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bigloseridiotman

Can someone recommend a depressing movie to me?

I'm just in that kinda mood.

Just to give you a gauge of what movies I like and find adequately sad: Awakenings, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the documentaries The Bridge and About a Son, Oldboy (2003), and the Sixth Sense I actually find really sad too.

Posted - February 1, 2019
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  • 14795
    Driller Killer ...,it's a really boring film as well.....:( 
      February 1, 2019 2:46 AM MST
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  • 268
    do you just mean slow, or boring like in a bad way?
      February 1, 2019 10:59 PM MST
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  • 14795
    No.....people that drill normally bore things.....it's a wierd twist of fate ,plus the drill bit...:)D 
      February 2, 2019 2:58 AM MST
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  • 268
    Oh my god of course. I must have had a screw loose not to get that turn of phrase
      February 2, 2019 2:30 PM MST
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  • 14795
    It gets a hole lot worse if you're good at it..it's pretty boring for the hole as Well    :) 
      February 2, 2019 2:49 PM MST
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  • 44600
    Melancholia Even the name implies depression. (It's also quite boring.)
      February 1, 2019 7:03 AM MST
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  • 268
    I watched that one a few months ago and if I had remembered I would have included it on my examples list. But when you also say boring do you mean slow, or for real boring? Because slow I don't think is a bad thing, but when something is boring to me it's because I don't care about what's happening.
      February 1, 2019 11:03 PM MST
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  • Toy Story 3 and Fox & the hound. I can only think of cartoon movies right now. 
      February 1, 2019 9:40 AM MST
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  • Toy Story 3...ugh fu#k that movie.... 
      February 1, 2019 9:44 AM MST
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  • I Know right :-(
      February 1, 2019 9:45 AM MST
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  • 268
    Toy Story 3 was the perfect end to a great trilogy... and so of course they're making toy story 4.
      February 1, 2019 11:05 PM MST
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  • Ahhhh boo, yeah they should leave it be now. It’s finished:)
      February 2, 2019 10:11 AM MST
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  • Requiem for a Dream
      February 1, 2019 9:41 AM MST
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  • 268
    good answer, I've seen it but it's been long enough now that my trauma has healed and I think I can watch it again haha
      February 1, 2019 11:08 PM MST
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  • Lost in Translation through most parts of the movie has a bit of a depressing vibe to it.  Some of my other favorite buzz kills that come to mind are 500 Days of Summer, The Road, Love Liza, Leaving Las Vegas, House of Sand and Fog, Grave of the Fireflies.
      February 1, 2019 9:44 AM MST
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  • 268
    Lost in Translation is even better than I remembered, I just watched it semi recently for the first time in like ten years and it somehow seems both new, and 30 years old.

    Your other picks are interesting too. Anything with Phillip Seymour Hoffman makes me sad now, and leaving Las Vegas is one of my favorite Nic Cage performances.

    I've never heard of the last two you mentioned, I'll look into them.
    This post was edited by bigloseridiotman at February 2, 2019 8:33 AM MST
      February 1, 2019 11:18 PM MST
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  • 19937
    Sorry - I don't go looking for things to depress me.
      February 1, 2019 9:58 AM MST
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  • 44600
    Then why are you here?
      February 1, 2019 10:04 AM MST
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  • 19937
    LOL ... this place doesn't depress me so much it sometimes irritates me when all of the questions are silly ones.
      February 1, 2019 1:09 PM MST
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  • 14795
    Oi.....that's so cheeky ....are you after my job.....Grrrrrrrr.   :)D 
      February 2, 2019 3:00 AM MST
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  • 268
    It's not that I'm really looking for something to make me depressed. But when I'm already down in the dumps, a depressing movie or a tragedy often makes me feel better. They have to be good obviously, I'm not going to enjoy something that's just trying to be edgy or melodramatic. But if a movie is genuine, and is hitting on something truthful and painful about life, it always reminds me that the world is not just a hostile place where everyone is out to destroy me. It's filled with compassionate people who understand me and get what I'm going through, and who show me what I'm going through when I can't understand myself.

    There's a great lyric by the band They Might Be Giants that kind of sums up that feeling: "Everybody dies Frustrated and sad And that is beautiful". I love that band but I used to hate that line because it would just make me think, yeah that's true but it's certainly not beautiful, it's bulls**t. But now I understand what it actually means.
      February 1, 2019 11:54 PM MST
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  • 19937
    I guess if it works to make you less depressed, there's no harm in watching depressing movies.  
      February 2, 2019 9:33 AM MST
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  • 1305
    Inside I'm  Dancing - has a young James McVoy

    Stuart A Life Backwards - Tom Hardy and Benedict Cumberbatch.

    Dying Young - Julia Roberts


    All old films, they might give you a bit of gratitude too, which may help if you are feeling depressed,  and available for free on Youtube. This post was edited by kjames at February 2, 2019 10:53 AM MST
      February 1, 2019 11:28 AM MST
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  • 268
    Sweet, I better hurry before they're taken down!

    Tom Hardy and Benedict Cumberbatch? That's a crazy team-up
      February 2, 2019 12:00 AM MST
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