# I'd love to see it, but I'd rather eat glass. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 22, 2006, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-love-to-see-it-but-id-rather-eat-glass/341130 "2006-01-22T18:30:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2006, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-love-to-see-it-but-id-rather-eat-glass/341130/21 "2006-01-23T03:46:02Z")
> [@Rodgers01](#): > > Was there in Rwanda? Wow… Yup. He never talked about it, ever, except when I brought up the idea of seeing **Hotel Rwanda** in theatres. I’ve never prodded him very hard about it because I imagine it’s something he doesn’t like to think about. ---
**Author:** ![Fionn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2006, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-love-to-see-it-but-id-rather-eat-glass/341130/22 "2006-01-23T03:50:31Z")
I’ve never been able to bring myself to watch **Boys Don’t Cry** or **Schindler’s List**. I’m sure they’re wonderful movies, but I never find myself wondering “What can I possibly rent that will depress me for days?” ---
**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2006, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-love-to-see-it-but-id-rather-eat-glass/341130/23 "2006-01-23T11:21:24Z")
I liked **Hotel Rwanda** - it’s really not as horriffic as you think it will be. My mother’s uncle, aunts and grandparents were Jews in Nazi Germany (only one cousin survived), so, in general, she doesn’t watch Holocaust movies…she made an exception for **The Pianist** , and I don’t think she regretted it. I don’t watch horror movies, even classics and ones that are supposed to be great. I’d love to see the **Evil Dead** trilogy and I’ve heard good things about **The Saw** but I can’t face it. I bought **Brain Dead** for my hubby ages ago and he’s nagging me to watch it, so that will probably be the only horror thing I ever see. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2006, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-love-to-see-it-but-id-rather-eat-glass/341130/24 "2006-01-23T11:44:56Z")
Yes, _The Pianist_ was very good. I normally don’t have a problem with sad movies, in fact I will sometimes buy a DVD because it makes me uncomfortable, emotionally. _Once Were Warriors_ is one film that I have seen, and don’t regret watching, but don’t intend watching again. ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2006, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-love-to-see-it-but-id-rather-eat-glass/341130/25 "2006-01-23T12:35:34Z")
I haven’t been able to watch _Schindler’s List_ or _Ghandi_, even though I’m sure they’re great. They’re in my netflix queue, but they’re waaaaay down at the bottom. An unfortunate weekend stuck on the couch with a flu exposed me to \*21 Grams, Requiem For a Dream \* and _House of Sand and Fog_ caused me to move nothing but comedies and animation (and no freaky _Sprited Away_ animation!) to the top of the list for the next two months. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2006, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-love-to-see-it-but-id-rather-eat-glass/341130/26 "2006-01-23T15:27:53Z")
> [@irishgirl](#): > > I don’t watch horror movies, even classics and ones that are supposed to be great. I’d love to see the **Evil Dead** trilogy Watch Army of Darkness. It’s the least horror-ish of the three and it’s hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2006, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-love-to-see-it-but-id-rather-eat-glass/341130/27 "2006-01-23T15:40:52Z")
**Kramer vs. Kramer**. Young kid getting drug trough what appears to be a rather contentious divorce? Eh, no thanks. Although I in fact did see **Last of the Mohicans** , won’t be sitting through that again. Jaysus, what a brutal film. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2006, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-love-to-see-it-but-id-rather-eat-glass/341130/28 "2006-01-23T18:27:04Z")
Rainman. I saw it on TV once. Thought it was quite good. Then we got our own personal Rainman, and I haven’t been able to watch it since then. Titanic. I know there are varying opinions about how good or horrid it is, but it was wildly popular and I might have wanted to see it anyway, just to see what all the hype was about. But someone told me there was a scene involving a dead child in the water, so that put an end to _that_ interest. Schindler’s List, Life is Beautiful and many other movies dealing with the Holocaust, as others have noted. ---
**Author:** ![mks57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@mks57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mks57)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2006, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-love-to-see-it-but-id-rather-eat-glass/341130/29 "2006-01-23T19:13:52Z")
I’ve avoided seeing _Hotel Rwanda_, _Life is Beautiful_ and _Schindler’s List_. One was enough for _Death and the Maiden_ and _Shoah_. ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2006, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-love-to-see-it-but-id-rather-eat-glass/341130/30 "2006-01-23T19:18:30Z")
I saw **American History X** once. I thought it was phenomenal, and I recommend it to everyone. I have absolutely no interest in seeing it a second time. It’s the best movie I’ll never watch again. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2006, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-love-to-see-it-but-id-rather-eat-glass/341130/31 "2006-01-23T19:28:05Z")
