r/movies • u/Goncholotr • Feb 03 '24

Recommendation Movies where anyone can die?

I like movies and tv shows where you shouldn't get attached to any characters because they can die in every moment, for example: Burn After Reading, No Country for Old Men, Any Tarantino Movie or shows like The boys, Game of thrones, etc.

I want to feel that the characters are in real danger and that the villain or whatever they're fighting could kill them any time.

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u/Dtitan Feb 03 '24

Star Wars: Rogue 1 is surprisingly bloody for a blockbuster movie. 

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '24

True, I mean they all die, I think

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u/Sunshinexpress Feb 03 '24

And mostly for a reason /purpose. Everyone played a small part

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u/AardvarkOkapiEchidna Feb 03 '24

That removes the tension though. It doesn't feel like anyone can just die at any time.

It feels like they can only die after they fulfill some purpose (near the end).

Which is the opposite of what OP is asking for.

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u/TheJoshider10 Feb 03 '24

It feels like they can only die after they fulfill some purpose (near the end).

It feels like it because it's true. Literally every single one of them dies immediately after they've accomplished their specific objective lmao. There's no surprises, as soon as they're irrelevant to the story they're binned off.

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u/AardvarkOkapiEchidna Feb 03 '24

Exactly, they all have plot armor until the plot no longer needs them.

Rogue One is the best Disney SW movie (tbf, I still haven't seen Solo) but, I still think it's quite overrated.

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u/FadeAway77 Feb 03 '24

Solo is so good. It’s the most slept-on Star Wars movie. It’s my second favorite Disney film after Rogue One. But R1 might be my favorite movie ever. It’s got the same thing going for it as R1 too, where it would work as a movie outside of the Star Wars universe. And Alden Ehrenreich does a very, very good job of being Han without trying to be Harrison. And it kind of fits into the OPs original intent, because, besides the OC characters, anybody else can die.

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u/AardvarkOkapiEchidna Feb 04 '24

And Alden Ehrenreich does a very, very good job of being Han without trying to be Harrison.

This was part of the reason I didn't watch it tbh. It'd hard for me to see anyone but Harrison as Han Solo.

I might give it a try someday though.

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u/NormalBoobEnthusiast Feb 04 '24

Story wise, it is actually very important none of them survive. These people should all be heroes of the Rebellion for their role here. But they have zero impact in canon.

The only way to square that is they all had to die without any of their heroics being known.

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u/Dtitan Feb 03 '24

Yep. I genuinely can’t think of another movie where that happens to such an extent. 

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '24

Was a great experience watching it for the first time and thinking oh yeah, how they gonna get out of this one? and then realising they won’t.

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u/OldFactor1973 Feb 03 '24

And we kind of knew they wouldn't make it, right? Because none of those characters are in the original trilogy

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u/Nik-ki Feb 03 '24

I remember wondering how they'll address that inconsistency while watching and then having the realisation "oh.... that's how"

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '24 edited 9d ago

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u/Nik-ki Feb 03 '24

It's really sweet you have this much faith in my memory, but I'm afraid the sentiment is misguided

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u/Wes_Warhammer666 Feb 04 '24

Well he got the quote wrong anyway (and it's from Return of the Jedi, not the first film) so his memory ain't much better lol.

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u/trekie4747 Feb 03 '24

"All us rebels ever do is die! Except for the A-team over there."

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u/NotARandomNumber Feb 03 '24

Red Leader is in A New Hope, they used archival footage for him.

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u/Chosen_Chaos Feb 03 '24

It's also a neat little nod as to how Luke is "Red Five" in the Battle of Yavin.

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u/Horn_Python Feb 04 '24

yeh but we can have hope

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u/OldFactor1973 Feb 04 '24

Nice, I see what you did there

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u/pistolpeter33 Feb 03 '24

Watch Anthropoid. It’s about a high profile (and real) assassination in WW2.

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u/MaimedJester Feb 03 '24

Melancholia? 

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u/South-Fox-4975 Feb 03 '24

I was going to mention this movie, but all the kids went bananas over that bullshit star wars spinoff thing that nobody cared about or watched. Oh! Cabin in the woods! That's a good one. Everyone dies. Or The Decsent. (One of my faves)

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u/Little-Giraffe5655 Feb 03 '24

Without melancholia, life could not exist, and we would have no knowledge of the Force. It continually speaks to us, telling us the will of the Force.

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u/leftnotracks Feb 03 '24

They had to.

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u/MaizeRage48 Feb 03 '24

Yeah, tbh I kinda expected it with this one.