Do any of your favorite movies get you down?

[megs1120]

I don't know if this is just a girl thing or if everyone experiences this, but some of my favorite movies never fail to make me depressed, sometimes for days, for any of a variety of reasons. Do you do the same thing? Does feeling any overwhelming emotion bring some degree of pleasure, no matter how unpleasant those emotions can be? What movies do you return to, time and again, no matter how sad or uncomfortable they make you feel?

Just a quick run-down, if you're curious, some of the movies that pop into my head are 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Boy and his Dog, Artificial Intelligence, Das Boot and The Fly.

 

[hyperhammy]

Inception, sometimes it makes me feel greater than life, the other times it makes me feel like a piece of shit.

 

[Cherry Cola]

Oh hell yes.

Anyone who's seen Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance should understand my pain!

 

[megs1120]

Oh hell yes.

Anyone who's seen Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance should understand my pain!

wow, that movie sounds... gruesome. I can completely understand why that would bum a person out.

 

[Dapper Ninja]

Just a quick run-down, if you're curious, some of the movies that pop into my head are 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Boy and his Dog, Artificial Intelligence, Das Boot and The Fly.

Why exactly does 2001 make you depressed?

For me, the only movie I can really think of is Oldboy.

 

[Cherry Cola]

Oh hell yes.

Anyone who's seen Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance should understand my pain!

wow, that movie sounds... gruesome. I can completely understand why that would bum a person out.

Oh yeah, it's gruesome.

I shall spoil it for anyone who wants to know what it is without seeing it:

Spoiler

Ok, so the premise is simply. Ryu's sister is dying of kidney failure, so Ryu wants to get enough money to save her. To get the money, he kidnaps the daughter of the CEO of a factory he was fired from. But his sister finds out and commits suicide, not wanting to be part of something like this. Grief-strucken, Ryu takes his sister's corpse and the kidnapped girl to a lake he and his sister used to visit as children. There he buries his sister under rocks. But as he does this, the kidnapped daughter falls into the water and drowns.

The CEO of the factory now wants revenge, while Ryu at the same time wants revenge on a couple of illegal organ dealers that scammed him out of saving his sister earlier in the film. While Ryu hunts down and kill the organ dealers, the CEO tortures Ryu's girlfriend to death. Then when Ryu tries to get revenge, the CEO manages to out-wit him and drowns him in the very same lake his daughter drowned in. Then, in the final scene, terrorists that were associated with Ryu's girlfriend come and kill the CEO

So yeah, dark, dark movie.

 

[megs1120]

Just a quick run-down, if you're curious, some of the movies that pop into my head are 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Boy and his Dog, Artificial Intelligence, Das Boot and The Fly.

Why exactly does 2001 make you depressed?

For me, the only movie I can really think of is Oldboy.

Yeah, uh, 2001 is sort of the odd one out. I think what gets to me is that it is what we could have had if Nixon hadn't killed the space program after the Apollo missions. If our parents' generation had believed in continuing human progress rather than just making money and leaving us in the hopeless pit we're stranded in now.

 

[Axolotl]

One of my all time favorite movies is Brazil and that certainly isn't a barrel of sunshine.

 

[destiaer]

Ive seen many movies, but I rarely cry in any of them. Besides Toy Story 3, (they're HAPPY tears!!) the Sci-Fi Horror flick Sunshine makes me bawl my eyes out at the end every single time. Its a hugely underapreciated gem, and one that will make you hold your seat and everyone around you till the end. Im exagerating that last part, btw, but Its an amazing movie.

 

[Dapper Ninja]

Just a quick run-down, if you're curious, some of the movies that pop into my head are 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Boy and his Dog, Artificial Intelligence, Das Boot and The Fly.

Why exactly does 2001 make you depressed?

For me, the only movie I can really think of is Oldboy.

Yeah, uh, 2001 is sort of the odd one out. I think what gets to me is that it is what we could have had if Nixon hadn't killed the space program after the Apollo missions. If our parents' generation had believed in continuing human progress rather than just making money and leaving us in the hopeless pit we're stranded in now.

Yeah it does seem kinda depressing now when you think about it like that.

 

[nuqneh1]

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.

 

[tomtom94]

The Dark Knight may be many things but it's hardly a feel-good film.
Same deal with The Matrix.

(That said, any comedy should be able to cheer me up)

 

[Thedayrecker]

Fight Club's ending makes me sad.... mostly because it's over.

 

[Phoenix09215]

Change the last word of the topic title to "up" and I would find this much more interesrting

OT: hmmmm Forrest Gump makes me feel kinda sad but if we're talking my al time favourites then thats the only one I would class as up there...

 

[Thaius]

Pan's Labyrinth has a happy ending, but the movie as a whole is so dang depressing... I freaking love it, it's a beautiful film, but holy crap.

Also, this:

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.

Terminator 3? They never made a Terminator 3. If they did, I'm sure it would suck incredibly bad and be completely undeserving of any association with the series. Thank goodness it doesn't actually exist!

 

[A.C.E]

Fight Club's ending makes me sad.... mostly because it's over.

agreed another movie that makes me sad is tombstone when doc holiday dies

 

[Marter]

The Road is quite a depressing film. It's not exactly a "favourite" of mine, but I did quite like it.

 

[sketchesformysweet]

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