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 Probably the darkest thing Quaid ever did. After committing a monstrous hate crime, our hero travels to the Balkans and has ethnic cleansing adventures! I don't think I've ever seen constant, oppressive desperation rendered so well.
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I found Moon deeply depressing not just because of the main character's plight, but also the computer couldn't do anything to help him and the goddamn sad face emoticons just loving killed me. The Fall is a completely gorgeous movie. I don't even like kids in movies but I loved this film right until the end when it broke my heart and shattered the fantasy. Lee Pace can go gently caress himself for that amazing performance.
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Apr 20, 2015 18:29
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The Messenger. A movie about two soldiers that are tasked with telling people back home that their loved ones died in action in Iraq. Having been over there and seeing how its handled by some people it really got to me. Schindler's List for obvious reasons.
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Apr 20, 2015 18:40
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Christiane F. Heroin. Teenage prostitution. More heroin. Germans. Z In the aftermath of the assassination of a popular left-wing politician, a magistrate defies the odds and brings those responsible to justice. Then they stage a coup and throw him in prison. Midnight Cowboy Dim-bulb shitkicker Joe Buck moves to New York to become a gigolo and, man, does he not do that well.
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Apr 20, 2015 19:59
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The Divide paints a really bleak picture of how people trapped in a shelter during the apocalypse might act toward each other once there's no more bullshit left between them. It (realistically) gives very few answers to what happened, and is just really mean to its characters. It drags a bit in the middle and could've been 20 minutes shorter, but Michael Biehn is great at portraying a bitter misanthrope, Milo Ventimiglia is a surprisingly good villain, and the finale scene is really haunting.
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 This movie made me super duper sad. ElGroucho has a new favorite as of 18:07 on Apr 21, 2015 |
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Apr 20, 2015 22:17
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Ambitious Spider posted:
This and Pan's Labyrinth. Spanish drama-horror is so super depressing and beautiful. Lore is excellent as well.
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Apr 20, 2015 23:20
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Basebf555 posted:I Saw the Devil will also make you lose faith in humanity. Don't watch it thinking youre going to get any "gently caress yea!", typical revenge flick moments. It builds up those expectations and then shits all over them. Holy crap this. Great movie, but I felt horrible the entire time watching it. It just takes one giant vile poo poo after another straight into your brain. In a similar vein, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance is probably the worst of the three Vengeance movies in this regard.
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  Maybe my favorite Keanu Reeves performance. Plus it has Crispin Glover AND Dennis Hopper both in crazy mode so there are some funny moments but it's grim.  Fantastic movie. The very first scene has Jason Patric's character on a foot chase after a suspect and his partner is killed by the suspect with a hypodermic needle to the neck. Then he catches up to the suspect who uses a child as a human shield. He shoots the suspect but accidentally shoots the child's pregnant mother. Spoilered scene: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2xfrmlcIQf4. Doesn't really spoil the movie in any way as its the first scene. Then he gets involved in an investigation about the murder of another detective and there are no happy endings. Cat Hassler has a new favorite as of 03:59 on Apr 21, 2015 |
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Apr 21, 2015 02:47
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Keith Atherton posted:
Oh man, yeah. For those not familiar with it, this movie is about a bunch of high school students trying to decide whether or not to turn their friend in for murdering his girlfriend, but none of them seem to really care that he did it.
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Apr 21, 2015 03:31
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Der Untergang is pretty depressing. Those kids 
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Apr 22, 2015 19:12
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Documentaries are the only things that can really depress me. Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills is well known on this forum. But there is another that I haven't seen mentioned before: The Act of Killing.  "A documentary which challenges former Indonesian death-squad leaders to reenact their mass-killings in whichever cinematic genres they wish, including classic Hollywood crime scenarios and lavish musical numbers." For an idea of it's impact, well, read the IMDB reviews.
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Apr 28, 2015 14:52
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One of the only things that ever made an impression on me in high school Spanish class is this heartbreaking movie, El Norte.
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Apr 29, 2015 06:23
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The Day the Clown Cried never fails to bum me out.
