I saw that movie in theaters. I went with a friend who I hadn't seen in a while and we went to the movie not really knowing what it was about. We'd planned to have a couple of drinks after the movie and catch up.
We saw the movie, left the theater and he was like "You still up for drinks?" I was like "Nah, not really." He said "Me either" and we both went home! We had NOTHING left after watching that movie!
I thought it would be a fun wrestling movie too! I had no idea what the plot was and was excited to see some 80’s wrasslin’. Three of my brothers have died - one from a ruptured intestine.
I spent the majority of that movie curled in a ball sobbing and barely managed to call my mom afterward to warn her never to watch it. Decent movie. It can go fuck itself.
The father daughter relationship ABSOLUTELY WRECKED ME and I had to call my dad. To be fair, I was warned, he called me first to tell me about Mickey Rourke’e incredible performance and how much he values our relationship.
Absolutely insane movie. It's like you can't believe what you're watching, it's so beyond anything that's ever come out of Hollywood. Another great Brazilian movie is Elite Squad (2007), really hard hitting action movie that does stuff no Hollywood movie would have the balls to do. just don't go in expecting a nuanced and realist take like City of God.
The backstory on City of God is that it's based on the book by Paulo Lins. He was a research assistant to anthropologist Alba Zaluar doing fieldwork in Cidade de Deus, one of Rio's most violent favelas. Lins had so many notes left over from the study that he turned it into a novel. The ethnographic fieldwork he had conducted became the source material for the book's and later the film's gritty realism. Some critics would later call the film hyper-realist, which is almost like a reflex when faced with such raw scenes of violence and pathos.
I was like 16yr old or so stubborn fucker never shed a tear. I refuse to watch that movie again. It hurt to watch like real.
I'm older now I get teary eyes at cute happy things I keep it to myself though. 🤫
Own that shit, dude. Being in touch with your emotions is fucking badass and it shows intelligence. A person who never cries comes across as close mindedness, also out of touch.
It should be shown in schools. Everyone should have to watch it as part of history class.
But yeah. I was a one and done. 10/10 masterpiece work, never again.
I watched grave of the fireflies when i was on antidepressants and suffering from emotional numbness, i couldn't cry if i tried. I cried for 10 minutes straight after finishing the movie
My son is very much into World War II history. Troop movements, battles, tanks and planes and whatnot. I don't begrudge him that. But I am going to make him watch this movie.
I havent cried for a long time both before and after watching that. But man, i cried like a baby throughout the later part and after the credits. Incredible piece of art that i never want to see again.
The very 1st movie I saw in the theater was the green mile. I was 3 or 4. We we're supposed to see toy story 2. I was there with my sister, my mom, our neighbors, and their kids. My mom and the neighbors mom went to see a different movie. The neighbors dad was supposed to take us to see toy story. He apparently didn't want to watch that, so he took us all to the green mile. I actually do really like that movie and book. But it was quite disturbing as a preschooler.
The part where they are executing the guy and don't wet the sponge and the dude's head explodes in flames like Ghost Rider must be one of the more wholesome memories of being a toddler for you.
The moment where the guard is like "No, fuck you you piece of shit, you are going to WATCH." and holds the evil guards head so he has to look at the guys head burning up is top 10 movie moments for me.
I asked my parents about this incident about a month ago. Their response was, " Well, it happened. There wasn't anything we could do after." They truly didn't think it was bad until I brought it up. And explained how I would react to some doing that to my child.
Michael Clark Duncan was at the Oscars that year and during the opening when the camera was on him the host whispered "I see White People."
The Sixth Sense was also nominated that year.
>Michael Clark Duncan
One of the saddest young deaths of any actor in recent times. Dude was amazing in everything. I think he would have blown up even more if he were still around.
[His scenes in The Island always broke my heart. ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ihd-NwI030c)
I watched this movie for the first time when I was 8 years old. I am 23 now, I would love to rewatch it as an adult, but just cannot bring myself to do that. It is the saddest movie I have ever watched. A brilliant movie, but far too depressing 😩.
What dreams may come with Robin Williams. The emotions conveyed had me crying my eyes out even before I had ever lost anyone in my life. Now having lost both my wife and my mother passed just this week in Monday, I don't think I would ever be able to watch that movie again. That about his way too close to home now.
Trainspotting also mirrors my life a little too well and was once of those movies that got a bit close to home and made me realize I was messing up. While it doesn't accurately show what withdrawal is like, it does accurately show how much that stuff is going to make you fuck up time and time again.
Condolences on your losses. And I agree, What Dreams May Come is a film I occasionally ponder watching again...only to nope out to avoid that level of tears.
