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HughBeaumont

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39. Too many to list, and I've made a decision . . .

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Fri Feb 17, 2012, 03:14 PM

Feb 2012

. . . I'll just read synopses of depressing movies from now on.

I can't sit through another Mist, Happiness, Boy in the Striped Pyjamas or Irreversible again. Life is hard enough without making it harder by watching doom, despair, agony and undeserved death.

Mist super pissed me off because the filmmakers used Dead Can Dance's "The Host of Seraphim", one of my favorite songs of all time, as the background music for that anguishing-beyond-belief ending. Then again, the song's actual video is depressing in itself, a montage of squalor, starvation and concubines.

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What is the most depressing film you have ever seen? (Fiction only) [View all] banned from Kos Feb 2012 OP

"Melancholia" jimlup Feb 2012 #1

I agree knowbody0 Feb 2012 #4

Oh, its Lars von Trier - missed it banned from Kos Feb 2012 #7

I just watched this a few weeks ago and I agree. I have another too: Avalux Feb 2012 #53

Oh, that was a HAUNTINGLY beautiful movie. I can never forget the pool scenes. PassingFair Feb 2012 #72

An old movie, "The Pawnbroker." The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2012 #2

Great movie. I should see that again. mucifer Feb 2012 #32

The Road Major Nikon Feb 2012 #3

I didn't see that movie because I read the book and had the same reaction n/t dogknob Feb 2012 #21

Testament cliffordu Feb 2012 #5

when she is going for the last bit of peanut butter and the way the people were all slowly WCGreen Feb 2012 #42

Her putting the batteries into cliffordu Feb 2012 #60

This message was self-deleted by its author Saving Hawaii Feb 2012 #6

'Umberto D' and 'Requiem for a Dream' CrawlingChaos Feb 2012 #8

RfaD is the most terrifying and depressing movie I have ever seen. I can never watch it again. LonePirate Feb 2012 #10

Requiem for a Dream is very painful to watch. Saving Hawaii Feb 2012 #12

1984. Oops, sorry. You wanted fiction. nt valerief Feb 2012 #9

Grave of the Fireflies sakabatou Feb 2012 #11

Biggest tear-jerker EVER. nt PassingFair Feb 2012 #28

"The Seventh Continent" PassingFair Feb 2012 #29

Irreversable. Chan790 Feb 2012 #13

Saw that. It was brutal. banned from Kos Feb 2012 #15

Even Monica Bellucci naked couldn't make-up for that fight scene siligut Feb 2012 #51

District 9 Odin2005 Feb 2012 #14

No way. Depressing but not that depressing. Saving Hawaii Feb 2012 #19

Black South Africans treating the aliens as they had been treated by whites... Odin2005 Feb 2012 #37

Breaking the Waves nolabear Feb 2012 #16

That was my immediate first thought as well petronius Feb 2012 #20

'The Forest for the Trees' Populist_Prole Feb 2012 #17

"Dancer in the Dark" and "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas." Behind the Aegis Feb 2012 #18

I was going to say Boy in the Striped Pajamas as well. RiffRandell Feb 2012 #41

Looks like Dancer in the Dark might be the champ... dogknob Feb 2012 #22

Watership Down was definitely depressing Art_from_Ark Feb 2012 #24

Dancer in the Dark wins, hands down. Frank Cannon Feb 2012 #27

Idiocracy. Aristus Feb 2012 #23

I know what you mean. Doc Holliday Feb 2012 #47

There you go with that Fa&&ot talk again! dogknob Feb 2012 #52

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Bad_Ronald Feb 2012 #25

Dude! MountainMama Feb 2012 #83

Let The Right One In AsahinaKimi Feb 2012 #26

I just watched that the other week RZM Feb 2012 #66

Leaving Las Vegas HappyMe Feb 2012 #30

Agreed. Doc Holliday Feb 2012 #38

Swing Vote was great! dogknob Feb 2012 #48

I was looking to see if anyone listed Leaving Las Vegas SCantiGOP Feb 2012 #55

The Mist. I'm scarred for life after seeing that. n/t LeftinOH Feb 2012 #31

Brazil. mucifer Feb 2012 #33

"Glory" and "Sid and Nancy" -- Hell Hath No Fury Feb 2012 #34

Oh man. HappyMe Feb 2012 #36

There was something really gutwrenching about that film. Hell Hath No Fury Feb 2012 #46

'Synecdoche, New York'... skypilot Feb 2012 #35

Too many to list, and I've made a decision . . . HughBeaumont Feb 2012 #39

Revolutionary Road geardaddy Feb 2012 #40

Big time! RiffRandell Feb 2012 #43

that movie came to my mind as well as dana_b Feb 2012 #44

Sophie's Choice elleng Feb 2012 #45

O da troot! I don evaknow wat is da troot! dogknob Feb 2012 #49

The only movie I've ever been to where beac Feb 2012 #85

Requiem for a Dream, hands down! hedgehog Feb 2012 #50

Cannot unsee. Iggo Feb 2012 #75

On the Beach--both versions classof56 Feb 2012 #54

Snakepit fadedrose Feb 2012 #56

Requiem for a Dream, Brokeback Mountain and Brazil all tie Taverner Feb 2012 #57

Toss up. "The Boy in Striped Pajamas" and "Hurt Locker" w8liftinglady Feb 2012 #58

Blue Velvet. nt bathroommonkey76 Feb 2012 #59

Can I have some popcorn now? GoneOffShore Feb 2012 #61

It's a tie between "The Name of the Rose" and "Blue Velvet". Moondog Feb 2012 #62

Gallipoli WilliamPitt Feb 2012 #63

The Last King of Scotland. LeftyMom Feb 2012 #64

You made me watch Children of Men! XemaSab Feb 2012 #76

Agree with many of these. I have to add Atonement to the list. alphafemale Feb 2012 #65

I was bawling by the end! GermanDem Feb 2012 #78

Ingmar Bergman's Cries and Whispers Lydia Leftcoast Feb 2012 #67

Antonioni's "The Passenger" dogknob Feb 2012 #68

"Longtime Companion" and "Grave of the Fireflies" ScreamingMeemie Feb 2012 #69

Mystic River mikeargo Feb 2012 #70

The Killing Fields, and The Deer Hunter. Brickbat Feb 2012 #71

Sweeney Todd Lady Freedom Returns Feb 2012 #73

Unfaithful. dawg Feb 2012 #74

Threads charlie and algernon Feb 2012 #77

Monster's Ball Burma Jones Feb 2012 #79

"La Strada" and Werner Herzog's hifiguy Feb 2012 #80

The English Patient. Vidar Feb 2012 #81

Ulee's Gold GoCubsGo Feb 2012 #82

Schindler's List MountainMama Feb 2012 #84

I felt the same way about "The Pianist". GermanDem Feb 2012 #88

American Beauty BrendaBrick Feb 2012 #86

They Shoot Horses Don't They WiffenPoof Feb 2012 #87