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

422 replies

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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Notasinglefuckwasgiven · 09/10/2015 21:14

God I forgot about Kids. Hideous. I hated men after that.

Narp · 09/10/2015 21:16

MrsJayy

Yes! I remember. And Will Whatsisname was played by some dude with a beard and 1980s hair. Really good.

I have a worrying obsession with serial killer fiction, but not much desire to read real-life stuff or watch films.

Another great, but disturbing film is Zodiac

BlackSwan · 09/10/2015 21:16

Mrsjayy my ears were burning Wink. Such a shame you didn't like my film.

Having read through these posts, I feel like perhaps mumsnet is just a support group for women traumatised by watching 'the Lovely Bones'. It sure freaked me out...

IamSantaClaus · 09/10/2015 21:17

Also the Pianist . Someone already mentioned it up thread . So so sad

Narp · 09/10/2015 21:18

Oh! I have just thought of a documentary film called The Falling Man. It was about the people who jumped/were pushed from the Twin Towers. Excellent, thought-provoking, but so terribly sad

Sittingbull · 09/10/2015 21:18

Great thread OP

I wish I had never seen "A clockwork orange" - can't unsee those scenes - completely repugnant

I wish I had never watched the first episode of "Black Mirror" - made me sick on so many levels and still haunts me in a bad way

"The Winters Bone" was beautifully filmed but one of the most depressing films ever made

SouthWestmom · 09/10/2015 21:18

Some hideous film about murdered children called Changeling with angelina jolie

Notasinglefuckwasgiven · 09/10/2015 21:19

I'm disturbed nobody has seen the horror films I've sat through Blush thinking my boyfriend at the time was really a warped character if nobody else has been exposed to them.....

Narp · 09/10/2015 21:19

Noeuf

Yes! Really depressing.

AncestralRhubarb · 09/10/2015 21:19

My Life As a Dog. Child is sent away because his mother is dying. He keeps thinking about Laika the Russian space dog, sent away without means to return. Sad, sad film. I kept thinking about Laika and the injustice of that for months afterwards.

slithytove · 09/10/2015 21:20

Yes, a beautiful mind left me feeling really sad

Wish I could unsee boys don't cry, hostel, and wolf creek

flamingtoaster · 09/10/2015 21:20

When I was a teenager my mother and I watched "The Day They Gave Babies Away" - it was Christmas Eve and we both bawled our eyes out and it took us some time to get back into the spirit of Christmas. It is based on a true story - in the American West both parents die and the oldest child takes his siblings round to other families asking them each to take in one child. It was also Christmas Eve in the movie. Never, ever watch it!

BlackSwan · 09/10/2015 21:20

Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night.
The 3 Faces of Eve.
The Omen. {AAAARRGGGHHHH}

IamSantaClaus · 09/10/2015 21:21

Notasinglefuck- in the name of the father was awful , it disturbed me for ages after watching it .

southeastastra · 09/10/2015 21:21

fish tank was brilliant agree but stays with you

i quite like films that do this but am finding i am avoiding so many classic films for fear of not being able to shake them

i do tend to avoid films about the holocaust but will watch the real life footage and reporting.

I shamefully fast forwarded parts of the deer hunter i found it so upsetting.

darksideofthemooncup · 09/10/2015 21:22

In the Name of The Father which was about the Guildford Four. The sheer injustice of what happened really got to me. It is a phenomenally powerful film though

RufusTheReindeer · 09/10/2015 21:24

AI

The bit at the end , i dont want to give away any spoilers

Cried literally all night, just sobbed and sobbed. Reminded me of my mother

I'm never watching it again

MistressMerryWeather · 09/10/2015 21:24

Melancholia.

I didn't even get to the end of it and felt edgy for the rest of the evening.

Unpleasant movie.

pinkprimroses · 09/10/2015 21:26

Some of the films that have made me cry or distubed me a bit have also been really good films

But not Seven - that's the only film I've ever refused to finish watching and wished I'd never started. Just grim

Mrsjayy · 09/10/2015 21:28

The day they gave the babies away and who will love my children ruined me especially the latter nobody wanted the little disabled boy those were awful awful films. I remember i watching another cant remember what it was called but was an insitution where a young woman with LD faught (sp) not to be sterrilised i was willing her on.

LikeASoulWithoutAMind · 09/10/2015 21:28

Breaking the Waves. Over 2.5 hours of relentless depressing misery. Now shorthand for something really shit/depressing in our house.

Mrsjayy · 09/10/2015 21:30

They did it anyway I was furious so unfair

HippyChickMama · 09/10/2015 21:31

I've remembered some more
Pet Semetary scared the crap out of me
Girl, Interrupted
The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things

southeastastra · 09/10/2015 21:32

i have just read spoilers for AI and am sad already!another film i will avoid

MistressMerryWeather · 09/10/2015 21:32

Oh God, Mrsjay!

I remember watching that with my mum when I was about 7 and us weeping.

My mum was sniveling 'I would have taken him!'

:o