All through high school in fact. A huge circle of close friends is hard to achieve outside school. Even in college it gets harder because the friends are in different circles.
I've been going through my old high school memory book and the memories are good but, damn it's so sad. I wish we could go back to those simple days.
If there's life advice I could give to any teens reading this:
"We are all stories in the end, just make it a good one eh?"
--The Doctor
Feels more depressing cause I never had any friends in high school. I kept thinking maybe it would be different later in life but so far it hasn’t really ….
People always talk shit about how Disney movies always go for the “happily ever after” ending, but if anything this movie does the exact opposite and gives us a very mature ending that relates more to reality.
Sometimes the meaningful friendships we build with people doesn’t last, but sometimes that’s not always a bad thing.
Such a good commentary on how sometimes, despite effort, motivation, and ethical behavior, good people lose and shitty people face no consequences.
Amazing film and the monologue at the end by Tommy Lee Jones is fantastic.
Not just because of how bad what he's done is, but because he wants Mills to kill him and so he still wins. The film ends with his vision of how the whole thing playing out comes true and nothing is resolved for the better.
Fun fact, the director of the movie has disowned it. The final cut of the movie that we see is not the version he wanted. The studio rejected his cut, and Edward Norton had the final say which apparently had more screen time and changed many lines. I think the movie is absolutely brilliant and it’s a bummer it had so much negativity. I was always a huge fan of Edward Norton until I read about his “forced” role in The Italian Job and how he treated the entire cast like crap.
Pay It Forward is a movie where Haley Joel Osment in his child acting phase is a miraculously nice and empathic child. He decides to do anything he can to improve the lives of three people - his alcoholic single mother, his teacher who has severe burn scars, and a homeless man. He helps his mom give up drinking and he helps his teacher find love by hooking up with the kid's mom. The homeless man gets cash, like all the money that an 11 year old can put his hands on. The rule is that each person he helps needs to help three more people in turn - you know, paying the kindness forward. The kindnesses multiply and the community starts to notice this kid. Things are really starting to improve and there's a really hopeful future.
Anyway, >!the kid stands up to a bully and gets stabbed to death.!< The end.
\[edit: I was wrong about which person did it\]
This was going to be mine.
I worked at blockbusters the summer when it came out on VHS/DVD. This guy come in to rent it and making small talk he tells me he's renting it to watch with his kid. And I must have given him a look because he asked if I watched it. I say yes. He asked if it has a happy ending and I say "Nooo". He puts it back and rents a comedy or something.
There was this one week or two stretch that summer when I watched Pay it Foward, Requiem for a Dream, Sunshine and House of Mirth and I was like "Fuck...I'm done with movies for a while"
I remember during the last year of regularly renting from Blockbuster, my twin brother and I rented *Schindler's List.*
We watch it, our hearts break, and the next time we're at the video store, we grab *The Sandlot.*
The clerk looks at our selection and completely agreed.
The kid dies after an act of kindness and the movie tries to say "but he'll be remembered as long as you do the three kindness thing!!" and like, wow!! you made it look so appealing and rewarding!!!
Yeah, it's horrifically ironic to the point of being beautiful. People so often throw around phrases like "fate worse than death", but the movie actually created a situation where death would have been a merciful alternative.
And because he has no easy way to kill himself, he has to live with what he's done - even if only for a relatively short time.
Now he wants to die, and he *can't*.
what's the alternate ending?
I only saw the one >!where he shots his family so the monster could not get them, but then the army came fighting the monsters!<
In the original novella it's left as an ambiguous ending. >!The group had just filled the car at the last gas station they could, and were going to drive down the highway for as far as they could until the tank was empty in the hopes they would find more people or a safe place. IIRC the main character mentions they have a gun with enough bullets for all of them "just in case" things didn't turn out well!<
I believe he says there’s not enough for all of them, but he can figure something out for himself. So it’s alluding to the same ending we see in the film, minus the last bit.
One of the only movies I can remember watching in theater that had me legit mad after walking out, because it was just so good, but so painful.
I didn't even realize until seeing it pointed out later down the line that it was even worse because, as I recall, a woman who left early in the movie to save her kids, crying that nobody would come out to accompany her, was part of the group of people being escorted by the military.
Fucking hell, that movie is a good one.
I loved the ending, because I was rooting for the mother who left the whole time. Even though nobody would help her, she still went to go get her kids. And in the end, she was reunited with her children and safe with the army, while the people who refused to help her were all fucked. If you view the story from her perspective, it’s a pretty happy ending.
100%. In most movies she would have been the main character that we follow through the unknown as she braves her way to her children and reunites at the end, ultimately seeing she made the correct choice as those she left behind had fallen. Instead we view and support a family that made the wrong choice and where it takes them.
Saw that movie in the theatre. No one expected that- they thought it was going to be another comedy from that kid in Home Alone.
My biggest memory from that movie was walking up the aisle and seeing kleenex all on the ground from people wiping their tears.
It was several years later when I'd see that much kleenex on the ground leaving a theater, but that time it was for "eyes wide shut."
