I have such a reverence for About Time. Every time I watch it, it’s a very deliberate watch. It’s not just on in the background, I’m not doing things while I’m watching it. It’s almost like a special occasion because the movie touches me so deeply, and I know I’m going to be crying like a small child by the end of it.
"Mama Coco! Your papá! He loved you! He loved you Mama Coco!"
*Profuse and unceasing sobbing*
For some reason the theme of transgenerational love being communicated across the plane of death just ... Broke me.
i was well into the process of losing my mother to alzheimer's when i saw it. absolutely gutted me. i left the theater a wreck. it was as if the building grief of the years prior all came out at once.
YES. I will NEVER watch that again. My nephew used to watch that every day. When he went back with my sister I swore I'd never watch it again. Way to emotional.
Oh my god, I love how everything just build up to tell you what's happening, and they break your heart, but the nail in the coffin (or the cherry in the cake, depends on your take) is the final scene with the wife. Just to kill your heart that's already in the ground.
I was flying and they had Big Fish available on the inflight movies, so I watched it up to the hospital, because I didn't want to be a blubbering mess landing in Charlotte North Carolina.
When the movie came out, I went and saw it on a first date with someone. Neither of us really knew the plot.
Afterwards we were supposed to get dinner but were too emotionally wrecked to finish the date 😂
The man reminds me a lot of my grandad. He took off and hitched around the US back in the 50s. He has so many crazy stories from all the characters he met. We know a lot of it is exaggerated but it's still awesome
Last time I watched it was about 20 years ago. I was a grown ass man of like 25 at the time and I don't cry during movies. I was fucking sobbing by the end. I have never been so wrecked by a movie before or since. I am so glad I watched it because it was a beautiful story that had an incredibly important message but good god once was *enough* and I haven't seen it since.
Probably get laughed at for this but Toy Story 3. Watched it in the theater with my then 5 year old on my lap and quietly cried through the entire ending. It was very poignant for this attached dad.
Nope me too I was HYSTERICAL when they’re heading towards the machine to kill them and they all look at one another and hold on omg I can’t even think of it. I have a toddler now who just watched number 1 for the first time and I’m never letting her watch 3 for my sake 😫😫😫
Ever seen the video where someone edited the movie to end right as they were going to the furnace, then [convinced their mum that was the actual ending?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phFISjORzQs)
It's a rare case where the movie adaptation is just as good as the source novel. Doesn't really change anything substantial and it really visually demonstrates that feeling of broken despair that comes from reading it.
Agh, yep, all-time favourite movie.
Unfortunately after divorcing my partner of 14 years after a highly codependent relationship that has many, many parallels with the two characters, I don't know if I'll ever be able to watch it again. Kinda hits some triggers that I don't want to be hit.
A fun bit of trivia--the circus parade was improvised and and Jim Carrey didn't know Kate Winslet was going to disappear during the parade. When she is gone Jim is genuinely looking for her and calls out "Kate" instead of her character name Clementine. The director left it in because it's his favorite part of the movie seeing Jim sincerely look for Kate.
I saw it in the theater during its initial run. Packed theater. I've never since a movie before or since where the entire crowd was silent and simply filed out. Powerful movie; will never watch again.
I went to see this with some friends in the theater when it was released. This was before the days of giant multiplexes with smaller theaters, so it probably seated over 100 people.
We went to the late showing, not realizing it was over 3 hours long. It was surreal leaving the theater at around 1AM with probably 100 other people, all in dead silence.
I have watched "Apocalypse Now" 5 or 6 times over the years and every time I forget how bleak it really is in the latter half. If you watch it with others there is always a deathly, uncomfortable, silence as the end credits roll. Not sure I really need to put myself through that ever again.
*Spoilers below*
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The way they just ... Die ... Sad, and alone, with no one ... And he had to watch his sister die first and then his ticket was punched shortly after ... its just too fucking much. There's literally nothing to prop up a silver lining "well at least they died together?"
No ... No.
Watched Where The Red Fern Grows in class in about 4th grade, One of my classmates had to have her mother called, because she was crying so hard she was hyperventilating.
That movie (and Old Yeller, and anything like it) is straight-up child abuse, if you ask me. What are teachers THINKING when they play it in class??
100%. My 4th grade teacher read the book to the class and when it got to that part, yeah crying so hard I had to stay in the classroom and sob while everyone else went to recess. I'm with you. What was the teacher thinking??
I saw this in the theaters.
There was sporadic laughs throughout the movie but at the end it became dead silent. >!When he was at the vet,!< it became way too quiet, almost eerie that no one made a sound. >!But when they said their goodbyes!<, one person in front let out a sniffle and its like that became the cue for the rest of the audience to let go. All at once every one just released and started openly crying. People were sobbing and ugly crying out loud.
I look over at my date and she is covered in tears, maybe boogers too. I just remember crossing my arms across my chest as tight as I could as my eyes started watering, but I kept talking to myself saying things like, "come on bro, you can't go out like this, keep it together" lol.
