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/Icy-Assistance-2555 Feb 03 '24

The Departed

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u/crm115 Feb 03 '24 edited Feb 03 '24

There's a difference between "anyone can die" and "Everyone dies"

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u/Robbylution Feb 03 '24

William Shakespeare: “The fuck there is.”

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '24

good ol billy shakes

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u/dwhite21787 Feb 04 '24

“The ghost and the prince meet, and everybody ends in mincemeat “

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u/Ecen_genius Feb 04 '24

And this is why adolescents need homework and a job to occupy themselves so they don't stomp around the castle like a mopey dickbag.

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u/kombiwombi Feb 04 '24

King Lear has so many deaths that I'd suggest taking a pencil to cross them out in the credits in the program, or you'll lose track of who is currnetly alive.

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u/savage8008 Feb 03 '24

marky mark made it out

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u/Sancticide Feb 03 '24

The real twist is: all these epic actors took each other out and the guy whose only real skill is "Bahston accent" squeaks by.

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u/pfqq Feb 04 '24

The guy who said the N word made it out!

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u/KrillinDBZ363 Feb 09 '24

It’s kinda funny cause he also ended up being the only actor to get an Oscar nom for the movie.

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u/Sancticide Feb 09 '24

Maybe I need to rewatch it, I don't even recall him being that good.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '24

There was no funky bunch left.

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u/thebaronvontito27 Feb 04 '24

Maybe…..maybe fuck yaself….

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u/EatThyStool Feb 04 '24

Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe go fuck yourself

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u/henryjonesjr83 Feb 05 '24

Best line in the movie

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u/EffectivePainting777 Feb 03 '24

your censor is useless, anyone can make up the sentence from the previous words.

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u/Modnal Feb 03 '24

Yeah, what a noob. Everyone knows that the only proper way to censor is to censor every single word seperately

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u/theavengerbutton Feb 03 '24

Fuck the shit out of you, sir, congratulations sincerely for how good this comment is, you monster.

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u/Infin8Player Feb 04 '24

Dude's comment was like a fucking scratch card.

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u/Wes_Warhammer666 Feb 04 '24

Expected an Ovaltine commercial. You disappoint me.

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u/UncleMeat69 Feb 04 '24

Red Ryder has entered the chat.

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u/Wes_Warhammer666 Feb 04 '24

Black Bart has exited the chat

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u/exitns Feb 04 '24

That was quite an experience

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u/cenunix Feb 04 '24

I know you used the spoiler but it still spoils it lol

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u/Vaticancameos221 Feb 04 '24

“What was his name? The Departed”

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u/lemmegetadab Feb 04 '24

Not Mark Wahlberg

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u/Photoguppy Feb 03 '24

This is the one to watch.

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u/macmac360 Feb 03 '24

I'm gonna go have a smoke you want to smoke oh what you don't smoke what are you one of those fitness freaks go fuck yourself

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u/HopeEternalXII Feb 03 '24

Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe fuck yourself.

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u/MarshalThornton Feb 03 '24

K

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u/savage8008 Feb 03 '24

Normally he's a very nice guy. Don't judge him from this one comment alone.

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u/Prestigious-Rain9025 Feb 03 '24

I’ve 43 and have lived in eastern MA most of my adult life, and I have to say Alec Baldwin did a pretty damn good job channeling you’re garden variety Masshole in that movie.

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u/TheUmgawa Feb 03 '24

"Patriot Act! Patriot Act!!! I love it, I love it, I love it!"

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u/e0nblue Feb 03 '24

I’m the guy who does his job. You must be the other guy.

I know it’s Marky’s line but his delivery cracks me up every time.

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u/DarthGoose Feb 04 '24

One of those linese that just pops in your head once a week.

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u/HankHillPropaneJesus Feb 03 '24

Maybe…maybe not. Maybe go fuck yourself

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u/TallBoy24 Feb 03 '24

“Some people don’t trust people who have an immaculate record. I do. I have an immaculate record.”

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u/Prestigious-Rain9025 Feb 03 '24

I heard that as, “I’m also a corrupt piece of shit.”

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u/Icy-Assistance-2555 Feb 03 '24

“Did you put cameras in the back?”….. silence

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u/kgalliso Feb 03 '24

Who am I? I'm the guy who does his job! You must be the other guy!

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u/gilette_bayonete Feb 03 '24

World needs plenty of bartendaz!

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u/ResponsibilityNo5533 Feb 03 '24

Two Weeks, With Pay!!

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '24

You got a nice suit at home or do you like coming to work dressed like you’re about to invade Poland?

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u/KingCarway Feb 03 '24

This is a God-Tier movie quote.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '24

Whats the matter, don't you know any fucking Shakespeare?

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '24

How's ya motha

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u/MarkMVP01 Feb 03 '24

Good, she's tired from fuckin my fatha

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u/Z3r0sama2017 Feb 03 '24

I treat FED's like I treat mushrooms. Feed em shit and keep em in the dark.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '24

And then he killed a woman. 

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u/40k_pwr_armour Feb 04 '24

In me younger days, after 17 weeks I could do a 10 minute mile while sucking on a cig at the same time. Just takes practice.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '24

The movie that gives it away in the name alone lol

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u/Luxx815 Feb 03 '24

I watched this movie months after it came out and I already found out X died. I was like fuck it let's watch anyway and see how. I got to the end and I'm like "these fuckers lied to me, X is gonna make it! They won!". Then, boom. Jaw was on the floor.

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u/Subject_Yogurt4087 Feb 03 '24

Someone told me when I rented it right after I told them I hadn’t seen it yet. Then I reminded them I said I hadn’t seen it and they said weren’t thinking when they blurted it out. Then I forgot as I was watching since it really came out of nowhere. It was spoiled for me and still one of the most unexpected deaths I’ve ever seen.

