Are there any great films that you'd never watch again because of how depressing/intense they are?

I'll always watch it every time I trip over it. One of my favorite films. An intellectual film about the fragmentation of the American Left and how it affected two people. Then he ties in a love story that is so affecting (to me) that I always sob at the end.
And you get a wonderful but brief Nicholson performance.
I'll never forget seeing it in the theater. The girl I was seeing fell asleep, I was on the edge of my seat and teary at the end.

 

This.

But I would still recommend it to anyone; cinema-file or casual view alike.

 

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Delores Claiborne, Dolores Claiborne - Wikipedia , I watched it once with my mom, she kept saying how can a man get into a woman's head like that?? I can remember just about every scene and line from the movie, then at the end it disturbed me so deeply what Delores did for her former(?) employer/friend and then her daughter on the ferry with her father...

I don't think I've ever been so emotionally exhausted after watching a film before, to this day I hear "Six pins Delores, you know I like six pins on those sheets" every time I do the laundry in my twisted mind

I hope to be able to watch it again someday, it brings up so many bad things from my own past. I highly recommend it to others as one of the finest films made from a book, once was enough for me at this point.

 

Saving Private Ryan
Unforgiven

 

Sixth Sense. Other than the ending the film is pretty awful. Once is all you need!

 

Iron Weed.

 

I will make a concerted effort to man up and watch it this year.

 

Yes, I've had moments like that, too. Nothing can be the same after those moments.

I remember watching Reds one night in 1997 when a tickertape news announcement came across the bottom of the screen: Princess Dian involved in a 'serious' car crash in Paris. Then the people I was with demanded to switch the channel to watch the news.

 

I was by myself, driving around, nothing to do. Bored, saw theater with Casualties of War, figured that it would be another Vietnam War war movie like Platoon or Full Metal Jacket. I was way off on that one. It was in the middle of the afternoon and the theater was mostly empty. I was more shocked by this movie (and the one I quoted below), than any other movies in recent memory.

Being sixty three and growing up since childhood, through the age of eighteen, through the protests of the sixties and seventies, we all more than saturated with the horrors of the never ending "Vietnam Conflict". Endless "war stories" from vets sent home, no pretty memories.

The country side seemed so familiar to me, the girl too. I had a young friend from Thailand that reminded me too much of the girl in this movie. I was to later find out, that they filmed the movie in the jungles of Northern Thailand, where I had been with my young Thai friend.

The movie was way too close for me. In addition to shocking, in and of itself. Sean Penn and Matthew Broderick played the leads.

Saw this at a US premier at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival many years back. A violent and thoroughly shocking film. Seeing a film like that on a large cinema screen, makes it that much more, in your face and hard to watch.

Here is a link to The Florida Project. It is available for purchase on disk or as a download. Prime members can stream it for free.

I believe that it is a movie, worth watching. This is another movie that is too close to home, in more ways than one.

Since many members have Amazon Prime, it is certainly worth a free watch. Any feedback by forum members is welcome and appreciated, either in this thread or by PM.

Thank You!

F.Y.I. The young star of the movie Brooklynn Prince, won a critic's choice award for her performance in this locally made movie. She was locally casted for her role as Moony.



There are some other fine YouTube videos with behind the scenes shots and interviews with the director and cast. Which, since we have been speaking of Platoon, I want to add that the movie was sot in and around Orlando, in the Kissimmee area at a real motel, with Willem Dafoe playing the Motel Manager.

In real life, for those who may not know me, I am the Manager of a small sixty year old motel, also located in a tourist area, on the beach area, of Fort Lauderdale.

Like Willem Dafoe's character, I, on occasions, have young children staying with single parents, who stay on our property.

Last year, and the year before that, I used to watch four elementary school age children from three different single parent households.

I have a story that needs to be told, that is ten times the magnitude of The Florida Project. The difference is, it is all real, very unsettling, involves child protective services, false anonymous accusations, the intervention of the legal system, both in Florida and in the Detroit area of Michigan, much to the detriment of a totally kind and innocent seven year old girl.

Which, is me explaining my interest in your reactions to the Florida Project.

Thank You.

S&G

 

As has been mentioned in other posts, Schindler's List . When it was first shown on TV in the UK, I felt that it was important that I should watch it but I don't think I could ever sit through it again.

 

The Hunger, directed by Steve McQueen. (The other one). It's about the '80s IRA hunger strikers, and is brutal and intense.

 

probably will not watch the Apu trilogy again. Poor Apu! It is quite excellent and beautiful cinematography and an amazing debut fyi.

 

I Spit On Your Grave

 

This was filmed locally to where I grew up (before I was born). Most all of the blast furnaces seen in the movie have since been knocked down.

Anyway, it is depressing (to me, in a "depression porn" kinda way), but it was also made in an area that I know like the back of my hand, so I've spent as much time going "hey, that's Mingo and Weirton" as I did going "don't do it, Nicky."

We also know now that a lot of it was creative license/liberties, and didn't necessarily reflect anything that actually happened. For my money, the Russian roulette scenes are pure cheese at this point.

 

Great reflection. I have to disagree about the Russian roulette scenes. I think they are among the most intense in 70s cinema.

 

Is this considered a great film?

 

Great amounts of cheese, yes!

 

Requiem for a Dream is often mentioned, but I didn't find it too disturbing. That's because I didn't find any of the characters likeable, so I didn't care one fig about them. I only watched it because of Jennifer Connelly. Other than her I would've ignored.

 

We watched it last night (our "Halloween movie"!). It was the first time since I had seen it upon release, and I really didn't regret it, even though I understand your feeling about it. It takes its time, and the scary music and weird camera lenses and angles come into play quite late, when the tenant actually turns crazy from "landlord paranoia", coupled with maybe something else.

 

Catch-22 maybe just because it depressed the hell out of me how little has changed. The Milo Minderbinders of the world have won and everyone works for Milo. Great movie but a little too prescient?

 

Schindlers List
Sophie's Choice
In The Land of Blood and Honey

 

Any movie where the dog dies.

 

Not a pocket full of miracles.