Being new here and haven't came across this topic. If it has, please excuse me.


Testament ('83) - there's a couple of scenes that left me upset for quite awhile
Schindlers List ('93) - Subject matter
Boyhood ('14) - Length of film
La La Land ('16) - saw it as a tribute to '50s style musicals. Don't generally like musicals.

The Human Centipede
Edit: Ha, I very much misread the topic of this thread, but ah, well. Can’t honestly say I love the above abomination...

Major Sidney Freedman would like to talk to you...:)

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The movie Se7en was one of the most irritating and perfect movies ever created.
In one word, it destroyed me at the end!

Schindler's List is a very tough watch, but it's a great movie.

I still haven't seen La La Land, but I love the old musicals, so I'm pretty sure that it will be a new favorite movie for me when I eventually get around to seeing it.

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Never is a long time, but I've put off revisiting Come and See after it knocked me on my ass during my first viewing a few years ago. One of the most intense and upsetting films I've ever seen. Now that it's been put out on Blu-ray by Criterion, it might be time to get knocked on my ass again.

I loved Hachi: A Dog's Tale (2009), but it had me in tears more than any other movie I can remember, so I'll probably never watch it again. :bawling:

Just thought of another, "Requiem for a Dream". I was a little under the influence at the time, it hit home...

Lol, as far as movies are concerned this is a contradiction for me, if i really love a movie i'll definitely wait 6 months or so and watch it again...

however, i really did love the sopranos series, yet i may not watch it again because its so long and complicated. A very rich tapestry indeed, maybe a little too rich for me...

"United 93" is another one I don't plan on revisiting anytime soon.

Thats defo mine. 10/10 film, but I really dont think I could watch it again!

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Requiem for a Dream is close, but probably the only one that I "loved" (as in thought it was great), but would never watch again, was The Road. I just don't want to go there again, especially since the scenario seems completely believable to me. If the Flash does happen, I want to be at ground zero.

I heard it was one of the most disturbing movies of all time so I was really scared to watch it since I was afraid of toy story 2 until my 14 birthday but I didn't felt anything and I could rewatch it anytime. I do believe though that if you had encounter someone in the past who fought addictions or were yourself under the influence it may very well hit differently. But despite anything I can agree, like everyone else, that it is a great movie.

I'm pretty sure this is not the first thread on the subject, but there are handful of films that aIthough they were superb, there is no way I could ever sit trough them again:


The Killing Fields

The Passion of the Christ

Cast Away

What Lies Beneath

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Movies like Come and See and Requiem for a Dream are certainly intense and upsetting, but I think they're really strong films which I could see myself revisiting every now and then. Come and See is one of my favorites, in particular, so I wouldn't say that I'll never watch those two films again.

Classic movies which contain actual scenes of animals being killed (Andrei Rublev, The Rules of the Game, Mouchette, and Wake in Fright) can make me hesitant to watch them again, but I usually just skip those scenes or look away from the screen when they happen. On the other hand, a movie like Cannibal Holocaust which has several scenes of animals being killed (some of which are fairly prolonged) is a different story, but I didn't love that film. I thought it was average, so it doesn't apply to this topic for me. I feel the same for films with racist scenes, like Swing Time as I just skip the blackface scene in it.

The only film I can think of which I loved, but may never watch again is Night and Fog. I love the film quite a lot, but it's definitely a hard watch as it features dead bodies fairly consistently throughout it. Never is a long time, but it's definitely going to be a really long time before I watch it again, provided I even do so.

Yeah, add these two to my list also.

Im sorry I'm trying to do the spoiler thing my bad

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I know that mel gibson does hardcore violence movies but if cannibal haulocaust has already been cited I think it became a completly other ball game

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I just figured it out. Personnaly the most scary movies I have ever seen is Truman show when I was like 10 and it made me paranoid and every once in a while when I get out of the shower I'll duck under the mirror just in case.
It made me a complete freak and even though it is a fine movie I will never watch it again

No, I'm referring to this one:

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0048434/?ref_=fn_al_tt_0

Great film, but very hard to watch.

Ha okay I look dumb now :D

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We've all done that.

It's cool, no worries.

Done what?

Think that somebody is referring to something different than what they're actually referring to. It happens to me as well, so don't feel dumb. It's all good.

Looked dumb on here. :cool:

ahahhaha I though you were talking about ducking to avoid the mirror :D

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I've often used a mirror to avoid ducks if that makes you feel any better.

