Good Movies I Don't Want to See Again
 

Mystic River
American Me
Sleepers

american history x

the passion..once was enough

any reason why you don't want to see a movie again you thought was good?

Passion of the Christ is a movie i'd only see around the easter/christmas time just to reflect on my faith. that movie is too hardcore for me when i saw it in the theaters.

If I ever have to watch The Patriot again I might just shoot myself. Although I thought The Patriot was good, if you had watched it and nothing else for a whole week, you wouldn't want to either. (that's an exxageration, it wasn't the only thing I did, but it was the only form of entertainment I saw for a week)

Schindler's List


I don't like to rewatch super-sad movies. THey might be wonderful, but meh. Once is enough.

Elephant, while amazingly impressive from almost all cinematic angles, made me have no hope for humanity. As soon as I got done watching it I had to be around people.

I Stand Alone - There's a scene were the main character beats his pregnant wife and kills the baby. I think me molests his retarded daughter too. Wierd stuff. Wierd movie. Wierd style, one I like though. It's in French too, scary stuff. I'd recommend it.

Ditto :D

uh, you mean French is scary??????????? :confused: :laugh:

I have no intentons of watching the following again, although I see them as good films:

Gerry - Slow, but brilliantly done.
Elephant - pretty much ditto.

Orange County........actually I just never wanna see that movie again.

the 4 hour version of once upon a time in america. It was a great movie, but i could never sit through it again.

You should try sitting through the upcoming extended edition of LOTR: ROTK, i've heard it clocks in at just under 5 hours.

As for good movies I don't want to see again, I'd have to say Elephant, for the same reasons as OG.

and it's just a bad movie. Watch The Last Temptation of Christ instead.

Elephant (Gus Van Sant, 2003)
The Passion Of The Christ (Mel Gibson, 2004)

godfather to damn long

Excuse me, mam. You thought Passion of the Christ was "just a bad movie?" Freddy Got Fingered is "just a bad movie." The Batman with Arnold is "just a bad movie." The Last Temptation of Christ is a bomb movie fo' sho', but if the person's trying to watch something to reflect on their faith, how is that movie going to help that? Passion of the Christ is a dope'a'thon movie. Temptation is a bomb movie. Passion is obviously better when trying to watch something to remind yourself of the sacrafice God and Jesus made. Temptation doesn't do that.

Only if you believe in God etc :p

I finally understand why some people are Buddhists, I mean just look at this guy!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...rls-62229a.jpg

looks more like Taoistic to me,
yr Buddhistic frog...

I wouldn't see Life is Beautiful (1997) again, despite it being one of my all time favourite movies. The first time i saw it I was really caught up in the movie and it moved me like no other movie had before.

In retrospect I've got a perfect vision of what the movie meant to me at the time and to watch it again I'm almost scared my second viewing will somehow taint my first impression of it. It seems silly though, being so sentimental, because it's such a wonderful film.

Same here. In fact, there are super sad movies I've heard just enough about that I can't even bring myself to watch yet...like Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan. I keep telling myself I need to see those one day.



I don't want to see again...

The Pianist (2002)
Sophie's Choice (1982) ~The 'choice' was just too heartwrenching for me to watch.
The Cooler (2003) It was well done and acted, just not my taste.

Old Yeller...seriously.....:bawling:

Any film with a terminally ill person as the focus of the film. Can't do it :nope:

Hero~ it was a great movie and I'm glad I saw it, just never again. (psst...too slow)
Requiem for a Dream
Boys Don't Cry
Sophie's Choice
Natural Born Killers
American History X
Boys in the Hood
Fight Club
Raging Bull
The Joy Luck Club

Mystic river was good, i dont particularly want to see it again. :)

maybe... Tarkovsky's Solaris.

i agree watching people suffer for two hours isnt my cup of tea.

Homeward Bound, i cant do it, i just cant do it
Hitch, not interesting enough for me
Analyze this, meh

Shawshank Redemption, too depressing

Very interesting topic. The idea of a movie so good that I don't want to see again I find peculiar.

The only movie I can come up with right now that would fit under these circumstances would be "Final Countdown". I'm a sucker for military movies, especially aircraft carrier ones, and while this one was good to me, I don't think I'd like to see it again. Probably for fear of not liking it. I tend to focus on a movie's weak points the times I see them again.

Just saw Vera Drake. Very good movie. Excellent performance by Imelda Staunton. I don't want to see it again.

The piansist made me cry. its true tho there are sad movies out there that you can only watch once, when you watch them a second time they lose a lot of their impact! scary movies also lose their impast during a second viewing. one movie that springs to mind is the japanese version of the ring it was scary the first time but the second time it was like *yawn*.

The Way of the Gun Good movie, I loved it, but too much Del Torro goes a loooong way.

He's got creepy eyes.

Sleepers (1996)

The first time I saw The Matrix I thought it was cinematic entertainment at its best. But for every time I watch it it becomes more and more uninteresting. It is a milestone because of the innovative action FX and coreography. But one or two times is enough. The sequel was a sleeping pill to me and the third one I yet haven't bothered to watch.

save yourself the time and dont bother

I almost listed Schindler's List or The Passion… but then thought about it a minute and realized I probably will watch those again one day… but Old Yeller… :nope:

Saw
The Passion of the Christ

The Passion of the Christ was good but I have no idea who would want to buy it.

