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    A Scanner Darkly, the drug epidemic is controlled by the pharmaceutical companies and they are still rich at the end.

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      But the movie ends with the brainfried undercover cop picking a drug-producing flower to send to his friends as a gift. It’s implied that’s what they need to bring the drug empire down.

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        It’s implied that it could go either way, but the ending it has ended before that could be decided. Also that undercover cop burned out his brain for a cause he never really signed up for.

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    I am going to put in little shop of horrors since it is a musical. And I really would not consider it horror.

    For those of you that don’t know there are actually 2 versions of this movie. The original release version where the plants lose and the ORIGINAL test audience version where the plants win.

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      The director insists the alien plants winning was the original ending he wanted, but he was forced to give the film a happy ending at the last minute. The director’s cut gives you the original ending in all it’s evil glory.

      There’s also an original Little Shop of Horrors released in 1960 that stars a young Jack Nicholson. That film has a different ending than both endings of the 1986 remake.

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    Willy Wonka (Or Charlie) and the Chocolate Factory. And not because of Charlie, but because of Wonka.

    The dude’s basically a slave owner, paying his workers in cocoa beans, he nearly drowns a kid, poisons another, throws a third into an incinerator, and disfigures a fourth.

    He’s not a good person.

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    There will be blood. Oil mogul thrives while america plunges into depression. Plainview and people like him will go on to be more influential down the line. Like prescott bush or hw bush.

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    Half of US «War movies» It’s not like the US soldier were less evil than the person they fight

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    Primal Fear (1996). It’s arguable whether or not the antagonist is truly evil though.

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    Just a reminder for people casually browsing that unmarked spoilers are present here!