# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Wallenstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@Wallenstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallenstein)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2011, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/81 "2011-01-17T12:30:24Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > Yup, it’s an important movie, but not entertainment. That pretty much goes for any movie featuring the Holocaust. Part of the reason I’ve never seen this movie is that I don’t want to watch it in my living room on my small TV, with distractions around (kids chattering, phone ringing etc). I want to watch it in a dark cinema on a big screen where I can properly focus on it, but it’s tends not to play in cinemas these days. I keep an eye on the local arts cinema to see if they’ll show it at some point though. ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2011, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/82 "2011-01-17T12:38:51Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > There is just one film that comes to my mind when reading the OP: > > **The Elephant Man.** > mmm That’s my other never-watch-again film. ---
**Author:** ![footballisplayedwithyourfeet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9f8e36/32.png) [@footballisplayedwithyourfeet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/footballisplayedwithyourfeet)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2011, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/83 "2011-01-17T13:22:03Z")
> [@Gukumatz](#): > > _Lilja 4-Ever_ I came in to say this. But I’d actually be lying. I sometimes just feel like watching a movie that is going to diturb and shock me…so i’ll put on Lilja 4 ever, Requiem for a Dream, Schindlers List, The Pianist, etc. ---
**Author:** ![MobiusStripes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@MobiusStripes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MobiusStripes)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2011, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/84 "2011-01-17T13:23:22Z")
Pan’s Labyrinth – very creepy. Well, I probably will watch it again some day but a few scenes were really horribly disturbing. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2011, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/85 "2011-01-17T13:37:17Z")
_The Piano._ ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2011, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/86 "2011-01-17T17:10:59Z")
Schindler’s list, Saving Private Ryan, Amistad. ---
**Author:** ![jharvey963](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/54ee81/32.png) [@jharvey963](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jharvey963)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2011, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/87 "2011-01-17T20:49:44Z")
> [@joebuck20](#): > > **United 93.** The only movie I’ve seen in adulthood that actually left me shaken after I walked out of the theater. I agree. I couldn’t talk to my wife for at least 15 minutes after. I’m a VERY non-violent kind of guy, but I felt like eviscerating someone after that movie. J. ---
**Author:** ![Otara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a88e4f/32.png) [@Otara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otara)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2011, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/88 "2011-01-17T20:54:40Z")
Sixth Sense, and Dances with Wolves. Otara ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2011, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/89 "2011-01-17T20:57:41Z")
_Sophie’s Choice_ for me. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2011, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/90 "2011-01-17T21:01:42Z")
_I’m Still Here_ by Joaquin Phoenix and Casey Affleck. Hilarious, brilliant, and too disturbingly painful to watch again. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2011, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/91 "2011-01-17T21:03:45Z")
_Titanic_: A visual and cinematic masterpiece. Also made me want to crawl into a hole and die. _Schindler’s List_: See above. _Alive_: Just when you think it can’t get any more depressing, it does. But it’s also an incredible bit of filmmaking. _Cape Fear_ (the 1990-something version): I am neither squeamish nor a prude, but this movie crossed several lines. But it was brilliantly made. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2011, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/92 "2011-01-17T21:04:57Z")
Million Dollar Baby with Clint Eastwood. All in all its not that intense of a movie, but the ending is just a bit too true to life, life really sucks sometimes for me. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2011, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/93 "2011-01-17T21:07:22Z")
_Come and See_. > **[Come and See](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_and_See)** > > Come and See (Russian: Иди и смотри, romanized: Idi i smotri; Belarusian: Ідзі і глядзі, romanized: Idzi i hliadzi) is a 1985 Soviet anti-war film directed by Elem Klimov and starring Aleksei Kravchenko and Olga Mironova. Its screenplay, written by Klimov and Ales Adamovich, is based on the 1971 novel "Khatyn" and the 1977 memoir I Am from the Fiery Village (Я из огненной деревни, Ya iz ognennoy derevni), of which Adamovich was a co-author. Klimov had to fight eight years of censor The film's p... Makes _Schindler’s List_ and _Grave of the Fireflies_ look like _Bambi_, as well as being really good (Spielburg allegedly screened it for his crew when filming _Schindler’s List_, so that they could see what they were aiming for). I can’t imagine wanting to watch it twice. ---
**Author:** ![Jaguars](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaguars/32/5879_2.png) [@Jaguars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaguars)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2011, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/94 "2011-01-17T21:43:21Z")
Ah, \*once were warriors \*‘New Zealand’s favourite romantic comedy’ I actually kinda like the non-squicky parts - perhaps just recognition of the locations and culture or something. _Lord of war_ was perhaps just a little too black humor for me. How the hell did that end up on my DVD shelf. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2011, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/95 "2011-01-17T22:07:14Z")
> [@JoelUpchurch](#): > > 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 opened the thread to add this movie. It’s intense. When I watched it, I knew what was going to happen. I’d seen the musical, but the producers of the play screwed up so badly that I was entirely unprepared for the film, which was just real and raw and incredibly well done. I highly recommend it though I will not watch it ever again. ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/96 "2011-01-18T02:01:33Z")
> [@JoelUpchurch](#): > > 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** … Seconded, thirded, whatever. Special mention goes to _Grave of the Fireflies_ as “Best Movie I’ve Never Seen Because I Was Too Afraid To Watch It”. ☹ I love the Studio Ghibli movies and GotFF is one of the few I don’t have a copy of because just the thought of watching it (after seeing the trailer) is simply too depressing. Bit of trivia: When _Grave of the Fireflies_ was released in Japan it was shown as a double feature with _My Neighbor Totoro_ and marketed to children. :eek: (More than a few upset parents apparently). ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/97 "2011-01-18T02:03:48Z")
> [@Apollyon](#): > > Bit of trivia: When _Grave of the Fireflies_ was released in Japan it was shown as a double feature with _My Neighbor Totoro_ and marketed to children. :eek: (More than a few upset parents apparently). You _must_ be joking. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jman/32/4416_2.png) [@Jman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jman)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/98 "2011-01-18T02:11:58Z")
> [@OpalCat](#): > > _Sophie’s Choice_ for me. Ditto. I don’t think it would have bothered me before I was a parent, but now that I have a little girl, I just can’t watch it again. Nope. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/99 "2011-01-18T02:34:38Z")
> [@Malthus](#): > > You _must_ be joking. 😃 I’m afraid he’s not. I too thought as you did until I checked the Wiki. It’s mentioned in both the page for _Grave of the Fireflies_ and _My Neighbor Totoro_, with the latter even having a citation. Chalk up another notch in the WTF Japan column. * * * This is a bit embarrassing, but the ending of _Dragon Heart_ made me such a bubbly mess that I didn’t desire to rewatch it again for many years. ---
**Author:** ![StuffLikeThatThere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@StuffLikeThatThere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StuffLikeThatThere)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/100 "2011-01-18T03:39:29Z")
_The Believer_ It was very well-done, and I’ve recommended it to people (with careful thought), but I found it really disturbing. I’m glad I saw it, but I don’t want to watch it again. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729.md?page=6)