# What's the hardest movie for you to watch? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 4, 2006, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-hardest-movie-for-you-to-watch/375198 "2006-10-04T03:25:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![malkavia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malkavia/32/5621_2.png) [@malkavia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malkavia)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-hardest-movie-for-you-to-watch/375198/41 "2006-10-04T18:02:38Z")
[QUOTE=Eonwe] **American History X** is perhaps the best movie I will never watch again. [/QUOTE] Good catch. This was another movie that left me in a daze for nearly a week after watching it. I couldn’t decide if my overriding emotion was anger or heart-wrenching sadness and disappointment in the human race. Amazing movie, but you’re right.. never again. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-hardest-movie-for-you-to-watch/375198/42 "2006-10-04T18:17:02Z")
**Hotel Rwanda** might be the great movie I’m least likely to watch ever again. I felt sick with rage for most of the movie, and I didn’t know I could feel like that. It was hard to breathe at times. ---
**Author:** ![PoorYorick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@PoorYorick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoorYorick)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-hardest-movie-for-you-to-watch/375198/43 "2006-10-04T18:35:22Z")
It’s really surprising to see how many people can’t watch _Schindler’s List_. I thought Schindler’s redemption made the movie ultimately uplifting. _Shoah_, on the other hand, was eight hours of relentless evidence of how utterly inhuman humans can be to one another. I’m glad I saw it, but I’ll never watch it again. For some reason, I can’t stand to watch movies or read books that revolve around someone being accused of something they didn’t do, and _no one believes them._ I have no idea why that’s a bete noir for me, but I’ll turn off a TV show if I see it’s heading there. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-hardest-movie-for-you-to-watch/375198/44 "2006-10-04T18:54:52Z")
Even though I own it, I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to watch _El Postino_ again. I was so heart broken when I found out that Massimo Troisi died (basically making the movie) that I just don’t know if I can sit through it. I would need a **HUGE** box of tissues. For I while I couldn’t even take Pablo Neruda’s poetry, but that, thankfully has gone away. ---
**Author:** ![Slypork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc29f/32.png) [@Slypork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slypork)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-hardest-movie-for-you-to-watch/375198/45 "2006-10-04T18:57:43Z")
As crappy as AI was, the desperation of the robot was horrible. Ordinary People hit too close to home except my dad was like MTM’s character: cold, stand-offish, playing favorites. Any movie or TV show that has miscarriages is hard to watch because we have had so many losses. The episode of ER when Dr. Carter and his girlfriend lost their baby was especially difficult because of the anguish on his face. ---
**Author:** ![naotalbah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@naotalbah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naotalbah)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-hardest-movie-for-you-to-watch/375198/46 "2006-10-04T19:16:11Z")
_What’s Eating Gilbert Grape_ My whole family walked out of that movie feeling horribly embarassed, like the theater was watching us instead of the movie. (My mother, of course, did not go out to the theater - she stayed at home, on the couch). And it is a wonderful movie. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_chao_goes_mu/32/3191_2.png) [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-hardest-movie-for-you-to-watch/375198/47 "2006-10-04T19:21:28Z")
[QUOTE=PoorYorick] It’s really surprising to see how many people can’t watch _Schindler’s List_. I thought Schindler’s redemption made the movie ultimately uplifting. _Shoah_, on the other hand, was eight hours of relentless evidence of how utterly inhuman humans can be to one another. I’m glad I saw it, but I’ll never watch it again. For some reason, I can’t stand to watch movies or read books that revolve around someone being accused of something they didn’t do, and _no one believes them._ I have no idea why that’s a bete noir for me, but I’ll turn off a TV show if I see it’s heading there. [/QUOTE] One scene that did me in, was when the some people were sent to a camp and pushed into the showers. They knew the stories, of what happened in them. They started screaming. Then the water came on. They were actually showers. They cried with relief. I can’t explain to you why but that scene makes me cry just thinking about it. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-hardest-movie-for-you-to-watch/375198/48 "2006-10-04T21:43:26Z")
_Road To Perdition_ is one of the saddest recent movies I’ve ever seen. I must be a glutton for punishment though; I’ve seen it like four times. It’s certainly not my life story or anything but the idea of finding out your dad is a gangster \*and \* everything you know is wrong \*and \* your mom, brother and house are gone \*and \* the people you grew up with now want to kill you is terrible, just terrible. Then your dad dies in the end just when you think you’re safe but you get adopted and he’s left you with money (even though it’s gangster money) and the bad guys won’t be able to find you, so I guess it’s kind of okay. But not really. ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-hardest-movie-for-you-to-watch/375198/49 "2006-10-04T21:48:13Z")
I can neither read nor watch “Bastard Out of Carolina” again. The theme of the spineless selfish mother marrying a worthless piece of shit who abuses her daughters, and then _abandoning_ one of her kids in favor of this loser, makes me want to shoot things. I can’t watch “The Professional”, either. That scene where the little boy is hiding under the bed from the bad people, and one of them starts slicing through the bed with a long knife, looking for drugs; I have to leave the room. ---