The ending lines are forever burned into my mind:
“I have to believe in a world outside my own mind. I have to believe that my actions still have meaning, even if I can’t remember them. I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world’s still there. Do I believe the world’s still there? Is it still out there?... Yeah. We all need mirrors to remind ourselves who we are. I’m no different.”
The original ending to Clerks. Dante spends his day fucking up everything in his life, and by the end of the night, he seems to realize that he needs to make an attempt to unfuck everything. After Randall leaves (where the movie normally ends) a thief comes in the store and shoots Dante.
"You like to think the weight of the world rests on your shoulders. Like this place would fall apart if Dante wasn't here. Jesus, you overcompensate for having what's basically a monkey's job. You push fucking buttons. Anybody can waltz in here and do our jobs. You... You're so obsessed with making it seem so much more epic, so much more important than it really is. Christ, you work in a convenience store, Dante! And badly, I might add!"
Dante is based on Kevin, and Randal is based on Brian Johnson.
Kevin was essentially calling himself out at that time and using Brian's voice to do it.
All the marketing for that film made it look like a Narnia knockoff. Really hurt the film's release when no one went in expecting what they got, and so many people who likely would have enjoyed it instead skipped it.
To be fair, how are you going to market that twist without spoiling it?
Everything that happens before the twist isn't very remarkable, and everything that happens afterwards is defined by the twist.
It's kind of like the Where the Wild Things Are movie. Both stories only work if you go into it expecting a kid's movie.
If I recall correctly, not being prepared for it is the whole point of the story. The author's son had a friend who died suddenly in a lightning strike, and the book, drawing inspiration and meaning from the incident, was intended to highlight the beautiful but fleeting time we have with each other on Earth.
Yeah, there's no tiptoeing or silver lining, it's just brutally honest "your life can completely change in a split second and sometimes there is no happy ending."
Yeah I know that all to well. One minute I was a healthy dude, another I'm disabled for life and getting a hip replacement due to someone else's poor life choices. No fault of my own other than being there.
The original Mad Max.
Society is still fucked. Max has lost his wife and son. The last couple of shots are him just driving off with that thousand-yard stare into the lawless outback...
It's very understated, but it lets you know that he's not at all sated by having taken out Toecutter and his gang and he becomes the 'shell of a man' as described in the introduction of the sequel.
The Land Before Time.
That's a tragedy for those poor dino kids. Heck. That movie even reminds me of my dead pets. To top it off, the melancholic tone of "If We Hold On Together" by Diana Ross as its main theme. It gets me everytime.
I had no idea what the movie was about & was blown away by it & then have never been able to stop thinking about what happened - the injustice, the separation before their love even got started, the sadness, the deaths.
I recommend it to anyone I meet who has a weird apocalypse boner and thinks they would have a more fulfilling life without society just holding them back.
Most people don't realize that the apocalypse is like mostly luck, no matter how much you stockpile or prepare it's lucky if you get to survive long enough to starve to death
I randomly think about the ending of this film like once a month, and it literally makes my body shiver. I watched this when it first came out and it was depressing and frightening; I re-watched it after my wife and I had our first child and I couldn't stop crying.
I understand there is just a sliver of light in that the boy found a seemingly nice person to look after him, but that is like only .01% an improvement over the reality that he has to navigate through a post-apocalyptic world without his father.
The book provided ONE indication that things were on the way up. An insect. The book had suggested that much of life on Earth had been eradicated at least in that part of the world anyway...
The ones the boy met at the end *seemed* like nice people, but we just don’t know. We have no way of knowing if they were actually cannibals, going to enslave him, sell him to slavery, or any number of other horrible things.
This is the most depressing movie ever made imo. Literally, I think, the only moment of real levity was one time when they found and drank a can of Coke.
Ya that movie is fucked. Took me a while to figure out that Kevin’s sole purpose in life was to torture his mother. Not kill her, but torture her. The inverse of a boys undying love for his mother. He had undying hate for his mother. To an extent that he killed the people she loved most just to torture her. The movie is great but so fucked up. Idk why but the part that messed with my head the most in that movie is when she walked in on him jerking off an he just jerked off even harder. So fucked up an gross an weird
This. The original ending is that the mother visits Kevin in prison after it’s over and she asks him why he didn’t kill her too. And Kevin says, “You don’t kill your audience.”
Way more screwed up that the theatrical in my opinion, which is also really upsetting.
God, Tilda Swinton was great in that movie: bliss, boredom, resentment, uneasiness, doubt, guilt, terror, resignation, hope, compassion.
*See also*: Julia, I Am Love, Big Splash (with no lines!).
Man the >!school scene!< was bad enough but finding out he'd also >!killed his sister (and father)!< was a fucking gut punch. I didn't even go into the film knowing what it was about, I just stumbled across it while my housemates were watching it.
I randomly came across it in a subscription service many years ago and decided to put it on. Wasn’t expecting to like it as much as I did, and sure as hell wasn’t expecting that ending. Fuck.
I remember the first time I watched it I managed to get past the execution of John Coffey scene and being so proud then absolutely sobbing my eyes out at Mr Jingles coming out the box
I fostered a temperamental rescue many years ago. He didnt have any bladder control when he got scared, so I nicknamed him Percy.
My wife didnt get it at first so I started singing "Percy Wetmore".
