What is the most depressing movie ever made?

[thepaulo]

I vote for Ironweed with Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep.

[realmenhatelife]

What I've seen of Revolutionary Road is pretty brutal.

[thepaulo]

What I've seen of Revolutionary Road is pretty brutal.

They had a great life....they just fucked it up a little bit.

[sailor]

Gap.

Wacka-wacka

[Chigworthy]

It must be weird knowing what depression and sadness feels like.

[thepaulo]

It must be weird knowing what depression and sadness feels like.

It must. I prefer to be a happy idiot.

[danner1515]

When I saw Monster's Ball, I felt like I was watching tragedy porn. It's as if the screenwriter made a bet with someone over how many tragedies he could cram into the first half-hour of a movie.

[thepaulo]

When I saw Monster's Ball, I felt like I was watching tragedy porn. It's as if the screenwriter made a bet with someone over how many tragedies he could cram into the first half-hour of a movie.


Good choice....but I think Halle and Billy Bob had a shot at working through their grief.

[realmenhatelife]

This thread is a sequel to:
Oh well, it was a picture of the poster for The Saddest Music in the World.

[Rhah]

There is something about the movie Into the Wild and the story that gets to me, maybe because I really wanted to just get away from it all too or who knows... but then when he does get his isolation, he realizes he just wants back into the world with people and then fails to get back.

[Enabler]

Synechdoche is pretty depressing (i think). Im still not sure I understood it.

In the Bedroom and Kids get honorable mention.

[jennysmurf]

Grapes of Wrath. Sad at the beginning, depressing in the middle, and tragic at the end. Only watched it to avoid reading the book in High School.

[Jayw]

Requiem for a Dream.

Though one of my favorites that last 20 minutes is pretty intense.

[thepaulo]

There is something about the movie Into the Wild and the story that gets to me, maybe because I really wanted to just get away from it all too or who knows... but then when he does get his isolation, he realizes he just wants back into the world with people and then fails to get back.

Interesting....Into the Wild was a story about pursuing your bliss and happiness and the main character was almost always joyful but his journey is tragic.

[thepaulo]

Grapes of Wrath. Sad at the beginning, depressing in the middle, and tragic at the end. Only watched it to avoid reading the book in High School.

It was tragic but the family was full of love.

[thepaulo]

Requiem for a Dream.

Though one of my favorites that last 20 minutes is pretty intense.

Definitely a contender....as is the other book by the same writer....
Last Exit to Brooklyn where Jennifer Jason Leigh is gang raped in an abandon lot outside a bar and Stephen Lang is crucified on a fence.

[thepaulo]

Synechdoche is pretty depressing (i think). Im still not sure I understood it.

In the Bedroom and Kids get honorable mention.

Like you say Synechdoche is depressing I think...Is it a dream...Is it satire...
so much of it is really funny.

In The Bedroom and Kids are about people who make choices that seem sorid and depressing to us but probably give them a sense of fufillment.

[Dell]

http://writenotemusic.com/images/ordinary%20people.jpg

still have a hard time liking Mary Tyler Moore...

[thepaulo]

http://writenotemusic.com/images/ordinary%20people.jpg

still have a hard time liking Mary Tyler Moore...

She was a castrating bitch.

[Gmann]

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[thepaulo]

Another film about homelessness that comes to mind
Scarecrow with Al Pacino and Gene Hackman

[epo]

Leaving Las Vegas.

[Crispy123]

Passion of the Christ was kind of a downer for me.

[Recyclerz]

River's Edge was no day in the park.

Well, technically it was a day in the park but it wasn't a good day.

[Chigworthy]

River's Edge was no day in the park.

Well, technically it was a day in the park but it wasn't a good day.

I tear up whenever I think about what happened to Feck's doll.

[keithy_19]

All Dogs Go to Heaven because you know that some of those pooches didn't make it...

[Caseyelan]

Where the wild things are made me cry the entire thing.
I don't really know how to explain it.


But, Palindromes was rough.

[Bob Impact]

Where the wild things are made me cry the entire thing.
I don't really know how to explain it.


But, Palindromes was rough.

I didn't fully cry but I was definitely choked up for a large part of Where the wild things.

