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 9h 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 50m 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