# Movies that you like, but you really don't want to watch again. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 11, 2013, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-like-but-you-really-dont-want-to-watch-again/676075 "2013-12-11T15:44:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2013, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-like-but-you-really-dont-want-to-watch-again/676075/41 "2013-12-12T20:16:53Z")
> [@DMark](#): > > But I don’t understand watching, for instance, **The Sixth Sense** or Hangover or any of those kinds films multiple times. I mean, a film can be scary with a twist once - then you know the scares and twist. And most comedies - well, once you know the joke(s) or funny scene(s), well then it starts to get like Uncle Lou telling the same damn jokes every Thanksgiving. _The Sixth Sense_ has to be seen at least twice. No matter how crappy his later movies have been, _The Sixth Sense_ remains a work of genius. Every scene works on two levels - once when you don’t know, the second when you do. The scene of Bruce Willis’ wife having dinner in a restaurant, for instance, is totally different after you’ve seen it once. Exact same scene, totally different emotional reaction. > [@johnspartan](#): > > I remember a reviewer referring to Gandhi as a great movie you only really need to or want to watch once. I couldn’t really figure out what the meant till I watched it, but then once I saw it I pretty much agreed. I don’t get this one. I’ve seen _Gandhi_ a dozen times. Sure there are emotionally devastating scenes like the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, but the film has such a wonderful mixture different emotions that I can’t imagine missing out on them “My name is Walker - Ha!”, “I will not pay one Rupee”, Kasturba Gandhi describing their wedding to Margaret Bourke-White. > [@dataguy](#): > > Another I watched several times is Groundhog day. I don’t remember why I originally decide to rewatch it, but I discovered that there are some aspects of that film that really don’t get your attention the first time through. Most people, like me, after seeing it once can only recall how tedious it was to have that alarm clock go off each morning playing Sonny and Cher. After several viewings a subtle subplot began to emerge, which is probably the actual plot of the movie. Try it sometime and see if you have the same experience. Seconded! I’ve watched this a dozen times or more. [Read the reviews on IMDB](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107048/reviews) and you’ll see that you are not alone. The film is about the perfectibility of the human spirit. > [@Battle\_Pope](#): > > _Pulp Fiction_: loved it when came out but I haven’t watched it in years and have no real desire to anymore. Whether thats because references to it are so common or I’m just sick of Tarentino in general I couldn’t say. I re-watched this the other day, and it totally hold up for me. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2013, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-like-but-you-really-dont-want-to-watch-again/676075/42 "2013-12-12T20:34:21Z")
For me, at this point it is any movie I have ever watched. There used to be a time when I could watch a movie 2 or more times, but no more. Once is my limit these days, regardless how good the movie is, which is why I stopped buying DVDs years ago. For movies that I have watched more than once, it would have to be Blade Runner. I have watched it so many times I can practically recite the entire movie scene by scene, both versions. It is one of my favorite movies of all time, but I can never, ever watch it again. Strangely enough, I have read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep a few times and am likely to read it again, so perhaps it is something about revisiting movies that makes them less enjoyable for me than books. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2013, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-like-but-you-really-dont-want-to-watch-again/676075/43 "2013-12-12T20:48:51Z")
For me, **Grave of the Fireflies**. Also, perhaps, **Come and See**. I found both way harder to rewatch than **Schindler’s List**. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2013, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-like-but-you-really-dont-want-to-watch-again/676075/44 "2013-12-12T22:24:28Z")
I can’t imagine ever wanting to see **Gandhi, Schindler’s** List or **I’m Not There** a second time, although they’re all wonderful movies. What’s more, I can think of lots of lesser 3-star movies ( **A League of Their Own, The American President, Kelley’s Heroes** ) I can watch over and over again. ---
**Author:** ![Carl\_Corey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Carl\_Corey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carl_Corey)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2013, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-like-but-you-really-dont-want-to-watch-again/676075/45 "2013-12-13T03:16:32Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > Bad Lieutenant… Also known as Full Frontal Keitel to my friends. Don’t need to see that again. ---
**Author:** ![nachtmusick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ac91a4/32.png) [@nachtmusick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nachtmusick)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2013, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-like-but-you-really-dont-want-to-watch-again/676075/46 "2013-12-13T10:15:35Z")
Munich, as mentioned above. This movie should be considered among the greatest movies of all time, but it suffers from the problem that no one wants to relive it. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2013, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-like-but-you-really-dont-want-to-watch-again/676075/47 "2013-12-13T15:27:30Z")
**House of Sand and Fog**. Too damn draining and depressing, despite being a fantastic movie. ---
**Author:** ![FlyingRat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/59ef9b/32.png) [@FlyingRat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRat)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2013, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-like-but-you-really-dont-want-to-watch-again/676075/48 "2013-12-13T17:00:11Z")
Dead Man Walking. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2013, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-like-but-you-really-dont-want-to-watch-again/676075/49 "2013-12-13T18:11:53Z")
> [@Horatio\_Hellpop](#): > > I can’t imagine ever wanting to see **Gandhi** … See my response above. I honestly don’t know what people find so un-re-watchable about this film. All I can think is that they haven’t re-watched it, and forgot that the vast bulk of the film is a wonderfully enjoyable biographical portrait of the great man and his country. Yes, there are scenes that can raise goosebumps on my arms just recalling them - like the one with the man confessing that he killed a Muslim boy and Gandhi telling him “I know a way out of Hell.” But we watch films for moments like that. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2013, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-like-but-you-really-dont-want-to-watch-again/676075/50 "2013-12-13T18:20:38Z")
