seeformiles
Lost in the wood
The crowd I was with at the time, we watched them tripping off our faces which made the expected titillation a much more serious affair at times.
What’s the grimmest, bleakest or most pessimistic film or tv show you’ve ever seen?
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Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Think I saw one of those Red Triangle films, or part of one. IIRC had a similar premise To The Idiots, but instead of pretending to be disabled, this fella is pretending to be a caveman. Can’t remember much of a it, apart from a policeman being killed and eaten. It might have been French.
I’ve probably conflated more than one film here, cos I saw bits of films like in snatches cos I wasn’t supposed to be watching it and my mum would sometimes interrupt me when she couldn’t sleep and came downstairs to make a camomile tea.
Wow, haven’t thought about that in years
I’ve probably conflated more than one film here, cos I saw bits of films like in snatches cos I wasn’t supposed to be watching it and my mum would sometimes interrupt me when she couldn’t sleep and came downstairs to make a camomile tea.
Wow, haven’t thought about that in years
PR1Berske
Alligator in chains by the park gates.
As a child of divorce it took a while to figure out that the opposite can be true!
Idaho
blah blah blah
I hate grim films. I'm pessimistic and gloomy enough without indulging some film director's desire to make me feel worse.
I remember feeling really pissed off after watching Naked. Grim, exploitative and ultimately pointless. I wanted to post a turd through the director's letterbox. You want grim mate? Have some.
I remember feeling really pissed off after watching Naked. Grim, exploitative and ultimately pointless. I wanted to post a turd through the director's letterbox. You want grim mate? Have some.
ouirdeaux
Caring, Understanding, Non-judgemental Type
I have a vague memory of watching a German film in the early '80s, for no better reason than language practice. When asked what it was about, I said it showed someone wandering about being schizophrenic in Berlin to the tune of share prices. That was roughly it, but I can't remember what the film was called.
petee
no gods, no malarkey
i had mixed reactions to both Clarke films (i know there are more but i haven't seen them). the subject matter was sad-to-horrifying, but they were so esthetically done that it took the sting out. that they were on television is shocking though, to me a yank.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
saw that. You are right. And you've just made me more depressed by remembering it, you bastard.
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T & P
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Leaving Las Vegas was fucking devastating for me. Admittedly I was tripping balls in the happiest possible way when I saw it, which I am sure didn't help. A group of us had just returned home from the legendary late 90s Gay Pride festival in Clapham Common, the last free event and the best one ever held, pilled up and happy as fuck intending to just freshen up and go out again. But my flatmate was watching the film as we walked in and everyone else in the group sat down and became instantly absorbed by it so we ended up watching it. The worst drug comedown of my life, and a film I have firmly avoided since.
ska invita
back on the other side
hah my mate who is a little ...aggressive...put on Platoon at 7am for one of our comedowns once
luckily managed to laugh the whole thing off
wemakeyousoundb
hopefully not gimboid
my parents went to see a double bill of viva la muerte and un chien andalou while courting
they're french
I hate it when they do this, "the getaway" is one of my main gripes with this
e2a: brazil is pretty bleak
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
chien andalou is sexy af
petee
no gods, no malarkey
hah my mate who is a little ...aggressive...put on Platoon at 7am for one of our comedowns once
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Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
No, that was all in one film.
He was actually eating a pig that had been used in place of the actor playing the policeman. This was done for laughs obviously, as it was clearly a dead pig body doubling as a dead cop.
seeformiles
Lost in the wood
It was called “Themroc” which is pretty much the only dialogue in the film. I think that was the first in the Red Triangle series.
ETA just noticed it’s already been identified upthread
seeformiles
Lost in the wood
It was watching that scene that I realised where the term “Longpig” came from
Idris2002
Christmas Eve, you know?
Dr. Zhivago's actually an odd example of that - and it has far more grim bits in it than I think people remember. The book is an explicit, Christian, repudiation of the October Revolution and everything it stood for - the film verges on Orthodox Trotskyism at points. And in the book Strelnikov never actually joins the party, they just give him an armoured train to tootle around Siberia in, while being revolutionary.
Dr. Furface
One small step for me
I once went to a double bill at the old Scala in Kings Cross with that followed by Panic in Needle Park, an Al Pacino heroin film. I never wanted to see another needle in my life after that.
A non-drug one that’s pretty grim is The Wages of Fear, a ‘53 film about guys driving trucks laden with nitroglycerin over treacherous routes. It’s a brilliant thriller but its depiction of men, man, greed and capitalism is really bleak.
petee
no gods, no malarkey
one of my favorite films.
i seem to like long, slow, black and white movies that have unhappy material. mr arkadin and andrei rublev are two others, though rublev isn't grim.
los olvidados is grim though.
Jimmy Don't
Well-Known Member
Tyrannosaur - great film, I could never watch it again
Jeff Robinson
Marxist-Lentilist: Jackboots and Jackfruit
Capernaum - an unrelentlessly bleak film about children living in the slums of Beruit. Features poverty, child brides, drug addiction, human trafficking and a kid who sues his parents for giving birth to him (reasonable in this context).
Idris2002
Christmas Eve, you know?
Same for me with Joker.
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