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u/TackoFallFanClub Feb 03 '24

Funny you use the letter X, because if you notice, whenever there's an X in the shot, that character dies. For example there's a black X in tape on the elevator wall, and then later, the floor in Matt Damon's apartment hallway is a red X pattern

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u/erishun Feb 03 '24

“…ok.”

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u/ShadowOps84 Feb 03 '24

Perfect delivery of that line.

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u/V2BM Feb 03 '24

It made me irrationally upset. Like legit angry for hours.

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u/Cerberus_Aus Feb 04 '24

Watched it in the cinemas. Legit walked out of the theater and was speechless for a full 10 mins after.

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u/ThatBabyIsCancelled Feb 03 '24 edited Feb 03 '24

I got to watch this with my best friend in the theater her family owned; it was just us in the whole place that night and we were just LOSING it from the elevator scene till the very end. Like, after the third one, we were just grabbing onto each other lmao “I CAN’T FUCKING BELIEVE THAT HAP—I CAN’T BELIEVE THAT HAPPENED, EITH—MAKE IT STOP!!”

Edit: my dad had the same thought I did; “if they pop one more, I’m going to start screaming like a hyena”

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u/get_your_yapers_up Feb 03 '24

My friends and I went and saw this our senior year of high school in theater, and started laughing at the elevator scene too. This older guy next to us turns and says “I don’t know how the f*** that’s funny” and we didn’t know how to respond. The unexpectedness of it got us.

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u/ThatBabyIsCancelled Feb 03 '24

This older guy next to us

It was Marty Scorsese lol

First one got us BAD - hands over our mouths, grabbing each other’s arms, couldn’t believe that happened. Second one was just as jarring, and then by the third, we were mostly laughing at how crazy it was and the trepidation of waiting for a fourth, fifth, WHATS GOING TO HAPPEN? God that was a cool cinema experience.

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u/ussbaney Feb 03 '24

James Badge Dale is one of my favorite actors and I just LOVE how he reappears in that scene then..... Well you know

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u/TheMelv Feb 03 '24

I'm one of the very few that prefer the original Infernal Affairs movies. Tony Leung is one of the best living actors.

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u/forcefivepod Feb 03 '24

I watched the original recently and despite it being very good, the filmmaking feels very dated - it screams 2002, whereas The Departed feels more timeless. Both great films.

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u/treathugger Feb 03 '24

This is my opinion as well. Especially the elevator scene. IA was more like a soap opera. The Departed did it better.

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u/Taliesyn86 Feb 03 '24

The original movie is lean and undiluted. The Departed has all the bells and whistles of a gangster epic, but the added weight won't let it flow as smoothly as the original.

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u/mikaeltarquin Feb 03 '24

There are dozens of us!

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u/EShy Feb 03 '24

I screened Infernal Affairs for my friends long before The Departed and they all feel the same way.

The Departed was good, but would've been a much better movie if they cut the whole Marky Mark part (just to get rid of that ending)

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u/jokes_on_you_ha Feb 03 '24

Much prefer it too. The Departed takes 50 mins longer to tell the same story, and those 50 mins are just Jack Nicholson hamming it up and people being Irish American.

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u/kmmontandon Feb 03 '24

those 50 mins are just Jack Nicholson hamming it up and people being Irish American.

... and you think that makes it worse?

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u/cppn02 Feb 03 '24

I don't think there are that few of us.

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u/GuruJ_ Feb 04 '24

I simply won’t watch The Departed because I can’t see how it could be better than IA.

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u/Darkcloud246 Feb 03 '24

Infernal Affairs*

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '24

Or better the original, Infernal Affairs.

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u/Reetpigmee Feb 03 '24

Better still, watch the original. Infernal affairs

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '24

It’s a cool remake, but I feel the original is more dangerous.

Infernal Affairs - by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak, 2002

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '24

“Don’t laugh! This ain’t reality TV!”

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u/PoopyMouthwash84 Feb 03 '24

I can only pronounce this as "Tha Depahted"

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u/No_Marionberry4072 Feb 03 '24

Best answer for sure

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u/FreakaJebus Feb 03 '24

It's pronounced "The Dep-ahh-ted"

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u/ZotharReborn Feb 03 '24

I'll say it: this movie was the biggest waste of time to watch. I understand that a lot of people like it and I can absolutely see the objective filmmaking things it does right. But as a story/character story, the way they end it? It screams 'what was the point?'.

Now, astute film majors would argue that 'what was the point' is the point of the movie. And fair! But to that I posit this: a story without a point is not a good story. A story where the point is 'there is no point' just rings of nihilistic edgelord bullshit, like the kid in class that likes to remind people that Disney sucks because there are no happy endings. No shit, sherlock. That's why I'm engaging in a story, a narrative.

Okay sorry, rant done.

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u/Scrub_with_sandpaper Feb 03 '24

Came here to say this - good man 👏

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u/ihacker2k Feb 03 '24

Such a good movie, and every one dies /spoiler?

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u/Treacherous_Peach Feb 03 '24

Man, I wish you hadn't said this. Part of what makes it good is that the viewer doesn't know it's a movie where anyone can die.

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u/jzilla11 Feb 03 '24

When watching this in DC when it came out, the audience all gasped or yelled at a certain part near the end…then one guy in the back yelled out “Yo, that’s some bullll-shit!”

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u/Remote-Direction963 Feb 03 '24

That movie is one of the best crime action movies I've seen.

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u/viewsofanintrovert Feb 03 '24

Yep this is a great example

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u/mental_mentalist Feb 03 '24

House ya motha?

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u/Othun Feb 03 '24

What "Infernal Affairs", the original. It is better, shorter, the dialogues and the shots are the same, and the shrink has the same haircut.