# The Best Movie You Never Want to Watch Again **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 15, 2011, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729 "2011-01-15T18:44:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JoelUpchurch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f05b48/32.png) [@JoelUpchurch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoelUpchurch)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/1 "2011-01-15T18:44:23Z")
This is for movies that you watched and thought were excellent and you never ever want to watch again. Don’t nominate movies you watched more than once. My nominee is **Once Were Warriors**. It is the story about a Maori family in New Zealand. It isn’t an especially violent movie by modern standards, but the violence isn’t like watching a movie, it is more like looking in your neighbor’s window at someone beating up his wife or girlfriend. I watched this with a friend of mine who grew up in American Samoa and he was squirming through the whole movie. He said everything that happened in the movie, happened to someone he knew back in Samoa. I actually ended up buying the DVD and never watching it. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/2 "2011-01-15T18:52:35Z")
Requiem for a Dream. Utterly brilliant movie, I recommend it to all my friends. I will never watch it again. Always leaves me needing to hug my mom. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/3 "2011-01-15T18:54:56Z")
I know I should watch **No Country For Old Men** again, but I just don’t know if I can. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/4 "2011-01-15T18:58:30Z")
Trainspotting. Very good movie, very disturbing images. ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/5 "2011-01-15T19:43:23Z")
Dogville. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/6 "2011-01-15T20:02:41Z")
Paths of Glory. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/7 "2011-01-15T20:03:59Z")
In the Company of Men. I thought it was a great movie, but brutal. There’s no way I could sit through a re-watch. ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/8 "2011-01-15T20:05:55Z")
Schindler’s List. Never. ever again. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/9 "2011-01-15T20:13:03Z")
> [@kiz](#): > > Schindler’s List. > > Never. ever again. Yep, too difficult. Nothing beats these three: War/Dance Dear Zachary - SERIOUSLY, WATCH THIS ONE. IT’S GREAT. Grave of the Fireflies ---
**Author:** ![Sr\_Siete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Sr\_Siete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sr_Siete)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/10 "2011-01-15T20:15:32Z")
Funny Games. I watched the Austrian original a few years ago. Now, I love Naomi Watts. I could watch anything with her on it. Three hours and a half of Naomi standing in front of a brick wall? Count me in! Naomi filling her tax forms for six straight hours? A dream come true! But I’ll be skipping the remake. ---
**Author:** ![antechinus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@antechinus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antechinus)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/11 "2011-01-15T20:22:44Z")
[The Boys](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0139898/). Brilliant. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/12 "2011-01-15T20:27:37Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Grave of the Fireflies Oh yeah, good call. I saw this in a crowded theater at a Studio Ghibli film fest several years ago, and many, _many_ people in that crowd of jaded hipsters were openly weeping at the end. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/13 "2011-01-15T20:32:00Z")
_[Away from her](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0491747/)_, holy crap, that was depressing. ---
**Author:** ![Capitaine\_Zombie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@Capitaine\_Zombie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capitaine_Zombie)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/14 "2011-01-15T20:44:38Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Grave of the Fireflies Man, I was in tears at the end of that one. Had never happened to me before, nor since. ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/15 "2011-01-15T20:44:46Z")
_Saving Private Ryan_. I was extremely … moved?disturbed?shocked?terrified? … by the opening scenes taking the beach when I saw it in the theater. I have no desire to become jaded to the emotions I felt, so I’ll never watch that again. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/16 "2011-01-15T20:52:57Z")
**Happiness**. Too squirm-inducing to sit through again. ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/17 "2011-01-15T20:58:31Z")
> [@faithfool](#): > > **Happiness**. Too squirm-inducing to sit through again. I’m assuming you mean the Todd Solondz movie. There is also an Agnes Varda movie with that as its English title, that is a little squirm inducing, but not that bad really. EDIT: grammar ---
**Author:** ![howye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9adbd/32.png) [@howye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/howye)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/18 "2011-01-15T21:02:33Z")
> [@kiz](#): > > Schindler’s List. > > Never. ever again. Yup. Exactly what I thought of first. Deeply moving, and I can never watch it again. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/19 "2011-01-15T21:03:16Z")
Yes, the Todd Solondz film. I haven’t seen the other, but I have been subjected to the execrable **Happyness** too. There’s a lot of squirm-inducing in that one, but not the good variety. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2011, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/20 "2011-01-15T21:15:48Z")
> [@pepperlandgirl](#): > > I know I should watch **No Country For Old Men** again, but I just don’t know if I can. You should, as it benefits greatly from repeated viewing. My vote is for Charlie Kaufman’s [_Synecdoche, New York_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0383028/). I don’t know how to describe the film except that to say that it is the most honest and raw film, in terms of translating the writer-director’s soul and inner conflict, I have ever seen. Stranger [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729.md?page=2)