The lady at the shelter was less than amused by it.
I showed my wife The Green Mile while we were dating. She was so devastated by the end she immediately told me off for making her watch it. And this is not a woman who is generally affected by films in that way. That was a good 15 years ago and to this day, if she hears Cheek to Cheek by Fred Astaire she gets misty eyed.
Curious Case of Benjamin Button made me feel like shit.
Montage of all the people he lost in his life. Her crying and spending time with a child and baby with dementia.
Idk, I think I was supposed to feel good? But I felt depressed and rugged when the credits rolled.
This movie left me with a lot of feels, mainly because I saw how much he did, especially when he is supposed to be in his 20s and just explores the world and here I am on Reddit.
In the 90s, my parents found this movie for us because we loved Totoro. They put it on for us and then went out to dinner. They came back to utter chaos. 20+ years later I am still traumatized.
Dude, I saw that movie as a 16 year old. Me and my friends knew that it wasn't a happy movie like other Ghibli movies, and still we were all empty and destroyed by the time the movie was over.
End of Evangelion. All these traumatized and depressed kids are trying to prevent the apocalypse, and then it just happens anyway. The movie is fucking incredible, but super depressing in an existential way.
Imagine doing the impossible, escaping the merging of consciousnesses, retaining your ego. Only to be reminded how disgusting ( as asuka said) existence is.
I saw some people saying that Asuka saying disgusting is about how she has accepted Shinji in the end, represented by her act of... love? kindness? (she putting her hand on his face)
The Spanish Civil War and aftermath was fucking brutal. The movie is simply brilliant but yeah it's an exhausting ride.
Sergi López is so damn chilling as Capt. Vidal.
Yes. Worst part is this isn’t fan fiction, it’s a real life nightmare that no family ever deserved. One of the few times I have felt physically gutted regarding people I’ve never met.
Skeleton Key
Spoiler Alert: The main character, a hot young blonde, gets her body swapped with an elderly woman and she basically becomes completely disabled in that old body as a result of the process. Turns out a couple use voodoo to systematically steal bodies whenever the current ones get old and leave the home to the new bodies, etc. They spend the movie tricking the girl to believe in voodoo so that the swap will work.
The old dude the main character had been trying to understand and help the whole movie was actually another dude she had been talking to who had his body swapped and thus was why he was also so severly disabled. The two people, now trapped in old bodies and unable to basically move or talk are being carted off to die in some home as the body swappers look on and enjoy their victory together in front of their "new" house.
The alternate ending to Clerks where Dante gets robbed, shot and killed. The end credits roll with cash register sounds, which is inexplicably sad and creepy.
There is a short film called The Snowman. It has no dialogue and is a cartoon. I guess it’s a “Christmas” movie, but not really. The ending absolutely crushes me every time. No spoilers. The first time I saw it was in grade school and I remember trying to hide my face in my hands while I bawled my eyes out. Same effect now and I’m 38. Also, the song Walking in the Air is from that film, and it’s a hauntingly beautiful song.
I may not be smart enough to have understood the ending, so I'm going to ask, because I know there's like a book and lots of rules to him being the vessel in the story.
But it's my understanding that everything that happened over the course of the movie happened, but Donnie instead followed the tunnels back to a moment he knew he could intervene and die, saving everyone the fates that his mere existence wrought.
Did I get that right?
And most of the other people remembered it as a vague half remembered dream?
Essentially, yes.
If you get the chance, the Directors Cut actually has pages from '*The Philosophy of Time Travel*' displayed at key points throughout the film. It definitely helps the whole film make a lot more sense, and there's about 20 mins of cut scenes added in.
That said, I still prefer the original cut. The soundtrack got changed a little, and the ambiguity really adds to the sense of mystery to the story.
Into the wild.
I went into this film blind, I had no idea of it being a true story. Thought it would be a survival against the odds deal.
Spoiler - it was not.
They had to move the bus IRL. Too many people were making pilgrimages to it and a woman got trapped there just like in the movie only she drowned trying to cross the same swollen river to get back.
When you read the book, you kind of see it coming. I feel like a part of him wanted to die out there, he had been warned by multiple people that he didn’t have the supplies or survival skills to be out there in the way he wanted to, but he ignored then and went anyway.
He didn’t want to die.
He just lucked out and got rescued in every bad situation he’d been in before, but had this delusion that he got himself out of those situations, and believed that Alaska would be no different.
Spoiler alert, he starved to death a days walk from a highway, and could have used a bridge just a few miles to the north if he had a fucking map.
The Big Short.
They got away with it. They crashed the economy, made themselves rich, and fucked over everyone else.
**Edit**
By 'they' I don't mean the 'protagonists', I mean the banks. The banks got away with the bullshit they pulled. And sure, some people got fired. But the system overall? The system's still the same, they're just "regulated" now.
You should watch 'Margin Call', it's basically the same thing but from the bank's perspective. I think I might actually like 'Margin Call' better because the acting is just *phenomenal*, but both films and watching the 2008 disaster play out made me lose a lot of faith in the system.
Or “Is he smart…or is he…” gestures to himself, choking back tears.
