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[Spyro: Ripto's Rage! & Spyro: Year of the Dragon]

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[The Shape of Water]

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[The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air]

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[Brooklyn 99]

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[Community]

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[The Exorcist on Fox]

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[silent/early sound film]

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(Panda and Rintaro, Polar Bear Cafe)

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Grave of the Fireflies. It upset even a relatively stoic person I knew so I think it would make me a sad nervous wreck. I still want to watch it... someday.

I watched it, like, once? Twice? That was more than enough..,

It’s like Requiem for a Dream. Something you can only watch once. God it was heartbreaking. And disturbing. And just in general upsetting.

I'm a big ole Labyrinth fan and I cannot bring myself to watch Requiem for a Dream and see older Sarah in those situations.

I enjoyed it but holy shit it's hard, I won't lie.

Even knowing what happened, it was still kind of hard to watch.

Same. My friend watched it and she was sad for days. I want to see it and I know everything that happens, but I'm not ready for it yet.

I... honestly didn't find it that sad? Like, it's a really sad movie, but Grave of the Fireflies just didn't land right with me, I guess. It was SO bleak all the way through that I couldn't connect with it at all.

This is a bit of a tasteless comparison to make, but it was sort of like the OTT hyper-edgy darkfic people write sometimes where every thirty seconds some new horror is inflicted on the poor protagonist (Harry Potter is beaten and raped by the Dursleys and then starved and locked in a cupboard and then they torture him and then he's rescued by Death Eaters and the torture continues for forty more chapters etc ad nauseum) and after a while it isn't even sad any more it's just sort of tedious?

I haven't read Grave Of The Fireflies, so I have no idea if this would be my reaction or not, but this was definitely what I was thinking when I read the synopsis for it. "Tedious" is definitely a good way to describe that kind of unvaried, predictable, uncontested misery.

But then again, I find The Road the saddest story ever, by about a mile, and it's very much misery from beginning to end. So IDK.

idk The Road (at least the movie) had a lot more going that helped me relate to and invest in the characters. It wasn't just misery, it had a lot of poignancy, too. It's sad because you know how ubiquitous coca cola is, and what it means for the father that he's found one can to share with his son.

Grave of the Fireflies isn't like that, to me. It's got like 30 seconds of happy anime kids twirling around at some point in there, but the entire rest of the movie is just shitty and grim and full of awful people doing awful things to each other.

Eh, I think the difference is Grave of the Fireflies addressed a very realistic scenario and things that did actually happen following WWII.

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