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Mad Max Fury Road. They defeat the tyrant, and get the control of the water valves. Then they open the valves and seemingly keep them open. One problem, how long is the water reservoir gonna last now?

Logan's Run. The city dwellers are freed from the computer's iron-fisted rule, and Carrousel. But their city is in ruins, and thinks to the computer providing everything. They don't know how to live without it. The city dwellers are going to start dying off real fast.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)

A lot of horror movies end with like two people surviving, or even a man and a woman who hug each other or kiss and walk into the sunset. Good luck with your PTSD and knowing all your friends and or family members dies horribly and you got to see it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

I think about this for most action movies as well.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Any apocalyptic or post apocalyptic that is supposed to end on a hopeful note.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's a needlessly pessimistic view, there are many apocalypses that are one-offs and the survivors will have the opportunity to rebuild.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Depends on the apocalypse. If it’s sufficient to wipe out global trade and logistics chances are they’ll be rebuilding in the Stone Age, especially if there are no skilled craftsmen like smiths to keep even the most basic tooling working. Modern civilization has huge requirements for a stable supply of power and highly specialized professionals to keep it running. Get a Big apocalypse and you’ll lose enough of those people to make it impossible to re-start civilization.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Depends on the apocalypse.

That's exactly my point, the comment I'm responding to said that all apocalypses were unrecoverable.

We built up our current civilization starting in the stone age, so being knocked back that far isn't inherently unrecoverable. We can do it again. (And no, there isn't an absolute dependency on fossil fuels that are now gone. There are other ways to industrialize than just the exact specific route we took the first time around. Just getting ahead of that since it's a very common counterargument about such things).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Cabin In The Woods has entered the chat

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Gladiator, it seemed like in the ending rome may have had hope in survival but Commodus damage became the first stepping stone that led to the fall of the roman empire.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If we're counting stones for that particular thread of the timeline, there were countless prior to Commodus' pile.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

True, there was many but commodus I think was the stepping stone to the fall as the shithead essentially almost bankrupted rome and caused civil wars since he was so shitty he did not have a kid.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wasn't that the point of the ending?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Youd be surprised by the number of people i have talked to that dont pick up on that.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Elysium.

Ok, so the resource allocation of the moon/earth society is completely broken and the moon-dwelling oligarchs sucked. Agreed.

But the end of the movie makes the computer system unable to differentiate between the handful of moon lords vs the unwashed masses on the earth's surface. There are not enough resources to go around in Elysium. All that medicine and food from the moon bastards is gonna run out in about ten minutes and then the last bits of society will finish collapsing. Any hope of ever rebuilding a functioning society ends about a week after the end of that movie.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I got a bittersweet happy ending last weekend at 좋은 시간 Massage Parlor. It was fun in the moment, but when I was paying a Polaroid of my wife and kid that I keep in my wallet fell out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

You're supposed to destroy the polaroid.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Law abiding citizen

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Questioning your life choices while leaving the massage parlor.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Brazil - wow, that is a really happy ending... oh, some runtime still to go.

Total Recall - was it all a dream?