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Gattaca
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

[teknoarcanist]

Donnie Darko: rousing emotional finish. Fits the tone of the movie ("Weird Time-Travel-y Stuff") so well that individual factual concerns fall away. We're swept up as we see stories finished, rights wronged, broken things fixed, and we're left awe-struck by the resonance of the main character on the world around him.

Fight Club -- What even needs to be said? Second-act twist leaves us staggering, drags us bloody-kneed through an explosive and gripping third act. Epic climax comes down to an interpersonal confrontation (actually, just a PERSONAL confrontation) which is resolved in a fitting manner. All stories concluded, thrilling, HUGE finale that leaves us with our jaws on the floor. We don't care what comes after; we don't want to know. We're so gobsmacked by the (structural) perfection and sudden surprise of the ending (built-in throughout the story) that anything after would lessen it.

Watchmen -- See above.

Sweeney Todd -- Everyone's a bastard, and they all get their revenge and comeuppance.  The joke is, one character's revenge is another's comeuppance.  For every character.  By the time it's over, everyone has committed a murder, and been murdered in turn.

Romeo and Juliet -- A series of overlapping tragedies which combine into a big horrible one; a series of problems so well-put-together that, to try and "fix" the conflicts, you would have to unravel practically half the story.  Each character's reaction to a specific tragedy becomes a new specific tragedy for another character.  By the time it's over, everyone's dead.

Pan's Labyrinth -- Squeaky-clean fairytale structure.  Resolves exactly as needed and expected.

Modifié par teknoarcanist, 18 mars 2012 - 04:03 .

[Sainta117]

The Way of the Gun

All the Pretty Horses

Fight Club

Romeo & Juliet

[Mr. Big Pimpin]

prizm123 wrote...

the ending of the tv show "Angel"

That was one of my favourite endings to anything, ever.

Actually, you can get almost the same ending if you just turn off your TV right after Shep's last speech to the squad.

[Zardoc]

The Road. Dunno why.

Watchmen. Was already explained.


WH40k in general. dunnolol

Modifié par Zardoc, 18 mars 2012 - 03:55 .

[Pacifien]

AllergevKev wrote...
Lost (Don't judge)

I think the whole point of the exercise was to judge. As in, you describe why the ending to Lost worked for you so that it can be used as a comparison as to why Mass Effect 3's ending didn't.

Same is true for a lot of people who have listed endings so far in this thread.

[Vhalkyrie]

Inception had a very well executed ambiguous ending.

[Mr. Big Pimpin]

1984 and Animal Farm.

Also, why are people saying The Road? The ending is less bleak than the rest of the book.

[Oakenshield1]

1984. Holy freaking crap that book was bleak towards the end.

[Zardoc]

Mr. Big Pimpin wrote...



Also, why are people saying The Road? The ending is less bleak than the rest of the book.

The world is still doomed.

[ohbobsagetpiss]

robev333 wrote...

Gladiator.

It's been a while since i've watched Gladiator but i don't remember the ending being that "bleak". It ends with him meeting his family in the afterlife right? That's happy ending imo. The story itself was bleak but the ending led to his truimph. 

[fropas]

"Momento" is one of my favorite movies and it was ambiguous/bleak. As far as video games go. . .

I liked the end of "Shadow of the Colossus" I love crawling on those behemoths and stabbing them. But I never understood the ending. . .still fun to think about after all these years.

Modifié par fropas, 18 mars 2012 - 03:57 .

[Neutral Ground]

Messed up part is I really DO like most ambiguous/bleak endings. Final Fantasy X, for instance, is one of my favorite games, and its ending ACTUALLY INCLUDES (spoilers, by the way) the main character vanishing, not being able to interact with his love interest, the DISSOLUTION OF THE MAGICAL FORCES THAT WERE PART OF WHAT MADE THE WORLD SO ATTRACTIVE, and the loss and simultaneous sense of discovery experienced by characters who had finally broken a seemingly endless cycle.

The difference is it wasn't shoehorned in at the last minute, and it was relevant to the extant narrative. Which, it turns out, makes all the difference.

[MaYtriX]

Code Geass, an anime, but still a bleak ending with CLOSURE.

[Atalanta]

The Mist by Stephen King. There are lots of reasons why I think that ending was great, despite the fact that it feels like a punch in the gut (lol).

The Fortunate Fall by Raphael Carter has an amazing, bleak and ambiguous ending. It's been years and years since I've read it but the ending of it has stuck with me.

[xeNNN]

Zardoc wrote...

The Road. Dunno why.

Watchmen. Was already explained.


WH40k in general. dunnolol

hmm what about the warhammer space marines movie? 

even though i thought it was cheap figured it ended pretty well  was kind of bleak though as it just seemed like another day in the office for those guys , same crap betrayal everyday lol how deppressing

[sadako]

The Mist (film)
Bleak in the sense that the protagonist shot his own son moments before rescue.
It works because the show was marketed at horror/thriller, and everything has a taste of bleakness and hopelessness.

In me3, we were conditioned that we can do the impossible in all 3 games, then in the end, we got shafted no matter what we did. It felt like being trolled.

[Nu-Nu]

Neutral Ground wrote...

Messed up part is I really DO like most ambiguous/bleak endings. Final Fantasy X, for instance, is one of my favorite games, and its ending ACTUALLY INCLUDES (spoilers, by the way) the main character vanishing, not being able to interact with his love interest, the DISSOLUTION OF THE MAGICAL FORCES THAT WERE PART OF WHAT MADE THE WORLD SO ATTRACTIVE, and the loss and simultaneous sense of discovery experienced by characters who had finally broken a seemingly endless cycle.

The difference is it wasn't shoehorned in at the last minute, and it was relevant to the extant narrative. Which, it turns out, makes all the difference.

It also works because it was a world based on magic, not science fiction.

[teknoarcanist]

The Road: Reduced me to tears. Relentless bleakness of the setting -- implied throughout -- is finally driven home through the core characters, and made palpable to the reader. Son lives by father's sacrifice; but now the son knows the tragedy of the world in an awful, personal way. But there's hope; the question raised throughout the novel ("Are there any other Good People left?") is answered with a resounding "Yes."

1984: Bleak, down-note, but in a way that drives home the theme, and in facts draws verdicts, which it demands we try to understand.

Inception: All characters get their stories concluded. Spinning top asks, "Is it a dream? Is it reality? Are they so different? Does it even matter?" and serves as a neat symbolic device that epitomizes the tone of the movie.

[BrotherFluffy]

RDR.
Blade Runner(Director's cut).
Halo: Reach, although if you played Halo or read the lore, you KNEW this was going to only end in a Total Downer Ending.

[DrowVampyre]

Halo: Reach
Inception
Jin Roh: The Wolf Brigade
Sin City
Dragon Age 2 (Yes! I liked this ending! and I still hate ME3's! )
Many Warhammer stories, both fantasy and 40k

[Karrie788]

His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman.

[Atalanta]

Ragabul the Ontarah wrote...
The reason I think the endings to all of these work and ME3's doesn't is because they match the rest of the flavor/style of the story, whereas ME3s bleak, "aristic" ending comes out of left field.  It would make WAY more sense in DA.  In fact, didn't the devs explicitly say at some point that ME wasn't DA and thus wouldn't be as bleak and dark?That would be an amusing quote to resurect at this point. 

Yeah, I agree completely.

[Captain Shakespeare]

Yes, I'd forgotten 1984. One of my favorite reads. Brave New World was excellent as well.