Music:
For me, there isn't an album that embodies utter hopelessness and depression like Alice in Chains' Dirt. Written about Layne Staley's heroine addiction, it's a harrowing listen, even today. It's also a brilliant piece of music. AiC were doing things that few bands dared to do at the time. Experimenting with extremely dark but superb vocal and guitar harmonies that would make the Beatles proud, and subtle, jarring rhythmic and melodic soundscapes. They were probably the best band to come out of the 90's Alt. rock movement (A largely unpopular opinion, I know).
Film:
There's lots here, but the one that stands out to me is Grave of the Fireflies. If it's one film I swear I'll never set through again it's this one. I don't know if there's ever been a more powerful, poignant, anti-war film put to screen than this.
Series:
It's probably because I just finished watching it, but I have to go with Texhnolyze here. Though this may change as I have more time to reflect and as I watch some of the new series I have on order. But Texhnolyze's ending is one of the most powerful, haunting endings I've ever seen. It really leaves an indelible mark and burns that final image into your brain.
The Saddest, Most Depressing Films/Series/Music/etc.
Moderators: Rebuild/OT Moderators, Board Staff
- Eva Yojimbo
- Redbeard
- Age: 38
- Posts: 8005
- Joined: Feb 17, 2007
- Location: Somewhere Over the Rainbo
- Gender: Male
The Saddest, Most Depressing Films/Series/Music/etc.
Cinelogue & Forced Perspective Cinema
^ Writing as Jonathan Henderson ^
We're all adrift on the stormy seas of Evangelion, desperately trying to gather what flotsam can be snatched from the gale into a somewhat seaworthy interpretation so that we can at last reach the shores of reason and respite. - ObsessiveMathsFreak
Jimbo has posted enough to be considered greater than or equal to everyone, and or synonymous with the concept of 'everyone'. - Muggy
I've seen so many changeful years, / to Earth I am a stranger grown: / I wander in the ways of men, / alike unknowing and unknown: / Unheard, unpitied, unrelieved, / I bear alone my load of care; / For silent, low, on beds of dust, / Lie all that would my sorrows share. - Robert Burns' Lament for James
^ Writing as Jonathan Henderson ^
We're all adrift on the stormy seas of Evangelion, desperately trying to gather what flotsam can be snatched from the gale into a somewhat seaworthy interpretation so that we can at last reach the shores of reason and respite. - ObsessiveMathsFreak
Jimbo has posted enough to be considered greater than or equal to everyone, and or synonymous with the concept of 'everyone'. - Muggy
I've seen so many changeful years, / to Earth I am a stranger grown: / I wander in the ways of men, / alike unknowing and unknown: / Unheard, unpitied, unrelieved, / I bear alone my load of care; / For silent, low, on beds of dust, / Lie all that would my sorrows share. - Robert Burns' Lament for James
Thank you for bringing Texhnolyze to my attention. It looks like something that I'm going to seriously enjoy/study.
It's difficult to find something that actually depresses me. What has left horrible effects on me is the ending of "Requiem for a Dream" and "Animatrix: The Second Renaissance". These have probably been seen though.
Not as depressing, but I do recommend "Last Days" by Gus Van Sant, which is an adaptation of Kurt Cobains isolation and suicide. I'd also suggest watching Sant's other "Death Trilogy" films. (Wiki it)
Plus, watch the "Infernal Affairs" trilogy. Not really sad initially, but you must watch it. BY the third film you do seem quite empathetic for the characters.
I personally would like to see (or learn of) a dark anime that seriously deals with suicide and the build up to it. I think it would have a lot of potential.
It's difficult to find something that actually depresses me. What has left horrible effects on me is the ending of "Requiem for a Dream" and "Animatrix: The Second Renaissance". These have probably been seen though.
Not as depressing, but I do recommend "Last Days" by Gus Van Sant, which is an adaptation of Kurt Cobains isolation and suicide. I'd also suggest watching Sant's other "Death Trilogy" films. (Wiki it)
Plus, watch the "Infernal Affairs" trilogy. Not really sad initially, but you must watch it. BY the third film you do seem quite empathetic for the characters.
I personally would like to see (or learn of) a dark anime that seriously deals with suicide and the build up to it. I think it would have a lot of potential.
- Eva Yojimbo
- Redbeard
- Age: 38
- Posts: 8005
- Joined: Feb 17, 2007
- Location: Somewhere Over the Rainbo
- Gender: Male
Heh, before someone beats me to it, NGE has a ton of symbolism in it regarding suicide. No doubt echoing Anno's own thoughts at the time. But it doesn't deal with the subject "directly" like you're talking about.Szmitten wrote:
I personally would like to see (or learn of) a dark anime that seriously deals with suicide and the build up to it. I think it would have a lot of potential.
