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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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AndLeavesthatweregreenturnedto · 10/10/2015 15:03

Uh yes, Etneral also depressed me

laughingatweather · 10/10/2015 15:31

I didn't think I'd ever stop crying after watching The Champ.

And I nearly walked out of the cinema watching The Ring as I was so scared. It was even more of a stupid move as I worked on an adolescent MH unit at the time and it wasn't unusual to have a girl with long hair in her face silently appear in corridors when you were doing checks on a night shift.

I thought I'd have a heart attack on more than one occasion!

ClashCityRocker · 10/10/2015 15:36

I don't think its a film, iirc it was a two-part drama on the Beeb, but I remember watching 'the leaving of Liverpool' as a teen and its stayed with me ever since.

PolishRemoverOfNail · 10/10/2015 15:37

The theory of everything - I felt so sad after watching that movie. Shame really as Stephen Hawking should be admired for his work in despite of his disability. I thought it would be inspiring. Instead it was just incredibly sad.

Also eternal sunshine of the spotless mind - you have to have the pain of a breakup so be able to move on, and enjoy the good bits.

CheerfulYank · 10/10/2015 16:01

I love Forrest Gump Confused

Toast it was a boxing robe, not a dressing gown. I never got the feeling he wanted to shag her. I think he loved her like a daughter.

Notasinglefuckwasgiven · 10/10/2015 16:32

God yes, hills have eyes. And the crappy sequels. All disturbing. The book Armed Candy upset me. Probably because I could totally relate to where she grew up and the people in her childhood. It was my estate just further across town but identical. Had nightmares after reading it.

KingJoffreyLikesJaffaCakes · 10/10/2015 16:48

Mrs Doubtfire.

Unpleasant ditched immature husband at his worst.

Proper manipulation of his ex-wife. Really nasty film.

twoboystwogirls · 10/10/2015 17:02

I can't believe a PP mentioned The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. It is a phenomenal film, and really defined the nature of horror, from Final Girl through to the secrecy of communities. As did Last House on the Left, although unlike TCM, that lost a lot of its impact due to the frivolous comedic scenes that were interspersed with the horror.

I find a lot of the most disturbing films are actually those made for TV. I remember watching a BBC drama called King Girl, shown at some point during the nineties. It brought home the horror of bullying, and seemed somehow worse (though it really wasn't, or shouldn't have been), because it was a girl doing the bullying.

No one else ever remembers it.

NantucketNightbird · 10/10/2015 17:12

Another one was born innocent with Linda Blair (from the exorcist) oh my goodness it has haunted me

expatinscotland · 10/10/2015 17:16

Anything from Steve McQueen. Fucking misery porn. Life is shit enough.

KittenOfWoe · 10/10/2015 17:20

I weep like a baby every time I watch The Green Mile.... "I'm awful tired, boss" chokes me without fail.

AndLeavesthatweregreenturnedto · 10/10/2015 17:28

I am one of the generation who were traumatized by Bambi.

Same here I was utterly wretched after watching that film.

A film I accident saw when I was too young was.....

THE ELEPHANT MAN, old black and white version.

OH MY GOD. awful. disturbed me for weeks

TwllBach · 10/10/2015 17:29

I love Texas Chainsaw Massacre!!

I'm pretty sure there was a film called Hard Candy.... with Ellen Page in it? I remember watching it in the cinema and just being so depressed by it.

A teenaged girl purposefully baits a paedophile online, gets him to take her to his house and then drugs him and makes him confess.

OutToGetYou · 10/10/2015 17:30

Billy Elliot I nearly had to leave the cinema.

American History X has a dreadful scene in it I has to turn away from but even years later I can still "see" and is horrifying.

OutToGetYou · 10/10/2015 17:32

Oh, and Hotel Rwanda.

MissMarpleCat · 10/10/2015 17:36

The Elephant Man (80's black and white version) brilliantly acted, but very upsetting.
Magdalene Sisters
Dead Mans Shoes, again well acted but made me very uncomfortable.
Sophie's Choice
The Boy in Stripped Pyjamas
The Lovely Bones
Hostel, bloody horrific, never watched the sequels
United 93, one of the planes involved in 9/11

twoboystwogirls · 10/10/2015 17:46

Bach it is brilliant....a few years ago I went to the drive in to watch it and it was SO scary.....something about watching it outside made it more terrifying, possibly because much of TCM is set outside, particularly Sally running through the trees with Leatherface just behind her!

It really was a groundbreaking film, and is one of the few older horror films to still retain its impact to this day.

twoboystwogirls · 10/10/2015 17:48

Oh meant to say that I had seen it thirty or more times before watching it at the drive-in, and it STILL scared the life outta me!!

drivingmisspotty · 10/10/2015 17:49

I've just read the synopsis of human centipede on Wikipedia and even that has scarred me for life, I think!

TwllBach · 10/10/2015 17:51

twoboys I love the horror genre and you can definitely see its influence in films made afterwards! It's such an art to make a genuinely scary film don't you think? And one that has a story to it as well...

Some of my favourite films, though, are Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer. Particularly Scream, they are both so firmly in their category that they can take the piss out of themselves a bit and still be scary. There is a drama set as a spin off as Scream that is new to Netflix that I have been watching that is exactly the same... scary but tongue in cheek.

Saying that, The Shining has got to be one of my all time favourites. My dad let me watch it as a ten year old and I was terrified for weeks although I have never read the book.

GiraffesCanDance1 · 10/10/2015 17:55

Changeling with Angelina Jolie really traumatised me, the scenes with the child murderer in the chicken she'd still haunt me.

Also the film about British prisoners of war in Japan who were building a railway, that horrified me especially the torture of the officer after he demanded they respect the Geneva Convention.

KinkyDorito · 10/10/2015 17:57

snap Giraffes - Changeling was not what I was expecting at all, and the fact it was based on a true story is stomach churning.

Mrsjayy · 10/10/2015 17:59

I had flashbacks of watership down when 1 of the dds wanted to watch i said NO and turned it over its not and never will be a childrens film

Sgtmajormummy · 10/10/2015 18:00

"Jude" so unremitting.
DH always says "Get anything as long as it isn't like Jude".

And last year's Foreign Oscar winner "Ida". Not recommended.

CleverPlansAndSecretTricks · 10/10/2015 18:14

Misnomer I did EXACTLY the same thing with Lilya 4 ever. I had just got together with DH and I said let's watch this, his last film was lovely and funny and uplifting. Flipping heck. DH STILL 12 years later will purposely avoid a film if I recommend it.

Totally agree re Jude, but then I felt the same when I read Tess. Thomas Hardy really had a depressing take on the world didn't he?

Totally shit films I wish I hadn't seen:
Deep Blue Sea
Con Air

Fantastic films that haunt me far too much:
The Ring
The Descent (esp the ending)

I liked Precious and The Road and Winters Bone. Can't bring myself to watch Philomena even though it looks like a great film. I also avoid anything these days with too much violence or torture, life is too short.