Sentences with phrase «bleak end»

There are enough bleak end of the world games out there already.

«These disastrous unemployment figures mark a bleak end to 2011.

In a grotesque modification of the triangle in which David played so wretched a role, these traits in his sons lead to the same bleak end — murder.

I must give them credit for a surprisingly bleak ending, which was rather unexpected.

The first, by George A. Romero, his wife and assistant director Chris Romero (née Forrest) and Tom Savini, reveals that almost all the cast were friends, family or local Pittsburgh volunteers (even the mall was owned by personal friends of Romero), that the original script had a far bleaker ending (everybody dies) which was changed during the shoot because the film was «too much fun» for it, and that the fourth film, should it ever get made, is a larger - scale affair set in a down - town area, with lots of action sequences and an overarching theme of «ignoring the problem».

When you're filing, the whole world files with you Jonathan Pryce plays Sam Lowry, an unexceptional everyman who dreams big but lives as a tiny cog in a bewildering machine in Terry Gilliam's farcical but biting dystopian nightmare — a film he originally struggled to get to screen when executives bristled at its length and bleak ending.

As it closes in on an unavoidably bleak ending, Cargo fails to generate much suspense, choosing mood and ambiance over bullet - ridden shootouts and violent beheadings.

Filmed in gritty Black & White (color would have spoiled it), Night of the Living Dead plunges right in with the action and when its dismally bleak ending comes around, it becomes quite clear that this 1968 movie by a first time director is definitely deserving of its cult status.

Not exact matches

People see no end to unbearable hardships, and a bleak future awaits an entire generation of jobless and seemingly hopeless youth.

Seldom is this true of life on the upswing, and the circumstances must be bleak indeed, for ending life so early to be a loving choice.

A particular Christian group has recently updated its website to suggest something pretty bleak: They say the world will end this year, and they say they have biblical evidence.

At the end of Humboldt's Gift, Charlie and a friend are in a bleak New Jersey cemetery where they have buried Humboldt.

But the reality - principle of the new theologians has nothing to do with the bleak realism of the downtrodden, who must scrape to make ends meet and can not afford the luxury of uninhibited fantasy.

I served it to guests yesterday with a scoop of homemade tropical ice cream to end the meal, and every one went to bed happily satisfied... still blissfully unaware of the time suck awaiting us on this bleak DST morning.

Tuesday's result means the chances of that happening look bleak, and with City also well adrift of Chelsea in the title race, it could be the beginning of the end for their 61 - year - old manager.

And then you end up in a position where you're not even winning the trophies you're inventing for yourself, which is pretty bleak.

Proof is Ancelotti still believe he can be Alonso 2.O kind of... but he would be a great catch for us... Flamini is a good squad player but if we want to go higher and fulfill our supposed ambition we need to take the next step... he will definitely go at the end, Arteta is another story as he is our captain otherwise future looks bleak for both our players... more so if Coquelin continues to improve!!

At the other end of the table, things look bleak for Crystal Palace, whose probability of getting relegated is a whopping 84 %.

Also at the wrong end, bottom of the table West Brom are in desperate need of a win, although their hopes of staying up are looking bleaker by the week.

That means that although it may be slightly bleak one, this season ending could still throw up some surprises, and 50 % of North London would love to be celebrating St. Totteringham Day.

And although the signs aren't all terrible heading into the business end of the campaign, they certainly look bleak to say the least.

The only way to put an end to the city's bleak financial future is by slashing 20,000 jobs, raising taxes, cutting city services and getting help from the federal and...

I always buy boring coloured shoes because they are «safe», but I often end up somewhat regretting being this boring... especially when sometimes a bit of a daring colour can cast a completely new light on an otherwise bleak and simple outfit.

The elegaic Western paints a bleak picture of the Old West coming to an end and of a group of cowboys desperately trying to hold onto an era.

The real / unreal theme goes through the whole series, until the bleak part at the end of the trilogy which shows that winning a war is very different from winning a game, even a sadistic game like the Hunger Games.

In such a bleak story, the redemptive ending seems rushed and unconvincing, but director Oliver Schmitz has sent us a timely dispatch from a forgotten corner of the world that is honest above all.

The harrowing sequences of men being mown down by machine gun fire, one after another without a chance, the screams of the young troops as they go crazy from the constant shelling, the mud, barren landscapes, bodies, barbwire and of course the famous bleak depressing ending for the main lead nailing home how cheap life was.