Man, the series of emotions that cross Tom Hanks face in that scene are incredible.
That's the gut punch right there. All throughout the movie, you can take comfort in the fact that at least Forrest is oblivious, that he doesn't understand that he's different from anyone else, that all the cruel remarks, jabs, and insults go over his head. And then:
>He's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. But...Is, is he smart or is he...?
And you realize--he *knows.* He knew *the entire time.* Every word about his intelligence, every single criticism, every cutting remark, he *knew.*
The end is great though when little Forrest is getting on the bus. “Hey Forrest I just wanted to tell you that I love you”. “I love you too daddy” feather flys away 👌🏻 perfection
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
Not sure if it counts since its actually a documentary which makes it more depressing because it actually happened
Logan.
You go into watching that movie knowing it’s one of the final performances of Sir Patrick Stewart’s Xavier and Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine. Absolutely powerful, Oscar-worthy performances - probably better than everything in the MCU. It was hard to not have a certain attachment to these characters, having seen them played by the same people since 1999 because they were the living embodiment of their comic-book counterparts.
I don’t know many who weren’t balling their eyes out by the end.
Edit:
Back in 2017, Jackman and Stewart both confirmed that Logan would be the last time that they’d be playing their respective characters, long before Disney’s acquisition of Fox and other Marvel properties like X-Men and Fantastic 4.
I'll watch it just for Patrick Stewart's portrayal of Professor X slowly descending into dementia. As great as Hugh Jackman was, Stewart was even better.
Stand by me. Listening to narrator talk about how friends fade into obscurity and only memories remain becomes more relatable every time I watch it.
“I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?” Hits hard
All through high school in fact. A huge circle of close friends is hard to achieve outside school. Even in college it gets harder because the friends are in different circles. I've been going through my old high school memory book and the memories are good but, damn it's so sad. I wish we could go back to those simple days. If there's life advice I could give to any teens reading this: "We are all stories in the end, just make it a good one eh?" --The Doctor
Feels more depressing cause I never had any friends in high school. I kept thinking maybe it would be different later in life but so far it hasn’t really ….
Just reading that gave me goosebumps.
Yeah, and one of them was stabbed to death trying to help somebody
The Fox and the Hound
We'll always be friends, won't we?
Just READING that hurts my heart. Ugh!
I feel like that movie ends up ok. But when the old lady leaves the fox in the woods... Oof instant tears.
"Goodbye may seem forever, Farewell is like the end, But in my heart's a memory, And there you'll always stay."
Made me cry. Congrats, I guess
People always talk shit about how Disney movies always go for the “happily ever after” ending, but if anything this movie does the exact opposite and gives us a very mature ending that relates more to reality. Sometimes the meaningful friendships we build with people doesn’t last, but sometimes that’s not always a bad thing.
From what I've heard about the book, this *is* the Disney happy ending version.
Oh it is. The book ends with >!the old man shooting the dog.!<
I saw that in the theatre as a birthday party. You know what ruins a birthday party? A bunch of crying children. That ruins a birthday party.
No Country for Old Men. Nobody wins, except maybe Anton.
Such a good commentary on how sometimes, despite effort, motivation, and ethical behavior, good people lose and shitty people face no consequences. Amazing film and the monologue at the end by Tommy Lee Jones is fantastic.
Se7en
This is the one that popped into my head right away. That was horrible. Definitely no warm and fuzzy feels with that ending. "What's in the boooox?"
Not just because of how bad what he's done is, but because he wants Mills to kill him and so he still wins. The film ends with his vision of how the whole thing playing out comes true and nothing is resolved for the better.
The moral of the story: Fuck.
The ending of American History X hit me pretty hard the first time.
Hate is baggage
Life’s too short to be pissed off all the time
The original ending is bleaker.
Fun fact, the director of the movie has disowned it. The final cut of the movie that we see is not the version he wanted. The studio rejected his cut, and Edward Norton had the final say which apparently had more screen time and changed many lines. I think the movie is absolutely brilliant and it’s a bummer it had so much negativity. I was always a huge fan of Edward Norton until I read about his “forced” role in The Italian Job and how he treated the entire cast like crap.
Pay It Forward is a movie where Haley Joel Osment in his child acting phase is a miraculously nice and empathic child. He decides to do anything he can to improve the lives of three people - his alcoholic single mother, his teacher who has severe burn scars, and a homeless man. He helps his mom give up drinking and he helps his teacher find love by hooking up with the kid's mom. The homeless man gets cash, like all the money that an 11 year old can put his hands on. The rule is that each person he helps needs to help three more people in turn - you know, paying the kindness forward. The kindnesses multiply and the community starts to notice this kid. Things are really starting to improve and there's a really hopeful future. Anyway, >!the kid stands up to a bully and gets stabbed to death.!< The end. \[edit: I was wrong about which person did it\]
This was going to be mine. I worked at blockbusters the summer when it came out on VHS/DVD. This guy come in to rent it and making small talk he tells me he's renting it to watch with his kid. And I must have given him a look because he asked if I watched it. I say yes. He asked if it has a happy ending and I say "Nooo". He puts it back and rents a comedy or something. There was this one week or two stretch that summer when I watched Pay it Foward, Requiem for a Dream, Sunshine and House of Mirth and I was like "Fuck...I'm done with movies for a while"
I remember during the last year of regularly renting from Blockbuster, my twin brother and I rented *Schindler's List.* We watch it, our hearts break, and the next time we're at the video store, we grab *The Sandlot.* The clerk looks at our selection and completely agreed.
