Was far more depressing than Schindler's List. I mean, at least Oskar Schindler saved many Jews' lives (albeit not altruistically at first). Szpilman emerged from the Holocaust with everybody he loved dead. But I am able to still watch both of those films.
Was far more depressing than Schindler's List. I mean, at least Oskar Schindler saved many Jews' lives (albeit not altruistically at first). Szpilman emerged from the Holocaust with everybody he loved dead. But I am able to still watch both of those films.
I mean the look in the Fonz's eyes when all he wanted to do was hang out with his son one last time before he died and to teach him his lifelong accomplished coin magic trick only to find out his son knew the trick all along ....
Mystic River. Just leaves me with a stomach ache every time. Terribly depressing.
Local Hero. It's great and I love it. But man ... when that phone rings in the Scottish phone booth along the water's edge, and Mack is back in Houston just waiting for someone to talk to? Gets me every time.
was pretty interesting IMO. A lot to take in. It's somewhat over the top from an anti-war stance but it does a good job of showing a group of guys from a working class area being sent to war and coming back damaged. DeNiro's character takes it all in and changes the way he looks at killing, so the audience does too. Now using deer hunting as a parable for war is interesting and debatable but I think the movie gets it's message across, and in an affecting way. Depressing? Yes but a really well-made movie IMO.
Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams. If you're married, were married, or are thinking about getting married this movie is scarier than any horror flick. Nightmare.
Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams. If you're married, were married, or are thinking about getting married this movie is scarier than any horror flick. Nightmare.
seen it! and not long after we got married...
still married...fuck that movie. it's well done but brutal.
Honestly, nothing on the tele has depressed me more than NYG football, lately. I think we can all agree on that. Movies aren't real. NYG is like family to me. When they suck, it's like my family is shitting all over me.
released in, im thinking, 1983 that depicted the post-nuclear world? I think it was a TV movie.. The Day After, Morning After...something like that. I was in the Navy at the time and I remember seeing that with my co-workers while we were out at sea and man, really got to a lot of us....pretty damn impactful for its time.
It was The Day After, and it was indeed a TV movie starring Jason Robards and John Lithgow, among others. I remember watching that in elementary school and it was terrifying.
Yeah that movie gave me nightmares as a kid. For more than a few years.
Yep this one was rough and extremely popular even for back then. Everyone watched it.
A few years later, I watched a similar movie called "threads" that took place somewhere over in Great Britain. This movie was even more "gritty" or realistic and perhaps even more highly acclaimed. I was like 12 or so and it was nuts my parents let me watch this. Then again they were pretty liberal with what I could watch. The weird coincidence was I went to bed that night and ended up getting extremely sick --laid out for 3-4 days with high fever. That movie fucked me up but I don't think it made me sick. But if any movie could...be warned.
I hate this F&^%$ng movie. My wife and I walked out. 8 sled dogs try to survive an arctic storm that freezes to death all but one or two and the driver. Movie sucks. I will never watch it. Animals dying in a movie is deal breaker for me.
was pretty interesting IMO. A lot to take in. It's somewhat over the top from an anti-war stance but it does a good job of showing a group of guys from a working class area being sent to war and coming back damaged. DeNiro's character takes it all in and changes the way he looks at killing, so the audience does too. Now using deer hunting as a parable for war is interesting and debatable but I think the movie gets it's message across, and in an affecting way. Depressing? Yes but a really well-made movie IMO.
I hate this F&^%$ng movie. My wife and I walked out. 8 sled dogs try to survive an arctic storm that freezes to death all but one or two and the driver. Movie sucks. I will never watch it. Animals dying in a movie is deal breaker for me.
you should have stayed for the ending. Most of the dogs live!
For a feel-good Disney movie, Eight Below is pretty good.
movies, Marley and Me was pretty depressing, especially since I got it right around the time my kids were pushing to get a dog, and it came to DVD right around Easter and I was tasked when getting stuff for their Easter baskets.
Knowing nothing about the movie (I blame myself - obviously for that) I picked it up at Target when checking out with the Easter basket stuff and got home and told the kids we have a surprise movie to watch and a) it wasn't even a kids movie and b) it wasn't a comedy and c) it was pretty dark (for kids at least). Plus, the dog dies at the end. One of my kids even said she didn't want a dog anymore because she didn't think she could deal with that. The kids were 6 or 7 at the time.
Father of the year, but who the F puts a puppy on the cover of that movie and leaves it by the checkout. I can't be the only one who did that.
movies, Marley and Me was pretty depressing, especially since I got it right around the time my kids were pushing to get a dog, and it came to DVD right around Easter and I was tasked when getting stuff for their Easter baskets.
Knowing nothing about the movie (I blame myself - obviously for that) I picked it up at Target when checking out with the Easter basket stuff and got home and told the kids we have a surprise movie to watch and a) it wasn't even a kids movie and b) it wasn't a comedy and c) it was pretty dark (for kids at least). Plus, the dog dies at the end. One of my kids even said she didn't want a dog anymore because she didn't think she could deal with that. The kids were 6 or 7 at the time.
Father of the year, but who the F puts a puppy on the cover of that movie and leaves it by the checkout. I can't be the only one who did that.
