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Bobby-G
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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 Posted - 07/15/2008 : 02:35:46 AM
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Just watched THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON'T THEY? -- YOW, that's an uplifting experience!
(my "review" can be found here: http://moviesgonemoldy.blogspot.com/ )
Got me to thinking: if one where to put on a festival of downbeat, depressing movies, a Marathon of Misery, if you will. what movies would would be included? I'm thinking of movies that are well made, quality movies (which is what makes them effectively depressing, I guess...)
I guess I'd start of the list with THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON'T THEY?
More suggestions? I wonder how many such films people could take in a row?
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BradH812
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 07/15/2008 : 05:44:36 AM
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| I'd put The Plague Dogs and Raging Bull in there. |
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Flangepart
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
2329 Posts |
Posted - 07/15/2008 : 07:05:28 AM
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Keep the Suicide prevention on speed dial.
MIRICAL MILE. I think that fits the bill...
Marvin the Paranoid Android to Buzz Lightyear "Too infinity and beyond-i've been there, its rubbish!"
"Hoody Hoo, i waste 'em with my cross bow!" Bob Herzog- KODT
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Sardu
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
1126 Posts |
Posted - 07/15/2008 : 09:05:59 AM
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Pink Floyd: The Wall for sure. A film by Joan Chen called Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl is one of the saddest things I've ever seen in my life. Most of Lar's Von Trier's films are exercises in almost absurdist amounts of melodrama, especially Dancer In The Dark. And then a good drug movie; maybe Requiem For A Dream.
"Meeting you makes me want to be a real noodle cook"
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Nlneff
Diocesan Ecclesiarch of the Sacred Order of Jabootu
USA
84 Posts |
Posted - 07/15/2008 : 09:59:36 AM
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| The Mission. |
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zombiewhacker
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
1475 Posts |
Posted - 07/15/2008 : 10:55:45 AM
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| The Sea Prince and the Fire Child. It starts off like a Disney-esque animation, but then oh boy... |
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Ericb
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
648 Posts |
Posted - 07/15/2008 : 11:20:02 AM
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Black Robe It's kind of a northland version of The Mission.
*Spoilers*
In 17th century French Canada a Jesuit missionary and a few natives and French settlers brave the elements and the brutality of the Iroqois to make contact with the Huron mission. Most of them either desert or get beat up and killed by the Iroquois and the few who make it to the Huron find the missionaries and the Hurons dying from scarlet fever. A cheery postscript adds that the Huron eventually get wiped out by the Iroquois. A classic "and they all died" happy ending.
"You talk to us about heavy artillery. Thank God, we don't have any. It's the lightness of its guns that make the French army what it is." - representative of the French General Staff to the budget commission of the Chamber of Deputies, 1909 |
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TimLehnerer
Diocesan Ecclesiarch of the Sacred Order of Jabootu
USA
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Posted - 07/15/2008 : 1:20:42 PM
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| Can't go wrong with BRAZIL and 1984. |
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TVsGrady
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
671 Posts |
Posted - 07/15/2008 : 5:41:30 PM
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12 Monkeys
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"If you really want to irritate a flaming screaming skull, turn him toward something highly unpleasant, like, say, a Rob Schneider movie. He has no eyelids and no way to turn away. It's fun!"-Michael J. Nelson
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Pip
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
333 Posts |
Posted - 07/15/2008 : 6:09:47 PM
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Pink Floyd: The Wall is a nasty little movie in a number of ways. Requiem for a Dream is unbelievable. Don't forget Jacob's Ladder and Downfall. All of them are like having Margo Timmins sing at your wedding. And, of course, when...
spoilers...highlight page...
Donnie dies at the ends of the Big Lebowski.
Pip
"These five fingers: individually they're nothing, but when I curl them together like this into a single unit, they form a weapon that is terrible to behold!" - Lucy Van Pelt |
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hentai_wolf
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
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Posted - 07/15/2008 : 8:25:56 PM
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| I'll have to add Dancer in the Dark to this. |
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niccolom
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
Canada
118 Posts |
Posted - 07/15/2008 : 8:45:48 PM
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Old Yeller and Easy Rider always brought a tear to my eyes, but then I'm a sucker for a movie with a happy ending.
"When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk."
Tuco Benedicto Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez, aka "Tuco," aka "the Rat," aka "Ugly," aka "il Cattivo" |
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Sardu
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Posted - 07/15/2008 : 9:13:14 PM
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OK, now if someone will just mention Xiu Xiu my entire post is duplicated ;-)
"Meeting you makes me want to be a real noodle cook"
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Bobby-G
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
904 Posts |
Posted - 07/15/2008 : 9:52:32 PM
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I was thinking about flicks that are pretty much unrelenting bummers all the way through. Some other flicks I can think of:
ALIEN 3
LORD OF THE FLIES (the first version at least)
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD
LAST MAN ON EARTH
There was a british movie I saw some years back called NAKED -- Don't remember much about the plot, but do recall everybody and everything in the flick was depressingly miserable.
Rob
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Sardu
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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Posted - 07/15/2008 : 10:40:35 PM
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All-righty then:
Salo: The 120 Days of Sodom
"Meeting you makes me want to be a real noodle cook"
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zombiewhacker
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
1475 Posts |
Posted - 07/16/2008 : 12:17:23 AM
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| Children of Men was a playful little romp. It might have been even more depressing if it'd made a lick of sense. |
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