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So I'm watching The Road right now, about halfway through it and I'm so depressed. I don't even know if I can finish it. Good grief.
To be honest, I don't mind movies where characters die, depressing and/or real hard life stuff happens, etc, in fact I love intense dramas but every now and then a movie like this one just, for some reason, just is way to depressing for me.

Any movies/stories like that for you? That are to hard for you to get through/you won't ever watch or read again?

Most Chinese dramas are like that. Try watching "To Live."

Requiem for a Dream. Just put the straightjacket on me afterwards because it drives me mental.

The Mist.

Adammon said:

Requiem for a Dream. Just put the straightjacket on me afterwards because it drives me mental.

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This. And i got bummed out when I saw Hope Floats.

Oldboy and Last Samurai.

Couldn't care less about Cruise's character at some points, but man, watching the old society Watanabe bases (and stakes) his life on, as well as what happens to him, bring me way down.

Schindler's List seems like a give-in, but there it is. I watched it once, got it as a gift for Christmas, and haven't watched it since. And I thought it was an amazing movie and loved it, but I know it'll wreck me next time I watch it.

Some fantasy movies used to bring me down the way the Pandora-obsessive sub-culture last year got obsessed with Avatar and were depressed that the world couldn't be that way, but then I stopped being a teenager/got my head out of my ass.

Million Dollar Baby.

The last few scenes are just devastating.

I had a hard time getting through the first few episodes of Breaking Bad.

Grave of the Fireflies

La Via E Bella/Life is Beautiful. I Bawwed

Ditto on The Road, The Mist and Schindler's List. Of the three, the only one I could see myself ever watching against is The Mist. Road and Schindler are both amazing movies, but due to the latter's length and both of their content, it's just not something I could ever sit through again, I don't think. Saving Private Ryan might fall into that category, too, but I haven't watched it since High School.

Of course, I have a really long list of movies that put me in a good mood. Lilo & Stich, Iron Giant, Incredibles, Gremlins 2, Killer Klowns From Outer Space, Kung Pow, Hercules, What Dreams May Come (even though I bawl my eyes out).

The Korean film "Tae Guk Gi" was also kind of a downer.

IronBrig4 said:

The Korean film "Tae Guk Gi" was also kind of a downer.

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Damn... I got that a while ago, but never actually watched it.

General Specific said:

Grave of the Fireflies

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NO

NO I WON'T THINK ABOUT IT

Ugh I thought about it. D:

CynicismKills;440315][QUOTE=General Specific said:

Grave of the Fireflies

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NO

NO I WON'T THINK ABOUT IT

Ugh I thought about it. D:[/QUOTE]

Oh god... I thought about it too...

Oh... oh no...

Thank God The Road ended the way it did or I would have hurled myself off a skyscraper. Not that it was all sunshine and roses but it wasn't a total kick in the gut.

The mist is actually one of my favorite recent flicks. The ending is hard but the movie, unlike The Road, is not a grueling endurance test of harsh pain and sorrow.

My whole family struggles with the first 10 mins of Up because of the close parallel to my wife and I's struggle with the inability to conceive. It's our go-to sad movie.

Vagabond said:

Million Dollar Baby.

The last few scenes are just devastating.

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That.

I actually don't like Requiem for a Dream because to me it's so... hammer-you-over-the-head. It was too much and I became less and less emotionally involved as it went on.

As for movies that will wreck my day, There Will Be Blood. But it's excellent so I still watch it probably once a year.

LittleSin said:

The Mist.

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This for sure.

Gladiator always made me pretty sad. I liked it a lot, but I could just watch it twice, if I'm not mistaken, with several years between them.

I'm sure there are some others I just decided to delete from my head, and probably "saved" Gladiator because of all the cool stuff there was in there.

Vagabond said:

Million Dollar Baby.

The last few scenes are just devastating.

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Agreed. And I stopped watching The Road after they got to the farm. I just couldn't take it. It's the cinematic equivalent to the Bog of Despair in Neverending Story.

The ending of Berserk (the anime series) was a hard one to take.

Brazil's ending was grim.

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[And I stopped watching The Road after they got to the farm. I just couldn't take it. It's the cinematic equivalent to the Bog of Despair in Neverending Story.

