Sunset Boulevard. Whole lotta creepy going on.
From the same sheet of music as Capote: don’t ask me ever to sit through In Cold Blood again. It’s a brilliant film, and Robert Blake’s performance is astounding. But Jeezy Creezy, the senselessness of the whole thing is so fucking horrifying.
And more than anything else I’ve seen in my 37.8 years of life, the film experience I least want to repeat was Munich. Never, never again.
Grave of the Fireflies has already been mentioned but I’m just gonna agree with that. Cried my eyes out. What a depressing movie. I understand what it was trying to get across but why did it have to be so horribly heart wrenching? Don’t you want people to actually see your movie more than once?
And also, I am Legend. I know a lot of people didn’t like this movie but I really enjoyed it. However there’s one scene that will forever stop me from watching it again.
The scene where has to choke his own dog to death. After everything they’d been through together. Ugh…didn’t need to see that.
Requiem for a Dream. I barely remember the film itself now, but I do vividly remember how badly it made me want to kill myself. And I watched it at a time I was particularly happy, too. The soundtrack alone is probably one of the saddest pieces of music ever written.
From Nürnberg to Nürnberg : a documentary, of sorts. It relates the rise and fall of the nazis, using nothing but black & white movies from the time, with atonal, unbiased and unemotional commentary. The part about concentration camps… yeah. I can’t watch that again. Schindler’s List is fucking tame in comparison.
I need a hint if it was not one of the last two eps.
Ditto. When *Ryan *first came out, a reviewer referred to the opening sequence as “harrowing”. Upon seeing it, I decided that that was the perfect description of it.
I read somewhere that everything in the 20th century before D-day was leading up to it, and everything since then was a result of it. **That **is why *Ryan *is worth seeing again.
Can you elaborate why? I’ve seen Munich and the only emotion I had by the end of it was boredom.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre! Watched it at age 9 (thanks Dad:rolleyes:) and then again at age 22, because I wanted to see if it was as horrible as I thought it was. YUP!! only worse. Still freak out at the sound a chainsaw starting up. :eek:
I could watch A.I. again but my wife never will. The movie is 2 1/2 hours long, my wife cried for 2 hours straight. She just wanted to grab up little David and huuug him and looove him and just make him all better.
I was going to say just that. I think it was the neverending string of deaths. That, and I was afraid to start my car when I left the theater.
Didn’t see it mentioned yet: “Touching the Void” about the climbers who have a number of mishaps on their descent. Great story, but excruciatingly realistic. You really “feel” the one climber’s suffering.
Also agree on:
“Boys Don’t Cry”
“House of Sand and Fog”
“Blackhawk Down”
But there are quite a few mentioned that I enjoy over and over again:
“Little Miss Sunshine”
“V for Vendetta”
Can we please post what it is about the movies that makes you want to not see them again? I haven’t seen a lot of the movies mentioned in this thread.
Mine are:
I knew going into the theater that the ship was going to sink, but what I didn’t expect was just how horribly the passengers treated each other. It hit me on a visceral level how worthless human life was in the eyes of the society of the day.
Watching DeNiro order that little girl to take off her clothes and get down on her knees is just too disturbing for words.
A powerful, moving and visually stunning movie, it was also depressing and heartbreaking. The cannibalism didn’t oog me out so much as just the fact that there was so much death and despair all around them, and they were so helpless. Ugh.
Lars and the Real Girl. Not violent or disgusting like many of the films mentioned, actually very uplifting when considered as a whole. Well worth viewing. But so many of the scenes are so uncomfortable (just psychologically – there is no violence or gore whatsoever) that I just can’t see going through it again.
Because I could sympathize at the beginning with Israel’s need for vengeance. What self-respecting person or nation could tolerate such an atrocity and NOT react? But watching the situation dissolve into all-out chaos wherein each “justifiable” killing created more problems than it solved was, for me, a descent into the hell of the violence cycle. As things spun progressively further out of control, I began to understand why young men and women strap themselves into suicide vests to be detonated in a crowded marketplace. And being possessed of that kind of empathy took my mind to places I never wish to visit again.
In other words, the movie did exactly what its makers intended it to do.
I don’t think this ever happens in this movie.
I find it funny that I actually own the DVDs of several of the films mentioned so far, including Irreversible–the rape scene doesn’t get any easier with repeated viewings, but I’ve found it rewarding to watch the entire film over again to pick up on the threads connecting each scene (things that I overlooked the first time).
However, there’s one film that I never, ever want to see again: Pasolini’s Salo. I’m still traumatized after seeing that film only once, about 10 years ago.
This is the one I opened the thread to post. Never again. Can’t do it. Wonderful movie, though.
And if I may add a TV episode, the Futurama one with his dog. starts to sniffle again
I really like 12 Monkeys, and I think Brad Pitt is awesome in it, but I’ll never watch it again. Christ it’s bleak.
Oh man… are you me?? I can’t watch spitting or vomiting on tv/movies or I get really ill. One episode of SNL which had a variation on spitting once made me actually throw up.
Five People you Meet in Heaven.
Or was it six, I lost track. :rolleyes:
Ok, I just read the plot overview for that. Why in the fuck would anyone every voluntarily subject themselves to something like that? I’m nauseated just from reading the blurb. I don’t understand why people write and film these things. Like Schindler’s List I can theoretically understand (though I will never watch it) because it is such a huge part of world history, but THAT? There aren’t enough vomit smileys in the world.
(Not saying you’re a bad person for watching it–people get tricked, I know. I was tricked into watching Oldboy one day, which in case people don’t know, is about this:
A man is abducted and imprisoned for no apparent reason for 20 years (or something.) When he gets out he immediately seeks revenge by pulling people’s teeth out with pliers and all manner of evil. Meanwhile he falls in love with this younger chick and starts fucking her, and in fact takes her virginity. When he finally gets the chance to confront his oppressor for imprisoning him, the Big Twist is revealed – the woman he fell in love with and has been fucking is the daughter he hasn’t seen since birth! He is so horrified he cuts out his own tongue in graphic detail and then starts crawling on his hands and knees in anguish, as his oppressor mocks him (this was all part of the plan.) Ultimately the film has a ‘‘happy’’ ending because he elects to have his memory erased and live happily ever after in incest.
It’s been 5 years and I’m still not over it.
Darn straight. Beautiful–and left me scarred for life.
Also, Requiem for a Dream.