# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![chizzuk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@chizzuk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chizzuk)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2011, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/162 "2011-03-24T05:29:55Z")
> [@Chapulin](#): > > The Green Mile, loved it but cried so much I can’t watch it again. I can barely think about that guy getting electrocuted with a dry sponge without gettting teary-eyed I was unable to read the _book_ again due to that part, forget ever seeing the movie. I have two movies I can’t watch again: _The Grey Zone_: powerful yet horribly nauseating film about a group of Sonderkommandos at Auschwitz who try to hide a girl who somehow survives the gas chamber and then rebel against the SS and fail at both. I can barely think about it now. I saw this movie before I saw _Schindler’s List_ and it makes the latter look downright cheerful. That’s how bad it is. I would gladly watch _Schindler’s List_ again, but you’d have to put a gun to my head to get me to watch _The Grey Zone_. _Yossi and Jagger_: Israeli film about two gay IDF soldiers. Yehuda Levi’s death scene was too much for me. As Israeli films go, _Kadosh_ was another horrific one, but it was such blatant anti-Orthodox propaganda that it made it easier to write off the more disturbing parts as sensationalized. ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2011, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/164 "2011-03-24T18:00:46Z")
_ **Munich** _. I have never before or since left a movie theater feeling so devastated. One off-the-wall selection is _ **Raintree County** _. It just hit way too close to home in a whole bunch of ways. ---
**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2011, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/165 "2011-03-24T18:35:57Z")
Schlindlers List Reservoir Dogs Pans Labyrinth ---
**Author:** ![Mekhazzio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b38774/32.png) [@Mekhazzio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mekhazzio)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/166 "2011-03-25T01:46:05Z")
K-19. I thought it was a good film, but it’s not at all pleasant to watch engaging characters walk steadily off a cliff to a horrible demise, largely due to bad luck and the constraints of the political situation. ---
**Author:** ![BardicChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f9ae1b/32.png) [@BardicChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BardicChick)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2011, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/167 "2011-07-13T06:45:44Z")
I know the topic is kind of dead, but I was searching to remember ones I feel that way about and had to add to the list Patch Adams: I have been that level of depressed. I cried for like… two days after seeing it. Very well done, could never watch it again. Repo Men: I could watch 90% of this movie over and over, if I had never seen the last five minutes. The last five minutes ruined it and I can’t unsee those five minutes. AI: Artificial Intelligence: I tell people they have to see this movie, but it just broke my heart. Latter Days: I love this movie. And I will fully admit to cheating and watching the end of it over and over. I cannot handle Aaron’s tribunal or a lot of the other parts of the movie. ---
**Author:** ![doublehelix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@doublehelix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doublehelix)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2011, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/168 "2011-07-13T09:26:59Z")
Hand’s down _Pan’s Labyrinth_. Gorgeous, absolutely stunning movie. I shudder just thinking about watching it again ---
**Author:** ![boytyperanma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@boytyperanma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boytyperanma)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2011, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/169 "2011-07-13T11:23:31Z")
Certainly a few movies I’ll add to my list of things to watch, I tend to like movies in this category. Though re-watching them doesn’t do much for me. A movie I’ve yet to consider re-watching I thought was very good was[Pay it Forward](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0223897/) Why they couldn’t have just ended it 15 minutes earlier. ---
**Author:** ![Melysnl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@Melysnl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melysnl)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2011, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/170 "2011-07-13T15:03:42Z")
Hotel Rwanda Green Street Hooligans Requiem for a Dream Schindler’s List Each of these were too intense and emotional to ever watch again. ---
**Author:** ![Stowed\_Bob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stowed_bob/32/3312_2.png) [@Stowed\_Bob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stowed_Bob)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2011, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/171 "2011-07-13T16:07:08Z")
[The Idiots.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Idiots) The uncomfortable moments really make me squirm like nothing else. I know any scene where Stoffer uses his power to browbeat or humiliate his followers would have me bailing on the movie. Karen at the end is the worst, I cry because she finds such comfort in pretending to be mentally handicap, and her courage and trust in Stoffer’s direction just twists me up inside. I still love that movie to death, especially the joyous orgy. ---
