All the ones I was going to say have been said so instead I'll say Apocalypse Now. The whole movie is so intense but the ending manages to take it up another notch. I mean Willard completes his mission but at what cost? Was it really worth losing his mind just to follow an order and do his duty to his country?
On top of all that the whole thing being an extended metaphor of the Vietnam War itself makes it even more depressing.
Iain banks use of weapons.
My most 'favouritest' book I have ever read. It's one of those books where I (can't speak for other readers) became quite invested in the main character to have X
Sorry for being vague but it's a huge spoiler!!
Does anyone else here remember Zone of the Enders? 'cause I do. It was actually an awesome game. And the ending was just a punch to the gut.
Jehuty, the mech (and AI) that you've spent the majority of the game with, is designed as a weapon of mass destruction, and is meant to go on a suicide mission, killing itself and destroying some enemy that isn't elaborated on. Also? Despite your best efforts, the Jupiter colony is still mostly destroyed.
Also? Not so much sad as bittersweet, but Legacy Of Kain: Defiance had a pretty heart-wrenching ending, too.
Raziel Fucking Dies! Not only does he die, but he essentially commits suicide! I kid you not, I cried the first time I had to play through it. Yes, I know it was so that Kane could actually physically fight The Wheel Of Fate (which he does, and he beats the ugly off of it) and tell Friedrich Nietzsche to go fuck himself, the cretin, but...I mean...I really liked Raziel.
Damn. Now I want to go play Defiance again. That was a good game. Well, not the gameplay so much. I mean, it was OK, it was better than Soul Reaver 2, but if you're playing Legacy of Kane, you aren't playing for graphics. Maybe I'll go play Zone of the Enders again, too.
I must also say that the end of the Jurassic Bark episode of Futurama has hit me hard and now I just remembered the end of the Game of Tones episode, so sweet yet so very sad.
Iain banks use of weapons.
My most 'favouritest' book I have ever read. It's one of those books where I (can't speak for other readers) became quite invested in the main character to have X
Sorry for being vague but it's a huge spoiler!!
I didn't like Use of Weapons because it was confusing as hell due to being entirely out of order, but damn the ending was good. It being referenced again in Surface Detail just made it better.
Iain banks use of weapons.
My most 'favouritest' book I have ever read. It's one of those books where I (can't speak for other readers) became quite invested in the main character to have X
Sorry for being vague but it's a huge spoiler!!
I didn't like Use of Weapons because it was confusing as hell due to being entirely out of order, but damn the ending was good. It being referenced again in Surface Detail just made it better.
yeah I was kinda thinking that the first time I read it. Towards the end things were falling into place but I was still thinking 'how does it all fit?' and then like you said BAM! and everything made sense.
The author said it was just two stories, one going backwards in time the other forwards.
I dunno, I really loved it. I wish I could erase parts of my memory so I could re-read good books!!
Wow, I'm legitimately surprised someone else picked my choice. XD It's not a super-obscure movie, by any means, but not very far up on the internet's collective consciousness.
Seriously, though, that bloody movie! You could literally post a picture of that movie's poster in response to the question "what does TV tropes mean by "shaggy dog story?"
The ending to Persona 3 made me wake up in the middle of the night and cry that night I finished it. It doesn't affect me now, but it hit hard.
Also, when Frodo leaves Middle Earth, and that chick starts singing into the west. God that breaks me. It doesn't help that we sing it at the last concert each year for my school's choral group.
Because no matter how hard you try, there is no good ending,
In the end, either Rook or Alette will die, and it will leave the other by themselves, either a father who has lost his wife and his daughter, or a girl without her father or her mother, wrapped up in a futile end-of-the-world scenario where the only reason you have lived slightly longer is because you convinced an immortal monster that it is dead.
The feels, not to mention the path to that ending is bloody difficult(had some of the hardest boss-fights I ever faced in like, 5 years).
Also:
Breaking Bad: it legit made me sad for an entire day and basically brought me to tears(you know why, if you don't, go see it).
Assassin's Creed Embers(the animated movie to wrap up Ezio's story): also made me pretty sad, I loved Ezio to bits.
Half Life 2 Episode 2: it was so incredibly brutal and quick...and Valve are cliff-hanging a bit too long(generic comment about HL3 not being announced yet).
