# Good movies that you never want to see again... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 2, 2006, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-movies-that-you-never-want-to-see-again/362933 "2006-07-02T13:13:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-movies-that-you-never-want-to-see-again/362933/61 "2006-07-03T14:37:07Z")
[QUOTE=cochrane] M. Night Shyamalan’s _Signs_ starring Mel Gibson and _White Noise_ starring Michael Keaton. I don’t usually watch thrillers because my, well, let’s just say my suspension of disbelief _yada, yada, yada…_ But these two movies literally scared the crap out of me. [/QUOTE] Did you see THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES, of which I regard WHITE NOISE to be a remake? ---
**Author:** ![badbadrubberpiggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/57b2e6/32.png) [@badbadrubberpiggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badbadrubberpiggy)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-movies-that-you-never-want-to-see-again/362933/62 "2006-07-03T15:09:26Z")
FriarTed, here’s a link to a good synopsis of the episode: [Jurassic Bark](http://www.entertainment-geekly.com/web/general/nov2002/FuturamaNov17). Obviously, here there be spoilers. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-movies-that-you-never-want-to-see-again/362933/63 "2006-07-03T15:23:24Z")
[QUOTE=FriarTed] WhyNot, if DOGSVILLE made you regard Lars Von Trier _sp?_ as a misogynistic asshole, what did BLUE VELVET do to your view of David Lynch? 😃 [/QUOTE] I’ve never seen _Blue Velvet._ Seriously, I was too young when it came out. I’m more of the **Twin Peaks** generation - which was enough to convince me that he’s a raving nutter. Kyle M.'s one of my favorite actors (named my kid Kyle), but for some reason I’ve never gotten around to seeing _Blue Velvet_. Weird, I know. I take it that would likely make my list for this thread? ---
**Author:** ![leafrog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cab0a1/32.png) [@leafrog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leafrog)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-movies-that-you-never-want-to-see-again/362933/64 "2006-07-03T15:27:54Z")
I would only watch **Leaving Las Vegas** again if I needed to plunge into a deep and dark depression. **Bad Lieutenant** was brilliant, but painful to watch the first time through. I don’t need to see it again. Ever. [[shudder]] ---
**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-movies-that-you-never-want-to-see-again/362933/65 "2006-07-03T16:12:18Z")
Sign me up for the “never watch again” roster for “Jurassic Bark.” Glad I’m not the only one who sobbed for hours. **Also on the list:** _Mysterious Skin Heavenly Creatures Terms of Endearment Life is Beautiful Au Revoir Les Infants El Norte American Beauty_ ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-movies-that-you-never-want-to-see-again/362933/66 "2006-07-03T16:52:14Z")
[QUOTE=badbadrubberpiggy] FriarTed, here’s a link to a good synopsis of the episode: [Jurassic Bark](http://www.entertainment-geekly.com/web/general/nov2002/FuturamaNov17). Obviously, here there be spoilers. [/QUOTE] Oh dear God Now I’m torn between the masochistic need to see it & the rational urge to avoid it at all costs. WhyNot- well, if picturing an infantile nitrous-oxide-huffing Dennis Hopper using Isabella Rossallini as his sex-slave strikes you as less than entertaining, yeah, BV would make your list. _G_ I was a fan of TWIN PEAKS, Seasons 1 & 1/2 & still even have some affection for the last half of season 2. And yeah, Lynch is seriously deranged, but sometimes wondrously so. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-movies-that-you-never-want-to-see-again/362933/67 "2006-07-03T16:58:44Z")
[QUOTE=Clothahump] **Saving Private Ryan.** An absolutely wonderful movie, but the handheld “shaky-cam” hit me with a bad case of motion sickness and I couldn’t watch the entire show. Spielberg and any other director who uses shaky-cam should be publicly horsewhipped for doing so. [/QUOTE] _The Bourne Supremacy_ much? Most egregious shaky-cam work ever (the car chase scene). ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-movies-that-you-never-want-to-see-again/362933/68 "2006-07-03T17:03:53Z")
Here are a few. Most have been mentioned already; a few haven’t: _Boys Don’t Cry Leaving Las Vegas Reservoir Dogs Y Tu Mama Tambien Hotel Rwanda Donnie Brasco_ The only one of those that I really really really wouldn’t watch again even if it was one at someone else’s house is _LLV._ Too harrowing. ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-movies-that-you-never-want-to-see-again/362933/69 "2006-07-03T17:13:18Z")
[QUOTE=FriarTed] . . . I am suprised no one so far has listed BV or another Lynch film? [/QUOTE] **Eraserhead** I _think_ I’m glad I watched it, but never again. It seriously creeped me out. Ditto **Jacob’s Ladder** although I have almost completely forgotten what scared me about that. I’ve seen Jurassic Bark several times and not broken down in tears\* Any of you soppy types know about [Greyfriars Bobby](http://greyfriarsbobby.co.uk/story.html)? I dare you all to watch [the film version](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054944/). - I’m an English bloke, we simply don’t do that sort of thing. (I may have got a little misty-eyed). ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-movies-that-you-never-want-to-see-again/362933/70 "2006-07-03T17:40:26Z")
