yo BY THE FUCKIN WAY.

So, if you can tell me the most depressing film you've watched (DON'T MAKING A FUCKING LIST) and WHY it is depressing

I am going to write a list of shit I can remember, I'm sorry.

hey your topic? fuck it im doin my own thing!

mulholland drive

no that letters to Zachary movie. damn that movie is so depressing, and "the bridge". Both of those are docs.

Million Dollar Baby

electroma and koyaanisqatsi invoked sadness for me!

come on guys. I know I said WATCH APU TRILOGY but I was also saying it in the context of an entire article I told him to read (which is a list but with descriptions of why it's depressing so). this is pretty poor all around.

seriously are we just going to use this forum for showing off our namedrops even when the topic specifically says DETAILS PLEASE?

to be honest I just wanted to make fun of myself with that post. 

that dear zachary movie has its own topic in am.

Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father is a documentary about the case of Shirley Jane Turner. It was made by Kurt Kuenne, a friend of the child's murdered father, released by Oscilloscope Pictures, and said to be a tour-de-force of editing

The Bridge

The Bridge focuses on the large number of suicides that occur each year at the Golden Gate Bridge, capturing footage of the suicides and interviewing family members. Also interviewed are people who have attempted suicide at the bridge, witnesses of the suicides, and a jump survivor.

The movie was shot with multiple cameras pointed at a notorious suicide spot on the bridge during 2004. It captured 19 people as they took their final plunge, and then offers interviews with grieving families

Also Mulholland Drive is depressing because it's about unrequited love and being a failure.  It's not just that it's about unrequited love and failure, though; it's the way the film is structured that really makes it pretty powerful.  This is a very poor description of the movie but I'm not going to go further into it than that!!!  Watch it bitch.

Give me a minute to think of other good depressing movies.  Depressing movies are da best

note: this post is titled "why mulholland drive is sad by roman franklin, age 11"

yo BY THE FUCKIN WAY.

hey your topic? fuck it im doin my own thing!

come on guys. I know I said WATCH APU TRILOGY but I was also saying it in the context of an entire article I told him to read (which is a list but with descriptions of why it's depressing so). this is pretty poor all around.

seriously are we just going to use this forum for showing off our namedrops even when the topic specifically says DETAILS PLEASE?

in the context of the op you know these movies should have everything going shitty for everyone, that's what makes it sad. i think it would be a poor idea to say SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE: IT'S SAD BECAUSE HE LOSES THE GAME AND GETS KILLED (don't worry it's not a real spoiler, he wins the money. his brother dies though) and saying some dudes wrote an article on it is right up there with assuming a wikipedia search if he's interested

electroma and koyaanisqatsi are both sad almost impressionistically, neither have dialogue, only music.

electroma culminates in a powerful suicide scene, the path to which is depressing.
koyaanisqatsi explores the wonder of human progress and concludes with its futility

making mental note not to watch any of these films because i will be reduced to a blubbering babby for subsequent days

man i really need to see the wrestler

Why do you hate topics asking for suggestions? What a strange thing to hate.

If I were to ever feel that I'm in too buoyant a mood, this would be the first DVD in the tray.

The last film I saw that left me with a sour taste in my mouth was Revolutionary Road. One of its final scenes actually left me feeling rather nauseous, all thanks to Mendes' unflinching direction. And the music by Thomas Newman (I almost wrote "Newton Howard" then, confusing him with another composer) is greatly evocative. I doubt it's still in cinemas, but I recommend it highly.

how's your valve ignatius?


i know ton(nes) of bleak sad day drama shit like this! there's plenty to go around. sadly alot of it is pure shit. you don't want lists so i'll just give you a couple that i think are all right:

half-nelson:
everyone likes half-nelson. it does the shaky cam, grainy film stuff and the 'ron stark emotional realism' that we all like so much. long scenes without music, ugly close ups. it's about a crack addicted school teacher and his accidental friendship with one of his students. it's american.

nobody knows:
this is a film about 4 abandoned kids in tokyo who need to try and survive with very little money and no-one to help em out. it's got a lot of pretty scenes with music and stuff, so it's not all bleak it's kind of tragic beauty type stuff but it turns out pretty sad and depressing yeah. i like it i like it quite a bunch.

i actually can't remember any ones that are GOOD you know. there's the brown bunny which is pretty much the bleak sad drama thing taken to the absolute extreme but that film is just one long ejaculation into your senses by vincent gallo so i wouldn't recommend it as a good film. or sherrybaby but i can't remember if i liked that i just remember it was emotionally volatile.

oh yeah leaving las vegas is a good sad film. it's about an alkie who goes to las vegas to drink himself to death. he meets a prostitute there and they become best buds who have sex and get drunk. but then it all gets sad. it's kind of an ornate film, there's a lot of jazz music and then kind of operatic music. it's not particularly sad to me, but i know alot of people find it kind of devastating (my mom sure does!).

also time for hilarious sarcasm:

nick and norahs infinite playlist:
make me sad thast is a film......what a shit!!!!

Margot at the wedding is a pretty depressing movie in a way. My idea of depressing movies aren't movies where terrible shit happens to someone, but movies where someones life didn't turn out the way they wanted and they feel empty and pointless. I dunno, I think its becuase peole tend to feel most alive when either somethign amazing or something really terrible is happening in their life. When they're in some kind of rut, which they cant get out, it makes me really depressed. It's got that waste of life sort of feel to it... And whilst Margot at the wedding is technically a comedy, it leaves a sour taste in your mouth. I'm not sure I am really explaining myself fully, but yeah those sort of films are most depressing to me.

