What's the most depressing film you've ever watched?

What's the most depressing film you've ever watched?

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944fan

4,962 posts

186 months

Monday 14th December 2015
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Collectingbrass said:
Watching the Imitation Game really affected me, it really brought home how badly Alan Turing, and no doubt others of similar standing in the UK war machine, were treated after the war because of their sexuality. You can't help thinking if it had been money or women the police would have been leant on by someone because of his war record.
From what I understand what he did was so secretive that almost no one of power or influence knew who he was and what he had done.

Although I suspect as you say there probably was a large dose of homophobia from the select few who did know.

oldaudi

1,331 posts

159 months

Monday 14th December 2015
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anybody watched "A Serbian Film" Ive not watched it, but read the content.

SpudLink

5,941 posts

193 months

Monday 14th December 2015
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oldaudi said:
anybody watched "A Serbian Film" Ive not watched it, but read the content.
I have. I'd advise against it.

crofty1984

15,901 posts

205 months

Monday 14th December 2015
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Whatever the one is that Zach Braff wrote and directed that wasn't garden state. About 3 old friends growing up and becoming adults. The fact that what awaits most of us is dull mediocrity for 40 years was a little hard to take just after finishing uni and being at a similar point in life.
Going to be a rock star? Nope.
Going to be an F1 driver? Nope.
But hey, if you work hard then maybe you could get into middle management and buy a new cardigan! Which you can where while in your normal house and normal car doing a normal commute.

otolith

56,394 posts

205 months

Monday 14th December 2015
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No other mentions for A.I.? Is that because nobody else found it depressing, or because everyone else slept through the whole pointless, boring, depressing mess?

bexVN

14,682 posts

212 months

Monday 14th December 2015
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crofty1984 said:
Whatever the one is that Zach Braff wrote and directed that wasn't garden state. About 3 old friends growing up and becoming adults. The fact that what awaits most of us is dull mediocrity for 40 years was a little hard to take just after finishing uni and being at a similar point in life.
Going to be a rock star? Nope.
Going to be an F1 driver? Nope.
But hey, if you work hard then maybe you could get into middle management and buy a new cardigan! Which you can where while in your normal house and normal car doing a normal commute.
Very talented man that Zach Braff, Garden State is a favourite film of mine.

BrownBottle

1,373 posts

137 months

Monday 14th December 2015
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otolith said:
No other mentions for A.I.? Is that because nobody else found it depressing, or because everyone else slept through the whole pointless, boring, depressing mess?
From what I can remember A.I was really good and more emotional than depressing.



Veeayt

3,139 posts

206 months

Tuesday 15th December 2015
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paulwirral said:
Funkycoldribena said:
The Divide
That's the one , there wasn't much good to come out of it .
There is an old, great novel, which is called 'the death of grass', which is far more gentle, albeit carrying the same idea with more delicacy.

Agree on A.I. - emotional film. I think Kubrick could have pulled it off better anyway.

otolith

56,394 posts

205 months

Tuesday 15th December 2015
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BrownBottle said:
From what I can remember A.I was really good and more emotional than depressing.
I just remember it being unremittingly bleak, going on and on and on and then ending depressingly.

qube_TA

8,402 posts

246 months

Wednesday 16th December 2015
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Independence Day, OK so it's a completely awful film, but the subtext that everyone loves America and Americans and the whole world wants to be like them depressed me, the believe that st and spent $200,000,000 making an awful film to illustrate that.



telecat

8,528 posts

242 months

Wednesday 16th December 2015
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The Original "Planet of the Apes". Really depressing ending.

Beati Dogu

8,916 posts

140 months

Wednesday 16th December 2015
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otolith said:
BrownBottle said:
From what I can remember A.I was really good and more emotional than depressing.
I just remember it being unremittingly bleak, going on and on and on and then ending depressingly.
It was just a remake of Pinocchio. It was well done, but I found it a more sad & over long than depressing.


More vexed kitten than disappointed horse if you will.




cardigankid

8,849 posts

213 months

Wednesday 16th December 2015
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Spectre?

How do you start with so many good actors and great kit and end up with such a non event?

Silent1

19,761 posts

236 months

Monday 28th December 2015
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SpudLink said:
oldaudi said:
anybody watched "A Serbian Film" Ive not watched it, but read the content.
I have. I'd advise against it.
Same, primarily because it's a st film that was only as popular as it was because of the 'shock' scenes.

Racea

33 posts

112 months

Monday 28th December 2015
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Schindlers list or Valkyrie both hard hitting

Morningside

24,111 posts

230 months

Tuesday 29th December 2015
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Silent1 said:
SpudLink said:
oldaudi said:
anybody watched "A Serbian Film" Ive not watched it, but read the content.
I have. I'd advise against it.
Same, primarily because it's a st film that was only as popular as it was because of the 'shock' scenes.
I watched it and it was O...K... but shocking scenes put in to bolster sales. The death of one grunt via his penis was hilarious!!

Guffy

2,311 posts

266 months

Tuesday 29th December 2015
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I think The Elephant Man is pretty bleak, but probably more sad than depressing.

I went to the cinema to see Barfly (Mickey Rourke, on the heels of the brilliant Angel Heart) in the 80's, the misery of it still haunts me today!

Jimmy Recard

17,540 posts

180 months

Thursday 31st December 2015
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I didn't find Eraserhead depressing so much as impossible to understand!

Nik da Greek

2,503 posts

151 months

Thursday 31st December 2015
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The German-made Stalingrad for kinda obvious reasons. The ones who die early on are probably the lucky ones



or possibly Last Exit To Brooklyn, because the only bloke not to have a thoroughly miserable time, all of the time, was the bloke too stupid to understand how unrelievedly horrendous everyone's life was


Eric Mc

122,144 posts

266 months

Thursday 31st December 2015
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Veeayt said:
Agree on A.I. - emotional film. I think Kubrick could have pulled it off better anyway.
Same here - very worthwhile film to watch but doesn't exactly send one to bed in high spirits.