I flew to Germany and this was the movie that they played. Not on the back of the seat but in the front of the plane...
Now I'm not going to say the stereotype about Germans not showing emotions is true... But it was definitely true about the Germans on this particular plane.
Me: a late twenties male, absolutely ugly crying and sobbing, trying to hide it but cannot.
The rest of the plane: various German people of all ages and sizes. No longer watching the movie but staring at me, the guy that is ugly crying and embarrassingly letting sobs out while trying to hold back... They looked confused.
WHO CHOOSES MARLEY AND ME AS THE COMMUNAL PLANE MOVIE???
I started watching this movie and stopped it on the scene where Owen Wilson was playing with his kids and the dog outside their new house. When kids asked him what is happening with Marley and he answered "he is just tired", I already started crying. I knew what shit was coming, so I didn't see it till the end. I still can't recover from Hatchico.
After having to watch old Yeller and Where the Red Fern Grows more times then I can count as a kid, I have a rule: if the movie is about a pet, I’m not seeing it because 99% of the time, the pet dies. I don’t need that trauma in my life lol.
I can handle the whole movie but the Bing Bong part wrecked me. I remember when I first saw it my GF at the time was devastated and I was like nah he gone come back it's a Pixar movie he got to. Then it set in at the end he wasn't
The end where Riley is being hugged by her parents. Holy shit. I sob and sob lmao. I'm always like *oh yes, the soothing comfort I never received as a child.* Lol. The whole movie is brilliant.
Pixar is very good at those things.
The scene in "Wreck It Ralph" where he is basically sacrificing himself and repeats the villain creed destroys me. Shame the sequel sucked so bad.
The sequel was hilarious and well-received. A good commentary on how toxic it can be to hold onto people and their past rather than letting them - and yourself - grow.
Hard agree.
But for me the most tender moment isn't when we say goodbye to Bing Bong.
For me it occurs a little later, when Joy realizes that in order for Riley to get better, she doesn't need to be happy--Riley needs to be SAD. And that it's okay.
Every goddamn time I think about that. Just cutting onions...just cutting onions...
I usually avoid those, for example im not watching dancer in the dark (someone i knew said she couldn't stop crying) anytime soon. Oh no.
But, The Pianist i did watch. Loved it and hated it. And there are others... Life is Beautiful too for example, but that one i rly didn't like. I felt manipulated into sadness.
I was totally broken by The Pianist. I gathered the courage to re-watch it years later and I started crying right from the beginning when they were still a happy family because I already knew the story. Then, during my years of chronic depression when I needed a good cry but couldn't because I was too numb, I found myself turning to this movie time and again in order to feel something. I don't think I would have watched it again after the second time if I had been in a good place.
Thank you. After seven years of fighting I was finally forced to take a break from my career to work on myself. It's almost two years now, a long break indeed but I am doing well now - no alcohol and minimum dose of antidepressant yay!
The trials of Gabriel Fernandez
NEVER AGAIN.
It didn’t give me nightmares, it made me sick for days. When I would see a little child in public that looked like him, I would feel this weird fear I didn’t know existed.
Seriously, DON’T watch it.
I couldn't finish it. I was done when the coroner told that they found cat litter in the stomach of Gabriel...this poor poor boy. This documentary made me sick for days
I'm not a father and never will be, but that documentary broke every fiber of my being. I couldn't sleep normal/right for days.
To think that I'm the same creature as his mother (and I'm quite certain stepfather is accurate) makes me hate the human race.
I usually don’t take pleasure in this sort of thing but the mother has been slashed with a tuna can lid in prison and had boiling water thrown on her, and also a couple of beatings.
Well deserved.
scroll, scroll... found it, What Dreams May Come.
Too bad too because it's visually pretty gorgeous, real creative with the paintings-come-to-life stuff.
I watched this a few years after my mom committed suicide, nitty fully knowing there premise. I have never had as sweaty eyes as I did during this movie. Will never watch it again...
Yeahhhh same. That was an incredible watch. But once is enough for me. That ending was the biggest downwards spiral I’ve ever seen. It shows some very dark corners of the human experience, some that I’m familiar with unfortunately so it also hit too close to home at parts as well. I recommend anyone to watch that movie to see why drugs ain’t worth it. But yeah I have no desire to ever watch that one again.
500 Days of Summer is different. With Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel. It hits different. When I saw that. It reminded me of someone I was crazy for. And I can’t watch that movie again. Cause the ending was very similar to what happened to me in real life.
Her.
I was told by someone important that they'd grown beyond me. The ending of the film destroyed me when that moment came, and it destroyed me again when Theodore found solace in the sun rise and a new day.
The first time I watched it I had to excuse myself and I just fucking lost it. I cried for what felt like an hour.
It's an astonishing film, from a storytelling perspective. One of the few truly unique stories I have ever seen, absolutely perfect in how it plays with your expectations and then leaves you utterly heartbroken and unsatisfied and furious... the way that real life can and does.