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Dear Zachary
Lilyah-4-Ever
Blue Valentine
Germany Year Zero

Probably loads of others I can't think of right now

Often the movie I think of when this topic comes up.

It's a deeply empathetic film and it completely changed the way that I regarded the portrayal of sexual violence in film. (ie ). I love it and respect it, but I'm not sure I could watch it again.

When the actress who played Lilya popped up in The Bourne Supremacy it brought up a wave of very strong feelings.

Amazing to think that the actress and director had to coordinate through a translator!

Didn't know that. Makes it even more impressive.

That would be my choice as well. Great film (and book), but I have no desire to watch it again.

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Ikiru, a great film. But the films theme is something I do not want to visit again.

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I’ve liked everyones post that that mentioned requiem for a dream, in my top 5 of all time favourite movies of all time. I have re-watched many times however, Ellen Burstyn is just too great to never see her performance again.

I’d probably go with deer hunter, there’s something sinister hidden in this movie I’m sure there is. Brokeback mountain, magnificent but one I doubt I’ll ever view again.

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Schindlers List (1993)
Amazingly made, shot all on location, Steven Spielberg’s masterpiece. Just a hard film to watch at times, especially the scene where the Nazis evacuate the ghetto.

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Off the top of my head -

The Green Mile
The Hurricane
Schindler's List

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Driving Miss Daisy. I saw it in the theater with my parents. We loved it until they got to two specific scenes which all too closely mirrored scenes we'd just lived through with my recently deceased grandmother. My mother and I grabbed each other's hand as we would a lifeline, and quietly sobbed through the rest of the movie. I've never been able to watch it again.

Also, Bambi and Silent Running.

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Requiem for a dream i cant watch but i dont remember loving it and then the end scene with the music ill never watch that again, good job on Darren Aronofsky not many movies can do that.


Edmond (2005) with William H Macy i thought was a fantastic nihilistic movie but i will probably never watch again because ive seen it 3 times and every time i ended up with weird feelings afterwards its very odd. So i dont think i want to watch it again.

My DVD version of Cannibal Holocaust has a "watch with the scenes of animal killings edited out" option. If I watch that version can I have really watched Cannibal Holocaust again? I don't know.

I'm glad there isn't a "watch the scenes of animal killings with Cannibal Holocaust edited out". That would be messed up.

I can't watch Schindler's List either mainly because it's an "American Dreamer's Dream" of what the holocaust was, rather than what it actually is. The holocaust is literally so depressing that the idea that it was somehow about one man taking a stand and making a difference seems no only very short sighted, but flat out wrong. Have you been to Auschwitz? It's not where you'd think it would be. Its located smack dab right in the town of Oswiecim. It's surrounded by residential and commercial property... everyone in that town had to have had "some" idea what was going on in there yet no one "would" or perhaps I should say "could" stand up about it. I think a better depiction of the holocaust is rather the European document(s): Shoah and Night and Fog. That's more accurate but even then it doesn't even begin to accurately portray that time in history and leave it to the director of such films like E.T. to bring you his "Mickey Mouse-McDonald's-sized" version for the American palate. After all, Americans sure do love their "happy endings."

Yeah, good call on Edmund.

Glad someone else has seen it !!

I understand this one...I have actually thought about a re-watch, and if I do, that will definitely be the last time.

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Nobody Ordered Love (1972). I'll never watch it again, because it no longer exists. It's on the BFI's 75 most wanted list. My uncle had a print that fell into my hands after he went to prison. I needed cash and didn't really know what I had. I took it to a pawn shop in '98, but they didn't offer me much for it. They didn't know what I had either. Pissed me off. I got drunk and burned it in the desert (bad stretch of my life) and worked on becoming a body builder before turning pro-wrestler in '99. None of this is true, but don't let this man distract you from the fact that in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table. Signed, John Cena.

I will never, ever understood this criticism about List; I mean, for one thing, what Schindler did was obviously a true, amazing story, so why shouldn't it be told in cinematic form? For another thing, the film never flinches in its portrayal of the Holocaust and its immense number of victims; I mean, there's literally a scene in it where some of Schindler's people are at Auschwitz, and they see a line of people being led into a nearby building with an omnious pillar of smoke arising out of it, so I have no idea how much more Spielberg could've driven home the point that most European Jews weren't so fortunate. Because, without Schindler, then the entire film would've basically been nothing but three hours of this: https://youtu.be/x_od2YfftD4

I guess I'm more apt to believe the Come and See-type version of the holocaust than the Schindler's List-type, (as far as "fictional" representations). Different strokes.