I just remembered another one. Mother Night. Great flick, but not at all a happy ending. Nick Nolte's best role.
8mm was awful, i was ashamed i was human afterwards.. saving private ryan...the part where the jewish guy is in the act of getting stabbed for about 10 min...awful.... requiem for a dream however, is the most beautiful movie i have ever seen...start to finish... magnolia...pretty sad...over all... dude wheres my car....very sad as well..
Gallipoli Pay It Forward was a heart-breaker. I guess I'm just a Hollywood-sucker because I thought Saving Private Ryan was one of the most powerful movies ever made. Schindler's List is beyond dis-spiriting... whatever that would be.
The beach landing in Saving Private Ryan was just brutal for me to watch. Schindler's List and The Killing Fields are pretty rough. Vanilla Sky was pretty unpleasant in a why on Earth did I pay to see this kind of way.
Yeah...NOT a first date film. BTW...has anybody noticed the escalators with Schlinder written across the grate? Too bad they don't make elevators. Then they could be Schindler's Lift. LOL...hee hee...sarcasm...ahem.
Yea, that is a good one. Thanks for reminding me about it, Behad. Mrs. JB, I had read that the end of the novel for "A Clockwork Orange" was different than the ending of the movie. It would have been interesting to see both end the same way...oh well. Maybe I have been desensitized over the years, but I never really had issues with "A Clockwork Orange". However, I feel that I am probably not your normal person when it comes to those types of movies, and to see that type of violence back then was probably shocking and dis-spriting to many people. I read that a year after or so of showing this movie, Kubrick had it yanked from the screens and would not show it while he was alive thanks to lots of gang beatings that happened after the movie. He received death threats and the British press was brutal on him, blaming the movie for the gang attacks. Good call on "Deliverance", Kilgore.
The Thin Red Line almost made me want to stop going to the movies, but that was just because it SUCKED.
The first half of Sleepers is about as dis-spiriting a movie as they come. It sort of ends on a happier note, but the movie is pretty depressing overall.
Mrs. Behad wants everyone to know she has never cried so much during a movie as when she saw Kramer vs. Kramer. And I agree...sad, sad movie.
It's been a long time since I've seen it, but Gallipoli was deeply disturbing. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the movie, it tells the story of two Australian soldiers who participated in the Allied landings in Turkey (Gallipoli) in 1915. The landings were a disaster for the Anzac (Australia and New Zealand) forces, who lost 8,000 men in one day. The battle lead to the establishment of Anzac Day, which is Australia and New Zealand's version of Memorial Day. The disasterous campaign (I think there were about 250,000 casaulties (dead, wounded, disease) on both the Allied and Turkish sides) also lead to a court of inquiry in Britain after the war, and put a dent in Winston Churchhill's career, from which he eventually recovered. It was one of Mel Gibson's first movies, and was directed by Peter Wier, who has a pretty impressive list of films to his credit. Great movie, but pretty grim ending.
Speaking of Australian movies, has anyone seen Walkabout? A professor of mine in college had his class watch this film, and it disturbed me somewhat. Firstly, I wasn't sure exactly what was going on, secondly it didn't seem to make any sense that the children's father would try to kill them like that, and thirdly it seemed a bit excessive to have the 14 year old girl walking around naked as much as they did.
I am Sam. Before I had kids this movie wouldn't have effected me at all, but having 2 young kids made this movie very, VERY hard to watch. Sean Penn got robbed on the best actor oscar.