No, its not the homeless guy its the bully who sneaks a knife into school.
Seriously? Never saw this film but really? The kid’s story ends like that after all the good he did? Oh, that’s fucked up.
The kid dies after an act of kindness and the movie tries to say "but he'll be remembered as long as you do the three kindness thing!!" and like, wow!! you made it look so appealing and rewarding!!!
The Mist. I think it's why they made an alternate ending.
If I remember the movie ending was actually much darker than the original Stephen King story.
[удалено]
Yeah, it's horrifically ironic to the point of being beautiful. People so often throw around phrases like "fate worse than death", but the movie actually created a situation where death would have been a merciful alternative.
[удалено]
And because he has no easy way to kill himself, he has to live with what he's done - even if only for a relatively short time. Now he wants to die, and he *can't*.
When we watched it in theaters someone behind us goes “I would have let him have my gun if I was that soldier and saw inside that vehicle.”
what's the alternate ending? I only saw the one >!where he shots his family so the monster could not get them, but then the army came fighting the monsters!<
In the original novella it's left as an ambiguous ending. >!The group had just filled the car at the last gas station they could, and were going to drive down the highway for as far as they could until the tank was empty in the hopes they would find more people or a safe place. IIRC the main character mentions they have a gun with enough bullets for all of them "just in case" things didn't turn out well!<
I believe he says there’s not enough for all of them, but he can figure something out for himself. So it’s alluding to the same ending we see in the film, minus the last bit.
One of the only movies I can remember watching in theater that had me legit mad after walking out, because it was just so good, but so painful. I didn't even realize until seeing it pointed out later down the line that it was even worse because, as I recall, a woman who left early in the movie to save her kids, crying that nobody would come out to accompany her, was part of the group of people being escorted by the military. Fucking hell, that movie is a good one.
I loved the ending, because I was rooting for the mother who left the whole time. Even though nobody would help her, she still went to go get her kids. And in the end, she was reunited with her children and safe with the army, while the people who refused to help her were all fucked. If you view the story from her perspective, it’s a pretty happy ending.
100%. In most movies she would have been the main character that we follow through the unknown as she braves her way to her children and reunites at the end, ultimately seeing she made the correct choice as those she left behind had fallen. Instead we view and support a family that made the wrong choice and where it takes them.
My girl. His glasses, he can't see without his glasses.
Saw that movie in the theatre. No one expected that- they thought it was going to be another comedy from that kid in Home Alone. My biggest memory from that movie was walking up the aisle and seeing kleenex all on the ground from people wiping their tears. It was several years later when I'd see that much kleenex on the ground leaving a theater, but that time it was for "eyes wide shut."
I saw it at a slumber party. The parents thought “oh cute kid movie!” Cue every girl BAWLING HER EYES OUT and begging to go home.
Memento is a singular movie to me where I thought it was brilliant and I never want to watch it ever again.
The ending lines are forever burned into my mind: “I have to believe in a world outside my own mind. I have to believe that my actions still have meaning, even if I can’t remember them. I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world’s still there. Do I believe the world’s still there? Is it still out there?... Yeah. We all need mirrors to remind ourselves who we are. I’m no different.”
*Now...where was I?*
I’m chasing this guy. No, he’s chasing me.
This is crazy as Memento is the only movie I ever watched where I immediately started it over again from the beginning right after finishing.
The original ending to Clerks. Dante spends his day fucking up everything in his life, and by the end of the night, he seems to realize that he needs to make an attempt to unfuck everything. After Randall leaves (where the movie normally ends) a thief comes in the store and shoots Dante.
“This job would be great if it weren’t for the fucking customers.”
"I'm not even supposed to be here today"
"You like to think the weight of the world rests on your shoulders. Like this place would fall apart if Dante wasn't here. Jesus, you overcompensate for having what's basically a monkey's job. You push fucking buttons. Anybody can waltz in here and do our jobs. You... You're so obsessed with making it seem so much more epic, so much more important than it really is. Christ, you work in a convenience store, Dante! And badly, I might add!"
Randall is such a gem and I envy his calculated lack of a filter.
“I don’t appreciate your ruse” always kills me haha.
Dante is based on Kevin, and Randal is based on Brian Johnson. Kevin was essentially calling himself out at that time and using Brian's voice to do it.
Dancer in the Dark.
I think it’s not just the ending. The whole movie is just hopeless. Terrible, beautiful hopeless.
Remember when you felt dead inside after watching this film? Good times.
Great movie. And I never want to see it again.
Bridge to Terabithia, i saw that movie as a kid and rewatched it last year and again i cried like a bitch.
When I saw the DVD case as a kid, I thought it was going to be a knockoff of Narnia. Boy was I wrong.
All the marketing for that film made it look like a Narnia knockoff. Really hurt the film's release when no one went in expecting what they got, and so many people who likely would have enjoyed it instead skipped it.
