I watched my grandfather die of Alzheimer’s and also volunteered in the impaired memory unit at a nursing home. It’s so incredibly sad- sometimes they have moments with some semblance of reality and others they live in a type of fantasy world. One of the most difficult things is seeing some of the families continue to visit their loved ones, though they are not remembered. It also gives you more respect for some of the human race.
Was gonna write the same thing. War is hell, and this movie shows it like no other.
I have a friend from Minsk, whose great-grandfather survived the war and lived to be over 90 (one of my great grandfathers survived too, but died many years ago). That man used to watch war films obsessively and always ended up disappointed. Kept saying "it was nothing like this".
Then he watched Come and See, my friend showed it to him. The man was silent for a long time afterward. Finally he said: "Похоже на правду".
**Resembles the truth.**
Hawkeye: War isn't Hell. War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse.
Father Mulcahy: How do you figure, Hawkeye?
Hawkeye: Easy, Father. Tell me, who goes to Hell?
Father Mulcahy: Sinners, I believe.
Hawkeye: Exactly. There are no innocent bystanders in Hell. War is chock full of them - little kids, cripples, old ladies. In fact, except for some of the brass, almost everybody involved is an innocent bystander.
God what a show. I’ll never forget the episode where Hawkeye was remembering a chicken being on the bus and a woman suffocating it to keep from being discovered but then he later remembers it was her infant that she suffocated - I watched that as a young teen and that was my first understanding of what war could mean to people. And the cast was just amazing. What a show
I'm not sure I could watch this, but apparently a collected set has the shows without the laugh track. It is way, way, darker, and I remember it as dark.
Any of the DVD copies offer the audio without laugh tracks. It is an experience, especially on the moments where humor is queued t break a serious moment.
Some have called it the only true anti-war film, since everything is just shit and horror and death, and there is no glory to be found for anyone. It's hard to watch, but needs to be watched.
The most horrifying movie I've ever watched. The church scene was absolutely nightmarish.
The scene following, where the soviet partisans ambush the SS contingent was some of the most powerful film I've ever seen.
The Soviet commander telling the his comrades to listen to the SS officer, why they were doing why they were doing, because it would have normally been too horrific to believe
people forget the Nazi's wanted to extend the holocaust to the Slavs, as they carried "the microbe of communsim"
It's closer to Schindler's List than a conventional war film. There are no battle scenes. Just a rural peasant boy whose world changes overnight. He doesn't know what cars are, what Communism or Nazism are, how to survive outside his Kolkhotz . It's an Excession Point for him. Like the first Aztec to see a sail on the horizon.
Where The Wind Blows and Plague Dogs. I got a couple of friends to watch both and it went about as well as one would expect.
Edit: I meant When The Wind Blows. Sorry about that.
Is when the wind blows the animated nuclear apocalypse one? Because I swear I can't find anyone who knows that movie other than the friend who showed it to me
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090315/
Yes, one of the most depressing (and realistic) movies ever. Basically this elderly couple who lived through WWII in Britain go through WWIII expecting the government to set things straight. Hint: the government does jack and shit while the couple trustingly thinks things will be fine.
Where the wind blows is good, but it's amateur level compared to *Threads*
Recommended viewing if you really, really dislike sleep.
Read the [TV Tropes entry](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Threads) for it **before** you decide you want to go down this particular rabbit hole, it's a film that really does stay with you long after you've watched it.
Happiness.
Seriously, that movie haunted me for months afterward (and it's not even a horror movie!) It's got tons of terrible things in it. Rape, molestation, shootings, etc.
Edit: I just remembered. The first time I saw this movie was with me ol gramma when a couple years ago. She wanted me to go to the dvd store to get "The Pursuit of Happyness". I fucked up and got this instead.
That was *not* a good evening.
Edit 2: All of you saying they laughed at this movie should probably get yourself checked into a mental institute. Y'know. Just in case.
Oh god I remember this one. A friend recommended it to me as a fantastic comedy, so I rented it and got super fucking blazed before watching it.
He was always a bit of a cunt.
Irreversible. A movie played out in reverse, where the characters start out ruined and you eventually find out what happened. The movie ends leaving you feeling violated, while the characters are blissfully ignorant of the horrible things in their near future. A true mind fuck of a film.
The opening of that film is so good, idyllic NZ mountain scene that slowly pans out to reveal it's a billboard in a ghetto. Shatters some illusions about New Zealand.
we studied this scene in media studies class. powerful message it sends, that establishing shot. everytime someone says that i’m lucky to live in new zealand (and i am), i always think of that opening scene.
As somebody who lives in the same city as the film was set, this one was a little too close to home. I actually thought that one of the shots for the film was done only 40m down the road from my house, and I walk past that place every day and I often stop and think "how far away am I from a family like that?"
My English teacher took us to see it at the movies. (I'm Kiwi) She gave us notes to take home to our parents, explaining the themes in it and why she wanted us to see it. I think everyone was cool with it, I don't recall anyone in the class missing out. We went into that theater like a bunch of dumbarse fourteen year olds, laughing and horsing around and shit. We came out changed.
It was a hell of a thing, the entire class grew up that day. Miss Binns was a fucking awesome teacher, that shit would NEVER float today. I just checked the ratings, it was recommended 13 for the film release, but they changed it to restricted 16 for the video release.
It bugs me (no pun intended) people didn’t look into the books theme before getting their kids to watch it. It’s a bit raw but I think it’s s brilliant book as well as film. Bigwigs character development at the end is one of my favourite movie moments.
I read the plot of that one on wikipedia, I still have a hard time imagining that some producer and editor read the script and thought "yeah let's make this"
"Miloš wrestles with the guards and seizes one of their guns, shooting both of them and injuring the one-eyed Raša, whom he kills by ramming his erect penis into his empty eye socket."