Here are a few other movies that adhere to this (sorry, list)

The Life Aquatic
Ghost World
Lost in Translation
Closer (actually this is probably the most depressing of all I think)

Beautiful Mind is kind of depressing. I haven't watched it in a while though. The Butterfly Effect is also kind of depressing if you think about it no matter what he does things never really turn out right

A Beautiful Mind is a 2001 American film based on the life of John Forbes Nash, a Nobel Laureate in Economics.[2] The film was directed by Ron Howard and written by Akiva Goldsman. It was inspired by a bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-nominated 1998 book of the same name by Sylvia Nasar. The film stars Russell Crowe, along with Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris and Paul Bettany.

The story begins in the early years of Nash's life at Princeton University as he develops his "original idea" that will revolutionize the world of mathematics. Early in the movie, Nash begins developing paranoid schizophrenia and endures delusional episodes while painfully watching the loss and burden his condition brings on his wife and friends.

The butterfly effect is a phrase that encapsulates the more technical notion of sensitive dependence on initial conditions in chaos theory. Small variations of the initial condition of a dynamical system may produce large variations in the long term behavior of the system. This is sometimes presented as esoteric behavior, but can be exhibited by very simple systems: for example, a ball placed at the crest of a hill might roll into any of several valleys depending on slight differences in initial position.

It is a common subject in fiction when presenting scenarios involving time travel and with "what if" scenarios where one storyline diverges at the moment of a seemingly minor event resulting in two significantly different outcomes.

2004 American science fiction thriller film starring Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart, Eric Stoltz, and others, distributed by New Line Cinema. The title is a reference to the butterfly effect, which theorises that a change in something seemingly innocuous, such as a flap of a butterfly's wings, may have unexpected larger consequences in the future, such as the path a hurricane will travel. The Butterfly Effect is directed and written by Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber.

salo o le 120 giornate di sodoma is pretty fucking depressing because the libertines are so "heartless"(for lack of a better term) in what they do to the people. when i saw this i seriously wish i didn't but man it's fucked up and i suggest reading the wiki so you are not SURPRISED at what happens. the fact that the book is so much worse is just amazing and i really do not want to go near it, nor the movie ever again.

alot of the films here aren't even mildly melancholy apart from one or two scenes i mean the life aquatic? that film is nonsense!

there's this director Susanne Bier who does films like what pink is looking for. it's a style - it's called dogma. anyway i saw after the wedding ages ago and i remember really liking it at the time - it's a danish film, she's danish but she done an american film called things we lost in the fire with benicio del toro and halle berry which was all right but a bit poorly written it's got the whole grit emotional realism/intensity thing. apparently her best film is open hearts but i haven't seen that yet.

there's probably quite a few directors out there doing dogma/dogme style films.

It's pretty nonsensical but it's not nosense imo. Definitely not a depressing film though.

i still really enjoy the life aquatic despite wes anderson being a bit of a dick so all i meant was it was nonsensical not that it was rubbish

making mental note not to watch any of these films because i will be reduced to a blubbering babby for subsequent days

can I just say I don't understand this? and I don't mean "EVERYONE NEEDS A GOOD CRY..." or anything, but panda linked me a review of Dear Zachary where half the reviews at the bottom said "ugh...I'm not gonna watch this. it will ruin me" or "thanks for warning me! I won't watch, I'm a big wuss for stuff like this!"

the only time I won't watch a depressing movie is if I can figure out it's deliberately pulling heartstrings. like if Dear Zachary wasn't real I might still cry but I'd also be annoyed at the director for making such a lowblow. it's why I didn't like the Kite Runner either; so much awful shit happens you begin to wonder if the director has any sense of reality.

also here is a movie I find a specific kind of depressing I bet no one will agree with: The Fall. the premise is this guy who is kind of suicidal over his lost love and ruined career is telling this girl a big fish story about these five guys trying to defeat an evil king. the thing is, since he's making it up as he goes along, at the end he starts becoming really depressed and starts killing off the characters. the little girl starts begging him "no! why! stop it I love them!" and he's like NOTHING IS EVER GOOD and he starts killing off his own character and the little girl's character is all "get up papa!" and he's all "I'M NOT YOUR FATHER! LEAVE ME ALONE! I ONLY WANTED YOU SO YOU COULD STEAL ME MORPHINE SO I COULD DIE!"

it ends happier but man that entire scene I felt so sad as the little girl keeps crying and telling him to stop killing off the characters because he is killing...parts of himself...

My brother thinks Butterfly Effect is like the best movie ever

isn't it just a bunch of older smarter movies/books combined and then all MTV'ed up (I dunno I haven't seen the whole thing but it seemed like that like 'whoa time travel is weird cue up trendy electronica track') shit probably that halloween episode of the Simpsons where Homer goes back in time with the toaster and changes the future is better written

Edit: I only saw a bit of the movie on FX once but I'm just figuring it's pretty bad probably because of Ashton Kutcher and all

but yeah I can see where some of the movies could just leave a depressing aftertaste even if that wasn't the constant mood in the movie. Like I was looking up Butterfly Effect and Twelve Monkeys came up, I thought that was depressing just because it was like nothing mattered anyway in the end

did anybody say Mystic River yet

Edit: Sorry if my movie choices are bad I'm not as big into looking up obscure/interesting movies anymore I just look for ones I've heard of at garage sales and on clearance etc.