"It Absolutely Destroyed Me": 23 Movies That Said "No Thanks" To The Classic Hollywood Ending, And Decided To Be Brutally Real Instead

We don't ever ticker movies for realism. We ticker for the drama, the escapism, and yes — the classical blessed endings. But erstwhile it doesn't happen? It benignant of stings TBH.

If you thought part 1 was brutal, get acceptable for this one. These are the movies that looked you consecutive successful the eye, whispered "it's each going to beryllium okay," and past ripped your bosom retired into small tiny pieces. Here are 19 films that ignored the accepted blessed ending:

2. "The Prestige. So who was it the full time? The terribleness of it made the enigma that overmuch better."

—Anonymous, 40, Philadelphia

3. "Promising Young Woman. I genuinely consciousness that the ending is what makes the cosmopolitan bleakness real. With the cinematography and storyline, you truly expect a 'Hollywood' ending. But the information that determination is the bleak redemption arsenic the ending successful the astir convulsive and depressing mode makes this movie perfect."

—Anonymous, 24, UK

4. Honestly, Scream (the newer movie with that title), if we see astir of Scream VI canon. Sure, Sam and her half-sister, Tara, past 2 radical virtually attempting to termination them and their friends. But successful Scream VI , a batch of radical look to judge Sam acceptable up her ex-boyfriend — who was the mastermind successful said erstwhile movie — for the murders portion she's successful New York City. This is to the constituent that the NYC cops look to fishy she's virtually capable and consenting to termination her therapist, the feline from the opening kill, and his roommate that was stuffed into the fridge. It's beauteous evident Sam's being framed since that's a batch of work, time, and effort that needs to beryllium accounted for there.

—Anonymous, 33, USA

5. "Me Before You. It perfectly broke my heart, it was truthful bittersweet but truthful beautiful."

—Anonymous, 27, UK

6. "Dead Poets Society. Dude's controlling begetter causes him to extremity his beingness and the teacher gets punished for it. Parents astir ne'er get punished for however they fuck up their kids, meantime those who really effort to assistance the kids are the ones who get punished."

—pastelporcupine376

7. "The ending of Mad Max: Fury Road. You're hoping that Max is going to assistance Furiosa rebuild aft they decision Immortan Joe and his gang, but it conscionable ends with them exchanging a glimpse and Max wandering disconnected into the unknown.

—daynam4b6e28fa3

8. "The archetypal Rocky. Rocky does not triumph the large fight, though it’s a divided decision. Also, the woman is the archetypal 1 to accidental 'I emotion you' — thing that is precise uncommon successful movies."

—shabooshabah

9. "Thelma and Louise. If it was a feline movie, they would person someway survived."

—ThatOneElizabeth

10. "The Maltese Falcon. In the end, helium did his occupation and got justness for his partner, contempt everything it cost."

—Anonymous, 22, USA

11. "Mike Bassett: England Manager. The squad gets knocked retired successful the semis, conscionable similar usual."

—redswan254

12. "West Side Story. I cognize it's a Romeo and Juliet communicative but each clip I ticker it, I anticipation for Tony and Maria to flight and get to their 'somewhere.'"

—Anonymous, 56, New Jersey

13. "Pan's Labyrinth. The movie was acceptable up visually similar a fairy tale, but ended with the brutality of antheral being excessively overmuch to bear."

—Shearly Sam

14. "Life (2017). When you find retired the incorrect pod went to Earth and the different 1 conscionable disappeared into the vastness of space. YIKES! Being retired successful abstraction with nary 1 to prevention you is simply a nightmare."

—Anonymous, 37, Canada

15. "American History X is my go-to for a database similar this. You spell from siding with 1 side, to siding with the other, and backmost again. Only to recognize successful the end, they're each truthful breached that it's ne'er going to beryllium truthful achromatic and achromatic (see what I did there) and the problems are truthful overmuch deeper!"

—chrisv18

16. "The Florida Project. The full movie is simply a heartbreaking yet touching representation of existent beingness with a precise real, not Hollywood-happy ending."

—Anonymous, 39, Pennsylvania

17. “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? The utter hopelessness of the ending of this movie stung maine into paralysis. It made maine not privation to miss a infinitesimal of my life."

—Anonymous

18. "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. The astir uplifting movie adjacent though each the heroes die!"

—Anonymous

19. "Million Dollar Baby. I was not expecting that ending and SOBBED. My children came moving and asked maine if I was okay."

—Anonymous, 58, Arizona

20. "A Man Named Otto. It perfectly killed me. It's astir a antheral who is devastated by his wife’s decease that helium tries to termination himself implicit and over. But, helium past meets a young mates who restores him until his bosom information kills him. It perfectly destroyed me."

—esadre

21. "For me, it’s the ending remark from Rhett Butler erstwhile Scarlett cries retired to him 'But Rhett, what’s going to hap to me?' 'Frankly my dear, I don’t springiness a damn.' Scarlett being Scarlett, she instantly begins plotting to get him back. I NEVER could recognize what she saw successful that indecisive idiot Ashley Wilkes!!!! It was successful Gone With the Wind. If you ne'er had the accidental to ticker that agelong and unthinkable classic, I highly urge it. True, it glorified the representation of the aged South, but nevertheless it was a masterpiece.

—elizabethdelgado

22. "Seeking a Friend for the End of the World. You anticipation it'll bust retired immoderate deus ex machina benignant bullshit to prevention the time and halt the asteroid, but no. The movie ends with the leads laying down, accepting their fate, and trying to comfortableness each different successful their past moments earlier the movie ends. It reminds maine of 1 of my favourite quotes astir tragedies: 'The emotion was there. It didn't alteration anything. It didn't prevention anyone. There were conscionable excessively galore forces against it. But it inactive matters that the emotion was there.'"

—monikap6

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