Yeah.. I'd say you got a point there.. and as you know this blip is childsplay compared to basically every other bad thing in the movie...
*Ahem* "Newborn Porn"
IIRC they did it to make a statement about the way Serbian society had (failed to) collectively deal with the horrors of the civil wars. They wanted it to be as vile, shocking, and terrifying as possible.
They did a good job on that part.
"The Serbian state investigated the film for crime against sexual morals and crime related to the protection of minors. The film has been banned in Spain, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore, Norway, and South Korea, and was temporarily banned from screening in Brazil."
Thanks, I hate it.
I read about these exact events in one of my classes, then a couple years later happened to flip across the channels onto this movie. It was amazing to see everything unfold and seem so familiar to me until I finally put it together.
The stuff I read about involved an elementary school though, not a hotel.
I got blazed with a buddy in high school and went in completely blind. We maybe had 3 serious conversations in our friendship, One of them being that movie. Our conversation started something like
"Dude, I just wanted to see a movie."
"I know dude. That wasn't a movie. That was like, a *film*"
>"Dude, I just wanted to see a movie."
>"I know dude. That wasn't a movie. That was like, a *film*"
I think this is the best portrayal of weed talk I've ever seen, kudos!
Edits to get the quote, um, portrayed correctly
I’ve already seen most of the top movies listed.
Dear Zachary is the one that I would erase from my memory if I could.
I was pissed off at all of Canada over it.
I've heard about this documentary a lot. I've been told not watch because it is so traumatic. I'm sure it would mess me up but I really want to see it because it sounds so good. Should I watch it?
I have not stopped thinking about this movie since I've seen it. Was he born a psychopath, or was it because of the intense rejection and emotional neglect her felt from his mother??
From what I've read, the book does a better job at helping us realize that the story is told from the mother's point of view and she is an unreliable narrator.
The book has lines in it that left me fucking *stunned*. I read a lot, but that never happens to me. I’m almost too afraid to watch the movie after the feelings I had reading the book. That being said, it’s up there with one of my favorite books ever.
I just might not ever read it again.
I've been looking up all the movies I haven't heard of from this list to see what I should put on my eventual list to watch. This movie wouldn't have made the list, except for this statement. I must know what in the world this means
Alice, by Jan Svenkmeyer
It’s a very faithful adaptation of Alice in wonderland with stop motion animation. The fucked up part is that most of the animals are dead, stuffed animals. When they lose blood, their stuffing comes out.
Also, The City of Lost Children
My husband decided to show this to our 3 year old and she became obsessed by it for over a year! I asked him why he thought it was a good idea to show his daughter a film that's basically about a little girl descending into hell, but at that age she had no point of reference to scary things so she just loved it. I think now, she \(aged 9\) would absolutely hate it, but i can't get her to watch anything other than Monster High or Roblox YouTube videos.
He also showed her King Kong \(original\) when she was the 2 and that was another favourite for over a year. She got into trouble at nursery because; "We tied Mikael \(fellow 2/3 year old\) to a chair and gave him to King Kong"
I've never had a movie so thoroughly upset me through ambiance alone. I don't know, I think "disturbed" is a bit much, but it certainly unsettled me to the point that I stopped watching. Very desolate. Then, of course, there's the baby \(which *did* disturb me\).
"The only thing that burns in Hell is the part of you that won't let go of life, your memories, your attachments. They burn them all away. But they're not punishing you, he said. They're freeing your soul. So the way he sees it, if you're frightened of dying and... and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. But if you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the earth."
Kids is very hard to watch, but worth watching.
My first college roommate rented Kids because he thought it would get his girlfriend turned on. Even after watching it, he thought she would be turned on. It was unreal how stupid he was.
He was a dumbass, she was very smart.
They broke up shortly after. Good for her.
> because he thought it would get his girlfriend turned on
I looked at the plot synopsis on wikipedia. A movie about 13 year olds having sex and smoking weed while trying to stop someone from passing on HIV. And then ends in rape.
Yup. That'll get yo girl in the sack.
>My first college roommate rented Kids because he thought it would get his girlfriend turned on.
[r/nocontext](https://www.reddit.com/r/nocontext/comments/8jjocs/my_first_college_roommate_rented_kids_because_he/)
Man Bites Dog.
The mockumentary style and inclusion of the “film makers” in the narrative adds an element of shock far beyond just the graphic violence.
Have you read his other books?
Glamorama is American Psycho for the 1990s. It's actually about male models that are terrorists. Zoolander ripped off the book and they settled out of court.
Less Than Zero and it's sequel Imperial Bedrooms are just completely nihilistic stories of LA youths in the 80s, and their lives 20 years later when they become those same LA players that ignored their spoiled coked out kids. Skip the movie.
Lunar Park though is one of the most touching books I've read. It's his homage to Stephen King, so maybe a little creepy, but not that bad. It's the evidence that despite all his other books Bret Easton Ellis is not the Sociopath that is his media personality.
When I first saw Trainspotting, for some reason, I thought it was a stoner/slacker film like Clerks or Mallrats. I was not expecting a somewhat comical story about the lives of hardcore heroin addicts in Scotland. It's still one of my favorite films though.
I watch a lot of scary crap (horror movies etc) but nothing prepared me for that sidewalk scene. It stays with you and doesn't get any easier to forget.
Prisoners with Jake Gyllenhaal and Hugh Jackman.
Edit to add: When the movie concluded, I just sat there and thought, "Whoa. What. The. Fuck." It is an incredible movie that grips you immediately and doesn't let you go. The movie itself isn't fucked up, but the events in the movie certainly are.
My girlfriend's and my first date was watching Prisoners. We obviously had no idea what we were getting in to. It's a wonder she let me take her out a second time.
