What are the most depressing films you've seen?

**Dajistano** · January 29th, 2005, 11:02 PM

You know, the ones that make you want to get medication after viewing...

Mine...

28 Days Later: The most foreboding aspect of this film was the score; unbelievably well done, depressing and sad. To this day, I can't watch Boyle's masterpiece without it taking a gigantic effect. The film itself is haunting and is one that I will NEVER forget.

Donnie Darko: Gary Jules' "Mad World". Enough said.

Black Hawk Down: The ending dialogue is what gets me everytime. As with 28 Days Later, I can't watch it in its entirety without crying.

American Beauty: What a ****ing outstanding film. For those that have seen it, you'll probably get why it's in this category.

T2: Judgment Day

Leon: The Professional: The bond between Mathilda and Leon, and then the final scene with Leon and Stansfield.

Gladiator: "You're home." [img]frown.gif[/img]

The Green Mile: Coffee's execution. [img]frown.gif[/img]

Dawn of the Dead (78): Something like this shouldn't need an explantion.

Road to Perdition: Not as good as Ridley Scott, but Sam Mendes has the same knack this kind of thing. See "American Beauty".

Of course, there are several other mentionables, but these are the standouts.

You should've seen me in school Friday. My English teacher mentioned she studied film in college. My ears perked up and we engaged in the most incredible discussion about movies (of course, it was mainly she and I, the others were kind of... lost).

It's uncanny how similar our tastes are... she loves the same things I do; Aliens, Ridley Scott, James Cameron, Quentin Tarantino, George Romero and his classic zombie films, etc. We also had a talk about 28 Days Later (and how the infected weren't technically zombies) and how much we eached loved it and saw its beauty. I also told her I was planning for a film studies major in college, and got some valuable advice. Definitely one of my best days in recent memory.

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**The Mighty Wolf** · January 29th, 2005, 11:06 PM

My word, you've listed some of my all time favorites. Though I wouldn't consider them depressing, maybe emotionally moving.

**Dajistano** · January 29th, 2005, 11:15 PM

Yes, depressing and/or emotionally moving.

**Spliff** · January 29th, 2005, 11:25 PM

Yea, that scene in Gladiator is pretty sad.

And I don't know about you guys, but I thought Bruce Almight ALOT sadder than funny. That scene where he's talking to God about Anniston, and where he's looking at her crying in the window almost makes me tear.

**S-Mart Manager** · January 29th, 2005, 11:34 PM

alright, i'm not going to get into movies but the episode of futurama about Fry's dog almost made me fucking cry. i can't watch that shit. the episode didn't even try to be all that funny. i don't know WHAT posessed them to make it. it doesn't even end on a light note...it ends making you want to fucking cry. why the hell would they do that on a show like Futurama? i won't watch that episode again...

**Street Worm** · January 29th, 2005, 11:35 PM

(1967)
In Cold Blood (1967)

The Emerald Forest (1985)

& 3 in a row by Nicoals Roeg-

The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
Don't Look Now (1973)
Walkabout (1971)

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**Dajistano** · January 29th, 2005, 11:39 PM

And I won't get started on my picks for sad/depressing/emotionally TV either.

Although a few select episodes of 24 and The Shield standout.

I still cry when I watch the season one ending of 24. [img]frown.gif[/img]

Christian's confrontation with the Catholic priest in Nip/Tuck is pretty damn sad, too.

And The Shield... well... I'll just say I cried during a couple episodes, too.

(Dammit, I knew I couldn't resist)

**toymank** · January 29th, 2005, 11:40 PM

Not the entire movie, but "my Dog Skip"

sounds retarded, but, the scene where the kid moves out of the hosue, and then the dog just lays on his bed, and it sorta fast forwards through time as it sleeps there, and dies

That kinda got to me just because my dog's a Jack Russel too, and basically my best friend so, felt a weird connection to it, I guess

and yeah, Donnie Darko when "mad World" is playing...

**S-Mart Manager** · January 29th, 2005, 11:42 PM

toymank,
that's what happens in that episode of Futurama. Fry figures that the dog went on to have a good life with a happy family after he was gone, but then it shows the dog waiting for fry to return as it grows old and he never does...