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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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Mrsjayy · 09/10/2015 21:02

Black swan left me so enraged i started a thread it was terrible such pretentious load of twaddle. I remember having a tension after watching 7even it was so tense.

Theimpossiblegirl · 09/10/2015 21:02

I can't actually even think about Wolf Creek without getting that horrible dread-like feeling in the pit of my stomach. Seriously, if you haven't seen it, don't. It's horrible. I stuck it out til the end hoping it would end well and wish I hadn't.

Narp · 09/10/2015 21:02

Mrsjayy

I watched Silence of The Lambs again recently, and was surprised how ridiculous I found it.

The book is really horrible, as is Red Dragon. Really well written

CanIGoToBedNow · 09/10/2015 21:03

Million Dollar Baby - did not want to watch it, DH made me. I will never forgive him. Just so upsetting and depressing

HippyChickMama · 09/10/2015 21:04

Kids - horrible film.
I can't bring myself to watch Schindler's List or The Piano because I know I'd be traumatised forever.

Mrsjayy · 09/10/2015 21:05

It just really scared me the seria killer was so sinister.

RedRosie · 09/10/2015 21:05

The Road (the book was even worse).

Both beautifully made/written but ending with no real hope and no redemption.

[Shudders]

DarkNavyBlue · 09/10/2015 21:06

Walkabout.

Kess.

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sliceofsoup · 09/10/2015 21:06

See Million Dollar Baby is a film that I have never seen because I never found it that interesting. But I also didn't think it was a depressing film.

I want to know why it is so depressing, but actually, I don't want to know either. Confused

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cruikshank · 09/10/2015 21:06

See, Schindler's List I watched while (literally) in a war zone and pretty much everyone around me was saying 'This is such bullshit. This is not what it's like'. Which was, to be fair, the truth. Grin

MissBEverdene · 09/10/2015 21:07

The Magdalene Sisters - breaks my heart every time but for some reason i still feel compelled to watch it if it's on tv Hmm

In another life that could have been my fate, i was a single, teenage mother to DD1. There but for the grace of God go I.

Mrsjayy · 09/10/2015 21:08

Kids is a revolting film i know that sounds dramatic if i had been watching it at home id have switchedit off but it was at the cinema andi didnt want to walk out.

Narp · 09/10/2015 21:08

Mrsjayy

Yes, he is. I s'pose it's Hannibal Lector I found sillier

The book is really good

And the Clarice Starling character (and Jodie Foster of course) is amazing

Dobeedo · 09/10/2015 21:08

I was just about to say Requiem for a Dream but someone's already beaten me to it. So, so miserable and heartbreaking to see their hopes and dreams not just shattered but turned into nightmares.

bertsdinner · 09/10/2015 21:09

"Never Let Me Go", so dark and bleak. I think about it even now.

Bits of "Schindlers List", the bit where the Gestapo are going through a cleared out ghetto, machine gunning any that were hiding.

There was a film on TV a few years ago called "Walter", about a man with learning disabilities in a home. He was in an old fashioned institution and it ended with him being in new, modern psychiatric unit. It ended with a prison guard style "carer" shouting at the patients. It was a harsh and brutal film.

"Get Carter", a depressing film.

Narp · 09/10/2015 21:09

bert

Yes, that bit got me too

Mrsjayy · 09/10/2015 21:10

The magdalene sisters broke my heart .

ModerationInEverything · 09/10/2015 21:10

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas made me feel physically sick, even much later if I thought about it. Still now a bit.

Odd really as I'm usually very practical and "oh it's just a movie"

tictactoad · 09/10/2015 21:10

Candy Man

I still have nightmares about that hook Shock

And the original Suspiria. Still wary about looking out of windows at night Shock

Wolpertinger · 09/10/2015 21:11

I suggest none of you ever watch Bicycle Thieves. Possibly the saddest film ever made.

DH says Umberto D is worse but I refuse to watch it. I can't go through that trauma again.

IamSantaClaus · 09/10/2015 21:12

Deerhunter - I didn't even watch it in English , it was in Italian with no subtitles and I cried . A lot . I will never watch it in English Confused

Fury - I couldn't sleep after that . It was a really brutal film

Narp · 09/10/2015 21:12

When I was a child (about 7) we couldn't get in to see a film - I think Mary Poppins, so my mum took my brother and I round the corner and we just went into the first likely-looking film. It was (the original) Poseidon Adventure. It gave my brother nightmare for years afterwards.

He still can't watch it,. And we still tease my mum about it, nearly 40 years later

Mrsjayy · 09/10/2015 21:13

Narp i read the books years ago there is an original Red dragon with Brian cox ( the actor not the space dude) he wasan amazing hanibal lecter.

wigglesrock · 09/10/2015 21:14

TiredEmma I found Fish Tank a very hard watch as well. It was brilliantly made and acted but I don't think I'd watch it again.

Misnomer · 09/10/2015 21:14

One of my favourite films is called 'Together'. It's Swedish and funny and uplifting. So when I saw that the director had made a new film I bought it on DVD and saved it up for a time when I was feeling down and needed cheering up. The new film starts on a Russian council estate with a young girl being abandoned by her mother and getting trafficked, and that was a high point. It's called 'Lilya 4 Ever' and it's one of the most depressing films I have ever see. I really should have reads the reviews.