That movie was a fleece job. The commercials made it seem like mostly a quirky family/pet movie. The depressing story was a blindside.
was pretty interesting IMO. A lot to take in. It's somewhat over the top from an anti-war stance but it does a good job of showing a group of guys from a working class area being sent to war and coming back damaged. DeNiro's character takes it all in and changes the way he looks at killing, so the audience does too. Now using deer hunting as a parable for war is interesting and debatable but I think the movie gets it's message across, and in an affecting way. Depressing? Yes but a really well-made movie IMO.
Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams. If you're married, were married, or are thinking about getting married this movie is scarier than any horror flick. Nightmare.
severely underrated Tom Hanks performance as a bad ass gangster but distant father/husband who ends up switching roles over time
Excellent movie
"I'm glad it was you"
jesus
Such a great movie, I dont think it gets nearly the credit it deserves. Checks a lot of boxes. Father-son movie, road trip movie, gangster movie. Some really funny moments too, like when the son is "negotiating" his cut of the mob money.
is the right word, but No Country for Old Men left me stunned, speechless and empty. The only movie I will never watch again no matter what the circumstances.
I remember being taken to Awakenings when I was younger, started watching that one recently and stopped.
See you down in Arizona Bay
Ugh. Yes.
Mystic River. Just leaves me with a stomach ache every time. Terribly depressing.
Local Hero. It's great and I love it. But man ... when that phone rings in the Scottish phone booth along the water's edge, and Mack is back in Houston just waiting for someone to talk to? Gets me every time.
Rough.
Excellent movie
seen it! and not long after we got married...
still married...fuck that movie. it's well done but brutal.
Honestly, nothing on the tele has depressed me more than NYG football, lately. I think we can all agree on that. Movies aren't real. NYG is like family to me. When they suck, it's like my family is shitting all over me.
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released in, im thinking, 1983 that depicted the post-nuclear world? I think it was a TV movie.. The Day After, Morning After...something like that. I was in the Navy at the time and I remember seeing that with my co-workers while we were out at sea and man, really got to a lot of us....pretty damn impactful for its time.
It was The Day After, and it was indeed a TV movie starring Jason Robards and John Lithgow, among others. I remember watching that in elementary school and it was terrifying.
Yeah that movie gave me nightmares as a kid. For more than a few years.
Yep this one was rough and extremely popular even for back then. Everyone watched it.
A few years later, I watched a similar movie called "threads" that took place somewhere over in Great Britain. This movie was even more "gritty" or realistic and perhaps even more highly acclaimed. I was like 12 or so and it was nuts my parents let me watch this. Then again they were pretty liberal with what I could watch. The weird coincidence was I went to bed that night and ended up getting extremely sick --laid out for 3-4 days with high fever. That movie fucked me up but I don't think it made me sick. But if any movie could...be warned.
If you want to see a movie about nuclear holocaust, this is your movie. It came out one year after TDA.
threads--took place in Sheffield England - ( New Window )
I saw it. In the movie theater. It kind of broke some newer ground for touching on some social themes that were taboo. The gay guy, etc.
I agree. Brilliant work of cinematic art.
Beaches super sad... I watched that movie way more than I should have as a kid..
you should have stayed for the ending. Most of the dogs live!
For a feel-good Disney movie, Eight Below is pretty good.
Knowing nothing about the movie (I blame myself - obviously for that) I picked it up at Target when checking out with the Easter basket stuff and got home and told the kids we have a surprise movie to watch and a) it wasn't even a kids movie and b) it wasn't a comedy and c) it was pretty dark (for kids at least). Plus, the dog dies at the end. One of my kids even said she didn't want a dog anymore because she didn't think she could deal with that. The kids were 6 or 7 at the time.
Father of the year, but who the F puts a puppy on the cover of that movie and leaves it by the checkout. I can't be the only one who did that.
Knowing nothing about the movie (I blame myself - obviously for that) I picked it up at Target when checking out with the Easter basket stuff and got home and told the kids we have a surprise movie to watch and a) it wasn't even a kids movie and b) it wasn't a comedy and c) it was pretty dark (for kids at least). Plus, the dog dies at the end. One of my kids even said she didn't want a dog anymore because she didn't think she could deal with that. The kids were 6 or 7 at the time.
Father of the year, but who the F puts a puppy on the cover of that movie and leaves it by the checkout. I can't be the only one who did that.
Good Synopsis. It's actually one of my favs.
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Good call.
Brutal, great movie.
The Constant Gardener also a winner.
The Machinist
We Need to Talk About Kevin
The Wrestler
12 Years a Slave
Oh yeah, that movie is quite a gauntlet.
I can still hear that "phone melting" sound in my head.
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severely underrated Tom Hanks performance as a bad ass gangster but distant father/husband who ends up switching roles over time
Excellent movie
"I'm glad it was you"
jesus
After the movie, we called it a night.
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severely underrated Tom Hanks performance as a bad ass gangster but distant father/husband who ends up switching roles over time
Excellent movie
"I'm glad it was you"
jesus
Such a great movie, I dont think it gets nearly the credit it deserves. Checks a lot of boxes. Father-son movie, road trip movie, gangster movie. Some really funny moments too, like when the son is "negotiating" his cut of the mob money.
Also "Sideways". An unremittingly depressing bout of wineing and whining.
I'm with you on "Lovely Bones". Children being abducted and murdered is always a crusher. Tucci is brilliant as the bad guy.
"Sideways" is actually one of my favorite movies. I think the movie ends on a nice high note when Miles goes back to visit Maya at the end.