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* ''Film/TheLeechWoman'' would possibly be regarded as ''Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: The Movie'' for many reasons. Every single male character instantly pounces on the most attractive female around (regardless of whether or not they're in a relationship), and are willing to ''literally'' leave them for dead once they get old and aren't so hot anymore; women are completely defined by their ability to attract men, and those that can't are [[IWasQuiteTheLooker better off dead]]. And if it's NOT base lust that motivates everyone, it's [[{{Greed}} lust for money]]. Not a single character ever voices objection when another is murdered, and everybody seems all-too eager to kill. Perhaps a better alternate name would be HumansAreBastards: TheMovie. It's like a Creator/LarsVonTrier film, without the innovation or style...
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* ''Film/Unthinkable'''s protagonist, H, is a TortureTechnician who's willing to go to horrible lengths to get his perps to talk. The antagonist, while [[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic supposed to be seen as sympathetic,]] is also a [[SmugSnake smug]] {{Hypocrite}} who's willing to kill millions of innocent people. Nobody else in the film earns many sympathy points either, and [[spoiler:it all ends on a [[DownerEnding sad note.]]]] Leading many viewers to lose interest all together.
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* ''Film/Unthinkable'''s protagonist, H, is a TortureTechnician who's willing to go to horrible lengths to get his perps to talk. The antagonist, while [[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic supposed to be seen as sympathetic,]] is also a [[SmugSnake smug]] {{Hypocrite}} who's willing to kill millions of innocent people. Nobody else in the film earns many sympathy points either, and [[spoiler:it all ends on a [[DownerEnding sad note.]]]] Leading many viewers to lose interest all together.
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* Every single character in ''Film/FrankensteinsArmy'', save for the trio of German survivors, are complete assholes (it does say something that the Nazis end up being the closest things to good people). The viewpoint Soviet squad is a bunch of hardened war criminals who razed a farmstead at the start of the movie for no reason. The muscle of the squad, Vassili, is a belligerent and bigoted asshat who's always on the verge of flying into a murderous rage, as well as being an unapologetic rapist. The main protagonist, Dimitri, is a ruthless [[ThePoliticalOfficer officer]] who uses his comrades' families as hostages to make sure they go along with his suicide mission. When he gets marooned by the squad for his scumbaggery, any sense of catharsis is ruined by the fact that his comrades are just as bad as he is. The last survivor of the squad, Sasha, seems like a decent enough ButtMonkey at first, but he doesn't bat an eye at the crimes of his comrades and even lets them murder a little boy in cold blood. Oh, and the aforementioned German survivors? They all die horribly, one directly murdered by the squad and the others callously killed in the crossfire as the squad battle the Zombots. A special mention goes to Eva, who gets horribly turned into a Zombot after getting knocked out by a grenade thrown by the squad.
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* ''Film/TheBurningMoon'': There aren't many likable characters, and almost all the good guys are either victims or TooDumbToLive (like Julia). Not helping is that the movie grows increasingly grim as it goes on, all culminating in a shockingly upsetting ending.
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* Almost all of the characters in ''WesternAnimation/TheNutJob'' are mean-spirited {{Jerkass}}es, {{Idiot Hero}}es who believe anything and ''everything'' [[spoiler:Raccoon]] tells them, annoying characters whose relevance to the plot is questionable at best, or {{Designated Hero}}es who are only using Surly for their own personal gain, despite the fact they kicked him out the park and don't intend to bring him back even though he's willingly helping them. Buddy is really the only character who isn't annoying, evil, idiotic, or just plain mean to others.
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* ''Film/OutOfDarkness'': The movie is already very dark for the first two acts, but the third act pushes into this territory for some people, [[spoiler:with many finding the plot twist and ending downright misanthropic in killing off nearly the entire cast - including the pregnant woman - and depicting the whole conflict as stupid folly born of paranoia and prejudice.]]
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If it's been praised, then it's not an example of this trope, plain and simple. On top of that it was made with a budget of $3 million and made back $17 million worldwide and the film has high review scores. It's far too successful to count as an example
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* ''Film/{{Upgrade}}'': The revelation that [[spoiler:STEM is the true BigBad and the resulting DownerEnding in which TheBadGuyWins]] can leave a bad taste in some viewers' mouths, though for the most part, the film has [[TrueArtIsAngsty actually been praised]] for [[spoiler:its unexpectedly bleak ending.]]
