What makes a movie Great to watch, but only once?
 

Am I alone is this? It's a weird classification to wonder about.

There a few movies in this category for me, and I've often wondered why and/or how they exist.

By "Great" I mean one that you recognized as great while watching, or I suppose even merely "a great watch".

....but still would rather not see again for some reason.

For me, the list would include things like:

• Sophie's Choice
• Glengarry Glenn-Ross (for the beginning and ending only)
• Field of Dreams

...(many others)

The thing I find weird about this is that it seems that the two metrics ("really like"-ness and "would see again"-ness) should be the same thing.

Still not 100% sure what this is. Perhaps something akin to "it takes emotional effort to watch", but that doesn't completely cover it for me.

Re: What makes a movie Great to watch, but only once?
 

For some reason, I think we already have a thread like this.

There is a thread like this already

That’s what I thought. If we were nice, we would post a link for him.

I'll see if I can find it...I just posted on it a couple of weeks ago.

Here it is:


https://www.movieforums.com/communit...ad.php?t=60496