**Author:** ![HubZilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ccd318/32.png) [@HubZilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HubZilla)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-hardest-movie-for-you-to-watch/375198/50 "2006-10-04T23:54:50Z")
Passion of the Christ, and I say this as an atheist. I posted this at SDMB after the movie came out. Made me so emotional, I had to do post my thoughts right as soon as I got home from the theater: > [@](#): > > I just saw the movie and I have to come clean. This movie stirred much stronger emotions in me than I though possible. I can honestly say I feel sorry for Jesus. > > BUT… not in the way you’d expect. I feel anger at this God for putting that poor guy through that. The scourging, the beatings, the whipping, the nailing, and the scourging (I have to mention it twice). It was horrible. Of course I remember the Christian doctrine: it was a sacrifice for us, and it was actually our sins that put them there. To which I strongly disagree with. > > We are talking about the omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent Lord of all creation here. In all his infinite power and wisdom, WHY did he decide the ONLY way to solve the sin issue was to torture and slaughter Jesus in front of his own mother? > > “Making God Almighty act like a passionate man, that killed his son when he could not revenge himself in any other way. The idea I had that God was too good to do such an action, and also too almighty to be under any necessity of doing it” - Thomas Paine > > It would be like my dad telling me these guys are going to kill your brothers unless I give them $10 and let them torture you. I’d be like, no Dad, you have more. Give them a $1000 and we can negotiate the beating. > > As an atheist, I see it all as just a story, and, if anything, I am more relieved. I figured I’d walk away feeling “Oh well, as God, Jesus knew he had it coming, it would only last a few hours, he would be back up in no time, etc”. But I’m quite shocked at how I reacted emotionally. Even if I were to one day believe again in a higher power, Yahweh would be the last one my list. > > “Considering the picture that is drawn for us of the Supreme Being, the most righteous soul must be tempted to wish that he did not exist.” - Denis Diderot ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-hardest-movie-for-you-to-watch/375198/51 "2006-10-04T23:59:05Z")
[QUOTE=Kalhoun] Oooh…I forgot about _Sophie’s Choice_. I sobbed after I saw it. _Unspeakably_ sad. [/QUOTE] I read the book. There is no way in hell I will watch the movie. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-hardest-movie-for-you-to-watch/375198/52 "2006-10-05T04:24:49Z")
Oleanna, by David Mamet, with Bill Macy, shudder, I was jacked up for days after that ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-hardest-movie-for-you-to-watch/375198/53 "2006-10-05T04:30:53Z")
The Deer Hunter - Russian roulette scene between DeNiro and Walken ---
**Author:** ![Hrududu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Hrududu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hrududu)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-hardest-movie-for-you-to-watch/375198/54 "2006-10-05T08:58:18Z")
For me it will always be Irreversible. No film has ever disturbed me as much. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-hardest-movie-for-you-to-watch/375198/55 "2006-10-05T18:00:10Z")
Hm. A couple of people have cited **Irreversible**. I haven’t seen it, but [this blog](http://blogs.ign.com/Horror_Brain/2006/06/29/23243/) put it at #10 on a top ten “sickest movies” list. Now I shall have to see it, and #9 as well. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2006, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-hardest-movie-for-you-to-watch/375198/56 "2006-10-14T05:18:35Z")
Less than Zero Blue Velvet ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2006, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-hardest-movie-for-you-to-watch/375198/57 "2006-10-14T05:20:44Z")
And Electra Glide in Blue all with tough endings Silence of the Lambs i ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2006, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-hardest-movie-for-you-to-watch/375198/58 "2006-10-14T12:32:34Z")
**The Elephant Man** was so gut wrenching that I’ll never see it again. (I saw it in high school.) I hate seeing people being cruel to each other. And to know that it was based on a real person made it worse. He was loathed and feared and ridiculed for a disease he had no control over, and yet he had a perfectly working brain and real feelings. ---
**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:** [October 14, 2006, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-hardest-movie-for-you-to-watch/375198/59 "2006-10-14T12:59:46Z")
[QUOTE=kelly5078] “Schindler’s List.” Superb movie, but I could only take it once. My wife, whose parents were both in the camps, was in tears all the way through it. [/QUOTE] Won’t see it, for just that reason, except it was my folks. Sophie’s Choice- I saw some of it as a kid on TV and it has haunted me ever since. I look at my own kids and think of my parents’ experiences and feel a panicy “what would I do” kind of feeling. That feeling still hits me late at night while falling asleep. ---
**Author:** ![Septima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@Septima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Septima)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2006, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-hardest-movie-for-you-to-watch/375198/60 "2006-10-14T13:25:04Z")
"[Savior](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120070/) " is the only movie to ever make me cry, out and out cry, for a long time after it ended. Don’t know if it will have the same impact a second time. Don’t know if I will watch it again. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-hardest-movie-for-you-to-watch/375198.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-hardest-movie-for-you-to-watch/375198.md?page=4)