Synopsis: Prima ballerina Dominika Egorova faces a bleak and uncertain future after she suffers an injury that ends her career.

This is a fantastically spun tale which starts out as a bleak expose about death for cash, which forms into a story of friendship, but delves back down into revenge, reemerges for justice and redemption, and then turns into a cat and mouse thriller for a while until unraveling into a blood - thirsty mess of explosions and bullets before finding its ending.

It's also less grim than its predecessor, which may please more viewers while they're watching, but ultimately leaves less of an impression than it might if it took a bleaker route to the end.

The apocalyptic, end - of - the - millennium rage of Thewlis's Johnny — an articulate, grungy working - class lout on the dole who abuses women and spews negativity — registers at times as Leigh's commentary on the bleak harvest of Thatcherism.

Karim Aïnouz — «Love for Sale,» «Madame Satã» Rakhshan Bani - Etemad — «Under the Skin of the City,» «The May Lady» Siddiq Barmak * — «Opium War,» «Osama» Aida Begić * — «Children of Sarajevo,» «Snow» Jeremy Brock — «True Crimes,» «The Last King of Scotland» Jared Bush * — «Zootopia,» «Moana» John Collee — «Tanna,» «Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World» Buddhadeb Dasgupta — «The Wrestlers,» «The Red Door» Kenneth Angelo Daurio, Jr. — «The Secret Life of Pets,» «Despicable Me» Luke Davies — «Lion,» «Life» Mohamed Diab — «Clash,» «Cairo 678» Lav Diaz * — «A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery,» «Norte, the End of History» Katie Dippold — «Snatched,» «Ghostbusters» Nelson Pereira dos Santos * — «How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman,» «Barren Lives» Ildikó Enyedi * — «Simon Magus,» «My Twentieth Century» Safi Faye * — «Mossane,» «Lettre Paysanne» Feng Xiaogang — «If You Are the One,» «A World without Thieves» Paz Alicia Garciadiego — «Bleak Street,» «Deep Crimson» Bahman Ghobadi — «Turtles Can Fly,» «A Time for Drunken Horses» Goutam Ghose * — «Shankhachil,» «Paar» Eric Heisserer — «Arrival,» «Lights Out» Barry Jenkins * — «Moonlight,» «Medicine for Melancholy» * — «The Holy Mountain,» «El Topo» Phil Johnston * — «Zootopia,» «Wreck - It Ralph» Kim Ki - duk * — «3 - Iron,» «Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring» Mohammed Lakhdar - Hamina * — «Chronicle of the Years of Embers,» «The Winds of the Aures» Brit Marling — «The East,» «Another Earth» Márta Mészáros * — «Diary for My Children,» «Adoption» Mike Mills — «20th Century Women,» «Beginners» Idrissa Ouedraogo * — «Tilaï,» «Yaaba» Éva Pataki — «The Seventh Room,» «Diary for My Loves» Cinco Paul — «The Secret Life of Pets,» «DespicableMe» Jordan Peele * — «Get Out,» «Keanu» Simon Pegg — «Run Fat Boy Run,» «Shaun of the Dead» Mohammad Rasoulof * — «Manuscripts Don't Burn,» «Goodbye» Eran Riklis * — «Lemon Tree,» «The Syrian Bride» Céline Sciamma — «My Life as a Zucchini,» «Tomboy» Mrinal Sen * — «The Case Is Closed,» «In Search of Famine» Taylor Sheridan — «Hell or High Water,» «Sicario» Sooni Taraporevala — «Mississippi Masala,» «Salaam Bombay!»

But as the days get shorter, the films look to get bleaker, as a trailer for a new young - skewing end - times picture demonstrates.

Callahan's story is pretty great — and his cartoons can be bleak as f*ck but they're funny — and it's a good counterpoint to the usual disability narrative that we see, which is that a spinal cord injury is the end of all things.

Characters often stare right into the lens in I, Tonya, a clamorous, dumb recounting of the bleak life and ignominious fall of figure skater Tonya Harding, whose career ended in 1994 after her alleged involvement in an attack on fellow ice athlete Nancy Kerrigan.

I thought it might go somewhere extra bleak and therefore different and compelling at the end, but nope — it wraps up in a fairly conventional way.

Suffused with the bleak acidity of a time when films often ended with the hero (or heroine) going up in a ball of flame.

Some may find the seemingly tacked - on ending counterintuitive to the more effectively bleak elements of the rest of the story.

