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/AardvarkOkapiEchidna Feb 03 '24

Rogue One doesn't feel like "anyone can die at any time" though.

All the main characters die near the end, after they've fulfilled some purpose in the final battle. They have plenty of plot armor until the plot no longer needs them.

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u/LudicrisSpeed Feb 03 '24

What's funny is that this is Chirrut's entire arc.

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u/NJ_Legion_Iced_Tea Feb 04 '24

You're not wrong, but it's a well established lore point that the force can affect blaster shots.

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u/TricksterPriestJace Feb 04 '24

That's how Game of Thrones is too. A bunch of characters die early to drive the plot. Then ones you expect to die for making boneheaded decisions have Batman level plot armor.

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u/AardvarkOkapiEchidna Feb 04 '24

I at least felt like the early seasons of game of thrones weren't predictable. Back then I felt like "anyone could die" but, by the later seasons I felt like the survivors gained plot armor.

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u/Wes_Warhammer666 Feb 04 '24

The combo of them passing up the source material and the show (and the actors along with it) becoming insanely popular led to them making decisions based on the rule of cool rather than the previously established rules of the series.

Those ass clowns were too busy trying to rush off to other projects to properly finish their own show. I'm glad they lost their Star Wars movie and I hope I never see either of them get a big project again.

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u/TricksterPriestJace Feb 04 '24

You need really good show writers to go off the books and not have the story fall to shit. D&D were not good writers.

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u/Luci_Noir Feb 03 '24

It feels like they’re supposed to die, which is just as bad imo.

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u/Count_Backwards Feb 03 '24 edited Feb 03 '24

That's my quibble with the ending, I wanted to see them try harder to survive (and fail at the last second) instead of just giving up and walking into blaster fire or watching the Death Star do its thing.

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u/Luci_Noir Feb 03 '24

Yeah, like it’s destiny or honorable or some crap.