# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2011, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/41 "2011-01-16T05:34:52Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > **American History X** has a single scene that I will not watch again. > > If you’ve seen it, you automatically know what I’m referring to. > mmm Or even if you haven’t. ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2011, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/42 "2011-01-16T05:42:37Z")
The 2 movies I came in to mention have both been listed- Saving Private Ryan and Leaving Las Vegas. Leaving Las Vegas is the single most disturbing movie I have ever seen in my life. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2011, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/43 "2011-01-16T05:52:23Z")
**United 93.** The only movie I’ve seen in adulthood that actually left me shaken after I walked out of the theater. ---
**Author:** ![TheTerribleTako](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@TheTerribleTako](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheTerribleTako)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2011, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/44 "2011-01-16T06:46:18Z")
Ditto on Grave of the Fireflies. After watching Children of Men, I was an absolute wreck. Great cinematography, but I’ll never watch it again. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_jeffrey_lebowski/32/215_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Jeffrey_Lebowski)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2011, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/45 "2011-01-16T06:56:02Z")
_Capturing the Friedmans_. Brilliant, but…no, never again. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2011, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/46 "2011-01-16T07:07:07Z")
> [@Kolga](#): > > Most of the ones mentioned make my list, but _Monster_ with Charlize Theron is also on that list. > > I own the “Life and Death of a Serial Killer” documentary about Aileen Wuornos, with interviews with her throughout, and I can watch that again and again. But that movie? No frigging way. And I can watch some horrific shit multiple times. There’s just something about the rawness of Theron’s performance in that. _Monster_ was the first one I thought of when I saw this thread. Theron was terrific but it was so hard to watch and the rape scene was particularly awful. ---
**Author:** ![cruel\_butterfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5daacb/32.png) [@cruel\_butterfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cruel_butterfly)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2011, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/47 "2011-01-16T08:28:51Z")
The Changeling ---
**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2011, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/48 "2011-01-16T08:35:50Z")
For me it’s _Lawrence of Arabia_, oddly enough… ---
**Author:** ![iamnotbatman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/858c86/32.png) [@iamnotbatman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamnotbatman)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2011, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/49 "2011-01-16T09:01:25Z")
> [@howye](#): > > Yup. Exactly what I thought of first. > > Deeply moving, and I can never watch it again. Try [Shoah](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoah_%28film%29). ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2011, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/50 "2011-01-16T09:18:52Z")
> [@Mr.Excellent](#): > > Requiem for a Dream. What I came in to say. ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2011, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/51 "2011-01-16T09:23:50Z")
Grave of the Fireflies and La Vita e Bella. ---
**Author:** ![Gukumatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/74df32/32.png) [@Gukumatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gukumatz)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2011, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/52 "2011-01-16T09:48:13Z")
_Lilja 4-Ever_ ---
**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 16, 2011, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/53 "2011-01-16T12:54:23Z")
> [@MacSpon](#): > > For me it’s _Lawrence of Arabia_, oddly enough… How come? That’s one of my favorite movies ever. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2011, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/54 "2011-01-16T15:02:01Z")
I came to say **Elephant Man**. I have never seen \*\*Schindler’s List \*\* or \*\*The Passion of the Christ \*\*because I know it’ll put me in a weeklong funk. I don’t enjoy watching people hurt people. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2011, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/55 "2011-01-16T15:42:28Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > City Of God Really? It was epic and long but I could watch it again. ---
**Author:** ![Maiira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Maiira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maiira)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2011, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/56 "2011-01-16T16:45:48Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > **American History X** has a single scene that I will not watch again. > > If you’ve seen it, you automatically know what I’m referring to. > mmm Heh, there are actually several scenes I could think of that would qualify, though I think I know which one you’re talking about. ---
**Author:** ![jordanr2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@jordanr2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jordanr2)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2011, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/57 "2011-01-16T18:25:31Z")
Haneke’s _Time of the Wolf_ - not necessarily because of the unpleasant subject matter (though it _is_ an unpleasant film) - more because it seems to have been intended to provoke a very deliberate sense of tedium and alienation. It’s good at accomplishing that, and I remember really liking it, but I don’t feel the need to sit through it again anytime soon. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2011, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/58 "2011-01-16T20:52:43Z")
The Green Mile The execution scene was so horrible I can’t watch any part of that movie again. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2011, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/59 "2011-01-16T20:58:37Z")
> [@PunditLisa](#): > > I don’t enjoy watching people hurt people. So . . . how many movies would you watch, even once? ---
**Author:** ![BomTek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bomtek/32/21364_2.png) [@BomTek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BomTek)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2011, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/60 "2011-01-16T21:01:02Z")
_Dear Zachary_, which I saw on recommendation from the SDMB, was the first one that came to mind for me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729.md?page=4)