Children of God was bleak, as was V for Vendetta and I loved both.
Wash: I mean, I'm the one she swore to love, honor and obey. Mal: Listen... She swore to obey? Wash: Well, no, not...
'War Stories'
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javachik - Jul 15, 2010 10:59:14 am PDT #9913 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Steph L. - Jul 15, 2010 10:59:42 am PDT #9914 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I can't quite get past the monolith of bleakness that The Dark Knight was
Can you calibrate for me? What else is bleak like you found TDK?
Let me think on that.
Frankenbuddha - Jul 15, 2010 11:00:41 am PDT #9915 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Children of God was bleak
Children of God or Children of Men. Because Children of Men was hella bleak, with maybe a tiny light at the end.
javachik - Jul 15, 2010 11:01:06 am PDT #9916 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Oh yes, thanks! Definitely "Men".
Frankenbuddha - Jul 15, 2010 11:01:55 am PDT #9917 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I should add that I also love it, but not a fun night out at the movies.
Strix - Jul 15, 2010 11:02:50 am PDT #9918 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Bleak House.
Heh. Sorry.
I can't watch A Clockwork Orange. For some reason in high school and college, that (and Blue Velvet) was always playing whenever there were psychoactive substances at a party and...no. Just no.
Amy - Jul 15, 2010 11:03:23 am PDT #9919 of 30000
Because books.
The bleakest movie I ever saw was Blindness and that *was* too much. Just relentless. Not watching that one again anytime soon.
Juliebird - Jul 15, 2010 11:05:37 am PDT #9920 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
What about Shoot'em Up? The one with Ryan Reynolds. I was so mad at that movie, for starting off in one tone, all happy joyful bang bang, and then completely shifted gears.
Burrell - Jul 15, 2010 11:07:15 am PDT #9921 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I'm trying to think of bleak movies, and maybe I just like them. I found A Clockwork Orange very compelling, and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a tragedy for me and one of my favourite movies.
Both may be dark and, yes, CT,HD is quite tragic, but visually both have a lot of color and light. CT,HD even offers a kind of transcendent beauty to it's viewers (very much in keeping with a proper tragedy now that I think about it). What I hated about TDK was that I found it so visually and thematically unrelenting in its bleakness. I just frankly didn't want to be in that universe, not even for 2 hours.
I guess that's what it comes down to for me. I prefer my movies to cater to my visual pleasure in some way.
And okay EEEP! I must go grade now. Really. Pulling myself away.
Tom Scola - Jul 15, 2010 11:07:34 am PDT #9922 of 30000
hwæt
Ryan Reynolds was in Smokin' Aces.
Shoot 'Em Up had Clive Owen and Paul Giamatti.