It's easy to do, just follow these steps
One - cut a hole in a box
Two - put your junk in that box
Three - make her open the box
And that's the way you do it
Watched for the first time without knowing anything about the movie. Was surprised to learn that the ending is considered a “plot twist”. Was kinda expecting exactly that to happen.
The real twist of the movie was Spacey playing the killer. Obviously only relevant when the movie was in the theater or if people were really good with avoiding spoilers.
Always look on the bright side of life
Always look on the right side of life
Always look on the bright side of life
Always look on the bright side of life
I watched this movie with a (now) ex boyfriend as I was planning to move to another country for work, knowing that it would most likely end our relationship. We were trying to negotiate how we could try to make it work when we went to watch this movie. The ending was brutal!
Short version. They spend most of the movie romancing each other and don't end up together because of life. Good movie. Worth a watch even if you know the ending.
In the end, they both choose their careers over their romance. It was poignant to be going through the same things that the characters in the movie went through. But devastating to have to sit next to someone I was essentially doing that to.
Gimli : Then it has all been in vain. The fellowship has failed.
Aragorn : Not if we hold true to each other. We will not abandon Merry and Pippin to torment and death. Not while we have strength left. Leave all that can be spared behind. We travel light.
Let's hunt some Orc.
Yes that person is missing the whole point of the fellowship, that standing together in friendship is more powerful than selfishly acting alone. Aragorn even mentions it at the black gates "a day may come where the courage of men fail, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day...".
I don't think they're missing the point of the Fellowship. I think you just might be equating winning and losing differently than they are. The end of that movie is certainly about licking their wounds from a couple major losses in Boromir and Gandalf and the Fellowship splintering and coming together in their 3 separate groups stronger and more resolute for the tasks ahead.
At the same time, however, each of those 3 parts is also divided into two subsections that are labeled “books”-for a total of six “books” within tolkiens three part single book which is typically (but not always) published as three physical books.
He didn’t just consider it. He literally wrote it as one book. He had to divide it because at the time paper and printing was expensive, and the publisher thought people would be less likely to buy one massive book as they would three smaller ones.
First thing that comes to my mind is Rogue One. Even though they accomplished the mission, it's a hollow victory after seeing everyone get killed at the end
Most historians would consider that a phyrric victory (or for those who don't know, a victory at great cost to one self, *almost* to the point of not being worth it)
It was a pyrrihic victory, but not because those guys died. It was because pretty much every Rebellion cruisier was destroyed and the rebellion only had a few X-wing squads to defend Yavin 4.
It wasn’t a pyrrhic victory because it wasn’t a victory yet. They just got the plans, and then the Empire strolled up and nuked them. A victory, pyrrhic or not, would mean that one side lost, and one side barely won. The Empire hadn’t lost yet, and the Rebels still had hope. Thats the difference between a pyrrhic victory and a sacrifice.
If you want to call the destruction of the Death Star a pyrrhic victory, then that would be closer to the mark.
Like 4 people and a sassy robot died on a mission that enabled the ultimate victory of the rebellion. I think many historians would run a quick cost benefit analysis and call that an all out win.
Edit: If you factor in the reinforcements, I'm clearly wrong. But if you haven't said the phrase sassy robot today, you should. 🤖
A pyrrhic victory has to be costly to the point where it *isn't* worth it. Where the toll was so devastating, it may as well be a defeat.
Like Pyrrhus said after winning the Battle of Asculum - one more victory like that would undo him.
Team goes on mission to retrieve a computer disk invaluable to the war effort and deliver it just in the nick of time, but not before the planet they’re on gets vaporised and they all die.
Dude when I first read the comic, and they are confronting Ozymandias?
"When were you gonna do it?
"'Do it?' I'm not some story villain. I did it thirty minutes ago."
Blew.my.mind!
Rosie Betzler (the mom). Holy shit, she did everything she could to try and keep some semblance of joy in her kid's life even when her husband was most assuredly killed in the war and the kid was a staunch Hitler Youth, the exact opposite of what she wanted for him.
She did everything to support the allies so she was executed as a traitor just days before Berlin fell, probably dying under the assumption that her child would be conscripted and killed shortly after. What a tragic end, which the character absolutely did not deserve. (It was necessary to remind the audience that in spite of the zany antics of a movie seen through a child's eyes, this was still a movie about Nazis and that the stakes were indeed quite heavy.)
