We’ve been making movies for a good century or so at this point, so we’ve pretty much caught on to the standard formula. Good guy enters into conflict with bad guy, good guy and bad guy fight it out, good guy drinks strategically placed Pepsi product, good guy wins. Boooo-riiiiing. These days, we need some antiheroes, a sympathetic villain or two and an unexpected ending to keep us interested. You know what they say about ambiguity: It makes the world go… go-ity.
So when Redditor TweekerAllWeeker recently asked r/AskReddit, “What is a movie where the bad guys won?” that wasn’t necessarily an easy question to answer. Sometimes, the protagonist was the bad guy all along, the villain is a nebulous entity that may or may not even have free will, and it turns out the whole good/bad dichotomy looks very different if you ask a computer, which at least one Redditor did.
Still, there were plenty of times the system failed, and the bad guys rode off into the sunset to bad another day.
Seven
20 Movies Where the Bad Guy Won