Originally Posted by Chris
I'll second Seven. Saw made me feel both depressed and angry - really not my type of film.
It was my birthday a few years ago. If fell on a Friday which usually means I head over to edczxcvbnm's house and get drunk with other random friends showing up.
He told me that The Road is a great film, and that we should watch it. While we are excessively drinking.
I loved the film. Having said that, after it was over, I politely excused myself to the bathroom holding a straight face. The very instant that door closed I got weak in the knees and started to cry all the alcohol I ingested that night out in about five minutes.
Stone Fox. Only movie to ever make me actually cry.
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Adding to that list, Finding Neverland, Castaway, The Pianist, The Green Mile, The Perfect Storm, Up (even the ending is depressing because the little boy will lose a good friend, the old dude soon), Charlotte's Web, The Purple Rose of Cairo.
A lot of movies are depressing really.
Fox and the Hound.
As a kid I always cried when she let the fox go
I cried @ Fox & the Hound. My mom went to see Bambi in theaters and bawled her eyes out... Her mother never took her to see another Disney film again.
Homeward Bound. I have a meltdown everytime Shadow finally comes out of the woods cuz it makes me think of my dog Bozo and how close we were. He had the same "wise old man" demeanor as Shadow but probably weighed twice as much and would occasionally get into something... Like peanut butter.
When I saw The Road it was at a theater we have never been to, it was during a freezing cold blizzard, and the thermostat was broken so the air conditioning was on the entire movie. So in short, the closest person we knew was over an hour away, outside was snow everywhere, and while we watched the movie and them freeze we felt their angst. It was a simulation almost of a baron lonely land.
Any who, a few movies I will nominate;
Ikiru, Children of Men, Grave of the Fireflies, Requiem For A Dream, and a few anime series but that does not qualify.
Suicide Room
A Better Life
The Land Before Time
All Dogs Go To Heaven
Grave of the Fireflies
Fox and the Hound
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (the live-action version... but I guess the anime one is depressing, as well)
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People are going to have to help me here, because I have never really understood the term "Depressing Movie". Does it mean a movie that is just completly depressing and never really gets better for the character (and if it does, it's just a brief grasp of happiness, and then things go bad again, and the movie ulitmately ends on a depressing note) or is it just movies that happen to have depressing scenes, but ultimatly end for the better.
What I mean is, a lot of the enteries here fall under the latter catagory (and I do not fall under the catagory of "depressing" for me.) Movies such as All Dogs Go To Heavan, Watership Down, Bambi, and The Land Before Time (to name but a few) have depressing moments in them, but ultimately end for the better, with a happy ending. So I do not see those as depressing movies, just movies with a depressing scene.
People are using their discretion, both meanings have been used here.
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i have lost some tears at:
the lion king - that reaction when Simba trie's to wake up his dead father.. it just hits me!
- The Boy in the striped pyjama's.. it did build up some tension from when they start searching him till they find out he is dead!
- I Am Legend, it was so sad when the dog died. she was his only friend in the world and he had to kill her himself. after that he was totaly defeated and that hits me. im glad my sis didnt see my eyes at the cinema at that scene :P
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