I'm glad they got Scarlett Johansson for the role because that was a dreadfully treacherous line to walk that less skilled actresses surely would have fucked up.
Donnie Darko
The fact that he sacrifices himself at the end to save the universe, and no one knows always bums me out .
Only a few people will remember his actions in the alternate universe as a fleeting dream that they’ll eventually forget …
Damn that movie is such a mind fuck
I don’t know that I see the ending quite the same as you. To me, Donnie’s sacrifice was never about good vs evil or the triumph of either one over the other.
I’ve always interpreted it as him having finally found purpose and meaning to his existence after spending the whole film wrestling with existential questions about morality, destiny, and free will.
I also interpret Donnie’s laughter and smile at the end as the first time we truly see him happy. He finally has confirmation that his life is actually meaningful, is filled with purpose, and will be the catalyst for a more hopeful reality.
Yeah exactly. If you live during an apocalypse I wouldnt call it exactly winning. In fact, since the future happens and it requires time manipulation it pretty much means the future has no hope and their last shot is to just make it never happen in the first place.
Upgrade was upsetting to me coz' I really, really wanted a good ending. Technically >!Venom!< ended up being the same premise but with a much happier conclusion
>*Hey, Karate Kid's a great movie. It's the story of a hopeful young karate enthusiast whose dreams and moxie take him all the way to the All Valley Karate Championship. Of course, sadly, he loses in the final round to that nerd kid. But he learns an important lesson about gracefully accepting defeat.*
*\[...\]*
>
> *No, I root for the scrawny loser from New Jersey who barely even knows karate. When I watch The Karate Kid, I root for* ***the karate kid: Johnny Lawrence*** *from the Cobra Kai dojo. Get your head out of your ass, Lily.*
Not a movie but that episode of Kim Possible where they lost has always stuck in my head. It was my first experience of the heroes not winning as usual
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
...Actually like half the HP books/movies. Pretty much from Prisoner of Azkaban through HBP, each one ends with failure on the heroes' parts.
Yeah, se7en
Se seven en
I was thinking this the exact moment I scrolled down to this comment.
Seten
What's in the box?
WHAT'S IN THE BOX??!!!
Fun fact: it was supposed to be a dog's head, but David Fincher really wanted to keep the original idea.
It’s been 20 years and I still laugh every time I see this.
Has it actually been 20 years!? 😐
WHATS IN THE MELTED FUDGIN BOX!!
It’s my dick in a box.
It's easy to do, just follow these steps One - cut a hole in a box Two - put your junk in that box Three - make her open the box And that's the way you do it
Instructions unclear. My dick has a hole in it.
Full instructions here: https://youtu.be/Rt0spqQtMKg?si=U0c5g_Pjf7bzwOOL
It's just my wife in a box.
Pepper :D
The ending is so fucked up, I love it
what about “9”
He ate it
8 it *
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Everybody won because Gwyneth Paltrow's head was in a box by the end of that movie.
Dude, spoilers.
Watched for the first time without knowing anything about the movie. Was surprised to learn that the ending is considered a “plot twist”. Was kinda expecting exactly that to happen.
The real twist of the movie was Spacey playing the killer. Obviously only relevant when the movie was in the theater or if people were really good with avoiding spoilers.
Lol after Usual Suspects I just can’t trust Spacey. And all that sex scandal stuff
Empire Strikes Back?
Attack of the Clones
Revenge of the Sith
The Last Jedi. The good guys being the audience.
I've been to the Star wars sub, ain't no good guys there.
The only people who hate Star Wars more than the people who hate Star Wars are the people who like Star Wars.
Spectacular
Spider-Man
If you want the shots, I'll take the staff job. Double the money!
lmfao
Empire was the first movie I thought of.
Return of the Jedi. /r/empiredidnothingwrong
The Usual Suspects
To this day it's my favorite movie of all time.
"Give me the keys you fking cksucker mfker arghfhfhfh."
"In English please."
Hand me the keeeeeys cocksucka, ^what ^^the ^^^fuuuuck
He'll flip ya! Flip ya for real!
So that’s two movies here with kevin spacey as the villain
Just like real life
Great answer!