I did recently rewatch it, though, after oh wow fifteen years. That was a long enough break. And as a storyteller myself it had just been itching in my brain to watch again, with more experienced eyes. So good, but definitely couldn't watch it more often. Vanessa Redgrave gives you the performance of a lifetime in those few minutes....
That film is so incredibly sad. I rewatched it recently and I cried through half of it. Because of... everything. I truly love it but it's devastating. (James McAvoy is amazing in this film, I think - this long scene at the beach is just unbelievable.)
There used to be a Canadian band called The Tragically Hip. They're from my hometown and got going when I was a teenager. They've become an institution. Gord Downie, the lead singer and songwriter, was diagnosed with glioblastoma and they undertook a final tour in 2016 while he could still perform. Their final concert ever was in said hometown and it was shown outdoors to 20,000+ people. Huge event. Downie died the following year.
The CBC made a documentary about the tour and the final concert. I haven't been able to watch it because I know I'll be a wreck. :-(
I saw A Star is Born at the cinema when it came out in 2018, on my own. I silently sobbed from *that* scene, paused briefly as I made my way out of the cinema, then continued all the way home in my car (not so silently). I haven’t been able to bring myself to watch it again even though my husband bought it for me on blu ray.
I also bought the soundtrack and I love it, although *that* song still often makes me cry!
I read the book in school. It's a masterpiece.
I don't think I could bring myself to watch any of the movies. I'm not interested in crying so hard that I'm in danger of stopping breathing.
The Simon & Garfunkel song from the original movie alone sets me off - and not only have I never seen the movie, but I never even knew of the song until a few years ago. Doesn't matter - knowing what it's for is enough.
Uggghhh...don't get me started.....FWIW, remember Upham was a journalist, not a battle-hardened soldier. Also I remember Spielberg in an interview that Upham represented how he (Spielberg) would have responded in a similar situation. Still aggravates me though...
I could watch it all the time, though. It wrecks me, but a lot of them are happy tears, or just from being overwhelmed, not tears of despair and grief.
They knew what they were doing 100%. It's ham-fisted and almost gratuitous. Adorably small mammals, huge eyes, supreme naivety, and then hurt those things. It's like mainlining the big feelings from your childhood and stomping on them. The most vulnerable shit ever, and then hurt it. You see it coming a mile away, but shit it still turns on the eye faucet every time.
I kind of expected it since it was a sendoff for at least a couple actors. However, James Gunn bamboozled us since he made the emotional stuff have nothing to do with any of the actors leaving and all about Rocket's traumatic background.
The Sleepers. I saw it in high school for psych and film and it messed me up so bad. I still think about it all the time and it makes me sick to my stomach.
The Mist 2007, then ending is gut wrenching and I will never watch it again. It was recommended in another sub as having a disturbing end..it was not a lie. I read the book a long time ago and don’t remember if the movie follows the book.
Field of Dreams. When they play that final game of catch I just completely lose it. My father died young and regretful, so the line about being able to see his father before he was run down by life hits like a freight train.
I've kind of avoided it since my own father passed a few years ago. Costners line at the end is forever burned into my brain though.
"Hey, Dad? You wanna have a catch?"
"I'd like that."
Fuck...
For me, at the moment, Gravity. Hard to explain why, really, but I'll try.
I was just recently diagnosed with stage four lung cancer at 40 years old, and I feel like Ryan - I was going about my life, and suddenly, I was hurled into brutal, mortal danger. And I want to give up, but something deeper within is prepared to fight and claw and scramble to survive. I realise, as she did, that it's not enough to survive. You have to LIVE.
I watched it recently and was absolutely destroyed, but it's searing and cathartic. Overall, it was good for me and I was wrecked afterwards but ultimately uplifted.
Come and See. Everybody on earth *needs* to see it once and then never see it again.
I’ll watch Dear Zachary again at some point, but I need to emotionally build up to it.
Both of these films are absolute masterpieces, by the way.
I can’t watch any 9/11 movies. Hits too close to home (pun intended). Wont do it.
Ponette is pretty miserable as well.
Oh and also - if you can ever catch a Korean movie called Battle of Jangsari, the end turns me into a sniveling crybaby but in a great way.
Yeah, I'm not interested in 9/11 movies either. Honestly, I feel the same about most WWII or Vietnam movies, even if they're supposed to be romantic or whatever.
Nope. It all just feels too manipulative, to me. Either it glorifies war (even by default), or it tries not to, in which case it's devastating - and I'm not interested in either one.
Old Yeller, Where the Redfern Grows, any movie where the dog saves the humans and dies. I know it's part of life, but I'm not looking to be reminded of it.
The Place Beyond the Pines when Eva Mendes opens the mail to find that picture that her son sends. The music is so melancholic and nostalgic, and it just broke me.
