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What's your favourite? How do they leave you feeling afterwards? Why do you put yourself through that?

Schindler's List. The Fall. The Road. I watch them because sometimes I just like feeling sad for a specific reason.

Schindler's List is one of those movies that i love, but I have to be in the right mental place to watch.

My Girl, Lion King, Wrath of Khan, Return of the King (totally has a lot of sad bits), UP (the first part, so sad), Inside Out, A.I. (but can't watch too much because it is too sad),

I guess for me I like movies that have a lot of sad in them but have some hope too. Like, the ending isn't completely without hope.

So agreed about A. I., it's really good but it's just so sad I never watched it more than once or twice. I'd love to someday rewatch it with a close friend who won't make fun of my crying though.

Fucking My Girl, I cannot handle that funeral scene. Saddest thing ever. I've yet to make it through watching that movie without tearing up.

I'm with you about needing a positive ending. I just can't handle it otherwise.

I was reaaally confused for a moment, before I realized that "fucking" wasn't actually part of the title. *facepalm*

I'm sure there's an unfortunate porn spoof with that name.

Heehee!

Not really movies so I'll refrain from mentioning them (kind of don't need to anyway) but I'm happy to watch sad or depressing stuff as long as its main objective isn't to wring tears. Though I don't usually become fond of those that leave me a sobbing wreck, but the ones that just make my throat stick and my eyes water I'm fine with watching over and over again.

I started watching Brokeback Mountain yesterday, and then chickened out 3/4 of the way through. Then I watched the whole thing again today and braved the ending and I can't stop thinking about it and trying to rewrite it in my head to have a happy ending. The theme of never being able to go back really hit me hard this time. Also that movie has the double whammy depressing impact of Heath Ledger's death.

I also recently watched Room, which is just seriously bleak and traumatic. I think I need to find something uber happy to watch next...

Life as a House.

I watched it in high school so it always brings me back to that point in my life.

I still can't listen to How to Disappear Completely by Radiohead without tearing up because of that movie.

Sophie Scholl - Die Letzten Tage
It's intensely historically accurate (they took big chunks of the script from court and interrogation transcripts), and it is just so painful to be aware the whole time that these people were real, and they really did try to make their countrymen aware of how much the Nazis sucked, and they really did get killed for it.

Not many. I don't usually go for sad movies. One that comes to mind though is a pretty niche thing, not an American film - it's a movie in Spanish called Sin Nombre. The ending is...well, the main character has some hope but has also gone through hella shit. :/

Was a good movie overall though that I really enjoyed.

Edited 2017-03-12 21:28 (UTC)

Oh, I saw that movie. I know what you mean. I watch a LOT of movies, and that one isn't usually in my niche, but even though it's been years since I saw it, several scenes have really stayed with me. The experiences depicted just really rang true.

It was definitely really emotional, and well-done.

It's probably too new a movie to call a favorite, but I thought Logan was FUCKING INCREDIBLE and want to watch it a bunch more times, even though it was also incredibly bleak.

I don't usually do sad movies, not unless it has a definitely uplifting or happy ending. My favorite for that is About A Boy. Possibly one of my favorite movies period. It's nice, being able to feel all those emotions and having a clear happy satisfying resolution.

I do like to listen to sad music or watch sad music videos or even depression fanfic when in a certain mood. I have a problem where I don't really feel a lot of emotions, and also have trouble experssing those emotions, and reading/watchign sad things can help me fully experience that spectrum when I need to.

My favorite sad movies are movies in which the sadness just...feels so right. Like the story couldn't have ended any other way, the tragedy was telegraphed from the beginning, but the characters needed to suffer these consequences so it feels correct and just for them to end up unhappy.

The best example I can think of is "The Wings of the Dove" -- I never read the Henry James novel, so I don't know how faithful of an adaptation is, but I loved the movie. If any two of the love triangle had ended up happily together, I would have been outraged (OUTRAGED, I tell you).

Then there are the movies like "A Single Man," which leave me sobbing as the credits roll and then depressed for days afterwards. I don't knowingly walk into those if I can help it.

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, probably.

I feel jealous but also hopeful afterwards, and I put myself through it because I love the movie and also because everybody needs some good catharsis now and then.

Grave of the Fireflies. I severely embarrassed myself the first time I saw it, because we watched it in class and I was pretty much inconsolable by the end, but I do love it.

And Pan's Labyrinth. Less in spite of how bleak and darkly whimsical and horrifying it is, and more because of that. Also the ending is somewhat happy. Enough, anyway.

Always and forever, the Iron Giant. Because they're good tears.

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