Pulling from Nordic and Celtic lore, the fiction of Hellblade evokes a dire and somewhat bleak atmosphere, making it seem like the world had already ended, leaving Senua with only the company of her memories.

However, that joyous ending almost took an impossibly bleak turn.

Although the subject matter is bleak, as no one in their right mind would find a story about missing, abandoned, or murdered children to be entertaining, the tale reels you in and commands your interest from beginning to end, even through a fractured mid-section, extra endings, and an epilogue that can be read as either disappointed or hopeful, depending on how much you choose to read into it.

The Handmaid's Tale season 2 has the heavy burden of striking out beyond Margaret Atwood's book upon which it's based — a book that, with its bleak open ending — didn't provide much of a path for the Hulu series to follow.

Be prepared for a bleak, grim, downbeat ending (superheroes fail, superheroes fall), an ending unlike anything in the Marvel canon up to know.

Most notably, Scorsese's ending is bleaker, and in its bleakness, is indefatigably black and white: Violence is wrong, police are good, but nothing — including justice — truly matters.

This is a bleak film about a family living in the aftermath of what appears to be the end of the world.

It's all about the pay - off though, ending as it does on a note of unusually bleak and unexpected despair and irony.

Of course, the problem with basing a story around such a bleak topic is that it's depressing — something that «Seeking a Friend for the End of the World» tries to avoid by injecting some humor into the proceedings.

Bleak in atmosphere and teasing in its jigsaw construction of ensemble moments, «Happy End» is a snapshot of roughly a year in the life of a Calais family.

Writers Karim Aïnouz — «Love for Sale,» «Madame Satã» Rakhshan Bani - Etemad — «Under the Skin of the City,» «The May Lady» Siddiq Barmak * — «Opium War,» «Osama» Aida Begić * — «Children of Sarajevo,» «Snow» Jeremy Brock — «True Crimes,» «The Last King of Scotland» Jared Bush * — «Zootopia,» «Moana» John Collee — «Tanna,» «Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World» Buddhadeb Dasgupta — «The Wrestlers,» «The Red Door» Kenneth Angelo Daurio, Jr. — «The Secret Life of Pets,» «Despicable Me» Luke Davies — «Lion,» «Life» Mohamed Diab — «Clash,» «Cairo 678» Lav Diaz * — «A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery,» «Norte, the End of History» Katie Dippold — «Snatched,» «Ghostbusters» Nelson Pereira dos Santos * — «How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman,» «Barren Lives» Ildikó Enyedi * — «Simon Magus,» «My Twentieth Century» Safi Faye * — «Mossane,» «Lettre Paysanne» Feng Xiaogang — «If You Are the One,» «A World without Thieves» Paz Alicia Garciadiego — «Bleak Street,» «Deep Crimson» Bahman Ghobadi — «Turtles Can Fly,» «A Time for Drunken Horses» Goutam Ghose * — «Shankhachil,» «Paar» Eric Heisserer — «Arrival,» «Lights Out» Barry Jenkins * — «Moonlight,» «Medicine for Melancholy» Alejandro Jodorowsky * — «The Holy Mountain,» «El Topo» Phil Johnston * — «Zootopia,» «Wreck - It Ralph» Kim Ki - duk * — «3 - Iron,» «Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring» Mohammed Lakhdar - Hamina * — «Chronicle of the Years of Embers,» «The Winds of the Aures» Brit Marling — «The East,» «Another Earth» Márta Mészáros * — «Diary for My Children,» «Adoption» Mike Mills — «20th Century Women,» «Beginners» Idrissa Ouedraogo * — «Tilaï,» «Yaaba» Éva Pataki — «The Seventh Room,» «Diary for My Loves» Cinco Paul — «The Secret Life of Pets,» «DespicableMe» Jordan Peele * — «Get Out,» «Keanu» Simon Pegg — «Run Fat Boy Run,» «Shaun of the Dead» Mohammad Rasoulof * — «Manuscripts Don't Burn,» «Goodbye» Eran Riklis * — «Lemon Tree,» «The Syrian Bride» Céline Sciamma — «My Life as a Zucchini,» «Tomboy» Mrinal Sen * — «The Case Is Closed,» «In Search of Famine» Taylor Sheridan — «Hell or High Water,» «Sicario» Sooni Taraporevala — «Mississippi Masala,» «Salaam Bombay!»

The film's unusual structure gives the bleak tone different levels, but Catherine's descent goes completely dark by film's end.