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Riskwise
01-06-2005, 12:48 AM
no need for a long first post, this just compliments the song thread because i didnt want to highjack it.

Most depressing movie of all time for me is:

Requiem for a Dream

Sponger15SB
01-06-2005, 12:49 AM
The Whole Ten Yards.

That move made me contemplate suicide, horrible movie.

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01-06-2005, 12:51 AM
That I have seen Leaving Las Vegas. I try to avoid depressing movies.

PhatTBoll
01-06-2005, 12:52 AM
I thought Requiem for a Dream was hilarious. They should have just called it "Drugs are Bad" and had Nancy Reagan in the corner of the screen scowling at you through the whole movie.

billyjex
01-06-2005, 12:52 AM
A movie I saw that is depressing, but in a much more subtler way is About Schmidt.

Riskwise
01-06-2005, 12:58 AM
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That I have seen Leaving Las Vegas. I try to avoid depressing movies.

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Requiem?

Riskwise
01-06-2005, 12:59 AM
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I thought Requiem for a Dream was hilarious. They should have just called it "Drugs are Bad" and had Nancy Reagan in the corner of the screen scowling at you through the whole movie.

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I dont think anyone agrees with you

[censored]
01-06-2005, 01:00 AM
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That I have seen Leaving Las Vegas. I try to avoid depressing movies.

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Requiem?

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Haven't seen it.

Asnbabe
01-06-2005, 01:02 AM
oceans 12. . . cause it was so bad

mike l.
01-06-2005, 01:10 AM
bicycle thief

lovely film btw

ftball0000
01-06-2005, 01:13 AM
Finding Neverland (I went w/ my gf) was really good, but exceptionally sad

-Ftball

mike l.
01-06-2005, 01:17 AM
was requiem for a dream that stupid speed addiction movie where everything was sped up in certain parts like that was supposed to be what being high on speed is like? yeah that was a hideously stupid bad movie, i saw most of it on tv awhile back.

thatpfunk
01-06-2005, 01:25 AM
You definetly took the movie the wrong way. Author used drugs. It's a movie about addiction in general. Amazing stuff

PhatTBoll
01-06-2005, 01:27 AM
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I dont think anyone agrees with you

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I thought it was well-acted, and the directing style was cool, but it was badly written. For four people so closely connected to each other to hit utter rock bottom at exactly the same time in such a short time period (a couple months?) is just not plausible. It just felt to me like an extremely long Just Say No commercial with a huge budget and good production values. I find Just Say No commercials and their modern equivalents funny.

To go along with the thread, I will say it's a toss-up between Schindler's List and The Wall.

TheJunkyardGod
01-06-2005, 01:28 AM
Agreed ^^^

Knowing quite a few people addicted to drugs, I can say both the movie and the book were incredibly upsetting.

oddjob
01-06-2005, 01:30 AM
toss up between Dancer in the Dark and My Life Without Me. i don't think i felt happy for a week after watching either of these movies.

MEbenhoe
01-06-2005, 02:07 AM
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A movie I saw that is depressing, but in a much more subtler way is About Schmidt.

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very true, has a few funny parts too though

Leo99
01-06-2005, 02:15 AM
Great movie. Deeply moving. I love the black humor at the end when the guy's in the jail and cops tell him, you ain't gonna be shooting up in that arm anymore before the saw comes and cuts it off.

I hope none of you has to live with someone addicted to drugs.

bernie
01-06-2005, 02:25 AM
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emonrad87
01-06-2005, 02:44 AM
Agreed, Requiem was very depressing/disturbing.

Donnie Darko is also depressing

juanez
01-06-2005, 02:55 AM
The Wall. I remember being like 15 and seeing that in the theater and being f-ed up for a week. Oh, maybe it was the LSD in conjuntion with The Wall that f-ed me up. Whatever.

Within the last decade: Leaving Las Vegas is a good one.

ClassicBob
01-06-2005, 03:00 AM
Not too hijack the thread, but your avatar is greatness.

thirddan
01-06-2005, 03:13 AM
bicycle theif was good but...

i think schindlers list was more depressing /images/graemlins/frown.gif

dsm
01-06-2005, 03:20 AM
Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl (1998) Dir: Joan Chen


-dsm

emonrad87
01-06-2005, 03:25 AM
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Not too hijack the thread, but your avatar is greatness.

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TY! /images/graemlins/grin.gif

dsm
01-06-2005, 03:40 AM
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I thought Requiem for a Dream was hilarious.

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Loved that refrigerator. And Oh My God, Ellyn Burstyn. What a performance.

-dsm

Shaun
01-06-2005, 04:52 AM
The Elephant Man

Pepsquad
01-06-2005, 05:04 AM
"My Life". Horribly depressing.

DerryABU
01-06-2005, 05:27 AM
8mm left me on a complete downer for days.
Leaving Las Vegas is a good shout too.

billyjex
01-06-2005, 05:38 AM
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"My Life". Horribly depressing.

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Ah, totally forgot about that movie. I haven't seen it in years, but yeah, it's depressing in a very real life way.

I don't know if I've ever cried at any other movie than that one.

private joker
01-06-2005, 06:00 AM
Requiem For a Dream is easily the most depressing movie I've ever seen. It's traumatically disturbing and so goddam sad. The other two most depressing filmgoing experiences I've had are:

Lilya 4-ever
The Grey Zone

The former is about a teenage girl from Eastern Europe abandoned by her parents, kidnapped, and sold to the sex trade in Sweden where she becomes a drugged-up hooker/slave.