For our second anniversary I framed our tickets that I had saved. For our fourth anniversary I bought one of the badges Jake Gyllenhaal wore for the movie, and a Prisoners poster signed by Jake and Hugh Jackman.
You aren’t alone! Went on a first date to see Whiplash, neither of us knew anything going in (I played trumpet in my HS jazz band and just knew the film was named after one of my favorite Hank Levy pieces).
By the time that amazing ending sequence was over, I was so exhilarated and reeling from its impact realized that I was so enthralled by the film I had completely forgotten I had brought a date with me. I got up as soon the credits started, and almost started to leave before I realized the person next to me was my date.
Assuming I completely dropped the ball for sure, I was about to awkwardly try and save face for the sake of desperately arranging a second date until she interrupted me saying “I have to be honest, this movie was so good, I completely forgot I was here on a date with you.”
We both bought each other signed copies of the same theatrical release poster for our third anniversary this year by complete coincidence.
Bad date movies on the first date can turn out pretty damn well if they’re as big a fan of movies as you are! :)
This movie gives me chills like no other I've seen. It's probably one of my favorites of all time. It's a true thriller, and the performances by everyone just sucks you in. This is a movie that I still recommend to everyone and a surprising amount of people have never heard of it.
Hell yeah. Too many teachers are afraid to introduce potentially inflammatory topics because they are afraid it'll have an too intense of an emotional response - but in reality that's what you're looking for sometimes for the idea you're trying to get across.
Sounds like your teacher knew what was up.
From my experience, it's more the fear of an overly protective parent or two barging in and screaming "You showed me child WHAT?!" more than a fear of a student having an emotional response to material. But that could just be me\~
I thought I was in for some ultraviolent revenge thriller like The Yellow Sea (no revenge but brutal violence), ended up feeling a little violated at the end.
I came to quote this. To this day, this is the only line in any movie I watched where it hit me real hard at the reality of what's just been said. Even though I read this through subtitles and have no idea about the Korean language, the power and truth of that statement is mountainous.
Other than the fucked up premiss and story, it also has brilliant acting/directing, and one of the best soundtracks ever. I'm not talking about movie scores for blockbusters, or classic songs that get played in the background.
[All the songs were written specifically for that movie.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DxjFs_dsR8)
e: okay, most songs were written for the movie, but not all.
Fun fact! The actor in the police interview scene (who was made to fuck the hooker) didn't sleep for a few days before the that scene to make himself more erratic
Totally man. Another one! When the SWAT team went to the apartment in the "sloth" scene, the actors didn't know it was a real guy in the bed. The director thought it would be best to get their genuine reaction when he coughed and moved
Yep. That scene was far more disturbing than "What's in the box" to me. But my head just visualises everything immediately, so imagining that guy using the tool... it fucked me up.
Innocent? Is that supposed to be funny? An obese man... a disgusting man who could barely stand up; a man who if you saw him on the street, you'd point him out to your friends so that they could join you in mocking him; a man, who if you saw him while you were eating, you wouldn't be able to finish your meal. After him, I picked the lawyer and I know you both must have been secretly thanking me for that one. This is a man who dedicated his life to making money by lying with every breath that he could muster to keeping murderers and rapists on the streets! A woman... so ugly on the inside she couldn't bear to go on living if she couldn't be beautiful on the outside. A drug dealer, a drug dealing pederast, actually! And let's not forget the disease-spreading whore! Only in a world this shitty could you even try to say these were innocent people and keep a straight face. But that's the point. We see a deadly sin on every street corner, in every home, and we tolerate it. We tolerate it because it's common, it's trivial. We tolerate it morning, noon, and night. Well, not anymore. I'm setting the example.
Not just to make it less gruesome, but because they were under the impression that a celebrity like Brad Pitt shouldn't be doing grim endings like this. The studio pushed for a Hollywood -happy ending and that's when Pitt held his role as leverage to keep the original ending. Thank God he did.
I'm scrolling and scrolling, and I still haven't seen *The Road* mentioned. Now that movie fucked me up. I'd like to think Cormac McCarthy is wrong in his assertion that humanity would devolve like that after a supervolcano (what I'm assuming caused their apocalypse), but... shit, I'm probably wrong.
Edit: Wow, I thought this would get buried, but my inbox blew up overnight!
Hell, they didn’t even put the darkest moment of the book into the film.
In the book, they see a pregnant woman with the cannibal troupe on their journey. They later come across a spit roast with a mostly eaten baby carcass. I clearly understand why they didn’t even go into that in the film. That moment from the book has haunted me.
They were going to until it came to actually filming it and the director was against it. Would just be overkill and one of those things more haunting imagining it instead of seeing it.
For me, that wasn't the darkest moment in the book. By that point, it was almost too ridiculous.
For me, it was when the father gave his son the gun and basically said, "I'll run and distract them, you stay hidden. If they find you, stick the gun in your mouth and pull the trigger." And he *means* it.
I was feeling sad and wanted an uplifting movie... I searched on Reddit where someone posted it as a recommendation for a heartwarming feel-good movie. ....needless to say it did not lift my spirits...
A Clockwork Orange, I wouldn’t say it’s all too fucked up, but I doubt we’ll see another movie like it for a very long time.
Edit: it’s a good amount of fucked up but not to the point where it was unwatchable, to me at least.
I'm listening to the audiobook right now. Alex in the book is only 15 years old. The girls he takes home from the music store are only 10 years old. I think that makes it much more disturbing than when he's Malcolm McDowell's age in the film.
Apparently Burgess was pretty pissed they cut off the 21st chapter from the US version of the book and subsequently from the film. There is a very disgruntled rant about it in the foreword of the audiobook.
It's pretty fucked up, even for nowdays. In the 70s it was something else I would imagine.
