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18 May 2008, 1:10 am

Zara wrote:

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.

Are you talking about "Train Man"? Hmm, I didn't get the feeling that it was all in his head. It was, after all, based on a true story in which they did find love.

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18 May 2008, 2:23 am

Grave of the Fireflies, obviously.

Being John Malkovich is semi-depressing, ditto K-PAX and The Truman Show, but all three of those (at least "Malkovich" and "Truman") are dark comedies and I thoroughly enjoy dark comedies.

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18 May 2008, 12:37 pm

K, one no one has mentioned is Jude the Obscure... brilliant movie (and book). The ending will just blow you away.

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18 May 2008, 6:51 pm

Woyzeck (a very powerful film about humiliation and lack of dignity)
The Damned (probably the best film about the Nazis ever made)
Fanny and Alexander
Death in Venice ('You have achieved the perfect synthesis between man and artist, for both sank to the bottom at the same time')
Los Olvidados (The Forgotten) (A film about grinding poverty completely devoid of sentimentalism)

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18 May 2008, 7:55 pm

Old Yeller

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18 May 2008, 9:51 pm

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Requiem for a Dream. I cried through the entire ending, and for quite some time afterwards.

Agreed... that movie is depressing on a systemic level for me; it just hurt. Irreversible is also much the same, incredibly intense and sad.

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18 May 2008, 10:57 pm

Veresae wrote:

Zara wrote:

Are you talking about "Train Man"? Hmm, I didn't get the feeling that it was all in his head. It was, after all, based on a true story in which they did find love.

Yeah, that was it.

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19 May 2008, 5:48 pm

Most definitely REQUIEM FOR A DREAM
Seeing it once was enough for me

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19 May 2008, 8:01 pm

angela's ashes......all those babies dying

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26 May 2008, 3:32 pm

A.I. was completely depressing and a turn off because of that. I dont really like movies that keep you constantly depressed throughout.

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26 May 2008, 9:51 pm

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A.I. was completely depressing and a turn off because of that. I dont really like movies that keep you constantly depressed throughout.

That was Signs for me, they all acted like a bunch of morose saps who needed a drink in the worst way.

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26 May 2008, 11:09 pm

merr wrote:

A.I. was completely depressing and a turn off because of that. I dont really like movies that keep you constantly depressed throughout.

That's odd. I thought it was based on the "Positronic Man" which I didn't find particularly depressing...

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27 May 2008, 3:56 am

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merr wrote:

A.I. was completely depressing and a turn off because of that. I dont really like movies that keep you constantly depressed throughout.

That's odd. I thought it was based on the "Positronic Man" which I didn't find particularly depressing...

Really? I've never seen that one. What I didnt like about A.I was the hopelessness of it all. Did you see the ending? To me it's like the writers sat down and decided to put in the most grim ending ever, and then puked it out on screen. I understand that since the kid was a robot, he wouldnt die. But then for him to be stuck in the ship in the ocean for eternity, and for them to play that eternity on screen made me feel like they wanted us all to go home and kill oursleves because we cant stand the bleakness of it all any longer. My apologies if you havent seen it.

edit: Oh thanks to Wikipedia I found that Bicentennial Man- the movie with Robin Williams is based on Positronic man. A.I. is the spielberg flick with the kid from the 6th sense.

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27 May 2008, 10:05 am

That was it, The Bicentennial Man. Oops. :oops:
I never actually saw either...

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27 May 2008, 4:55 pm

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What I didnt like about A.I was the hopelessness of it all. Did you see the ending? To me it's like the writers sat down and decided to put in the most grim ending ever, and then puked it out on screen. I understand that since the kid was a robot, he wouldnt die. But then for him to be stuck in the ship in the ocean for eternity, and for them to play that eternity on screen made me feel like they wanted us all to go home and kill oursleves because we cant stand the bleakness of it all any longer.

Actually, I think that if Stanley Kubrick had filmed it, he'd probably have ended on the blue fairy in the ocean... which is possibly worse.

Spielburg couldn't leave it at that and had to "sweeten" the ending.

I don't mind sad films, but you have to be in the mood for one. In fact, if you want to feel depressed, "The House of Sand and Fog" is "great".

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27 May 2008, 7:05 pm

merr wrote:

twoshots wrote:

merr wrote:

A.I. was completely depressing and a turn off because of that. I dont really like movies that keep you constantly depressed throughout.

That's odd. I thought it was based on the "Positronic Man" which I didn't find particularly depressing...

That is precisely why I LOVE "A.I." It's just so sad, so dark...it's like watching a train wreak.

I don't remember if I mentioned it before, but what about "American History X"?

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