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What Is The Best Film You Never Want To See Again?
Rose Matafeo (@Rose_Matafeo) Tweeted:
what is the best film that you never want to see again? or at least for a very long time?
Rose Matafeo
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what is the best film that you never want to see again? or at least for a very long time?
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For me, Grave of the FireFlies, Schindler's List, I have the DVDs of them, but I don't think I could watch them again.
Lochloosa
(16,061 posts)unblock
(52,116 posts)We wanted to see how they constructed all the scenes so ambiguously.
irisblue
(32,929 posts)on DVD, when Oscar is talking to the young white guy while both are waiting on their girls, and the possibility fluttering around Oscar 😥
Cartoonist
(7,309 posts)Not best in my opinion, but well regarded by many. The glorification of criminals has no appeal to me.
Tikki
(14,549 posts)Tikki
empedocles
(15,751 posts)beveeheart
(1,368 posts)Rhiannon12866
(204,762 posts)El Supremo
(20,365 posts)and I couldn't take it.
I should have been forced to watch it.
Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)Nay
(12,051 posts)IADEMO2004
(5,554 posts)Joinfortmill
(14,387 posts)Great, well made movie, but emotionally devastating. I saw it in the theatre. Could never watch it again.
Canoe52
(2,948 posts)applegrove
(118,492 posts)And such a metaphor for what psychopaths are all about. Such sadism. I don't think i've read any Styron. I tried to read the diary of Nat Turner but was a historical fiction snob at the time.
hlthe2b
(102,119 posts)If I know ahead of time, I won't watch them the first time. Too damned painful.
And yes, of course, Sophie's Choice would be simillarly.
yellowdogintexas
(22,231 posts)Old Yeller pretty much ruined it for me (yeah I am that old)
DUgosh
(3,054 posts)I still havent got over it
Wawannabe
(5,631 posts)Dogs shouldnt die! Period!
emmaverybo
(8,144 posts)of animal cruelty as they do nudity.
FM123
(10,053 posts)Rustynaerduwell
(663 posts)The title itself, referring to the silence from God when you need him the most, remains devastating after you've seen the movie.
skypilot
(8,851 posts)Last edited Wed Nov 20, 2019, 12:47 PM - Edit history (1)
...with Phillip Seymour Hoffman. A devasting movie. I'm sure it would be even more devastating and sad to sit through again now that Hoffman is dead.
Bradshaw3
(7,486 posts)It is intense and brilliant from the underappreciated Charlie Kaufmann. I would like to see it at least once more. But I would have to be in the right frame of mind.
skypilot
(8,851 posts)...but I really don't know what the right frame of mind is. Honestly, the older I get, the more afraid I am to watch it again. I probably won't end up doing it. The movie left that much of an impression on me.
Bradshaw3
(7,486 posts)He is a truly interesting artist. I was impressed by the innovative narrative structure of the film and what it said about human interactions and how we want others to perceive us. I actually wrote an essay on it late that night I was so enthralled by it. I can't remember where it is.
One of the panelists said it made him think of the innovative sociological work "The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Presentation_of_Self_in_Everyday_Life
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,587 posts)Great movie, unbearably depressing.
sarge43
(28,940 posts)Real life horror
Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)ZZenith
(4,115 posts)I watched it four times when I first saw it, so fascinated was I by the skill with which it was made. Felt depressed for a month, though.
yellowdogintexas
(22,231 posts)We were binge watching through a complete works of Miyazaki films and it was such a shock after all the other ones.
It took me a couple of weeks to totally shake off the way that film made me feel.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)But god damn, did that movie wreck me. I am a "tough guy" who tries not to cry during movies, but I was blubbering like a toddler throughout.
It's easily the greatest movie I never want to see again.
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)Tikki
(14,549 posts)Just too...everything.
Tikki
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,544 posts)jayfish
(10,037 posts)One of my faves but I've seen and heard it a million times.
Dagstead Bumwood
(3,595 posts)I see a few movies that fall into that category as I try and see all of the Best Picture nominees. There have been some rough ones that I swore I would not watch again. Just blanking on them at the moment.
Harker
(13,976 posts)Never again.
Wawannabe
(5,631 posts)Glorfindel
(9,719 posts)Utterly unbearable, but a great movie.
dchill
(38,442 posts)Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)blm
(113,010 posts)Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)Absolutely heartbreaking.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0914798/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
sakabatou
(42,136 posts)dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)me to my core. Don't get me wrong, it's my favorite ride at Universal, and I have several souveniers. But I have never been able to watch again.
Stuart G
(38,414 posts)I had never read that, or knew how it ended. Someone wrote an outstanding play
Captain Zero
(6,783 posts)I barely got through it once in parts.
It is the biggest combo of angry and sad, I have ever felt.
TlalocW
(15,374 posts)It was a fun film; the animation was top-notch, and while the story was a little derivative in multiple ways, it was decent overall.
That said - even though it's one of the highest - if not the highest - grossing films in history, just thinking of watching it now elicits a, "meh." It's really had no impact on popular culture - there are no well-known quotes from it; I can't remember if there was ever a toy line, and when you think of the two most famous stars in it - Sigourney Weaver and Zoe Saldana - thinking of their being in, "Avatar," probably comes in after a dozen other movies each that they've been in.
TlalocW
Dan
(3,537 posts)Without a doubt...
MuseRider
(34,095 posts)it was devastating and held the book up well.
The Road
I agonized my way through the book. I had to read it, had to finish it and I am not sure why.
The movie about killed me. Viggo did an amazing job as did Kodi Smit-McPhee. There was not one single pleasant thing about the book or the movie and that is what made it perfect, just not pleasant.
I could read the book again but I would not watch it again.
maxrandb
(15,295 posts)with Kevin Spacey and Brad Pitt.
Great movie, but it just left me feeling angry and hopeless at the end.
"What's in the box"?
emmaverybo
(8,144 posts)Major Nikon
(36,818 posts)Before the movie was over I wanted to crawl in the tub and open a vein.
jayfish
(10,037 posts)I enjoyed it immensely but I have no desire to see it again. ...ever. It's about as bleak as it gets.
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)emmaverybo
(8,144 posts)vsrazdem
(2,177 posts)uriel1972
(4,261 posts)Grave of the Fireflies... it was just too real
captain queeg
(10,094 posts)Hannibal was just too creepy
Upthevibe
(8,012 posts)Sophie's Choice
The Deerhunter
The Pianist
And others that I can't think of right now...
lpbk2713
(42,736 posts)But their strong bond comes to a tragic end much too soon.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Back in the 1970s, before cable, even before HBO, first run movies would eventually get around to being shown on network television. In the mid 1970s, "Love Story" was on (probably ABC), and my friend was in the dorm lounge with about two dozen other students, watching the movie unspool. All the lights were off so everyone could see the small screen better, and nobody could see anyone else. Very cozy and intimate, like a movie theater, but more comfortable. At the end, as Oliver is visiting Jenny for the last time, she invites him to climb into her hospital bed for one last snuggle. You can hear people sniffling to keep from bawling outright. As Oliver is about to get into bed, a male voice comes out of the darkness:
"Are you contagious?"
Followed by a female sobbing, "Oh, you asshole!"
lpbk2713
(42,736 posts)You had me LOL.
Shrek
(3,975 posts)Loved the premise, loved most of the execution, but the ending ruined it for me.