Cinelogue & Forced Perspective Cinema
^ Writing as Jonathan Henderson ^
We're all adrift on the stormy seas of Evangelion, desperately trying to gather what flotsam can be snatched from the gale into a somewhat seaworthy interpretation so that we can at last reach the shores of reason and respite. - ObsessiveMathsFreak
Jimbo has posted enough to be considered greater than or equal to everyone, and or synonymous with the concept of 'everyone'. - Muggy
I've seen so many changeful years, / to Earth I am a stranger grown: / I wander in the ways of men, / alike unknowing and unknown: / Unheard, unpitied, unrelieved, / I bear alone my load of care; / For silent, low, on beds of dust, / Lie all that would my sorrows share. - Robert Burns' Lament for James
^ Writing as Jonathan Henderson ^
We're all adrift on the stormy seas of Evangelion, desperately trying to gather what flotsam can be snatched from the gale into a somewhat seaworthy interpretation so that we can at last reach the shores of reason and respite. - ObsessiveMathsFreak
Jimbo has posted enough to be considered greater than or equal to everyone, and or synonymous with the concept of 'everyone'. - Muggy
I've seen so many changeful years, / to Earth I am a stranger grown: / I wander in the ways of men, / alike unknowing and unknown: / Unheard, unpitied, unrelieved, / I bear alone my load of care; / For silent, low, on beds of dust, / Lie all that would my sorrows share. - Robert Burns' Lament for James
- slothen
- First Ancestral Sloth
- Age: 37
- Posts: 2558
- Joined: Sep 12, 2006
- Location: Indianapolis
- Gender: Male
"Nimrod" from the Enigma Variations of Edward Elgar. I performed it at competition in St. Louis with my middle school band in 6th grade. I still know it by heart. Damn we were a good band.
God, Apparently you all have been discussing Q since November. Catching up on the discussion is harrowing.
MAL Profile
MAL Profile
Music: The songs that I find most movingly melancholy are "Mad World" (the Donnie Darko version; haven't heard the other one) and "Gollum's Song". "Komm Susser Tod" is up there too.
Series: Mahoromatic; not going any farther into that. I'll just say that... well, look at the link in my signature if you care. As for individual episode, the Futurama episode "Jurassic Bark" was very moving and made me cry. It didn't make me actually clinically depressed like Mahoromatic did, but that's definitely a good thing.
Movie: Hmm... I'll have to think about this one.
Series: Mahoromatic; not going any farther into that. I'll just say that... well, look at the link in my signature if you care. As for individual episode, the Futurama episode "Jurassic Bark" was very moving and made me cry. It didn't make me actually clinically depressed like Mahoromatic did, but that's definitely a good thing.
Movie: Hmm... I'll have to think about this one.
"Today?... hmm... today... right... Um... I'm just gonna wing it." -Guess who
- Eva Yojimbo
- Redbeard
- Age: 38
- Posts: 8005
- Joined: Feb 17, 2007
- Location: Somewhere Over the Rainbo
- Gender: Male
"Mad World" was a good one. Komm Susser Tod is weird, because the lyrics are sad, but the song has such a happy, poppy beat, so I'm torn. I go back to Texhnolyze for truly sad/depressing songs: Check out Tsuki no Uta and Walking Through the Empty Age for two truly heartbreaking pieces (especially within the context of the series).
Haha, Jurassic Bark... That actually was a sad episode. I was actually shocked when I saw that because you always expect those types of shows to be constantly silly.
I'll have to check out Mahoromatic.
Haha, Jurassic Bark... That actually was a sad episode. I was actually shocked when I saw that because you always expect those types of shows to be constantly silly.
I'll have to check out Mahoromatic.
Cinelogue & Forced Perspective Cinema
^ Writing as Jonathan Henderson ^
We're all adrift on the stormy seas of Evangelion, desperately trying to gather what flotsam can be snatched from the gale into a somewhat seaworthy interpretation so that we can at last reach the shores of reason and respite. - ObsessiveMathsFreak
Jimbo has posted enough to be considered greater than or equal to everyone, and or synonymous with the concept of 'everyone'. - Muggy
I've seen so many changeful years, / to Earth I am a stranger grown: / I wander in the ways of men, / alike unknowing and unknown: / Unheard, unpitied, unrelieved, / I bear alone my load of care; / For silent, low, on beds of dust, / Lie all that would my sorrows share. - Robert Burns' Lament for James
^ Writing as Jonathan Henderson ^
We're all adrift on the stormy seas of Evangelion, desperately trying to gather what flotsam can be snatched from the gale into a somewhat seaworthy interpretation so that we can at last reach the shores of reason and respite. - ObsessiveMathsFreak
Jimbo has posted enough to be considered greater than or equal to everyone, and or synonymous with the concept of 'everyone'. - Muggy
I've seen so many changeful years, / to Earth I am a stranger grown: / I wander in the ways of men, / alike unknowing and unknown: / Unheard, unpitied, unrelieved, / I bear alone my load of care; / For silent, low, on beds of dust, / Lie all that would my sorrows share. - Robert Burns' Lament for James
- Opteron-O3
- Tabris
- Posts: 994
- Joined: Feb 19, 2007
- Location: Texas
- Contact:
Music: Bach - Air on G String has a sad effect on me, but really good piece
Series: At the moment it's NGE, but I want to check out Texhonilyze
Movie: The Professional
Edited
Series: At the moment it's NGE, but I want to check out Texhonilyze
Movie: The Professional
Edited
Last edited by Opteron-O3 on Fri Feb 25, 2011 11:14 pm, edited 2 times in total.