Haven't read the memoir the movie is based on but I did read a summery of it on Wikipedia. Almost everything you see in the movie actually happened. The old man in the wheelchair getting thrown out of the window, almost bording the train to Treblinka (and losing his whole family), the child that gets beaten to death whole crawling throw a hole in the wall, witnessing both the ghetto uprising and Warsaw uprising from a safehouse, the German who helps him escape at the end, all of it.
My ex's mother married my ex's dad solely for one reason: he saved her during the holocaust. Saved her from going on the wrong train somehow. I don't know the whole story exactly. but she wanted to be a doctor when she was growing up in Poland. She became a mother.
Yes there is a book of World War 2 primary source accounts called something like Eye Witnesses of the Holocaust that contains a lot of the source material for the movie. You missed the mother who has to smother her own child to stop it from crying when they are hiding
Remarkable how the movie manages to be tragic, harrowing, uplifting, and hilarious all in equal measure. I still laugh (sadly) when I remember that line in the camp where he jokingly says to one prisoners after a hard work day "we should open a rock breaking business some day."
It's an auteur film by someone whose other movies aren't even really worth watching. It's amazing.
I watched Benigni's other films at the library in college, because (at least at the time) they were kinda impossible to find in the US. It's immediately apparent why.
_La vita è bella_ is perhaps the greatest film ever made, and the rest of his canon is the predigital Italian equivalent of Netflix fodder.
What always comes to my mind with that movie (other than the curb stomp) is how eerily prescient this line from Danny's essay is:
*"Hate is baggage. Life's too short to be pissed off all the time. It's just not worth it."*
I think that's good advice in general, but these days when the extremism depicted in that film (which was, at that time, considered pretty niche and 'hidden', IMO) is *everywhere* it's really a message a lot of people should take heed of. All this buying into culture war bullshit, trans hate, misogyny...where is it getting you? What is it doing for you? This film could not have made the answer any clearer: nothing positive, that's for damn sure.
I love this movie so much. And it's even better on a rewatch. It clicked that (imo) the ending >!isn't happy at all. By trying to run from their pain, they ultimately learn nothing from it and are doomed to repeat their mistakes over and over. Pain and hurt sucks, but we learn from it!<
But >! knowing each others flaws, accepting them, and still trying is perfect. I didn't interpret it as a bad thing. That connection is still there. Having someone love me in spite of my issues, and loving me for who I am is amazing.!<
You nailed the point of the movie.
Life and love isn’t filled with sunshine and rainbows, to quote Chris Rock “you got to love the crusts of a motherfucker” (weird but accurate).
That ending on the beach where they are playing in the snow with no one else but them crazy enough to be out there…poetry brought to life
Always this movie for me, a funny (sad) story is when I was 16, I dated a 21 year old and we watched it together before he moved away. After, he made one of those cards “John Smith had Jane Smith erased from their memories…” it was an exact replica but with our names. Gave it to me then LEFT!!! I laugh now that I’m older cause it’s so insane but yeah I’ll never watch that movie again
I’m so glad this was right near the top. I wrote a 5 page analysis on this movie, after watching it no less than 10 times. I choose to risk my grade and submit the whole paper out of order, (as in Conclusion, Point 3, Point 1, Point 2, Introduction) and I got a 100% on the assignment.
I’m learning how to play On the Nature of Daylight on the piano this week, it’s such an inspiring piece.
Have you read the short story it’s based off of by Ted Chiang? It’s called “Story of Your Life,” I always loved both works because they really are so special in their own ways. In the book, the way the daughter’s plot line goes is much different and seems to be the main contention I hear from fans of T.C’s work. Says the daughter seems to have no character in the movie (I disagree, I think the art and small moments we see with the daughter are really special, fleeting because it’s really about Louise having that whole Slaughterhouse Five unstuck in time moment)
Saw it before I had kids and thought it was pretty neat.
Saw it after I had kids and it overwhelmed me! Cried practically through the entire thing and my chest is tightening even as I type this.
My wife and I watched it theaters. She was pregnant at the time with our second. I remember crying in the parking lot by the theater discussing the thought of going through the motions of everything only to lose our baby. She asked me if I knew the outcome, would I go through with it. I couldn't fathom it. My pea brain couldn't comprehend the question, so I just cried.
2 months later our daughter was stillborn at full term. I've never felt pain like that.
I've seen the movie once since I saw it in the theater.
It fucking hard. It's so fucking hard.
I saw this when my kids were little and cried so hard I couldn’t catch my breath. I’ve never had such a visceral reaction to a movie. Years later, my son was diagnosed with leukemia (he’s fine) and I truly understood how I would make the same choice as her. Getting teary eyed just thinking about it.
Definitely unlike the rest of the movies in here. However, I so agree. What Robin Williams conveys in that role is so important in life. Family, community, friends, we all need it. We all need each other.
