"She Laughed All Night. Then She Ghosted You. Here's Why."

Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.

Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?

You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.

Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.

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Movies where protagonist dies?

"She's Out of Your League"

You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.

Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.

She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.

Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.

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elysium.....matt damon's character dies.
 

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Technically RoboCop.

Terminator (first one) if you think Kyle or the T-100 count as protagonists.
 

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I am Legend - although there was a director's cut ending where everybody lived.

In the original script for Natural Born Killers, both Mickey and Mallory die at the end, killed by the Owen guy who helps them escape prison. They left the foreshadowing scenes in the movie though.

Bruce Willis dies at the end of Armageddon. Tom Cruise dies at the end of Oblivion. Arnie dies at the end of Christine.
 

"She Liked You in March. It's October Now."

Attraction runs on a clock.

She flirted for weeks. Touched your arm. Found reasons to be alone with you. And you were careful. Respectful. Waiting for the right moment.

The moment had a shelf life. It expired around month two, and by the time you asked her out, she'd quietly filed you under "little brother."

One of the hardest lessons inside the 22 Rules: women rarely wait. Interest either grows or it decays, and nothing decays it faster than a man who never moves.

Make the move while she's still inventing reasons to be near you.

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bradd80 said:
Scarface (tony montana dies, but not without a fight fvck yeah)

American beauty (just when Kevin spacey basically tell everyone to go fvck themselves and starts to enjoy life on his terms, he's shot in the head)

psycho (that chick when she dies in the shower scene)

the decaprio in both titanic and the departed

gran torino (eastwood dies at the end so his neighborhood can live in peace)

saving private ryan (tom hanks dies after giving private ryan a bit of advice)

300 (all the Greek soldiers die)

black swan

million dollar baby

Alien 3

Gladiator (the general/gladiator maximus - played by Russell crowe - is stabbed to death by the emperor)

the matrix (at the end of the third movie, neo sacrifices himself to save humanity)

V for Vendetta

Cool Hand Luke ("What we've got here, is a failure to communicate")

blair witch project (all 3 kids die at the end in the building)

the shining (jack freezes to death while trying to hunt down his son)

reservoir dogs (everyone dies in the end)

sixth sense

the boy in the striped pyjamas

the others (the mother smothered her kids with a pillow and shot herself in the head with a rifle)

OP, there's actually quite a few
I guess I shouldve mentioned Im looking only for dramas. Nevertheless thanks for the list as I see many I should watch.
Its interesting how almost all movies where the main character dies are pretty highly rated. Maybe thats the secret to a good movie? I think this is why Shakespeare's tragedys are also so popular. They should definetly make more like these.
 

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Lots of of crime movies do, Godfather 1,2, Road to Perdition, The Professional off the top of my head.
 

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planet of the apes 2, the main character activated the nuclear bomb and killed everyone
 

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Bible_Belt said:
I am Legend - although there was a director's cut ending where everybody lived.

In the original script for Natural Born Killers, both Mickey and Mallory die at the end, killed by the Owen guy who helps them escape prison. They left the foreshadowing scenes in the movie though.

Bruce Willis dies at the end of Armageddon. Tom Cruise dies at the end of Oblivion. Arnie dies at the end of Christine.

technically tom cruise didn't die in oblivion, cause he was a clone, and his other clone came back
 

"Why Women Dump the Guys Who Try the Hardest"

You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.

And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.

Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.

The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.

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If you want to watch some seriously f'd up movies, that don't follow the traditional Hollywood "happy ending" check out some of the Korean thrillers / horror movies on Netflix.

Off the top of my head..

Chaser
I Saw The devil
Bedeviled

There's also plenty of indies on netflix that don't follow normal hollywood structure, but you've got to wade through a lot of crap to find them.
 

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Hmmm, imagine that.....every movie with a guy that portrays masculinity, he ends up dead.

Movie ain't reality, gents.
 

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taiyuu_otoko said:
check out some of the Korean thrillers / horror movies on Netflix.
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Will check those out, loved "Oldboy" 2003 version.
 
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