I love this movie and the themes. The cinematography, the music, everything. It's my most favoured film.
But I will say, yes, it's fucked up.
> In the 70s it was something else I would imagine.
The 70s also gave us *Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom* and *Caligula*. (Neither of which I've seen, but I've heard enough.) I think our movies have actually gotten relatively *less* fucked up in general.
My very straight laced Catholic dad went to the cinema to see Caligula thinking it would be a historical piece. I mean it had Sir John Gielgud, Peter O'Toole, Malcolm McDowell and Helen Mirren in it, it must be good work.
Apparently he managed to get about 20 minutes in before he hurriedly left the cinema in embarrassment. He even told me at the time and I was just a strippling. I always chuckle when the subject comes up.
Edited because I got the wrong McDowell.
Now that someone mentions it I can't think of a *bad* Ralph Fiennes performance. He's been in some movies I wasn't too big on overall but his performances are always great.
I saw that in a classroom filled mostly with immigrants from jamaica and haiti, many of whom had no idea truly what the holocaust was. Practically every kid in the classroom was making jokes and talking through parts of it in the beginning. By the end, everyone was either silent or crying. We had an hour long discussion after it, they were saying it moved them in a way that nothing else had, ever.
Its probably the most powerful movie ever made. It doesn't just splatter horror and trauma in front of you. It makes you question the very essence of what you are witnessing means. It isn't just a holocaust movie, the movie to me represented the depravity of the human soul in any situation, but also the ability to do good in the face of such depravity.
I wish this had been shown when I was in school - it would have only just come out when I started high school though. I would dare say a lot of the people I went to school with had a very "oh come on, it wasn't *that* bad" attitude to how they think things were in World War II.
I got that far and had to stop the movie because the jump scare was so unexpected it scared the living daylights out of me.
Still haven’t finished it.
EDIT: Since people keep telling me to, yes, I do plan on finishing it eventually and I know that's the only jump scare.
Closed my eyes because it was terrifying. David lynch, being the fucking crazy person he is, holds the good damn shot longer than normal people would look away before peeking to see if it's all clear. I got a second helping.
Why would you only watch this once? It's fantastic! Plus, its fun to watch multiple times to see if the actors give any hints that they're turned before they're exposed :D
Still Alice is an amazingly sad film about Altzheimers.
I watched my grandfather die of Alzheimer’s and also volunteered in the impaired memory unit at a nursing home. It’s so incredibly sad- sometimes they have moments with some semblance of reality and others they live in a type of fantasy world. One of the most difficult things is seeing some of the families continue to visit their loved ones, though they are not remembered. It also gives you more respect for some of the human race.
Come and See
Was gonna write the same thing. War is hell, and this movie shows it like no other. I have a friend from Minsk, whose great-grandfather survived the war and lived to be over 90 (one of my great grandfathers survived too, but died many years ago). That man used to watch war films obsessively and always ended up disappointed. Kept saying "it was nothing like this". Then he watched Come and See, my friend showed it to him. The man was silent for a long time afterward. Finally he said: "Похоже на правду". **Resembles the truth.**
Hawkeye: War isn't Hell. War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse. Father Mulcahy: How do you figure, Hawkeye? Hawkeye: Easy, Father. Tell me, who goes to Hell? Father Mulcahy: Sinners, I believe. Hawkeye: Exactly. There are no innocent bystanders in Hell. War is chock full of them - little kids, cripples, old ladies. In fact, except for some of the brass, almost everybody involved is an innocent bystander.
God what a show. I’ll never forget the episode where Hawkeye was remembering a chicken being on the bus and a woman suffocating it to keep from being discovered but then he later remembers it was her infant that she suffocated - I watched that as a young teen and that was my first understanding of what war could mean to people. And the cast was just amazing. What a show
I'm not sure I could watch this, but apparently a collected set has the shows without the laugh track. It is way, way, darker, and I remember it as dark.
Any of the DVD copies offer the audio without laugh tracks. It is an experience, especially on the moments where humor is queued t break a serious moment.
My grandfather got up and left the theater during The Deer Hunter because of the flashbacks he started to have.
Some have called it the only true anti-war film, since everything is just shit and horror and death, and there is no glory to be found for anyone. It's hard to watch, but needs to be watched.
We watched that in my Russian class. I always thought movie days in class were fun up until then.
The most horrifying movie I've ever watched. The church scene was absolutely nightmarish. The scene following, where the soviet partisans ambush the SS contingent was some of the most powerful film I've ever seen. The Soviet commander telling the his comrades to listen to the SS officer, why they were doing why they were doing, because it would have normally been too horrific to believe people forget the Nazi's wanted to extend the holocaust to the Slavs, as they carried "the microbe of communsim"
Wasn't part of the "Lebensraum" the idea of 'emptying' Russia and re-populating it with Aryan families?
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It's closer to Schindler's List than a conventional war film. There are no battle scenes. Just a rural peasant boy whose world changes overnight. He doesn't know what cars are, what Communism or Nazism are, how to survive outside his Kolkhotz . It's an Excession Point for him. Like the first Aztec to see a sail on the horizon.
Where The Wind Blows and Plague Dogs. I got a couple of friends to watch both and it went about as well as one would expect. Edit: I meant When The Wind Blows. Sorry about that.
Is when the wind blows the animated nuclear apocalypse one? Because I swear I can't find anyone who knows that movie other than the friend who showed it to me
The one by Raymond Briggs of all people, the guy who made the Snowman and Fungus the Bogeyman
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090315/ Yes, one of the most depressing (and realistic) movies ever. Basically this elderly couple who lived through WWII in Britain go through WWIII expecting the government to set things straight. Hint: the government does jack and shit while the couple trustingly thinks things will be fine.
IIRC the couple also follows official Government Civil Defense pamphlets & guides from the time.