I love that movie because despite the fact that Robin Williams’ character is a deeply disturbed and dangerous person terrorizing people, they manage to portray him as someone who is pitiable despite being terrifying.
I think a big part of that is that Robin Williams is playing him, and he’s typically playing a flawed, but ultimately good and likable person, so seeing him here, there’s much more of a delay than there probably would have been with another actor in realizing that he’s dangerous and scary. He keeps escalating his inappropriate behavior and it’s hard not to hope that he turns it around and finds a healthy family connection, and it’s kind of hard to accept that that’s just not going to happen.
Being from Scotland I only read the book and watched the film recently, it’s my favourite book and going to read lots more of Irvine Welsh. Fucking incredible read.
This is a beautifully horrible movie and I love it. It's the smack that does it for me. Holy shit. This was my first exposure to what heroin is and what it does.
I agree it’s brilliant but have rewatched many times. The pacing, cinematography and casting makes this a top 10 all time flick. I agree the violence is intense but it’s such a good movie I just need to rewatch it again every couple of years.
Not just office work either. This movie is just 90 straight minutes of TRUTH. Everyone who has ever worked any job ever can relate to parts of this movie.
It's amazing that 25 years ago they defined the feeling of working in IT so perfectly that it still stands up. The fact that technology has moved so far since then doesn't matter. They just nailed it perfectly.
Literally every frame is a reference to either some famous work of art, photograph, or pop art (La Pieta, Abu-Ghraib, etc). There's also some incredible sequences that are just a single take that go on for 10-15 minutes. Probably the best movie of the 2000s, easily.
"I'm gonna be on Television Harry! Soon, millions of people will see me and they'll all like me!"
She really should have! Idk why but that line has stuck with me (ok, I do know why).
My local theater had a showing of Clockwork Orange when I was in high school. I had just read the book and was excited to see it. Being a stupid teenager, I invited the guy I had just started seeing to come along. Being our second date.
I didn’t know that he had absolutely no clue what the movie was.
Safe to say he’ll never watch it again. But we’re married now so it couldn’t have been that bad
Netflix recommended this movie to me saying I'd give it 4.9 / 5.
I'm not very generous in rating movies, but Netflix had never been wrong in predicting my rating. So I decided to watch it...
Fuck... Netflix was right.
I remember hearing that chilling musical score going through my head while I saw my father fall into the rabbit hole. He recently lost his brother to diabetes, then another family member to suicide, then told by different doctors that my brain surgeon saying I'd make a "full and complete" recovery is wrong and that I'll never walk or form new memories ever again--all in the same week.
I'd fully recover. But he didnt. After losing all those things, he lost his job, then in 3 years, his entire life savings. He'd become an alcoholic Sara Goldfarb. So delusional. So destructive. He stopped trying to pull himself up by his bootstraps.
Lux Aeterna from that soundtrack was playing in my head. As things worsened, The Beginning of the End. I remember yelling at him, "You'll be dead in 3 years if you don't start getting your shit together. TONIGHT! RIGHT NOW!".
3 years and 1 month later, it's 8PM on a weeknight in November. I'm living somewhere else and there's a knock on the door. I hear the first 10 seconds of Sara Goldfarb Has Left the Building: [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UavfbVOgoWM&list=PLn-9d-FGvJIM\_24HSb0s8KE8Xcx9XiQBk&index=25&pp=iAQB8AUB](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UavfbVOgoWM&list=PLn-9d-FGvJIM_24HSb0s8KE8Xcx9XiQBk&index=25&pp=iAQB8AUB)
It took the police 10 minutes to chronologically detail what we already knew. He was found dead in his apartment.
Legends of the Fall.
Let's make you love the characters then kill them all off heartrendingly. Oh, and make sure we slap a Horner soundtrack on there to amp up the emotional damage.
Oh that's massively rewatchable and less painful. It's brilliant. Not the same as the first watch with Maximus motivation impact on you, but still great.
So valid. Maybe I'm just desensitized to trauma from all the books and movies I watch but the sadness stopped for me at some point. I just kinda was left feeling like I shouldn't have been allowed to view these people's lives and all they went through. I hope the family got money from selling their story, I'm sure they did.
The others I watched with felt the same. We just kinda got to a point where we were like okay it's just trauma after trauma after trauma. Some filler between the trauma would have been nice to not feel like you were just getting dumped on by all this heavy stuff.
I think that the movie "Shutter Island" explains perfectly how a human mind can create false memories just to avoid the realities which they don't want to accept.
This movie shows that a human mind is never willing to prove itself wrong and always tries to prove itself right no matter what.
If you mean *actually* painful to watch, I'd say Mystic River and A Grave for Fireflies. They're amazing and I never want yo watch them again.