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Apr 29, 2015 07:48
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In A Glass Cage. It's a movie about a Nazi war criminal kept alive in an iron lung. He hires a new nurse to take care of him, and...well. Here's the (maybe slightly  ) trailer:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l09AIbYPWLQ
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Apr 29, 2015 08:40
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SEX HAVER 40000 posted:In A Glass Cage. That trailer was amazing, but told me absolutely nothing about the movie. It did make me want to see it, but that might just be because I love weird 80s movies with synth scores. Edit:  Princess is a disturbing (mostly) animated film about a priest who is left in charge of a young girl after his sister (the girl's mother and a porn star) dies; his attempts to have his late sister's work pulled from the shelf quickly escalates and becomes violent. GIANT OUIJA BOARD has a new favorite as of 10:15 on Apr 29, 2015 |
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Seconding The Act of Killing. Imagine if the Nazis had won WWII and random low level SS members just walked around totally proud of the stuff they did during the war and were open about talking about it. Basically, the film interviews guys (who were and are just common criminals) who were part of right-wing death squads in Indonesia killing communists (or anyone suspected of being a communist) in the 1960s. The filmmaker also gets them to reinact things they did in the style of different kids of movie genres and the results are extremely weird and hosed up. It's pretty much a character study in different kinds of sociopaths - there's a bid dumb guy, a weaselly politically minded guy, and this guy that will not stop loving bragging about strangling people. The most depressing scenes are a rally of the biggest right wing youth group in Indonesia today and also when the guys reinact burning a "communist" village and raping/killing people, except you can tell the actors (who are random villagers they are paying) are completely freaked out and don't really get it is a movie. And of course the ending, where you think one of the guys kind of gets that he is a bad person, but then immediately represses it and goes back to normal. OMG BYZANTIUM has a new favorite as of 12:47 on Apr 29, 2015 |
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Apr 29, 2015 12:43
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Broshevik posted:This movie hosed me up for awhile and I'll probably not watch it again. What really makes it hosed up is how the reversed chronology leaves you watching the final scenes where everything's pretty OK and you just know it's not going to be.
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Apr 29, 2015 12:54
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Dancer In the Dark starring Bjork hosed me up for days. Everyone I watched it with was crying by the end. Good movie, but so incredibly sad.
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Apr 29, 2015 13:23
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I can't think of too many Lars von Trier movies that have happy endings. Except maybe Nymphomaniac I & II. 
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One Swell Foop posted:Shake Hands With The Devil, the true story of the UN General who was ordered not to intervene during the Rwandan genocide. Just googling that it looks like there are a couple of movies by that name about that topic. Which one were you talking about?
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Apr 29, 2015 14:38
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The one starring Roy Dupuis. I think there are a couple of movies with that title because it's also the title of the book Gen. Romeo Dallaire wrote after his attempted suicide. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shake_Hands_with_the_Devil_%282007_film%29
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Seeking a Friend for the End of the World Not necessarily the best of movies but not the worst either. Includes a giant meteor about to strike earth and two people helping each other along the way only to find what they really need within each other. Spoiler! everyone dies, but our protagonists die in bed staring into each other's eyes
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SEX HAVER 40000 posted:In A Glass Cage. Just read the synopsis, no thank you. Sounds more horrible than depressing.
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Apr 29, 2015 18:19
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GIANT OUIJA BOARD posted:That trailer was amazing, but told me absolutely nothing about the movie. It did make me want to see it, but that might just be because I love weird 80s movies with synth scores. Loose summary: The nurse was a former victim of the Nazi; they'd had a torturous sadomasochistic relationship. As they're reunited they continue the Nazi's perverse Mengele-like "experiments" while the nurse murders and/or dominates his charge's family members. It's bizarre and beautifully shot.
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SEX HAVER 40000 posted:Loose summary: The nurse was a former victim of the Nazi; they'd had a torturous sadomasochistic relationship. As they're reunited they continue the Nazi's perverse Mengele-like "experiments" while the nurse murders and/or dominates his charge's family members. It's bizarre and beautifully shot. So it's like a trippy version of The Night Porter? I have to see that.
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