Guy Doesn't End Up With the Girl/Girl Doesn't End Up With the Guy Movies

[MilesColtrane]

OK Loungers. Name your favorites.

*******WARNING********

Obviously, there be spoilers ahead if you haven't seen these movies. Enter at your own risk.

















On top of my list has to be "The Third Man". That last scene....!

The most widely known classic has to be "Casablanca" which is deserving of its status.

I'd follow up with two Woody Allen flicks: "Annie Hall" and its darker brother, "Crimes and Misdemeanors".

So let's lay it out. What's your favorite heart breaker?

[Graybeard]

1. Vertigo

Scottie loses her twice!

[Skittles]

2. Body Heat

fucking classic :D

[6000eliot]

3. The Way We Were

But I guess the title kind of gives it away.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

66. God, I hated that movie...

...because they didn't end up together. It was an awesome movie...but I don't like sad endings.
I guess it's more realistic though.

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Casablanca

[suninvited]

5. Once

that one really broke my heart. But, then I found out that they are together in real life and I was okay.

[Bucky]

6. "Blow Out" with John Travolta & Nancy Allen

One of the last "big budget" action movies to avoid a cliche ending.

[raccoon]

7. "Witness." nt

[Mad_Dem_X]

17. +1

It broke my heart, but it was realistic that they didn't wind up together.

[sarge43]

8. The Maltese Falcon

Big
Chinatown
Dangerous Liaisons
The Heiress

[siligut]

9. Love Story, Sweet November and P.S. I love You

They all die, well in P.S., he is dead from the start; does that still count?

[Orrex]

10. The Shining

[MilesColtrane]

28. Yeah, by the end of that movie we were all hoping that Jack would "get" Shelley Duvall.

[Deep13]

11. The Maltese Falcon; The Empire Strikes Back nt

[LynneSin]

12. Broadcast News

I really thought Holly Hunter and William Hurt would make it in the end.

[MilesColtrane]

15. Good One

[Amerigo Vespucci]

13. The 2004 remake of "Dawn of the Dead"

Sarah Polley's husband gets bitten really, really early in the movie.

While on the run, she meets Jake Weber ("Michael") and things start to develop.

Then, just as they're in the middle of their big escape, HE gets bitten.

Sometimes a girl just can't catch a break.

:grouphug:



L-R: Jake Weber, Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames.

[Maine-ah]

14. Gone With The Wind

and Scarlet deserved what she got.

[MilesColtrane]

16. That's one of the classic examples I thought of right off the bat.

I think the last scene was shocking to audiences back then not only for the, "I don't give a damn", but for the fact that they weren't treated to the typical happy ending hook up.

[meegbear]

18. 1984

[Love Bug]

19. Green Card

[hunter]

20. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

The whale scientist dumps Captain Kirk.

:yoiks:

[Yavin4]

21. 500 Days of Summer n/t

[Z_I_Peevey]

22. Two-Lane Blacktop n/t

[Iggo]

23. My Best Friend's Wedding. (n/t)

[bif]

24. "Once"

[Kaleva]

25. The Blair Witch Project

[NewJeffCT]

26. 25 responses and no "Romeo & Juliet" yet?

the tragic love story to end all tragic love stories.

[jobycom]

30. They ended up in the same place, with each other, til death did them part...

So, technically, sort of...

[Hippo_Tron]

47. Just because they die, doesn't mean the guy didn't get the girl

[Call Me Wesley]

27. Lost in translation. (nt)

[MorningGlow]

32. I love that movie

It gets savaged, but I love its atmosphere.

[Orrex]

67. I love to savage its atmosphere

[Quixote1818]

58. I was thinking that one too but he did kind of get her in the end.

And here is the classic scene! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPly3e12ca8&feature=related

[jobycom]

29. A Boy and His Dog. Although depends on what you mean by "ends up with." nt

[MilesColtrane]

34. That qualifies as a well done ending.

[jobycom]

35. A bit misogynist, but definitely memorable. nt

[MilesColtrane]

36. OK, medium rare then...

[jobycom]

37. Sorry.

Yes, I missed it the first time. :rofl: :thumbsup:

[MorningGlow]

31. Muriel's Wedding

Was just thinking about this movie this morning--how it tanked at the box office but became a modern "classic" on video.

[Moondog]

33. Chinatown, Gone With the Wind, Grifters, King Kong, Lion in Winter,

Maltese Falcon, Mulholland Falls, Seven, Shakespeare in Love, Tale of Two Cities, V for Vendetta, Witches of Eastwick

[Demoiselle]

53. Shakespeare in Love was lovely.

The final scene is heartbreaking.

But...Lion in Winter? I thought the problem was that he GOT the girl! And learned to hate her! (Same for her, of course.)

