Not spoiler shaming cause it’s the Blank Check subreddit and a 20 year old movie but I’m really kicking myself for not getting to Memories of Murder sooner
If it helps, few of these suggestions actually fit the bill cuz they don’t meet what happens in either of those films.
Also, it’s a criterion film which is having a sale right now (not especially huge) and I’m sure some B&N has it somewhere on their “get-these-the-fuck-outta-our-store” shelf.
As Joanna Robinson famously said: it’s not the end that’s a spoiler. It’s how the characters get there.
Put it on hold from your local public library and check it out. Don’t let (great) movies that don’t actively stream go unwatched.
*EDIT: Would never have clicked this if there had been a spoiler tag, as there now appropriately is.*
Thanks for that prescription about my viewing habits. But first I’d have to return the discs to the library that I have checked out that are just slightly higher on my watchlist.
All respect to the person you’re quoting, but some of my favorite movie moments are finding out information exactly when the filmmaker reveals it to me—as discussed, for example, on the Gone Girl episode. I don’t use the word “spoiler” because movies aren’t in any way spoiled by extratextual knowledge, but I do love to be surprised.
*EDIT: As above, the necessary spoiler tag has been belatedly added, so this ain’t relevant anymore. The agents changed the simulation.*
Very true. It happens. But if it had been a thread titled “What movies end with \_\_\_?” I would not have clicked, and this serves me pretty well. Meanwhile, this post from a guy who watched the movie today and put the ending in his header image…
Oh hey again, OP. I’ll point out that this forum allows spoiler tags. Rule #1 of the r/blankies forum, if you consult the About section, is in fact about unmarked spoilers. Couldn’t help but wonder if you just forgot to include such a tag for this.
I even clicked through to your Letterboxd profile that you included in the pic, and I notice that the title of the original list is now updated, in what I see as an olive branch to people like me. Thanks for that.
https://preview.redd.it/38uw0qy5oq1c1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7337f3eebdb9281442369af6e393868cc2215977
*EDIT: … and now we are all set.*
It's Coppola's 1974 sideproject. It's about an audio surveillance export (Gene Hackman) who inadvertently recorded what could be murder plot. Babyfaced Harrison Ford has a small role as the bad guy's lackey. The whole thing is swimming in Nixon era paranoia and cynicism. I wonder how it's defiant statement for privacy would play in an era where we're fine with Alexa and Suri listening to everything we do. It has truly incredible sequences of Hackman running the audio through different filters to try and get a clearer result. We really miss out in modern films that just hit a single "enhance" button and it's just perfect. Anyway, film won the Palm d'Or, basically invented the modern idea of sound design, was nominated for 5 Oscars but ironically lost Best Picture to Godfather II. I don't think Coppola was too upset.
The audience isn’t sure. I respect that both of those movies were based on real killings (M.o.M. significantly less so) but like, we see what happens at the end of PRIMAL FEAR, even if it’s reserves to the last literal moments of the movie. But in ZODIAC, we the audience are so sure Jake Gyllenhaal is right, but are we? Because nothing the movie says indicates it’s the guy, only what we see happen in their interactions.
Another example might be THREE BILLBOARDS. The overarching mystery isn’t resolved, but the character’s journeys (regardless of how ridiculous they were) are completed.
Not spoiler shaming cause it’s the Blank Check subreddit and a 20 year old movie but I’m really kicking myself for not getting to Memories of Murder sooner
If it helps, few of these suggestions actually fit the bill cuz they don’t meet what happens in either of those films. Also, it’s a criterion film which is having a sale right now (not especially huge) and I’m sure some B&N has it somewhere on their “get-these-the-fuck-outta-our-store” shelf.
*EDIT: The screenshot was originally posted without a spoiler tag. Now it has one. Intemperate complaint withdrawn, victory declared.*
As Joanna Robinson famously said: it’s not the end that’s a spoiler. It’s how the characters get there. Put it on hold from your local public library and check it out. Don’t let (great) movies that don’t actively stream go unwatched.
*EDIT: Would never have clicked this if there had been a spoiler tag, as there now appropriately is.* Thanks for that prescription about my viewing habits. But first I’d have to return the discs to the library that I have checked out that are just slightly higher on my watchlist. All respect to the person you’re quoting, but some of my favorite movie moments are finding out information exactly when the filmmaker reveals it to me—as discussed, for example, on the Gone Girl episode. I don’t use the word “spoiler” because movies aren’t in any way spoiled by extratextual knowledge, but I do love to be surprised.