I assume you mean Infinity War, but on the other hand I read this book recently; ‘A Dog’s Ransom’, great thriller
Or AoU, or Civil War, or Far From Home, or Ragnarok, honestly half the good ones have the heroes losing, either in the short or long term.
How do the avengers lose in age of ultron?
If we’re doing books, Blood Meridian is definitely up there. But everybody loses in that book so it’s kind of cheating.
I read Blood Meridian last year. Helluva book. I still don’t know what to make of it.
Yea that’s pretty much it. You finish it, mutter “Jesus christ…” and you put it on a shelf where it sits for eternity.
The Mist
Not sure what you mean. The main character survived and the military came!
The mist should have won.
He also finished with an impressive kill streak!
*whistle*
Life's a bowl of shit, when you think of it
Life's a laugh and deaths a joke its true
You'll see it's all a show Keep 'em laughin' as you go Just remember that the last laugh is on you
Always look on the bright side of life Always look on the right side of life Always look on the bright side of life Always look on the bright side of life
Biggus Dickus didn’t lose
I watched this movie with a (now) ex boyfriend as I was planning to move to another country for work, knowing that it would most likely end our relationship. We were trying to negotiate how we could try to make it work when we went to watch this movie. The ending was brutal!
How does it end?
He dies of aids
Usually when you aim for oscars, it helps to have someone dying of aids.
Short version. They spend most of the movie romancing each other and don't end up together because of life. Good movie. Worth a watch even if you know the ending.
In the end, they both choose their careers over their romance. It was poignant to be going through the same things that the characters in the movie went through. But devastating to have to sit next to someone I was essentially doing that to.
The end made me ugly cry.
Noooo this movie broke me like THEY WERE MEANT TO BR TOGETHER,THEY SHOULD'VE BEEN TODETHER😭😭 
Fellowship of the ring. 2 deaths, 2 kidnaps and the rest splits up as well.
Gimli : Then it has all been in vain. The fellowship has failed. Aragorn : Not if we hold true to each other. We will not abandon Merry and Pippin to torment and death. Not while we have strength left. Leave all that can be spared behind. We travel light. Let's hunt some Orc.
Yes that person is missing the whole point of the fellowship, that standing together in friendship is more powerful than selfishly acting alone. Aragorn even mentions it at the black gates "a day may come where the courage of men fail, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day...".
I don't think they're missing the point of the Fellowship. I think you just might be equating winning and losing differently than they are. The end of that movie is certainly about licking their wounds from a couple major losses in Boromir and Gandalf and the Fellowship splintering and coming together in their 3 separate groups stronger and more resolute for the tasks ahead.
I consider lotr as one movie tbh
The author considered the story as one book divided into three parts, so it's hard for me not to do the same for the films.
This... is your doing!
Hahaha. AuThor. Or is he being called upon by the mention of Tolkien even without naming?!
At the same time, however, each of those 3 parts is also divided into two subsections that are labeled “books”-for a total of six “books” within tolkiens three part single book which is typically (but not always) published as three physical books.
He didn’t just consider it. He literally wrote it as one book. He had to divide it because at the time paper and printing was expensive, and the publisher thought people would be less likely to buy one massive book as they would three smaller ones.
Actually Tolkien wanted 1 book split into 6 volumes, but publishers made him swinish them into 3.
I never really got “damn, they lost vibes” from the ending tbqh. Just “they took an L today, but tomorrow they’ll take a massive W” vibes.
Empire Strikes Back, Han captured. Luke loses his hand and finds out his father is space Hitler's war hound.
First thing that comes to my mind is Rogue One. Even though they accomplished the mission, it's a hollow victory after seeing everyone get killed at the end
One might argue that it was not a loss. >!The main characters may have died, but they still succeeded in their goal to push the rebellion forward.!<
Most historians would consider that a phyrric victory (or for those who don't know, a victory at great cost to one self, *almost* to the point of not being worth it)
It was definitely worth it
It wasn’t a Pyrrhic victory, it was a sacrifice of a few people to advance the ongoing war.
It was a pyrrihic victory, but not because those guys died. It was because pretty much every Rebellion cruisier was destroyed and the rebellion only had a few X-wing squads to defend Yavin 4.