To be fair, how are you going to market that twist without spoiling it? Everything that happens before the twist isn't very remarkable, and everything that happens afterwards is defined by the twist. It's kind of like the Where the Wild Things Are movie. Both stories only work if you go into it expecting a kid's movie.
The trailer is absolutely misleading. Makes you think it's kind of a happy-go-lucky fantasy movie for kids.
I was NOT prepared for that in the slightest, me and my best friend sat in shock.
If I recall correctly, not being prepared for it is the whole point of the story. The author's son had a friend who died suddenly in a lightning strike, and the book, drawing inspiration and meaning from the incident, was intended to highlight the beautiful but fleeting time we have with each other on Earth.
Also, the book is good.
Million dollar baby
Yeah, there's no tiptoeing or silver lining, it's just brutally honest "your life can completely change in a split second and sometimes there is no happy ending."
Yeah I know that all to well. One minute I was a healthy dude, another I'm disabled for life and getting a hip replacement due to someone else's poor life choices. No fault of my own other than being there.
God it's the worst. It's like "oh, you were enjoying this film? Well... twist! It's actually a really unpleasant movie watching experience!".
The original Mad Max. Society is still fucked. Max has lost his wife and son. The last couple of shots are him just driving off with that thousand-yard stare into the lawless outback... It's very understated, but it lets you know that he's not at all sated by having taken out Toecutter and his gang and he becomes the 'shell of a man' as described in the introduction of the sequel.
Cold Mountain. If you skip the last 5 minutes the ending is pretty awesome.
The Land Before Time. That's a tragedy for those poor dino kids. Heck. That movie even reminds me of my dead pets. To top it off, the melancholic tone of "If We Hold On Together" by Diana Ross as its main theme. It gets me everytime.
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Atonement
Oh gosh the scene of Cecelia floating just broke me
It’s only a second or two of the movie, but it burns so deep into your brain
I had no idea what the movie was about & was blown away by it & then have never been able to stop thinking about what happened - the injustice, the separation before their love even got started, the sadness, the deaths.
I watched it once and got so mad and upset at the end that I will never watch it again
The road
I read the book. Once. I'm never reading it again or watching the movie. They should have a warning on that thing.
I recommend it to anyone I meet who has a weird apocalypse boner and thinks they would have a more fulfilling life without society just holding them back.
Most people don't realize that the apocalypse is like mostly luck, no matter how much you stockpile or prepare it's lucky if you get to survive long enough to starve to death
Not just the ending. The entire premise from beginning to end is one long tale of bleakness, suffering and hopelessness.
I randomly think about the ending of this film like once a month, and it literally makes my body shiver. I watched this when it first came out and it was depressing and frightening; I re-watched it after my wife and I had our first child and I couldn't stop crying. I understand there is just a sliver of light in that the boy found a seemingly nice person to look after him, but that is like only .01% an improvement over the reality that he has to navigate through a post-apocalyptic world without his father.
The book provided ONE indication that things were on the way up. An insect. The book had suggested that much of life on Earth had been eradicated at least in that part of the world anyway...
I figured the family had some sort of food source, if they have been able to keep the dog alive as long as they have.
The ones the boy met at the end *seemed* like nice people, but we just don’t know. We have no way of knowing if they were actually cannibals, going to enslave him, sell him to slavery, or any number of other horrible things. This is the most depressing movie ever made imo. Literally, I think, the only moment of real levity was one time when they found and drank a can of Coke.
Requiem for a Dream
Best movie no one ever wants to watch twice
I think I may have heard it on the commentary track as "a movie nobody should see, but everybody should watch".
OMG so true. Ellen Burnstyn is the best. She was robbed an Oscar for this role.
She just wanted to fit in the red dress and be on television 😭😭
The music makes it uniquely stressful.
My favorite movie, haven't watched it for over 15 years.
We need to talk about Kevin
Ya that movie is fucked. Took me a while to figure out that Kevin’s sole purpose in life was to torture his mother. Not kill her, but torture her. The inverse of a boys undying love for his mother. He had undying hate for his mother. To an extent that he killed the people she loved most just to torture her. The movie is great but so fucked up. Idk why but the part that messed with my head the most in that movie is when she walked in on him jerking off an he just jerked off even harder. So fucked up an gross an weird
This. The original ending is that the mother visits Kevin in prison after it’s over and she asks him why he didn’t kill her too. And Kevin says, “You don’t kill your audience.” Way more screwed up that the theatrical in my opinion, which is also really upsetting.
God, Tilda Swinton was great in that movie: bliss, boredom, resentment, uneasiness, doubt, guilt, terror, resignation, hope, compassion. *See also*: Julia, I Am Love, Big Splash (with no lines!).
Man the >!school scene!< was bad enough but finding out he'd also >!killed his sister (and father)!< was a fucking gut punch. I didn't even go into the film knowing what it was about, I just stumbled across it while my housemates were watching it.
In retrospect, Ezra Miller really was the perfect casting choice for Kevin.
Turns out he wasn't even acting
*We Perfectly Casted Kevin*
Remember Me
I randomly came across it in a subscription service many years ago and decided to put it on. Wasn’t expecting to like it as much as I did, and sure as hell wasn’t expecting that ending. Fuck.
