It was indeed.
I saw it three times.
For me, the answer to the OP is probably BOYS DON’T CRY. I could watch it again, but I prefer not to.
Gotta admit that ERASERHEAD and even at times BLUE VELVET …
make me laugh.
In fact, I’ve sprung ERASERHEAD on people by surprise. Also FREAKS and NAKED LUNCH (there’s more than two things wrong with THAT movie!)
I will watch Saving Private Ryan and Schindler’s List again, because I think those are important movies and everyone needs to watch them now again. That said, I read Sophie’s Choice, and there’s no way in HELL I will watch the movie.
Amen to that.
Also, for me—
•Cast Away
•Honorable mention, Black Hawk Down—I actually do plan to watch this one again, someday. Not anytime soon, but eventually.
•Vatel. If I ever have to, maybe I’ll just watch the Scarlett Pimpernel series right after, as a pick-me-up. “To the guillotine/to the guillotine/send them both to the guillotine!”
The Orphanage
Was a roaring good ghost story/mystery and then this sledgehammer swung down and crushed my chest.
Christ.
I saw it weeks ago and I still have internal bruising.
How dare he film that? How dare he???
Cloverfield. I think it got mixed reviews here, but I liked it…what I saw of it, anyhow. I’m not easily prone to motion sickness, but I felt really sick and dizzy for a good hour after the movie was over and kept having to look away from the screen to take some deep breaths. I can’t handle that much shaky cam, I guess.
I saw Wild Things last week after reading someone here mention the big twist at the end (“It completely changes the entire plot!”). Pretty good dialogue, cheesy at times but not unbearably so, and I was truly riveted by the seemingly endless twists and turns and revelations. Not really repeat-viewing material for me, though, and I lost my appetite for watered-down R-rated sex ages ago.
South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut is on my “pleasantly surprised” list. I think this was the period just before Messrs. Stone and Parker simultaneously bought into their hype and ran out of good ideas (and before Isaac Hayes got catapulted into the next county). It’s irreverent and goofy and funny, and in general it had most of what made the show work in the first place. I wouldn’t want to sit through this level of ugliness a second time, though, and it doesn’t help that I gave up the show in disgust years ago.
The Fast and the Furious movies are good brainless popcorn entertainment, as is their wont, but their stories are both thin and pretty silly, and in all I never got the impression that I was watching anything besides cinematic car fantasies that happened to involve speed.
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is the rare movie that I not only saw only once, I actually think that’s for the best. Mostly because of the annoying Willie Scott (nb. It’s possible to convincingly protray a spoiled, obnoxious prima donna struggling with horrific culture shock without having her scream every five minutes.), but also a number of scenes where you don’t even know what the hell is going on. It does work as a thrilling adventure in an exotic land (actually more so than the other movies, IMO), but it definitely ages the most badly.
Titanic…do I even need to explain? Oh, all right. Eye-popping set pieces, real drama with the sinking, sharp dialogue, and a treacly love story I have no desire to EVER see again, thank you very much.
And I second Grave of the Fireflies, but for a different reason: It’s such a simple, humble tale, and so easy to understand why these kids are suffering and why it’s such a damn shame, that there’s nothing to be gained from repeated viewings. War is hell, losing a parent is tragic, and even the kindest aunt can be driven to utter bitterness. As plain as it gets.
The Green Mile
You know the scene. It was on last night and every time I flipped past it, no matter what scene was showing, that scene popped into my head.
This weekend my wife DVR’d Little Miss Sunshine. I told her that I loved it the first time we watched it, but would probably never watch it again. The family was so dysfunctional, that I found it depressing.
She cued it up to the dance scene at the end. We both watched it and, once again, laughed our asses off.
I would not, however, care to watch it all the way through, though.
United 93
Saw it. Thought it was an excellent movie. But this non-violent pacifist wanted to go out and eviscerate someone after it was over. I couldn’t talk for an hour afterwords. Never again.
J.
I’d put Rosewood and Hotel Rwanda on my list. I was continuously angry for at least two days after each of them.
Oh good lord, how about The Last King of Scotland? I saw this when my husband brought it home and HOLY crap, the scenes that are etched into my brain. Great movie, unspeakable horrors. Wow. Never, ever again.
The Accused. From what I’ve read, Jodie Foster didn’t remember details of the rape scene after filming, and ended up comforting the actors who played the rapists. It was damned traumatic to watch.
I have to echo Happiness. “Dad, would you ever rape me?”. Fuck. Can’t handle it.
Speaking of Todd Solondz, Welcome to the Dollhouse was really hard for me as well. I’m not sure if I can handle it again.
The Hours. I started weeping about 5 minutes into it, and just didn’t stop. It wasn’t graphic or anything, but it broke my heart continuously.
Kids. Bully. If you’ve seen them, you understand. Too much “that could have been me”. I have put myself in some really stupid situations in my life.
So it’s Memonto:check 
Tideland, it was interesting, but I was left with such a icky feeling after watching this movie, that I will never watch it again.
Saving Private Ryan. Others have mentioned this and I’m sure most were bothered by the battle scenes, but the scene where Adam Goldman gets stabbed in the chest is the one that gave me nightmares.
Teeth We had a blast watching this, but you can imagine why I would not want to watch a movie about a girl with teeth in her vagina a second time.
To so many already mentioned, add:
*Gummo * (not even sure this was worth one viewing)
Kids
Napoleon Dynamite
*City of God * (good enough that I might watch once more after enough time)
“The Usual Suspects” Brilliant film, but after you get hit upside the head with the twist ending, it kind of loses any re-watch value.
Here’s one where I actually bought the DVD: Waking Life. Loved it in the theater, bought the DVD when it came out, popped it in – and somehow what was engrossing before had become tedious. Or maybe I just wasn’t in the right mood.
The Miracle Mile
A touching story of a man and a woman who find each other…just before the nuclear holocaust.
I agree with Schindler’s List and Leaving Las Vegas, especially the latter. At least Schindler’s List had some small glimmer of redemption, for Schindler himself and the people he managed to help. LLV was just bleak, and unflinching.