Who didn’t cry at the end of “The Dirty Dozen”?
Jim Brown was throwing these hand grenades down these airshafts. And Richard Jaeckel and Lee Marvin were sitting on top of this armored personnel carrier, dressed up like Nazis, and Trini Lopez busted his neck while they were parachuting down behind the Nazi lines, and Richard Jaeckel - at the beginning he had on this shiny helmet…
Please no more. Oh God! I loved that movie!
For everyone that has trouble watching Holocaust movies (Schindler’s List, The Pianist, Sophie’s Choice, et. al.), I strongly suggest you don’t go anywhere near The Grey Zone. This was one of the most, if not the most, emotionally disturbing films I have ever seen.
The first time I saw Chasing Amy, I was going through a prolonged and painful break-up with someone who, among other things, decided that she was bisexual and wanted to go try that for a while. I’m sure that had I never seen the movie until years later, I’d be able to watch it with no problem but now its theme is forever linked with that period in my life and I have no desire to revisit it.
It’s hard for me to watch movies about Iraq. I feel guilty that I didn’t go.
I knew what was in the spoiler box without checking. Though I was a little older than Teddy that’s basically a scene of me speaking to my mother for the last time as she was dying from ovarian cancer. But I love the movie because it builds to the final scene at the reception, and people are redeemed.
For the same reason you can ditto Brian’s Song.
“The Longest Day” where American paratroops are helplessly landing in the square of “St Mere Eglise” ,unable to steer away from the Germans shooting up at them ,all the more harrowing as it was a genuine historical incident and something that gives all current or ex paratroopers of any nation nightmares ,it honestly gives me a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach just watching it! The other one is from the 60s version (not!Errol Flynns version )of the" Charge of the Light Brigade" when the L.B s commander gives the order to advance at the start of ride down the valley and mutters to himself"Ah Well here goes the last of the Brudenells"(His family name ).It `s made chilling by the lack of heroic speeches or cheers to or by the men ,the slow pace at which it begins (Which is authentic ,most cavalry charges in history started at the “walk” and only galloped the last 30 yards to save winding the horses ) and the sheer ,almost “matter of fact” way in which the order is carried out with only the sound of the harnesses jingling breaking the silence .Both the men and officers as proffessional soldiers would have known that the assault would mean many, if not most of them would be slaughtered in the immediate future but still they kept a disciplined mien . I dont know if knowing that historically it all happened very much like the movie portrayal,or knowing that the brigade was decimated in real life gives it a greater impact then if it had of been a fictitous event !
On Golden Pond – It was nine years before my dad died, but his health was declining, and I saw so much of him in Norman Thayer. And there’s all the rest of it – the cottage, the lake, the loons, autumn. I can’t even hear the soundtrack without weeping.
I cannot watch the D-Day beach invasion scene from Saving Private Ryan. I felt shell shocked after seeing it in the theater.
*Rent * was hard. And I love the stage play and the music. I cried almost all the way through it.
*Imitation of Life *, *It’s My Party *, and *Natural Born Killers * (from the partner Slip).
I can’t bring myself to watch Kids all the way through.
Also Welcome to the Dollhouse; it hits too close to home.
I only watched the first few minutes of Carrie; I was in 6th grade and this did not help my dread of 7th grade P.E. and the locker room. Fortunately my experiences were nowhere near as bad as Carrie’s.
I can’t stand to see movies in which there is spousal or child abuse, or an overly controlling/domineering parent. That’s why I’ve never seen Bastard out of Carolina or This Boy’s Life, nor do I plan to.
Heavenly Creatures. I’ve actually seen it twice, the viewings about a decade apart . . . thought the second and much later viewing would dull the impact: it didn’t at all.
Other “great films, but can’t bear to watch again”:* American Beauty, Angela’s Ashes,* and Mysterious Skin. The actor who played the little red-haired kid in *Mysterious * looks so much like my brother did when he was that age that it nearly broke my heart to watch what happened to the film’s character.
Wow. Great thread.
I don’t watch Holocaust movies. Bad things happened to my father, and his family. Things that changed who he was for the last 67 years of his life. Never saw Schindler’s List, Life Is Beautiful, etc. That’s ok. I hear they’re great.
Hardest movie to watch? I almost threw up watching ** Eraserhead** in college. Aside from that, Sophie’s Choice was devastasting to me. ( I didn’t know what it was about when I took my girlfriend to see it… or would have shied away. )
Watching American Beauty was shocking beacuse of the absolute honesty in the words spoken. I left that movie theatre numb with shock over how it ended, and how the words and lives unfolded.
Cartooniverse
Veronica Guerin. I like a good “based on true story” movie, but this one was disturbing on so many levels. The sheer terror she emoted when her son was threatened in such a vile way by John Gilligan…then there’s her final scene. What a fantastic movie, but once was enough for me.
House of Sand and Fog was so sad and drawn out, but I felt such an empty pity for the wife/mother in the end that I can’t stand to watch it again. I even told my husband that he’s welcome to rent it and watch it, but I’ll be in the other room watching Spongebob Squarepants.
Lots of movies will make me cry, but Hotel Rwanda and Grave of the Fireflies were both crushingly difficult to watch. I suppose it was because the reality of human cruelty hit me very hard.
I just cannot watch this movie-it drags and drags and… drags some moooooorrreeee.
Whatever its technical merits, it is a movie that i just can’t watch. Oh, and let me add “HEAVEN’S GATE” 9the pre-cut version. How Michael cimino got away with making this turkey ought to be the subject for its won movie! 
Another vote for Hard Candy, just watched it last night and I felt drained after it ended. Disturbing and depressing but very well acted.
In cold blood dont like to believe such people walk the streets
any Adam Sandler movie is unwatchable
Yentl is on the list
Manhunter the original william Peterson ,hannibal lecter movie
Silence of the lambs takes the right mood
Dare mo Shiranai (Nobody Knows) makes me terribly sad, so that although I really liked it I always pass it over when renting dvds. The ending isn’t that surprising but I don’t want to ruin it. It’s even sadder because the mother wasn’t intentionally cruel, just kind of stupid/self centered.
The Prince of Tides
I had to leave.