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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
***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
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.
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.