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Depressing movies that you only watched once....

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Okay, maybe to be accurate, how about Depressing movies that you have seen.
I love movies. Some are sad but in a good way.
I want to see what you think is a Depressing movie.
Tonight, Less Than Zero was on. Robert Downey Jr played a drug addict deeply in debt that resorted to being a gay prostitute to pay off what he owes. In the end, he dies in what is assumed to be heart failure.
I've never seen it but....Passion of the Christ....Two hours of Jesus being abused and tortured? Really?
Oh yeah...Leaving Las Vegas too. Nicolas Cage gets fired and moves to Las Vegas to drink himself to death.


Gattaca with Ethan Hawk. The entire movie feels dystopian and sad.
Repo Men with Jude Law.
Red Dawn, the original.
What is on your list?
 
Gone Baby, Gone. Casey Affleck. A young girl goes missing, Casey is hired to find her. Dark and sad themes through the whole movie.
The Road. Viggo Mortensen. Post-Apocalyptic with overcast skies, general dreariness and sadness as Ailing father and son travel on foot.
 
I can't think of the movie name but I think it was based on a true story about a Kid that quit college and hitchhiked to Alaska. He almost makes it through the winter only to eat a poisonous plant by mistake that kills him.

It's "Into the wild"
 
- "The Day After", back in 1983 on ABC. Made during Reagan's presidency (remember, we kept getting
told he was going to get us all nuked!), it was pretty damn disturbing for a TV movie.
- "Schindler's List". Dear Lord...
- "Shawshank Redemption". Freaking heartbreaking...
 
I remember "The Day After"....Jason Robards, right? It was supposed to depict life after nuclear war?
Shawshank....I didn't like it the first time but have grown to really appreciate it. For some reason, prison movies interest me.
Never saw Schindlers.....
I have to wonder why studios make movies that are clearly depressing and dark. Who wants to leave a theater all gloomy feeling??
 
Unbroken, you need to see that one. True story about a POW.
 
moparedtn said:
- "The Day After", back in 1983 on ABC. Made during Reagan's presidency (remember, we kept getting
told he was going to get us all nuked!), it was pretty damn disturbing for a TV movie...
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Yup!. I remember watching that as an 11 year old. That movie really freaked me out.
 
I remember walking out of the theater after seeing "Chinatown". Great film until they killed Faye Dunaway. WTF!? Then there's 1945's John Wayne and Robert Montgomery's PT boat movie, "They Were Expendable". The last 30 people get on the C47 and it flies off leaving everybody else behind for the Japanese.
 
I thought the new Costner movie was a bummer, "Let him go"
 
"Requiem for a Dream" great movie to watch once but its hard to make it through without feeling depressed. The movie revolves around 2 junkies and what ends they go to to get a fix. The storylines involving the girlfriend (Jennifer Connolly) and the mother are the most depressing.
 
aeon280 said:
"Requiem for a Dream" great movie to watch once but its hard to make it through without feeling depressed. The movie revolves around 2 junkies and what ends they go to to get a fix. The storylines involving the girlfriend (Jennifer Connolly) and the mother are the most depressing.
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But just looking at Connolly makes everything all better.
 
VFilms said:
Vanishing Point. For obvious reasons.
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It sure seemed like Hollywood had something against Mopar owners, right?
Bullitt: Guy smashes into gas station.
Vanishing Point: Gut smashes into Bulldozers.
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry: Guy smashes into train.
 
Hosehead said:
Manchester by the sea. Oooof. That is a depressing movie...
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100% agree!! This is THE movie that therapists should make folks watch when they feel a little down. I walked out of that movie and thanked the Lord that my life wasn’t too bad. The acting was phenomenal and it delivered a punch to the gut that is unforgettable.
Leaving Las Vegas on the other hand should have been 5 minutes long.
The Pianist from 2002 was so sad but so optimistic, great, great and great.
 
Seven Pounds starring Will Smith.
The man spends the entire movie hardly ever smiling, chasing absolution for a terrible mistake from his past.....then kills himself to be an organ donor for seven people.
 
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