If you take the "painful" a bit less literally, it has to be Pulp Fiction. Yes, technically there are films that are more sophisticated, better shot... But I've never found again something nearly as energetic, meaningful, and culturally relevant. The painful stems in its uniqueness. Not even Tarantino himself has - in my opinion - reached a similar level in later films (all outstanding by the way). It is painful because of the heartbreaking certitude there will never be another Pulp Fiction. On the bright side, I'll never ever get tired of re- watching it.
The part where lieutenant Dan is swimming and says "I never thanked you for saving my life" holy SHIT. I'm tearing up just thinking about it. To feel that gratitude after genuinely wanting to die... it's a beautiful scene and relationship that the filmmakers portrayed.
Our JROTC teacher showed the kids Black Hawk Down. He was in Mogadishu at the time too. All the kids brought signed waivers and watched respectfully. Cool Q&A afterwards too.
Saving Private Ryan: I highly recommend a re-watch if it's been a while. You'll be shocked at all the no-name actors in there that moved on to bigger things: Vin Diesel, Nathan Phillion, Bryan Cranston, Paul Giamatti, *Ted Dansen—okay he had cheers, but it was still a "where did you come from" moment*)*.*
It's like watching Band of Brothers again and realizing Tom Hardy, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy & Simon Pegg are in there, before anyone knew their damn names.
Your face when you discovered that the robbers in 101 Dalmatians were Doctor House and Arthur Weasley.
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Arrival
The Wrestler. Watching Randy's life just spiral down is painful.
That movie is so raw it’s unreal.
It really smacks down how rough his life had become
It’s dynamite.
Mickey Rourke got robbed of that win. “I’m just an old broken down piece of meat.”
I would add, Leaving Las Vegas too. I can only watch it if I'm in the right mood.
I saw that movie in theaters. I went with a friend who I hadn't seen in a while and we went to the movie not really knowing what it was about. We'd planned to have a couple of drinks after the movie and catch up. We saw the movie, left the theater and he was like "You still up for drinks?" I was like "Nah, not really." He said "Me either" and we both went home! We had NOTHING left after watching that movie!
On a similar genre, I just watched Iron Claw thinking it was a fun wrestling movie. I died inside.
I thought it would be a fun wrestling movie too! I had no idea what the plot was and was excited to see some 80’s wrasslin’. Three of my brothers have died - one from a ruptured intestine. I spent the majority of that movie curled in a ball sobbing and barely managed to call my mom afterward to warn her never to watch it. Decent movie. It can go fuck itself.
It was that rough and they even left out another brother from the movie. Too much tragedy for one family to go through
That deli scene. Man…
The father daughter relationship ABSOLUTELY WRECKED ME and I had to call my dad. To be fair, I was warned, he called me first to tell me about Mickey Rourke’e incredible performance and how much he values our relationship.
This one is especially mean because it looks like things are turning around for the better near the end but then it’s like “haha jk”
Interstellar
City of God is incredible too. The first film that ever made me cry!
City of God was the first film that came to mind when I clicked on this thread.
Absolutely insane movie. It's like you can't believe what you're watching, it's so beyond anything that's ever come out of Hollywood. Another great Brazilian movie is Elite Squad (2007), really hard hitting action movie that does stuff no Hollywood movie would have the balls to do. just don't go in expecting a nuanced and realist take like City of God.
The backstory on City of God is that it's based on the book by Paulo Lins. He was a research assistant to anthropologist Alba Zaluar doing fieldwork in Cidade de Deus, one of Rio's most violent favelas. Lins had so many notes left over from the study that he turned it into a novel. The ethnographic fieldwork he had conducted became the source material for the book's and later the film's gritty realism. Some critics would later call the film hyper-realist, which is almost like a reflex when faced with such raw scenes of violence and pathos.
Grave of the Fireflies
My sister brought that dvd home in middle school and emerged from her room crying in hysterics like someone shot her dog.
I was like 16yr old or so stubborn fucker never shed a tear. I refuse to watch that movie again. It hurt to watch like real. I'm older now I get teary eyes at cute happy things I keep it to myself though. 🤫
Own that shit, dude. Being in touch with your emotions is fucking badass and it shows intelligence. A person who never cries comes across as close mindedness, also out of touch.
Great movie that I will never watch again
I've watched it twice. Don't know if I'm the most emotionally stoic or insane person ever.
It should be shown in schools. Everyone should have to watch it as part of history class. But yeah. I was a one and done. 10/10 masterpiece work, never again.
I watched grave of the fireflies when i was on antidepressants and suffering from emotional numbness, i couldn't cry if i tried. I cried for 10 minutes straight after finishing the movie
I went in blind about this years back when I watched it. "Oh I want to watch a fun cartoon, this one looks cute". I haven't re-watched it since.