- THE Hal E. Burton 9000
- Elder God
- Posts: 5751
- Joined: Feb 03, 2007
Music: That damn Christmas Shoes song and other tragic songs of that ilk.
Series: Can't think of one in particular.
Film: Every Holocaust movie, a few disaster/war disaster movies and some of those tragedy-oriented chick flicks.
Series: Can't think of one in particular.
Film: Every Holocaust movie, a few disaster/war disaster movies and some of those tragedy-oriented chick flicks.
- TEH Fabulous Hal E. Burton 9000
P.S. For those wanting to discuss a matter with yours truly not pertaining to the general topic at hand, PM me. Please and thank you.
P.S. For those wanting to discuss a matter with yours truly not pertaining to the general topic at hand, PM me. Please and thank you.
- Trigger's Elysium
- Lilin
- Posts: 1116
- Joined: Nov 19, 2006
- Location: Under the Crimson Air
Music: The Last Of The Great Whales - The Irish Decendants
Series: Elfen Lied
Movie: I've never been one to watch a lot of movies, in general
BTW, Yojimbo, when Avery says that Mahoromatic made him clinically depressed, know that he loathes the ending more than anything else <_<
Series: Elfen Lied
Movie: I've never been one to watch a lot of movies, in general
BTW, Yojimbo, when Avery says that Mahoromatic made him clinically depressed, know that he loathes the ending more than anything else <_<
He was warrior and mystic, ogre and saint, the fox and the innocent, chivalrous, ruthless, less than a god, more than a man. There is no measuring Muad'Dib's motives by ordinary standards. In the moment of his triumph, he saw the death prepared for him, yet he accepted the treachery. Can you say he did this out of a sense of justice? Whose justice, then? Remember, we speak now of the Muad'Dib who ordered battle drums made from his enemies' skins, the Muad'Dib who denied the conventions of his ducal past with a wave of the hand, saying merely: "I am the Kwisatz Haderach. That is reason enough."
- Eva Yojimbo
- Redbeard
- Age: 38
- Posts: 8005
- Joined: Feb 17, 2007
- Location: Somewhere Over the Rainbo
- Gender: Male
Know that by you saying that, it just sadistically (masochistically?) makes me all the more interested... :PTrigger's Elysium wrote:
BTW, Yojimbo, when Avery says that Mahoromatic made him clinically depressed, know that he loathes the ending more than anything else <_<
Cinelogue & Forced Perspective Cinema
^ Writing as Jonathan Henderson ^
We're all adrift on the stormy seas of Evangelion, desperately trying to gather what flotsam can be snatched from the gale into a somewhat seaworthy interpretation so that we can at last reach the shores of reason and respite. - ObsessiveMathsFreak
Jimbo has posted enough to be considered greater than or equal to everyone, and or synonymous with the concept of 'everyone'. - Muggy
I've seen so many changeful years, / to Earth I am a stranger grown: / I wander in the ways of men, / alike unknowing and unknown: / Unheard, unpitied, unrelieved, / I bear alone my load of care; / For silent, low, on beds of dust, / Lie all that would my sorrows share. - Robert Burns' Lament for James
^ Writing as Jonathan Henderson ^
We're all adrift on the stormy seas of Evangelion, desperately trying to gather what flotsam can be snatched from the gale into a somewhat seaworthy interpretation so that we can at last reach the shores of reason and respite. - ObsessiveMathsFreak
Jimbo has posted enough to be considered greater than or equal to everyone, and or synonymous with the concept of 'everyone'. - Muggy
I've seen so many changeful years, / to Earth I am a stranger grown: / I wander in the ways of men, / alike unknowing and unknown: / Unheard, unpitied, unrelieved, / I bear alone my load of care; / For silent, low, on beds of dust, / Lie all that would my sorrows share. - Robert Burns' Lament for James
Eva Yojimbo wrote:Know that by you saying that, it just sadistically (masochistically?) makes me all the more interested... :PTrigger's Elysium wrote:
BTW, Yojimbo, when Avery says that Mahoromatic made him clinically depressed, know that he loathes the ending more than anything else <_<
It's an ecchi all the way through, until the final episode where it turns into a typical "LOL WTF GAINAX ENDING". I'd say to just skip to the end but then there'd be nothing to contrast it with.
