Movies that bring you down...
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I'm still waiting for someone to say 'anything michael bay made'.
surprised no one did that yet.
E.T. made sad ages ago.
surprised no one did that yet.
E.T. made sad ages ago.
I know someone mentioned it earlier, but Up was the first animated movie to get me teary-eyed. The obvious prologue, but also towards the end when Dug shows up at the door while they're flying again. 'I hid under the porch because I love you.' I had seen the movie a couple weeks after my dog was put down back home in CA.
Even though it is not a true downer movie, one of my favorite films that I can no longer watch since the start of the Iraq War is "Blackhawk Down."
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I've got a long list of these. A lot of recent films, like Pan's Labyrinth and Life is Beautiful are really good at pulling out the tears. Someone mentioned books. The Last Unicorn is really one of the saddest books I've ever read. One of the best, too. They made the movie ending much happier. But the book ends with everyone except maybe Molly devastated.
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. It's not all that sad, but the way real life slowly grinds people down is something I find really depressing.
Also, the anime series Now and Then, Here and There. Not as depressing as Grave of the Fireflies, but this one left a strong impression on me because I watched it on a whim with no idea what it was about.
Also, the anime series Now and Then, Here and There. Not as depressing as Grave of the Fireflies, but this one left a strong impression on me because I watched it on a whim with no idea what it was about.
Oh Jesus, Pan's Labyrinth. Not only the ending, but one of the only violent scenes to actually make me wince (the bottle). And I've even seen A History of Violence.
THIS ^
I may be the only one to put this one on any type of list, but Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
It's not even that the movie itself was sad because it has a happy "ending" and everything, but it brought to the surface a really great fear of mine, the loss of memory, and watching the main character struggle to retain his memory and ultimately fail made me depressed for weeks. I would literally be sitting at home and start crying thinking about it.
The only movie since then to bring me down was the first few minutes of UP, which made me cry like a baby.
It's not even that the movie itself was sad because it has a happy "ending" and everything, but it brought to the surface a really great fear of mine, the loss of memory, and watching the main character struggle to retain his memory and ultimately fail made me depressed for weeks. I would literally be sitting at home and start crying thinking about it.
The only movie since then to bring me down was the first few minutes of UP, which made me cry like a baby.
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I Am Legend
I never got around to reading the book, the movie was good in my opinion.
But every time that dog dies.. I can't help but shed a tear. Nevilles all alone, that dog is all he's got in the world that his daughter left him and she gave her life to save him and afterwards he couldn't save her
That's up there with Old Yeller and Where The Red Fern Grows in terms of guaranteed-tears
I never got around to reading the book, the movie was good in my opinion.
But every time that dog dies.. I can't help but shed a tear. Nevilles all alone, that dog is all he's got in the world that his daughter left him and she gave her life to save him and afterwards he couldn't save her
That's up there with Old Yeller and Where The Red Fern Grows in terms of guaranteed-tears
It was his son.
And that movie was great... until they showed up. You know, those stupid, fake things. That girl and the little boy? Couldn't stand those things.
I hate that you reminded me of the dog scene in I Am Legend. I named one of the dogs my family rescued from a puppy mill after her after watching that movie.I Am Legend
I never got around to reading the book, the movie was good in my opinion.
But every time that dog dies.. I can't help but shed a tear. Nevilles all alone, that dog is all he's got in the world that his daughter left him and she gave her life to save him and afterwards he couldn't save her
That's up there with Old Yeller and Where The Red Fern Grows in terms of guaranteed-tears
Man. Let's see what I can remember. Someone else already got Old Yeller, a lot of the movies listed here are ones I haven't seen.
Gladiator and Iron Giant are downers, but in a 'Justice was nobly served' kind of way.
So my votes are for:
Brian's Song (Not on the list already? Really?)
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
The Champ
El Norte <--This. THIIIIIIS. So much this.
The "Valse Triste" segment of Allegro Non Troppo
Harold and Maude
The Red Balloon
Kati wants to add Bent and A Boy and his Dog to that list (I've never seen either).
On another note, if Peter David's series of "Sir Apropos of Nothing" is ever turned into a movie, that'd be on the list, too. Especially "Tong Lashing."
--Patrick
Gladiator and Iron Giant are downers, but in a 'Justice was nobly served' kind of way.
So my votes are for:
Brian's Song (Not on the list already? Really?)
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
The Champ
El Norte <--This. THIIIIIIS. So much this.
The "Valse Triste" segment of Allegro Non Troppo
Harold and Maude
The Red Balloon
Kati wants to add Bent and A Boy and his Dog to that list (I've never seen either).
On another note, if Peter David's series of "Sir Apropos of Nothing" is ever turned into a movie, that'd be on the list, too. Especially "Tong Lashing."
--Patrick
Yep.
I hunted down a copy of the VHS just because of that scene. They just rereleased it on DVD with extra footage. I bought it, but haven't seen it yet to know what's new.
--Patrick
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I saw it again recently with my family. I think that a lot of live-action dialogue that had been cut was left in. I don't remember anything else.
Man... I really embarrassed my dad as a kid. He taped that when we were all kids and let us watch it even though there was some nudity. He explained it all to us--the scene with the satyrs and nymphs and whatnot. He read mythology to us, too, so it wasn't really new. ANYway, I started telling people my dad let us watch a show with naked ladies in it, and that sounds very very ...weird out of context. That must have been fun to explain. Sorry, dad.
Man... I really embarrassed my dad as a kid. He taped that when we were all kids and let us watch it even though there was some nudity. He explained it all to us--the scene with the satyrs and nymphs and whatnot. He read mythology to us, too, so it wasn't really new. ANYway, I started telling people my dad let us watch a show with naked ladies in it, and that sounds very very ...weird out of context. That must have been fun to explain. Sorry, dad.
Did you just call me gay? Because you know what connotations that word has taken these days in China.[/QUOTE]
Oh, that wacky China!
A song, "El Gallo del Cielo" (it's in English) gets me every time I hear it (about once a week.) I think it gets me more now because my Daddy cried when he heard it.
It is a long a some movies...
It is a long a some movies...
Did you just call me gay? Because you know what connotations that word has taken these days in China.[/QUOTE]
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That movie is just one "everyone sucks" moment after another.[/QUOTE]
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NO I WON'T THINK ABOUT IT
Ugh I thought about it. D:[/QUOTE]
Oh god... I thought about it too...
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yeah thinking of sad movies is kind of like playing the game ooooooooh SNAP made you lose
That movie is just one "everyone sucks" moment after another.[/QUOTE]
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And nothing, I was commenting on the movie he's referencing. Pretty clear. Pretty simple. Obvious, one might say. Not something to puzzle over. Stop staring at me, freak.
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