I can't say movies really depress me, they are an escape outlet for me and usually entertaining even if sad/depressing. I guess if I had to pick a couple off the top of my head it would be "Silence" and "Manchester by the Sea".
Just watched that a couple of weeks ago. That scene at the end in the locker room was sad as Hell. Rickey Schroeder was a better actor at 8 than at any time in his adult life.
But, another was The Green Mile. Not that I expected a happy movie in prison, it was being advertised as "from the writer of Shawshank Redemption." I know that is Stephen King, but they specifically chose to leave his name out and specifically tied this film to Shawshank, which is about as light a prison film can be. When they executed Michael Clark Duncan at the end, I just couldn't take it.
definitely. My first thought was, "Why did they make this movie?"
Sleepers messed with my head. A bunch of young boys get sent to juvy for a stupid prank that goes wrong and get sexually abused by the guards. That was a fun night at the cinema. Once again, why did they make this movie?
But the one that leapt to mind when I saw the topic was Leaving Las Vegas. A hopeless alcoholic sells everything and goes to Las Vegas to drink himself to death, becomes close to a hooker, she gets beaten and raped, they get kicked out of her apartment, he dies. Roll credits.
but the ending to Vanilla Sky always gets me. Choose between entering the world 150 years after you entered a cryonic, frozen state, or choose to live in a dream state for the rest of your life that isn't real. Oh, and you can't be with the women you love because she died years ago, unless you choose the fake, dream state, you can be with her, but it obviously isn't real.
Yup, and I loved it for that reason, haha. I didn't read the novel so I don't know if that's the true ending or not. But it definitely flips the routine endings of these movies on its head.
Rife with loneliness, poor interfamilial dynamics, depression, suicide, etc.
However, the "O Captain My Captain" scene with the boys standing on their desks in support of Mr. Keating was something to behold and always brings a tear to my eye (though not the depressive kind, if you catch my drift).
The Last American Virgin. One of those teenage age sex comedies of way back when but it gets real serious at the end and what I remember someone calling a real punch in the gut. A sad statement on human nature which crushes the main character.
The Last American Virgin. One of those teenage age sex comedies of way back when but it gets real serious at the end and what I remember someone calling a real punch in the gut. A sad statement on human nature which crushes the main character.
It's #1 by a mile on my list. It's so well made, but leaves me feeling so awful whenever I've watched it (which hasn't been for a while because of how depressing it is).
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.
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The Last American Virgin. One of those teenage age sex comedies of way back when but it gets real serious at the end and what I remember someone calling a real punch in the gut. A sad statement on human nature which crushes the main character.
oh man that ending was brutal.
" I did my best but I guess my best wasn't good enough".. great soundtrack as well...
Yup, and I loved it for that reason, haha. I didn't read the novel so I don't know if that's the true ending or not. But it definitely flips the routine endings of these movies on its head.
I believe that Stephen King was a big fan of the ending, which is different in the book. It wasn't exactly a great movie but definitely a classic ending I won't forget.
"Nightcrawler" is another movie that's kind of depressing. I would say Jake Gylenhaal's performance in that movie is some of the best acting I've seen, it's just a really good movie that I think gets overlooked sometimes when discussing best movies/acting of the last decade or so.
I was actually going to say the same thing. First Last Jedi was depressing, then Rise of Skywalker's whole purpose seemed to be to undo Last Jedi and the result was a steaming pile of crap. Thank G-d for the Mandalorian.
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.
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 ....
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.
It's #1 by a mile on my list. It's so well made, but leaves me feeling so awful whenever I've watched it (which hasn't been for a while because of how depressing it is).
I literally refuse to watch that movie ever a-fucking-gain because of how low it got me.
Im going to have to think about this, because my top 3 were taken already in Requiem, Leaving LV andThe Deer Hunter. Yes Million Dollar Baby was rough too. That family of Swanks, I would have beaten the shit out of them all when they came to the hospital in their Disneyland shit.