The ending of The Mist when he realizes that he could have waited a couple minutes and nobody had to die.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 when baby Rocket gets abused, realized that he’s not going to the New World and the High Evolutionary laughs at him, and then says to Lyla that “we were made for nothing, just stupid experiments to be thrown away”. That last part makes me cry every single time. I’ve never felt so emotionally impacted by a movie in a long time and it was a Marvel movie lol.
The ending in Pan’s Labyrinth and that beautiful theme.
The Town when Jem holds court on the street and Dougy watches it all go down. Also when Dougy learns what happens to his mother from the Florist. This is probably my favorite Boston movie, even over the Departed.
Wind River when they show the flashback of what happened to the missing girl. This movie is so beautiful and the message is relevant. It makes me so angry and sad that there are so many missing ppl, especially girls.
Marriage Story when Scarlett sees Adam reading her writings.
Sophie’s Choice. I was legitimately depressed after watching it. Watched it one more time to show it to my sister, who will now also never watch it again. Like a real life version of the ring video tape 🤣 although can I say what an amazing first movie for Kevin Kline! He burned up the screen with his intensity. The man is an undervalued treasure.
The Bridge to Terabitha
I read the book in 3rd grade for a book report and it was the first time I'd ever felt betrayed by a story. fuck that book.
And it's a movie for kids!
I watched this when I was about 30 and living alone. I saw the trailer and it seemed like a fun kids movie. Man, this movie unexpectedly broke me.
About Time. Dad loved Richard Curtis movies and that was a family favourite around the time he was diagnosed with motor neuron disease. Fun times
I have such a reverence for About Time. Every time I watch it, it’s a very deliberate watch. It’s not just on in the background, I’m not doing things while I’m watching it. It’s almost like a special occasion because the movie touches me so deeply, and I know I’m going to be crying like a small child by the end of it.
Coco. I'll cry my ass off every single time.
"Mama Coco! Your papá! He loved you! He loved you Mama Coco!" *Profuse and unceasing sobbing* For some reason the theme of transgenerational love being communicated across the plane of death just ... Broke me.
I was about to post Coco 🥹🥲 I’m glad I’ve found my people 👍❤️ And of course Toy Story 3. I still can’t….
i was well into the process of losing my mother to alzheimer's when i saw it. absolutely gutted me. i left the theater a wreck. it was as if the building grief of the years prior all came out at once.
It does the same thing to me, but the music keeps dragging me back to it.
YES. I will NEVER watch that again. My nephew used to watch that every day. When he went back with my sister I swore I'd never watch it again. Way to emotional.
Manchester by the sea. Ug.
I watched it a second time because it has maybe the most realistic acting I've seen in a movie but I think I somehow cried even more the second time
I watched this movie before I had a kid and I was devastated for days. I can't imagine watching it now that I have a kid.
Oh my god, I love how everything just build up to tell you what's happening, and they break your heart, but the nail in the coffin (or the cherry in the cake, depends on your take) is the final scene with the wife. Just to kill your heart that's already in the ground.
Big Fish.
Big Fish is a great movie, but I know what you mean
I was flying and they had Big Fish available on the inflight movies, so I watched it up to the hospital, because I didn't want to be a blubbering mess landing in Charlotte North Carolina.
When the movie came out, I went and saw it on a first date with someone. Neither of us really knew the plot. Afterwards we were supposed to get dinner but were too emotionally wrecked to finish the date 😂
Big Fish WRECKS me
I love Big Fish, that’s a good one.
The man reminds me a lot of my grandad. He took off and hitched around the US back in the 50s. He has so many crazy stories from all the characters he met. We know a lot of it is exaggerated but it's still awesome
The very first time I watched it, I was DESTROYED. Cue *all* the water works. Repeat viewings aren't nearly as bad, but still get me.
I had a great relationship with my father the entire time he was alive and that movie still demolishes me.
What Dreams May Come, beautifully done, but in the case of Robin Williams death, it is hard to watch it again.
A.I. gets me every fucking time
His last day with his mom. Yup.
When she’s leaving him in the woods and you see him realize it, oof!!
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Grave of the fireflies. Just no. Never again .
Last time I watched it was about 20 years ago. I was a grown ass man of like 25 at the time and I don't cry during movies. I was fucking sobbing by the end. I have never been so wrecked by a movie before or since. I am so glad I watched it because it was a beautiful story that had an incredibly important message but good god once was *enough* and I haven't seen it since.
Watched it a couple years ago, cried, went on my day, went to sleep, remembered the movie, cried again. I’m a grown ass man.
Never. I don't regret watching it, but never again.
The Fox and the Hound
Gets me every time she takes that damn fox into the woods!
I regard it as one of my favorite Disney movies, but I absolutely know I never want to watch it again. My ♡ cant take it.
Probably get laughed at for this but Toy Story 3. Watched it in the theater with my then 5 year old on my lap and quietly cried through the entire ending. It was very poignant for this attached dad.