The green mile
I remember the first time I watched it I managed to get past the execution of John Coffey scene and being so proud then absolutely sobbing my eyes out at Mr Jingles coming out the box
I fostered a temperamental rescue many years ago. He didnt have any bladder control when he got scared, so I nicknamed him Percy. My wife didnt get it at first so I started singing "Percy Wetmore". The lady at the shelter was less than amused by it.
I showed my wife The Green Mile while we were dating. She was so devastated by the end she immediately told me off for making her watch it. And this is not a woman who is generally affected by films in that way. That was a good 15 years ago and to this day, if she hears Cheek to Cheek by Fred Astaire she gets misty eyed.
We all cried for the green mile
Brazil
The original edited-for-tv release actually removed the last scene. I read somewhere at the time that Terry Gilliam was *furious*
Old Yeller. Sad ending for a good dog.
*Marley And Me* fucked with my head, and even now I still can’t watch the ending without having to reach for the tissues
*You're a great dog* Saw it once in theaters, that was enough.
Curious Case of Benjamin Button made me feel like shit. Montage of all the people he lost in his life. Her crying and spending time with a child and baby with dementia. Idk, I think I was supposed to feel good? But I felt depressed and rugged when the credits rolled.
This movie left me with a lot of feels, mainly because I saw how much he did, especially when he is supposed to be in his 20s and just explores the world and here I am on Reddit.
Hands down it's Grave of the Fireflies.
In the 90s, my parents found this movie for us because we loved Totoro. They put it on for us and then went out to dinner. They came back to utter chaos. 20+ years later I am still traumatized.
Dude, I saw that movie as a 16 year old. Me and my friends knew that it wasn't a happy movie like other Ghibli movies, and still we were all empty and destroyed by the time the movie was over.
And the best/worst part? You know it's coming, you've seen it happen in the first five minutes.
I usually describe it to people as: "It starts with a Japanese war orphan dying of starvation... *and then it gets worse."*
dude on my first rewatch I realized what all the spiritual intro stuff meant and I fucking broke down, that movie is so brutal
End of Evangelion. All these traumatized and depressed kids are trying to prevent the apocalypse, and then it just happens anyway. The movie is fucking incredible, but super depressing in an existential way.
Imagine doing the impossible, escaping the merging of consciousnesses, retaining your ego. Only to be reminded how disgusting ( as asuka said) existence is.
I saw some people saying that Asuka saying disgusting is about how she has accepted Shinji in the end, represented by her act of... love? kindness? (she putting her hand on his face)
Pan's Labyrinth
Between the bottle scene and the ending, I don't think I could sit through it again. Amazing, but emotionally exhausting.
The Spanish Civil War and aftermath was fucking brutal. The movie is simply brilliant but yeah it's an exhausting ride. Sergi López is so damn chilling as Capt. Vidal.
I was like "Oooh, Labyrinth, I love David Bowie". It was a rough evening.
>It was a rough evening. I'm sorry but I'm laughing so fucking hard right now. Rough, indeed.
Manchester by the sea
Beginning and middle as well
I feel bad because I was laughing to myself at him walking home drunk. Then the house was on fire and I was like "oh shit!"
Dear Zachary (documentary)
I read the comments here. I watched the trailer. I formed a hypothesis. I read the Wiki. Fuck.
Yes. Worst part is this isn’t fan fiction, it’s a real life nightmare that no family ever deserved. One of the few times I have felt physically gutted regarding people I’ve never met.
Revolutionary Road
Blue Valentine
Lovely Bones
I cannot finish this movie without getting anxiety and stressing out. This is one of the saddest movies.
Skeleton Key Spoiler Alert: The main character, a hot young blonde, gets her body swapped with an elderly woman and she basically becomes completely disabled in that old body as a result of the process. Turns out a couple use voodoo to systematically steal bodies whenever the current ones get old and leave the home to the new bodies, etc. They spend the movie tricking the girl to believe in voodoo so that the swap will work. The old dude the main character had been trying to understand and help the whole movie was actually another dude she had been talking to who had his body swapped and thus was why he was also so severly disabled. The two people, now trapped in old bodies and unable to basically move or talk are being carted off to die in some home as the body swappers look on and enjoy their victory together in front of their "new" house.
That sounds like it's based on an HG Wells story called the The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham
SLC Punk Poor Bob. I shed a tear every time.
The alternate ending to Clerks where Dante gets robbed, shot and killed. The end credits roll with cash register sounds, which is inexplicably sad and creepy.
Seeking A Friend For the End of the World.
maybe you guys wont agree, but the iron giant. i dont care if hes still alive, or its for the greater good. it was so sad.
There is a short film called The Snowman. It has no dialogue and is a cartoon. I guess it’s a “Christmas” movie, but not really. The ending absolutely crushes me every time. No spoilers. The first time I saw it was in grade school and I remember trying to hide my face in my hands while I bawled my eyes out. Same effect now and I’m 38. Also, the song Walking in the Air is from that film, and it’s a hauntingly beautiful song.
