You might even say they were off-track.
Or railroaded into doing regrettable things…
I might be in love with you.
(Blushes and takes bow) – are you perchance that very rare creature, a female railfan?
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.
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.
Event Horizon and Jacob’s Ladder are both movies that fit the OP for me.
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.
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.
Mississippi Burning seems to have forgotten that Blacks were the focus of the American civil rights movement.
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.
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.
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.
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.
No, I’m that not-so-rare creature, a woman who is drawn to obsessed people.
Oh, God. That movie tears me up. I can’t watch it again, it just kills me.
The ending of the film:
Note that I copied that URL without watching the accompanying clip. I just can’t see it.
“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.
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.
Yes, this was snipped, but the same thing happened to me after I saw “Death and the Maiden”. Whoa, was that intense.
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.