> [@nachtmusick](#): > > Munich, as mentioned above. This movie should be considered among the greatest movies of all time, but it suffers from the problem that no one wants to relive it. Sounds like you didn’t see _[Knocked Up](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478311/reference)_: _That movie has Eric Bana kicking fucking ass. Every movie with Jews, we’re the ones getting killed. Munich flips it on its ear. We’re capping. If any of us get laid tonight, it’s because of Eric Bana and Munich._ ---
**Author:** ![nachtmusick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ac91a4/32.png) [@nachtmusick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nachtmusick)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2013, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-like-but-you-really-dont-want-to-watch-again/676075/51 "2013-12-14T03:21:34Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > Sounds like you didn’t see _[Knocked Up](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478311/reference)_: > > _That movie has Eric Bana kicking fucking ass. Every movie with Jews, we’re the ones getting killed. Munich flips it on its ear. We’re capping. If any of us get laid tonight, it’s because of Eric Bana and Munich._ Nice quote, but of course the comedy is that the movie is deadly serious. An Oscar winner that no one wants to watch even the first time is Hurt Locker. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2013, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-like-but-you-really-dont-want-to-watch-again/676075/52 "2013-12-14T03:57:34Z")
> [@jrsone](#): > > Comedies are hard a one. One of my favorite movies is Airplane! While I laugh every time I watch it. My wife moans and groans and rolls her eyes and asks “What about this is funny?” It helps to have an auidience that enjoys it though, you may have liked it more if your friend had a chuckle or two, maybe not though, it may have been cringeworthy all the way through. You have to watch “The High and Mighty” first to get the parody of it. I’m not sure I can watch “the Spitfire Grill” again. It had the most emotional ending of any movie I’ve ever watched. Multiple, conflicting, powerful emotions in the space of a minute. ---
**Author:** ![Crane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crane/32/3495_2.png) [@Crane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crane)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2013, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-like-but-you-really-dont-want-to-watch-again/676075/53 "2013-12-14T22:48:31Z")
Deer Hunter ---
**Author:** ![cedman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cedman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cedman)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2013, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-like-but-you-really-dont-want-to-watch-again/676075/54 "2013-12-16T19:12:42Z")
Deer Hunter Ordinary People ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2013, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-like-but-you-really-dont-want-to-watch-again/676075/55 "2013-12-16T19:20:32Z")
> [@nachtmusick](#): > > An Oscar winner that no one wants to watch even the first time is Hurt Locker. Although I disagree that _The Hurt Locker_ is a _good_ movie, since it did win an Oscar and thereby qualifies for the purposes of this thread, it will be my choice of movies I would never watch again. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2013, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-like-but-you-really-dont-want-to-watch-again/676075/56 "2013-12-16T19:24:58Z")
John Carpenter’s _The Thing_. I thought it was a terrific horror movie. But I don’t watch much of anything in the way of horror movies, as they scare me too much. I sure picked a doozy to make an exception for, though. ---
**Author:** ![Gulo\_gulo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bcef8e/32.png) [@Gulo\_gulo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gulo_gulo)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-like-but-you-really-dont-want-to-watch-again/676075/57 "2013-12-17T00:40:34Z")
_Brokeback Mountain_ _Life is Beautiful_ _North Face_ ~ This is one of those movies where you know what’s going to happen but just keep hoping that somehow events will magically change. I tear up just thinking about it. A box of Kleenex was sacrificed for this film. _Bullhead_ ~ great acting but damn … just damn. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-like-but-you-really-dont-want-to-watch-again/676075/58 "2013-12-17T02:10:35Z")
> [@UncleRojelio](#): > > Although I disagree that _The Hurt Locker_ is a _good_ movie, since it did win an Oscar and thereby qualifies for the purposes of this thread, it will be my choice of movies I would never watch again. I wish more people had seen _The Hurt Locker_ as I did at AMC’s Mainstreet Theater. The first 4K projector I ever saw, and every single seat equipped with a bass shaker to supplement the sub-woofers. I wandered out of the theater feeling like I had been in a war zone, which was obviously the director’s intent. I’d like to see the film again, but any home screening would be a major disappointment - like watching _Lawrence of Arabia_ on an iPhone. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2014, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-like-but-you-really-dont-want-to-watch-again/676075/59 "2014-01-04T01:27:14Z")
> [@nachtmusick](#): > > Munich, as mentioned above. This movie should be considered among the greatest movies of all time, but it suffers from the problem that no one wants to relive it. I really loved that movie and have re-watched it several times. I seem to recall there was another movie made about this same story but I can’t recall what that was. ---
**Author:** ![QueenOfClubs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/53a042/32.png) [@QueenOfClubs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QueenOfClubs)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2014, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-like-but-you-really-dont-want-to-watch-again/676075/60 "2014-01-04T07:19:06Z")
> [@Carl\_Corey](#): > > Also known as Full Frontal Keitel to my friends. Don’t need to see that again. I actually thought that was a plus. Movies I liked, but don’t feel any urge to see again: Men Behind the Sun The Wrestler Man Bites Dog Schizopolis Videodrome Crash [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-like-but-you-really-dont-want-to-watch-again/676075.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-like-but-you-really-dont-want-to-watch-again/676075.md?page=4)