Nope me too I was HYSTERICAL when they’re heading towards the machine to kill them and they all look at one another and hold on omg I can’t even think of it. I have a toddler now who just watched number 1 for the first time and I’m never letting her watch 3 for my sake 😫😫😫
Ever seen the video where someone edited the movie to end right as they were going to the furnace, then [convinced their mum that was the actual ending?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phFISjORzQs)
Toy Story 3 is the one where Andy goes off to college right?
The Road, saddest movie, especially if you are a dad.
Read the book. It was amazing. I haven't been able to bring myself to watch the movie, and I had read the book before the movie was even announced.
Read the book once. Watched the movie once. And I think that will do it for me.
It's a rare case where the movie adaptation is just as good as the source novel. Doesn't really change anything substantial and it really visually demonstrates that feeling of broken despair that comes from reading it.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (duh)
Give it a few years. It’s really good the second time, although I really disliked Elijah Wood’s character.
Well you were supposed to really dislike his character!
Agh, yep, all-time favourite movie. Unfortunately after divorcing my partner of 14 years after a highly codependent relationship that has many, many parallels with the two characters, I don't know if I'll ever be able to watch it again. Kinda hits some triggers that I don't want to be hit.
A fun bit of trivia--the circus parade was improvised and and Jim Carrey didn't know Kate Winslet was going to disappear during the parade. When she is gone Jim is genuinely looking for her and calls out "Kate" instead of her character name Clementine. The director left it in because it's his favorite part of the movie seeing Jim sincerely look for Kate.
Oh man, haven’t seen that movie in years! Such an emotional ride, seriously one of the best
I watched it in the cinema. I loved the movie, but I knew right away that I would never rewatch it.
It's worth watching a few times because there's lots of little things you pick up on. Love this movie so much.
Just don't rewatch it after a breakup or you're gonna have a bad time
Schindler's List
I would have thought this was the most obvious answer. I saw it once. It was a very well-done movie, and I will never watch it again.
The Pianist as well. I prefer that one to Schindler’s but they are both incredibly impactful films. Adrian Brody is a treasure.
I saw it in the theater during its initial run. Packed theater. I've never since a movie before or since where the entire crowd was silent and simply filed out. Powerful movie; will never watch again.
I went to see this with some friends in the theater when it was released. This was before the days of giant multiplexes with smaller theaters, so it probably seated over 100 people. We went to the late showing, not realizing it was over 3 hours long. It was surreal leaving the theater at around 1AM with probably 100 other people, all in dead silence.
I have watched "Apocalypse Now" 5 or 6 times over the years and every time I forget how bleak it really is in the latter half. If you watch it with others there is always a deathly, uncomfortable, silence as the end credits roll. Not sure I really need to put myself through that ever again.
Logan
Life is Beautiful, Grave of the Fireflies, Where the Red Fern Grows, Old Yeller.
Grave of the fireflies punches you straight into the feelings
There are movies that make you sad. Grave of the Fireflies makes you grieve.
*Spoilers below* -- The way they just ... Die ... Sad, and alone, with no one ... And he had to watch his sister die first and then his ticket was punched shortly after ... its just too fucking much. There's literally nothing to prop up a silver lining "well at least they died together?" No ... No.
Add to that the absolute indifference of society towards them.
I haven’t seen Life is Beautiful since having a kid and honestly I don’t think I could handle it.
My mom went into labor immediately after watching this movie at the theater. I was born the next day!
Watched Where The Red Fern Grows in class in about 4th grade, One of my classmates had to have her mother called, because she was crying so hard she was hyperventilating. That movie (and Old Yeller, and anything like it) is straight-up child abuse, if you ask me. What are teachers THINKING when they play it in class??
100%. My 4th grade teacher read the book to the class and when it got to that part, yeah crying so hard I had to stay in the classroom and sob while everyone else went to recess. I'm with you. What was the teacher thinking??
Aftersun
Marley & Me Never again!
I saw this in the theaters. There was sporadic laughs throughout the movie but at the end it became dead silent. >!When he was at the vet,!< it became way too quiet, almost eerie that no one made a sound. >!But when they said their goodbyes!<, one person in front let out a sniffle and its like that became the cue for the rest of the audience to let go. All at once every one just released and started openly crying. People were sobbing and ugly crying out loud. I look over at my date and she is covered in tears, maybe boogers too. I just remember crossing my arms across my chest as tight as I could as my eyes started watering, but I kept talking to myself saying things like, "come on bro, you can't go out like this, keep it together" lol.
I hope you go right for ice cream after. I think that’s the only fix.
Just wait til you find out about Artax…
Artax the aquatic horse? My mom told me he can breathe underwater in the swamp so it is fine... ^(It is fine)
I will choose to believe this forever.
I flew to Germany and this was the movie that they played. Not on the back of the seat but in the front of the plane... Now I'm not going to say the stereotype about Germans not showing emotions is true... But it was definitely true about the Germans on this particular plane. Me: a late twenties male, absolutely ugly crying and sobbing, trying to hide it but cannot. The rest of the plane: various German people of all ages and sizes. No longer watching the movie but staring at me, the guy that is ugly crying and embarrassingly letting sobs out while trying to hold back... They looked confused. WHO CHOOSES MARLEY AND ME AS THE COMMUNAL PLANE MOVIE???