[Snoogans]

Blue Chips

[thepaulo]

All Dogs Go to Heaven because you know that some of those pooches didn't make it...

Do dogs go to heaven? I'd like to think so.

[danner1515]

River's Edge was no day in the park.

Well, technically it was a day in the park but it wasn't a good day.

It's a grim one, but I laughed way too much through it to put it on my most depressing films list. Crispin Glover is hilarious in that one.

[PapaBear]

Maybe not the most depressing movie, but Gone Baby Gone seriously made me question the difference between right and wrong. Damn. in the time it took to wright that sentence, I just started getting depressed, remembering the movie.

[thepaulo]

Where the wild things are made me cry the entire thing.
I don't really know how to explain it.


But, Palindromes was rough.

The kid in WTWTR is brilliant but there was so much that was joyful and fun about the movie.
I cried a lot at Terms of Endearment but I didn't find it depressing.

[Caseyelan]

The kid in WTWTR is brilliant but there was so much that was joyful and fun about the movie.
I cried a lot at Terms of Endearment but I didn't find it depressing.

Well, oddly I did. I left emotionally a wreck. I don't know if I could pinpoint what it was. But I wasn't happy for even a second.

[Chigworthy]

It's a grim one, but I laughed way too much through it to put it on my most depressing films list. Crispin Glover is hilarious in that one.

Actually, thinking about that movie has made me realize that if me being depressed by a movie was possible, it just might be that one. Not necessarily based on the story alone, but because of parallels with my own life. The movie was filmed in N. California, a coupe hundred miles from where I grew up. The town I grew up in had a big flowing river that got all nasty and muddy in the winter time, and there was a network of trails and beaches underneath it. I sometimes hung out with metal head kids, and it was eerily similar to the movie. Shitty filthy houses, welfare checks, wife/child beating, hard drugs. By the time I got to high school, I had moved on socially, and grew apart from these people. Shortly after high school, one of them was charged with a homicide, and another one was thought by the police to be involved with it, as well as the disappearance of another drug dealer friend of theirs. There was an old mine a ways from town, and a young girl that I vaguely knew was found dead at the base of a big cliff there, a popular spot for suicides and one murder. Meth has ravaged that town. So while I do find parts of River's Edge funny, there is also a very realistic feel about the movie, despite Keanu's acting.

[thepaulo]

Well, oddly I did. I left emotionally a wreck. I don't know if I could pinpoint what it was. But I wasn't happy for even a second.

The Gandolfini character like the child were both wracked by anxiety but there were moments when they put it aside and played with abandon....
I do find it hard to understand why you wouldn't be happy for even a second. It would be worth investigating. It probably had something to do with the kid since he really was an emotional wreck.

[epo]

Blue Chips

You should watch it again.

[Caseyelan]

The Gandolfini character like the child were both wracked by anxiety but there were moments when they put it aside and played with abandon....
I do find it hard to understand why you wouldn't be happy for even a second. It would be worth investigating. It probably had something to do with the kid since he really was an emotional wreck.

I was a fucked up kid, from a fucked up home. I was on my own since middle school.
I bet you are right.

[barjockey]

Love Story '70


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[StanUpshaw]

All Quiet on the Western Front depresses the fuck out of me.

War, what is it good for?

[Rhah]

Interesting....Into the Wild was a story about pursuing your bliss and happiness and the main character was almost always joyful but his journey is tragic.

Its just at the end, when he realizes things in life only matter when shared with others... he got his joy and bliss for completing his journey but then realized everyone he met on his journey meant more than the actual completion of it. Not that he regretted completing it, because everyone he met loved him because of his single minded want to get to Alaska, but then he realized he didn't want to just stay there alone but to go back and see those he grew to love on the way but then was blocked by raging rivers and bad plants...

Who knows, I am just an amateur movie watcher :ohmy:

[Chigworthy]

Its just at the end, when he realizes things in life only matter when shared with others... he got his joy and bliss for completing his journey but then realized everyone he met on his journey meant more than the actual completion of it. Not that he regretted completing it, because everyone he met loved him because of his single minded want to get to Alaska, but then he realized he didn't want to just stay there alone but to go back and see those he grew to love on the way but then was blocked by raging rivers and bad plants...