- BrikHaus
- Dokutah Tenma
- Posts: 6301
- Joined: Feb 11, 2006
- Location: Attending Physician - AKA: Hell
- Contact:
Trigger's Elysium wrote:BTW, Yojimbo, when Avery says that Mahoromatic made him clinically depressed, know that he loathes the ending more than anything else <_<
I object! Nobody loathes the ending to Mahoromatic more than I do. I even went so far as to create a fanedit (read as: recut) of the series into 3 films in order to change the ending. The first one is done and floating around on torrent, the other two are in the pipeline.
Awesomely Shitty
-"That purace has more badassu maddafaakas zan supermax spaceland."
-On EMF, as a thread becomes longer, the likelihood that fem-Kaworu will be mentioned increases exponentially.
-the only English language novel actually being developed in parallel to its Japanese version involving a pan-human Soviet in a galactic struggle to survive and to export the communist utopia/revolution to all the down trodden alien class and race- one of the premise being that Khrushchev remains and has abandoned Lysenko stupidity
-"That purace has more badassu maddafaakas zan supermax spaceland."
-On EMF, as a thread becomes longer, the likelihood that fem-Kaworu will be mentioned increases exponentially.
-the only English language novel actually being developed in parallel to its Japanese version involving a pan-human Soviet in a galactic struggle to survive and to export the communist utopia/revolution to all the down trodden alien class and race- one of the premise being that Khrushchev remains and has abandoned Lysenko stupidity
Note though that most people aren't affected by Mahoromatic the way that I was. While the majority of viewers dislike Mahoromatic's ending, it doesn't actually make most people depressed to the extent it did me. If I had known to expect a sad ending, it probably wouldn't have bothered me as much. I'm sure I still would have been bothered, but I doubt it would be nearly to that extent. So don't go into the show expecting it to make you want to kill yourself.
(Just so you know, I've never contemplated suicide. That was a slight exaggeration. Slight.)
(Just so you know, I've never contemplated suicide. That was a slight exaggeration. Slight.)
"Today?... hmm... today... right... Um... I'm just gonna wing it." -Guess who
- Opteron-O3
- Tabris
- Posts: 994
- Joined: Feb 19, 2007
- Location: Texas
- Contact:
NAveryW wrote:Note though that most people aren't affected by Mahoromatic the way that I was. While the majority of viewers dislike Mahoromatic's ending, it doesn't actually make most people depressed to the extent it did me. If I had known to expect a sad ending, it probably wouldn't have bothered me as much. I'm sure I still would have been bothered, but I doubt it would be nearly to that extent. So don't go into the show expecting it to make you want to kill yourself.
(Just so you know, I've never contemplated suicide. That was a slight exaggeration. Slight.)
Slight... >_> *hugs*
Last edited by Opteron-O3 on Sun Mar 13, 2011 8:05 pm, edited 1 time in total.
- Opteron-O3
- Tabris
- Posts: 994
- Joined: Feb 19, 2007
- Location: Texas
- Contact:
Don't know if you guys have seen this video, but it sure hit the spot :cry:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue4IzCtBqeo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue4IzCtBqeo
Last edited by Opteron-O3 on Fri Feb 25, 2011 11:14 pm, edited 1 time in total.
- Jamie the Great
- Embryo
- Posts: 48
- Joined: Mar 09, 2007
- Location: MN
- BrikHaus
- Dokutah Tenma
- Posts: 6301
- Joined: Feb 11, 2006
- Location: Attending Physician - AKA: Hell
- Contact:
The saddest anime I've ever seen is perhaps Voices of a Distant Star. No anime (or any tv show or movie, for that matter) has ever made me cry, but this came closer than any to almost making it happen.
Awesomely Shitty
-"That purace has more badassu maddafaakas zan supermax spaceland."
-On EMF, as a thread becomes longer, the likelihood that fem-Kaworu will be mentioned increases exponentially.
-the only English language novel actually being developed in parallel to its Japanese version involving a pan-human Soviet in a galactic struggle to survive and to export the communist utopia/revolution to all the down trodden alien class and race- one of the premise being that Khrushchev remains and has abandoned Lysenko stupidity
-"That purace has more badassu maddafaakas zan supermax spaceland."
-On EMF, as a thread becomes longer, the likelihood that fem-Kaworu will be mentioned increases exponentially.
-the only English language novel actually being developed in parallel to its Japanese version involving a pan-human Soviet in a galactic struggle to survive and to export the communist utopia/revolution to all the down trodden alien class and race- one of the premise being that Khrushchev remains and has abandoned Lysenko stupidity
Who is online
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 15 guests