[QUOTE=Small Clanger] Any of you soppy types know about [Greyfriars Bobby](http://greyfriarsbobby.co.uk/story.html)? I dare you all to watch [the film version](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054944/). - I’m an English bloke, we simply don’t do that sort of thing. (I may have got a little misty-eyed). [/QUOTE] Greyfriar’s Bobby would reduce anyone to tears! I haven’t seen this movie in decades, but it’ll just kill ya. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-movies-that-you-never-want-to-see-again/362933/71 "2006-07-03T17:47:10Z")
_Once Were Warriors_ - I knew what was going to happen, it’s a subject that I’ve seen before, and that movie **shocked** me (big letters, in a scary, scary way). It’s well done, and I’d highly recommend it once. _Memento_ ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-movies-that-you-never-want-to-see-again/362933/72 "2006-07-03T17:50:34Z")
Am I a cold hearted bastard to find that Futurama epsiode so horribly overrated and trite? I mean come on! That’s the oldest story of dog loyalty ever. I grew up near a town with that same story (apparently there’s also a town in Japan with the exact same story.) The dog waited at the train station for years for hsi master to return…and he never did. Boo… hoo. ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-movies-that-you-never-want-to-see-again/362933/73 "2006-07-03T19:48:51Z")
_Sophie’s Choice_, especially not now that I have kids. Sophie was a (Polish?) Jew being taken to the Nazi concentration camps with her two children. A guard, perhaps for his own amusement, forced her to choose one of her children to send on a train to what we presume was certain extermination. That was a flashback; the story tracks her in the U.S. with her relationship with a manic-depressive, with whom she finally commits a double suicide, each for their own reasons. ---
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-movies-that-you-never-want-to-see-again/362933/74 "2006-07-03T20:28:35Z")
Having read the book for **We Were Soldiers Once… (And Young)** and knowing it’s a true story and damn near an historical accounting, the movie wasn’t _quite_ as horrifying and amazing to watch, so I think I could watch that one again. Probably. Same goes for **Blackhawk Down**. As for my “Amazing, you should absolutely see it. I won’t watch it again, though”… [Hard Candy](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424136/) **Laserkitty** says [Ed Gein](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0230169/) and **Monster**. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-movies-that-you-never-want-to-see-again/362933/75 "2006-07-03T20:56:35Z")
I can never watch _American Me_ again. **Friar Ted** , you really should seize any opportunity to see _Jurassic bark_ that presents itself. Once. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-movies-that-you-never-want-to-see-again/362933/76 "2006-07-03T22:44:27Z")
[QUOTE=CookingWithGas] _Sophie’s Choice_, especially not now that I have kids. [/QUOTE] I read the book. I will NEVER EVER see the movie now. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-movies-that-you-never-want-to-see-again/362933/77 "2006-07-04T02:34:01Z")
_Cochrane:_ > [@](#): > > But these two movies literally scared the crap out of me. This is one of the rare occasions upon which I _hope_ somebody is using the word “literally” incorrectly. I was moved by _Affliction_, but haven’t watched it again; just too much intimate pain. I’m glad James Coburn finally won an Oscar. ---
**Author:** ![Gene\_Frenkle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Gene\_Frenkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gene_Frenkle)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-movies-that-you-never-want-to-see-again/362933/78 "2006-07-12T14:32:29Z")
I caught a film previously unknown to me on Fox Movie Channel last night- The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-moon Marigolds- and thought it was the most emotionally shattering film I have ever seen. All the performances are spot-on, and the two actors who play the daughters are amazing. I have never felt so moved by a film ever. A lot of films have a moment or two that may effect you- this film is constantly moving. I can’t believe I have never heard of it until last night. ---
**Author:** ![wnorthr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecccb3/32.png) [@wnorthr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wnorthr)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-movies-that-you-never-want-to-see-again/362933/79 "2006-07-12T22:57:07Z")
I’m not even sure I would recommend the movie “Cronicas” because it left me furious afterwards but it was an excellent movie. ---
**Author:** ![wnorthr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecccb3/32.png) [@wnorthr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wnorthr)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-movies-that-you-never-want-to-see-again/362933/80 "2006-07-12T22:58:25Z")
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