Extreme Emotional Reactions from Media (Especially if You're not Prone to Them)

**Frownland** · 02-19-2015, 08:25 PM

Dancer in the Dark is probably the most crushingly depressing film I've seen.

Josef K · 02-19-2015, 08:41 PM

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Originally Posted by John Wilkes Booth

also i didn't finish boyhood. found that movie kind of boring tbh

This is going to sound awful and pretentious, but I thought that was the point. Of course I don't think it was supposed to be hard to get through, and I don't think the characters were supposed to be boring (and the performances, especially Patricia Arquette's, were great), but yeah, there's no real plot and there's nothing wrong with that. In fact, the biggest (only?) problem with the movie for me is the way the mother's marriage to her professor is done - it seemed really unnatural compared to the rest of the movie, and I thought the later thing involving the war veteran (her student IIRC) was done way better.

But like what you like, obviously. I just like movies and I don't talk about them much on here.

~~John Wilkes Booth~~ · 02-19-2015, 09:16 PM

i honestly had a feeling someone would hit me with "that was the point." that's honestly not the first time i was bored by a film only to be told later that i was meant to be bored by the film. well, you can call me simple, but even if it was intentionally boring that doesn't make me any more inclined to want to watch it.

bob. · 02-19-2015, 10:20 PM

i don't think Boyhood is intentional boring....but rather celebrates the mundane in life

~~John Wilkes Booth~~ · 02-19-2015, 10:25 PM

honestly i watched it cause i heard about the gimmick where they had the boy basically grow up on film and i thought this might the relationships and **** within the film more authentic and interesting to watch. but if i'm being honest if you didn't tell me about this aspect of the film it wouldn't have stood out to me.. seemed like a run of the mill coming-of-age film to me

Key · 02-20-2015, 12:12 AM

This one instantly comes to mind

Spoiler for The Butterfly Effect ending spoiler. open the spoiler, i dont care, i told you not to look if you didn't want the ending of the movie to be spoiled for you:

**Janszoon** · 02-20-2015, 12:50 AM

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Originally Posted by James

The horse sinking into the swamp of sadness in The Neverending Story anyone? I was a mess, who knew horses could be sad.

Oh god, that killed me when I was a kid.

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Originally Posted by LoathsomePete

The ending of Toy Story 3 got me pretty bad, I'm just happy my friends and I made a rule that anyone who made a joke about someone crying would have to buy the rounds for the entire night at the pub.

I'm not sure which part of the ending you mean but both the incinerator scene and the final scene with Andy and the little girl really choked me up.

Key · 02-20-2015, 12:50 AM

Oh man, I just saw the mention for Toy Story 3, and I nearly broke out crying at the incinerator scene.

Josef K · 02-20-2015, 07:22 AM

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Originally Posted by bob.

i don't think Boyhood is intentional boring....but rather celebrates the mundane in life

That's more what I meant. Like I said, I don't think it was supposed to be hard to get through and I don't think you're supposed to be bored by it, but I think that its lack of a central plot and its, as you say, focus on the mundane, could bore some people.

EPOCH6 · 02-20-2015, 09:29 AM

I watched Cannibal Holocaust for the first time when I was probably 13 or 14. Shook me up pretty badly.

02-19-2015, 08:25 PM	#51 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,548	Dancer in the Dark is probably the most crushingly depressing film I've seen. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

02-19-2015, 10:20 PM	#54 (permalink)
bob. Still sends his reguards. Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Trying to get out of the cat town.... Posts: 5,039	i don't think Boyhood is intentional boring....but rather celebrates the mundane in life __________________ A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism. Reach out, pierce the fine fabric of the sheltering sky, take repose.

02-20-2015, 12:12 AM	#56 (permalink)
Key . Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 13,153	This one instantly comes to mind Spoiler for The Butterfly Effect ending spoiler. open the spoiler, i dont care, i told you not to look if you didn't want the ending of the movie to be spoiled for you: at the end of butterfly effect, when he decides to burn everything he wrote in his past and keep the life he has at that current moment always gets me. the song they chose for that scene fit perfectly with what's going on.

02-19-2015, 09:16 PM	#53 (permalink)
~~John Wilkes Booth~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Jul 2013 Posts: 2,235	i honestly had a feeling someone would hit me with "that was the point." that's honestly not the first time i was bored by a film only to be told later that i was meant to be bored by the film. well, you can call me simple, but even if it was intentionally boring that doesn't make me any more inclined to want to watch it.

02-19-2015, 10:25 PM	#55 (permalink)
~~John Wilkes Booth~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Jul 2013 Posts: 2,235	honestly i watched it cause i heard about the gimmick where they had the boy basically grow up on film and i thought this might the relationships and **** within the film more authentic and interesting to watch. but if i'm being honest if you didn't tell me about this aspect of the film it wouldn't have stood out to me.. seemed like a run of the mill coming-of-age film to me

02-20-2015, 12:50 AM	#58 (permalink)
Key . Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 13,153	Oh man, I just saw the mention for Toy Story 3, and I nearly broke out crying at the incinerator scene.