Anonymous wrote:Dead Man Walking - 1995. Full blown anxiety-panic attack near the end of the movie. Had to walk out because I was positively queasy and upset.

Second place for most traumatic- The Accused-1988.

I no longer watch any serious or heavy movies. It’s all charming old musicals or rom-coms for me.

I almost never see films on their release day, but because my grandfather landed at Normandy I was counting the days until Saving Private Ryan was released. I saw it at 5pm on a Friday in Salem, Oregon in a packed theater. The opening scene had me shaking. There had been nothing like this before and the internet didn't really exist. This was new territory and it shook me to my core.

People were openly weeping in the lobby afterwards. I remember walking to my car and just kinda being numb, like I had experienced it.

The Accused, as I said above. Spoilers ahead.



The rape scene is horrifying, and at the time I watched it, the ideas of “group think” and “group inaction” in such a setting had been previously unfathomable to me. I was a young woman when I watched it, and it also opened my eyes to gender and class issues, and the instability of a woman’s personal safety, in a way that nothing else had yet. I still get chills thinking about the movie.

Anonymous wrote:A Clockwork Orange. Tried to watch it in college and could not get through that awful brutal attack scene. It sickened me. To this day I cannot watch that kind of violence in movies.

Same, and I’ll add The Accused, although I turned off A Clockwork Orange because the scene disturbed me so much, but I was riveted by the movie The Accused. Before these that I had considered myself thick skinned about violence in movies.

Waking the Dead - Biily Crudup and Jennifer Connolly

Terms of Endearment

Crash.

Anonymous wrote:Leaving Las Vegas
Philadelphia
The Pianist
Requiem for a Dream (I actually really disliked it but it got me thinking)
Traffic
Precious (also did not enjoy it)

I hated Requiem for a Dream but I’ve never forgotten how it made me feel to watch it. Especially that climatic scene at the end where all four of them are at rock bottom.

Anonymous wrote:Such are what a truly great movie will do, across all genres.

It's just that we don't really make em that great anymore these days

Million Dollar Baby. All Quiet of the Western Front. Schindler's List. Etc.

If you go through Oscar nominated movies esp from the 70s/80s. I mean pretty much any of them will impact you, just find your genre!

Yea! Devastating. Think about it often

The Road. Very heavy and definitely changed me.

Dead Man Walking - 1995. Full blown anxiety-panic attack near the end of the movie. Had to walk out because I was positively queasy and upset.

Second place for most traumatic- The Accused-1988.

I no longer watch any serious or heavy movies. It’s all charming old musicals or rom-coms for me.

The Florida Project

Dancer in the Dark
Melancholia

Anonymous wrote:Rocky
Die Hard
Jaws
Fantasia

Those are heavy, all right.

The Piano

Interstellar