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Grant		#101	[-]
Apr 2 12 11:48 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	For me, there's a whole string of COMEDIES with depressing endings, and I don't mean just dark comedies. One is "Last of the Red Hot Lovers" - I know comedies are supposed to be mainly about things going wrong not right, and I'm not saying adultery is a WONDERFUL thing, but that story just seems determined to keep its main character from having a pleasant time. Heck, that's even true of things in the past, like the character's depressing anecdote about his first sexual experience. No offense to Neil Simon, but give me a "shallow" sex comedy any day over a "thinking" one like that!
Rick		#102	[-]
Apr 2 12 2:16 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Well, I don't remember how it was played in the movie (lousy movie, by the way, but a decent play), but the idea is that, while he is foiled at his adulterous intentions, it ultimately leads him to realize that he loves his wife, and he really doesn't want to cheat on her. So it (the play, anyway) ends with the guy calling his wife for the sneaky assignation he'd intended for another woman. I'd actually call that sort of a happy ending. Maybe you're reacting, though, to the movie itself, which is a pretty dreary thing.
Liz.stoogeworld		#103	[-]
Apr 2 12 3:15 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Grant wrote: For me, there's a whole string of COMEDIES with depressing endings, and I don't mean just dark comedies. One is "Last of the Red Hot Lovers" - I know comedies are supposed to be mainly about things going wrong not right, and I'm not saying adultery is a WONDERFUL thing, but that story just seems determined to keep its main character from having a pleasant time. Heck, that's even true of things in the past, like the character's depressing anecdote about his first sexual experience. No offense to Neil Simon, but give me a "shallow" sex comedy any day over a "thinking" one like that! On the subject of comedies, I've heard that MONSIEUR VERDOUX has a very depressing ending. In fact, the entire film could be considered a (very) black comedy. I've only seen bits and pieces, but that is what I have heard. Why don't you do something to help me? The Psycho Ward's Classic Film Reviews - request a film to be reviewed!
jamesenstein31		#104	[-]
Apr 2 12 3:21 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Chaplin had so many sad endings, though I guess there was a positive spin to them. Remember the end of THE CIRCUS? That was a beautiful shot.
Liz.stoogeworld		#105	[-]
Apr 2 12 3:29 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	jamesenstein31 wrote: Chaplin had so many sad endings, though I guess there was a positive spin to them. Remember the end of THE CIRCUS? That was a beautiful shot. THE KID comes to mind as well. Why don't you do something to help me? The Psycho Ward's Classic Film Reviews - request a film to be reviewed!
jamesenstein31		#106	[-]
Apr 2 12 3:50 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Yeah, that's a great one. THE KID was one of the films that got me into Chaplin's films, since seeing it as a KID, it reminded me of the little rascals! Of course, there's also CITY LIGHTS, one of the great tear-jerkers.
Grant		#107	[-]
Apr 2 12 4:14 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Rick wrote: Well, I don't remember how it was played in the movie (lousy movie, by the way, but a decent play), but the idea is that, while he is foiled at his adulterous intentions, it ultimately leads him to realize that he loves his wife, and he really doesn't want to cheat on her. So it (the play, anyway) ends with the guy calling his wife for the sneaky assignation he'd intended for another woman. I'd actually call that sort of a happy ending. Maybe you're reacting, though, to the movie itself, which is a pretty dreary thing. To be truthful, I haven't seen it in a long while, it's just that I THINK I remember it as the kind of story that tries to "debunk" the whole "swinger" kind of thing IN GENERAL (not just the adulterous kind). And to me, that has a kind of depressing ring to it, or at least a kind of judgmental one. Sort of like those comedies where everyone at a singles' bar is a comical loser, or is about to MEET a comical loser, one or the other. I do remember liking the whole Paula Prentiss segment of that movie, though, and that was one-third of the whole thing. That part I would possibly watch again.
gorgozilla		#108	[-]
Apr 2 12 4:21 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	A GUIDE FOR THE MARRIED MAN was a much better version of that kind of theme. It was just funny without trying to be too "smart".
Grant		#109	[-]
Apr 2 12 10:26 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	And (no offense to Alan Arkin) almost ANY comedy with Walter Matthau makes me watch it and like it. (The only exception I can name is "Hopscotch," which I just didn't go for.)
Grant		#110	[-]
Apr 2 12 10:28 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Some endings are too dramatic to BE depressing. I'm sure you know what I mean - they're the "jaw-dropping" kind instead. Three great examples to me are "Joe," "If" and "Hell In The Pacific."