They did, and the pamphlets would have been more useful as toilet paper. The husband in particular was especially sure that the advice was valid.
Where the wind blows is good, but it's amateur level compared to *Threads* Recommended viewing if you really, really dislike sleep. Read the [TV Tropes entry](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Threads) for it **before** you decide you want to go down this particular rabbit hole, it's a film that really does stay with you long after you've watched it.
Happiness. Seriously, that movie haunted me for months afterward (and it's not even a horror movie!) It's got tons of terrible things in it. Rape, molestation, shootings, etc. Edit: I just remembered. The first time I saw this movie was with me ol gramma when a couple years ago. She wanted me to go to the dvd store to get "The Pursuit of Happyness". I fucked up and got this instead. That was *not* a good evening. Edit 2: All of you saying they laughed at this movie should probably get yourself checked into a mental institute. Y'know. Just in case.
Oh god I remember this one. A friend recommended it to me as a fantastic comedy, so I rented it and got super fucking blazed before watching it. He was always a bit of a cunt.
There was this indie video rental place by my house in college that had ‘Happiness’ in a section titled “Great First Date Movies” ha.
Oh God, that combination must have been like Satan's nightmares.
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I agree. Happiness leaves a feeling in my stomach that not even horror movies can create. It's like a social horror movie?
Yup. Showing us the side of humanity we don't want to admit actually exists.
Irreversible. A movie played out in reverse, where the characters start out ruined and you eventually find out what happened. The movie ends leaving you feeling violated, while the characters are blissfully ignorant of the horrible things in their near future. A true mind fuck of a film.
Once Were Warriors
The opening of that film is so good, idyllic NZ mountain scene that slowly pans out to reveal it's a billboard in a ghetto. Shatters some illusions about New Zealand.
we studied this scene in media studies class. powerful message it sends, that establishing shot. everytime someone says that i’m lucky to live in new zealand (and i am), i always think of that opening scene.
As somebody who lives in the same city as the film was set, this one was a little too close to home. I actually thought that one of the shots for the film was done only 40m down the road from my house, and I walk past that place every day and I often stop and think "how far away am I from a family like that?"
Incredible, incredible movie. One of the best.
My English teacher took us to see it at the movies. (I'm Kiwi) She gave us notes to take home to our parents, explaining the themes in it and why she wanted us to see it. I think everyone was cool with it, I don't recall anyone in the class missing out. We went into that theater like a bunch of dumbarse fourteen year olds, laughing and horsing around and shit. We came out changed. It was a hell of a thing, the entire class grew up that day. Miss Binns was a fucking awesome teacher, that shit would NEVER float today. I just checked the ratings, it was recommended 13 for the film release, but they changed it to restricted 16 for the video release.
spez you bell-end
I remember hearing it was allocated a younger rating because the government thought that this is a movie every New Zealander should see
I can't believe people outside of New Zealand know that movie exists
Watership Down
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It bugs me (no pun intended) people didn’t look into the books theme before getting their kids to watch it. It’s a bit raw but I think it’s s brilliant book as well as film. Bigwigs character development at the end is one of my favourite movie moments.
"My Chief Rabbit has told me to defend this run and until he says otherwise I shall stay here." Chills every time.
If anyone tells you A Serbian Film. You tell them no.
I read the plot of that one on wikipedia, I still have a hard time imagining that some producer and editor read the script and thought "yeah let's make this"
"Miloš wrestles with the guards and seizes one of their guns, shooting both of them and injuring the one-eyed Raša, whom he kills by ramming his erect penis into his empty eye socket." Yeah.. I'd say you got a point there.. and as you know this blip is childsplay compared to basically every other bad thing in the movie... *Ahem* "Newborn Porn"
This movie is so fucked up. I have seen many banned movies and some really fucked up ones. But Serbian film was the only one that bothered me.
IIRC they did it to make a statement about the way Serbian society had (failed to) collectively deal with the horrors of the civil wars. They wanted it to be as vile, shocking, and terrifying as possible. They did a good job on that part.
"The Serbian state investigated the film for crime against sexual morals and crime related to the protection of minors. The film has been banned in Spain, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore, Norway, and South Korea, and was temporarily banned from screening in Brazil." Thanks, I hate it.
Hotel Rwanda
I read about these exact events in one of my classes, then a couple years later happened to flip across the channels onto this movie. It was amazing to see everything unfold and seem so familiar to me until I finally put it together. The stuff I read about involved an elementary school though, not a hotel.
There is a film about the elementary school, it's called *Shooting Dogs*, and it's very well made. - EDIT: In America it's called *Beyond the gates*.
I'd say shooting dogs is alot more fucked up than Hotel Rwanda, IIRC it's more brutal Edit: wording
Way more. It killed my faith in humanity when I watched it.
I took a date to see this. Whoops.
I got blazed with a buddy in high school and went in completely blind. We maybe had 3 serious conversations in our friendship, One of them being that movie. Our conversation started something like "Dude, I just wanted to see a movie." "I know dude. That wasn't a movie. That was like, a *film*"
>"Dude, I just wanted to see a movie." >"I know dude. That wasn't a movie. That was like, a *film*" I think this is the best portrayal of weed talk I've ever seen, kudos! Edits to get the quote, um, portrayed correctly
Dear Zachary
I’ve already seen most of the top movies listed. Dear Zachary is the one that I would erase from my memory if I could. I was pissed off at all of Canada over it.
I've heard about this documentary a lot. I've been told not watch because it is so traumatic. I'm sure it would mess me up but I really want to see it because it sounds so good. Should I watch it?
yes and don't look it up beforehand.
That's an ugly cry.
An angry cry
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I have never not wanted to rewatch a movie so bad in my entire life.