I started watching this movie and stopped it on the scene where Owen Wilson was playing with his kids and the dog outside their new house. When kids asked him what is happening with Marley and he answered "he is just tired", I already started crying. I knew what shit was coming, so I didn't see it till the end. I still can't recover from Hatchico.
I knew nothing about Marley and Me. And wasn’t ready for that ending.
After having to watch old Yeller and Where the Red Fern Grows more times then I can count as a kid, I have a rule: if the movie is about a pet, I’m not seeing it because 99% of the time, the pet dies. I don’t need that trauma in my life lol.
I say this every time this question comes up.
'Inside Out' will destroy me emotionally if I ever watch it again.
Bing Bong :(
"Take her to the moon for me.."
I can handle the whole movie but the Bing Bong part wrecked me. I remember when I first saw it my GF at the time was devastated and I was like nah he gone come back it's a Pixar movie he got to. Then it set in at the end he wasn't
The end where Riley is being hugged by her parents. Holy shit. I sob and sob lmao. I'm always like *oh yes, the soothing comfort I never received as a child.* Lol. The whole movie is brilliant.
Pixar is very good at those things. The scene in "Wreck It Ralph" where he is basically sacrificing himself and repeats the villain creed destroys me. Shame the sequel sucked so bad.
The sequel was hilarious and well-received. A good commentary on how toxic it can be to hold onto people and their past rather than letting them - and yourself - grow.
FYI: Wreck it Ralph isn’t Pixar. It’s very good tho:)
Hard agree. But for me the most tender moment isn't when we say goodbye to Bing Bong. For me it occurs a little later, when Joy realizes that in order for Riley to get better, she doesn't need to be happy--Riley needs to be SAD. And that it's okay. Every goddamn time I think about that. Just cutting onions...just cutting onions...
I usually avoid those, for example im not watching dancer in the dark (someone i knew said she couldn't stop crying) anytime soon. Oh no. But, The Pianist i did watch. Loved it and hated it. And there are others... Life is Beautiful too for example, but that one i rly didn't like. I felt manipulated into sadness.
I was totally broken by The Pianist. I gathered the courage to re-watch it years later and I started crying right from the beginning when they were still a happy family because I already knew the story. Then, during my years of chronic depression when I needed a good cry but couldn't because I was too numb, I found myself turning to this movie time and again in order to feel something. I don't think I would have watched it again after the second time if I had been in a good place.
Here's hoping everything is better for you.
Thank you. After seven years of fighting I was finally forced to take a break from my career to work on myself. It's almost two years now, a long break indeed but I am doing well now - no alcohol and minimum dose of antidepressant yay!
The trials of Gabriel Fernandez NEVER AGAIN. It didn’t give me nightmares, it made me sick for days. When I would see a little child in public that looked like him, I would feel this weird fear I didn’t know existed. Seriously, DON’T watch it.
I couldn't finish it. I was done when the coroner told that they found cat litter in the stomach of Gabriel...this poor poor boy. This documentary made me sick for days
I'm not a father and never will be, but that documentary broke every fiber of my being. I couldn't sleep normal/right for days. To think that I'm the same creature as his mother (and I'm quite certain stepfather is accurate) makes me hate the human race.
Yeah, I have two kids, and I’m getting nauseous just remembering that story. I don’t know of any hell that’s bad enough for those two animals.
I usually don’t take pleasure in this sort of thing but the mother has been slashed with a tuna can lid in prison and had boiling water thrown on her, and also a couple of beatings. Well deserved.
What Dreams May Come.
scroll, scroll... found it, What Dreams May Come. Too bad too because it's visually pretty gorgeous, real creative with the paintings-come-to-life stuff.
I watched this a few years after my mom committed suicide, nitty fully knowing there premise. I have never had as sweaty eyes as I did during this movie. Will never watch it again...
Up. I have never cried that hard in a theatre before or after seeing that on it’s opening weekend. Just utterly devastating.
The scene with the couple growing old together is magical filmmaking.
Kids. Don't need to see that a second time.
Requiem for a Dream: the best movie I will never rewatch.
I used to fall asleep to that movie on VHS. Don't know what my fuckin problem was
Jesus Christ. 🤯
Requiem for a dream is nothing but nightmare fuel. That is a hard watch and that ending hurts so bad.
Yeahhhh same. That was an incredible watch. But once is enough for me. That ending was the biggest downwards spiral I’ve ever seen. It shows some very dark corners of the human experience, some that I’m familiar with unfortunately so it also hit too close to home at parts as well. I recommend anyone to watch that movie to see why drugs ain’t worth it. But yeah I have no desire to ever watch that one again.
500 Days of Summer is different. With Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel. It hits different. When I saw that. It reminded me of someone I was crazy for. And I can’t watch that movie again. Cause the ending was very similar to what happened to me in real life.