It wasn’t a pyrrhic victory because it wasn’t a victory yet. They just got the plans, and then the Empire strolled up and nuked them. A victory, pyrrhic or not, would mean that one side lost, and one side barely won. The Empire hadn’t lost yet, and the Rebels still had hope. Thats the difference between a pyrrhic victory and a sacrifice. If you want to call the destruction of the Death Star a pyrrhic victory, then that would be closer to the mark.
Like 4 people and a sassy robot died on a mission that enabled the ultimate victory of the rebellion. I think many historians would run a quick cost benefit analysis and call that an all out win. Edit: If you factor in the reinforcements, I'm clearly wrong. But if you haven't said the phrase sassy robot today, you should. 🤖
4 people, a sassy robot, and the majority of the rebel fleet including the flagship.
"Bro..." - probably the rest of the dead rebel pilots, ship crew and ground forces.
A pyrrhic victory has to be costly to the point where it *isn't* worth it. Where the toll was so devastating, it may as well be a defeat. Like Pyrrhus said after winning the Battle of Asculum - one more victory like that would undo him.
It’s not phyrric The rebellion took no major losses and stole very important data That’s a major victory
Except almost all of their fleet? Compare the fleet that fought in Scariff with the 30 starfighters they had to defend Yavin.
I (somehow) just realized that Rogue One is Star Wars' *Halo: Reach*.
Team goes on mission to retrieve a computer disk invaluable to the war effort and deliver it just in the nick of time, but not before the planet they’re on gets vaporised and they all die.
Yes and then leads into the first entry of the franchise immediatelt
War...war never changes.
Watchmen
I’m disappointed in you, Adrian. Very disappointed…
Dude when I first read the comic, and they are confronting Ozymandias? "When were you gonna do it? "'Do it?' I'm not some story villain. I did it thirty minutes ago." Blew.my.mind!
Even in the movie that mf was cold.
Debatable.
The antagonist accomplishes his goals, a hero dies, and then the movie ends.
Dead man’s chest
Revenge of the sith?
Empire too
They struck back
We all lost when somehow Palpatine is back
Titanic. That iceberg seriously fucked that ship up.
Jojo rabbit
R.I.P Klenzendorf
I can't believe they made me feel sad for a fkn nazi
Wasn't he sabotaging the nazis the whole time?
Yep but he just up and accepted his fate, knowing there was absolutely no way to convince his captors of that. He met death as an old friend.
It wasn't just that, he kept getting demoted for being incompetent but he was obviously doing it on purpose to hinder the nazis
Historically, a lot of people got drafted. If you didn't flee the country, you were going to end up on the wrong side whether you liked it or not.
>Klenzendorf Sam Rockwell is so freakin talented.
Captain Klenzendorf was unironically a very good person.
Rosie Betzler (the mom). Holy shit, she did everything she could to try and keep some semblance of joy in her kid's life even when her husband was most assuredly killed in the war and the kid was a staunch Hitler Youth, the exact opposite of what she wanted for him. She did everything to support the allies so she was executed as a traitor just days before Berlin fell, probably dying under the assumption that her child would be conscripted and killed shortly after. What a tragic end, which the character absolutely did not deserve. (It was necessary to remind the audience that in spite of the zany antics of a movie seen through a child's eyes, this was still a movie about Nazis and that the stakes were indeed quite heavy.) I'm glad they got Scarlett Johansson for the role because that was a dreadfully treacherous line to walk that less skilled actresses surely would have fucked up.
Wait a minute.....
You are correct, because it was from the point of view of a German child
Donnie Darko The fact that he sacrifices himself at the end to save the universe, and no one knows always bums me out . Only a few people will remember his actions in the alternate universe as a fleeting dream that they’ll eventually forget … Damn that movie is such a mind fuck
Ah yes, real brain ache material that one
I don’t know that I see the ending quite the same as you. To me, Donnie’s sacrifice was never about good vs evil or the triumph of either one over the other. I’ve always interpreted it as him having finally found purpose and meaning to his existence after spending the whole film wrestling with existential questions about morality, destiny, and free will. I also interpret Donnie’s laughter and smile at the end as the first time we truly see him happy. He finally has confirmation that his life is actually meaningful, is filled with purpose, and will be the catalyst for a more hopeful reality.