Who knows, I am just an amateur movie watcher :ohmy:

It's been a while since I read the book, but I seem to remember that it painted a picture of despair, anger, and possibly mental illness. It seems like this was not translated very much into the film.

[thepaulo]

Its just at the end, when he realizes things in life only matter when shared with others... he got his joy and bliss for completing his journey but then realized everyone he met on his journey meant more than the actual completion of it. Not that he regretted completing it, because everyone he met loved him because of his single minded want to get to Alaska, but then he realized he didn't want to just stay there alone but to go back and see those he grew to love on the way but then was blocked by raging rivers and bad plants...

Who knows, I am just an amateur movie watcher :ohmy:

The fact that he had loving parents who were tortured by his decision to leave them and go on this mysterious solitary journey is the saddest part. They felt they did domething to lead him to this ultimately tragic end.

[A.J.]

Mystic River.

[oh_kee_pa]

Moon

[thepaulo]

Moon

I go with another Sam Rockwell movie
Snow Angels

[hammersavage]

I go with another Sam Rockwell movie
Snow Angels

good call. the ending is so dark

[stormy1065]

HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG starring ben kingsley . I wanted to shot myself after that one.

[Tenbatsuzen]

Roots

[Snacks]

Roots

technically not a movie it was a 4 or 6 part mini series. kunta kinte wasnt playing games!

Very sad story but it is part of our history that all students should learn.

[Jujubees2]

Platoon

[WhistlePig]

Irreversible. Brutal movie! I had Post-traumatic Stress syndrome for a week after watching it!
And I agree with Requiem for a dream, too.

[Tenbatsuzen]

never mind

[Snacks]

A walk to remember

Nothing in Common, its meant to be a little funny too but the relationship Tom Hanks has with his father and how it changes is great and emotional especially for anyone who is close with their father and or has lost their father.

[KnoxHarrington]

I wonder how many parents have rented "Grave of the Fireflies" for their kids, thinking it'll be a cute little anime, and scarred them forever.

If you don't weep watching that movie, you could very well be a psychopath.

[thepaulo]

I wonder how many parents have rented "Grave of the Fireflies" for their kids, thinking it'll be a cute little anime, and scarred them forever.

If you don't weep watching that movie, you could very well be a psychopath.

I recommended that to anime fans and they freaked out.

[Fugitive]

Atoll K with Laurel and Hardy.

[Rawkus]

Requiem for a Dream.

Though one of my favorites that last 20 minutes is pretty intense.

this is almost too pain to watch twice. Although the quote Ass to ass gets tossed around by my quite a bit

[hanso]

King Kong, doesn't end to well.

[keithy_19]

Black Hawk Down.

I guess being that it's a true story adds to the sadness of it.

[Thrice]

Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father

[Snacks]

Roots

I just rewatched this mini series. I forgot a lot of it but damn its powerful. I think Im going to watch the sequel series that came out 2 years later called Roots The next Generation.

[StanUpshaw]

http://i.imgur.com/PQ4kp.jpg

Am I right, brododendron?

[fezident]

This film is gut-wrenching. Almost hard to watch. I suppose it's like Requiem For A Dream in that it deals with H addiction but... it's more painful. More real. Less stylized.

And it's easily Heath Ledger's finest performance.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51456GH35YL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

[booster11373]

The Red Riding trilogy

[boonanas]

Wow, a lot of good depressing movies in this thread. I agree with most. Let me add a couple to that list...

THE WRESTLER
THE MIST (mostly the end)
THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON'T THEY?
MILLION DOLLAR BABY


That's all I can think of right now.

[boonanas]

Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father

TOTALLY AGREE WITH THIS ONE. This is the most depressing movie I've ever seen.

[CountryBob]

Bridges of Madison County

[realmenhatelife]

I just rewatched this mini series. I forgot a lot of it but damn its powerful. I think Im going to watch the sequel series that came out 2 years later called Roots The next Generation.

http://www.takehimwithyou.com/startreksounds/jean-luc-picard.jpg


Engage.


I forgot about They Shoot Horses, Dont They? Thats a great movie.



There are a lot of movies that are really depressing until they're happy, like Boogie Nights.