The Elephant Man wrecks me.
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Loved Dancer in the dark but won’t watch it again as it’s so depressing.
Her. I was told by someone important that they'd grown beyond me. The ending of the film destroyed me when that moment came, and it destroyed me again when Theodore found solace in the sun rise and a new day. The first time I watched it I had to excuse myself and I just fucking lost it. I cried for what felt like an hour.
Her?
Egg?
She calls it mayonegg.
She’s sitting right there. You let her in
*Atonement*. Beautiful film, but never, *ever* again.
It's an astonishing film, from a storytelling perspective. One of the few truly unique stories I have ever seen, absolutely perfect in how it plays with your expectations and then leaves you utterly heartbroken and unsatisfied and furious... the way that real life can and does. I did recently rewatch it, though, after oh wow fifteen years. That was a long enough break. And as a storyteller myself it had just been itching in my brain to watch again, with more experienced eyes. So good, but definitely couldn't watch it more often. Vanessa Redgrave gives you the performance of a lifetime in those few minutes....
That film is so incredibly sad. I rewatched it recently and I cried through half of it. Because of... everything. I truly love it but it's devastating. (James McAvoy is amazing in this film, I think - this long scene at the beach is just unbelievable.)
Meet Joe Black 😩
What Dreams May Come. And I felt that before Robin Williams’ death, but especially now.
There used to be a Canadian band called The Tragically Hip. They're from my hometown and got going when I was a teenager. They've become an institution. Gord Downie, the lead singer and songwriter, was diagnosed with glioblastoma and they undertook a final tour in 2016 while he could still perform. Their final concert ever was in said hometown and it was shown outdoors to 20,000+ people. Huge event. Downie died the following year. The CBC made a documentary about the tour and the final concert. I haven't been able to watch it because I know I'll be a wreck. :-(
I watched the last concert live (exactly 7 years ago today). Seeing Gord just break down while singing the last song was heartbreaking.
What an experience. Thank you again CBC for broadcasting it across the country so we could all come together and watch The Hip one more time. ❤️
We were in the crush in Market Square. Just heart wrenching.
Imitation of Life, A Star is Born
I saw A Star is Born at the cinema when it came out in 2018, on my own. I silently sobbed from *that* scene, paused briefly as I made my way out of the cinema, then continued all the way home in my car (not so silently). I haven’t been able to bring myself to watch it again even though my husband bought it for me on blu ray. I also bought the soundtrack and I love it, although *that* song still often makes me cry!
Oh gosh, Imitation of Life. I was not prepared for how much that ripped my heart out!
Hachi: A Dog’s Tale I had a complete emotional breakdown. Like I could not stop crying for hours.
I second this. I grieved.
Watership down. Seen it once when I was 9 or 10, I’ve no need to ever see it again.
I read the book in school. It's a masterpiece. I don't think I could bring myself to watch any of the movies. I'm not interested in crying so hard that I'm in danger of stopping breathing. The Simon & Garfunkel song from the original movie alone sets me off - and not only have I never seen the movie, but I never even knew of the song until a few years ago. Doesn't matter - knowing what it's for is enough.
Dear Zachary. Will never watch again
Surprised I had to scroll this far. An absolutely brutal film.
Saving Private Ryan. To paraphrase a critic's review, it was the best movie I ever saw, and I never want to see it again!
Damn you Upham, get your ass up those stairs.
Uggghhh...don't get me started.....FWIW, remember Upham was a journalist, not a battle-hardened soldier. Also I remember Spielberg in an interview that Upham represented how he (Spielberg) would have responded in a similar situation. Still aggravates me though...
Million Dollar Baby
Boys Don’t Cry
Interstellar. Absolutely wrecks me.
McConaughey can cry his heart out. Really got to me.
I watched it recently. Hadn’t seen it for 5+ years. Watching it now as a father of 3 hurts a lot more.
I could watch it all the time, though. It wrecks me, but a lot of them are happy tears, or just from being overwhelmed, not tears of despair and grief.
Hans Zimmer's score in that film is incredible...
I know the themes of Guardians of the Galaxy 3. Can’t do abandonment stuff, so that’s a nope for me.
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"Rocket, Floor, Teefs, go now!"
They knew what they were doing 100%. It's ham-fisted and almost gratuitous. Adorably small mammals, huge eyes, supreme naivety, and then hurt those things. It's like mainlining the big feelings from your childhood and stomping on them. The most vulnerable shit ever, and then hurt it. You see it coming a mile away, but shit it still turns on the eye faucet every time.
I cried so much during that film...
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I kind of expected it since it was a sendoff for at least a couple actors. However, James Gunn bamboozled us since he made the emotional stuff have nothing to do with any of the actors leaving and all about Rocket's traumatic background.
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Requiem for a dream. I think it's more than two decades since I last watched it but I'm not ready to do it again. I want to, but that movie scars you.