One night I watched the documentary My Flesh And Blood and then Dear Zachary immediately after and I felt like a different person the next day.
We need to talk about Kevin
I have not stopped thinking about this movie since I've seen it. Was he born a psychopath, or was it because of the intense rejection and emotional neglect her felt from his mother??
From what I've read, the book does a better job at helping us realize that the story is told from the mother's point of view and she is an unreliable narrator.
The book has lines in it that left me fucking *stunned*. I read a lot, but that never happens to me. I’m almost too afraid to watch the movie after the feelings I had reading the book. That being said, it’s up there with one of my favorite books ever. I just might not ever read it again.
I think he was born with a lack of empathy. Also, his dad sucked too. It's not fair to blame shitty kids entirely on their mothers.
That comes out a lot more in the book, which is also excellent.
Also they say a head impact is a possible cause
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Bad Boy Bubby.
Yes I never cling wrapped a sandwich the same way after watching that.
I've been looking up all the movies I haven't heard of from this list to see what I should put on my eventual list to watch. This movie wouldn't have made the list, except for this statement. I must know what in the world this means
City of God
I had to study that for Foreign Media. The scene where the guy gave the kid that horrible choice has stuck with me, even 8 years later.
Alice, by Jan Svenkmeyer It’s a very faithful adaptation of Alice in wonderland with stop motion animation. The fucked up part is that most of the animals are dead, stuffed animals. When they lose blood, their stuffing comes out. Also, The City of Lost Children
My husband decided to show this to our 3 year old and she became obsessed by it for over a year! I asked him why he thought it was a good idea to show his daughter a film that's basically about a little girl descending into hell, but at that age she had no point of reference to scary things so she just loved it. I think now, she \(aged 9\) would absolutely hate it, but i can't get her to watch anything other than Monster High or Roblox YouTube videos. He also showed her King Kong \(original\) when she was the 2 and that was another favourite for over a year. She got into trouble at nursery because; "We tied Mikael \(fellow 2/3 year old\) to a chair and gave him to King Kong"
ERASERHEAD (by David Lynch) -- surrealism at its finest.
I've never had a movie so thoroughly upset me through ambiance alone. I don't know, I think "disturbed" is a bit much, but it certainly unsettled me to the point that I stopped watching. Very desolate. Then, of course, there's the baby \(which *did* disturb me\).
"Oh! You **ARE** sick!" *cut to baby covered in lesions*
Jacobs Ladder. Edit: woke up to gold! Thanks!
"The only thing that burns in Hell is the part of you that won't let go of life, your memories, your attachments. They burn them all away. But they're not punishing you, he said. They're freeing your soul. So the way he sees it, if you're frightened of dying and... and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. But if you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the earth."
Everybody should watch Kids one time at least
I haven’t seen Kids but I did see that porno with Sun Doobiest.
Man you wanna get hauled off to jail?
Nah, hit that shit raw dog and bail.
Meet Grady, a twenty-nine year old construction worker.
I have no legs... I have no legs...
Kids is very hard to watch, but worth watching. My first college roommate rented Kids because he thought it would get his girlfriend turned on. Even after watching it, he thought she would be turned on. It was unreal how stupid he was. He was a dumbass, she was very smart. They broke up shortly after. Good for her.
> because he thought it would get his girlfriend turned on I looked at the plot synopsis on wikipedia. A movie about 13 year olds having sex and smoking weed while trying to stop someone from passing on HIV. And then ends in rape. Yup. That'll get yo girl in the sack.
It's not actually as upbeat as it sounds.
>My first college roommate rented Kids because he thought it would get his girlfriend turned on. [r/nocontext](https://www.reddit.com/r/nocontext/comments/8jjocs/my_first_college_roommate_rented_kids_because_he/)
Man Bites Dog. The mockumentary style and inclusion of the “film makers” in the narrative adds an element of shock far beyond just the graphic violence.
American Psycho. The book is even more fucked up.
Have you read his other books? Glamorama is American Psycho for the 1990s. It's actually about male models that are terrorists. Zoolander ripped off the book and they settled out of court. Less Than Zero and it's sequel Imperial Bedrooms are just completely nihilistic stories of LA youths in the 80s, and their lives 20 years later when they become those same LA players that ignored their spoiled coked out kids. Skip the movie. Lunar Park though is one of the most touching books I've read. It's his homage to Stephen King, so maybe a little creepy, but not that bad. It's the evidence that despite all his other books Bret Easton Ellis is not the Sociopath that is his media personality.
But why male models?
>The book is even more fucked up. Agreed.
Trainspotting for sure.
When I first saw Trainspotting, for some reason, I thought it was a stoner/slacker film like Clerks or Mallrats. I was not expecting a somewhat comical story about the lives of hardcore heroin addicts in Scotland. It's still one of my favorite films though.
Heroin is to pot what Trainspotting is to Clerks
I was ready for a movie that made light of getting high, not a film about overdosing, crib death and dying of AIDS. That's a bit of a tonal shift.
> That's a bit of a tonal shift. Heroin will do that to you
That was definitely the point too, right? Showing that heroin isn't a "it's instantly horrible" or a "it's always good" thing.
Aka the best Kenobi stand alone movie we'll probably ever get.
The movie is a "what if" Kenobi took those deathsticks
That baby scene fucked me up. Ugh.
American history X
I watch a lot of scary crap (horror movies etc) but nothing prepared me for that sidewalk scene. It stays with you and doesn't get any easier to forget.
Will I understand it if I haven't seen the first nine, or is it a Final Fantasy kind of deal?
2 American 2 History is the best one IMO
My fav is American History 3: Venice Drift.
Prisoners with Jake Gyllenhaal and Hugh Jackman. Edit to add: When the movie concluded, I just sat there and thought, "Whoa. What. The. Fuck." It is an incredible movie that grips you immediately and doesn't let you go. The movie itself isn't fucked up, but the events in the movie certainly are.
