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

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sliceofsoup · 09/10/2015 20:34

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?

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Wolpertinger · 10/10/2015 11:03

I watched Forrest Gump and was traumatised by the load of right wing guff spewing out of the screen.

Becca19962014 · 10/10/2015 11:07

oranges and sunshine which I got out of the library years ago. Never forgot it and likely won't. It's about the children sent to Australia for adoption.

SouthWestmom · 10/10/2015 11:18

Just remembered brokeback Mountain - I sobbed at the end of that and still wish I hadn't watched it!

flippinada · 10/10/2015 11:26

I almost never cry at films, but two that had me in absolute bits were Death of a Salesman (from the Arthur Miller play) and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.

Films which have left me feeling really ugh... anything by Quentin Tarantino. He seems to really revel in gruesome violence and torture, especially against women. Yuck.

For something which is supposed to be a comedy (albeit a black comedy), Fargo is very disturbing. Peter Stormaer's character is the epitome of a psychopath. Absolutely chilling.

SetPhasersTaeMalkie · 10/10/2015 11:46

A long time ago I watched Kramer vs Kramer. It had a huge impact on me. I cried and cried watching it and it's one of the few films that I carried on crying after the credits.
I don't think I could watch it again.

I cried all the way through The Blindside. Actual sobbing. DS was mortified.

Trainspotting sickened me but was still an amazing film.

NotCitrus · 10/10/2015 11:53

Jude the Obscure. I should have known, seeing as I'd read the book (flipping through lots of it), but it started on TV and was beautiful...and terribly sad.

Forrest Gump was just shit and trying way too hard to be 'heartwarming' and basically laughing at rather than with FG.

I hate 'heartwarming' - it usually means someone has a horrible life but then one thing happens that isn't horrible so that's all right then.

Both ds and I found the two recent Muppets movies horribly sad, even though there were good bits.

TittyBiskwits · 10/10/2015 12:18

Agree with Jude the Obscure. Hadn't read the book and watched it on telly. That moment was just awful.

ChinaSorrows · 10/10/2015 12:25

Monster.
God that film affected me. It was vile and gritty and brutal. I had no idea what it was when we sat down to watch it and it makes me wince and feel ill.

Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
I bawled like a baby. Probably because I was on the verge of a break up at the time too. That film makes me feel so so sad.

WhataRacquet · 10/10/2015 12:35

Rosemary's Baby totally freaked me out, horrible!

Puzzledandpissedoff · 10/10/2015 12:36

Threads - a 1980s drama about nuclear armageddon

I watched the original and bought it again recently on DVD. Don't know what could have possessed me; it's downright disturbing

Mrsjayy · 10/10/2015 12:51

Most 80s kids saw threads why did they let young kids see it must have been early 80s i was still in primary and terrified.

Mrsjayy · 10/10/2015 12:52

Aww the blindside was a geat film I took dd2 and we sobbed all the way through it.

Lightbulbon · 10/10/2015 12:58

A perfect world with Kevin Costner- I remember it being very sad.
Castaway, couldn't watch that again- the bit where he loses Wilson oh! And then knocked on his dP's door. All so traumatising.
My girl I find sad. I like it but have to be in the right frame of mind.
8 mile, even more so since Brittany Murphy died.
The Magdalene sisters- makes me angry
As does a tv drama/film called the leaving of Liverpool about kids in care being shipped off to Australia and abused.
Also a documentary which showed fgm- it has stuck with me- the absolute real life terror of the young girl who watched it getting done to her sister first before they did it to her, screaming.

stoppingbywoods · 10/10/2015 13:01

Life is beautiful.

Marley and Me.

seven.

Thelma and Louise.

March of the penguins (yes really, it was the worst when this parent is lovingly trying to keep its chick warm, apparently unaware that the chick is a skeleton...)

Finola1step · 10/10/2015 13:02

SetPhasers - snap, Kramer Vs Kramer. I watched it very young when it first came out on VHS. It stayed with me for a very long time. Even the blue sky, white clouds wallpaper in the son's bedroom is something I remember very clearly. It is a great film but by goodness, emotional.

Mrsjayy · 10/10/2015 13:05

Hatchi a story about a dog that meets its owner from the train, nice family film my arse i bawled and sobbed and at 1 point i had to switch it off to compose myself i kept filling up thinking about it for days

HippyChickMama · 10/10/2015 13:07

I actually like classic horror films but was Shock when for my birthday at 36 weeks pregnant with dc1 my dh bought The Omen for me on dvd. Why would you do that to someone that's about to give birth? In his defence, he'd never seen it and didn't realise how the film starts.

PrincessMarcheline · 10/10/2015 13:17

The Lovely Bones. Awful film. So disturbing.

Castaway with Tom Hanks. Great movie, but the bit where he lost Wilson sent me into a depression for weeks. And I'm not disposed to depression, it was just so sad.

DontHaveAUsername · 10/10/2015 13:19

SpaghettiMeatballs yes War Horse was quite sad.

feckityfeck · 10/10/2015 13:20

Before Midnight. I loved the first two in the series, but the third film was such a perfect depiction of an abusive arsehole that I was desperate for Julie Delpy's character to come on mumnset and be told to LTB. I cried massive sobs when they ended the film together. I don't know whether that was what they were going for, but it was either a horrible ending to the trilogy or horrifying that it was considered a happy romantic ending.

UptownFunk00 · 10/10/2015 13:23

The Lovely Bones for me too.

It just shook me and made me feel sick to my stomach and I've heard/watched some pretty horrible stuff but I think because it was from her POV and you could see what was happening to her family it was just so jarring.

I was literally inconsolable for about an hour or so afterwards. I don't ever want to watch it again, as I know the same thing will happen.

Violent films like Saw etc might make me feel a bit nauseated but I like to distance myself and tell myself the chances of this happening is slim (albeit not impossible).

Ah yes now Se7en made me feel very off but it wasn't sadness it was anger (irony?) at John Doe and poor Brad Pitt. The deaths were pretty squicky too, to be honest especially as I was eating throughout the film.

I haven't watched Jacob's Ladder but it sounds quite mind screwy so would probably be interested and disturbed in equal measure.

UptownFunk00 · 10/10/2015 13:25

Oh yes and I saw Threads that is some messed up stuff and it could happen which terrifies me more. One of the few things I could safely say I'd rather die than experience.

winchester1 · 10/10/2015 14:41

Martyrs -,a French horror film, it was really weird left me feeling strange. Almost felt like putting on the hills have eyes as a feel good movie afterwards.

CheesyDibbles · 10/10/2015 14:55

The Orphanage. Heartbreaking, terrifying and left me feeling utterly bleak.

My dh has never forgiven me for suggesting we watch The Lovely Bones on his birthday. He cried.

CheesyDibbles · 10/10/2015 15:01

I remember going to see Au Revoir Les Enfants when I was younger. I think I was too young to understand the full depth of the film, but I remember a woman being led out of the cinema at the end, sobbing.