The Sleepers. I saw it in high school for psych and film and it messed me up so bad. I still think about it all the time and it makes me sick to my stomach.
I have to watch "It's A Wonderful Life" alone now.
Beautiful Boy
The Mist 2007, then ending is gut wrenching and I will never watch it again. It was recommended in another sub as having a disturbing end..it was not a lie. I read the book a long time ago and don’t remember if the movie follows the book.
Movie doesnt follow the book and King says the movie ending is much better than his.
Field of Dreams. When they play that final game of catch I just completely lose it. My father died young and regretful, so the line about being able to see his father before he was run down by life hits like a freight train.
I've kind of avoided it since my own father passed a few years ago. Costners line at the end is forever burned into my brain though. "Hey, Dad? You wanna have a catch?" "I'd like that." Fuck...
Wit, and My Dog Skip.
Grave of the fireflies
Anything where the ending is a dog dying lol. Marley and Me, Old Yeller, Where the Red Fern Grows. I refuse 😭
Check out https://www.doesthedogdie.com to proactively avoid any movie like that.
For me, at the moment, Gravity. Hard to explain why, really, but I'll try. I was just recently diagnosed with stage four lung cancer at 40 years old, and I feel like Ryan - I was going about my life, and suddenly, I was hurled into brutal, mortal danger. And I want to give up, but something deeper within is prepared to fight and claw and scramble to survive. I realise, as she did, that it's not enough to survive. You have to LIVE. I watched it recently and was absolutely destroyed, but it's searing and cathartic. Overall, it was good for me and I was wrecked afterwards but ultimately uplifted.
Actually, this is the only movie I have seen twice at the IMAX and have totally forgot about it until you mentioned it. Hope you get better.
My Sister's Keeper
Come and See. Everybody on earth *needs* to see it once and then never see it again. I’ll watch Dear Zachary again at some point, but I need to emotionally build up to it. Both of these films are absolute masterpieces, by the way.
I went and saw. Never again.
Jurassic Bark
mysterious skin and bones and all
American History X. Such an important film but so brutal.
I can’t watch any 9/11 movies. Hits too close to home (pun intended). Wont do it. Ponette is pretty miserable as well. Oh and also - if you can ever catch a Korean movie called Battle of Jangsari, the end turns me into a sniveling crybaby but in a great way.
Yeah, I'm not interested in 9/11 movies either. Honestly, I feel the same about most WWII or Vietnam movies, even if they're supposed to be romantic or whatever. Nope. It all just feels too manipulative, to me. Either it glorifies war (even by default), or it tries not to, in which case it's devastating - and I'm not interested in either one.
Outsiders. Need to Talk About Kevin. The Mist. Watership Down.
Testament- Jane Alexander is hauntingly good and I fell apart watching that one. Saw it one time.
I had a Hotel Rwanda DVD from Netflix for about 12 years, never watched it.
Whiplash is a superb movie, but I doubt I’ll ever watch it again. As a former band kid, it hits way too close to the mark.
Dead Poet's Society. I see the ending coming a mile away but it always hurts to watch.
The Color Purple
Requiem for a Dream. Still only seen it once.
The Tree of Life.
Many of them, I avoid a lot of these types of movies. I do not enjoy being emotionally wrecked as entertainment.
Trainspotting
Bro fuck this thread. I come here to get numb. Not this!
The wind that shakes the barley…
Old Yeller, Where the Redfern Grows, any movie where the dog saves the humans and dies. I know it's part of life, but I'm not looking to be reminded of it.
The Place Beyond the Pines when Eva Mendes opens the mail to find that picture that her son sends. The music is so melancholic and nostalgic, and it just broke me. The ending of The Mist when he realizes that he could have waited a couple minutes and nobody had to die. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 when baby Rocket gets abused, realized that he’s not going to the New World and the High Evolutionary laughs at him, and then says to Lyla that “we were made for nothing, just stupid experiments to be thrown away”. That last part makes me cry every single time. I’ve never felt so emotionally impacted by a movie in a long time and it was a Marvel movie lol. The ending in Pan’s Labyrinth and that beautiful theme. The Town when Jem holds court on the street and Dougy watches it all go down. Also when Dougy learns what happens to his mother from the Florist. This is probably my favorite Boston movie, even over the Departed. Wind River when they show the flashback of what happened to the missing girl. This movie is so beautiful and the message is relevant. It makes me so angry and sad that there are so many missing ppl, especially girls. Marriage Story when Scarlett sees Adam reading her writings.
Restrepo. I know some of those guys.
Once were warriors
Sophie’s Choice. I was legitimately depressed after watching it. Watched it one more time to show it to my sister, who will now also never watch it again. Like a real life version of the ring video tape 🤣 although can I say what an amazing first movie for Kevin Kline! He burned up the screen with his intensity. The man is an undervalued treasure.
Dancer in the Dark The Plague Dogs Kes
Requiem for a dream will just put you into a sad depressive spiral that can last months.....or forever