Sad Stuff

Olishi4

I love The Walking Dead and cant wait for the next season but it really is a depressing show. Why do we enjoy watching sad and tragic movies, tv or listening to sad music?

Is it because we empathise or sympathise with the characters? We hope that things turn out alright in the end? We like to see things that are worse than our own situations? Or just because we see a reality in the characters and can reflect or relate to that?

Duff

Sure ya can't bate a good cry.

Sir Osis of Liver.

We enjoy others suffering.

Olishi4

Duff wrote: »

Sure ya can't bate a good cry.

Ye, I suppose you feel a bit of a release. I dont cry watching The Walking Dead, well..maybe when (edit; someone) died So technically, sometimes we enjoy being sad or well I mean, we need to be sometimes.

Ted111

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo-M5E0T8WI

Barry Badrinath

Olishi4 wrote: »

Ye, I suppose you feel a bit of a release. I dont cry watching The Walking Dead, well..maybe when So technically, sometimes we enjoy being sad or well I mean, we need to be sometimes.

Fcuking spoliers Olishi!

Olishi4

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

Fcuking spoliers Olishi!

Oops! Did the spoiler make you sad though? See..I was doing you a favour ah no sorry! I'll edit it!

The Walking Dead isn't a realistic enough scenario to make me cry, but I get upset over well-acted, plausible stuff at times.

I usually don't watch anything too downbeat for that reason, I just don't have the stomach for emotionally challenging themes these days. I can't listen to sad songs most of the time, I react too intensely and they can dampen my mood.

wakka12

I think its because sad dramatic things are interesting to watch and hear about, like we are interested in tragedies in the news, but with tv I think people especially like tragedies and crimes because its people's suffering but we can watch it without guilt of finding it interesting cause we know that nobody is actually suffering

Olishi4

Ted111 wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo-M5E0T8WI

I've only just noticed, he was playing Lemmy in that clip

Barry Badrinath

Olishi4 wrote: »

Ye, I suppose you feel a bit of a release. I dont cry watching The Walking Dead, well..maybe when (edit; someone) died So technically, sometimes we enjoy being sad or well I mean, we need to be sometimes.

Ah its ok.

Im always sad anyway

timthumbni

Candie wrote: »

The Walking Dead isn't a realistic enough scenario to make me cry, but I get upset over well-acted, plausible stuff at times.

What do you mean not realistic enough? I thought the walking dead was supposed to be based on a true story.

Olishi4

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

Ah its ok.

Im always sad anyway

You better edit your one now or else you'll be the spoiler!

Summer wind

Turn them on, turn them on
Turn on those sad songs
When all hope is gone
Why don't you tune in and turn them on

If someone else is suffering enough to write it down
When every single word makes sense
Then it's easier to have those songs around
The kick inside is in the line that finally gets to you
And it feels so good to hurt so bad
And suffer just enough to sing the blues

So turn them on
Turn on those sad songs

Duff

Nothing makes me cry more than Arnie being lowered into the molten metal in Terminator 2 while giving the thumbs up.

Olishi4

Duff wrote: »

Nothing makes me cry more than Arnie being lowered into the molten metal in Terminator 2 while giving the thumbs up.

I know, me too? And he's a robot ffs??

lazybones32

I think one of the best selling singles in Ireland was "only a woman" by Mary Black and someone else - 'tis a bittersweet song. Titanic, and the Dion song that went with it, wouldn't have been as successful if Jack lived...what does that tell you?

I like TWD to see people and zombies get killed, not because it makes me sad. It makes me wonder why violent shows are the most popular but we supposedly reject violence. Kinda hypocritical.

wakka12

lazybones32 wrote: »

I think one of the best selling singles in Ireland was "only a woman" by Mary Black and someone else - 'tis a bittersweet song. Titanic, and the Dion song that went with it, wouldn't have been as successful if Jack lived...what does that tell you?

I like TWD to see people and zombies get killed, not because it makes me sad. It makes me wonder why violent shows are the most popular but we supposedly reject violence. Kinda hypocritical.

Not really.nobody is getting hurt in the shows.. Why would it mean we should condone violence towards real people just cause we like to see it on tv with actors doing it

lazybones32

wakka12 wrote: »

Not really.nobody is getting hurt in the shows.. Why would it mean we should condone violence towards real people just cause we like to see it on tv with actors doing it

But the violence obviously appeals to something within people and makes it more interesting but when similar things happen in reality, they are horrific.

Turtyturd

'Where's Wallace String?'

Don't get me started on Dookie.

lazybones32

Olishi4 wrote: »

I know, me too? And he's a robot ffs??

FFS! He's not a robot..."I AM A CYBERNETIC ORGANISM, LIVING TISSUE OVER A METAL ENDOSKELETON".

Mr. CooL ICE

Hold the door



*sobs*

lazybones32

Fry's dog.


"If it takes forever...."

Olishi4

lazybones32 wrote: »

FFS! He's not a robot..."I AM A CYBERNETIC ORGANISM, LIVING TISSUE OVER A METAL ENDOSKELETON".

He may as well be human then! Makes me feel better about being emotionally invested in the character but also a bit worried

maudgonner

"I cherish the memories of a question my grandson asked me the other day, when he said "Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?" Grandpa said, "No... but I served in a company of heroes".


Sob.

Your Face

Its complete pish.

Outlaw Pete

Not a fan and Andrew Lincoln will always be Egg to me you bastards.

Robsweezie

Senor Fancy Pants wrote:

Fcuking spoliers Olishi!

Yeah but you quoted it and made it worse, drawing attention to it. Then he went back and changed his post to remove said spoiler, but you quoted his original post so the spoiler remains In your post quoting his...

Barry Badrinath

Robsweezie wrote: »

Yeah but you quoted it and made it worse, drawing attention to it. Then he went back and changed his post to remove said spoiler, but you quoted his original post so the spoiler remains In your post quoting his...

Damn it Rob!

Why didnt you tell me earlier?! Ya bollox its all yout fault.

Olishi4

Robsweezie wrote: »

Yeah but you quoted it and made it worse, drawing attention to it. Then he went back and changed his post to remove said spoiler, but you quoted his original post so the spoiler remains In your post quoting his...

Hers! See you get things wrong too Rob

Barry Badrinath

Olishi4 wrote: »

Hers! See you get things wrong too Rob

You tell him Olishi!

foxy farmer

Saw a film recently Eden Lake. A gritty british horror. Not an armageddon /apocalypse type of big budget film but something that is quite plausible considering the type of sadistic things we hear about today. I was rooting for the heroine the whole time and shocked at the type sick things that were done. There's a sick twist at the end that made it all the more saddening. One of the best horror films i ever watched.

Yamanoto

TWD is tragic alright.

Noveight

Sad stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kotNxb2YApk

maudgonner

Brace yourselves...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU7NGJw0kR8

spud82

maudgonner wrote: »

Brace yourselves...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU7NGJw0kR8

Every bloody time :(:(

Olishi4

I never saw The Champ but now I'm thinking about Kes

DEFTLEFTHAND

I always felt sad for Christopher in the Sopranos, he spent his whole life trying to be the perfect wiseguy.

In the end he was only a weak drug addicted bastard.