|
|
Post by moviebuffbrad on Apr 29, 2020 7:45:34 GMT
Threads Dancer in the Dark I have Dancer in the Dark on my list of movies to watch, but it;s in subtitles, right? 🙁 Nope. They speak God's chosen language, American.
|
|
|
|
Post by Maly Class Productions on Apr 29, 2020 7:50:28 GMT
I would just throw this one movie out to mention: running on empty. Based on the user reviews on imdb. This film might be a recommendation. But then again you might have already seen it. Thank you. I haven't heard of that one. I will look into it.
|
|
|
|
Post by Maly Class Productions on Apr 29, 2020 7:50:44 GMT
I have Dancer in the Dark on my list of movies to watch, but it;s in subtitles, right? 🙁 Nope. They speak God's chosen language, American. Nice touch. 😉
|
|
|
|
Post by OldAussie on Apr 29, 2020 9:33:35 GMT
Remains of the Day
Once Upon a Time in America
On the Beach
|
|
|
|
Post by Maly Class Productions on Apr 29, 2020 18:11:29 GMT
Remains of the Day Once Upon a Time in America On the Beach I saw Remains of the Day because it was recommended on here when I made another thread about this sometime last year. Sadly it didn't hit me. Oh. And I should have mentioned that I have this problem that it is so very hard to even make tears build up...It sucks. I saw Once Upon a Time in America in 2002, 2003 or 2004 because I was a huge fan of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly and Once Upon a Time in the West, so I thought it would be great, but sadly it wasn't. 🙁 And thank you for the One the Beach recommendation, but I read that it's a Sci-fi/Drama. I'm hoping to find something more based in real life.
|
|
gw
Junior Member
@gw
Posts: 1,520
Likes: 557
|
Post by gw on Apr 30, 2020 3:40:09 GMT
I don't know if you're discounting hypothetical scenarios as sci-fi but When the Wind Blows is a very depressing movie. It's animated but the scenario is far too believable. It's about Great Britain being nuclear bombed, revolving around an elderly couple who has no place to go.
There is one movie that is surreal, so it probably fits in the fantasy category. It's Jim Henson's TV movie The Cube which is about a man forced to suffer an endless existence inside a cube no matter how much he tries to escape it. If you go through every realistic movie ever made and don't end up feeling anything, this existential dark comedy could be your movie of last resort.
|
|
|
|
Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 30, 2020 3:56:03 GMT
And thank you for the One the Beach recommendation, but I read that it's a Sci-fi/Drama. I'm hoping to find something more based in real life. It's about the last surviving humans after a nuclear war which no one knows exactly who started ... what is more real than that ?
|
|
|
|
Post by theravenking on May 1, 2020 0:34:46 GMT
The Great Silence - nihilistic western
The Piano Teacher - from the director of Funny Games
|
|
|
|
Post by pippinmaniac on May 1, 2020 1:30:39 GMT
Try an older movie-"How Green Was My Valley".
|
|
autumn
Junior Member
@autumn
Posts: 4,544
Likes: 3,635
|
Post by autumn on May 1, 2020 1:40:44 GMT
Mother
Requiem For a Dream
12 Years a Slave
Million Dollar Baby (I cried, and had a hard time with this one)
Girl Fight (this one has more to do with the flat tempo of the filming. Terrific performance, but depressing background of pain)
Green Mile (I will NEVER, ever watch that movie again because of how it affected me)
Seven Pounds (this can go either way)
Irreversible (be prepared, however, to face some hard emotions in this)
Blue Valentine (might be considered depressing, might also just be considered typical Lynchian creepy)
|
|
|
|
Post by Maly Class Productions on May 1, 2020 7:20:55 GMT
I don't know if you're discounting hypothetical scenarios as sci-fi but When the Wind Blows is a very depressing movie. It's animated but the scenario is far too believable. It's about Great Britain being nuclear bombed, revolving around an elderly couple who has no place to go. There is one movie that is surreal, so it probably fits in the fantasy category. It's Jim Henson's TV movie The Cube which is about a man forced to suffer an endless existence inside a cube no matter how much he tries to escape it. If you go through every realistic movie ever made and don't end up feeling anything, this existential dark comedy could be your movie of last resort. I thought about that one once, but animation I just don't think would do it for me. 😟 And hypothetical scenarios wouldn't be ones I'm against. And I don't have much hope for TV movies, but I might look into that one. Thank you.
|
|
|
|
Post by Maly Class Productions on May 1, 2020 7:22:50 GMT
The Great Silence - nihilistic western The Piano Teacher - from the director of Funny Games I do like foreign films, but for this I'd prefer English ones. Thank you for the suggestions though.
|
|
|
|
Post by Maly Class Productions on May 1, 2020 7:24:16 GMT
Try an older movie-"How Green Was My Valley". I do like many classic movies. I'll look into that one. Thank you.
|
|
|
|
Post by Maly Class Productions on May 1, 2020 7:30:53 GMT
Mother Requiem For a Dream 12 Years a Slave Million Dollar Baby (I cried, and had a hard time with this one) Girl Fight (this one has more to do with the flat tempo of the filming. Terrific performance, but depressing background of pain) Green Mile (I will NEVER, ever watch that movie again because of how it affected me) Seven Pounds (this can go either way) Irreversible (be prepared, however, to face some hard emotions in this) Blue Valentine (might be considered depressing, might also just be considered typical Lynchian creepy) - Mother was just too weird. Although I love Requiem. - 12 Years a Slave was very good, but it didn't make me depressed. - I saw Million Dollar Baby in the theaters and sadly I didn't enjoy it much. - And about Girl Fight. I assume you're talking about this one, right? www.rottentomatoes.com/m/girl_fight- I own Green Mile and I think it's great. - Seven Pounds was just too cheesy. I don't know how else to describe my disappointment. - Irreversible has been on my rent list for many years, but for this occasion I want an English speaking movie - I thought Blue Valentine would do it for me, especially because of what it deals with, but sadly I felt nothing. I so wish I was more easily saddened with tears or at least had them build up easily.
|
|
