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.
I’ll second Trainspotting. During the whole opium suppositoru/filthiest men’s room in Scotland scene, I wondered “My God, is the whole movie going to be like this?” And then, in the miscarriage hallucination scene, I thought “Yes, I suppose it will.”
American Me is on my list of Movies I Do Not Need To See Again.
Oh, I don’t know – it had that same kind of supernatural vaguely-romantic-comedy-like appeal that Shallow Hal did. (Only not as much of it. Shallow Hal is the greatest movie of this millennium, after all.)
Thin Red Line…
It was positively painful. So bad, so bad…
Several of those mentioned plus in a little flurry I recently rented The 25th Hour, Monster and Wonderland and remarked to the guy at the shop that they were all great and I hoped never to see them again. Throw in Monster’s Ball for added good times.
American Beauty: Not only is the story quite depressing, the ending sucks: The homophobic military nut figures out that he’s actually the gay one and kisses Kevin Spacey and then kills him when he gets turned down!and even though Mena Suvari is wearing a leather skirt or pants in one part we only get to see her from the waste up! What a waste of film!
U-Turn: I wouldn’t watch that movie again if somebody paid me to. I used to think Oliver Stone was talented. I think what pissed me off the most was that no matter where the guy went or what he did, he couldn’t get a goddamn glass of water! I wanted to kill people by the end of that movie! Plus, another stupid ending: After all that effort and after getting damn near killed himself, the main character’s radiator hose breaks again and he’s presumably forced to repeat the cycle. I was not amused.
Ebert’s Little Movie Glossary has an entry for these, under the heading “Gandhi Movies”—“Any film which is undeniably good, perhaps great, but once you’ve seen it, there is absolutely no reason to ever want to see it again.” It mentions Gandhi; The Last Emperor; A Passage to India, Long documentaries about to Holocaust, most of the French New Wave, all underground art films of the 1960s, the lesser works of Bergman and Antonioni, and Woody Allen’s “serious” movies.
To that, I’ll add…
Wings of Honneamise (which is odd, as by all rights, this should be a favorite)
Ditto w/Grave of the Fireflies
Cast Away
And a lot of other movies where an innocent, genuinely likeable character mostly gets it in the shorts from outragous fortune, and/or total assholes.
Biggirl,
The Bad Lieutenant and Blue Velvet were the first ones that came to my mind too.
I would like to add The Ring and Wild at Heart.
The first one, because it seriously creeped me out and the second one for the same reason as Blue Velvet. (Seriously disagreeable characters and a very uneasy feeling).
Threads This nuclear war movie from the 80’s is far too realistic. I’ve probably seen it two or three times. It is not out on DVD in the US and hasn’t been on television in quite a while. Ted Turner used to show it on WTBS. Not a date movie.
Is your spoiler right, DWMarch? I could have sworn……Annette Benning’s character killed Kevin Spacey’s character at the end.I guess it doesn’t matter as I didn’t really like that movie. If I’m going to dislike something, though, I’d like to have my facts straight.
As to the OP, here’s my short list of movies that were good movies but I never need to see again:
Braveheart
Glory
Lord of the Rings 2
Requiem for a Dream
Also, I’d have to disagree with JayElle. The Usual Suspects is my all-time favorite movie. Even knowing the twist, there are so many other things you pick up on when watching the it again.
For me, Monster. It was a great movie, but there’s no way I could watch that again. Same goes for Mystic River.
We had to watch it twice, too…once without the sound, once with. The lampshade is the scene that sticks with me. I remember Patty Hill left the room crying/sick at one point.
And another vote for The Passion of the Christ. We have a movie night at our church, and I am one of the few people who actually goes. We’ve viewed **Rabbit-Proof Fence and Dogma ** with discussion afters, and I was looking forward to the next film, until they told me what it is. I don’t think I can sit through it again, but I don’t want them to give up on movie night. Maybe I’ll just get there late.
DWMarch is correct.
When the montage showing each of the characters’ responses to Kevin Spacey’s death, the marine Colonel is shown entering his house covered with blood, and the camera pans to his gun collection, resting on the empty space where the gun he use once rested.
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Sheesh – mods I had a little bit of a tag control issue on my last post… Would appreciate a quick fix, turning the first quote into a quote, and the last tag into a real spoiler! Thanks…
Everybody kindly avert their eyes until its fixed. Don’t look directly at the spoiler!
I need caffeine.
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Once were Warriors. Great film, but tough to watch, and I have no desire to see it again.
Another one that I liked at the time, but I don’t need to see again, The Sixth Sense.
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Is your spoiler right, DWMarch? I could have sworn……Annette Benning’s character killed Kevin Spacey’s character at the end.I guess it doesn’t matter as I didn’t really like that movie. If I’m going to dislike something, though, I’d like to have my facts straight.
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Nope, he’s right.
We see her throwing the gun into the hamper and hugging his shirts, and for a moment we think she killed him. Then it cuts to the Colonel, peeling off a blood-soaked pair of rubber gloves. So it’s pretty clear that while she came into the house with a gun and was probably thinking about killing him, she didn’t do it. Her throwing the gun into the hamper wasn’t guilt and horror at what she had done, but at what she might have done if he hadn’t already been dead when she came home.
I guess the only sort-of good movie I never want to see again would be Lost in Translation. Intellectually, I can appreciate the themes and all, and Murray and Johanneson were both good, but emotionally it just…fizzled. I wanted to care about the characters, but somehow I didn’t. I tried, really, but I just couldn’t force myself to give a tin shit about them or their situation. Oh well, at least it wasn’t like Magnolia, where I wanted to charge up to God and demand three hours of my life back.
Osama, had a terrible time watching it through, good movie though.
Another vote for The Sixth Sense. If you know the ending I don’t see any point in watching it. Oddly enough, I don’t feel the same way about The Others which I will watch whenever it comes on TV.
My dad was always trying to get people to see The Sixth Sense with him for the 100th time. Then again, he thinks “Nobody puts Baby in the corner” is one the great lines in movie history.
I’m a little surprised about people not wanting to see The Sixth Sense a second time. I enjoyed the “aha” moments I had during some scenes, knowing that Bruce Willis was dead all along
I’ve also watched Trainspotting several times. Yes, it’s really disturbing, but I just love that movie so much.
I watched A Clockwork Orange last night on IFC. I don’t believe I’ll be watching it again. It was a good movie, but it only requires one viewing.
I’ll have to second–okay, third or fourth–Requiem For a Dream. Except that I’ve seen it twice. The first time I saw it, I was under the influence of an “herbal substance”. BIG mistake!! About a year later, I decided to watch it “straight” and that was an even BIGGER mistake.
As for a movie I can’t even watch once–The Usual Suspects. Years ago, I happened to be in the living room for the final scene when my roommates were watching it. Argh! Why bother now, right?