Most depressing movies...

Yeah Lilja 4-ever was depressing. Brilliant film mind you.

One that's not been mentioned. . .I thought Jacob's Ladder had a depressing ending(must be one of the most underrated films of all time)
 
The Road, Schindlers list and especially this one:

duffer said:
When the Wind Blows.

An elderly couple slowly die of radiation sickness. I still can't believe they showed this at my school.
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On TV...Eastenders. A constant drip of negativity feeding into peoples lives. I really don't know why anyone watches it
 
Spoony Youngblood said:
Yeah Lilja 4-ever was depressing. Brilliant film mind you.

One that's not been mentioned. . .I thought Jacob's Ladder had a depressing ending(must be one of the most underrated films of all time)
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I agree Lilja 4-ever is absolutely brilliant (and I'd like to frogmarch everyone making fun of the underage prostitute in the Ribery case into a screening of it), I'm just too much of a coward to ever watch it again. :(
 
Threads and Scum are two of the bleakest films I've ever seen. Can't imagine the BBC comissioning anything like that today.

The last 30 mins or so of Threads are wrist-slashingly bleak. It makes The Day After look like an episode of Rainbow.
 
duffer said:
When the Wind Blows.

An elderly couple slowly die of radiation sickness. I still can't believe they showed this at my school.
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Just watched this on youtube, found it boring. The couple were so moronic that I could really feel little sympathy for them. The overarching theme was sad fair enough
 
Dr. Dwayne said:
Surely you saw that coming, though?

Spoons, you have to watch The Beautiful Country.
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It wasn't a shocking twist. . . the thought of Jacob not knowing which reality was real was depressing as well. On one had he had a perfect life, on the other one full regrets. Not nice at all.

And no I haven't. What;s it about, D?

R.Nilsson7 said:
Yeah, agreed. I usually hate horror movies but I really liked that one.
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I think it's one of my favourites.
 
feckin Watchmen

And Up.

Who on earth makes a disney film in which the leading character realises that he can't have kids. Then his wife dies, and then he's left alone in the world to realise some stupid dream of floating across the world by tying balloons to his house!?

No wonder children turn to drugs.
 
Iam never actually sure why people think Requiem for a Dream is such a depressing movie.

At the end of the movie everybody gets exactly what they deserve except Jared Leto's mother. It's also pretty mild by todays standards.

I found myself not caring about any of the characters except for Leto's mother. Good movie yes but not nearly as depressing as everybody thinks it is.

Spoorloos is easily more depressing.
 
Doogie said:
Good call.
Dancer in the Dark, another one by Lars von Trier is really depressing. Come to think of it many Scandinavian movies are quite depressing.
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Dancer in the Dark annoyed me.
Why couldn't she put her money in a fecking bank?
 
Alex said:
Just watched this on youtube, found it boring. The couple were so moronic that I could really feel little sympathy for them. The overarching theme was sad fair enough
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It was darkly ironic and sad at the same time. You probably needed to be there at the time in that we all pretty much expected that we would all die in a nuclear Armageddon sooner or later and the government advice for how to survive one was an utter joke. This advice was the main plot device for the story to hand the irony on. The comic the film came from was much better.
 
Crustanoid said:
On TV...Eastenders. A constant drip of negativity feeding into peoples lives. I really don't know why anyone watches it
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There is something about Coronation Street that sinks my mood very quickly, praise be to the Americans for making proper television.
 
BAMSOLA said:
Iam never actually sure why people think Requiem for a Dream is such a depressing movie.

At the end of the movie everybody gets exactly what they deserve except Jared Leto's mother. It's also pretty mild by todays standards.

I found myself not caring about any of the characters except for Leto's mother. Good movie yes but not nearly as depressing as everybody thinks it is.

Spoorloos is easily more depressing.
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The ending. :nervous:
 
BAMSOLA said:
Iam never actually sure why people think Requiem for a Dream is such a depressing movie.

At the end of the movie everybody gets exactly what they deserve except Jared Leto's mother. It's also pretty mild by todays standards.

I found myself not caring about any of the characters except for Leto's mother. Good movie yes but not nearly as depressing as everybody thinks it is.
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Yup, seeing a young girl and guy who made some bad choices being made into a sexual object so they can be violently sexually abused or dying from a gangrenous infection - but hey, they took drugs, so they deserve it.
 
M160RA said:
Dancer in the Dark annoyed me.
Why couldn't she put her money in a fecking bank?
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When has Björk ever done anything rational? Never, so I don't expect a character she portraits in a movie to do it either. :wenger:
 
Kraftwerker said:
Yup, seeing a young girl and guy who made some bad choices being made into a sexual object so they can be violently sexually abused or dying from a gangrenous infection - but hey, they took drugs, so they deserve it.
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Well they are all over eighteen so that youth argument is bollocks they are actually responsible for the choices that they've made in life and the consequences. And its not even the drugs which mark the wrong choices taking drugs in itself isn't the cause of their downfall.

Its the drug dealing by both Leto's character and Wayans character and the lack of self worth and dependance on drugs of Connelly's. Thats their real downfall not the drugs.

And lets not forget the fact that the main character is somebody who sees no problem with selling his elderly lonely mother's possesions to fund his habit.

So can you explain to me why I should feel sympathy for any of the main protagonists except for leto's mother?
 
BAMSOLA said:
Well they are all over eighteen so that youth argument is bollocks they are actually responsible for the choices that they've made in life and the consequences. And its not even the drugs which mark the wrong choices taking drugs in itself isn't the cause of their downfall.

Its the drug dealing by both Leto's character and Wayans character and the lack of self worth and dependance on drugs of Connelly's. Thats their real downfall not the drugs.

And lets not forget the fact that the main character is somebody who sees no problem with selling his elderly lonely mother's possesions to fund his habit.

So can you explain to me why I should feel sympathy for any of the main protagonists except for leto's mother?
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If you can't have sympathy for the despair and desperation someone must be feeling to even contemplate some of those choices, then I guess we're just different people.

Even if you don't have sympathy, the generally dark, despairing and hopeless themes mean it is a really depressing movie.
 
Just about now I can't see how any film can make me depressed.
 
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