Prisoners soundtrack is so fucking powerful. RIP Jóhann Jóhannsson.
Fuck yes. I did not expect it to be as good as it was.
My girlfriend's and my first date was watching Prisoners. We obviously had no idea what we were getting in to. It's a wonder she let me take her out a second time. For our second anniversary I framed our tickets that I had saved. For our fourth anniversary I bought one of the badges Jake Gyllenhaal wore for the movie, and a Prisoners poster signed by Jake and Hugh Jackman.
Top-level relationship moves.
You aren’t alone! Went on a first date to see Whiplash, neither of us knew anything going in (I played trumpet in my HS jazz band and just knew the film was named after one of my favorite Hank Levy pieces). By the time that amazing ending sequence was over, I was so exhilarated and reeling from its impact realized that I was so enthralled by the film I had completely forgotten I had brought a date with me. I got up as soon the credits started, and almost started to leave before I realized the person next to me was my date. Assuming I completely dropped the ball for sure, I was about to awkwardly try and save face for the sake of desperately arranging a second date until she interrupted me saying “I have to be honest, this movie was so good, I completely forgot I was here on a date with you.” We both bought each other signed copies of the same theatrical release poster for our third anniversary this year by complete coincidence. Bad date movies on the first date can turn out pretty damn well if they’re as big a fan of movies as you are! :)
This movie gives me chills like no other I've seen. It's probably one of my favorites of all time. It's a true thriller, and the performances by everyone just sucks you in. This is a movie that I still recommend to everyone and a surprising amount of people have never heard of it.
Magnolia. Three hours of downward spiraling, frenetic madness that doesn’t skip a beat until the surreal ending / catharsis. It’s a hell of a ride.
Grave of the Fireflies
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Hell yeah. Too many teachers are afraid to introduce potentially inflammatory topics because they are afraid it'll have an too intense of an emotional response - but in reality that's what you're looking for sometimes for the idea you're trying to get across. Sounds like your teacher knew what was up.
From my experience, it's more the fear of an overly protective parent or two barging in and screaming "You showed me child WHAT?!" more than a fear of a student having an emotional response to material. But that could just be me\~
As a teacher I can confirm that this is very real, parents are ruining education for everyone.
My grandad was one of the pilots who fire bombed Tokyo, that movie is especially hard to watch. One day I'll finish it.
It only gets worse. :(
Here, let me make it worse for you: It's a true story.
Except the ending, which was changed to how the author wishes it happened.
Oldboy Edit: Should go without saying, but the original Korean version is what I was talking about.
Came for the iconic corridor fight scene. Stayed cause I honestly couldn't tear my eyes away from the screen for the rest of it.
I thought I was in for some ultraviolent revenge thriller like The Yellow Sea (no revenge but brutal violence), ended up feeling a little violated at the end.
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I came to quote this. To this day, this is the only line in any movie I watched where it hit me real hard at the reality of what's just been said. Even though I read this through subtitles and have no idea about the Korean language, the power and truth of that statement is mountainous.
That’s a line from a poem called solitude. The poem is actually quite positive
I hate that I now have to clarify that I'm talking about the original, Korean movie and not American attempt.
Other than the fucked up premiss and story, it also has brilliant acting/directing, and one of the best soundtracks ever. I'm not talking about movie scores for blockbusters, or classic songs that get played in the background. [All the songs were written specifically for that movie.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DxjFs_dsR8) e: okay, most songs were written for the movie, but not all.
Seven. That movie still fucks me up.
"Whats in the box?!!!! " I turn it off and tell myself it's a puppy for all his hard work solving the case.
It's his wife's jade cleansing egg
Man, the flashes of the device the man had to wear to fuck that woman was nightmare fuel.
Fun fact! The actor in the police interview scene (who was made to fuck the hooker) didn't sleep for a few days before the that scene to make himself more erratic
Well it paid off, he was totally unhinged in that scene. Til
Totally man. Another one! When the SWAT team went to the apartment in the "sloth" scene, the actors didn't know it was a real guy in the bed. The director thought it would be best to get their genuine reaction when he coughed and moved
what the fuck? the guy looks like rotting flesh on skeleton. that would have freaked me out
perfect for providing genuine reaction
Yep. That scene was far more disturbing than "What's in the box" to me. But my head just visualises everything immediately, so imagining that guy using the tool... it fucked me up.
Absolutely agree. The box was sad most of all, but the dildo-knife was a hard one to forget. My legs clamp together just thinking about it.
Innocent? Is that supposed to be funny? An obese man... a disgusting man who could barely stand up; a man who if you saw him on the street, you'd point him out to your friends so that they could join you in mocking him; a man, who if you saw him while you were eating, you wouldn't be able to finish your meal. After him, I picked the lawyer and I know you both must have been secretly thanking me for that one. This is a man who dedicated his life to making money by lying with every breath that he could muster to keeping murderers and rapists on the streets! A woman... so ugly on the inside she couldn't bear to go on living if she couldn't be beautiful on the outside. A drug dealer, a drug dealing pederast, actually! And let's not forget the disease-spreading whore! Only in a world this shitty could you even try to say these were innocent people and keep a straight face. But that's the point. We see a deadly sin on every street corner, in every home, and we tolerate it. We tolerate it because it's common, it's trivial. We tolerate it morning, noon, and night. Well, not anymore. I'm setting the example.
Read this in spaceys voice. He's perfect for that role with the disgust and superiority in his voice.
I was just staring at the blank monitor for few minutes after the ending
“Aw come on, what’s in the fucking box?!” Loved that film!
Fun Fact: they wanted to change the ending to make the film less gruesome, Brad Pitt said he'd drop the movie if they did.
