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[Men_in_Boxes]

What other movies have this character as a protagonist?

 

[DrFigs]

I wish you would use words to describe what you mean

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

I wish you would use words to describe what you mean

"I've done bad all my life, but not today."

That character.

 

[TommyCronin6969]

Any film with Hitler killing himself.

 

[jason10mm]

Unforgiven?

A fair amount of anti-hero stuff is a bad guy trying to do one good deed. Like Black Adam. Even the Bride in Kill Bill, she was no saint, just wanted to get to her kid.

 

[March Climber]

"I've done bad all my life, but not today."

Does "Protagonist was a loser/fuckup their whole life, until this moment" count?

 

[BlackTron]

Isn't this sort of the Punisher? That he does good things, by doing bad things. The anti-Batman basically.

 

[Kings Field]

Derek Vinyard

 

[jufonuk]

Does "Protagonist was a loser/fuckup their whole life, until this moment" count?

Dusk til dawn seth

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Fight club

 

[jufonuk]

https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieSuggestions/s/LMjoAQRsxK

Great Movies That Celebrate Losers

Characters don't always have to be cool or successful winners, and these movies embrace the schlubby losers at their core.

movieweb.com

 

[thefool]

Thief

 

[NeverYouMind]

Restaurant sequence in Pulp Fiction, climax scene in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, climax of The Cabin In The Woods (from a cosmic perspective), climax of Donnie Darko, climax of Bad Lieutenant, Polar, Gran Torino (if you believe being a soldier during war time is bad karma), Leon: The Professional, Stand Up Guys, and Time (2021).

 

[jason10mm]

 

[AJUMP23]

Falling down.

 

[bitbydeath]

Baseketball.

 

[Sulaco]

The Perfect Storm (2000) has elements of a character with bad form redeeming themselves

 

[Trunx81]

Karate Kid. The whole movie follows the real villain.

 

[Puscifer]

"I've done bad all my life, but not today."

That character.

Something like this?




I've always loved Pulp Fictions exploration and indulgence of violence only to ultimately reject it.

 

[Trilobit]

Here's one about setting things right. Also it's made by David Lynch.

The Straight Story:

 

[daffyduck]

Lord Vader in the iconic scene from return of the Jedi?

 

[IDKFA]

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

Lots of good suggestions in this thread.

Anyone else think Christian Bale was miscast in 3:10 to Yuma? I feel like they got a healthy looking leading man to play a character with weakness as a character trait. I think a Joaquin Pheonix / Adam Driver / Gary Oldman type would have performed the role better.