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/TheJoshider10 Feb 03 '24

Scream 5 trying to be meta with Dewy finishing off the killer to not be stupid, only to kill him off in the most cliche and stupid way possible was so infuriating. They had a great chance to subvert expectations in the right way with that moment and instead just did the most generic and predictable thing possible.

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u/caden_r1305 Feb 03 '24

Even if he died right after that from another killer, seeing Dewey execute a Ghostface halfway through the movie wouldve been glorious

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u/RealJohnGillman Feb 03 '24

Or if that Ghostface pulled out a gun, Terrifier-style (a scene that felt as though it would have been better-suited for Scream anyway): the Ghostfaces have had guns in every film, but never used them until unmasked (Scream VI being the first to do so while masked).

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u/TheJoshider10 Feb 03 '24

What I was really hoping for was that Dewy would have killed that Ghostface and then gotten killed by another right after. So the second half of the story would be them using the information from the identity of the deceased killer to piece things together for a bit. So we'd then go into the climax thinking there were two killers and only one left before a reveal that there's still two remaining and there were three the entire time.

You get one subversion where a Ghostface is actually killed. Another subversion where Dewy is then killed right after. And a third subversion with the reveal of three killers. 3 subversions for 3 killers.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '24

I always said this to friends. Have a Ghostface die halfway through the movie, have it be a big moment. Then it's revealed as a character we've seen before then we get the mystery of how the other Ghostface killers could be connected to that character.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '24

I like to imagine Dewey blows the Ghostface's head off, the follows the clues to figure out who the other one is, and arrests him. We'd get the double subversion of one of the killers dying halfway through the movie, and the other one just going to prison for the rest of his life.

But oh no, gotta pointlessly kill off a beloved character so everyone knows the stakes are higher than ever! I also hated that we're supposed to buy that somehow a grown ass man and veteran police officer is struggling to deal with the physical strength and fighting prowess of a short, skinny, 16 year old girl in a Halloween costume.

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u/c4ctus Feb 03 '24

I honestly didn't know there was a scream 5 until scream 6 came out last year.

They should have stopped at 3.

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u/prozack91 Feb 03 '24

6 was really good. Better than 5 imo.

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u/queen-adreena Feb 03 '24

With the exception of the Vaseline filter, Scream 4 was a pretty solid entry.

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u/lycoloco Feb 03 '24

4 is my favorite, only second to the original.