The latter is about the Holocaust, but instead of feel-good stories of Triumph of the Human Spirit and Hope from crap movies like Schindler's List and The Pianist, it's just about Jews getting tortured and killed and thrown in ovens for 2 hours, everyone dies and then it's over. Because that's what really happened.

soah
01-06-2005, 06:29 AM
Requiem for a Dream was what instantly came to mind as soon as I read the thread title.

Someone else mentioned 8mm which is interesting because I saw that film only a couple days after I saw Requiem for a Dream. I wouldn't really say it was depressing, but it was extremely disturbing. After seeing those two movies it took me a couple weeks to readjust myself.

As for The Bicycle Thief, I think I slept through most of it. That would explain why I can't remember hardly anything about it other than the beginning and the end.

housenuts
01-06-2005, 06:45 AM
not sure if said but owning mahowny.

Kurn, son of Mogh
01-06-2005, 06:46 AM
Leaving Las Vegas

nicky g
01-06-2005, 06:53 AM
"Requiem for a Dream was what instantly came to mind as soon as I read the thread title."

Ditto.

RogerZBT
01-06-2005, 10:00 AM
Dead Poet's Society

Fred G Sanford
01-06-2005, 10:33 AM
Less Than Zero

sfer
01-06-2005, 11:17 AM
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Less Than Zero

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Yes, it was depressing how they butchered the book.

Paluka
01-06-2005, 11:19 AM
Schindler's List is a real downer. Happiness as well. And About Schmidt was also depressing.

Sooga
01-06-2005, 11:22 AM
Hmm, that's strange... I always thought the ending to Donnie Darko was a 'happy' ending in a way. It was to me, anyway.

IndieMatty
01-06-2005, 11:39 AM
The end of Planes Trains and Automobiles. Seriously.

gcoutu
01-06-2005, 11:47 AM
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Requiem for a Dream

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Agreed...also one of the most amazing films I have ever seen. I enjoyed Pi and Requiem was Pi with a bigger budget.
Still can't believe that Julia Roberts won the Best Female Performance over Burstyn


I would have to say The Wall is pretty depressing too.

I really love both.

mmbt0ne
01-06-2005, 11:51 AM
KIDS

I've only watched it twice, but I felt sick to my stomach both times.

Huskiez
01-06-2005, 06:01 PM
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"Requiem for a Dream was what instantly came to mind as soon as I read the thread title."

Ditto.

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Same. Surprised so many people thought that as well.

JPinAZ
01-06-2005, 07:11 PM
Night & Fog. It's depressing because it's a documentary. All the more powerful realizing how soon after WW2 it was made.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048434/

Bill Murphy
01-06-2005, 07:32 PM
..although RFAD did have a brief "speed" scene. Spun looked awful in the previews. I loved RFAD, but I first saw it alone in an otherwise empty theatre on Christmas Eve w/a blizzard outside. Talk about depressing... /images/graemlins/smile.gif

Another depressing, but way cool drug movie was The Salton Sea. Impossible to describe Vincent D'Onofrio re-enacting the JFK assassination; just rent & reel.

Mebbe we should start a best drug/booze/dissipation movies thread: RFAD, Salton, River's Edge, Bad Santa, Bad News Bears, etc. I liked parts of LLV, hated other parts.

lapoker17
01-06-2005, 08:55 PM
It has to be Owning Mahowney

Duke
01-06-2005, 09:00 PM
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Schindler's List is a real downer.

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I never got all the way through it. I usually leave when they kill the guy with one arm.

~D

Duke
01-06-2005, 09:01 PM
The Killer.

~D

Boris
01-06-2005, 09:07 PM
You know how sometimes you meet people that are trying so hard to be cool so they talk about all the drugs they did? Well I always ask them if they liked watching The Wall on LSD. If they answer yes I'm very suspicious that they ever did LSD at all. The Wall is a depressing movie when stone sober and there is no way in hell I would watch that on hallucinogens.

Boris
01-06-2005, 09:09 PM
Awww c'mon, the book was a self indulgent p.o.s.

The once and future king
01-06-2005, 09:47 PM
1984

Chris Daddy Cool
01-07-2005, 01:47 AM
Grave of the Fireflies.

PhatTBoll
01-07-2005, 01:53 AM
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Grave of the Fireflies.

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Now there is a movie that will rip your heart out.

turnipmonster
01-07-2005, 01:54 AM
return to paradise.

Slacker13
01-07-2005, 01:56 AM
Leaving Las Vegas was pretty damn depressing.

Dr. Strangelove
01-07-2005, 03:56 AM
remains of the day.

An avoidable personal tragedy with the greatest (also avoidable) tragedy in human history as a backdrop.

Duke
01-07-2005, 04:00 AM
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Leaving Las Vegas was pretty damn depressing.

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If you remove the prostitute and have a guy sitting in a room drinking himself to death trying to forget why he wanted to die, that was me 2 years ago. I think it's a sad movie too.

~D

Danenania
01-07-2005, 04:18 AM
City of God.

sfer
01-07-2005, 06:09 PM
It was, but the movie was lame tripe.

IsaacW
01-07-2005, 09:32 PM
Magnolia always gets me down about the human condition.

I cry every time I watch Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind as well.

Piz0wn0reD!!!!!!
01-07-2005, 09:47 PM
Love liza, and its not even close.