I had to unsubscribe from NotJustBikes’s YouTube channel because I could no longer bear thinking about just how thoroughly and irreversably fucked the city planning is out here in the American midwest, and how there’s less than a gnat’s fart in the wind I can do about any of it.
Rings of Power.
Why so? From all I’ve heard of it, it’s just an average show.
There is nothing average about it. It’s a disgusting and vile brutalisation of the legacy of a great author.
I feel a kind of a relief knowing we had lucked into having a legendary trilogy to compare it to, even Hobbit was on par although not as great. Not many worthy books had such a treatment. It’s understandable that we now have a high standard that Amazon’s factory can’t never meet even if it tries, and it seems like it didn’t try at all. I kinda forgot it even happened before you wrote about it. Guess, it’s the way it should go.
Schindler’s List towards the end where Schindler was regretful that he could’ve sold more stuff and got more money to save more people.
Cyberpunk Edgerunners. The world is simply too brutal for our protagonists.
Grave of the Fireflies. It just hurts to watch this movie.
Grave of the Fireflies is so good, but definitely not in the way that makes me want to watch it again!
Them. Too brutal, cannot watch.
Black Swan. Too intense for me, although I’ll probably try to finish it sometime.
Another Darren Aranofsky’s movie? Yeah, he’s aiming at piercing you, whenever you want it or not. And that one isn’t the worst of his.
One of my favorite movies…that I will absolutely never watch again.
Sons of Anarchy. The show portrays so many people living in ever-increasing states of desperation. One episode ends with a character hanging himself and I almost quit right then and there even though there were multiple seasons left. I had never seen so much depression and crushing desperation portrayed like that. I took a break from it after that episode.
I did finish the show and it was indeed horribly depressing, but incredibly well-done and well-written.
It Takes Two.
There’s a point where your characters brutally murder the only nice thing thing in the entire story while it’s begging for its life (your characters are pieces of shit, but the gameplay is good, so you can kind of ignore it). It happens to be the characters’ daughter’s favorite stuffed elephant.
Then your characters dance gleefully in their daughter’s tears and show no remorse at their daughter crying or any emotion other than woe is us, our brutal murder didn’t work.
Seriously, one of the most horrific things my husband and I have ever played through in a game. It made us feel sick. We stopped playing after that. The best thing I can do for that little girl is for her shitty ass parents to never waje up so she becomes an orphan. That’s honestly a better outcome for her than having to live with her shitty abusive parents another day. I only wish it had been earlier in the game so we could have gotten refunds.
I can’t believe they market that game to play with your kids and put that scene in it.
Funny, I stopped playing the game right after this scene but not really because of it. I just couldn’t stand the main characters from the very beginning.
I didn’t turn it off but that scene in Farha with the baby was brutal when you have one in the room with you
Walking dead (after rick got kidnapped?)
it was just so depressing and everything went to shit all the time
Fear the walking dead
Same, too depressing and cruel at times
Revenge
At times its ok but you never know when the next depiction of cruelty and emotional abuse hits
The A word
Can only watch it in small doses since the depiction of parents failing is hard if you have abuse history
The last one I still watch but not as the last thing before bed, otherwise I will dream horrible things.
How deep you got into TWD? My unsocial ass liked the first couple of episodes, this cop riding on a horse like in Hot Fuzz, but with all that interpersonal drama I got sick of it. It felt so weird these people are the last men on Earth and they still have something to fight each other over.
Jericho felt better in that aspect. Some suspect it was closed because it was too good and educative. I don’t know if it’s true, but it’s 90’s cinema slow, so you can become bored really quick.
The show is about interpersonal drama more than it is about zombies and that’s not me being reductive. The creator himself has said as much. It’s a drama set in a post apocalyptic zombie world, not a zombie drama set in a post apocalyptic world.
That’s why it’s not my piece of cake maybe. Too much of that IRL to enjoy the same on the silver screen. Pressing a play button, I want these fantasy persons to work together like Legolas and Gimli, not fighting each other over small things.
Yea same. I want some dope zombie fighting. That’s why early on they established that everyone was infected and there’s pretty much no way to cure it currently. Season 1 or 2 iirc.
As I mentioned. I stopped pretty soon after rick got kidnapped, his son had died, etc
And yes, the sheer infinite capacity for humans to be cruel to each other, even after an apocalypse just made me feel bad.
Resident evil was nice, Oblivion I liked, Book of eli, even i am legend. But twd is just too cynic for me.
Agreed.
I didn’t see anyone else mention it, but the scene in King Kong where one of the guys is eaten alive by four or five giant worms, each one starting from a different limb (the last one swallowing his fucking head).
Doesn’t matter that they were setting him up for you to root for him to die, it’s still way too much for me.
Worm
Hunger Games
Worm? Is that a movie?
It’s a webfic set in a universe where people get superpowers by going through psychological trauma. It’s a fucked up world and the protagonist is a fucked up person as a result
- That was just so vividly depressing and anxiety inducing I couldn’t go more than a few pages a week, and eventually I just stopped and read the summery instead.
Watched Our Planet, season 2 episode 2, and just started weeping uncontrollably when I saw the baby Albatross dying from being fed plastics and other toxic waste. I had to tap out.
Saving Private Ryan
