# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-love-to-see-it-but-id-rather-eat-glass/341130/41 "2006-01-24T19:49:38Z")
I tend to avoid movies that have graphic rape scenes in them, like **Boys Don’t Cry** , that one Jodie Foster film, and **Frenzy**. Actually, I will watch **Frenzy** again, but only after I fast forward doublequick past That Scene. I couldn’t finish **Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind** (and will never ever watch it again) because a) I figured out the Big Plot Twist in the first ten minutes, which offended me mightily, and b) it goes against my personal philosophy of life. I have to deal with enough people who are trying to erase their past on a daily basis, I don’t want to watch it when I’m having Escapist Time. Deal with your problems and move on, folks. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-love-to-see-it-but-id-rather-eat-glass/341130/42 "2006-01-25T00:23:29Z")
Oh yeah, there’s also _The 40 Year Old Virigin_. The dude’s “Blue’s Clues” look on the poster is just too…something. I’m not sure what. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-love-to-see-it-but-id-rather-eat-glass/341130/43 "2006-01-25T00:36:20Z")
> [@Fionn](#): > > I’m sure they’re wonderful movies, but I never find myself wondering “What can I possibly rent that will depress me for days?” Likewise. I’d love to see any of the many, many good horrormovies out there. **Blair Witch** comes to mind, and **Ringu** ). But I’ve never been in BlockBusters wondering “Gee, what can I possibly rent that will cause me to sleep for a week with the light on and my boyfriend on the open telephone-line?” ---
**Author:** ![cwthree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@cwthree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cwthree)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-love-to-see-it-but-id-rather-eat-glass/341130/44 "2006-01-25T00:57:47Z")
I know I should see _Boys Don’t Cry_, but I can’t make myself do it. I probably won’t see _Brokeback Mountain_ either. Perhaps I’ll watch it at home, on video or DVD, but I cannot deal with watching that story in a theater surrounded by sniggering, uncomfortable hets. ---
**Author:** ![TygerDralion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e19adc/32.png) [@TygerDralion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TygerDralion)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-love-to-see-it-but-id-rather-eat-glass/341130/45 "2006-01-25T01:39:54Z")
Two that I’ve seen that I’m still processing in the “What the F\*\*\* was that?” way are _Party Monster_ and _Hostel_. Both are ALL KINDS of effed-up, but interesting. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-love-to-see-it-but-id-rather-eat-glass/341130/46 "2006-01-25T02:19:34Z")
**Sugarland Express**. That bastard Spielberg pulled the rug out from under me with that one. Great movie, but I can never watch it again, knowing the ending. **Night of the Living Dead** for much the same reasons. ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-love-to-see-it-but-id-rather-eat-glass/341130/47 "2006-01-25T02:59:14Z")
[Monster](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0340855/) was an extremely compelling movie that I will never, ever watch again. And as far as I’m concerned, I would be perfectly happy if I could completely forget ever having watched [Pay it Forward](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0223897/). Just unrelenting pain, and as soon as there’s even the possibility of relief from the pain…more pain. I’ve also only ever seen **O, Brother, Where Art Thou?** once, and will probably never see it again, but that’s for entirely personal reasons. ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-love-to-see-it-but-id-rather-eat-glass/341130/48 "2006-01-25T05:57:16Z")
I saw **Miracle Mile** probably about 14 years ago. I was about 12, I think. I am only now ready to see it again. I used to have nightmares about it. I will never see **Syriana** again. It was a very good movie but very depressing. I will never see **Schindler’s List, Blackhawk Down, or Saving Private Ryan** I will never again watch **Boys Don’t Cry**. There’s one movie I will never see again - partly because the name totally escapes me. It was about a college. I remember someone was on the track team. Someone else was tutoring the track guy. Someone else decided to shoot his classmates from a tower and shot the tutor chick. I have no clue what happened after that. For some reason (I have seen many depressing movies and they don’t usually have THIS much of an effect on me) this scene really disturbed me. I totally lost it. My poor sister didn’t know what to do with her sobbing baby sister. She made me go for a walk, and we stopped to get some hot chocolate at the corner store. After telling me jokes for about half an hour, I finally stopped crying. I wasn’t able to finish the movie and to this day, I have managed to completely block the title from my mind. I’m actually kinda curious to see if I can make it through the movie now that I’m older. ---
**Author:** ![Feydeau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@Feydeau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feydeau)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-love-to-see-it-but-id-rather-eat-glass/341130/49 "2006-01-25T06:19:01Z")
Those of you in this thread lamenting about **Miracle Mile** , are you speaking of the 2004 version about the Koreans, or the 1988 version about the nuclear missiles? I’ve not seen either. (And, yes, “version” isn’t the appropriate word, but I can’t think of a proper word. Anyone? Bueller?) ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-love-to-see-it-but-id-rather-eat-glass/341130/50 "2006-01-25T06:25:04Z")
> [@congodwarf](#): > > It was about a college. I remember someone was on the track team. Someone else was tutoring the track guy. Someone else decided to shoot his classmates from a tower and shot the tutor chick. Sounds like Higher Learning to me. > **[Higher Learning (1995) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113305/)** > > Higher Learning: Directed by John Singleton. With Omar Epps, Kristy Swanson, Michael Rapaport, Jennifer Connelly. People from all different walks of life, encounter racial tension, rape, responsibility, and the meaning of an education on a university... ---
