# Movies you'd never want to see twice **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 16, 2004, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-never-want-to-see-twice/269580 "2004-10-16T21:20:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-never-want-to-see-twice/269580/1 "2004-10-16T21:20:24Z")
even though they’re good. My son had been wanting to see Bad Lieutenant for forever. I saw it in the movies and any time he grabbed it at the video store I told him, “He’s a really, really bad lieutenant. Put it back.” Since it was NC-17, he had to listen. Well, he’s now 17, has access to Netflix and ordered it. This is a good movie. The gritty hyper-reality sticks to you like scummy grease and makes you dirty. I did not want to watch again. Another movie I never want to watch again is Blue Velvet. Too much degradation for me to feel comfortable with. Blue Velvet was hard to watch through the first time. Are there any movies that were good but you never want to see again? ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-never-want-to-see-twice/269580/2 "2004-10-16T21:35:53Z")
I couldn’t watch the second half of _Shoah_ after viewing the first half. And I probably won’t be able to watch the first half again. ---
**Author:** ![Freejooky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ba8739/32.png) [@Freejooky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freejooky)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-never-want-to-see-twice/269580/3 "2004-10-16T21:50:08Z")
“The Decalogue.” Not only is it many hours long, it’s the most depressing thing I’ve ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-never-want-to-see-twice/269580/4 "2004-10-16T22:20:35Z")
Fight Club and Robocop, both for the same reason: they’re both sadistically brutal. ---
**Author:** ![Spudo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@Spudo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spudo)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-never-want-to-see-twice/269580/5 "2004-10-16T22:23:00Z")
**AI** was far too disturbing for me to ever want to see again, plus the ending sucked. **Series 7: The Contenders** is another, it was far too real; I’m not sure how I was able to sit through it once. That being said I think it’s an excellent movie, and reccomend it to everyone who watches reality TV. No one should ever see **AI** though. ---
**Author:** ![saramamalana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@saramamalana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saramamalana)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-never-want-to-see-twice/269580/6 "2004-10-16T23:21:39Z")
_Trainspotting._ I thought it was a good movie but man do I not want to see that again. And that’s tricky, since it’s one of my best friend’s favorite movies. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-never-want-to-see-twice/269580/7 "2004-10-17T00:51:10Z")
**Grave of the Fireflies** is a fantastic movie, one that I own on DVD and that I often reccommend to people, that I don’t believe I’ll ever want to watch again. ---
**Author:** ![Tracy\_Lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@Tracy\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracy_Lord)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-never-want-to-see-twice/269580/8 "2004-10-17T02:30:56Z")
Farenheit 9/11. ---
**Author:** ![chorpler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chorpler/32/2888_2.png) [@chorpler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chorpler)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-never-want-to-see-twice/269580/9 "2004-10-17T02:45:43Z")
For the benefit of those who haven’t seen these movies, I’ll put my reasons in spoiler boxes. _Full Metal Jacket_. That scene where the sniper keeps shooting the fallen American soldier, taunting the soldiers who are hiding, trying to draw them out by repeatedly blasting painful chunks of non-vital flesh and muscle out of the guy’s body … that was really disturbing. And then they find out that the sniper is just a twenty-something girl and have to decide how to kill her… _shudder_ _Life is Beautiful_. Oh, come _on_! How anybody could watch this movie more than once? How can you enjoy Guido’s (I think that’s his name … it’s been years since I saw this) antics knowing that he’s going to be cruelly murdered right before the film ends? ---
