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Movies Where You Want The Bad Guy To WIn
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Putonahappyface
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EverydayBeast
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Movies Where You Want The Bad Guy To WIn
HeisenbergFX4
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Putonahappyface
Gold Member
I thought he lost ultimately, because he couldn't get either the civilians or criminals on those ships to blow one another up.
Peggies
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I didn't watch Avatar but he's the guy from "Don't Breathe" so I approve.
Phobos Base
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The Matrix. Once you find out that the humans are just a bunch of mystic hippies partying in a cave, I choose the Matrix.
Of course you could just forget that the godawful sequels ever existed. Ignorance is bliss.
It always bugged me that the supposed good guys killed lots of innocent people just doing their job, even after establishing that if you die in the matrix you die in real life.
Doom85
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You probably don’t know this detail, but Jasmine is 15 in the film, and Jafar, while intending at first to kill her after wedding her to secure the throne, seemingly changes his mind later as he clearly shows sexual interest in her. So yeah, dude’s a predator (and also attempted murderer).
poppabk
Cheeks Spread for Digital Only Future
I thought that is the direction they would go in the sequels. Neo with his link to the Matrix couldn't harm regular people because he could 'feel' the person in the pod. So they would have some conflict without having to nerf the Neo we see at the end of the first movie and would tie in with the whole jesus chosen one thing. But I guess "Upgrades" was a way to go as well.
calistan
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He does win - gets the money, wastes pretty much everyone who’s ever seen him, leaves Moss to get murdered by the Mexicans, and kills Moss’s wife for shits and giggles.
Like they said to Neo, it’s our way or the highway. Party like a crusty old hippy and never see the sun, or die.
Another thing that made no sense was saying the machines used humans like a battery. It should have been that they needed brains for processing power or something. There must be better ways to generate electricity.
FunkMiller
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True, but he destroys Harvey, and ruins Batman's reputation, so in the long run, he's the one that gets what he wants - even if the set piece of the boats goes against him.
The tragedy of Heath's death is that there's unfinished business between Joker and Batman, that surely would have been resolved in a much better Dark Knight Rises.
DeepEnigma
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I guess technically he was the good guy in retrospect.
BlackTron
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Until he became a good guy
NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
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Not a movie but The Handmaid Tale
I stopped watching after the first episode but I didn't feel bad at all for the "heroes"
Especially when it comes to how stuff is nowadays in RL. That's all I'm saying about it but that show was just disingenuous as fuck I felt. Not to mention effective propaganda
I stopped watching after the first episode but I didn't feel bad at all for the "heroes"
Especially when it comes to how stuff is nowadays in RL. That's all I'm saying about it but that show was just disingenuous as fuck I felt. Not to mention effective propaganda
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UnravelKatharsis
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Most of them? Heroes winning every time is honestly getting pretty boring.
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
They did an awful job at making the audience not like this guy and an awful job at making the audience like Creed.
ResurrectedContrarian
Suffers with mild autism
Everything made by Disney/Marvel/Star Wars over the past decade
The villains are as stupid and empty as the heroes, sure... but nothing would be better than to see the entire ensemble of Disney-ified franchise protagonists meet their demise and the characters permanently put to rest.
The villains are as stupid and empty as the heroes, sure... but nothing would be better than to see the entire ensemble of Disney-ified franchise protagonists meet their demise and the characters permanently put to rest.
Dirk Benedict
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This was the Perfect Love Story.
The Man Loved his Job.
*Nightwing
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The entire Harry Potter series.
How that pussy Voldemort couldn’t take out a 4eyed nerdy little bitch is pure fiction
Edit: don’t even need Voldemort to win, I’d be happy with his uncle and aunt leaving him locked up under the stairs and everyone lives happily ever after
How that pussy Voldemort couldn’t take out a 4eyed nerdy little bitch is pure fiction
Edit: don’t even need Voldemort to win, I’d be happy with his uncle and aunt leaving him locked up under the stairs and everyone lives happily ever after
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Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
They should have made Rami Malek stay alive for the next Bond.
Husky
THE Prey 2 fanatic
I'm rooting for Joe so hard.
Tams
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Not a movie but in the TV show "The Man in the High Castle" they made all the good guys so boring and unlikeable that it was hard not to root for the nazi bad guy by the end
I actually think part of the reason why the final season was so shit is that the writers realized a big part of their audience was rooting for the bad guy and they panicked.
The last season was just bizarre, and that ending... ooofff. I believe that's mainly because they were told during season 3 that they would only get one more.
John Smith was very cool, and Takeshi Kido was a great character too. I think you're right; the bad guys in it were just too appealing.
Audiophile
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I'm a simple man. All the ones where it's a hot woman.
Doom85
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His aunt and uncle don’t deserve shit for being such massive dumbasses.
Aunt and Uncle: “We detest you, Harry! We hate having to raise you!”
(letters start arriving offering to fully take care of Harry for 75% of the following seven years)
Aunt and Uncle: “What? Fuck that! We’ll be sure you never go to that school and leave our sight!”
Those two chucklefucks made their own bed, so they can live with their unhappiness. A solution was flat out dropped in their laps, and they threw it away.
UltimaKilo
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My man Jafar deserved the throne and it was legally his before he got conned out of it. The film leaves out in the story, that he was a very good advisor, incredibly intelligent and well educated. While Jafar may not have been a good guy, that does not mean that he did not suffer injustice.
Doom85
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RickSanchez
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That's because Quaritch, although evil, still had more personality & charisma than the cardboard cutout protagonists (except maybe Sigourney Weaver's character).Also, Colonel Quaritch from Avatar.
ForAcademicPurposes
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Get off my lawn
Toots
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He's not, he's a psycho racist violent dude stuck in the past who stalks his wife... But he also kind of behaved and has a really frustrating day and we can all relate to that
I guess technically he was the good guy in retrospect.
calistan
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Didn’t Michael Douglas claim he got throat cancer from eating Catherine Zeta Jones’s pussy? I straight up can’t watch anything he’s in after that.
I guess technically he was the good guy in retrospect.
_Idea_of_Evil_
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Christian Bale in the last Thor movie.
phranctoast
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The Hunt.
NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
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Which one?
The foreign film with Mad Mikkelsen or the horror film (That Came out in 2019 I think)?
Dr. Suchong
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Heimdall_Xtreme
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Friday 13 any movie.
A Nightmare on Elm street.
A Nightmare on Elm street.
Chuck Berry
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Heat. Wish Neil could've made a clean getaway with Edie.
Edit: Fuckers already posted it. FML
Edit: Fuckers already posted it. FML
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Nitty_Grimes
Made a crappy phPBB forum once ... once.
Yeah, HEAT is the obvious winner.
Disappointing that Val Kilmer is the only one that gets away.
Disappointing that Val Kilmer is the only one that gets away.
IntentionalPun
Ask me about my wife's perfect butthole
Pretty much all crime movies, I always want the criminals to win.
I love mob movies but often turn them off on a re-watch at the inevitable “downfall” third act.
I love mob movies but often turn them off on a re-watch at the inevitable “downfall” third act.
Laptop1991
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Darth Vader from the original Star Wars trilogy, i thought he was cool and the ultimate badass back in 77 and 80.
KaiserBecks
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Isn’t it more than obvious that he will win though? I mean in the final scene, he’s disguised as the reporter and he will try again.
I really wanted the Devil to fulfill his plans in "Devil's Advocate".
Especially after that speech at the end.
nkarafo
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We only know he is going to try again, not that he will win.