what's the saddest (or most depressing) film you've ever seen?
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[magenta]cozmonite61[/magenta] wrote: Passion of the Christ
Like Carry on Cleo compared to The Champ,that is Cozzie.
[magenta]cozmonite61[/magenta] wrote: Passion of the Christ
what a tedious film. crucify the man, already!
Buffy wrote:
[magenta]cozmonite61[/magenta] wrote: Passion of the Christ
what a tedious film. crucify the man, already!
Yer all heart Buffy!
[magenta]cozmonite61[/magenta] wrote: Passion of the Christ
What a boring film.
The Pledge has a really bleak ending.
too many to count, but one I was thinking about the other day is a really good independent film called Chain. highly recommended if you hate capitalism.
The original French/Belgian version of 'The Vanishing' has a fantastically depressing ending.
Burt Reynolds wrote: Bambi
or Leaving Las Vegas
I agree with LLV, I love that movie, but can't really get myself to watch it again 
(good soundtrack though...Sting actually does listenable music on it, but they could have cut the dialoge of the movie out of it).
When they drag off Julien's new school friend to Auschwitz at the end of Au revoir les enfants
EdelBrock wrote:
Burt Reynolds wrote: Bambi
or Leaving Las Vegas
I agree with LLV, I love that movie, but can't really get myself to watch it again
for weeks i couldn't stand the sight of alcohol after seeing leaving las vegas.
Doctor? wrote: NineteenEightyFour
Never watched it as I figured there was no way they could ever get it close to the book and it would just piss me off.
EdelBrock wrote:
Doctor? wrote: NineteenEightyFour
Never watched it as I figured there was no way they could ever get it close to the book and it would just piss me off.
actually, it's a surprisingly good job.
And entirely worth it to hear Richard Burton deliver that coldest, hardest, most awful of lines....
"if you want a vision of the future winston, imagine a boot, stamping on a human face, forever"
Doctor? wrote:
EdelBrock wrote:
Doctor? wrote: NineteenEightyFour
Never watched it as I figured there was no way they could ever get it close to the book and it would just piss me off.
actually, it's a surprisingly good job.
And entirely worth it to hear Richard Burton deliver that coldest, hardest, most awful of lines....
"if you want a vision of the future winston, imagine a boot, stamping on a human face, forever"
I'll give it a shot......but kinda not looking forward it, considering the thread its under:\ohwell:
Doctor? wrote:
EdelBrock wrote:
Doctor? wrote: NineteenEightyFour
Never watched it as I figured there was no way they could ever get it close to the book and it would just piss me off.
actually, it's a surprisingly good job.
And entirely worth it to hear Richard Burton deliver that coldest, hardest, most awful of lines....
"if you want a vision of the future winston, imagine a boot, stamping on a human face, forever"
I agree with you a pretty well put together film and Richard Burton's last film role too boot!
El Bola, film from spain about a boy who is verbally and physically abused by his father. very sad.
The Haçienda must be (re)Built wrote: Nil by Mouth
Weren't exactly an Ealing Comedy, was it?
Tim Roth's "The War Zone". Seemed unnecessarily bleak in some places. Depressing film.
Seem to remember Traffic depressing me.The drugs trade one with Michael Douglas in , not the sex trafficking one of the same title.Although i should think that's pretty depressing too - i've not seen it
Doctor? wrote: Oh, when I was a kid....
Ring of Bright Water.
Fucked me up for weeks (life?)
aye . me's too
Boatraceface wrote: The Champ
i'd have to agree with that
the Littlest Hobo.the motionpicture.
he never did find a family to cure his depression and almost every 27 minute urges to run away from a family who loved him and gave him KFC.
Maybe tomorrow, I'll want to settle down.
Until tomorrow, I'll just keep movin' on.
Until tomorrow, the whole world is my home.
Buffy wrote: breaking the waves. i was depressed for about a week after.
As soon as I saw the thread title, that is the film I was going to post. Very bleak, but brilliantly acted by Emily Watson. Dancer in the Dark, another Lars Von Trier film, is also very bleak.
I was off sick the day after I watched BTW, it wiped me out.
King John Honest John wrote: kez?
Definitely. I remember being made seriously miserable by viewing that as a child. It's coloured my view of 'the North' ever since!
