Do any of your favorite movies get you down?

[The Geek Lord]

The Karate Kid series makes me depressed. Because it makes me realize that action/kung-fu/whatever movies will never have as good a plot as the first three did.

I refuse to see the remake. Because I can tell with my magical bullshit psychic powers that it may or may not be a bad movie, but it will never be as good as the originals.

 

[Kagim]

The ending of Big Fish.

Jesus... It's like... A thousand Mufasa's being run down by wildebeests.

God damn...

 

[Mr. Elemenopee]

Well some of my favorite movies do that to me.

Forrest Gump - I mean after all that happens to him, he still is happy and has his son... but still. Jenny!!!

Harold and Maude - If you've seen this movie, come on. The ending is just sad

The Fountain - That movie took me a while to get, and the second time watching it, it hit me. I then started to feel a little glum for a couple of days.

 

[Mr. Elemenopee]

How can you not watch Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind without crying?!

That movie did make me cry! It made me wonder if I've ever forgotten anybody like that.

 

[unoleian]

Requiem for a Dream.

I love that movie. But I hate how it makes me feel at the end. Such a brutal and crushing last 20 minutes.

But I still love it! Guess it's a good one to watch to put my "bad days" in perspective...

 

[TheJoojo]

Requiem for a Dream.

Seconded.
Feels terrible to watch, but it's still a very good movie.

EDIT: And the theme-song is amazing.

 

[megs1120]

One of my favorite movies is Terminator 2. The ending brings me to tears every time I see it. Incidently this Is why there is no such thing as Terminator 3.

Oh, God, Terminator 2! I should have had that on my list.

I could take these movies and make a "Make Boys Cry" movie marathon.

 

[AfterAscon]

The ending of Big Fish.

Jesus... It's like... A thousand Mufasa's being run down by wildebeests.

God damn...

I love Big Fish and can watch it endlessly, but I wasn't a fan of it's ending, especially when you compare it to the book's. I'd even go as far to say that the ending almost spoils it.

Spoiler: Spoiler: My complaints

In the movie you're pretty much told that everything in Edward Bloom's stories are exaggerations during the funeral scene. It shows you all the characters and how different they are from their story counterparts. Whereas the book doesn't differentiate between real and fantasy, so during his journey to the river you never know if that really happens or not.

Damn, Mr. Elemenopee beat me to The Fountain. Donnie Darko has a pretty depressing ending.

 

[Yosato]

The Last Samurai - the tragic ending and how you see Tom Cruise at the end is really emotional - I know it's not the obvious choice but it's the only one of my favourite films that can bring me close to tears and make me depressed all day

 

[Arcanite Ripper]

Paul Blart: Mall Cop (Remember that one?) stands out the most for me.

Who knew a misguided comedy about a "mall cop" would turn into a depressing condescension for anyone with a physically-hindering condition?

Edit: Oh. Right. Favorite. I'll try again:

I could never watch Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame with a smile on. Hard to believe it was classified as a children's movie...

 

[BenzSmoke]

Inception was a rather sad movie, especially when you realize what happened at the end.

 

[Chainsauce]

Well, sorta.

Up In The Air at least makes me a bit melancholic.

 

[Kagim]

The ending of Big Fish.

Jesus... It's like... A thousand Mufasa's being run down by wildebeests.

God damn...

I love Big Fish and can watch it endlessly, but I wasn't a fan of it's ending, especially when you compare it to the book's. I'd even go as far to say that the ending almost spoils it.

Spoiler: Spoiler: My complaints

In the movie you're pretty much told that everything in Edward Bloom's stories are exaggerations during the funeral scene. It shows you all the characters and how different they are from their story counterparts. Whereas the book doesn't differentiate between real and fantasy, so during his journey to the river you never know if that really happens or not.

Damn, Mr. Elemenopee beat me to The Fountain. Donnie Darko has a pretty depressing ending.

Spoiler: My perspective on the ending

What makes you so sure those characters are really at the funeral? The last scene we see is his son telling his children the stories his father once told him. For you know those people could very well just be one more story Ed Junior is telling. While yes Ed juniors mother does say that "not everything your father says is a lie" to what extent is not know. Outside of him buying a town and being MIA nothing else is truly explained. Even those two instances aren't clear on what or how they happened.

In the end the real truth is still not known, because both funeral scenes, the one Ed junior tells his dad and the one preceding, could just be two different ways he tells the story. Just like his dad always changes the stories he tells his son. The first he tells his dad to give him a happy ending, the second he tells when he is feeling blue, or more solemn. Or maybe the first story is just for his dad and the second one is for his children and friends. After all Ed junior is more of a serious down to earth character, and he might simply have a more serious twist to his tall tales, thus the more solemn story he tells his kids.

That's how i interpreted the ending anyways.

 

[Extraintrovert]

I am going to be completely unoriginal and post Up. The beginning utterly destroyed me, and the ending destroyed me in a good way. Watching it subsequent times didn't dilute that feeling at all, which is unusual for me.