Dark/ Complex Characters - Serial Killers/ Narcissists/ Obsessives/ Perfectionists - Film or Series

Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman in Se7en (1995)

Bottle movies are films set in a single location (ship in a bottle metaphor). Films tied to one place/ location to an extent of 80% of their runtime.

Best one location/ chamber piece or Indie/ low-budget films

Henry Fonda, Martin Balsam, Jack Klugman, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley, Edward Binns, John Fiedler, E.G. Marshall, Joseph Sweeney, George Voskovec, Jack Warden, and Robert Webber in 12 Angry Men (1957)

Takeshi Kaneshiro, Brigitte Lin, and Faye Wong in Chungking Express (1994)

Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Downey Jr., Lou Ferrigno, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Mark Ruffalo, and Chris Hemsworth in The Avengers (2012)

Films which started with wonderful premise... Films that could've become great, but second half lets them down!!  Films where it almost seems like two different scripts were mashed together.  Films unable to nail the right tone down. Films where great reveal or climax gets botched - either due to bad writing, cliches, exposition or studio interventions.

Tip: Read Reddit about each, and you will find not just what was majorly wrong with each, but perhaps ideas too of what might have worked instead...

Nice Premise - Botched 2nd Half/ Bad Ending

John Cusack, Dustin Hoffman, Gene Hackman, and Rachel Weisz in Runaway Jury (2003)

Adaptations: Based on Book/ Novel/ Novella, Play, Article or Short Story

Marlon Brando and Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now (1979)

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