That Nick Broomfield film about the Chinese cockle pickers ('Ghosts') was rather a downer also.
BonoShed wrote: "Children of Men" comes to mind
Thats an ace film. Wouldnt call it depressing.
Burt Reynolds wrote:
BonoShed wrote: "Children of Men" comes to mind
Thats an ace film. Wouldnt call it depressing.
It is an amazing film. But I thought "no children at all, looking at the end of humanity, no hope, the world as a terror state".
That made me very sad
Saw Magicians on Monday night.
It's written by the Peep Show team.
It stars the Peep Show team.
And it is utter shite.
(Not sure if that falls under 'sad' or 'depressing' but just wanted to get that off me chest.)
Pi..
Have to agree with Leaving Las Vegas
Festen
Gangster Number 1 depresses me because it's the over-rated badly acted piece of shite I've ever sat through... I hated it when it came out. Thought I was missing the point because so many people raved about it. So I made myself sit through it again on Sunday when it was on Channel4. But it was still utter shite... It actually made me angry to watch it. Bad accents, hilarious "tough guy faces", over-glamourised violence. Oh and Paul Bettany is an absolute wanker. 
King John Honest John wrote: Naked
Yeah. Fucking grim. And Thewlis is a twat in that as well
RichShan wrote:
King John Honest John wrote: Naked
Yeah. Fucking grim. And Thewlis is a twat in that as well
grim is right. he's still blasting the Lesbian from Brooky inee?
King John Honest John wrote: Naked
aye saw that when i was backpacking abroad for 6 months in 94-95 ,found it a totally grim reminder of back home blighty
I think 'Requiem For A Dream' is quite unforgiving in its relentless emotional drain and possibly the most downbeat film I have ever seen.
There's really no happy side to it at all. From the main character's lonely mother, who spends all day in her flat, looking at, and dreaming of, gameshows to the main character himself, who has numerous addictions, along with his girlfriend who grows too dependent on him because of hers. The mother then gets addicted to legal pills, prescribed by her doctor.
What's really sad is, at the opening part of the movie, it portrays the character's of having some hope, but soon you see it's really just a false sheen.
It's really a movie about four people, all who have dreams but you know, deep down, that they are going to a place worse than nowhere.
It's a good film, well made and the camera work is excellent, just don't watch it if you're feeling down yourself!
The main character and his friend, get arrested, their habits get stronger. So much so that his girlfriend turns to prostitution, all climaxing into a horrendous last 15 minutes, where it sinks to the absolute pits, for all of them.
It's bleak, it's horrible in it's portrayals and there's nothing 'good' in it. This is anti-Hollywood and that's what appeals to me. If you can bare it, watch it as it's a really good film.
It makes most of the so called 'tough' films out there look like a Doris Day romantic romp.
What sets it apart is, this is modern reality and that's something Hollywood glitz can't work its so called 'magic' on.
Spider-man 2 ... cause Peter Parker gets Mary Jane and in your life you are NEVER going to get your Mary Jane. Well, I found it depressing.
Saddest? KING KONG (2006) and A.I. pretty much did me in,actually losing the power of speech on way out of cinema,and the ending to RETURN OF THE KING. Depressing? Hard one that. One does spring to mind ...Ridley Scott's BLADE RUNNER,sure the visuals are still stunning now 25 years later,but it's still a bleak outlook.Depressed me to fuck when I saw it in an old flea-pit back in 1982,but it's one of those films you grow to appreciate. Got my 5 Disc box-set on pre-order!! The new FINAL CUT,also includes the last Directors cut,the cinema version with the narration,and a rarely seen International version,with a shit-load of extras.
Jack, Nuit & Bruillard is indeed a top depressing choice. For those that haven't seen it, it's about WW2 concentration camps/ the "showers" etc. Watched it at Uni in a lecture theatre. Some guy pops outside, comes back in a couple of minutes later with a can of coke and a bag of popcorn. That turned a few heads!
In terms of fiction Steve Buscemi's "Trees Lounge" is pretty grim. If you've ever felt your life was a bit stick in a rut, this is NOT the film to give you encouragement!
And Eraserhead...well that just plain wierded me out. Not to be seen by pregnant women. Ever.
