The only movies i legitimately get depressed over are coming of age films...

The only movies i legitimately get depressed over are coming of age films. When watch "depressing" movies i don't really feel much but with coming of age films they always hit me in the feels. Maybe its because im constantly looking back at my childhood in regret like i wasted my youth. Anyone else get this feel?

Maybe, but Stand By Me is the purest of kino, so it's understandable that it makes you emotional. I would argue that every man alive can relate to the following:

>I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?

I get that OP. American Graffiti pained me to watch it was so fucking nostalgic. Damn I wish I coud be 17 again, knowing what I know now.

Yeah I feel that. Boyhood made me weirdly depressed for a movie that isn't that depressing.

its not just stand by me.
stuff like
Ferris Bueller's day off
moonrise kingdom

i just want to be a kid again.

unrelated but how come all the most iconic coming of age movies take place within 24-72 hours?

Stand By Me
Dazed and Confused
Ferris Bueller
American Graffiti
Superbad
Breakfast club

because, based trips, the most significant events in your life are not drawn out, but happen are finished before you even realize. Think about the most life-defining things that happened to you - I bet you they all occurred within a day

i the idea is showing the transition between teenage years to adulthood and they try to show in a short period of time. i find the most iconic one are about just kids being kids.

Yeah I considered that I just don't think that happened to me personally, as in, what finished before I realized WAS my drawn own youth

All the time you spend tryna get back whats been took from you, more's going out the door. After a while you just gotta have to try and get a tourniquet on it

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>no Weird Science

DROPPED

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its because when you're a kid/growing up a single day can feel longer than a month when you're an adult stuck in a mundane routine. remember how summer vacation could feel like it'd last forever? shortening the time span in these movies helps recapture that feeling, and man is it bittersweet for adult viewers. i will say though to any potential sad boys out there, this is why its important to go on vacation, try new things, etc - things are more memorable and just feel longer more significant the more different they are from your routine. when you're a kid its just that you don't have to really try hard to do/learn something new

Same here. It's because I never had any sort of coming of age. No friends to grow up and no love interests.

One day I woke up and I was an adult and had to get a job

I dropped the comb guys....

Just reading this thread gives me a sad, nostalgic feel for days gone by.

I remember seeing this movie when I was twelve years old, and it made me take time to realize the magic of it all. Funny the things you remember.

I really wish I put more effort into life when I was a teenager. Especially my social life, school. You know, typical stuff. Instead, I was and still am a lazy asshole. Doing better, though.

I didn't get pussy as a kid so...I don't miss it much. Virgins.

its not just underage sex.
its little things i never got to do
like sneak into r rated films
have a friend introduce me to alcohol
just go have an adventurer in the woods

Wow. They predicted computers all wrong.

>Give an underage kid alcohol and then take him on and "adventure" in the woods

movies that go out of their way to be sad like manchester by the sea or blue valentine can do that to me, but I have to be in the right mood and go in knowing what to expect. Its the unexpected sadness that is subtle and build around an otherwise nice story that really gets you. Thats why that fucking futurama episode with the dog makes so many people sad. Stand by me hits all the soft sots though
>nostalgia
>coming of age
>old circle of friends slowly drifting apart

fuck Sup Forums

>tfw I relized this too and am trying to make the most of my time
>actively partying more, asking out girls and trying to be social
>sometimes it works, sometimes it doesnt
>most of the time I still dont feel like im doing enough and im not happy

>Daamn, Vern looks like THAT?

All you hypocrites

>Maybe its because im constantly looking back at my childhood in regret like i wasted my youth.
This desu

I just rewatched stand by me only to realize that I was mixing it up with the Sandlot for all these years and the hispanic kid did not get stabbed in the throat but became a baseball star.

Fuck you, I can relate.

Lol, go on...

>TFW reading this thread in Daniel Stern's voice