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.
Agree about Avalon. But also some of the greatest stuff, too.
"You cut the toykee without me?"
"Stop running with the car."
And the scene(s) with fireworks and the grandchildren.
Such a terrific, underrated film.
I sat in the car in a daze for like 45 minutes after that one.
Read it and watched it. Brutal.
The book is so far superior to the film that I was more disappointed than depressed.
Made me want to kill myself. :)
That movie was horrifically sad.
Some more somewhat recent ones:
"The Florida Project" was pretty depressing.
"Fault in our stars"
"Up"
That was 30 straight hours of Manchester By The Sea.
We need to put some comedies in the queue.
That was 30 straight hours of Manchester By The Sea.
We need to put some comedies in the queue.
Sleepers messed with my head. A bunch of young boys get sent to juvy for a stupid prank that goes wrong and get sexually abused by the guards. That was a fun night at the cinema. Once again, why did they make this movie?
I mean, why?
"The Plague Dogs"
Plague Dog Incredibly sad ending - ( New Window )
Christ.
Yup, and I loved it for that reason, haha. I didn't read the novel so I don't know if that's the true ending or not. But it definitely flips the routine endings of these movies on its head.
However, the "O Captain My Captain" scene with the boys standing on their desks in support of Mr. Keating was something to behold and always brings a tear to my eye (though not the depressive kind, if you catch my drift).
Also "Sideways". An unremittingly depressing bout of wineing and whining.
Was the one that immediately came to mind for me as well.
oh man that ending was brutal.
It's #1 by a mile on my list. It's so well made, but leaves me feeling so awful whenever I've watched it (which hasn't been for a while because of how depressing it is).
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The Last American Virgin. One of those teenage age sex comedies of way back when but it gets real serious at the end and what I remember someone calling a real punch in the gut. A sad statement on human nature which crushes the main character.
oh man that ending was brutal.
" I did my best but I guess my best wasn't good enough".. great soundtrack as well...
Manchester by the Sea...I think I was so put off by the try hard attempt at "realism" that the depressing reveal never sunk in that deeply.
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Yup, and I loved it for that reason, haha. I didn't read the novel so I don't know if that's the true ending or not. But it definitely flips the routine endings of these movies on its head.
I believe that Stephen King was a big fan of the ending, which is different in the book. It wasn't exactly a great movie but definitely a classic ending I won't forget.
"Nightcrawler" is another movie that's kind of depressing. I would say Jake Gylenhaal's performance in that movie is some of the best acting I've seen, it's just a really good movie that I think gets overlooked sometimes when discussing best movies/acting of the last decade or so.
He was fantastic in Nightcrawler, one of the biggest award snubs in recent memory.
For some reason, Vanilla Sky really bums me out
Now, Barbara Streisand trying to play the ingenue, that's depressing.
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.
Leaving Las Vegas
Midnight Express
I would call these "good films that are depressing".
Plenty of bad ones that are depressing, but they are not worth mentioning!
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Depressing films that are watchable are a whole different catagory for me. They would include:
Fail Safe
On The Beach
Platoon
Final Scene - ( New Window )
Lol
I remember being completely devastated by A Walk to Remember because I had NO idea what it was about
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom... even more depressing knowing it was Chadwick Boseman's last role. He was un-be-lievable in it.
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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.
"Fa LOVE Bee!"
lol
Just toohard to watch.
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has gotta be top 5
It's #1 by a mile on my list. It's so well made, but leaves me feeling so awful whenever I've watched it (which hasn't been for a while because of how depressing it is).
I literally refuse to watch that movie ever a-fucking-gain because of how low it got me.
Im going to have to think about this, because my top 3 were taken already in Requiem, Leaving LV andThe Deer Hunter. Yes Million Dollar Baby was rough too. That family of Swanks, I would have beaten the shit out of them all when they came to the hospital in their Disneyland shit.
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.