> [@AskNott](#): > > When I hear about a remake of a movie that was damn near perfect the first time, I usually shake my head and walk away. However, I have a lot of respect for Steve Martin. I think I’ll see the new _Panther,_ though not without some fear. Heh. Beyonce was expressing her excitement about being in a PP movie and was asked about her favorite Pink Panther. She hadn’t seen any of them! At least see one and reference it. I usually go see anything that interests me, but I am having a hard time deciding to go to **Brokeback Mountain**. It just seems like it will be so sad; I also want to reread the short story first and then I can get more het up about the changes in the movie than sad about the unfulfilled love. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![mojave66](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@mojave66](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mojave66)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2006, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-love-to-see-it-but-id-rather-eat-glass/341130/32 "2006-01-23T19:48:35Z")
I’m another one who can’t bring her/himself to watch “Boys Don’t Cry” or “Hotel Rwanda.” Weirdly, I can watch holocaust movies only because my outrage trumps the urge to cry for 24 hours. ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-love-to-see-it-but-id-rather-eat-glass/341130/33 "2006-01-24T15:27:39Z")
“Schindler’s List” is one I worry about – I want to see it, but keep putting it off. I saw “Boy’s Don’t Cry” and while it was excellent, don’t care to see it again. “Grave of Fireflys” is achingly brilliant and difficult to watch. I own it, but only so other people can watch it when they ask me what the most depressing movie I’ve ever seen is. I’m sad that Steve Martin doesn’t seem to be able to be funny anymore and haven’t taken an interest in anything he’s done lately (like the last 15 years). ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-love-to-see-it-but-id-rather-eat-glass/341130/34 "2006-01-24T15:38:48Z")
I’m the exact opposite of most of the posters here. The more heartwrenching and emotionally taxing a film is, the more I want to watch it. I think emotional exercise is good for the human condition. I also appreciate the actors’ and directors’ ability to evoke intense emotion, strictly from an artistic standpoint. I just put a good tear-jerker in my Amazon cart. “Boys on the Side” makes me cry every time. My girlfriend has never seen it so I’m giving her a copy. ---
**Author:** ![Slacker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Slacker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slacker)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-love-to-see-it-but-id-rather-eat-glass/341130/35 "2006-01-24T15:49:36Z")
I’d see **The Piano** but I can’t bring myself to watch a Roman Polansky film. > [@Pochacco](#): > > Anything involving harm to children. I hear **The Sweet Hereafter** was a very good movie, but I’ll never watch it. I won’t be watching \*\*Trainspotting \*\* either. It was a good movie, although I think the director tried a little too hard to be “indie” and added some stuff that took away from the film in general for me. But yeah, when you know the big event is about to happen it’s a soul-sucking experience. I won’t be watching it again. Same goes for **Welcome to Sarajevo**. An excellent film, but really hard to watch. Especially because a lot of the violence included in the movie is actual footage from the war, not special effects. Ditto on the usual suspects listed above (Schindler’s List, Saving Private Ryan, etc). ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-love-to-see-it-but-id-rather-eat-glass/341130/36 "2006-01-24T18:21:36Z")
> [@Slacker](#): > > I’d see **The Piano** but I can’t bring myself to watch a Roman Polansky film. Note: You’re thinking of [The Pianist](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0253474/). The movie [The Piano](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107822/) was directed by Jane Campion. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-love-to-see-it-but-id-rather-eat-glass/341130/37 "2006-01-24T18:23:55Z")
Oops, sorry for the bold. It must have been contagious! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![myskepticsight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@myskepticsight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myskepticsight)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-love-to-see-it-but-id-rather-eat-glass/341130/38 "2006-01-24T19:10:23Z")
Oh man. I understand this sort of, but movies like Schindler’s List, American History X, and most good war films I reccomend to all my friends - they are depressing but great films. While I love my goofy comedies, I enjoy depressing dramas too. They stick with you afterwards - and I think it’s great to get something real out of a film. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-love-to-see-it-but-id-rather-eat-glass/341130/39 "2006-01-24T19:31:34Z")
I have never been able to get myself to watch **Blackhawk down**. The whole situation pissed me off so much I can’t sit down and watch it for entertainment. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-love-to-see-it-but-id-rather-eat-glass/341130/40 "2006-01-24T19:32:43Z")
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