Best Films You're Not Willing to Watch Ever Again

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Like, what films have you found so well-made and powerful in a way that left you utterly disturbed or depressed that, although you fully appreciate it as a work of art, you aren't willing to subject yourself to it again ever?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 12 December 2002 15:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Mine is Dancer in the Dark. I'll admit it, I was in tears. Not just a little drip either, but full-fledged weeping.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 12 December 2002 15:18 (twenty-three years ago)

it's the vanishing for me, yo.

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 12 December 2002 15:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Similar to Dancer In The Dark is Lilya 4 Ever, the new Lukas Moodysson film - great, but very very emotionally draining.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Thursday, 12 December 2002 15:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. I don't like even THINKING about the home invasion scene.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 12 December 2002 15:25 (twenty-three years ago)

I was going to ask a very similar question to this about music. Are there albums that you think are really really good, but you never listen to.

ie What would be the difference between your top ten favourite songs, your top ten played songs and what you think are the ten best albums.
Actually I might just ask that.

And yes, Man Bites DOg doesn't really bear repeating, plus most of the ones said above. Schindler's List is an obv shoe-in too.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 12 December 2002 15:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Dancer in the Dark and Magnolia

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Thursday, 12 December 2002 16:01 (twenty-three years ago)

i could happily watch most of the above more than once. it's those clever, densely-plotted, twist-ending movies that are satisfying on a first watch but you'd pick apart on a second viewing that i avoid seeing again ("Memento" might be one of these)

― zebedee, Thursday, 12 December 2002 16:07 (twenty-three years ago)

My Life As A Dog. Never, ever.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 12 December 2002 16:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Requiem For a Dream, most likely. (Pedant reason - because those damn quick-cut drug scenes are overabused.)

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 12 December 2002 16:14 (twenty-three years ago)

the texas chainsaw massacre

― michael wells (michael w.), Thursday, 12 December 2002 16:24 (twenty-three years ago)

the brave little toaster.

MAN was that depressing. you're WORTHLESS!!!

― kate, Thursday, 12 December 2002 16:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh yeah...

HAPPINESS

God my soul will never feel clean again.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 12 December 2002 16:29 (twenty-three years ago)

oooo! i never seen the first brave little toaster, only the second one where they go to mars. it's awesome. what's wrong with the first one?

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 12 December 2002 16:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Anything by Aronofsky. Apocalypse Now (though I will watch the Kilgore scene no matter what). Clockwork Orange

― jm (jtm), Thursday, 12 December 2002 16:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Red Desert.

― anthony easton (anthony), Thursday, 12 December 2002 16:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh yeah, Happiness. Ditto.
And the bile-spitting baby in Eraserhead creeped me out so much that I didn't finish it and may never watch it.

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Thursday, 12 December 2002 17:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Frankly I find it hard enough to watch a whole film the first time, let alone twice.

― alix (alix), Thursday, 12 December 2002 17:07 (twenty-three years ago)

"Bully" was pretty disturbing. I don't think I'd watch it again, but it was quite good.
I'll vote for "Happiness" as well.

― webcrack (music=crack), Thursday, 12 December 2002 17:10 (twenty-three years ago)

"requiem for a dream" literally makes me sick - good movie but makes me want to puke with sadness.

― dyson (dyson), Thursday, 12 December 2002 17:18 (twenty-three years ago)

just makes me want to puke.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 12 December 2002 17:22 (twenty-three years ago)

RFAD, and maybe Forrest Gump - havent seen it since 96 tho i am a bit tempted to watch it now

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 12 December 2002 17:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Pearl Harbor

― , Thursday, 12 December 2002 17:34 (twenty-three years ago)

silverlake life... so completely beautiful and touching, but the depressing scene(s) i couldn't handle again.

― gygax!, Thursday, 12 December 2002 17:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Dancer in the Dark for me as well.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Thursday, 12 December 2002 18:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Dancer in the Dark is so good I'm not willing to see it for the FIRST time. All my friends have seen and said it's great, but I never watch because I never feel like crying.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 12 December 2002 20:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Tarkovsky to thread!!

― Aaron W, Thursday, 12 December 2002 20:06 (twenty-three years ago)

requiem for a dream absolutely.

maybe the original solaris.

― maura (maura), Thursday, 12 December 2002 20:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Hotel Terminus.

― J0hn Darn13ll3 (J0hn Darn13ll3), Thursday, 12 December 2002 20:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Girls Gone Wild: Sorority Sex Kittens

― --, Thursday, 12 December 2002 20:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Dancer in the Dark, Schindler's List, Philadelphia

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 12 December 2002 20:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Star wars 1

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 12 December 2002 20:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Almost everything by Wim Wenders

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 12 December 2002 20:47 (twenty-three years ago)

anything by Derek Jarman

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 12 December 2002 21:48 (twenty-three years ago)

"Magnolia" was horrible. I don't understand why people liked it.

I'm not rushing out to rent "Amistad" or "Roots" anytime soon.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 12 December 2002 22:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Breaking The Waves ownZ.

― dwh (dwh), Thursday, 12 December 2002 22:37 (twenty-three years ago)

I really ought to have read the thread header better.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 12 December 2002 22:38 (twenty-three years ago)

i'll go with man bites dog too.
do we think that the reason we watched this stuff as
teens/youths/etc, is cause we hadn't been allowed as kids, and
now we're getting older we realise they're actually *orrible*.
i'm getting so squeamish, and i used to *love* horror movies.
can't believe i'm sitting here never having watched 'salo'
despite being desperate to see it for years.

― piscesboy, Thursday, 12 December 2002 23:31 (twenty-three years ago)

""requiem for a dream" literally makes me sick - good movie but makes me want to puke with sadness."

Took the words straight out of my mouth.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 13 December 2002 00:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Taxi Driver, but not really because it disturbs me: I've just seen it so many times I'm sick of it.

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 13 December 2002 00:46 (twenty-three years ago)

The Brave Little Toaster is rivalled only by Mrs Doubtfire as the movie that scarred me most when I was a child. I still cannot bring myself to watch that mvoie again.

― Livvie, Friday, 13 December 2002 03:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Salo. powerful film and all that, but it makes your senses feel like they need a damn good scrubbing.

― Wyndham Earl, Friday, 13 December 2002 05:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Last Temptation of Christ. It thoroughly disturbed me psychologically. The scariest non-horror film I've seen.

― Leee (Leee), Friday, 13 December 2002 06:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Gummo.

― OCP (OCP), Friday, 13 December 2002 09:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Father of the Bride II

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 13 December 2002 09:36 (twenty-three years ago)

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