Spoiler II		#111	[-]
Apr 3 12 1:23 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Dr Acula wrote: Kids If there was ever a film with a more unlikable cast of characters,i haven't yet laid eyes on it. The motley degenerates in any John Waters film would provide better company than any of the teenage dregs in KIDS. I wanted to reach into my TV set and throttle them one by one.
Godziwolf		#112	[-]
Apr 4 12 4:16 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Rick wrote: and it'll be the twelfth of never before I subject myself to GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES again. Nuclear holocaust films tend to have downer endings. Grave of Fireflies, Threads, When the Wind Blows (and two of these are animated), etc. Hell, On the Beach seems cheery by comparison. Although Cannibal Holocaust is the only movie where I felt like I wanted to take a shower afterwards. No part of that film appeals to the better nature of humanity.
Godziwolf		#113	[-]
Apr 4 12 4:45 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Wich2 wrote: Has a producer never tampered with a director's film outside of the U.S.? Knowing producers, I'd doubt that very much... -Craig (P.S. - ...and Stevens, and Lubitsch, and Wilder, and Wyler, and Vidor, and Cukor, and Fleming, and Walsh, and...) And Fincher, and Scott, and Aronofsky, and Nolan, and Tarantino, and Scorcese, and...
Victor Frankenstein		#114	[-]
Apr 5 12 1:42 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I guess Failsafe has a pretty freakin depressing ending....
Elisabeth		#115	[-]
Apr 15 12 4:08 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	THE GREAT ESCAPE was extremely depressing.... Your Signature ... "....I do hope he won't upset Henry..."
atenolol		#116	[-]
Apr 15 12 10:26 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Victor Frankenstein wrote: I guess Failsafe has a pretty freakin depressing ending.... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yeah. It probably wreaked Henry Fonda's reelection chances. My guess is contributions from Wall Street to his campaign dried right up. *This reminds me of ALL THE KING'S MEN--poor Willie Stark. Sometimes life just isn't fair. Last Edited By: atenolol Apr 15 12 10:32 PM. Edited 1 times.
jamesenstein31		#117	[-]
Apr 15 12 11:18 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	ROCKETSHIP X-M and GET CARTER were depressing. So was THE THIRD MAN.
Liz.stoogeworld		#118	[-]
Apr 16 12 4:13 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Going back to comedies, last night TCM showed a bunch of Harold Lloyd comedies and one of them was HAUNTED SPOOKS. Compared to ASK FATHER, which was shown earlier and was hilarious, this short was not only not funny, but completely depressing, not to mention racist. Why don't you do something to help me? The Psycho Ward's Classic Film Reviews - request a film to be reviewed!
jamesenstein31		#119	[-]
Apr 16 12 5:18 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Liz wrote: Going back to comedies, last night TCM showed a bunch of Harold Lloyd comedies and one of them was HAUNTED SPOOKS. Compared to ASK FATHER, which was shown earlier and was hilarious, this short was not only not funny, but completely depressing, not to mention racist. HAUNTED SPOOKS had a few good bits in it, involving the usual assortment of haunted house gags. I could see it being referred to as racist, but ethnic humor was a commodity of the day. Besides, it did feature Sunshine Sammy Morrison as the scared little kid and that scores some points. That was actually the film that Lloyd was filming when he lost some of his fingers in a bomb accident. The style of the humor was DARK and morbid, as Lloyd attempts to kill himself. It's definitely one of his weirdest films. ASK FATHER was one of the most over the top shorts(and I do mean short-it was only 13 minutes) as Lloyd attempts to ask a father's permission to marry his daughter. I showed this one some years ago to some buddies and it got alot of laughs, particularly when he was forced to resort to wearing a suit of armor and FIGHTING his way in! Great stuff. Chaplin was on this morning as well and i'll be damned, but I missed CITY LIGHTS. Wish I caught that one again. So cool to see these on TV. I hope some twisted obscurities turn up on silent sundays. Last summer I saw this one called WILD ORANGES that was a really out there and of course, i'm always there when they play Lon Chaney.
Grant		#120	[-]
Apr 16 12 5:19 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The ending of Get Carter makes me think of the ending of Sitting Target, where just about EVERYONE has been killed. A movie that kills off the Jill St. John character? - that's pretty "agressively" grim. (All right, there's also her Batman episode, but that was "escapist" stuff.)

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