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« on: June 13, 2010, 11:21:43 PM »

Just what it says!
Any examples?
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« Reply #1 on: June 13, 2010, 11:56:20 PM »

Arlington Road
Frailty (depending on your take on it)
No Country For Old Men (although I guess he doesn't "win" so much as "get away")
Driller Killer - a lot of slasher flicks fit this category but that's the first one I thought of.

Not a movie, but "Deadwood" ended with the worst bad guy getting basically everything he wanted and then walking away.
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« Reply #2 on: June 14, 2010, 12:01:37 AM »

Frailty is a very good example.

Scanners.  Though the "protagonist" wasn't that great a person either.
The Dorm That Dripped Blood.
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« Reply #3 on: June 14, 2010, 12:21:08 AM »


Scanners.  Though the "protagonist" wasn't that great a person either.



That raises an interesting point; movies where there's a lot of moral ambiguity, it's hard to say whether the person who wins is the hero or the villain.  For example, most of Tarantino's or Leone's pictures, The Limey, and Pitch Black, you could argue that the person who wins is a villain (although the ones they were up against are even worse.)
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« Reply #4 on: June 14, 2010, 12:22:14 AM »

I understand the subject of this thread. 

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD
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« Reply #5 on: June 14, 2010, 01:21:19 AM »

The Devil's Advocat (1997)
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« Reply #6 on: June 14, 2010, 02:08:33 AM »

I think that in the most of zombie movies, the zombies allways win in the end.
Like Dawn of the Dead, Zombie 2, The Dead Next Door...
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« Reply #7 on: June 14, 2010, 03:00:44 AM »

Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning

The last scene in it was sweet
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« Reply #8 on: June 14, 2010, 05:39:26 AM »

Point Blank with Lee Marvin is one example and also The Recruit with Al Pacino. Mr Pacino's character actually loses at the end ~ watch it and see ~ but he ultimately wins.  

The Devil's Rain and Race With The Devil are also examples ~ another IMO is First Blood where the cops (the bad guys in the film) win out over John Rambo.
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« Reply #9 on: June 14, 2010, 07:50:00 AM »

FUNNY GAMES
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« Reply #10 on: June 14, 2010, 08:02:53 AM »

* INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (remake)
* PHANTASM
* THE PARALLAX VIEW
* THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE (although, I guess this movie really doesn't have any good guys)
* SCARFACE (I guss this one doesn't have any good guys either)
* RACE WITH THE DEVIL
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« Reply #11 on: June 14, 2010, 10:18:02 AM »

Eden Lake
The descent 2
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« Reply #12 on: June 14, 2010, 11:45:42 AM »

Jeepers Creeper (first one).

Very freaky end.   Buggedout BounceGiggle

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« Reply #13 on: June 14, 2010, 12:16:06 PM »

Movie I think (unlike most people) is mediocre:

Dutch title: Spoorloos English title: The Vanishing (1988)




One of the few movies that ever truly scared me:

French title: Ils (2006) English title: Them

Extremely good movie!

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« Reply #14 on: June 14, 2010, 08:42:01 PM »

I think that in the most of zombie movies, the zombies allways win in the end.
Like Dawn of the Dead, Zombie 2, The Dead Next Door...
As suggested by myself above, in NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, the "bad guys" are us and they "win" in the end.  This point is made much clearer in TOM SAVINI's 1990 remake. 
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