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* ''Film/RobotMonster'' is a ''depressing'' movie if you ignore all the {{Narm}}. The film starts with the human race reduced to eight people, and over the course of the film humanity's last hope at escape is destroyed, a young child is murdered, and a woman's lover is killed in front of her on their wedding night. [[spoiler:It's AllJustADream... except the [[BigBad Great Guidance]] shows up for real at the end, meaning we might be heading towards it anyway.]] If this movie was made competently it would be impossible to sit through.
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* A common complaint in critical reviews was that eventually the barrage of horror takes the edge off itself. Even fans of SurrealHorror find the ''WesternAnimation/WhereTheDeadGoToDie'''s tone to be far too bleak, though whether they see it as being legitimately too twisted or [[{{Narm}} so unabashedly dark it becomes goofy]] tends to vary.
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* Most, if not all, of the characters in ''WesternAnimation/JoshuaAndThePromisedLand'' are assholes. Joshua's parents are mean to him and each other. Chris persuades young Joshua to come with him on a hellish journey that rips him away from his family and lasts for decades. The former slaves are [[UngratefulBastard total ingrates]]. The slavers, naturally, are cruel. Seemingly everyone else the party encounters is barbaric. Even God gets in on the dickwolfery, by giving people freedom and then utterly damning them if they displease him in the slightest (despite everything good he did, Moses never gets to see the Promised Land, because he beat a rock with a stick). Joshua's party ultimately reaches the Promised Land by seizing it and killing everyone else who previously lived there.
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* ''Film/ChristmasWithTheKranks'': Luther and the neighbors are both very unsympathetic, so many viewers don't care about either of them. Luther's grievances are [[DesignatedVillain completely reasonable]], but he's such an unlikeable {{Jerkass}} that it becomes hard to root for him either.
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* A major cause of the ''Film/RockyV'' negative response is just how depressing it is compared to [[Film/{{Rocky}} the]] [[Film/RockyII previous]] [[Film/RockyIII four]] [[Film/RockyIV movies.]] While a return to the series' roots was not a bad idea itself, it's widely agreed that the circumstances in which this happens, with Rocky losing all his money and success and being brought back to where he started, are just too much of a downer for such an uplifting and hopeful franchise, and unlike the sadder moments in the rest of the Rocky series, this situation never really improves over the course of the film.
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* The main characters in the ''Film/TheCavern'' are unlikable, obnoxious, and dimwitted, and they constantly make one bad decision after another bad decision, constantly endangering themselves and each-other. Eventually you'll just get frustrated with the characters and likely give up on the movie halfway through.
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* ''Film/TheLastCircus'' is a very, ''very'' dark comedy with less comedy and more morbidity that follows a pair of {{Monster Clown}}s who undergo grotesque physical mutilations and SanitySlippage before going on a murderous rampage all for a woman they both loved.
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* ''Film/AllQuietOnTheWesternFront2022'' is about German soldiers in the First World War, mostly in the last week of the war. It's well known that Germany did not win the war, and the film portrays the armistice that ends it as a thinly disguised German surrender. Therefore, the soldiers have no hope of contributing to any sort of victory, the most that they can hope for is personal survival, and even this becomes increasingly unlikely as the bodies pile up.
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Just Angst Aversion. TBSC need to explain how it causes audiences to be unable to root for anyone.
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* The dark tone and religious undertones in Film/{{Daredevil}} can be unnerving for those who prefer typical superhero films.
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For bvs there is a difference between too bleak stopped caring and angst aversion. besides angst aversion is By far one of the most common criticisms of the film was that its Darker and Edgier depiction of Superman, Batman and the world they live in is so absurdly depressing and bleak that it either makes the whole thing feel ridiculous and stupid due to how relentless it is, undermines the sympathetic qualities of Batman or simply ruins the audience's ability to care about anything happening in it. In the tv tropes page ymmv for bvs there already is angst aversion.
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** The followup, ''Film/AlienResurrection,'' while not as bad in this regard as ''Alien³'', is nevertheless considered by many to be dim and hopeless, populated by unsympathetic characters.
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** The followup, ''Film/AlienResurrection,'' while not as worse than Alien 3, many find to be dim and hopeless, populated by unsympathetic characters.
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