**Author:** ![JoeSki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b487fb/32.png) [@JoeSki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoeSki)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-never-want-to-see-twice/269580/10 "2004-10-17T02:50:41Z")
**The Hot Chick**. Worst movie I’ve ever seen in my entire life. Literally, 3/4 of the audience fell asleep at some point during this flick, and that would have included me if I was able to sleep in chairs. Awfull. **Strangeland**. Hey let’s watch people get tortured for an hour and a half. Wee. ---
**Author:** ![Profane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47774/32.png) [@Profane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Profane)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-never-want-to-see-twice/269580/11 "2004-10-17T03:32:21Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > **Grave of the Fireflies** is a fantastic movie, one that I own on DVD and that I often reccommend to people, that I don’t believe I’ll ever want to watch again. I completely agree. **The House of Sand and Fog**. Is another one that’s ver good and too depressing to ever watch again. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-never-want-to-see-twice/269580/12 "2004-10-17T04:03:54Z")
I watched the second The FLy with Jeff Goldblum up to the point of the inside out dog. I am not squeemish, but there was just something about it that I couldn’t handle, and I have never been able to watch the movie since then. Slight hijack, King’s Rose Madder disturbs me, because he is spot on when he describes how she is brainwashed by her abusive husband, and the amazing blast of terror just _thinking_ that she saw him. Even after 17 years I can get a blast of terror if I see someone who looks like my exfiance the way he looked then [I know he looks drastically different now.] ---
**Author:** ![Siddhartha\_Vicious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@Siddhartha\_Vicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siddhartha_Vicious)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-never-want-to-see-twice/269580/13 "2004-10-17T04:19:44Z")
undefined **Apocalypse Now**. ---
**Author:** ![Siddhartha\_Vicious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@Siddhartha\_Vicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siddhartha_Vicious)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-never-want-to-see-twice/269580/14 "2004-10-17T04:21:13Z")
> [@Siddhartha Vicious](#): > > undefined **Apocalypse Now**. How in the hell did that “undefined” get in there? ---
**Author:** ![bupkis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c37758/32.png) [@bupkis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bupkis)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-never-want-to-see-twice/269580/15 "2004-10-17T04:31:21Z")
**Requiem For a Dream** and **Thirteen**. Shudder. The horrors of being a drug fiend and/or a thirteen-year-old girl. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-never-want-to-see-twice/269580/16 "2004-10-17T05:04:46Z")
Total Recall I could never watch twice as it really is a one trick pony. For a movie I wouldn’t want to watch twice- A Clockwork Orange. And one I did watch a second time and shouldn’t have- Straw Dogs. And, and, and- one that no one should ever see once. Last Year at Marienbad. ---
**Author:** ![START](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@START](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/START)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-never-want-to-see-twice/269580/17 "2004-10-17T06:01:14Z")
> [@Spudo](#): > > **AI** was far too disturbing for me to ever want to see again, plus the ending sucked. **Series 7: The Contenders** is another, it was far too real; I’m not sure how I was able to sit through it once. That being said I think it’s an excellent movie, and reccomend it to everyone who watches reality TV. No one should ever see **AI** though. I agree the ending of “AI” could have been better but I thought over all it was a great movie. I saw the movie “Platoon” once and I like to think of Americans as the good guys but that part where the soldiers terrorized the villagers and one of them beat a retarded guys skull in with a rifle in front of his mother was so disturbing I guarantee I will never rent that movie again. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-never-want-to-see-twice/269580/18 "2004-10-17T06:21:19Z")
> [@bupkis](#): > > **Requiem For a Dream** and **Thirteen**. Shudder. The horrors of being a drug fiend and/or a thirteen-year-old girl. It’s now a bit cheesy-Eighties, but _The Boost_ is another movie that I don’t want to see again even though it was an affecting movie. ---
**Author:** ![melondeca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@melondeca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melondeca)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-never-want-to-see-twice/269580/19 "2004-10-17T06:42:49Z")
I would have to second _Requiem for a Dream_. That is one of the few movies that I can think of that truly show the horror of drug addiction. Even though it is a good movie that I recommend to everyone, I don’t know if I could sit through it again. ---
**Author:** ![melondeca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@melondeca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melondeca)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-never-want-to-see-twice/269580/20 "2004-10-17T06:44:31Z")
I would have to second _Requiem for a Dream_. That is one of the few movies I can think of that truly show the horror of drug addiction. Even though it is a good movie that I recommend to everyone, I don’t know if I could sit through it again. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-never-want-to-see-twice/269580.md?page=2)