The most depressing movies you've seen

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29 Apr 2008, 5:48 pm

Before a movie can make me feel depressed, it has to be good enough to even elicit that emotion from me. Not many movies are depressing to me (and remember, I'm not counting bad movies). But here are two:

Pan's Labyrinth (Spanish language film)
Grave of Fireflies (Japanese animated film)

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01 May 2008, 10:08 am

Edward scissorhands
Nightmare before christmas

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02 May 2008, 7:24 pm

vanilla sky

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04 May 2008, 1:55 pm

mewtwo55555 wrote:

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battle royale

hehehe.

Also, Les Miserables during the revolution.
I am Legend
Supernova (that movie they showed on TBS or something)

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04 May 2008, 2:08 pm

Viola wrote:

Dantac wrote:

Grave of the Fireflies

I really want to see that. Is it good?

I heard a lot about it. The anime focusing on World War II is pretty sad

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barefoot_Gen

also this has a good list I think
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/M ... aponsTaboo

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04 May 2008, 5:16 pm

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Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.

(what? I walked out of that cinema feeling the weight of crushed childhood dreams. I think that's depressing, don't you?

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I don't get it. How was The Phantom Menace very depressing?????

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06 May 2008, 12:13 am

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - now that's depressing! I bawl every time my beloved Spock dies (although I know he returns in the next film). Point is, though, that movie is a happiness-killer for me, and I have to try very, very hard not to cry. I honestly never can help crying for Spock. Oh, I'm getting sad just thinking about it...

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06 May 2008, 12:32 am

I like Spock but it's a pity they had to bring him back for Star Trek 3. Aside from the fact that it's an odd numbered film, it also destroys a lot of the emotion of ST II.

I hate it when followup films screw around with the previous ones...

eg: Alien 3 killed all the good characters of Aliens during the opening credits.

Also...

A lot of horror films start by killing off the people who survived the last film - (eg: Elm Street). I hated that - leave the survivors alone!

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06 May 2008, 12:55 am

If you mean depressing as in sad and/or messed up stuff happens during the film. I would have to say these:

Hotel Rwanda
Somewhere in April
Those two films are both about the genocide in Rwanda.

Der Untergang (Downfall)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Stroszek
Philadelphia
Talvisota (The Winter War)
Paths of Glory
Uomini contro
Schindler's List
The Birth of a Nation: The Clansmen
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Earth
Capote
The Painted Veil
The Lookout
In America
The Elephant Man
Amistad

That's all From me

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06 May 2008, 1:36 am

Schindler's List

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11 May 2008, 2:05 pm

Now I've finally made up my mind. It was that Will Smith movie, "I AM LEGEND". I wasted at least $5 seeing that movie and it was not exciting or enjoyable.

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17 May 2008, 3:57 pm

The Man Who Wasn't There. Great film, but incredibly depressing.

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17 May 2008, 9:39 pm

Blade Runner. It rained all the way through it.

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17 May 2008, 10:25 pm

Can't remember the name of it... but it was a Japanese movie I saw at Otakon a couple years ago. It was about a loner geek who met a girl on a train, he got to know her and struggled with his geek and socially inept ways to win her over as a GF. It was a bit personally moving to me since I could relate to the struggles involved...
Had I left the movie five minutes before the end I would been very uplifted.
However the ending was just wrong... Turns out the whole thing was a fantasy playing int he guy's head on the train ride and so he never even says anything to the girl. Unfortunately, that is usually the case with introverted guys... but that ending left me really depressed for the rest of the day as if it just showed how hopeless things really are.

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17 May 2008, 10:29 pm

how come no one mentioned Lion King yet?? :huh:

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17 May 2008, 10:53 pm

children of men and pans labrynth

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