# Movies that upset you terribly **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 15, 2014, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-upset-you-terribly/681417 "2014-02-15T13:21:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2014, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-upset-you-terribly/681417/61 "2014-02-17T20:16:28Z")
You might even say they were off-track. ---
**Author:** ![vontsira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/51bf81/32.png) [@vontsira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vontsira)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2014, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-upset-you-terribly/681417/62 "2014-02-17T21:10:14Z")
Or railroaded into doing regrettable things… ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2014, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-upset-you-terribly/681417/63 "2014-02-17T21:51:40Z")
> [@vontsira](#): > > I couldn’t give a damn about the bloody paintings, and find the people-butchering-people part, sort of medium-disturbing; but I grieve over the havoc perpetrated on the railways. This plainly marks me out as an obsessed hobby-nerd with seriously wrong priorities… I might be in love with you. ---
**Author:** ![vontsira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/51bf81/32.png) [@vontsira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vontsira)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2014, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-upset-you-terribly/681417/64 "2014-02-17T22:57:14Z")
> [@vontsira](#): > > When watching the film – I couldn’t give a damn about the bloody paintings, and find the people-butchering-people part, sort of medium-disturbing; but I grieve over the havoc perpetrated on the railways. This plainly marks me out as an obsessed hobby-nerd with seriously wrong priorities… > [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I might be in love with you. (Blushes and takes bow) – are you perchance that very rare creature, a female railfan? ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2014, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-upset-you-terribly/681417/65 "2014-02-17T23:42:27Z")
I’m not upset by movies, typically, at least not for long. I saw _Salo_ and thought it seemed sort of dated and silly, and something like _Requiem for a Dream_ isn’t upsetting so much as a giant bummer. One exception I can think of was the scene in _The Killer Inside Me_ where Casey Affleck beats Jessica Alba, which made me feel physically sick, and which I hope I never see again. I’ll add the rape scene from _Irréversible_. Not white-knighting here, but that shit really gets to me. Seriously though, _The Hangover: Part II_ really did suck. Hard. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2014, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-upset-you-terribly/681417/66 "2014-02-17T23:46:14Z")
> [@Truman\_Burbank](#): > > _Life Is Beautiful_. The father’s ability to minimize the horror of being in a Nazi concentration camp for his son, just seemed to minimize the realities in a way that absolutely infuriated me. And, of course, they emerge unscathed in the end. > And then, to discover that my reaction was apparently quite ideosyncratic, bothered me all the more:confused: > I thought it was the most dishonest piece of tripe I’d ever seen, and the fact that it came from an Italian (Axis power) was the cherry on top. I tried to watch it and shut it off after about 10 minutes, because I couldn’t stand Roberto Benigni’s character. On the subject of Nazi movies, while I realize that “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” was produced to introduce children to awareness of the Holocaust without excessively traumatizing them, for me, that movie was one “Oh, get out of here” moment after another. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2014, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-upset-you-terribly/681417/67 "2014-02-17T23:48:57Z")
**Event Horizon** and **Jacob’s Ladder** are both movies that fit the OP for me. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2014, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-upset-you-terribly/681417/68 "2014-02-17T23:50:45Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > If this thread continues, it will surely feature a lot of overlap with the “bleak movies” thread we started about eight months ago. > > **Dear Zachary** fits both threads well. I did not know about the pivotal event in that movie until I saw it. While it wasn’t surprising, nothing I saw quite prepared me for it. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2014, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-upset-you-terribly/681417/69 "2014-02-18T00:02:20Z")
I liked _Life is Beautiful_ at the time, in part because I had a young son of my own, and was touched by the lengths to which the Benigni character went to shield his son from the horrors of the concentration camp. But I came to appreciate just how vigorously and shamelessly my emotional buttons were being pushed, and I haven’t seen it since. The abandonment of the child robot in _A.I._ really hit me hard, as did the implications for the boy at the end of _The Sixth Sense_. The only movie I can think of that I actually wanted to walk out of was _Liquid Sky_, a dumb dumb dumb tale of an alien taking in the New York City punk club scene. ---
**Author:** ![nevadaexile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb8c5e/32.png) [@nevadaexile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nevadaexile)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2014, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-upset-you-terribly/681417/70 "2014-02-18T00:09:59Z")
_ **Mississippi Burning** _ seems to have forgotten that Blacks were the focus of the American civil rights movement. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2014, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-upset-you-terribly/681417/71 "2014-02-18T00:19:08Z")