[applegrove]

38. My Brilliant Career. Great flick from Australia.

[Demoiselle]

54. That was Judy Davis, wasn't it?

Really good movie. I'm always happy to discover that she's in the movie I'm watching. I feel the same way about Alan Arkin. I just sit back and smile.

[applegrove]

55. Yes it was Judy Davis.

[Generic Brad]

39. The Expendables

Poor Stallone. He never gets the girl.

[riderinthestorm]

40. Shakespeare in Love. nt

[Lydia Leftcoast]

41. The Rainmaker--not the John Grisham movie, the older movie with

Burt Lancaster and Katherine Hepburn

[Lydia Leftcoast]

42. My favorite Russian film: The Cranes Are Flying

One of the great :-) :cry: endings of all time.

[Forkboy]

43. Nekromantik

[MilesColtrane]

44. Dang it.

Nekromantik isn't available on Netflix, but they do have Nekromantik 2.

Excerpt from a Member Review:

"I do feel it is one of those films that needs to be seen at least once, just to say you have seen one of the vilest films every committed to celluloid."

I'm in.

[Forkboy]

The remake does the ending of the first film again...in color!

Don't say you're in until you've seen it. Hopefully with no loved ones around to judge you for watching it. ;)

[MilesColtrane]

45. I wanted to add "The House of Mirth".

After being forced to read "Ethan Frome" when I was young, I developed an aversion to all things Edith Wharton.

But, this movie is very good - in no part due to the great performance of Gillian Anderson.

[Hippo_Tron]

46. Quantum of Solace

Actually the movie kinda sucked, but I thought it was worth mentioning because it's like the only Bond movie where Bond doesn't get the girl in the end (not that he really tried, either).

[NoPasaran]

48. Repo Man

[Mad_Dem_X]

49. Brokeback Mountain.

Does "Guy Doesn't End Up With Guy" count?

[MilesColtrane]

52. Yep

:thumbsup:

[Swede]

50. Big Trouble in Little China

[LynneSin]

51. Last night I watched a classic in this genre - 9 1/2 weeks

Mickey Rourke never looked hotter and I so want to get Kim Basinger's hairstyle.

[Bennyboy]

56. The Terminal

Sadly He doesn't get the girl.

[Quixote1818]

57. The classic one I can think of is 'Far From Heaven'.

Also, I can think of a lot of movies where one person dies. Shadowlands, Harold and Maude, and My Life, just to name a few.

[fishwax]

59. good movie

:thumbsup:

[Quixote1818]

60. I agree. It was very powerful and had a lot to teach people.

The biggest victim of all the prejudice of gays and blacks in the movie ended up being the good hearted white woman who lost her husband and her soul mate all because society was so fucked up back then.

[Quixote1818]

61. Almost forgot about Bridges of Madison County!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=groH-ZHKgA0

[Bennyboy]

65. Me too, one of my faves too..

I was so hoping she was gonna get outta that truck...

[dawg]

74. I don't like stories that glorify adultery.

Maybe I would've liked the book better, but the movie did *not* do enough character development to provide justification for their affair.

[givemebackmycountry]

62. House of Games

"Thank you sir, may I have another?"

[Quixote1818]

63. Titanic. Well, he gets her but then he dies. nt

[Doc_Technical]

64. One of my favorites.

"an occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
It was shown as a Twilight Zone episode.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge_(film)

[TuxedoKat]

68. OMG, for a real tearjerker

I cry buckets whenever I see it -- Goodbye Again with Ingrid Bergman, Yves Montand and Anthony Perkins. The soundtrack is beautiful too, introduced me to Brahms 3rd Symphony.

[AngryAmish]

69. The Terminator

[Tuesday Afternoon]

70. Out Of Africa, Dr. Zhivago

[siligut]

71. Woody Allen's "You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger"

"Follows a pair of married couples, Alfie (Hopkins) and Helena (Jones), and their daughter Sally (Watts) and husband Roy (Brolin), as their passions, ambitions, and anxieties lead them into trouble and out of their minds. After Alfie leaves Helena to pursue his lost youth and a free-spirited call girl named Charmaine (Punch), Helena abandons rationality and surrenders her life to the loopy advice of a charlatan fortune teller. Unhappy in her marriage, Sally develops a crush on her handsome art gallery owner boss, Greg (Banderas), while Roy, a novelist nervously awaiting the response to his latest manuscript, becomes moonstruck over Dia (Pinto), a mystery woman who catches his gaze through a nearby window."
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1182350/

It just came out on DVD and is not a happy movie.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

72. Last American Virgin

Pretty sobering end for a teen sex comedy.

[mikeytherat]

73. The Remains of the Day

mikey_the_rat

[cali]

75. Before Sunrise

[trof]

76. Nobody picked Brokeback Mountain?

;-)