# "Favorite" movies you've seen only once

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-youve-seen-only-once/466365>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 3, 2008, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-youve-seen-only-once/466365 "2008-10-03T20:29:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2008, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-youve-seen-only-once/466365/41 "2008-10-05T20:00:27Z")

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> [@Red\_Barchetta](#):
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> Hmm, I don’t even remember…can you refresh my memory?

Bash. Smash. Thump. Crunch. Splat.

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**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2008, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-youve-seen-only-once/466365/42 "2008-10-05T20:38:30Z")

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**Shoah  
Pan’s Labyrinth  
The Pianist  
Platoon  
Z  
Last Temptation of Christ  
Pi  
Apocalypse Now**

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**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-youve-seen-only-once/466365/43 "2008-10-06T05:23:40Z")

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The Third Man

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**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-youve-seen-only-once/466365/44 "2008-10-06T05:53:50Z")

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_Shall We Dansu?_ In the original Japanese with subtitles.

It started just as I was heading off to bed after a long, long day and I still sat there mesmerised until it finished (about 2.30am). I cannot see how the Richard Gere version (which hadn’t been made when I saw _Dansu_) could have included the subtleties of cultural restrictions that made this movie so perfect. I have not seen either version since.

The memory of it still makes me smile.

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**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-youve-seen-only-once/466365/45 "2008-10-06T06:21:07Z")

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Schindler’s List. The subject matter is too devastating. I haven’t seen it since it was in the theaters, and if I don’t see it for another 20 years, I’ll be okay with it.

The Departed. Finally a violent cop movie where the violence is just plain damn ugly.

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**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-youve-seen-only-once/466365/46 "2008-10-06T15:34:04Z")

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_The English Patient_  
_The Pianist_  
_Mystic River_

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