# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-never-want-to-see-twice/269580/21 "2004-10-17T06:45:30Z")
> [@Siddhartha Vicious](#): > > How in the hell did that “undefined” get in there? You aren’t a programmer, are you? ---
**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, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-never-want-to-see-twice/269580/22 "2004-10-17T06:45:58Z")
My apologies for the multipost. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-never-want-to-see-twice/269580/23 "2004-10-17T06:47:09Z")
Dogville is very hard to sit through, even if the last 10 minutes is positivily feel good(In comparison) after the sadisitic/maschocistic hour that preceeds it. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-never-want-to-see-twice/269580/24 "2004-10-17T18:57:25Z")
**Alien**. Detestible film. If I want to watch morons in space, I’ll watch **The Three Stooges in Orbit** , since they’re smarter than anyone in Alien. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-never-want-to-see-twice/269580/25 "2004-10-17T19:06:36Z")
Blade Runner. A great theme. Interesting visuals. Interesting characters. But overall … boring. I’m glad I saw it, and the scene of the Rutger Hauer android dying is etched into my mind, but the rest of it … kinda dull. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-never-want-to-see-twice/269580/26 "2004-10-17T20:17:30Z")
Glory, Blade Runner, and 24 (I know it’s not a movie, but I’m counting it anyway). ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-never-want-to-see-twice/269580/27 "2004-10-17T20:36:06Z")
I saw **The Sixth Sense** the night it opened in theatres and i haven’t seen it since. I enjoyed it well enough but don’t see a whole lot of point in watching it again. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-never-want-to-see-twice/269580/28 "2004-10-17T21:00:29Z")
Happiness Pink Flamingos The Doom Generation Your Friends and Neighbors The Black Robe Saving Private Ryan Life Is Beautiful Generally, I don’t have much tolerance for realistic, draining war movies, gory horror, Holocaust stories, and gross, sick, disturbing movies with twisted people doing horrible things to each other. (Most of the above fall into one of those categories.) I have no problem with violence like the aforementioned Fight Club, Total Recall, and Robocop, but I can’t sit through scenes of torture, gratuitous gore, mutilation, sadism, things like that. ---
**Author:** ![Jayn\_Newell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-never-want-to-see-twice/269580/29 "2004-10-17T21:00:31Z")
_Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring_. I barely managed to stay awake the first time through, and I’m surprised I managed it at all. ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2004, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-never-want-to-see-twice/269580/30 "2004-10-18T00:21:54Z")
I walked out of _A Beautiful Mind_ knowing I’d never watch it again. I’m not going to claim that it was the best movie ever made. I admit that one of the main draws for me was that it was Russell-Crowe-a-licious. But I was really pulled into the movie. I sat with tears rolling down my face during the derivation scenes. (Yeah, I’m a big nerd. Sue me.) The thought of watching it in my living room with my mind on everyday distractions made me sad, so I decided that my experience of the movie was going to be the experience I just had; I wasn’t going to dilute it. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2004, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-never-want-to-see-twice/269580/31 "2004-10-18T01:06:54Z")
> [@Big Bad Voodoo Lou](#): > > Happiness > I have no problem with violence like the aforementioned Fight Club, Total Recall, and Robocop, but I can’t sit through scenes of torture, gratuitous gore, mutilation, sadism, things like that. Yet you have no problem with Robocop??? How about the scene where Murphy is blasted apart by shotgun blasts??? You don’t consider that gratuituous gore, mutilation, sadism and torture??? ---
**Author:** ![pesch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pesch/32/4925_2.png) [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2004, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-never-want-to-see-twice/269580/32 "2004-10-18T02:45:56Z")
\“Penn & Teller Get Killed”\ Horrible movie. I only remember the ending and thinking “Thank God.” \“Night & Fog”\ Nazi atrocities, in French with English subtitles. Saw it twice in school because I had too. Nothing like seeing bodies being moved by a bulldozer before lunch to build an appetite. ---
**Author:** ![pesch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pesch/32/4925_2.png) [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2004, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-never-want-to-see-twice/269580/33 "2004-10-18T02:48:35Z")
Aaargh! Sorry about the miscoding and including “Penn and Teller.” I see you want **good** movies that you’ll never see again. At least “Night & Fog” fits that definition. Powerful movie, but not one I’d willingly sit through again. ---
**Author:** ![ElectricZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/58f4c7/32.png) [@ElectricZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElectricZ)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2004, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-never-want-to-see-twice/269580/34 "2004-10-18T03:14:23Z")
[_ **City of God.** _](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317248/=) A very well made movie based on a true story about a hopless and completely destructive environment and the people who live there. In one scene… The gang leader that runs the city gets annoyed with “runts,” 4-10 year olds who steal and commit other petty crimes in the lawless city. He finds out where they like to hang out and corners two of them who look to be about 4 and 5 respectively. He shoots both of them in the feet, and then hands the gun over to a 10-year old recruit and orders him to pick one and kill him to prove his worth. The 10 year old reluctantly complies, killing the older of the two kids while the younger one cowers and cries. The leader then tells the four year old to go find his other friends and tell them what happens to anybody who commits unauthorized crimes. The acting is brutally real, and the little kids honestly look like they’re not acting as they fear for their lives. I wonder what the director did to them to get such a response. EZ ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2004, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-never-want-to-see-twice/269580/35 "2004-10-18T03:20:02Z")
_The Passion of the Christ_. Good movie, and ver intense, even for an agnostic like me. But there was no suspense at all. I saw the ending coming a mile away. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2004, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-never-want-to-see-twice/269580/36 "2004-10-18T03:55:14Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > _The Passion of the Christ_. > > Good movie, and ver intense, even for an agnostic like me. > > But there was no suspense at all. I saw the ending coming a mile away. That movie is so preacy. _Everyone_’s a sinner. Except for that one guy. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2004, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-never-want-to-see-twice/269580/37 "2004-10-18T04:10:28Z")
I tell ya, though…that movie was so good, someone should have wrote a book about it. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2004, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-never-want-to-see-twice/269580/38 "2004-10-18T04:17:17Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > I tell ya, though…that movie was so good, someone should have wrote a book about it. Aaaah, these cross-media things never work out. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2004, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-never-want-to-see-twice/269580/39 "2004-10-18T04:28:47Z")
> [@RikWriter](#): > > Yet you have no problem with Robocop??? How about the scene where Murphy is blasted apart by shotgun blasts??? You don’t consider that gratuituous gore, mutilation, sadism and torture??? Robocop is a satire of ‘80s excesses, first and foremost, and a kick-ass sci-fi action movie once you get past that. Paul Verhoeven likes to go crazy with gory violence (also in Starship Troopers and Total Recall, which I also like), but when he does it, it’s so unrealistic that it doesn’t bother me at all. Those movies are so over-the-top that they’re almost cartoonish, and the futuristic sci-fi settings divorce them even more from reality. All the blood and violence in the Kill Bill movies didn’t faze me either, because it was so unrealistic and over-the-top. Yet give me a zombie movie or a slasher pic with body parts a-flyin’ and horrible glee taken from the carnage, and I’ll be repulsed. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2004, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-never-want-to-see-twice/269580/40 "2004-10-18T04:46:37Z")
_Schindler’s List_. Excellent film, but it’s not the sort of movie you watch more than once. _Seven_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-never-want-to-see-twice/269580.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-never-want-to-see-twice/269580.md?page=3)