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post Sep 8 2008, 01:44 PM
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it's ok if they're "ultimately redeeming" or have happy endings or whatever, but i love flicks that are mostly depressing / bleak as fuck... the kinda stuff that makes ya think maybe you don't have it so bad after all (y'know, sorta like watching COPS)... whaddaya got?

mask (cher, not carrey of course)
shawshank redemption
last exit to brooklyn (why wasn't this bigger?)
la vie en rose
paradise lost (west memphis three docu, never saw pt II)
eraserhead (maybe the bleakest flick ever)
glengarry glen ross
the days of wine & roses / leaving las vegas / the lost weekend <-- 3 best drinking movies EVAH
lenny
monster
monster's ball
runaway train / midnight cowboy <-- jon voight is god in these, train shoulda been bigger, get it
desert bloom (also w/voight)
lady sings the blues (why didn't diana ross do more acting? she killed in this)
star 80 <-- serious slit-your-wrists material
breaking the waves
shoot the moon

thx for your indulgence
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post Sep 8 2008, 01:45 PM
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post Sep 8 2008, 01:49 PM
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Shawshank.

Otherwise, I don't watch sad movies.
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post Sep 8 2008, 01:50 PM
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The House of Sand and Fog is as good as it is depressing.
That is saying a lot on both counts.
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post Sep 8 2008, 01:54 PM
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Cinema Paradisio was kinda sad - but not sure if it counts as a 'sad movie'.

I think that Dancer In The Dark beats out Breaking The Waves for depressing, though.
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post Sep 8 2008, 01:58 PM
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post Sep 8 2008, 02:02 PM
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i don't know why i even watched it.. (not being a big movie-watching type...).. but i tell ya... Cold Mountain for some reason made me cry for like 3 days. crybaby.gif

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post Sep 8 2008, 02:04 PM
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QUOTE(omelette @ Sep 8 2008, 02:58 PM) *

Requiem For A Dream


Yes, that is bleak as fuck!

Also, two of the most depressing things I've even seen, Happiness and Your Friends and Neighbors (I think you've seen them both, coughlin).
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post Sep 8 2008, 02:08 PM
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QUOTE(sue @ Sep 8 2008, 02:04 PM) *

Also, two of the most depressing things I've even seen, Happiness and Your Friends and Neighbors (I think you've seen them both, coughlin).


Happiness wins for most depraved movie I think I've ever seen.

Owning Mahoney and Love Liza are pretty fucking sad as well.
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post Sep 8 2008, 02:09 PM
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QUOTE(sue @ Sep 8 2008, 03:04 PM) *

Also, two of the most depressing things I've even seen, Happiness and Your Friends and Neighbors (I think you've seen them both, coughlin).

definitely happiness, but the scene where the dog licks the railing is pretty funny...
not sure on the other, will check...

add: welcome to the dollhouse
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post Sep 8 2008, 02:10 PM
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david mamet's "homicide" is much bleaker than one might think, in many ways...
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post Sep 8 2008, 02:12 PM
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my ultimate favorite movie, which is also a sad movie: "Withnail and I"


also: "Dancer in the Dark" and "Boys Don't Cry"
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post Sep 8 2008, 02:14 PM
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post Sep 8 2008, 02:15 PM
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QUOTE(coughlin @ Sep 8 2008, 03:09 PM) *


not sure on the other, will check...



All that guys' movies are really bleak-Your Friends and Neighbors was depressing both for a couple disturbing scenes, and because all 6 of the main characters were completely unlikeable, you couldn't root for or care about any of them.
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post Sep 8 2008, 02:17 PM
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post Sep 8 2008, 02:41 PM
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post Sep 8 2008, 02:43 PM
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QUOTE(Truth be known @ Sep 8 2008, 03:14 PM) *

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yesch!
would add The Ice Storm as well
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post Sep 8 2008, 02:45 PM
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post Sep 8 2008, 02:47 PM
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It ain't a bleak movie, but The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill has a few really, really sad scenes- when he's talking about the first bird that died, and when he says his goodbyes to the flock.

I watched it last night for the 2nd time (and first time in 5 years) and found it to be both great and very sad at times.
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post Sep 8 2008, 02:49 PM
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post Sep 8 2008, 02:50 PM
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QUOTE(Abs @ Sep 8 2008, 02:12 PM) *

my ultimate favorite movie, which is also a sad movie: "Withnail and I"


"It will die! It will die!!"


Great movie. I remember the gay film reviewer for the Phoenix trashing the film because he didn't like the way Uncle Monty was portrayed. Struck a little close to home, I suspect.







My own personal saddest film - Downfall.
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post Sep 8 2008, 02:52 PM
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QUOTE(Robbyroadsteamer @ Sep 8 2008, 03:45 PM) *

The Mission
Million Dollar Baby
La Bamba
Seabiscut
Elephant Man

2nd mention of La Bamba, i had no idea, i always thought it supposed to be a happy thing, gotta check it out.
MDB is excruciating, good one!
i'd never have thought of seabiscuit, but yeah...!
i dunno how i overlooked elephant man, that's a top-tenner for sure.

mission --- the deniro / jungle thing? will hafta revisit, don't remember as such, but i know there were lotsa breasts... speakno' which, you could almost count Showgirls for having 10,000 breasts and still managing to be a complete snooze...

i'd say Apocalypse Now, but it's just... so beyond that all-around...
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post Sep 8 2008, 02:59 PM
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post Sep 8 2008, 03:02 PM
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QUOTE(newfakename @ Sep 8 2008, 03:59 PM) *


The Bridge




you mean the documentary about people who kill themselves by jumping off the golden gate bridge? yeah, i pretty much sobbed through most of that movie.
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post Sep 8 2008, 03:05 PM
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QUOTE(Abs @ Sep 8 2008, 04:02 PM) *

you mean the documentary about people who kill themselves by jumping off the golden gate bridge? yeah, i pretty much sobbed through most of that movie.


Yes.

The music alone was killing me.

Not unlike Crumb.

Some haunting shit.
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