Ever regret watching a film because it just made you feel so shit?

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Just finished watching Philomena. Bawling. DH looking at me funny.

I wish I hadn't watched it at all, because now I am sad, and angry at the injustice of it all.

Felt similar after watching The Help.

Any one else get like this?

Narp mentioned Falling Man, reminded me of The Bridge, so upsetting.

wannabe I'm exactly the same and it's gotten worse since I've had kids. I just stay away from horror films or anything distressing. Even Melancholia made me sob, thinking about being in the same situation with my kids. I tend to stick to fluffy and light too.

The Handmaids Tale, the bit where the (presumably fertile) women are transported in a lorry with "livestock" on the side, like cattle. Interesting film.

Wolf Creek and My Little Eye, I know they are not true but they could be, if you see what I mean. There was an element of realism (however small), in both which made them memorable, to me anyway.

The Hostel, I thought it was total crap and the violence was the story/point of the film. I would call it horror porn.

Never watched Human Centipede, but it sounds revolting (probably going to have to watch this one).

I thought the Pursuit of Happiness was uplifting at the end.
Walked out on Reservoir Dogs, the swearing was ridiculous.
Leaving Las Vegas was very dark and a downer.

Did anyone else find Forest Gump depressing? Everyone else came out talking about how great it was and how it was a "feel good movie" and I wanted to cry I felt so down, feeling lasted for ages and still makes me feel bad thinking of it.
Seven is the only movie mentioned here that I really regret watching and wish we had left the cinema before the end but we were with a group. There are lots I wouldn't start watching in the first place though.
Actually I think someone mentioned the Shining. I hate this movie, not because its scary ( not) but because the book is so much better.

Where the wild things go

Black swan

Both depressing

Loads
The seasoning house- just grim the ending is awful.
Precious
4 months 3 weeks and two days- I watched this very late at night on film four when I couldn't sleep. I had just had a diagnosis of anencephaly at my 12wk scan and the film has stayed with me 6yrs later.
Into the wild
Beaches
This is England
My sisters keeper

Cad, Forrest Gump made me laugh and cry, one of my favourite films, it does drain me a bit though and I have to be in the right mood to watch it.

Flowers in the attic was awful, I avoided the books but some friend took me to see this awful film in as a teen. After seeing Leon I cried all the way home but think it is a great film. I can't do animal ones so have avoid Watership Down, Tarka the Otter etc.

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. I watched it more than a year ago and I'm still upset.

A fantastic film starring Cate Blanchett was Veronica Guerin......a true story. The scenes where she was beaten up by the Drugs Baron and at the end where she is shot dead in her car at point blank range just horrific.

At the time I was really affected by it but wouldn't say I regrets watching it Iyswim- 'Dreams of a life' true story about a lady who does and her body was found at home several years later- no one had missed her enough to report her missing :(
I started watching it when dd was a few weeks old only got about a third in and had to stop it was literally breaking me- I was so upset by the thought of this woman- she was someone's baby. I could t carry on watching it at the point a few months later I did finish watching it and felt so sad for days after its really stayed with me.

Yes Precious, deeply disturbing. I find films that that and Philomena far more disturbing as they are true.

One where a man kidnapped a girl to prove he could and buried her in a box in the garden..that disturbed me.

slave films, incl 12 years a slave

train spotting,

Gosh, yes apple Veronica Gurien, Indeed....very upsetting.

Bridge to Taribithia caught me completely off guard. sad I was expecting a light hearted kids movie and then it socked me right in the gut with no warning. Same with My Girl
yes that blindsidded us too.

i thought it was going to be another fantastic spiderwick chronicles style film, it was awful

Schindlers List - Not really haunting. I read the Thomas Keneally book, 'Schindlers List' on which the film is based. The book was much better.

Million Dollar Baby - Hilary Swank and Clint Eastwood. He's her boxing trainer, she falls on a stool in the ring and breaks her neck. He tries to look after her in hospital. Her no-good family turn up only interested in the compensation money for the accident. It's a slow, dull film. The phrase, 'Ma Cushlie' is a Celtic phrase for 'my special one' or something and he gets her a silk dressing gown with that on the back of it. Blimey, Clint, will you marry her or shag her or something.

Flowers in the Attic - I got so bored I stopped watching it.

Forrest Gump - yes, I did think it was moving. I got it that it was sort of funny but he was disabled and lived a lonely life.

The other Tom Hanks film where he's shipwrecked and makes friends with the package that he was supposed to be delivering which is a basketball. It's a good film and Tom is an excellent actor but the ending of that film where he actually bothers to try to deliver it is just nonsense.

Wishful I was going to mention A Dream of a Life but I don't regret watching it. It has stayed with me though, still think of it years later. So moving. Poor woman.

I'm usually really careful about what I watch because I'm a big, soppy, lump so I haven't seen most of the films mentioned.

My regret film is Muriel's Wedding. I thought it was supposed to be a comedy but I found it incredibly depressing. I feel quite tearful now, just thinking about it.

Eden Lake. I reckon there are places where that exact film could play out quite convincingly...

I read the lovely bones on holiday in New Zealand. the film is beautiful but poop no where near the book.

I read Precious (

Oh and I cant believe I forgot about this one casualties of war. I watched it way way too young because Michael J Fox was in it...

Just horrible

Cadsuane I watched Forrest Gump when I was pregnant with DC3 and I really thought it was a horrible film. I have watched it since and can't understand why it upset me so much. Must have been the hormones.
I am one of the generation who were traumatised by Bambi.
I saw The Music Lovers when I was about 18, about Tchaikowsky. That haunted me for months.
I agree about Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, and yet it is nowhere near as bad as Schindler's List.
I watch a film called La Vie est Bella (Life is beautiful) an Italian film that won an award. That was about a concentration camp too and really upset me for ages.

Yes Forrest Gump had learning difficulties. He was an inspiration and helped many people. What a Man and what a life! Spoiler alert, the ending was him looking his Son, although he lost his love Jenny, I didn't get a lonely feeling.

I watched the Elephant Man way too young. Very upsetting and moving.

Where The Wild Things Are - I was really looking forward to this one because it had been one of my favourites since I was a child. But the film was so sad. All the Wild Things were sad. I sobbed, and still feel horrible when I think about it.

Grave of the fireflies - heartbreaking.

The boy in the striped Pyjamas, and also Life is Beautiful. Two of the saddest holocaust films I've ever seen.

Bridge to Terabithia caught me off guard, too.