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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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Narp · 09/10/2015 21:33

Se7en did produce one of my favourite film quotes though:

Just because the fucker's got a library card doesn't make him Yoda

MistressMerryWeather · 09/10/2015 21:34

Who will love my children, I mean.

Mrsjayy · 09/10/2015 21:34

I love girl interrupted not the cheeriest of films is it

Branleuse · 09/10/2015 21:35

Hostel. I still shiver thinking of bits of it.

Man bites dog. I couldnt watch it. The rape scene was so fucking realistic, I felt actually sick.

MistressMerryWeather · 09/10/2015 21:37

Has anyone mentioned The Green Mile yet?

I cried buckets.

Wolpertinger · 09/10/2015 21:37

I creid at the end of AI but they were tears of utter boredom. Everytime you thought the film was ending it went on for another fecking hour.

I still feel Spielberg owes me an apology.

Mrsjayy · 09/10/2015 21:38

mistress i was howling early 80s was the unwanted babies era Grin my pals parents went out on a saturday we rented all the unwanted baby films or dying dads (champ)

BlandandInsipid · 09/10/2015 21:38

I haven't seen most of these (luckily) because I'm really very sensitive and try to avoid them. I do make huge mistakes though. I recently watched 'the woman in black' thinking it was a 'classic'. Turns out I was getting confused with 'the woman in white'. I had to sleep with the lights on for weeks after that.
I also watched a film described by net flicks as a Scottish 'comedy' called 'filth' about a police officer. I'm not sure where the humour was, the main character hangs himself and that's just what I felt like doing at the end of the film.

Mrsjayy · 09/10/2015 21:39

Aww thegreen mile was brilliant poor john coffe

AnyoneButAndre · 09/10/2015 21:39

I enjoyed (if that's the word) Schindler's List, Seven and Silence of the Lambs, but all the other films on this list I have steadfastly avoided, for all the reasons everyone says. I read film reviews very carefully and especially since I had DCs I simply don't watch things that I know are going to upset me.

Notasinglefuckwasgiven · 09/10/2015 21:41

Bland don't read the book Filth it's worse. I tossed it out it's fucking evil.

Mrsjayy · 09/10/2015 21:42

Dd went to see the woman in black she was 13/14 poor kid came home chalk white it was a 12a i said how was it she said"I cant unsee it" Grin

AncestralRhubarb · 09/10/2015 21:43

I was waiting for someone to mention Who Will Love My Children! Biggest sob fest ever. I can remember sitting on the sofa with my Mum, crying our eyes out watching it. Actually it's a happy memory - bonding with my late Mum watching a 'grown up' film. I was probably about 9.

Mrsjayy · 09/10/2015 21:44

First time i watched trainspotting i felt mucky

Narp · 09/10/2015 21:45

It's so much easier for kids to see disturbing films.

The 12 a certificate is such a fudge so adults can take their young kids in

Woman in Black would have been a 15 when I was a child

bluesbaby · 09/10/2015 21:46

Ah yes. Lilya 4 eva. I don't know many other people who have seen it! It played on my mind a lot after I saw it. So, so, tragic. I cried a lot. I just wanted to save her.

Manon of the Spring is a film I saw recently that deeply affected me. The injustice! It made me feel rage, much like Philomena - those fucking nuns.

But, the sorrow I felt at the end of Irreversible was devastating. One of the worst films I've ever seen (and I've seen most of the films people have listed here, and more even depraved films...). When the end begins to be all happy after everything that's happened afterwards (the film is told in reverse)? Man, it's fucked up - I've never felt such devastation, rage and horror at someone's happiness and joy onscreen! Why oh why! How can these filmmakers play with my emotions so much?
NB - mothers, please don't watch this. I feel teary just remembering it. Sad

Mrsjayy · 09/10/2015 21:46

Aww Rhubarb thats a nice memory to have

IamSantaClaus · 09/10/2015 21:46

No country for old men - I was locked out of my flat in Paris as a student and went to the cinema to kill some time . I had no idea what it was about

I was so disturbed I ran home in the dark .

wynkenblinkennod · 09/10/2015 21:47

I still remember Sophie's Choice, traumatised me forever. And The Exorcist. Never ever again.....

stopfaffing · 09/10/2015 21:48

Kes traumatised me as a child. As an adult, Road to Terribithica (I think thats the name) devastated me. I couldn't get passed the death of the girl. So unexpected. Dreadful.

Mrsjayy · 09/10/2015 21:49

Dd went to see a slightly scary film with Daniel Radcliffe they were watching it on googlebox the other week she turned it said it so wasnt a 12a

SpaghettiMeatballs · 09/10/2015 21:49

I haven't seen The Lovely Bones. The book was enough for me.

MistressMerryWeather · 09/10/2015 21:50

I have never even seen Sophie's Choice and am traumatised by it, I just saw that scene on one of those 'Top 100 best movies' type shows.

I'll never watch it.

amicissimma · 09/10/2015 21:52

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Mrsjayy · 09/10/2015 21:53

I dont think I have seen sophies choice