When I saw this video's title, I started imagining the rant I'd leave in the comments if "The Seven Samurai" wasn't on your list. The ending of that movie just destroyed me. It made me cry the first time I saw it, and decades later, it can still put a lump in my throat. That ending is the distilled essence of tragedy.

'A Simple Plan' is loosely based on a segment of 'The Canterbury Tales', by Geoffrey Chaucer. It's the segment known as 'The Pardoner's Tale', where three men find a horde of gold - proving that 'The love of money is the root of all evil', all three wind up dead.

A Simple Plan is sublime. Greatly under rated, indeed. Speaking of Films where everyone loses, you need to put Oliver Stone's U-Turn on the next one of these. Wow, talk about a grimly dark comedy fiasco... I believe he made that right after Natural Born Killers, as it definitely has a similar tonal and stylistic vibe. GREAT performances by Sean Penn, Billy Bob Thornton, Joaquín Phoenix, J-Lo, Nick Nolte, Jon Voight, Claire Danes, Powers Boothe......

Leon the professional is another one

@srstriker6420

4 ай бұрын

And the Northman as they both die

@jamespope7669

4 ай бұрын

Leon wasn't the good guy, he was a hitman lol being the protagonist doesn't make you the hero of the movie.

Might be a stretch but Watchmen. The only real hero of the story, Rorschach, ends up dying, and the villain, Veidt, deploys his plan but it ends up failing in a twist that Rorschach had already mailed evidence of to a news outlet. So while the main villain did end up killing the hero and initiating their plan, it ultimately would come undone at some point.

I think you kind of just proved that the Joker actually won in TDK

He didn't really win in infernal affairs. If you see part 3 it shows the fallout of the whole ordeal. He's still under investigation his wife left him. And the guilt was making him go insane.

@jamespope7669

4 ай бұрын

He won in part 1. You don't have to see part 3. Godfather Micheal won, then lost in part 3, Darth Vader won and lost in part 3

@deadhead8323

4 ай бұрын

@jamespope7669 but if you see the ending he doesn't feel like he won. He feels completely lost and the flashback he remembers chan being kicked out of the academy it shows how he wished he could've taken another direction in life. Because now he's a murderer and a dishonorable cop.

John Woo’s the Killer

Naw Seven. Whats in the BOOOOOX!!!? That was number one for sure. That messed anyone who saw it, minds right on up.

@Xone9

4 ай бұрын

Not necessarily. John Doe got exactly what he wanted in the end, including his own death.

The Joker didn't lose,he wanted to prove that you can drive someone to madness with one bad day which he proved when Harvey became Two-face and started killing people even going so far as to plan to kill Gordon's son if that's not crazy I don't know what is so the Joker won

@jamespope7669

4 ай бұрын

Joker wasn't responsible for Harvey's criminal actions. All Joker gave Dent was a push.

@travisstevens2432

4 ай бұрын

Not quite. The Joker wasn't out to prove that "someone" can be driven to madness with one bad day, he was out to show that "anyone" could be pushed to that point, and that's where he lost. Batman didn't turn, neither did a literal boatload of criminals. Joker only pushed one person past their limit. Just one. Everyone else in the film proved him wrong.

What about “Burn After Reading”? The ending legit summarizes how every single character failed and then says “So what did we learn here? …I don’t fuckin know either.”

the good guys 'lose' in SEVEN SAMURAI (apart from the majority of them being killed) in that their way of life means they gain no advantage from their victory, while their employers are saved. It is rather difficult to work out who's a good guy in RAN - there are some - but pretty much everyone loses (the same goes with movies of the actual KING LEAR). Nobody really comes out well in the straight versions of CYRANO DE BERGERAC.

I agree ohmss is the most under rated bond movie ever ruined by the argument of who the best bond was gets lost in what the best movie was

Who is SFX Magazine? Is that you guys?

I completely gave up on M. Knight after Glass

If I Saw the Devil isn't on this li.... oh. Well. I'll just shut up then.

I thought for sure Oppenheimer would be on here

How about Eat the Rich

Bout time somebody said where The Departed came from

187 should have made this list

Well maybe sometimes you can win by losing

I like it both good and bad have there chances at winning

Glass 🔚 Start ☘️

I mean in fairness, Seven Samurai but more so the American remakes of the Magnificent seven series. There is definitely the case those who died won, the villiagers won and in the case of Magnificent seven Chico wins. Just not at all a traditional win

I can believe SE7EN isn’t on this list. 😳

I thought The Godfather Part II was a shoe-in.

What about movies that the villain should have won like say Kang from Antman 3, the first order from the last Jedi and anyone else?

Surprised that not a single Quentin Tarantino film is on this list. At least one of them ends with the entire cast dead (trying not to spoil anything).

@justsaying14

4 ай бұрын

Stop being that hateful!

@nicholasharvey1232

4 ай бұрын

@@justsaying14 There's the Seven Samurai, and then there's...

@Hipp0campus_1

4 ай бұрын

Bold of you to assume that there are heroes or good guys in a Tarantino movie. (maybe in Jackie Brown)

The Prestige

@jshy6969

4 ай бұрын

GREAT one

@bryanc1984

4 ай бұрын

@@jshy6969 You wouldn't happen to be jshy7979 from moviemistakes, would you?

@jshy6969

4 ай бұрын

@bryanc1984 yes that is me! 😄

@bryanc1984

4 ай бұрын

@jshy6969 Cool. I post there as "Phaneron." I think the only reason I would have recognized your screen name is because earlier today I was submitting trivia for "Better Call Saul" and saw your name listed under one of the entries.

@jshy6969

4 ай бұрын

@bryanc1984 oh this is too damn funny, I definitely know that name! You're pretty active on there as well! Going to check your trivia post now, I love that show!

Old Boy.

In SEVEN did the killer win?

@bryanc1984

4 ай бұрын

Yes, he accomplished exactly what he set out to do.

@yodatw

4 ай бұрын

@@bryanc1984I mean they all lost something in the end of that one.

@bryanc1984

4 ай бұрын

@@yodatw Yeah, but dying was part of John Doe's plan.

Where's gladiator?? Maximus and commodus die

Was I the only one who was shocked that 007 died? I mean he has been shot poisoned tortured lost at sea and space been electricity you name it he has had it done to him and that killed him?

@jamespope7669

4 ай бұрын

Yes. 007 was killed for diversity purposes.

@marvelsProtege

4 ай бұрын

@@jamespope7669 smdh

I don't like when the bad guy wins.

@zengram

4 ай бұрын

It happens sometimes and in real life

@srstriker6420

4 ай бұрын

And when is it that a villain should win?

@SoManyRandomRamblings

4 ай бұрын

It happens too often in real life....movies are supposed to be my escape from that. I agree with you

@wuuudidit

4 ай бұрын

hot take

@DJGamingSmash

4 ай бұрын

That's okay. I enjoy the subversion of a bad guy winning for once in a movie.

Can I be pinned I was first

@StanHalen1936

4 ай бұрын

Virgin

you pick SEVEN SAMURAI instead of THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, but you should have picked INFERNAL AFFAIRS instead of the incredibly inferior THE DEPARTED

@re1010

4 ай бұрын

Seven Samurai ends on a more dreadful note, that the Samurai find no resolve in their interpersonal conflict. while Magnificent Seven is more joyous. The survivors and fallen find glory in saving the day.

@HereForTheComments

4 ай бұрын

Infernal Affairs has the villain win, this is a video about both sides losing.

@bheast86

4 ай бұрын

Infernal Affairs baddy came out of the elevator to find a lot of police waiting for him@@HereForTheComments