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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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cruikshank · 09/10/2015 23:24

Wolf Creek is NOT based on a true story. Sorry for shouting, but that is one of the many many things that piss me off about that film. There have been murders in the outback, sure, and there are murky goings-on there, sure, but Wolf Creek is fiction. Plus, it has a killer so unkillable and so all-assailing that it gets to being comedy central - like Freddy covering over the car with his jumper at the end, except it starts happening about halfway through and continues throughout. Truly truly shit film. And it starts so well, which is what pisses me off even more about it - the tension builds up nicely, there's the 'inbred locals in the bar' scene and the shite with the watches, and then even after the kidnap there is the screaming bit which I thought was very well done. But then it just descends into parody. I couldn't take it seriously.

Agree with others that Threads is without doubt one of the most scary things I have ever fucking seen. But then I am a child of the 70s/80s so it was all horribly real to me. Would you believe that we watched it in school? Must have been around today's year 8/9 children. Fucking scarred me for life, that did. The scene with the mushroom cloud and the person pissing themselves ....

Samcro · 09/10/2015 23:27

amicissimma Fri 09-Oct-15 21:52:01
Greyfriars Bobby.

omg we watched that one afternoone.....the poor wee dog

EnthusiasmDisturbed · 09/10/2015 23:28

The Homesman

it's a very difficult film to watch shockingly sad a western that is about the suffering of women its is very bleak and utterly depressing how they suffered :( i felt drained after

I read The Lovely Bones and it played on my mind for months after like no other book has I don't think I could not watch the film

TheSwallowingHandmaiden · 09/10/2015 23:29

A Clockwork Orange. That fucking rape scene. Unspeakable misogyny from the director.

Poopy22 · 09/10/2015 23:31

War horse totally agree, just sad

Langoliers by Steven King. Nightmares.

Also The Purge whoever said that... Started out with a normal scary horror film plot and descended into the horrible 'don't kill my children' thing where they were rounded up, the look on the teenage daughter's face was horrible, it's one of my big fears so to watch it on screen was just awful. On the whole not a great film did make me feel queasy and anxious for a bit though.

TheSwallowingHandmaiden · 09/10/2015 23:31

Oh yes...and Ray Winstone sodomising his daughter in The War Zone. Why are these films made? Why?

Gobbolinothewitchscat · 09/10/2015 23:32

Kathy Come Home. Awful. Sobbed and sobbed and still can hardly bear to think about it

Sophie's Choice. Even worse. Had no idea what it was about as just randomly started watching it one night as I saw Meryl Streep was in the TV and like her. I had to turn it off half way through that scene. I've never googled to see how it finished

Mrsjayy · 09/10/2015 23:39

Color purple i just cried from start to finish its my favourite film and book

StormyLovesOdd · 09/10/2015 23:39

The Human Centipeed is the only film that has ever really disturbed me. I like horror films but it really played on my mind and I will never ever watch the sequels.

TwllBach · 09/10/2015 23:42

Eden Lake horrified me... Put me right off moving to Ipswich!!

I Spit On Your Grave - I had to watch that over two days because it was just hideous.

Bridge to Terabithia - sobbed buckets.

I've also just watched Everest after reading the book. Sobbed because I knew what was going to happen, sobbed as it happened and then continued to sob through the streets of Manchester to the car.

I used to love horror films, it was my go to genre but I'm 12 weekspregnantsnd haven't been able to stomach the idea of watching anything harder than scream since I found out at five weeks!

Mrsjayy · 09/10/2015 23:42

The human centipede is beyond revolting i saw about 5 minutes of it wanted to throw up i read the writer and producer trickec a film company to make it its like gore porn imo

cruikshank · 09/10/2015 23:45

Handmaiden, agree that that was awful but for me the very worst scene in a film that was overall about as grim as it gets was when she's in hospital with the baby and you see blood on the nappy ... Sorry.

EnthusiasmDisturbed · 09/10/2015 23:56

fromheretomaternity agree about Fortitude the bleakness seeps through the screen I want to watch the last eposide but i am a little scared to

I love Leaving Las Vegas is one of my favourite films, an amazing film I feel drained every time i see it the first time i sobbed for ages after. have the soundtrack which is great but even that can set me off crying

Deerhunter if the film itself is not depressing enough they add the most beautifully haunting music that brings you down even further

JeffreysMummyIsCross · 09/10/2015 23:59

I'm glad I'm not the only one to say Pan's Labyrinth. I was expecting something rather different, and was in shock for a while after.

And Marley and Me. Huge heaving sobs when he died. Great for my dogs, though - they got to sleep in the bed after that, the manipulative feckers. Will never watch that film again.

wigglesrock · 10/10/2015 00:00

I've just watched The Kite Runner tonight - I thought it was very sad and bleak. I knew the story but I can't shake some of the scenes in it, not so much at the start, but towards the end of the film.

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lorelei9 · 10/10/2015 00:06

What a fascinating thread
I loved Million Dollar Baby and Green Mile, yes I cried buckets but have seen them more than once and love them

I did wish I could unsee Blue Valentine and Revolutinary road at the time. I wouldn't watch them again but would be less affected as I don't do relationships any more

I knew not to watch Precious when I heard the story. A film that's just as depressing as real life is not something I want to see.

TheSwallowingHandmaiden · 10/10/2015 00:07

Ugh, Cruikshank, my brain must've blanked that out because i don't remember that. I feel sick Sad

TheExMotherInLaw · 10/10/2015 00:10

sittingbull yes, Clockwork Orange for me, too - I saw it when it was originally released - I was about 18 and 40+ years later I am still upset at the thought of it.

lorelei9 · 10/10/2015 00:10

PS can't believe anyone watched Human Centipede, just the description of the film makes me feel ill.

SealSong · 10/10/2015 00:12

Bluesbaby, I've seen Lilya4Ever. It is utterly heartbreaking and has stuck in my mind ever since. Sad

WilsonWilsonWoman · 10/10/2015 00:21

Very interesting thread!

Prometheus - awful film, waste of my time!

Wolf Creek, Eden Lake as pp.

Ex-Drummer - awful, bleak, nasty, utterly miserable Belgian film. Sad Made to watch by a film studies tutor who seemed to take delight in it. When he pulled it out the following year, I was AGHAST.

I probably have more, but very glad I don't have Human Centipede to add!

FixItUpChappie · 10/10/2015 00:24

Oh yes - the worst thing I have EVER watched is an award winning documentary called "Grizzly Man", about a guy who camped out with bears in Alaska. He and a girlfriend unfortunately got eaten and they played an actual audio recording of them being....attacked. Why would you fucking play that for anyone??!

PTSD inducing and I'm not being glib AngrySad

HollyEllis · 10/10/2015 00:28

No Country For Old Men - the first night out DP and I had after birth of DC2 - love the COhen Brothers - was really excited and after months of being stuck at home with 2 under 2 was really excited only to be totally freaked out by two hours of unremitting dismal violence.

Gah!

TheSwallowingHandmaiden · 10/10/2015 00:55

Loved No Country For Old Men. Didn't you read the synopsis first? Hmm

I really want to watch that Grizzly one.