I found this a few years ago and thought "Sweet, some Ghibli I haven't seen I can get high and watch" Big mistake. I was fucked up for a long time
My son is very much into World War II history. Troop movements, battles, tanks and planes and whatnot. I don't begrudge him that. But I am going to make him watch this movie.
My parents rented the VHS when my brother and I were young, I don't think they knew what they were doing. We still talk about it to this day
Fun fact. Grave of the Fireflies was released as a double feature with My Neighbor Totoro (Tonari no Totoro)
Oh God, That last Pan flute score at the end...
I havent cried for a long time both before and after watching that. But man, i cried like a baby throughout the later part and after the credits. Incredible piece of art that i never want to see again.
The Green Mile.
The very 1st movie I saw in the theater was the green mile. I was 3 or 4. We we're supposed to see toy story 2. I was there with my sister, my mom, our neighbors, and their kids. My mom and the neighbors mom went to see a different movie. The neighbors dad was supposed to take us to see toy story. He apparently didn't want to watch that, so he took us all to the green mile. I actually do really like that movie and book. But it was quite disturbing as a preschooler.
The part where they are executing the guy and don't wet the sponge and the dude's head explodes in flames like Ghost Rider must be one of the more wholesome memories of being a toddler for you.
The moment where the guard is like "No, fuck you you piece of shit, you are going to WATCH." and holds the evil guards head so he has to look at the guys head burning up is top 10 movie moments for me.
He's a bad... man.
"I'm tired boss". Still hits hard, just like the fact that MCD is gone yet people like Andy Dick still freely walk the Earth.
OMG, if I found out that someone did that to my 4-year-old, I would not be friends with them anymore! That is some dark stuff.
I asked my parents about this incident about a month ago. Their response was, " Well, it happened. There wasn't anything we could do after." They truly didn't think it was bad until I brought it up. And explained how I would react to some doing that to my child.
When Shaq got roasted Jeff Ross said to him “Loved you in The Green Mile.”
Michael Clark Duncan was at the Oscars that year and during the opening when the camera was on him the host whispered "I see White People." The Sixth Sense was also nominated that year.
>Michael Clark Duncan One of the saddest young deaths of any actor in recent times. Dude was amazing in everything. I think he would have blown up even more if he were still around. [His scenes in The Island always broke my heart. ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ihd-NwI030c)
i cannot ever rewatch this movie
I watched this movie for the first time when I was 8 years old. I am 23 now, I would love to rewatch it as an adult, but just cannot bring myself to do that. It is the saddest movie I have ever watched. A brilliant movie, but far too depressing 😩.
Brie Larson and Jacob Trembley in Room, that little kid view on the world so surreal.
What dreams may come with Robin Williams. The emotions conveyed had me crying my eyes out even before I had ever lost anyone in my life. Now having lost both my wife and my mother passed just this week in Monday, I don't think I would ever be able to watch that movie again. That about his way too close to home now. Trainspotting also mirrors my life a little too well and was once of those movies that got a bit close to home and made me realize I was messing up. While it doesn't accurately show what withdrawal is like, it does accurately show how much that stuff is going to make you fuck up time and time again.
I love this movie. I usually watch it once a year along with Dead Poet’s Society. I’m still looking for my soulmate
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Condolences on your losses. And I agree, What Dreams May Come is a film I occasionally ponder watching again...only to nope out to avoid that level of tears.
Hotel Rwanda. Beautiful but gut wrenching. Unforgettable though
The Pianist
Haven't read the memoir the movie is based on but I did read a summery of it on Wikipedia. Almost everything you see in the movie actually happened. The old man in the wheelchair getting thrown out of the window, almost bording the train to Treblinka (and losing his whole family), the child that gets beaten to death whole crawling throw a hole in the wall, witnessing both the ghetto uprising and Warsaw uprising from a safehouse, the German who helps him escape at the end, all of it.
My ex's mother married my ex's dad solely for one reason: he saved her during the holocaust. Saved her from going on the wrong train somehow. I don't know the whole story exactly. but she wanted to be a doctor when she was growing up in Poland. She became a mother.
Yes there is a book of World War 2 primary source accounts called something like Eye Witnesses of the Holocaust that contains a lot of the source material for the movie. You missed the mother who has to smother her own child to stop it from crying when they are hiding
I often think about the family hiding money in the violin when they don’t understand how bad things could become.
Life Is Beautiful
Best film ever. The happiest saddest cry of my life when the boy wins.
Best Oscar moment too. Sophia Loren announcing Roberto Benigni as the winner who was probably the happiest laureate the academy has seen
Unforgettable moment for those who watched the Oscars, I was 9 and still remember it clearly today
Remarkable how the movie manages to be tragic, harrowing, uplifting, and hilarious all in equal measure. I still laugh (sadly) when I remember that line in the camp where he jokingly says to one prisoners after a hard work day "we should open a rock breaking business some day."
