The Virgin Suicides for me. I bought it last week and haven’t been able to work up the gumption to watch it yet. Maybe tonight.
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Bridge to Terabithia
Leaving Las Vagas
Then La La Land
Lilya 4-ever. So sad. So excellent…
Dear Zachary
Yep. This right here.
Life of others (Das leben der anderen)
Reprise by Lars von Trier. Probably my favourite movie but I struggle to explain why.
Honorouble mentions:
- THE IRONCLAW! It’s not the most emotionally devaststing for me but it was for a lot of people who saw it. To me it is really special though because it’s a beautifully simple film and you sit right there alongside Von Erich as he walks through different stsges of his life. You feel everything.
- That irish schoolboy rugby romance - Handsome Devil, i think its called
- The Whale
Least favourite emotionally defastating movies:
The Devil All The Time and “Love Story”
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The Whale broke me. And Zone of Interest is also a really hard pill to swallow. First time I was sitting in a fully packed theater and not a single person bought any snacks. We all knew it would be horrible.
Holy fuck The Whale. I rarely get emotional for sad movies and usually my eyes well up at most but The Whale opened the flood gates. Watched it at the movie theaters and remember the credits rolling in silence while everyone is sniffling and sobbing. Cried on the way home too. I bought it on blu ray and have not worked up the courage to rewatch it.
Happiness (1998) is extremely dark and very funny at the same time
The War Zone (1999) is relentlessly bleak and uncomfortable
The breakfast scene in that movie (happiness). Just … Fuck.
it’s full of those sort of sinking feelings but that’s a grim one
Interstellar and Arrival The scene where cooper watches his kids grow up and get kids of their own in like 5 minutes always gets me.
Anything like this with kids/families gets me pretty good nowadays :(
I would say Grave of the Fireflies, but like a lot of people I’ve never wanted to watch it again so I’m not sure if I could say it’s my favourite.
To this day I’ve watched it once and I’ll never forget.
The first 5 minutes of Up. Cutting onions every time.
The Neverending Story
Requiem for a Dream. Aronofsky is a legend and totally up my alley but this and a couple other films he has done I only have the energy to watch once.
I thought of this one as well. It’s my favorite movie I never want to see again.
What makes it worse for me is there was an old channel 4 advert that kad clips from lots of movies and the names of the movies in the current roster.
I thought the names matched the clips… and requiem for a dream appeared alongside a film I’ve not actually identified with a guy shooting over a limo saying something like “death to some thing something and bad cinema”
So a few years later I finally sit down to watch requiem for a dream expecting some weird Hollywood critic (or something)
Kept waiting for that scene until things got really dark and then kind of knew something was amiss.
On the upside: no heroine for me thanks
I, too, remember this one. But it’s so long since I’ve seen it. But every time I consider a re-watch I wuss out.
I’m sure there are others, but in my brainhole this one sure is a headliner for such a question.
La la land. Not the whole movie but the scene at the end always makes me emotional. It reminds of my ex, who I spent almost 10 years with. What if our relationship worked out?
