# 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:** 13\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2004, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-never-want-to-see-twice/269580/61 "2004-10-18T16:03:25Z")
I have to second **A Clockwork Orange** and **American Beauty**. One vote for **Citizen Kane**. It was a brilliant movie, it just wasn’t a repeat experience. ---
**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2004, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-never-want-to-see-twice/269580/62 "2004-10-18T16:37:17Z")
How about _The Unforgiven_ as a truly great movie that I have no desire to see again? ---
**Author:** ![cormac262](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@cormac262](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cormac262)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2004, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-never-want-to-see-twice/269580/63 "2004-10-18T19:11:12Z")
> [@JayElle](#): > > **Reservoir Dogs** Great movie, but I don’t think I could handle the gore a second time around. > > **The Usual Suspects** After you find out the twist, I don’t think this one would be as engaging the second time around. Re: “The Usual Suspects”. If there was ever a movie that I HAD to see at least a second time, it is this movie. There are two things to be looking for (and I hope to state these so as not to need spoilers): 1) how much of Verbal’s story can be verified with other evidence (that is, how much of his story really happened). And how much of his story could have been completely made up ? 2) Given where Verbal gets his “clues” for his story, do the logisitics of how he acquired those clues fit in with when these clues appear (more of a test-the-editting game) ? As to the OP, I would second: Requiem for a Dream Mystic River But disagree not only on “Usual Suspects”, but also “Love is Beautiful” , “Unforgiven” and “Saving Private Ryan” (they’re painful, but worth seeing for other aspects). ---
**Author:** ![Vevila](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc8723/32.png) [@Vevila](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vevila)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2004, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-never-want-to-see-twice/269580/64 "2004-10-18T20:03:23Z")
I could never watch the movie Iris again - incredible movie, but very, very, very sad. ---
**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 18, 2004, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-never-want-to-see-twice/269580/65 "2004-10-18T20:25:00Z")
It’s more than gore that holds me back. Gore really has nothing to do with me not watching Bad Lieutenant another time, I can’t think that there’s much gore in it. Or in Blue Velvet either. It’s just, I don’t know, emotionally painful. I suspect Trainspotting would be the same. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2004, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-never-want-to-see-twice/269580/66 "2004-10-18T20:46:54Z")
Disagree on Life Is Beautiful; I watched it again and I think it was even more poignant the second time around, for the exact reason listed in the spoiler. I couldn’t possibly watch Passion of the Christ again. I’m not sensitive to violence or blood, etc, and I’m an atheist, but that movie was just too difficult for me to watch. I spent most of the film staring at the left ear of the person in the row ahead of me. ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2004, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-never-want-to-see-twice/269580/67 "2004-10-18T21:57:47Z")
**No one** has said _Dancer in the Dark_?! Beautiful-looking film, but cruel almost to the point of parody. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2004, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-never-want-to-see-twice/269580/68 "2004-10-18T22:57:51Z")
Mention of _Iris_, with which I totally agree, reminds me of it’s contemporary _In The Bedroom_ which was a fine movie with great performances and I will never watch it again. ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2004, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-never-want-to-see-twice/269580/69 "2004-10-19T00:25:46Z")
Second vote for **Threads**. Important film, I thought. Definitely worth seeing. I bought a copy from eBay, in fact, because it’s pretty hard to find. Then I loaned it to someone and never asked for it back. After watching it, I remember thinking I might put on Requiem for a Dream so I could have a few laughs… ☹ ---
**Author:** ![SlickRoenick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@SlickRoenick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlickRoenick)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2004, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-never-want-to-see-twice/269580/70 "2004-10-19T01:59:42Z")
Super Dave Python 1 & 2 Duel and i know i’m going to have to add **Saw** to the list when i see it in a few days. ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2004, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-never-want-to-see-twice/269580/71 "2004-10-19T04:47:19Z")
> [@Lisa-go-Blind](#): > > **No one** has said _Dancer in the Dark_?! > > Beautiful-looking film, but cruel almost to the point of parody. It was the first movie I thought of when I saw the thread. As others have, I’ll say the same for von Trier’s more recent **Dogville** –not quite the downer that DITD was, but the stark set and the deliberately flat performances that were supposed to bring the plot into sharp relief instead made me feel like I had spent a month watching it. ---
**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 19, 2004, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-never-want-to-see-twice/269580/72 "2004-10-19T06:16:01Z")
> [@Big Bad Voodoo Lou](#): > > All the blood and violence in the Kill Bill movies didn’t faze me either, because it was so unrealistic and over-the-top. I felt the same way. It didn’t really bug me because it was practically like watching a cartoon. But the scene at the very beginning where Uma Thurman’s character got shot in the head – that was more realistic, and it freaked me out enough that I just barely got around to watching the second part two days ago. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Long\_Road](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@The\_Long\_Road](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Long_Road)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-never-want-to-see-twice/269580/73 "2004-10-20T06:17:01Z")
> [@bupkis](#): > > **Requiem For a Dream** and **Thirteen**. Shudder. The horrors of being a drug fiend and/or a thirteen-year-old girl. My wife just forced me to watch _Thirteen_ because I made her watch _Hell Boy_ and _Bubba Ho-Tep_. I by far got the short end of that deal. Man, marriage sucks sometimes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youd-never-want-to-see-twice/269580.md?page=3)