This weekend I saw THE MOST DEPRESSING MOVIE EVER MADE, aka We Need to Talk About Kevin. It's beautifully directed, but bleak bleak bleak. I didn't actually buy the world of the film, but the performances are mesmerizing.
Why couldn't you be dealing drugs like normal people?
Snyder ,'Empty Places'
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Scrappy - Feb 06, 2012 8:41:46 am PST #17964 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
DavidS - Feb 06, 2012 8:47:14 am PST #17965 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
THE MOST DEPRESSING MOVIE EVER MADE
More than Ponette? More than the original Dutch version of The Vanishing? More than... Dancer in the Dark?!
§ ita § - Feb 06, 2012 8:47:33 am PST #17966 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Having now read the description for that movie, I am considering self-injury in order to facilitate amnesia. Thanks!
Scrappy - Feb 06, 2012 8:56:01 am PST #17967 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Yes, even more than both those films.
Consuela - Feb 06, 2012 8:58:40 am PST #17968 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Tilda Swinton is in it, and I'm sure she's fabulous, but I'm so not going to see that film.
Jessica - Feb 06, 2012 9:00:03 am PST #17969 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
More than... Dancer in the Dark?!
Yes.
I only saw about ten minutes of it, and I had to leave the room. It's raw and brutal and devastating.
At least Dancer in the Dark had singing.
smonster - Feb 06, 2012 9:06:47 am PST #17970 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Good lord. I also use Dancer in the Dark as a bleak yardstick, so I think I'll be giving that one a miss.
Kate P. - Feb 06, 2012 9:31:14 am PST #17971 of 30000
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Yikes. My coworker is a huge Lionel Shriver fan (author of the novel) and she's super excited about going to see We Need to Talk About Kevin. I would kinda like to go, but I'm really not sure it's the best movie to see while pregnant, and you all are confirming my inclination to stay away. Maybe in 20 years.
§ ita § - Feb 06, 2012 9:32:17 am PST #17972 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I stole this from somewhere on tumblr, and I'm about to fall right into my monitor.
First, though, I must focus on This Means War.
Jesse - Feb 06, 2012 9:42:36 am PST #17973 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
The Avengers preview was the one time during the Super Bowl that I leaned forward and told everyone (aka my parents) to be quiet...