
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You’re supposed to destroy the polaroid.
The Graduate.
Wasn’t that the point of the ending?
Youd be surprised by the number of people i have talked to that dont pick up on that.
Gladiator, it seemed like in the ending rome may have had hope in survival but Commodus damage became the first stepping stone that led to the fall of the roman empire.
If we’re counting stones for that particular thread of the timeline, there were countless prior to Commodus’ pile.
True, there was many but commodus I think was the stepping stone to the fall as the shithead essentially almost bankrupted rome and caused civil wars since he was so shitty he did not have a kid.
Elysium.
Ok, so the resource allocation of the moon/earth society is completely broken and the moon-dwelling oligarchs sucked. Agreed.
But the end of the movie makes the computer system unable to differentiate between the handful of moon lords vs the unwashed masses on the earth’s surface. There are not enough resources to go around in Elysium. All that medicine and food from the moon bastards is gonna run out in about ten minutes and then the last bits of society will finish collapsing. Any hope of ever rebuilding a functioning society ends about a week after the end of that movie.
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Brazil - wow, that is a really happy ending… oh, some runtime still to go.
Total Recall - was it all a dream?