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It really was. Holy crap. Thats exactly what it was.

The road is really good. You should read the book if you're into that kind of thing.


As for movies that can get me down I'd say The Bicycle Thief and Ikiru do that for me.


My ex and her mom made me turn off the bicycle thief because it depressed them too much. It pissed me off because basically the movie did what it was supposed to do too well. Seriously just watch it and then feel good about your own life for fucks sake.

I internalize things and empathize way too easily to enjoy sad or traumatic movies. I watch them but it is always a bad idea and nothing good ever comes of it.

I actually disliked The Mist heavily, but that's just me. Schindler's List always makes me cry at the end when the still living Schindlerjuden and their actors visit Oscar Schindler's grave.

A lot of Robin Hobb's novels are like this to me as well. The Farseer Trilogy actually makes me cry just by thinking about it, considering how the main character
Goddammit, I'm crying again...

I know it's not a movie, but I can't believe nobody mentioned the Jurassic Bark episode of Futurama.

Probably because it's not a movie and the topic was movies, only changing away from that in the last couple posts.

The hardest movie for me to watch for reason of sadness is Charly.

I have a hard time reading his posts too.

escushion said:

I have a hard time reading his posts too.

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Just for that, I'm buying a bag of rats in Golddrink.

I have only one thing to say about this thread.


"What's in the box?"

Dave said:

I have only one thing to say about this thread.


"What's in the box?"

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That movie is just one "everyone sucks" moment after another.

Dave said:

I have only one thing to say about this thread.


"What's in the box?"

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I know what you mean, that scene always gets me too...*sniff

Ditto on Tae Guk Gi

The recent Chinese movie about the Tangshan earthquake was...*sniff*

american history X. I love that movie and i own it. Yet, i never muster the courage to watch it anymore

Also Requiem for a Dream. I already knew that hard drugs could destroy you without having to watch this clusterfuck of misery, selfishness, and delusion.

I'm still waiting for someone to say 'anything michael bay made'.
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.

Awakenings.

I've heard only bad things about that movie.

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You're patriotic spirit is lacking, Comrade

Ha... my brain hides the memories of depressing films from me... right up until i actually see parts of it or something else that reminds me of them... basically my brain hates me.

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."

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.

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.

CynicismKills said:

Oh Jesus, Pan's Labyrinth. Not only the ending, but one of the only violent scenes to actually make me wince (the bottle).

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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.

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

It was his son.

Rubicon said:

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

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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.

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

Is that the cat scene from Allegro non Troppo? JEEESUS. I felt exactly like those old ladies at the end.

Man, Harold and Maude. That one also bums me out, but I can actually watch that movie and retain the desire to get up in the morning. Requiem freaking crippled me.

Cajungal said:

Is that the cat scene from Allegro non Troppo? JEEESUS. I felt exactly like those old ladies at the end.

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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

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.

mr_thehun;441050][QUOTE=Terrik said:

I've heard only bad things about that movie.

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You're patriotic spirit is lacking, Comrade

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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...

mr_thehun;441050][QUOTE=Terrik said:

I've heard only bad things about that movie.

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You're patriotic spirit is lacking, Comrade

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Did you just call me gay? Because you know what connotations that word has taken these days in China.[/QUOTE]

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Oh, Gone Baby Gone is a real downer I just remembered.

That ending is so heart breaking. What a shitty situation.

escushion;440458][QUOTE=Dave said:

I have only one thing to say about this thread.


"What's in the box?"

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That movie is just one "everyone sucks" moment after another.[/QUOTE]

and?

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bhamv3;440321][QUOTE=CynicismKills;440315][QUOTE=General Specific said:

Grave of the Fireflies

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NO

NO I WON'T THINK ABOUT IT

Ugh I thought about it. D:[/QUOTE]

Oh god... I thought about it too...

Oh... oh no...[/QUOTE]

yeah thinking of sad movies is kind of like playing the game ooooooooh SNAP made you lose

Disconnected;441246][QUOTE=escushion;440458][QUOTE=Dave said:

I have only one thing to say about this thread.


"What's in the box?"

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That movie is just one "everyone sucks" moment after another.[/QUOTE]

and?[/QUOTE]

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.