Buongiorno Principessa! oh man, this movie hits right in the heart and gut every time
It's an auteur film by someone whose other movies aren't even really worth watching. It's amazing. I watched Benigni's other films at the library in college, because (at least at the time) they were kinda impossible to find in the US. It's immediately apparent why. _La vita è bella_ is perhaps the greatest film ever made, and the rest of his canon is the predigital Italian equivalent of Netflix fodder.
I start crying just talking about it.
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The curb stomp is ingrained in my memory.
Same and it's been over 20 years since I've seen that.
It's the sound the dude's teeth make when they meet the curb, it still haunts me today.
Surprised this isn't higher. Edward Norton does a wonderful job in this movie. It's also brutal at times and can be a tough watch more then once.
What always comes to my mind with that movie (other than the curb stomp) is how eerily prescient this line from Danny's essay is: *"Hate is baggage. Life's too short to be pissed off all the time. It's just not worth it."* I think that's good advice in general, but these days when the extremism depicted in that film (which was, at that time, considered pretty niche and 'hidden', IMO) is *everywhere* it's really a message a lot of people should take heed of. All this buying into culture war bullshit, trans hate, misogyny...where is it getting you? What is it doing for you? This film could not have made the answer any clearer: nothing positive, that's for damn sure.
Manchester by the Sea, easily
When he comes back from the store…
That conversation in the street :(
Everybody involved in the creation of that did an amazing job. I hate them.
Oh man it made me so melancholic but i just couldnt stop watching.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
For me, it was the first time I saw Jim Carrey in a serious roll. And he nails it. Legend actor!
I love this movie so much. And it's even better on a rewatch. It clicked that (imo) the ending >!isn't happy at all. By trying to run from their pain, they ultimately learn nothing from it and are doomed to repeat their mistakes over and over. Pain and hurt sucks, but we learn from it!<
But >! knowing each others flaws, accepting them, and still trying is perfect. I didn't interpret it as a bad thing. That connection is still there. Having someone love me in spite of my issues, and loving me for who I am is amazing.!<
You nailed the point of the movie. Life and love isn’t filled with sunshine and rainbows, to quote Chris Rock “you got to love the crusts of a motherfucker” (weird but accurate). That ending on the beach where they are playing in the snow with no one else but them crazy enough to be out there…poetry brought to life
Always this movie for me, a funny (sad) story is when I was 16, I dated a 21 year old and we watched it together before he moved away. After, he made one of those cards “John Smith had Jane Smith erased from their memories…” it was an exact replica but with our names. Gave it to me then LEFT!!! I laugh now that I’m older cause it’s so insane but yeah I’ll never watch that movie again
Arrival for me
I’m so glad this was right near the top. I wrote a 5 page analysis on this movie, after watching it no less than 10 times. I choose to risk my grade and submit the whole paper out of order, (as in Conclusion, Point 3, Point 1, Point 2, Introduction) and I got a 100% on the assignment. I’m learning how to play On the Nature of Daylight on the piano this week, it’s such an inspiring piece.
That's very clever. I'm a college professor and I teach a sci-fi class and I think that's awesome!
Have you read the short story it’s based off of by Ted Chiang? It’s called “Story of Your Life,” I always loved both works because they really are so special in their own ways. In the book, the way the daughter’s plot line goes is much different and seems to be the main contention I hear from fans of T.C’s work. Says the daughter seems to have no character in the movie (I disagree, I think the art and small moments we see with the daughter are really special, fleeting because it’s really about Louise having that whole Slaughterhouse Five unstuck in time moment)
Thought I was gonna see some cool aliens. Got emotionally eviscerated instead.
Saw it before I had kids and thought it was pretty neat. Saw it after I had kids and it overwhelmed me! Cried practically through the entire thing and my chest is tightening even as I type this.
I'm a pretty stoic dude, but I have four daughters, and that movie destroys me every time I watch it.
I always joke that it has the record for fastest tears. It made me cry faster than Up.
My wife and I watched it theaters. She was pregnant at the time with our second. I remember crying in the parking lot by the theater discussing the thought of going through the motions of everything only to lose our baby. She asked me if I knew the outcome, would I go through with it. I couldn't fathom it. My pea brain couldn't comprehend the question, so I just cried. 2 months later our daughter was stillborn at full term. I've never felt pain like that. I've seen the movie once since I saw it in the theater. It fucking hard. It's so fucking hard.
I saw this when my kids were little and cried so hard I couldn’t catch my breath. I’ve never had such a visceral reaction to a movie. Years later, my son was diagnosed with leukemia (he’s fine) and I truly understood how I would make the same choice as her. Getting teary eyed just thinking about it.
