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« Reply #75 on: August 18, 2009, 02:25:20 AM »

Ah, the film that tore my heart to watch was "Life is Beautiful."

That... aaah.
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« Reply #76 on: August 22, 2009, 01:20:35 PM »

Aw...that film tricked me into believing the father was still alive. grrrrr...it was sad though. Lookingup
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« Reply #77 on: August 22, 2009, 01:44:50 PM »

dogett- thirteen was a classic exploitation movie. I mean, they sold it as this bold vision of society with a new female diretor, script by a 13 yer old girl, etc but it was just showing titillating stuff!!  with the big lesson learned bs
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« Reply #78 on: August 22, 2009, 01:58:06 PM »

I just posted a topic about a depressing film, "Bless the Beasts and Children" from 1971. I was actually commenting somewhat on the dark and bleak nature of films from the early 70's in general.  Following the 60's, American culture was depressing in general.  The idealism of the 60's was waning, and the landscape was harsh and brutal.  Many films from the early 70's relate that feeling, and are either depressing either in a direct way or through irony.  Dog Day Afternoon comes to mind as a prime example of that feeling of desperate despair.  Harold and Maude, a very dark comedy, also has that feeling of melancholy, and a theme of the misfit that is the primary theme in "Bless the Beasts and Children."  I'm sure if I put my mind to it I can come up with dozens of films.  So, I guess I'm not trying to bring up any specific titles as the most depressing film of all time, but a period of time in film in general that saw alot of depressing films, but important ones nonetheless. 

Yes, films should entertain as well.  Remember, like Mr. Miagi said, in Karate, as in life (and in watching films as well), you must have balance.
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« Reply #79 on: August 22, 2009, 02:17:58 PM »

The new version of LAST HOUSE ON THE LEfT
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« Reply #80 on: August 26, 2009, 09:13:39 PM »

'Ordinary People' with Donald Sutherland and Mary Tyler Moore always made me feel depressed at the end. Maybe because it's to real.

Also.....

Come on you guys! Don't any of you remember 'Old Yeller' when you were a kid? I still remember crying my little eyes out then I first saw that as a young boy.
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« Reply #81 on: August 29, 2009, 11:47:33 AM »

Dont know if anyone has said this but i think "LEGENDS OF THE FALL" has got to one of them
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« Reply #82 on: September 01, 2009, 05:39:29 PM »

Grave of the Fireflies for sure.

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That is the saddest scene in the movie.
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« Reply #83 on: June 28, 2010, 07:18:41 PM »

I'm not sure if wildlife documentaries count, but March of the Penguins sure has a lot of jarring, depressing scenes. Another film that comes to mind is the 1988 Discovery Channel production People of the Forest, which chronicles 25 years in the lives of a community of chimpanzees in Tanzania's Gombe National Park, subjects of Jane Goodall's now legendary studies, focusing on the famous Flo and her children, Fifi, Faben, Figan, and the spoiled Flint. While the film is a well-balanced overview of their lives, it did have two very sad parts near the end.
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 First, the chimp community is struck by a polio outbreak that affects a quarter of the chimps in one way or another. There's an especially horrible sequence where one older male chimp, a gentle, grandfatherly guy named Baldy McGregor, appears on the scene, paralyzed from the waist down. All he could do was either tumble along or pull himself around by his arms.  Bluesad A baby chimp died from the disease, and its mother, Olly Longface, was carrying it around, refusing to accept the loss. Other chimps were paralyzed for life in some way, including Faben, who lost the use of his right arm.

Later, at the age of 53, the ancient Flo herself dies of heart failure on the bank of a stream. Sad enough in itself, but although he's 8 years old and should be perfectly capable of making it on his own, the loss breaks mama's boy Flint completely. The narrator's words about the outcome are perhaps some of the most heartbreaking and brutally simplistic I've ever heard uttered: "Flint stayed near his mother's body for nearly three weeks, growing weaker and weaker. He died of grief."

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« Reply #84 on: June 29, 2010, 10:18:04 AM »

I loved the ending to The Mist, Se7en too;  I'm a little sick in the head.

A Serious Man - made me want to hide under my bed.
The Great Silence
Night of the Living Dead (original)
I'll second (or fourth or fifth) Grave of the Fireflies - just gutwrenching

Too bad we can't count tv shows because The Wire and Deadwood were full of depressing episodes; Twilight Zone had a few too.
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« Reply #85 on: June 29, 2010, 10:48:31 PM »

For various reasons:
The Devil's Rejects- not cause it was bad, just I dunno, depressing.
Night of The Living Dead- Poor Ben...
Marley and Me- Really? Really?  Good God.  NO movie ever, EVER, actually made me shed a tear.  Watched this, bawled for 25 minutes. Bluesad
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« Reply #86 on: October 23, 2010, 03:02:31 PM »

I loved the ending to The Mist, Se7en too;  I'm a little sick in the head.

A Serious Man - made me want to hide under my bed.
The Great Silence
Night of the Living Dead (original)
I'll second (or fourth or fifth) Grave of the Fireflies - just gutwrenching

Too bad we can't count tv shows because The Wire and Deadwood were full of depressing episodes; Twilight Zone had a few too.

When I saw the ending to The Mist, I thought they should've played this sound: http://www.sadtrombone.com/

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« Reply #87 on: October 23, 2010, 05:44:43 PM »

Here are a few:

* I WANT TO LIVE!

Werd!  This woman was convicted for simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time. And every time you thought there was a glimmer of hope, it was suddenly taken from her.

Another one is Red Dawn.  *SPOILER ALERT*: The ending scene where a dying Patrick Swayze is carrying Charlie Sheen's dead body, and the Cuban commander looks at them with such pity as he lowers his AK-47, and waves them off as he begins to cry and pray for them.

The final scene of Swayze and Sheen dying together on the park bench as Swayze tells him that their father is coming down to get them....nuff' said.

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« Reply #88 on: October 23, 2010, 07:54:05 PM »

For various reasons:
The Devil's Rejects- not cause it was bad, just I dunno, depressing.


The Devil's Rejects is, to me, a play on one's minds, it's open up to interpretation, you can either feel bad to the Sheriff, or you feel bad to the three bad guys who gets tortured by the Sheriff.

Anyways, A.I., Artificial Intelligence, Spielberg's work on a fairy tale should have ended sooner, but I don't want to spoil it.
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« Reply #89 on: October 25, 2010, 01:00:51 PM »


Martyrs was really depressing. 
Eden Lake was depressing and infuriating. 
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