Great Movies where the Bad Guys Win!

[kingcom]

The Godfather?

Of the various gangsters, Michael is definitely the good guy and he wins with the string of murders at the end.

Hes only the good guy relative to the others.

 

[The Rockerfly]

Rec. Brilliant horror film where everyone gets killed and the bad monsters win

Rec 1 or 2 out of curiosity?

I've only seen the first one, I don't think the second one has been released in the UK yet but from reviews I've seen it's very good but from my personal experience, rec 1 is one of the best horror films I've ever seen

 

[Lono Shrugged]

I've only seen the first one, I don't think the second one has been released in the UK yet but from reviews I've seen it's very good but from my personal experience, rec 1 is one of the best horror films I've ever seen

I just mentioned cos it's just gotten a limited cinema release and no one seems to know that it was out. Worth a look if you liked the first.

 

[edargh]

Clockwork Orange, they ultimately fail at reforming him.

Also Animal Farm (Book not the cartoon)

 

[joshuaayt]

Uh... Hm. In Human Caterpillar the good guy/s all lose. Does that count?
Same in Drag Me to Hell.

 

[The Rockerfly]

I've only seen the first one, I don't think the second one has been released in the UK yet but from reviews I've seen it's very good but from my personal experience, rec 1 is one of the best horror films I've ever seen

I just mentioned cos it's just gotten a limited cinema release and no one seems to know that it was out. Worth a look if you liked the first.

I'm actually going to go see it today because the first was only in the cinema for about a month and I want to be lucky enough to see the second one in cinema

 

[Socius]

Star Wars Episode III and V.
Just realised the SIth win in both the second movies of the triologies.

Except Episode III isn't the second in the first trilogy?

in my head the first movie dosen't count.

 

[Usurpurus]

Star Wars Episode III and V.
Just realised the SIth win in both the second movies of the triologies.

Except Episode III isn't the second in the first trilogy?

in my head the first movie dosen't count.

Why? It was the best one of those three. Second one seemed clichéd and melodramatic and the third was just a dramafest

 

[Ekonk]

No Country For Old Men.

 

[Fellwarden]

Watchmen is the only one I can come up with

snip

Spoiler: Watchmen ending

Rorschach sends his diary to a newspaper. They need something to fill the paper with, something stupider from a read to fill up a slot. Whether or not they actually pick up his diary and run with it is a mystery.

If they do, the new world built up by Ozymandias will crumble and everything will have been for nothing as the world slips back into war.

If they don't, the bad guy wins in creating world peace.

No one knows what happens. Kinda adds to the ambiguity of the ending and whether or not it Ozy's actions were justified.

Spoiler

Aha, thank you. I interpreted the ending that it was implied that Rorschach won, but I'm not good at interpreting movies and stuff, and often overlook other outcomes than the one I see first.

 

[KellyKMc]

Spoiler

Saving Private Ryan, Tom hanks dies but uphame the coward survies. Great movie but Uphame wins by staying alive.

please use spoiler tags.

OT: Fight club.

Goodness, isn't the entire thread a spoiler?

 

[Toriver]

The Usual Suspects
Watchmen
Empire Strikes Back
Fellowship of the Ring (Boromir dies, Gandalf is at least temporarily out of the picture, and the Fellowship breaks up; Bad Guys 3, Good Guys 1 for still having the One Ring, but at the end, the Bad Guys had a higher score)
Pan's Labyrinth

 

[Dr.Horrible13]

Whem the bad guys win they usually turn out to be good even the series of unfortunate events books had a good ending.

 

[Valkyrie101]

Can't think of any movies right now, but the WH40K novel Storm of Iron, where

Spoiler

the bad guys win and the good guys end up dead or worse.

 

[not_the_dm]

The Hannibal Lector films. Manhunter, The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, Red Dragon, Hannibal Rising. Can Lector really be called a "Good Guy"?

 

[Socius]

Star Wars Episode III and V.
Just realised the SIth win in both the second movies of the triologies.

Except Episode III isn't the second in the first trilogy?

in my head the first movie dosen't count.

Why? It was the best one of those three. Second one seemed clichéd and melodramatic and the third was just a dramafest

Exactly, the first movie was an entire different leuge than the other two, I had way much more of a SW feeling in it, but as there is only one of that one and two of the other, they are separeted in my head.

 

[Turkey Braveheart]

The Godfather?

Of the various gangsters, Michael is definitely the good guy and he wins with the string of murders at the end.

Hes only the good guy relative to the others.

I know, but in the context of the movie that makes him a good guy. By the second movie he's murdered his own brother and so is no better than the others.

 

[Turkey Braveheart]

Star Wars Episode III and V.
Just realised the SIth win in both the second movies of the triologies.

Except Episode III isn't the second in the first trilogy?

in my head the first movie dosen't count.

Why? It was the best one of those three. Second one seemed clichéd and melodramatic and the third was just a dramafest

I won't defend the second or third or say you're wrong in your criticism, but the third had the least cringeworthy and embarrassing moments. The first movie had the most.