[mimicole]

Originally Posted by Jimmy_McNulty

This and The Road.

Noose craving stuff.

I've never heard anyone say that before, but I will be using it in future.





























Still laughing...

[cmq2]

Movies that grind you down:

Red Road (2006). A tale of isolation, poverty and obsession at the recently demolished Red Road flats in Glasgow.

Lilya 4-ever (2002). Escape from the poverty of Eastern Europe to a cushy job in Sweden turns into sex-trafficking.The film does not let up until the credits.

Address Unknown (2001). Another dysfunctional family tale from Korea. Hard to think of anything positive that occurred throughout.


Movies that are not as bleak as their theme suggests:

Melancholia (2011). end of the world run alongside a tale of a depressed Kirsten Dunst is more matter of fact than hopeless.

The Road (2009) apart from a couple of scenes, just trudges along and, their situation does not seem as dire as in the book.

4months, 3 weeks and 2 days (2007) Engrossing and superbly acted. This offsets the bleakness of the dying days of communism in Roumania and the central characters' predicament.

Winter's Bone (2010). Jennifer Lawrence lifts the film's tone with her feisty character out to save the family home.

[Big Boy Barry]

"Leaving Las Vegas"


By the end of it, I wanted to drop a nuke on Las Vegas, just to remove the rotting cesspool of misery from the face of this planet.

[Dean_Tipton]

Martyrs Pretty grim throughout!

[Big Boy Barry]

"Seven"

[PaulM1983]

Definitely Requiem For A Dream. There's not one single positive message in the whole film. It's completely soul destroying, but such a stunning movie.

[BastardBeaver]

Originally Posted by Dean_Tipton

Martyrs Pretty grim throughout!

Grim but exciting I thought.

[LykkieLi]

Originally Posted by Big Boy Barry

"Leaving Las Vegas"


By the end of it, I wanted to drop a nuke on Las Vegas, just to remove the rotting cesspool of misery from the face of this planet.

Very bleak!

'Betty Blue'.

[Supercell]

Jude, based on Jude the Obscure starring Winslet and Eccleston

[Big Boy Barry]

"Nil By Mouth"

[Sophie ~Oohie~]

Originally Posted by OnDatKryptonite

It really, really isn't. It's a semi autobiographical story by Akiyuki Nosaka. It is based on his experiences before, during, and after the firebombing of Kobe in 1945. It was written to document the truth of those times and also as a memorial tome to his sister.

So, nothing to do with the Jews or the Germans or the Holocaust but one man's story adapted later in life with certain names changed. Nothing stylised aside from the animation of Studio Ghibli. I'm actually mildly entertained that someone fed you that misinformation let alone that you repeated it.

No-one fed me anything, I watched it and obviously didn't follow it lol Well I was half right then, it's not about nuclear war!

Originally Posted by NorfolkBoy1

We Need To Talk About Kevin
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

And two of my favourite films of the last 12 months, not sure what that says about me!

We Need To Talk About Kevin is good, but the book is better. :-)

Originally Posted by Lou Kelly

Lake Mungo

I found that was more just strange.

[WhisperingGhost]

The Mist. The ending

[mgvsmith]

If you want a movie that takes a very bleak view of life, try 'Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia'.

Or the one that I truly felt down after, 'Never Let Me Go', depressing at every level.

[afx237vi]

Originally Posted by cmq2

4months, 3 weeks and 2 days (2007) Engrossing and superbly acted. This offsets the bleakness of the dying days of communism in Roumania and the central characters' predicament.

Reminded me of another Romanian film, The Death of Mr Lazarescu (2005). A very dark satire about an old geezer with a dodgy stomach who gets shuffled from hospital to hospital in the back of an ambulance. Very bleak, but brilliantly acted and quite moving. Coincidentally, it's on Film4 on Wednesday night at 1am. Well worth recording and watching later.

[Johnny Clay]

You want bleak? Why not treat yourself to a Michael Haneke season?

Benny's Video, The Piano Teacher, Funny Games, Hidden, The White Ribbon.

Afterwards you'll be whistling merrily down the road, clicking your heels, singing 'what a wonderful world'.

Then you'll walk into the traffic.

[sillybillybunto]

Originally Posted by WhisperingGhost

The Mist. The ending

The Mist has the most downbeat ending I've ever seen! I was like

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is pretty depressing through out. I actually felt unhappy for a few hours after watching it.

[Mr Teacake]

Benny's video

[Sophie ~Oohie~]

The Mist doesn't have that ending in the book.

[davetherave1701]

Stoic ...Uwe Boll directed prison movie 3 guys kicking the shit out of another guy in a prison cell for 90 mins

The passion of the Christ ...... 2 1/2hrs of an Imaginary character getting the living piss kicked out of him ..grim as fook

[bookaddict]

Dead Man Walking

[Finny Skeleta]

Naked
London to Brighton
The Plague Dogs

None of them about nuclear war, all of them very grim (but good).

[RodRuby93]

Star Trek: Generations

Now I admit that I'm a huge Star Trek: TNG fanatic, but the first film that featured the cast has evoked a perception of ambivalence within me. It is comprised of a justifiable enough storyline along with first rate special effects, yet I felt overwhelmed with detachment and dissatisfaction at the same time, the only explicable reason regarding this was that it's boring and reminiscent of an over budgeted, double length episode of TNG. However this feeling gradually diminished within the second half of the movie.

[davetherave1701]

Originally Posted by RodRuby93

Star Trek: Generations

Now I admit that I'm a huge Star Trek: TNG fanatic, but the first film that featured the cast has evoked a perception of ambivalence within me. It is comprised of a justifiable enough storyline along with first rate special effects, yet I felt overwhelmed with detachment and dissatisfaction at the same time, the only explicable reason regarding this was that it's boring and reminiscent of an over budgeted, double length episode of TNG. However this feeling gradually diminished within the second half of the movie.

Now ey ...Star trek Generations is my favorite film of all time

The last half hour or so is as close to perfection as Any Series or Film of Star trek has come .
Although DS9s The Visitor is damn close

[ironjade]

"We Need to Talk About Kevin". After 20 minutes of this I was ready to cut my wrists so I gave up on it.
Has Tilda Swinton ever played a normal person? Her catalogue of downtrodden neurotic losers is beginning to look a bit samey.

[Sazaleeno]

The War Game. It's up there with Threads for depicting what could have been....