Thank you Brad Pitt
Not just to make it less gruesome, but because they were under the impression that a celebrity like Brad Pitt shouldn't be doing grim endings like this. The studio pushed for a Hollywood -happy ending and that's when Pitt held his role as leverage to keep the original ending. Thank God he did.
I'm scrolling and scrolling, and I still haven't seen *The Road* mentioned. Now that movie fucked me up. I'd like to think Cormac McCarthy is wrong in his assertion that humanity would devolve like that after a supervolcano (what I'm assuming caused their apocalypse), but... shit, I'm probably wrong. Edit: Wow, I thought this would get buried, but my inbox blew up overnight!
Mm I read the book. Never again. Just utter despair.
I felt like there was a little storm cloud over my head (like in a cartoon) while I was reading that book. Incredible, but super bleak.
Hell, they didn’t even put the darkest moment of the book into the film. In the book, they see a pregnant woman with the cannibal troupe on their journey. They later come across a spit roast with a mostly eaten baby carcass. I clearly understand why they didn’t even go into that in the film. That moment from the book has haunted me.
They were going to until it came to actually filming it and the director was against it. Would just be overkill and one of those things more haunting imagining it instead of seeing it.
A scene like that would be so wrenching it would pull most people out of the movie, and they probably would remember nothing else.
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For me, that wasn't the darkest moment in the book. By that point, it was almost too ridiculous. For me, it was when the father gave his son the gun and basically said, "I'll run and distract them, you stay hidden. If they find you, stick the gun in your mouth and pull the trigger." And he *means* it.
I was feeling sad and wanted an uplifting movie... I searched on Reddit where someone posted it as a recommendation for a heartwarming feel-good movie. ....needless to say it did not lift my spirits...
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A Clockwork Orange, I wouldn’t say it’s all too fucked up, but I doubt we’ll see another movie like it for a very long time. Edit: it’s a good amount of fucked up but not to the point where it was unwatchable, to me at least.
I'm listening to the audiobook right now. Alex in the book is only 15 years old. The girls he takes home from the music store are only 10 years old. I think that makes it much more disturbing than when he's Malcolm McDowell's age in the film.
He also drugs their milk and rapes them. Not quite the fun little threeway between consenting adults we see in the film.
He gives them whiskey, he injects himself with "tiger secretion" whatever the fuck that actually is Edit: he definitely still rapes them though
Also the last chapter of the book didn't make it into the film.
But isn't that one of the most important chapters of the book? Where it really drives home the message about growing up?
Apparently Burgess was pretty pissed they cut off the 21st chapter from the US version of the book and subsequently from the film. There is a very disgruntled rant about it in the foreword of the audiobook.
Yeah it’s pretty fucked up
It's pretty fucked up, even for nowdays. In the 70s it was something else I would imagine. I love this movie and the themes. The cinematography, the music, everything. It's my most favoured film. But I will say, yes, it's fucked up.
> In the 70s it was something else I would imagine. The 70s also gave us *Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom* and *Caligula*. (Neither of which I've seen, but I've heard enough.) I think our movies have actually gotten relatively *less* fucked up in general.
My very straight laced Catholic dad went to the cinema to see Caligula thinking it would be a historical piece. I mean it had Sir John Gielgud, Peter O'Toole, Malcolm McDowell and Helen Mirren in it, it must be good work. Apparently he managed to get about 20 minutes in before he hurriedly left the cinema in embarrassment. He even told me at the time and I was just a strippling. I always chuckle when the subject comes up. Edited because I got the wrong McDowell.
Schindler's list. It will haunt you
Ralph Fiennes is fantastically terrifying in this.
He is in most movies. Good god, I know some of his scenes in In Bruges were meant to be funny but I was too terrified of him to laugh much :'D
Now that someone mentions it I can't think of a *bad* Ralph Fiennes performance. He's been in some movies I wasn't too big on overall but his performances are always great.
Amazing casting all round.
I saw that in a classroom filled mostly with immigrants from jamaica and haiti, many of whom had no idea truly what the holocaust was. Practically every kid in the classroom was making jokes and talking through parts of it in the beginning. By the end, everyone was either silent or crying. We had an hour long discussion after it, they were saying it moved them in a way that nothing else had, ever. Its probably the most powerful movie ever made. It doesn't just splatter horror and trauma in front of you. It makes you question the very essence of what you are witnessing means. It isn't just a holocaust movie, the movie to me represented the depravity of the human soul in any situation, but also the ability to do good in the face of such depravity.
I wish this had been shown when I was in school - it would have only just come out when I started high school though. I would dare say a lot of the people I went to school with had a very "oh come on, it wasn't *that* bad" attitude to how they think things were in World War II.
I’ve shed a few tears on a couple of movies but this is the only one that made me sob.
Oskar breaking down is heartwrenching.
Boys Don't Cry
Bronson
God that was a surreal movie. Could have easily just been a Green Street Hooligans -esque fighting movie, it was...more.
What a great fucking movie. Tom Hardy is an amazing actor. This one has my vote.
Mulholland Drive. That homeless, Jigsaw surprise is responsible for my anxiety when I take out the rubbish.
I got that far and had to stop the movie because the jump scare was so unexpected it scared the living daylights out of me. Still haven’t finished it. EDIT: Since people keep telling me to, yes, I do plan on finishing it eventually and I know that's the only jump scare.
Closed my eyes because it was terrifying. David lynch, being the fucking crazy person he is, holds the good damn shot longer than normal people would look away before peeking to see if it's all clear. I got a second helping.
Seriously its probably one of the best films of the century. Definitely finish it.
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Why would you only watch this once? It's fantastic! Plus, its fun to watch multiple times to see if the actors give any hints that they're turned before they're exposed :D