For the same reasons as most of you have said (too long, depressing, involved, etc) I would never see
Mystic River
Beutiful Mind
Schindlers List

Queer. I though the message of the film was hope. That inspite of the injustices that people suffer, there is always redemption. For the all the Andys and Reds in us.

Anyway, I watched Graveyard of the Fireflies (Japanese animation). Good. Too good in evoking sadness that I wouldn't mind not seeing it again.

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I reckon gorilla's in the mist is a movie i wouldn't like to see again. Too depressing, though i love the work of Dian Fossey

Breaking the Waves, Dogville, Dancer in the Dark... Von Trier


But i probably will... ;)

ive never seen passion so i cant comment on that. the good movie i seen but have no desire to watch ever again is american beauty.

Watching Spaceballs after not seeing it for many years KILLED the experience for me

Catch me if you can
Enduring Love

Gonna go with Mystic River, Adaptation and Castaway. I can't watch these movies again, no matter what the occassion, they will never appeal to me the same way after the first viewing.

The Return
Dancer In The Dark

Salo...anyone who has seen it knows why.

House of 1000 Corpses & House of the Dead.

Edit: Sorry, I missed the "Good Movies" part. The two I listed above weren't good at all.

ok because i was about to have a rant

I liked Apocalypse now but i dont think i want to see it again, its too drawn out.

A Beautiful Mind, great movie, but some movies are just so long that your butt starts to hurt sitting in one position for so long.

I think I could probably survive and live just as happily never seeing Salo: 120 Days of Sodom again.
Once was probably sufficient with no impetus but my own entertainment.

The only time this happened to me was a 29 hour guard duty binge where they forgot I was out there......never leave your post surley hurts the rumpus sometimes.

saving private ryan(personal reasons)

rocky 1-5

van wilder

I still feel that I have a degree of innocence, so while I like the Goodfellas I believe that I shouldn't commit myself to seeing it more than the once time viewed or maybe once every few years.

A good poitn was made about Grave of the Fireflies. You only need to watch it once to get the lasting effects of the magnificent work of art.

Passion of the Christ

City of God. It's a masterpiece, but not a watch and rewatch kind of film.

Amores Perros (2000)

The first time it was spectacular.

The second time it was kind of a let-down, but it still warrants multiple viewings in my opinion on its sheer coolness.

Pianist and Schindler's list
 

:D they are just too sad to be watched again!

Dancer Dark
 

:( the story is so sad that i can never peruade myself to watch it again to experience such a painful feeling.

Are You Serious?
 

:mad: Man i dont mean to be rude, but Godfather? Comeon thats just silly, one of the greats... I mean to each his own, but thats an oppinion i havent heard b4...

i'd watch american history x again but i wouldnt watch minority report

Million Dollar Baby- I dont know why it was a good movie I liked it and all but I would rather just leave it at that and not see it again, I dont even want to own the dvd

I liked these, but in general, I really dont care to revisit depressing flicks:

Pay it Forward
Million Dollar Baby
Mystic River

:)

Requiem for a Dream (2000)

Powder.

I love that movie, it was super sad... and I never wanna see it again.

Pi, because Requiem For A Dream was so disappointing that I'm afraid Pi won't seem as great as it first did if I ever watch it again.

Nil By Mouth; it was hard enough to watch it the first time.

The green mile.


Brilliant, but a wee but to long.

Definitly Million Doller Baby.

Also Rosemary's Baby great film but too messed up and actually quit boring at sometimes but defenitly must see at leats once for any horror fan

Schindler's List, American History X, awesome movies, but I don't see myself being able to watch them again ..

:yup:

I'm watching Open Your Eyes for a second time and wish i wasn't.

Saw Breaking the Waves (1996) for the first time the other day. Very good movie. Probably will not see it again.

Gone with the Wind...too frickin' long.

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

I am. Good movie, I don't want to see it again.

Requiem for a Dream, way too disturbing!

Schindler's List and The Pianist... two of my favorite films... I've seen each of them once and only once. The images were pretty much burned on my memory.

I think a movie that one thinks is good and does not want to see it again has got to be a wonderful movie. Watch it again and again and again, it will be even better.

the lake house, i think seeing it again will take away the magic

honor society
 

lots of people wouldn't want to see several of these honor society films more than once. oh, you're not familiar with the honor society clique? here's more information: http://strangereadings.blogspot.com/

Lord of the Rings

Seen the extended editions once and that's enough for me. Great films though.

That sounds about right.

Elephant that film had a punch, doesn't seem worth watching again, was pretty disturbing.

The Cynic'ss "Sin City" avatar on Pg 3 of this thread reminded me of what disturbing movie that was.

good but never again
 

Derailed

life is beautiful - it is too sad to watch the beginning again if i already know the ending.

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Old boy - good movie but...

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Babel- Good movie, but depressing.

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The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy. Although it was done amazingly it was very long and you know how it is going to end with Frodo getting rid of the ring and destroying Samumans army. Once was enough for the LOTR trilogy.

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I've seen that several times! I can't help it, it's so astonishingly perverse, I just have to see it again to see if that really did just happen.

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I would definitely go with Passion Of The Christ.