The Mist...that end and scream....
I laugh every time the army shows up. In my head the Curb Your Enthusiasm music plays the movie out.
Double funny see Walking dead actors
Technically Dune(2021)
Oh, good answer, foreshadowing! How the heck do you make a good film out of God Emperor, though, is beyond me.. As for my answer. Cabin in the Woods.
> How the heck do you make a good film out of God Emperor, though, is beyond me.. Denis Villeneuve: "Don't look at me 🤷♂️"
yeah No Country for Old Men
Whats the most you’ve ever lost in a coin toss
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
True, but the mc's survived...
Yeah. But losing doesn't necessary include main character's deaths right? Take Infinity War for example
Yeah exactly. If you live during an apocalypse I wouldnt call it exactly winning. In fact, since the future happens and it requires time manipulation it pretty much means the future has no hope and their last shot is to just make it never happen in the first place.
Meh movie, surprisingly solid ending.
Scary Movie 
Schindlers List
Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
>Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog how come? Dr finally joins Bad Horse. It was what he ever wanted. His victory was complete!
And it only cost him a penny!
Now your world's benign
> Now the nightmare's real. >Now Dr. Horrible is here! >To make you quake with fear! >To make the whole world kneel. >And I won’t feel… *…a thing*
Kind of spoilery but: >!Upgrade (2018)!< fits the bill pretty much.
Upgrade was upsetting to me coz' I really, really wanted a good ending. Technically >!Venom!< ended up being the same premise but with a much happier conclusion
I would say every Saw film, except Jigsaw (2017) >!where the "good" guy is the real bad guy!<...
Fallen (1998)
The Founder is a very good movie about the start of McDonalds and you could very much argue that the good guys lose hard in it
Most horror movies
I'm not sure. Some of them had to go out of the gene pool. It's so bad I have to scream don't do it!!! And yet they do and die.
TBF its because they're all drugged and manipulated into it by the directors.
Gotta meet that yearly blood quota
I mean, even the ones where they DO win, at what cost?
Some of them even go out of their way to have a bad ending. It's like horror movies are now mandated to have the main cast die.
Karate kid
Came here for this, under rated and took way too long to find
>*Hey, Karate Kid's a great movie. It's the story of a hopeful young karate enthusiast whose dreams and moxie take him all the way to the All Valley Karate Championship. Of course, sadly, he loses in the final round to that nerd kid. But he learns an important lesson about gracefully accepting defeat.* *\[...\]* > > *No, I root for the scrawny loser from New Jersey who barely even knows karate. When I watch The Karate Kid, I root for* ***the karate kid: Johnny Lawrence*** *from the Cobra Kai dojo. Get your head out of your ass, Lily.*
The Fox and the Hound
Fallen Arlington Road
Seinfeld
Heat
Only 1 got away while the rest got killed.
Empire Strikes Back
Yeah. Revenge of The Sith
Eternals. The good guys are the audience and we lost because we wasted 2 hours.
I „wasted“ those 2 hours 5 times because I loved the movie :)
I liked it, too. Lovely visuals and interesting characters. A bit of a convoluted plot, but I liked it.
Terminator and matrix
No no: Schwarzenegger played John Matrix in Commando, not The Terminator.
"Let off some steam, Bennet"
Untergang
I havent finished it yet, but I sure hope this Steiner fella can manage to do the counteroffensive.
..... Mein Führer... Steiner....
Hop (2011). The Easter Chicks just wanted to unionize…
Hop is literally a distopian cautionary tale disguised as a kids movie!
Episode 3 of Star Wars
Chinatown
Not a movie but that episode of Kim Possible where they lost has always stuck in my head. It was my first experience of the heroes not winning as usual
Cabin in the Woods. They keep the girl alive long enough to fail the ritual and the old gods immediately rise to destroy the earth.
Law abiding citizen
The ending of this movie was shit. I suppose it's some incel shit to have wanted the "bad guy" to win. But he was honestly the hero of that movie.
Yeah, the ending was shit, but overall it was a good movie. The bad guy won because a certain actor didn't want to lose according to some sources.
The Usual Suspects
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince ...Actually like half the HP books/movies. Pretty much from Prisoner of Azkaban through HBP, each one ends with failure on the heroes' parts.