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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 read the book. There is no way in hell I will watch the movie.
Oleanna, by David Mamet, with Bill Macy, shudder, I was jacked up for days after that
The Deer Hunter - Russian roulette scene between DeNiro and Walken
For me it will always be Irreversible. No film has ever disturbed me as much.
Hm. A couple of people have cited Irreversible. I haven’t seen it, but this blog put it at #10 on a top ten “sickest movies” list. Now I shall have to see it, and #9 as well.
Less than Zero
Blue Velvet
And Electra Glide in Blue all with tough endings
Silence of the Lambs i
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.
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.
"Savior " 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.