Sounds like a bummer (Depressing shit, Part 4 in a series)

I recommend you see Part 1 and read my original disclaimer here; now here's installment 4:

Haven't seen these movies, don't think I want to:
An American Crime
Biutiful
Burma VJ
Precious
The Sea Inside/The Dancer Upstairs (Am I confused? All these depressing-sounding Javier Bardem flicks run together for me...)
The Second Circle

The Unloved (more child abuse!)
The Walker

song (definitely depressing):
"Is That All There Is?"

And here's Part 2 of the series, in case you missed it...
And Part 3.


More coming sooner or later! Please comment if you have anything to add. I am always looking for more depressing shit to avoid.


 

even more depressing shit (Part 3 of our series)

I recommend you see Part 1 and read my original disclaimer here (if you haven't already); now here's installment 3: 

Movies:
A.I.
Capturing the Friedmans
Project Nim (haven't seen this, don't want to ever see it, I don't need to be more depressed.)
Yesterday (having to do with AIDS)

And some of my GOING COMMANDO! co-host Mae Aswell's depressing movie suggestions:
House of Sand and Fog
Midnight Cowboy
Mystic River

song: "All By Myself" (also Mae's suggestion)

...and a few other things that depress me, outside of the categories above: 
-the guitar wankers at Guitar Center
-most comments on Youtube videos (and on most other mass-viewed web sites)
-the Disneyland monorail, especially the part where you see the parking lot


And here's a bonus-- a link to the original posting of our GOING COMMANDO! podcast episode in which Mae Aswell and I do a lot of expounding on cultural consumables that depress us:

5-4-11 GOING COMMANDO! with MAE ASWELL & MAREN McC...
(At least I think that's the right episode. If not, I'll have to relisten to some episodes to figure it out, and that SHOULDN'T be depressing!  I'm pretty sure the subject comes up on more than one episode, knowing me.)

And here's Part 2 of the series, in case you missed it.

More coming sooner or later! Please comment if you have anything to add.

My tag!

See??

Because I have to.

Team handball

Russian cave wedding

Petting time

A pretty little Lars

To each his

Depressing Shit (to me): Part 2

I recommend you see part 1 and read my original disclaimer here; now here's installment 2.


Some more depressing movies:
◦Army of Shadows [about the French resistance during WWII]
◦Blood Diamond [about blood diamonds and other depressing things that have happened in Africa]
◦The Diving Bell and the Butterfly [paralysis]
◦Flame and Citron [about the Danish resistance during WWII]
◦The Magdalene Sisters [Watch this if you want to see what happens when you let the Church run society, and you ban real sex education, birth control, and abortion.]
◦Rabbit-Proof Fence [See this if you need a big dose of white guilt! Fun fact: I saw both this and The Magdalene Sisters when I was in the hospital for a few days, long ago. I'm better now.]

Is it just me, or are a lot of these depressing movies based on true events?
And once again, like I said in my earlier post, these are not bad movies; they just made me sad and/or depressed. It doesn't mean they're not worth seeing; no, they can be very worthwhile, especially if you are under-educated on any of the topics they address.

Some more depressing music:
◦the song at the end of the movie Ghost Dad [This falls into the category I brought up last time of "70s and 80s schlock." I actually enjoyed Ghost Dad up until the last moments, when this song started playing. And no, I don't remember what the song was called or who did it, and I don't care to look it up.]   
 More coming sooner or later! Please comment if you have anything to add.