What's the most unintentionally depressing film you have ever seen?

[Beware the Beast Man]

That is, one that doesn't exactly set out to be a tear-jerker, but leaves you feeling just a bit empty when you are finished. this is inspired by some of the responses in Shell Beau's "21 Grams" thread.

Mine would be "Fight Club." For as much as I love that movie, I can't watch it if I'm in the mood to be cheery. It's a very bleak, nihilistic film.

[Booster]

1. Definitely "Million Dollar Baby" - just wasn't expecting that.

[El Fuego]

12. Me too.

I was looking forward to seeing it. I knew there was a surprise ending, but I never imagined anything so grim.

[XemaSab]

2. I dunno if "whale rider"

set out to be a really sad film, but man, what a downer.

[wiley]

5. Whale Rider

I just watched that movie for the fourth time. I can see how the loss and degradation of indigenous people can be very depressing. The ending was uplifting but everything still seemed so fragile.

:cry:

[elehhhhna]

13. Read "Once Were Warriors"-- about the Maori peoples'

"assimilation" (ghettoization) It's been made into a film, which is also pretty good--but what a book! Among other things, it's the only book I've read that actually made me understand--deeply, on a gut level-- why young girls in the ghetto long for babies of their own.

[elehhhhna]

14. The Village. Sucked so bad I almost returned the tv for a refund.

[elehhhhna]

10. True. But redeems itsself at the end. I love that movie.

"Crazy old pukka--say the word, Bub, and I'll leave him."

God I love it.

[wiley]

The Machinist

[Twillig]

19. I actually felt 'better'

when he had finally figured out what had been chewing on him for a year.

His future was actually less bleak at the end. I'll give there's no redemption, but there is at least an end to torment.

:shrug:

[Hav]

3. yeah

The beginning seemed so damn funny and really witty but then it turned so dark.

[I Know How To Do it]

4. A Lot of horror flicks that spend 2 hours trying to tell a story

only to to end with a suprise twist that's ridiculous and in some cases impossible.
"High Tension" was like that.
And, "Saw" came really close

[Ladyhawk]

7. God, I hated the end of Frailty. As an ex-fundy it offended me. n/t

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

6. L.A. Confidential

...because in real life, the good guys don't always win. And if they do, it's often after they get the everloving shit kicked out of them.

"Rolo Tomasi is the reason I became a cop. I wanted to catch the guys who thought they could get away with it. It's supposed to be about justice. Then somewhere along the way, I lost sight of that."

:toast:

[Bucky]

8. Thomas the Tank Engine movie

That whole time that Peter Fonda was acting morose and saying "I've got to get my hands on that gold fairy dust or I'll die" I was thinking, Jeeze, it's like he's craving a herion fix. I mean, heck, kids were supposed to see that movie. It was terribly inappropriate.

[I Know How To Do it]

9. Any movie other than, "The Wizard of Oz" that ends up being all

a dream.

[Bucky]

11. I see dead people

And they're buying movie tickets

[Rick Myers]

15. Bad Lieutenant

buzz kill!

[iconoclastic cat]

16. The Killing Fields.

[caty]

17. "Beaches"

I went to see it thinking it would be funny because Bette Middler was in it and ended up in tears.

[I Know How To Do it]

18. The movie, "Falling Down" sure took a right turn.

At first you're kind of entertained by Douglas' anti-hero antics. Then is slowly starts dawning on you what the deal is.

[FuzzySlippers]

20. "Welcome to the Dollhouse"

For some reason, that depressed the hell outta me.

[Initech]

21. Titanic

Mainly because after the movie was done, I realized that I had wasted three hours of my life and $10 on that piece of shit.