Spec Ops The Line: not so much depressing as it was harrowing, especially because of the ending I had chosen.
I think ending of Dreamfall left me most depressed
In The Longest Journey, at least something is achieved, but in Dreamfall...
Lets just say that it left me with sense of injustice.
Dalisclock said:
No mention of "Spec Ops: the line"? There are 4 endings that run the gamit from "somewhat depressing" to "incredibly depressing".
Really, no mention of Red Dead Redemption? Usually that ending is on the first page of threads like this. Ye gods that was a depressing ending. Great ending but depressing as hell...
I don't know what movie that is. Do you think some random picture will make everyone know what movie it is? How about a title or something?
Anyway, Inglorious Basterds and Django Unchained both mad me sad at the end. I kind of loved all the Inglorious characters, but then they started to die. And I really liked Christoph Waltz in Unchained, but then he had to go die instead of walking out alive.
It's Requiem for a Dream. The image url even says so.
OT: I've always been a fan of the 'depressing ending'. Ever since I saw Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo when I was a kid and realised "Holy shit! Movies don't have to be 'happy ever after' and predictable". There's a lot of others that I love, Arlington Road (as someone else has said) being one of them, but I'll always remember Vertigo as the one that awoke my love of Film.
Does anyone else here remember Zone of the Enders? 'cause I do. It was actually an awesome game. And the ending was just a punch to the gut.
Jehuty, the mech (and AI) that you've spent the majority of the game with, is designed as a weapon of mass destruction, and is meant to go on a suicide mission, killing itself and destroying some enemy that isn't elaborated on. Also? Despite your best efforts, the Jupiter colony is still mostly destroyed.
Also? Not so much sad as bittersweet, but Legacy Of Kain: Defiance had a pretty heart-wrenching ending, too.
Raziel Fucking Dies! Not only does he die, but he essentially commits suicide! I kid you not, I cried the first time I had to play through it. Yes, I know it was so that Kane could actually physically fight The Wheel Of Fate (which he does, and he beats the ugly off of it) and tell Friedrich Nietzsche to go fuck himself, the cretin, but...I mean...I really liked Raziel.
Damn. Now I want to go play Defiance again. That was a good game. Well, not the gameplay so much. I mean, it was OK, it was better than Soul Reaver 2, but if you're playing Legacy of Kane, you aren't playing for graphics. Maybe I'll go play Zone of the Enders again, too.
Curse you for making me think of both of these! Though I just picked up the HD rerelease of ZoE, so I would have gotten there on my own eventually.
I would add Metal Gear Solid 4, not necessarily the ending but a bunch of stuff leading up to it.
I was literally wincing the whole time you move Snake through the microwave corridor, and not just because my fingers got tired of hitting triangle. Watching as he gets cooked, and his suit starts popping off him as it overheats, and as he goes from walking to staggering to crawling to dragging himself through the corridor. It's just painful to watch. Meanwhile above you got video of what's happening to other characters and they aren't doing a whole lot better. Lastly you have him at the graveyard where he's about to shoot himself in the head rather than let the accelerated aging do him in. It's just really sad stuff.
Agree with Red Dead Redemption, Assassin's Creed: Embers, and Cowboy Bebop as well.
The plot of the movie is pretty interesting: Reynolds is a contract worker in Iraq who gets captured and buried underground in a coffin with nothing but a cellphone, and the bad guys who captured him won't dig him up unless he can get them a bunch of money. The whole interesting movie-making twist is that Reynolds is literally the only actor in the entire movie (except for the people he talks to on the phone).
So why is it so horrendously depressing?:
So by the end of this movie, Reynolds has cut off his own finger for what amounts to no reason whatsoever, been lied to by the one person who might actually save him, has discovered that his family will be screwed out of his life insurance (and thus be left destitute when he dies), oh, and he dies as well. It's seriously the most insanely depressing ending I've ever seen because literally NOTHING good happens to the main character at the end of it.
This
and also the grey I went to see thinking "alright liam neeson fighting wolves this should be awesome"
what I got was a movie about a bunch of guys either trying not to get killed by wolves or just giving up and accepting death so was not taken with wolves
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