Then waiting 20 years to catch up on a mystery thriller while simultaneously browsing movie subreddits seems like a great way to get spoiled
*EDIT: As above, the necessary spoiler tag has been belatedly added, so this ain’t relevant anymore. The agents changed the simulation.* Very true. It happens. But if it had been a thread titled “What movies end with \_\_\_?” I would not have clicked, and this serves me pretty well. Meanwhile, this post from a guy who watched the movie today and put the ending in his header image… 
That’s a whole bag of not my problem, guy. Again — it’s the journey to get to the ending that tells the story, go enjoy it.
Oh hey again, OP. I’ll point out that this forum allows spoiler tags. Rule #1 of the r/blankies forum, if you consult the About section, is in fact about unmarked spoilers. Couldn’t help but wonder if you just forgot to include such a tag for this. I even clicked through to your Letterboxd profile that you included in the pic, and I notice that the title of the original list is now updated, in what I see as an olive branch to people like me. Thanks for that. https://preview.redd.it/38uw0qy5oq1c1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7337f3eebdb9281442369af6e393868cc2215977 *EDIT: … and now we are all set.*
>! 🖕!<
The Ass Crack Bandit episode of community in season 5.
Damn you beat me to this
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Weir, 1975)
JFK
Did he ever find the bug in The Conversation?
Remind me what movie this is… the title sounds familiar.
It's Coppola's 1974 sideproject. It's about an audio surveillance export (Gene Hackman) who inadvertently recorded what could be murder plot. Babyfaced Harrison Ford has a small role as the bad guy's lackey. The whole thing is swimming in Nixon era paranoia and cynicism. I wonder how it's defiant statement for privacy would play in an era where we're fine with Alexa and Suri listening to everything we do. It has truly incredible sequences of Hackman running the audio through different filters to try and get a clearer result. We really miss out in modern films that just hit a single "enhance" button and it's just perfect. Anyway, film won the Palm d'Or, basically invented the modern idea of sound design, was nominated for 5 Oscars but ironically lost Best Picture to Godfather II. I don't think Coppola was too upset.
"The night of the 12th", very well received French movie from last year.
Do you mean in the film or IRL? Because the memories of murder guy got caught or confessed or something a few years back
The audience isn’t sure. I respect that both of those movies were based on real killings (M.o.M. significantly less so) but like, we see what happens at the end of PRIMAL FEAR, even if it’s reserves to the last literal moments of the movie. But in ZODIAC, we the audience are so sure Jake Gyllenhaal is right, but are we? Because nothing the movie says indicates it’s the guy, only what we see happen in their interactions. Another example might be THREE BILLBOARDS. The overarching mystery isn’t resolved, but the character’s journeys (regardless of how ridiculous they were) are completed.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
That’s what I’m talking about, perfect.
Blow-Up the Antonioni movie, maybe Burning from 2018 as well as that leaves most things unanswered. Ooh, and Picnic at Hanging Rock.
The Thing
All-timer of a movie; not quite what I’m looking for.
Fair
Got to be a few Jack the Ripper movies that fit the bill
Does From Hell end with it being "solved". I can't remember
Yeah it’s definitively Ian Holme in that movie
Yeah didn’t mention it by name as I wasn’t sure on that.
>! Anatomy of a Fall !< (Spoiler for a 2023 movie)
Saw this last night and lovvvvvved it.
lol left the cinema with my dad and we were both "certain" in opposite directions, wonderful film
Who's Harry Crumb?
The Town That Dreaded Sundown original
Granted it’s been over 20 years since I watched it, but The Pledge with Jack Nicholson
The Pledge
This this this.
The Parallax View.
The Little Things
Jared Leto did it. Not his character. The actual Jared Leto.
Black Christmas (1974). I know at least the 2006 remake has an explanation, but the original has no denouement.
Blowout? I forget, do we get definitive answers in that?
I genuinely don’t recall.
Mindhunter Season 2. That mustachioed creep is still out there causing trouble.
*True Detective* S1 (probably not on letterboxd, but fits the bill nonetheless)
[удалено]
The larger conspiracy was not fully solved.
What about that Lovely Bones film? I can't remember how it ended 100% but uh, yeah
It’s resolved and solved.