Comments on: Movies For Depressives http://boxoffice.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/03/17/movies-for-depressives/ Covering weekly box office grosses in the US and TV ratings. Tue, 2 Dec 2008 15:32:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Skot http://boxoffice.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/03/17/movies-for-depressives/#comment-168081 Skot Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:19:42 +0000 http://boxoffice.thepodcastnetwork.com/2008/03/17/movies-for-depressives/#comment-168081 Recommendations for depressing movies, you ask? JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN (d. Dalton Trumbo, 1971) This one will make you slit your wrists-- that is, if you have wrists, which the protagonist certainly did not have. PLATOON (d. Oliver Stone, 1986) 'Nam. Shit. LOS OLVIDADOS (d. Luis Buñuel, 1950) Kids in a slum in Mexico City. bad things happen. Then worse things. And so on. LEAVING LAS VEGAS (d. Mike Figgis, 1995) There are so many wildly depressing elements of this film it's hard to sort: It's general mood of hopelessness; the slapdash, crummy-looking way it was made; the fact people thought it was somehow an "important" film; the fact it picked up a Best Picture nom; or the fact Nicholas Cage won Best Actor from it. Recommendations for depressing movies, you ask?

JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN (d. Dalton Trumbo, 1971) This one will make you slit your wrists– that is, if you have wrists, which the protagonist certainly did not have.

PLATOON (d. Oliver Stone, 1986) ‘Nam. Shit.

LOS OLVIDADOS (d. Luis Buñuel, 1950) Kids in a slum in Mexico City. bad things happen. Then worse things. And so on.

LEAVING LAS VEGAS (d. Mike Figgis, 1995) There are so many wildly depressing elements of this film it’s hard to sort: It’s general mood of hopelessness; the slapdash, crummy-looking way it was made; the fact people thought it was somehow an “important” film; the fact it picked up a Best Picture nom; or the fact Nicholas Cage won Best Actor from it.

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