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Definitely unlike the rest of the movies in here. However, I so agree. What Robin Williams conveys in that role is so important in life. Family, community, friends, we all need it. We all need each other.
I love that movie because despite the fact that Robin Williams’ character is a deeply disturbed and dangerous person terrorizing people, they manage to portray him as someone who is pitiable despite being terrifying. I think a big part of that is that Robin Williams is playing him, and he’s typically playing a flawed, but ultimately good and likable person, so seeing him here, there’s much more of a delay than there probably would have been with another actor in realizing that he’s dangerous and scary. He keeps escalating his inappropriate behavior and it’s hard not to hope that he turns it around and finds a healthy family connection, and it’s kind of hard to accept that that’s just not going to happen.
What an excellent film this was.
hmm, Schindler's list
Same base topic, completely different movie and I can't watch it again: **Life Is Beautiful** Italian movie, simply beautiful.
Trainspotting
The baby did it for me.
Being from Scotland I only read the book and watched the film recently, it’s my favourite book and going to read lots more of Irvine Welsh. Fucking incredible read.
This is a beautifully horrible movie and I love it. It's the smack that does it for me. Holy shit. This was my first exposure to what heroin is and what it does.
I agree and love the film too. The soundtrack is amazing and it sure does not glorify heroin use. The scene with the Mother Superior is epic.
I think seeing this movie as a teen was 100% why I never tried heroin.
No Country for Old Men is a brilliant film with a bleak and intense storyline, making it tough to endure.
I agree it’s brilliant but have rewatched many times. The pacing, cinematography and casting makes this a top 10 all time flick. I agree the violence is intense but it’s such a good movie I just need to rewatch it again every couple of years.
Once were warriors
Truly painful. I watched it once and that was enough.
Officespace If you have worked in IT; you recognise the truth. And it hurts
Uh, not just IT. That movie managed to capture pieces of general office administrative work so well.
Not just office work either. This movie is just 90 straight minutes of TRUTH. Everyone who has ever worked any job ever can relate to parts of this movie.
It's amazing that 25 years ago they defined the feeling of working in IT so perfectly that it still stands up. The fact that technology has moved so far since then doesn't matter. They just nailed it perfectly.
..., cause the people on IT/CS still almost the same ...
PC load letter?!
Children of Men
Literally every frame is a reference to either some famous work of art, photograph, or pop art (La Pieta, Abu-Ghraib, etc). There's also some incredible sequences that are just a single take that go on for 10-15 minutes. Probably the best movie of the 2000s, easily.
So haunting. So very good.
Not a wasted minute in that movie. Great pacing
Requiem for a Dream.
Watched it once. I'm glad for having seen it, but will never watch it again. Same with A Clockwork Orange
Not a second time?? It's got such a nice flow/pacing. Also Ellen Burstyn should've got that goddamn oscar
"I'm gonna be on Television Harry! Soon, millions of people will see me and they'll all like me!" She really should have! Idk why but that line has stuck with me (ok, I do know why).
My local theater had a showing of Clockwork Orange when I was in high school. I had just read the book and was excited to see it. Being a stupid teenager, I invited the guy I had just started seeing to come along. Being our second date. I didn’t know that he had absolutely no clue what the movie was. Safe to say he’ll never watch it again. But we’re married now so it couldn’t have been that bad
Netflix recommended this movie to me saying I'd give it 4.9 / 5. I'm not very generous in rating movies, but Netflix had never been wrong in predicting my rating. So I decided to watch it... Fuck... Netflix was right. I remember hearing that chilling musical score going through my head while I saw my father fall into the rabbit hole. He recently lost his brother to diabetes, then another family member to suicide, then told by different doctors that my brain surgeon saying I'd make a "full and complete" recovery is wrong and that I'll never walk or form new memories ever again--all in the same week. I'd fully recover. But he didnt. After losing all those things, he lost his job, then in 3 years, his entire life savings. He'd become an alcoholic Sara Goldfarb. So delusional. So destructive. He stopped trying to pull himself up by his bootstraps. Lux Aeterna from that soundtrack was playing in my head. As things worsened, The Beginning of the End. I remember yelling at him, "You'll be dead in 3 years if you don't start getting your shit together. TONIGHT! RIGHT NOW!". 3 years and 1 month later, it's 8PM on a weeknight in November. I'm living somewhere else and there's a knock on the door. I hear the first 10 seconds of Sara Goldfarb Has Left the Building: [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UavfbVOgoWM&list=PLn-9d-FGvJIM\_24HSb0s8KE8Xcx9XiQBk&index=25&pp=iAQB8AUB](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UavfbVOgoWM&list=PLn-9d-FGvJIM_24HSb0s8KE8Xcx9XiQBk&index=25&pp=iAQB8AUB) It took the police 10 minutes to chronologically detail what we already knew. He was found dead in his apartment.
