Movies where the 'bad guy' wins (spoilers be warned)

[LordBag]

Firstly, I would just like to say that I ran a few searches for this topic which yielded no results, so please go easy on me if it has been done many times over

After discussing this at work with my colleagues and noticing the "Depressingly Happy Endings (spoilers of course)" thread it got me thinking, which movies have a bad ending (not the quality) or the bad guys winning? I can think of a few but then it gets really quite tricky. We got the following ones, please feel free to add more you can think of;-

- Empire Strikes Back
- Usual Suspects
- Fight Club (questionable)
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo?s Nest
- Se7en

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

I wouldn't really count One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest...at least the play's ending was bittersweet. More emphasis on the bitter, but still. And you should put up a spoiler warning, since this topic kinda gives away some endings.

-(if it counts) Gung-ho Guns arc of Trigun (ending with Legato)

-American Psycho (kinda)

-Chinatown

-No Country for Old Men

-stage version and original ending of Little Shop of Horrors

-Hero (the Jet Li one)

-Dark Knight, in a way

 

[Echo42]

-Simpsons Movie

the bad guy = Matt Groening
horrible act = hyping us up for a crash and burn, rather bland humoured movie
how he won = regardless of what others told us, we went and saw it

 

[Kevvers]

How about "the Ring"?

 

[hypercube]

"Brazil". Although I don't want to spoil it for anyone who hasn't yet seen it. It's a fantastic film, extraordinarily dystopian movie from Terry Gilliam. Think Monty Python meets 1984, gets drunk and they go for a curry with Blade Runner.

 

[PsyberGoth]

Technically,

Spoiler

Watchmen

 

[zauxz]

braveheart (kind of)

 

[ace_of_something]

Very few movies does the badguy win; it's usually just ambigious or the villian gets away, which doesn't really count as a win. A lot of the ones listed fall under this catagory.
That being said:

The Crying Game

 

[lapan]

Many slasher films

 

[IrrelevantTangent]

1984, I suppose. Revenge of the Sith is a good example too. Oh, and A Scanner Darkly, depending how you look at it.

 

[SirSisyphus]

-The Usual Suspects
-There Will Be Blood (this is debateable)

 

[WindScar]

Dunno if you count the upcoming Gears Movie, I can take a guess that the bad guys win

 

[ssgt splatter]

Alien 3 (sort of)

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

Forgot one:

-Raisen (the sequel to Ringu)

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

Swordfish.

 

[stevenrkorea]

Rocky. Appollo Creed wasn't really a bad guy, though.

Oh yeah, and Unforgiven. William Munny was hardcore.

 

[Flying-Emu]

Revenge of the Sith is a good example too.

Hayden Christianson's Vader does not exist, therefore it cannot apply in the real world.

I superimposed an image of James Earl Jones over him at all points. It made the movie bearable.

But 1984, yeah. That movie (book, actually) followed into the "bad guy" winning.

 

[LordBag]

"Brazil". Although I don't want to spoil it for anyone who hasn't yet seen it. It's a fantastic film, extraordinarily dystopian movie from Terry Gilliam. Think Monty Python meets 1984, gets drunk and they go for a curry with Blade Runner.

I like the sound of that

 

[Bofus Teefus]

Arlington Road
The Grudge
The Grudge 2
Pulse
Fallen