**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-love-to-see-it-but-id-rather-eat-glass/341130/51 "2006-01-25T06:29:43Z")
Chiming in to second _Grave of the Fireflies_ and _Boys Don’t Cry_. They both left me a sobbing, emotional wreck. Ditto _Dancer in the Dark_. ---
**Author:** ![Ensign\_Edison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ab992/32.png) [@Ensign\_Edison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ensign_Edison)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-love-to-see-it-but-id-rather-eat-glass/341130/52 "2006-01-25T16:12:12Z")
> [@Bambi Hassenpfeffer](#): > > Chiming in to second _Grave of the Fireflies_ and _Boys Don’t Cry_. They both left me a sobbing, emotional wreck. Ditto _Dancer in the Dark_. I’ve been meaning to second avoiding the first two for emotional reasons, and here you’ve come up with a third. Some of these movies I can barely stand to think about without getting upset! Oddly, I can read about almost anything at all without a problem, including horror; though I probably wouldn’t seek out romantic tragedy, I imagine I could read it without a reaction. ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-love-to-see-it-but-id-rather-eat-glass/341130/53 "2006-01-25T16:31:38Z")
> [@Silver Fire](#): > > Sounds like Higher Learning to me. > > [http://imdb.com/title/tt0113305/](http://imdb.com/title/tt0113305/) That’d be the one. Thanks (I think 😃 ) ---
**Author:** ![Ensign\_Edison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ab992/32.png) [@Ensign\_Edison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ensign_Edison)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-love-to-see-it-but-id-rather-eat-glass/341130/54 "2006-01-26T15:22:20Z")
I’ve thought of another set of movies I avoid: those about mental institutions. So **girl, interrupted** was right out. And I never saw Mulder’s final season on The X-files, despite having been a big fan, because of this. I did see **Hotel Rwanda** , which a few others have mentioned, and indeed, it was very painful and powerful, but I think I could watch it again, if with someone who hadn’t seen it yet. I wouldn’t watch it on my own, though. **AuntiePam** , I like **Miracle Mile** - once rumored to be one of the best scripts that would never get filmed, btw, it was on the shelf for something like a decade - so much that I may end up watching it again someday, and I have foisted it on one or two poor unsuspecting souls. They’re still speaking to me, amazingly enough. I know someone who will never watch **Jacob’s Ladder** again as long as he lives. ---
**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-love-to-see-it-but-id-rather-eat-glass/341130/55 "2006-01-26T17:17:15Z")
Do you want scary? My mother used to work as an SHO (like a third year Resident, for you Americans) in a large Psychiatric hospital in Scotland, which shall remain nameless. This was in the 70s, when **One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest** came out. Mum saw it and quit her job shortly afterwards…the film was just a _little_ to close to her daily experience of that particular institution for comfort. ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-love-to-see-it-but-id-rather-eat-glass/341130/56 "2006-01-26T19:54:50Z")
I’ll likely get banned for this, but I just can’t bring myself to watch any of the **Lord of the Rings** movies. Just. Not. Interested. ---
**Author:** ![Ensign\_Edison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ab992/32.png) [@Ensign\_Edison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ensign_Edison)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-love-to-see-it-but-id-rather-eat-glass/341130/57 "2006-01-26T20:04:00Z")
> [@lorene](#): > > I’ll likely get banned for this, but I just can’t bring myself to watch any of the **Lord of the Rings** movies. > > Just. Not. Interested. I’ve never seen the last two\*, mainly because I haven’t gotten around to it, and whenever people start in on them or Tolkein in general my eyes glaze over. But this thread is about movies you are interested in, in theory, but just can’t bring yourself to watch. So you’ll have to pretend you’re not interested because you have a hobbit phobia and an orc ate your dog. 😃 \*I’ve just remembered that I did see the second one and practically slept through it. First one was pretty good, though. ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2006, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-love-to-see-it-but-id-rather-eat-glass/341130/58 "2006-01-26T22:13:22Z")
> [@cthiax](#): > > But this thread is about movies you are interested in, in theory, but just can’t bring yourself to watch. So you’ll have to pretend you’re not interested because you have a hobbit phobia and an orc ate your dog. 😃 Crap, I seem to have missed that point entirely. Well, can I say that I am phobic of being bored to tears? No, OK. Then put me on the _Schindler’s List_ list. I know it’s an amazing film, but I just can’t do it. ---
**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 27, 2006, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-love-to-see-it-but-id-rather-eat-glass/341130/59 "2006-01-27T21:04:12Z")
> [@cthiax](#): > > I know someone who will never watch Jacob’s Ladder again as long as he lives. Can’t blame the guy. That movie really freaked me out. It didn’t help that I was high as a kite, of course. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2006, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-love-to-see-it-but-id-rather-eat-glass/341130/60 "2006-01-27T23:19:00Z")
**Hotel Rwanda** , **The Killing Fields** , and **Last Days**. I can hardly stand to see even a few clips about genocide, let alone a whole film. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-love-to-see-it-but-id-rather-eat-glass/341130.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-love-to-see-it-but-id-rather-eat-glass/341130.md?page=4)