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?

We watched Schindlers List at school aged 14. Some people left the room, around 25% of us made it to the end. I found it difficult to concentrate for the rest of the day, but I remember being glad I'd watched it, I think.

American history X

I know it was way up thread, but I watched King Girl. It was awful.

The first episode of Black Mirror made me feel filthy. I watched it with my mum when visiting with newborn DS3. It was vile.

I haven't seen Human Centipede but I read the synopsis on wiki. Made me feel ill and very strange when I went to the loo! Even now thinking about it makes me literally heave.

I cried till I was sick after the Orphanage

I will never forget how traumatized I was for days after watching 28 Days Later. Genuinely TERRIFYING zombie flick.

Changeling

Don't necessarily regret all of these as I love some of them but did make me feel shit.

My girl
p.s I love you especially the book.
Marley and me
Hachi a dogs tale
The lovely bones
Bridge to Terebithia
I also had to leave the room in the pool scene of the skeleton twins

The Grudge is the only film I really regretted watching - I don't know why it got to me so much but I was just terrified. Felt like it was in my head and I'd never get rid of it. It was the noises mainly. I will never ever EVER watch another film in that series.

The only other one that gets close is The Road...so very, very bleak and horrifying. End-of-the-world scenarios really scare me, but at the same time I'm drawn to them. I read and watch a lot of post-apocalyptic fiction. But The Road, for me, is at the far end of the spectrum of what I can take, apocalypse-wise.

DP would probably say Naked, the Mike Leigh film. I loved this film as a (would-be nihilistic, nobody-understands-me, black-clad) teenager, so when it was on TV a few years ago and DP had never seen it we sat down to watch it together. "You'll love it!" I said. Ha! No he didn't, to put it mildly. He found it as grim and hopeless as I found The Road.

Definitely Pan's Labyrinth. Not the fantasy stuff, it was the 'real life' bugs that were harrowing and I had no idea it would be like that! (Plus I saw it in a Canadian cinema in December when the heating had broken down so I was freezing too!)

Precious.
Tyranosaur.

Apologies for posting on an old thread, but I had to add Born Equal and Sweet Sixteen - both incredible films, but you have to know what you're getting into before watching them.

Born Equal is almost worse, because at one point towards the end of the film it seems absolutely certain that all the characters - who are complex, sympathetic and have you rooting for them - are going to have reasonably happy endings. This is not the case.
The scene in the hospital where the daughter is taken into care haunted me for ages afterwards. DD complained I was hugging her too hard for several days after I saw the film.

At least I knew that Sweet Sixteen was directed by Ken Loach, and unlikely to have a particularly optimistic slant to it.

Boyhood made me really sad. I think because I have a son approaching his teens. We really don't get long with them.

Shit. Zombie Run!

The only films I've regretted seeing in the longer term have been really, really shit ones (e.g. Adam Sandler's comedy back catalogue) and in those cases, I've largely been thinking about the two and a half hours of my life I'm never getting back. However, there are films that have really challenged me and left me sobbing uncontrollably for ages that I would hesitate to watch if I were feeling fragile.

Top of the list is Grave of the Fireflies. I really love Studio Ghibli films. I've only been able to watch that one once though. It is absolutely devastasting. I didn't learn from the experience though. DH got me the Tale of Princess Kaguya for Christmas. It looked lovely and pastel and watercolour on the outside. On the inside, however, is the saddest story. I cried for about two hours on Christmas day!!

Breaking the Waves really upset me too (challenging in a good way). And I challenge anyone to get through the real-life horrors of Resnais's Night and Fog without tears.

Breaking the Waves, The Road and Wolf Creek.

Oh aye, and Dancer in the Dark.

Just unutterably bleak.

The Divide: Utterly depressing. A group of not very nice people shelter from nuclear war in an inadequate location and the resulting trauma, close confinement and radiation see them devolve into truly damaged, horrendous people.

The Road: Society as a whole devolves in a post apocalyptic setting. The book ending is horrific by its mere suggestion that what is happening is the boy creating his own reality to hide from the horror of what's about to happen.

Do not see Mystic River. Or any movie about the Holocaust.

Melancholia - really freaked me out and sometimes I hear the "planet noise" and get freaked out all over again. Didn't help to read in the news that they have possibly discovered another planet in our solar system that nobody knew anything about.

The Homesman. Last night.

Jude with Christopher Eccleston and Kate Winslet is feckin' awful. I have never felt so depressed by a film. Never read the novel so had no idea what I was letting myself in for. Just unbearably sad. Approach with extreme caution, especially if you have small children!! It is NOT a cosy costume drama!!

Cold mountain depressing bleak and awful ending. Some of the scences still play on my mind. Cake with Jennifer Anniston just no hope .

most Tarantino films make me feel like this, apart from Jackie Brown which I quite liked