Wizz-Art
Member
Huh, one of my favourite films to watch, watched and own it on DVD. Blu-ray and UHD. Wouldn't call it a depressing film at all.
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Your most depressing movie
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Bernd Lauert
Banned
Fools idol
Banned
Eyes wide shut. I remember watching it not long afrer a breakup and it really fucked with my head.
Mobilemofo
Member
Little nicky. Depressingly shit in every way imaginable.
Axelotl
Member
Oh yes. Jennifer Connelly seems to fit perfectly in those extremely depressing movies.
A film about a group of boys, who are bullied, tormented, and abused, looking for the dead body of a fellow school friend? Yeah, real cheery stuff.
Wizz-Art
Member
It's nothing like Mean Creek or Bully, I just don't understand that there's anyone getting depressed by this movie at all.
Hammerite Zealot
Member
When the wind blows from 1986. Story of an naive eldery couple that survived nuclear war but are slowly getting affected by lack of food and radiation. Couldn't watch it to the end.
John_Ryder
Member
The Lord Of The Rings is my favorite trilogy but for for some reason I always get depress after watching any of them.
Maybe it’s because I can relate to Teddy, I don’t know, but I always feel depressed after watching it. It’s a great movie, don’t get me wrong, but yeah.
tommib
Member
My favourite movie of the 90s. It’s super sad but it does end up on a hopeful note with Claudia smiling to the camera. Depressive films to me end in depressing ways.
How did anyone forget this movie
Kusanagi2086
Member
Schindlers list came to mind but this movie almost broke me and it's the only Studio Ghibli movie I have only watched once, not because it's bad it's not but because I can't bear to watch it again.
Irobot82
Member
Is this the one where one brother survives the bomb and they find a kid who looks like his brother? Aaaannnnd there dudes with like maggots in their wounds and they aren't sure if they shoiuld remove them or not?Schindlers list came to mind but this movie almost broke me and it's the only Studio Ghibli movie I have only watched once, not because it's bad it's not but because I can't bear to watch it again.
Edit: I may have been thinking of Barefoot Gen....not sure. It's been over 20 years.
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Wizz-Art
Member
Maybe it's something from your childhood? I don't know. I was just surprised to see a title that I watched quite a lot over the years mentioned in a thread about depressing movies when I always enjoy it and makes me rather upbeat then depressed because it is such a great coming of age movie and a fun watch.
RoboFu
One of the green rats
The first 15 mins of Disney’s UP is the biggest emotional roller coaster ride there is and it’s all heartbreaking.
Spoilers to follow.of course.,,
Two little kids meet under the pretense that they both love adventure! After their first meeting younEllie gives young Carl a homemade badge symbolizing their feelings for adventure and each other.Carl sees this as a new turn in life .. a promise to go for his dreams!
They grow up, fall in love, and get married.
They are poor as the main source of income is from balloon sales. Yet their love for each other and their shared dream of adventure keeps them in good spirits.
since a life of adventure seems too far out of their grasps they decided to start a family as the biggest adventure of them all!
in a soul crushing turn of events it turns out they cannot medically have children. So they focus back on a life of adventure and start saving their loose change.
because life happens they constantly have to take out of their meager savings to pay for unexpected costs. This leaves their life of adventure further and further from their grasp.
so now they are both starting to get old.. no children no adventure… but even after all that they still have each other and are in good spirits … until Ellie grows very sick all of all of a sudden and dies…
So now Carl is old and alone. Never achieving any of the hopes and dreams he had as a young boy and with his beloved wife. Now all he has is that homemade badge representing every thing he didn’t accomplish and how he basically let the love of his life down in every possible way.
and then the movie really begins..
Spoilers to follow.of course.,,
Two little kids meet under the pretense that they both love adventure! After their first meeting younEllie gives young Carl a homemade badge symbolizing their feelings for adventure and each other.Carl sees this as a new turn in life .. a promise to go for his dreams!
They grow up, fall in love, and get married.
They are poor as the main source of income is from balloon sales. Yet their love for each other and their shared dream of adventure keeps them in good spirits.
since a life of adventure seems too far out of their grasps they decided to start a family as the biggest adventure of them all!
in a soul crushing turn of events it turns out they cannot medically have children. So they focus back on a life of adventure and start saving their loose change.
because life happens they constantly have to take out of their meager savings to pay for unexpected costs. This leaves their life of adventure further and further from their grasp.
so now they are both starting to get old.. no children no adventure… but even after all that they still have each other and are in good spirits … until Ellie grows very sick all of all of a sudden and dies…
So now Carl is old and alone. Never achieving any of the hopes and dreams he had as a young boy and with his beloved wife. Now all he has is that homemade badge representing every thing he didn’t accomplish and how he basically let the love of his life down in every possible way.
and then the movie really begins..
Gp1
Member
SF Kosmo
Al Jazeera Special Reporter
Came here to say this.
partime
Member
Watched Triangle last night,
Movie was legit boring, the entire middle hour repeated itself and wasn't necessary. She has -diagnosis-, I get it. Ending was pretty good, but I was hanging on by a thread of interest. I was so close to stopping, man was that mundane. How is this even depressing?
Movie was legit boring, the entire middle hour repeated itself and wasn't necessary. She has -diagnosis-, I get it. Ending was pretty good, but I was hanging on by a thread of interest. I was so close to stopping, man was that mundane. How is this even depressing?
That she is 'living' through her past pain, she's dead for God's sake.
German Hops
GAF's Nicest Lunch Thief
dude wasted his entire life. Sad..
Kenpachii
Member
dude wasted his entire life. Sad..
Such a good movie.
Buggy Loop
Member
Many good mentions, with Requiem for a dream being my first choice.
My contribution: Enter the void
My contribution: Enter the void
Sosokrates
Report me if I continue to console war
These movies made me cry.
I feel like crying now watching saving private Ryan, you know the feeling of tears in the back of your eyes
Daniel Jackson
Member
This one surprised me. It starts as a typical Adam Sandler movie - fart jokes included - but then there's a huge tonal shift and it turns into true drama.
dude wasted his entire life. Sad..
Cyberpunkd
Member
Vanilla Sky