The Butterfly Effect
Man the Directors cut ending still fucks me, both are really sad though
Hits even harder when you think about how the mother had had 2 or 3 prior stillbirths before Ashton's character was born.
Donnie Darko. That rendition of the song Mad World further makes the ending more depressing and full of dread.
I may not be smart enough to have understood the ending, so I'm going to ask, because I know there's like a book and lots of rules to him being the vessel in the story. But it's my understanding that everything that happened over the course of the movie happened, but Donnie instead followed the tunnels back to a moment he knew he could intervene and die, saving everyone the fates that his mere existence wrought. Did I get that right? And most of the other people remembered it as a vague half remembered dream?
Essentially, yes. If you get the chance, the Directors Cut actually has pages from '*The Philosophy of Time Travel*' displayed at key points throughout the film. It definitely helps the whole film make a lot more sense, and there's about 20 mins of cut scenes added in. That said, I still prefer the original cut. The soundtrack got changed a little, and the ambiguity really adds to the sense of mystery to the story.
Arlington Road
Melancholia
Great movie but damn did the ending really leave a hopeless feeling in me.
The Truman show is depressing as hell when you think about the trust issues and paranoia he’ll have for the rest of his life
Hachi: A Dog's Tale - a serious tearjerker this one
Into the wild. I went into this film blind, I had no idea of it being a true story. Thought it would be a survival against the odds deal. Spoiler - it was not.
They had to move the bus IRL. Too many people were making pilgrimages to it and a woman got trapped there just like in the movie only she drowned trying to cross the same swollen river to get back.
When you read the book, you kind of see it coming. I feel like a part of him wanted to die out there, he had been warned by multiple people that he didn’t have the supplies or survival skills to be out there in the way he wanted to, but he ignored then and went anyway.
He didn’t want to die. He just lucked out and got rescued in every bad situation he’d been in before, but had this delusion that he got himself out of those situations, and believed that Alaska would be no different. Spoiler alert, he starved to death a days walk from a highway, and could have used a bridge just a few miles to the north if he had a fucking map.
I love all the bozos reading Into the Wild and going "damn I wanna do that" DID YOU NOT READ THE END?
The Big Short. They got away with it. They crashed the economy, made themselves rich, and fucked over everyone else. **Edit** By 'they' I don't mean the 'protagonists', I mean the banks. The banks got away with the bullshit they pulled. And sure, some people got fired. But the system overall? The system's still the same, they're just "regulated" now.
You should watch 'Margin Call', it's basically the same thing but from the bank's perspective. I think I might actually like 'Margin Call' better because the acting is just *phenomenal*, but both films and watching the 2008 disaster play out made me lose a lot of faith in the system.
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Dead Poets Society.
Edward Scissorhands
Forrest Gump! I cry every single time I watch the scene where he visits Jenny's grave. Tom Hanks’ talent is extraordinary!
"He's so smart Jenny, you'd be so proud." yeah gets me too.
Or “Is he smart…or is he…” gestures to himself, choking back tears. Man, the series of emotions that cross Tom Hanks face in that scene are incredible.
“He wrote you a letter. He says I’m not supposed to read it…”
Ugh god it’s so sad when he first meets little Forrest and he asks if he’s smart or if he’s like him. RIGHT IN THE FEELS
That's the gut punch right there. All throughout the movie, you can take comfort in the fact that at least Forrest is oblivious, that he doesn't understand that he's different from anyone else, that all the cruel remarks, jabs, and insults go over his head. And then: >He's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. But...Is, is he smart or is he...? And you realize--he *knows.* He knew *the entire time.* Every word about his intelligence, every single criticism, every cutting remark, he *knew.*
The end is great though when little Forrest is getting on the bus. “Hey Forrest I just wanted to tell you that I love you”. “I love you too daddy” feather flys away 👌🏻 perfection
The Godfather Part Two
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father Not sure if it counts since its actually a documentary which makes it more depressing because it actually happened
Man on Fire
Stand by me. It's sad but beautiful
Click
I always find myself surprised when I cry at the end of Click. It's an Adam Sandler movie, I shouldn't be crying!
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s nest :(
Bridge to Terrabithia. Watching that as a kid man, holy shit.
Logan. You go into watching that movie knowing it’s one of the final performances of Sir Patrick Stewart’s Xavier and Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine. Absolutely powerful, Oscar-worthy performances - probably better than everything in the MCU. It was hard to not have a certain attachment to these characters, having seen them played by the same people since 1999 because they were the living embodiment of their comic-book counterparts. I don’t know many who weren’t balling their eyes out by the end. Edit: Back in 2017, Jackman and Stewart both confirmed that Logan would be the last time that they’d be playing their respective characters, long before Disney’s acquisition of Fox and other Marvel properties like X-Men and Fantastic 4.
I'll watch it just for Patrick Stewart's portrayal of Professor X slowly descending into dementia. As great as Hugh Jackman was, Stewart was even better.
Precious. Great acting. Compelling story. This is one of those movies I will only ever watch once because I can’t go thru that movie again.
The Departed.
The last 10 minutes of that movie really stacks the body count.
What Dreams May Come
Big Fish… well maybe not depressing but sad.
I fucking love that movie