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?

I don't like chick flicks they're shite so not been depressed by any weepies. I Spit On Your Grave and the original Last House On The Left filled me with nightmare rage and really quite traumatised. Thought I'd need counselling on behalf of these fictional characters. Original Spit btw not the tacky remake.

Lovely Bones

Couldn't finish the book. And I read all sorts of grim crime and forensic fiction

The Passion of the Christ disturbed me, so cruel, cryed so much, I'm not religious but still.

I know, not unknown.

Million Dollar Baby and Gran Torino respectively.

Thank you Google

I like a good cry, so I loved Philomena, Marley and me, The colour Purple

I choose not to watch anything involving torture

Remember me, I never ever want to watch it again, I felt so sad and low after it

There are so many of these that I haven't seen, which I am glad of. I will be steering clear of them all.

Its the ones that don't seem that bad, interesting even, and then you watch them and feel shit, that get me. I go into it so unprepared.

Oranges and Sunshine was another. Children were barely seen as humans in the past.

Try reading the book associated with Oranges and Sunshine.

I don't think I could take it emma.

goodforsolong Remember Me hit me like a bus. One minute everything is looking up, then Wham!

Blood diamond... Just horrific

Jonathan Livingston Seagull. My DP looked for it for ages, said how fabulous it was... Was it bollocks! When it finished I actually said, that's 90 minutes of my life wasted. And the bugger agreed with me, said he 'remembered it now' etc etc and had hated it the first time. Could have merrily throttled him.

Requiem for a Dream. Ellen Burstyn's (?) character just breaks my heart.

Hesa

haha. Yes, for that reason: Cats and Dogs 2

Too many children's films

Blue Valentine - depressing as feck

Generally anything that doesn't end really, really happy leaves me feeling like shit

I don't think I've ever regretted watching a powerful film (and I've seen a lot of the ones namechecked on here). There are some films that really upset me, but as long as they don't get too schmaltzy and noticeably manipulative, I think that's fine. I mean, I think it's fine to be upset by and engage with an art form, and I think it's fine for that art form to be using powerful images. I've been far more pissed off about the Hollywood-isation of important events (eg Saving Private Ryan ffs) than I have about films that tried to speak to me on a lucid, intelligent level and treated me as an adult, even if the result was that I got to think more and therefore became more sad/angry/frustrated/upset.

Precious
It was so horrific
But it's what got me involved in charity work so not all bad, I suppose

A Serbian Film. All I read was the synopsis and I was heaving and wanted to vomit. I cried at In The Name of the Father. Injustice doesn't begin to describe that.

Precious was terrible I was in a slump for ages the silence of the lambs scared me witless i kept shuddering.

Schindler's List. That little girl in the red coat haunts me.

The lovely bones. I watched it on a long haul flight travelling on my own and I have never felt so... Alone. It was AWFUL.

Then I watched Shutter Island, that freaked me out big time!!!!!

The Constant Gardener

The Life of David Gale

Ancestral

I don't regret seeing it, but Schindler's list is one film I thought was great, but that I never want to see again

I also wished I hadn't watched Fishtank