Christina Ricci in a sheet being an angel or something? You bet! To top it off you’ll also cry out of love for people who endure/triumph despite tragedy and grow as humans/spirits. Based on a true story? Check check check. The Laramie ProjectĬommunity uniting in grief? Check. I mean the world is so fucking ugly in this, you know? + 5. Like I think she cried for two hours, upset about how you get born into hell and then keep on living in hell until it kills you, and sometimes takes a few others down with you. It was worse than after Bowling for Columbine. My uber-compassionate social justice warrior friend Natalie, who I swear to G-d feels compassion for every ounce of pain you’ve ever felt in your life and every dead grasshopper, was totally inconsolable after this movie.
Inspirational Quote: “The pains that have burned me and scarred my soul, it was worth it, for having been allowed to walk where I’ve walked, which was to hell on earth, heaven on earth, back again, into, under, far in between, through it, in it, and above.” + 6. There’s no greater hope in the end, just a beautiful woman who’s dead.
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If you start the movie there and stop it before she gets on the plane, you’d be a lot happier. In my brain, the movie begins when she’s topless by the gate.
And the dead will be commemorated, and we’ll struggle on with the living, and we are not going away. Inspirational Quote: “This disease will be the end of many of us, but not nearly all. But it’s also so beautiful and well-written, so. This one drags out your depression over many many hours. (For a rundown on why Riese hates Lost & Delirious, go here.) + 8. Not only does someone die at the end, but it’s like the worst fucking movie I’ve ever seen in my life and a waste of Mischa Barton’s incredible talent, which makes me weep because The Nicest Thing hasn’t been made and this was. I mean Jesus, throw us a bone, Hollywood. Really you just weep for all the lesbos in the 60s who had this as their one and only lesbian movie. (This list doesn’t include documentaries because all of those are depressing) Top Ten Depressing Queer Movies + 10.
What movies made YOU feel depressed? Share in the comments! No but really, this is based on movies we’ve seen, so it’s subjective. Please if you do so use no less than 5 question marks, otherwise we can’t tell if you’re serious. Brandon Teena has it bad.Īs with all Top Tens, many of you will want to use excessive punctuation and all-caps to express your disagreement with our selections and your feelings about our sub-par intelligence levels and list-making abilities. I couldn’t possibly parade around in pants and makeup like the world was not a tableau of brutality and self-denial! I would be doing a disservice to my sexuality if I dared to smile, let alone DANCE! Furthermore, due to all the crying I’d just done, my face resembled, perhaps, a half-consumed plate of Spaghetti-Os.īut you know what I wasn’t thinking about? The fact that my straight roommate was also my lover/best friend/co-worker! I mean you think you’ve got it bad? No. Needless to say, when she returned home, excited for the night ahead, I was an inconsolable mess. I’ll never forget that one fateful afternoon in 2006 when I decided to watch whatever Netflix movie I’d just received and maybe finish the book I was reading before nightfall, at which time I was set to attend a girl party with my (straight) roommate/lover/best-friend/co-worker. Nobody does a tear-jerker quite like the gays! Sure, Beaches had death and a really heart-wrenching song about death, but gay movies usually feature death AND alienation from friends/society/lovers or AIDS or a hate crime or something else super super tragic and terrible!