A Very Long Engagement is like that too. Where ultimately it's a happy ending, but the war has done so much damage to everyone involved it's staggering. And really its only happy for two people, when the movie was about a whole bunch of people. All of their stories end badly, and most of them weren't too happy to begin with.

[foodcourtdruide]

The Road is really depressing.

[realmenhatelife]

The Road is really depressing.

I thought it stunk.

[foodcourtdruide]

I thought it stunk.

I was very mixed about it. It certainly dragged, but there were some things about it that I thought were amazing. The scene where Charlize Theron walks out into the cold, and Viggo Mortensen's commentary over it was one of the most moving cinematic moments ever to me.

[CountryBob]

I was very mixed about it. It certainly dragged, but there were some things about it that I thought were amazing. The scene where Charlize Theron walks out into the cold, and Viggo Mortensen's commentary over it was one of the most moving cinematic moments ever to me.

Yeah that was tough. I wouldnt have let her hotness leave. And she was taking all of the pussy with her!

[furie]

Johnny Got His Gun

[Recyclerz]

The Vanishing

but the original Dutch movie not the American remake which was pretty stoopid.

[CountryBob]

Starship Troopers - because we never got to see those juicy tits of Denise Richards

[Snacks]

Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father

I just finished watching this movie. I feel so bad for his parents, I didnt expect what happened to happen but wow.

Is it just me or did it seem like he did lots of things and had friends everywhere? I mean how could he have done all those things, traveled all over the world yearly and yet still have time to create that many memorable relationships?!!

[jlehane3]

1. Forrest Gump made me give up movies for about 7 years.The total fakeness,disrespected Viet Nam vets. It was the"911 of Movies". 2.Bartleby the Scrivener,movie was true to intent of the writer Mellville(Moby Dick),no problem there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartleby,_the_Scrivener It was an INTENTIONALLY depressing story.I saw it in high school and told my teacher it was the most depressing movie I'd ever seen.I was very much more effected by it than others,which may label me a depressive personality.So you see admitedly there is some "eye of the beholder" effect going on with me personally. I see things differently...like Little People .. :unsure::blink::down::wacko::ohmy: http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a221/jlehane3/MarsNoCropLittlePeople.jpg?t=1294735417

[realmenhatelife]

1. Forrest Gump made me give up movies for about 7 years.The total fakeness,disrespected Viet Nam vets. It was the"911 of Movies". 2.Bartleby the Scrivener,movie was true to intent of the writer Mellville(Moby Dick),no problem there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartleby,_the_Scrivener It was an INTENTIONALLY depressing story.I saw it in high school and told my teacher it was the most depressing movie I'd ever seen.I was very much more effected by it than others,which may label me a depressive personality.So you see admitedly there is some "eye of the beholder" effect going on with me personally. I see things differently...like Little People .. :unsure::blink::down::wacko::ohmy: http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a221/jlehane3/MarsNoCropLittlePeople.jpg?t=1294735417

I'm curious, how did it disrespect vets? I haven't seen the movie in a long time, and when I did that wouldn't have been on my radar.

[fezident]

1. Forrest Gump made me give up movies for about 7 years.The total fakeness,disrespected Viet Nam vets. It was the"911 of Movies". 2.Bartleby the Scrivener,movie was true to intent of the writer Mellville(Moby Dick),no problem there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartleby,_the_Scrivener It was an INTENTIONALLY depressing story.I saw it in high school and told my teacher it was the most depressing movie I'd ever seen.I was very much more effected by it than others,which may label me a depressive personality.So you see admitedly there is some "eye of the beholder" effect going on with me personally. I see things differently...like Little People .. :unsure::blink::down::wacko::ohmy: http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a221/jlehane3/MarsNoCropLittlePeople.jpg?t=1294735417

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[Rawkus]

My vote is for requiem for a dream.

AVclub had a good article about movies that were good but too painful to watch ever again.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/not-again-24-great-films-too-painful-to-watch-twic,2048/

[thepaulo]

watched Sophie's Choice for the 20th time.
Could be the saddest movie ever, but it's so full of love beauty and hope that I tend to forget how overwhelmingly hopeless Sophie's life was.

I love Sophie.