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Excluding the Horror genre and individual movies in a series, what movie story ends with evil winning? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by ajmxco@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] CMDR_Horn@lemmy.ml 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Law abiding citizen

Cabin in the woods

[–] Davel23@fedia.io 21 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I love Cabin in the Woods, but it arguably falls under horror.

[–] CMDR_Horn@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 months ago

I know, but I didn’t feel like it’s horror in the spirit of the question. OP would need to weigh in.

[–] ChihuahuaOfDoom@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Glad to see Law Abiding Citizen listed, I hate the ending with a passion.

[–] neuropean@kbin.social 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Many people do, but the whole point of the movie was that the prosecution didn’t go far enough to stop the original perpetrators. The whole point of the ending was that the entire law enforcement system came together to try to determine what it would take to stop one person, and when he tried to stop that he signed his own death warrant.

[–] Shard@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

I'd argue that the whole damn system was either corrupt or broken beyond repair. The fact that they "won" in the end and got to simply go on with their lives is pretty much evil winning out.

It would also have been a much more interesting story if they let Clyde win or escalated the havoc he unleashed even further. But it seems they ran out of ideas and or budget by the time they started wrapping up the final act. So that's a second time evil wins again.