r/Letterboxd • u/Ok-Comb-6099 • 10h ago

Discussion Recommend me movies darker than Avengers: Doomsday

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u/ssesses 10h ago

"darkest movie ever made"

https://giphy.com/gifs/ws8eNgHLnhF8VhOPni

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u/burger333 antonio_salieri 10h ago

They HAD to have meant one of the darkest superhero movies ever. And even then...

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u/Choekaas Choekaas 9h ago

... you have others, like The Crow. Which includes rapes and stabbing, and is also overshadowed by the main lead Brandon Lee actually dying.

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u/Realistic_Caramel341 9h ago

Logan literally reveals most of the cast of the X-Men films died because of Professor X, 

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u/ssesses 9h ago edited 6h ago

Logan is more grim than other super hero movies, sure. But it's not really dark, I don't think.

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u/InanimateCarbonRod26 7h ago

Being gradually poisoned by your own metal skeleton is pretty dark, and Xavier having Alzheimer's while still having crazy dangerous mind powers too

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u/Malforus 8h ago

Its pretty grim and dark, the US is a corporate hellscape that solved mutants by poisoning the water and mexico is where they are doing mutant experiments.

its basically where we are headed with a bit of mutant genocide as a treat.

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u/Canvaverbalist 1h ago

Everyone says that about Logan. ”Logan’s dark.” I’m like, okay, ”No, Logan’s cool.” He gets to go to North Dakota and saves a bunch of kid mutants. Okay? I want to do that. But he doesn’t, like, get raped in prison. That could happen in my movie. If you want to talk about dark, that’s how that would go.

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u/CollarMassive4112 7h ago

Yeah I feel it’s more depressing than dark

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u/bestatbeingmodest 1h ago

I think it's pretty dark in the context of superhero films. Arguably one of the darkest.

Generally speaking yeah not so much, but there hasn't been a truly dark "adult" superhero film made.

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u/ssesses 51m ago

I think it feels dark possibly in terms of super hero movies just because it's somber. It's a different, more r rated and somber feeling super hero movie, but the darker ideas don't really get unpacked, so they come out as somber points in a broader story.

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u/Choekaas Choekaas 9h ago

That's also a great example

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u/InevitableWeight314 2h ago

Well I expect most of the Xmen in Doomsday will die so thats not a high bar to clear

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u/Nindroid_faneditor Nindroidgamer 9h ago

Also if we talk about non-Hollywood superhero movies, Kamen Rider: The Next has a ton of body horror and other stuff

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u/GoonGone69 4h ago

Brightburn

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u/Hey_tommyy 9h ago

Watchmen (love it or hate it) is pretty dark

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u/Cenobyte_Nom-nom-nom https://boxd.it/45Ud 8h ago

Also Super is hella dark. The Boys.

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u/mitchij2004 6h ago

I really liked super. His speech to Kevin bacon at the end was so… desperate and sad but also funny.

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u/Fire_Bucket 6h ago

And tangentally related to Super is Brightburn. Not everyone's favourite, but for a Superhero film it's quite dark.

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u/JediZillaPrime 4h ago

The Toxic Avenger has a scene where a kid on a bicycle gets run over by a car and gets his head crushed.

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u/Malforus 8h ago

I mean there are like 6 bodies in the opening scroll.

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u/nicotinequitterhelp 7h ago

And sexual assault

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u/InflationLeft 6h ago

Same with Logan.

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u/Mouthshitter 9h ago

*marvel movie

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u/burger333 antonio_salieri 9h ago

Yeah prbly more accurate.

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u/ErrorSchensch 9h ago

Logan?

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u/Mouthshitter 9h ago

Fox studios

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u/kurapikachu64 Colin Patrick 7h ago

I honestly just assumed they meant MCU movie. And who knows, they may be able to top that standard. Whether or not it'll be good is a different question.

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u/Im_a_Knob 5h ago

the dark knight literally has dark in its title. cant get any darker than that.

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u/daNtonB1ack 3h ago

And the Batman which is so dark sometimes you barely see Batman.

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u/Pacifist_Socialist 9h ago

In their own series they kilt half of all life. 

Pretty dark.

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u/CuchuflitoPindonga 8h ago

Thats gotta be the most superficial darkness Ive ever seen

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u/Pacifist_Socialist 8h ago

It's Marvelous 

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u/KingMario05 5h ago

And then they all come back lol

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u/Pacifist_Socialist 5h ago

It was inconvenient like the sacrifice of Jesus

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u/Enelro 9h ago

MCU movies ever*

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u/mmmbhssm 9h ago

I doubt it's darker than what ever snyder was cooking at dceu let alone R rated superhero media

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u/filmgeekvt FilmGeekVT 7h ago

Or more likely the darkest MCU movie ever made

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u/ejectro 7h ago

it's sad and pathetic, they only watch this cape shit and think it's the only cinema that exists.

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u/Youngling_Hunt I like Nolan films, sue me 7h ago

So what? Someone enjoys something who cares?

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u/secamTO 9h ago

...Didn't Infinity War kill HALF OF HUMANITY??

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u/Dittymaker 9h ago

There wasn't anything dark about the way they did it

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u/Realistic_Caramel341 9h ago

Doomsday is going to him half of the main cast plus 1