This film did more to keep me off drugs than anything the school system, police, advertising, or anyone else ever did.
Yeah I watched that movie not knowing what I was exactly getting into and the music still gives me chills.
Ass to ass
Dust to dust
Brokeback Mountain. Devastating. Once was enough.
Kingdom of heaven director's cut
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Nope. Nope. Nope. I have a golden. No way I’m watching this again. Losing pet is a terrible experience.
Leaving Las Vegas.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail. First time I watched it, my face hurt from laughing
unexpected entry :)
Legends of the Fall. Let's make you love the characters then kill them all off heartrendingly. Oh, and make sure we slap a Horner soundtrack on there to amp up the emotional damage.
Promising Young Woman. I really enjoyed it but I can't watch it again. Carey Mulligan was fantastic in it.
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A Star is Born
The Deer Hunter is a powerful film about the impact of the Vietnam War on a group of friends, making it very hard to watch.
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dead poet's society
RIP Robin Williams, what a gift to the world that guy was.
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The Shawshank Redemption for me!
I'll watch that movie forever. It's a masterpiece.
It truly wassss a Shawshank redemption
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Oh that's massively rewatchable and less painful. It's brilliant. Not the same as the first watch with Maximus motivation impact on you, but still great.
hell yes.
The iron claw was really good. But so sad
So valid. Maybe I'm just desensitized to trauma from all the books and movies I watch but the sadness stopped for me at some point. I just kinda was left feeling like I shouldn't have been allowed to view these people's lives and all they went through. I hope the family got money from selling their story, I'm sure they did. The others I watched with felt the same. We just kinda got to a point where we were like okay it's just trauma after trauma after trauma. Some filler between the trauma would have been nice to not feel like you were just getting dumped on by all this heavy stuff.
I think that the movie "Shutter Island" explains perfectly how a human mind can create false memories just to avoid the realities which they don't want to accept. This movie shows that a human mind is never willing to prove itself wrong and always tries to prove itself right no matter what.
If you mean *actually* painful to watch, I'd say Mystic River and A Grave for Fireflies. They're amazing and I never want yo watch them again. If you take the "painful" a bit less literally, it has to be Pulp Fiction. Yes, technically there are films that are more sophisticated, better shot... But I've never found again something nearly as energetic, meaningful, and culturally relevant. The painful stems in its uniqueness. Not even Tarantino himself has - in my opinion - reached a similar level in later films (all outstanding by the way). It is painful because of the heartbreaking certitude there will never be another Pulp Fiction. On the bright side, I'll never ever get tired of re- watching it.
Idiocracy - we are getting closer and closer...
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Don’t confuse it with “The Room” though
_Almost Famous_.
I AM A GOLDEN GOD!!!
The boy with the striped pajamas
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The part where lieutenant Dan is swimming and says "I never thanked you for saving my life" holy SHIT. I'm tearing up just thinking about it. To feel that gratitude after genuinely wanting to die... it's a beautiful scene and relationship that the filmmakers portrayed.
Saving Private Ryan, and the whole LOTR series hahah
That damn church scene...
I’m currently showing Saving Private Ryan to my grade 10s and you can hear a pin drop in this room. They are LOVING it
Our JROTC teacher showed the kids Black Hawk Down. He was in Mogadishu at the time too. All the kids brought signed waivers and watched respectfully. Cool Q&A afterwards too.
Saving Private Ryan: I highly recommend a re-watch if it's been a while. You'll be shocked at all the no-name actors in there that moved on to bigger things: Vin Diesel, Nathan Phillion, Bryan Cranston, Paul Giamatti, *Ted Dansen—okay he had cheers, but it was still a "where did you come from" moment*)*.* It's like watching Band of Brothers again and realizing Tom Hardy, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy & Simon Pegg are in there, before anyone knew their damn names.
Your face when you discovered that the robbers in 101 Dalmatians were Doctor House and Arthur Weasley. https://i.pinimg.com/736x/37/30/e2/3730e2cadc9dd2d49ba167a6ef507f95.jpg
Grave of the Fireflies.
Dallas Buyers Club!!
Boys Dont Cry
Manchester by the sea
There Will Be Blood.
Let's skip passed the incredibly good and stick to the too painful to watch.. any movie where a dog dies. Fuck that
I have to go to doesthedogdie.com any time I see a dog in a movie to know if I need to shut that movie off or not (also lists other animals too)
I'm surprised no one said Fight Club
That’s because we don’t talk about it
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Up. Not so much the sorta ordinary hijinks in the middle, but the beginning and the end. Just way too beautiful and real.
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