The Virgin Suicides for me. I bought it last week and haven’t been able to work up the gumption to watch it yet. Maybe tonight.
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Requiem for a Dream. Aronofsky is a legend and totally up my alley but this and a couple other films he has done I only have the energy to watch once.
I thought of this one as well. It’s my favorite movie I never want to see again.
What makes it worse for me is there was an old channel 4 advert that kad clips from lots of movies and the names of the movies in the current roster.
I thought the names matched the clips… and requiem for a dream appeared alongside a film I’ve not actually identified with a guy shooting over a limo saying something like “death to some thing something and bad cinema”
So a few years later I finally sit down to watch requiem for a dream expecting some weird Hollywood critic (or something)
Kept waiting for that scene until things got really dark and then kind of knew something was amiss.
On the upside: no heroine for me thanks
I’m sure there are others, but in my brainhole this one sure is a headliner for such a question.
I would say Grave of the Fireflies, but like a lot of people I’ve never wanted to watch it again so I’m not sure if I could say it’s my favourite.
To this day I’ve watched it once and I’ll never forget.
I’ve forgotten a lot of the plot but I’ll never forget the feeling at the end. It was just this big empty pit in my stomach, I felt so empty. I often wonder if this is perhaps one of the greatest films I’ve ever watched, because no other film has even come close to making me feel whatever that was. But again, I don’t want to go back and test this theory.
The first 5 minutes of Up. Cutting onions every time.
If you haven’t, you might give Blush (2021) a try.
Interstellar and Arrival The scene where cooper watches his kids grow up and get kids of their own in like 5 minutes always gets me.
Anything like this with kids/families gets me pretty good nowadays :(
Everything Everywhere All At Once. I watch it every year and I pretend I’m a different character every time. I’m in my Waymond phase now. Watch it from his point of view when you’re ready.
Tough call to just choose one.
Dead Man
Pan’s Labyrinth
Human Nature
Dead Man is incredible, love seeing it occasionally get the recognition it deserves.
When I say ‘favourite’, I mean it’s the most compelling, devastating, truthful movie I’ve ever seen that I was transfixed by for it’s entire duration, and never want to see again.
I’ve been on job seeker’s allowance. I’ve suffered the indignity of the weekly visits to the job centre to be sneered at for not applying for an adequate number of jobs, of for not just accepting the first shitty delivery jobs on the list. But I was lucky enough to be healthy. I can’t imagine having to deal with all that shit while also being sick.
The Whale broke me. And Zone of Interest is also a really hard pill to swallow. First time I was sitting in a fully packed theater and not a single person bought any snacks. We all knew it would be horrible.
Holy fuck The Whale. I rarely get emotional for sad movies and usually my eyes well up at most but The Whale opened the flood gates. Watched it at the movie theaters and remember the credits rolling in silence while everyone is sniffling and sobbing. Cried on the way home too. I bought it on blu ray and have not worked up the courage to rewatch it.
Man on Fire is one of my favourites and it gets me every time.
Dear Zachary
Yep. This right here.
Nobody mentioned Requiem For a Dream yet?
I guess I’m getting old
君の名は。 (your name.) — the first big twist. When ya boy Taki first sets foot on the school (as himself) and looks at the lake and you realise what the movie’s been doing this whole time.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine did it like 15-20 years prior (and I loved that episode) but I never saw it coming. You go back and watch, and the movie kinda slaps you with a fresh fish with the clues, especially the date where he and his coworker are looking at all the photos. Camera stays there a good little while, too. Like damn. Stevie Wonder coulda saw that twist coming. But I was captivated by the beauty of the film. And the music.
We watched it at the cinema and then bought it on Blu-ray but haven’t managed to watch it yet.
Happiness (1998) is extremely dark and very funny at the same time
The War Zone (1999) is relentlessly bleak and uncomfortable
The breakfast scene in that movie (happiness). Just … Fuck.
it’s full of those sort of sinking feelings but that’s a grim one
Powder
Schindler’s List
Powder is such a unique choice - not one many probably even remember.
Saw it in theater way back. Oddly, the power went out midway through.
It was touching.
It’s one of my favorites, that’s awesome you got to see it in theater 💜