Only two movies really upset me. The first is **Kids**. Why was it so upsetting? Lil bro and I caught it on cable, and it was introduced by the station as a _documentary_. Thank God it isn’t, but it’s truly horrifying if you’re led to believe it’s real! The other is **The Mist** , though for a completely different reason. The story ends on a note of hope, not a semi-failed murder/suicide pact. I know I wasn’t the only fan of the story to have been really disturbed by the direction that the ending inexplicably took. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2014, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-upset-you-terribly/681417/72 "2014-02-18T00:28:46Z")
I may be odd, but _Zack and Miri Make a Porno_ really bothered me. I’m no prude, but watching Zack and Miri have their special moment filmed in front of a bunch of drooling douches kind of made me feel sick. And I felt queasy for a few weeks afterward whenever I thought of it. ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2014, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-upset-you-terribly/681417/73 "2014-02-18T01:53:51Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > Which reminds me, of all the extreme torture porn horror I’ve read about but not seen, I am actually intriqued with the idea of seeing “Martyrs”. Should I? I thought **Martyrs** was an excellent horror movie; yes, there are aspects that might make some people immediately cry “torture porn!” (I hate that term) but it has at least two things going for it that **Hostel** and others like it don’t have: there’s a purpose behind the events in the movie, a purpose that might be more disturbing than the acts themselves, and there’s a tremendous “switching tracks” shift in the movie that really disarms some viewers. I own **Martyrs** on DVD; I have no interest in owning **Hostel** or any of the **Saw** movies (except maybe the first one), if that means anything at all. ---
**Author:** ![jimbuff314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/32.png) [@jimbuff314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbuff314)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2014, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-upset-you-terribly/681417/74 "2014-02-18T01:58:49Z")
As an American Indian, the movie that I could not sit through again is _Dances With Wolves_. (Now, now, Costner-haters, not for those reasons.) Loved the movie, thought the actors delivered excellent performances. To see a recreation as faithful as that, to know that those poor people never stood a chance (though that did not stop them from trying, and trying, and trying) just tore me up inside. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2014, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-upset-you-terribly/681417/75 "2014-02-18T02:00:45Z")
> [@vontsira](#): > > (Blushes and takes bow) – are you perchance that very rare creature, a female railfan? No, I’m that not-so-rare creature, a woman who is drawn to obsessed people. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2014, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-upset-you-terribly/681417/76 "2014-02-18T02:57:27Z")
> [@](#): > > The abandonment of the child robot in A.I. really hit me hard Oh, God. That movie tears me up. I can’t watch it again, it just kills me. The ending of the film: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xRhCz0ELrKs/hqdefault.jpg "Film - A.I. - final scene - David's happiest day") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRhCz0ELrKs) Note that I copied that URL without watching the accompanying clip. I just can’t see it. ---
**Author:** ![chizzuk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@chizzuk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chizzuk)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2014, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-upset-you-terribly/681417/77 "2014-02-18T03:10:28Z")
“The Grey Zone,” a well-made but horrifying movie about Sonderkommandos in Auschwitz. So depressing that it made Schindler’s List seem uplifting to me by comparison. I was so upset after seeing it that I had to walk around campus aimlessly for an hour before I could face other people again. I will never watch “United 93.” I don’t think I could handle it. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2014, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-upset-you-terribly/681417/78 "2014-02-18T04:50:49Z")
I was hesitant to watch _United 93_, but I think you’ll find it’s worth your time. Very realistic, powerful and respectful. The DVD extras include footage of family members meeting the actors and actresses who play their loved ones on the doomed flight. Potent stuff. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2014, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-upset-you-terribly/681417/79 "2014-02-18T05:16:29Z")
> [@chizzuk](#): > > I was so upset after seeing it that I had to walk around aimlessly for an hour before I could face other people again. Yes, this was snipped, but the same thing happened to me after I saw “Death and the Maiden”. Whoa, was that intense. ---
**Author:** ![Ostrya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/35a633/32.png) [@Ostrya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ostrya)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2014, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-upset-you-terribly/681417/80 "2014-02-18T10:34:13Z")
Hilary Swank is a great actress, was fantastic in movie _Million Dollar Baby_, just an over-the-top depressing movie to watch - esp since no justice was seen to be doled to antagonist. What a miserable story. Another film I would have, after the fact, just as soon avoided was _Bridge to Terabithia_, a whole lot of no fun. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-upset-you-terribly/681417.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-upset-you-terribly/681417.md?page=5)