**Author:** ![xkit0katx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/50afbb/32.png) [@xkit0katx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xkit0katx)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2011, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/172 "2011-07-13T17:42:26Z")
I don’t think I could watch _District 9_ again, though I loved it when I saw it. The bigotry combined with the pseodo-documentary style had me feeling very uncomfortable for reasons I can’t quite put words to. A second for _Fight Club_ and _Old Boys_ - I appreciate them from an aesthetic point of view, and I appreciate how they pull the mask off the nastier bits of humanity, but I don’t need to be told twice about it. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2011, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/173 "2011-07-13T17:50:11Z")
Its a Wonderful Life. Been there ,done that. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/174 "2011-07-14T00:46:06Z")
I’ll cast another vote for “Requiem for A Dream”. I’ve been a huge movie fan since I was a girl and have seen hundreds of movies and none, NONE has affected me the way that one did. I’ve heaped praise upon it and recommended it to many people but after they watch it I can barely bring myself to discuss it with them. I’m so utterly glad I saw it and yet I never want to see even a clip from it again. The only other movie I can think of that I will absolutley not watch again is “Heavenly Creatures”. It has a horrendous scene on a par with “American History X” that I simply cannot fathom living through again. Other than those two, there are a lot of fine movies that I don’t feel the _need_ to watch again and some others that may have an objectionable scene that I can’t watch again but will watch the rest of it but these two - no, not ever, uh-uh. ---
**Author:** ![GreedySmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a698b9/32.png) [@GreedySmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreedySmurf)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/175 "2011-07-14T06:46:03Z")
> [@MrSquishy](#): > > Mellish (Adam Goldberg)'s death scene is much more disturbing to me than the opening scene. Absolutely agree. The Omaha beach scene doens;t bother me overly much, but the scene with Mellish’s death still makes me squirm every single time. So much so, that I often find myself ‘just happening’ to go and make a cuppa or something just before it. I don’t know that there’s any good movie that I’d never watch again. Even what seems like the #1 choice in _Schindlers List_ I’ve watched several times. ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/176 "2011-07-14T13:05:36Z")
> [@OpalCat](#): > > _Sophie’s Choice_ for me. I sometimes joke sickly, that I watched this, and hadn’t laughed so much for ages… But still, I mean, its no Schindlers List, with innocents getting killed… This is a Nazi sympathiser getting dragged into the horror of the holocaust. The fact that she got to choose any child to live, wasn’t a choice the others had… With this, and the likes of The Boy With The Striped Pyjamas, I did sit and kind of not sympathise as much I though I should have… ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/177 "2011-07-14T13:14:14Z")
Don’t know if it’s been mentioned yet (didn’t slog through 4 pages), but _The Road_ was a depressingly bleak movie. Ye Gods, was it… ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/178 "2011-07-14T13:15:39Z")
Took me six months to watch: Irreversible I knew that it was horrible. I knew about five french speakers who walked out of the Cinema at one scene. Oldboy, Transpotting, Fight Club, all I watch again. I don’t: Leaving Las Vegas Schindlers List Lebanon (recent addition) Not a classic, but still memorable: Bad Boy Bubby ---
**Author:** ![ecoaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/85e7bf/32.png) [@ecoaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ecoaster)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/179 "2011-07-14T13:21:45Z")
\*\*\*Of Gods and Men \*\*\*is particularly devastating in its own way. Guaranteed tears if you have the patience to watch this gem slowly unfold. Not sure I could bear to watch again ---
**Author:** ![Not\_A\_Tame\_Lion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e36b37/32.png) [@Not\_A\_Tame\_Lion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Not_A_Tame_Lion)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/180 "2011-07-16T07:36:29Z")
_Three Kings_ is a another movie to add to this list. It flies under the radar, but it’s very good. But it’s a little too intense and gut-wrenching to watch again. Or maybe I just feel that because I watched it back in 2004, while the Iraq War was still at its height of insanity. But I don’t feel like going back to find out. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/181 "2011-07-16T12:09:20Z")
> [@Not\_A\_Tame\_Lion](#): > > _Three Kings_ is a another movie to add to this list. It flies under the radar, but it’s very good. But it’s a little too intense and gut-wrenching to watch again. Or maybe I just feel that because I watched it back in 2004, while the Iraq War was still at its height of insanity. But I don’t feel like going back to find out. It is pretty intense, and a surprisingly cynical look at the US military and Iraq considering it was made in 1999. Still hilarious and awesome though. ---
**Author:** ![jlzania](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/67e7ee/32.png) [@jlzania](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jlzania)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729/182 "2011-07-16T14:58:27Z")
> [@campp](#): > > I actually watched the entire 9 hours of the documentary [Shoa](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoah_%28film%29) > > It was so very interesting and heartbreaking and I’m quite done with the subject now. Agreed. Very painful to watch. Also, the \*Tin Drum \*which has the distinction of being the only movie that had me trying not to heave in the theatre. Twice. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-you-never-want-to-watch-again/567729.md?page=10)