Movies that bring you down...

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Espy

Espy

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?
 
Adam

Adam

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

CynicismKills

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.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

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.
 
ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

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).
 
Espy

Espy

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.
 
Adam

Adam

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.
 
Chad Sexington

Chad Sexington

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.
 
Silver Jelly

Silver Jelly

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.
 
Null

Null

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.
 
Espy

Espy

Null said:
[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.
 
phil

phil

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.
 
M

makare

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.
 
North_Ranger

North_Ranger

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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
basically saves everyone in his homeland by being there for the heroic Prince Verity at the right time. And what does he get in return? His love thinks he is dead and marries his mentor so that their daughter would have a father. And the main character can't go home because he would put his love and their child at risk just by living.

Goddammit, I'm crying again...
 
L

Liv

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