Just saw Open Water. God, how depressing. *SPOILER*

[Elidor]

I haven't felt so down since I saw House of Sand and Fog. I much prefer Touching the Void: those guys lived through hell, but at least they lived. Who wants to watch two people get eaten alive by sharks and die? Ugh!

On the bright side, my SO has never snuggled up so close against me during a movie. :)

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

1. Hey you just did a spoiler. I liked this movie for some reason. I think

my expectations were low and it was overall a lot better, and looked a lot better than I expected.

I thought the argument they had when they first began to realize how fukt they were was very realistic of how couples would go through that blaming stage in such a situation.

[Elidor]

3. I'm not knocking the filmmaking

They did a good job with it. But in that respect it reminds me of House of Sand & Fog–a great movie, (better than this one), excellently made, but so overwhelmingly depressing that I hope never to see it again.

[Placebo]

2. 'House of Sand and Fog'

oh.

My.

GOD.

THE MOST depressing flick I have seen in quite some time. I almost couldn't sit through the whole thing. By the end of it, I FELT like downing a bottle of pain meds and staring off into the bloody sunset!

Not that I'm asking for the 'Feel Good Movie of the Year' but what the hell. I shouldn't want to put a bag over my head at the end.

[Bouncy Ball]

4. Oh sweetie darling

you need to see "Leaving Las Vegas" for the MOST fucking depressing movie EVER MADE.

God. You're about ready to open a vein by the end.

[Placebo]

6. I can only take about one depressssssssssssssing movie a year...

otherwise, I just might!

[Bouncy Ball]

9. Seriously don't watch it.

I mean don't get me wrong, it's actually quite....GOOD....it's just SO damn depressing. I had to peel myself off the floor when it was done. I sighed. I sat there thinking "what is the point of life?" then I went to bed. Yeah, not a happy movie at ALL.

[Elidor]

10. I LOVE Leaving Las Vegas!!!

I can see how it's not everyone's cup of tea, but I love that flick. A very touching story. The main theme song is very nice as well, though it's stolen from a classical composer–I forget who at the moment. And if you're going to be thrashing around on the floor in a fit of delirium tremens, I can hardly think of a better soundtrack than Sting singing lounge songs.

[Bouncy Ball]

11. Oh the music's great

and I found the film compelling enough to watch about three times, but it's still fucking depressing you have to admit.

I mean just the gang rape scene ALONE is enough to make you want to slit your wrists. I mean, her LIFE. Ug.

[Elidor]

12. Do you always watch depressing films three times?

:D

That would make you a glutton for punishment.

[Enraged_Ape]

15. "Leaving Las Vegas" is the gold standard of depressing movies

Every frame of this movie is drenched in seedy futility. There are multi-car traffic fatalities that are less bleak.

[Elidor]

5. LOL!

Yes, HoSaF is enough to make you want to open a vein in a nice warm bath. It's like the suicidal impulses of those two characters becomes contagious.

[Placebo]

8. When his son gets shot by the police...

is where the movie takes an, if you can imagine it, nosedive into the abyss of pointless total despair.

[Bouncy Ball]

7. Hey, I have an idea

Watch "Open Water," "House of Sand and Fog," "Leaving Las Vegas" and say...."A Clockwork Orange" all in the same day and drink a lot of hard liquor or use some other kind of downer. Yeah, THAT would be fun!

[roenyc]

13. hell that would be a happy day now

wouldn't it. HoSaF was a great movie but wow it was powerful in emotion. i knew i was in for a ride but had no idea how weird it was going to get. i still enjoyed it.

hey just turn on comedy central after something like that. love that cartoon reality show. cracks me up.

I saw A clockwork orange when i was a kid in the movies. i could never ever listen to singing in the rain without getting sick to my stomach. but i have seen it a million times since then because it should be required film watching for all your friends.

Now a movie from the past that still makes me quiver was One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest with jack nickelson. so damn depressing. it came out in 1975 and i still remember that i couldn't eat after seeing it. i never saw it again and its still fresh in my mind like yesterday. i was a mear child when i saw that too. lol

[cleofus1]

14. get out of the house....

go to see spongebob squarepants (the movie) you will leave the theatre grinning like an idiot in spite of yourself...
I avoid depressing movies like the plague...if i want to be depressed i'll watch the evening news.

[Enraged_Ape]

16. I'll second your "SpongeBob Squarepants Movie" opinion

A couple of weeks ago, I'd had a rough week, was horribly depressed, and my wife asked me if I wanted to go see "Ocean's Twelve" to escape. I told her I wanted something completely goofy and absolutely disconnected from reality, so we went to see SpongeBob instead. It was just what the doctor ordered.