Let's play a game: Great movies you don't want to ever watch again.

[DetlefK]

I'll start: "The Road"

An unknown catastrophe has turned the US into a barren, cold wasteland. Government and society have fully and totally collapsed. Agriculture no longer works in this cold and cloudy weather. Canned food-supplies are almost gone. Cannibalism is the new normal. A father and his young son are headed south for warmer climate, assuming that life is better there.

Fantastic acting and great story, but I never want to see this movie again. It's simply too depressing.

[exboyfil]

1. Schindler's List

[unc70]

2. Raging Bull

[captain queeg]

3. Silence of the Lambs

[Doreen]

4. Wicker man

Both the original and the one with Nicholas Cage were to disturbing. The scene of the men burning in the end were to realistic.

Lord Of The Flies just touches that bare nerve of what we as humans would actually do in that type of situation being a small amount like with the boys or on a large scale like an entire country.

Those are all good movies but I just can't.

[Sedona]

5. The Painted Bird

Currently on Hulu

[hlthe2b]

6. Frankly, most of them. If the movie is bad, I won't even finish, but even good movies rarely leave

me wanting to watch them over and over. And while I avoid movies where the beloved animal dies, those definitely would not be "re-watches"

I think that is why, even at the height of DVD popularity, I bought so few movies and even those rarely are watched. Those that are, generally are because of the scenery,period of time, or setting that sets a mood so powerful, it allows for "escapism."

[Walleye]

9. I won't watch movies where animals die either.

[samnsara]

22. same here.. i even teared up when Godzilla was killed. If theres an animal in the movie...

..i wont watch it unless i know the ending. BTW a GREAT dog movie (with only a hint of anxiety) is ODDBALL. Its a true story. I even bought the movie so I can watch it whenever it disappears from Netflix or Amazon.

[Mad_Dem_X]

36. Me either. If I know

that an animal gets hurt or dies within the course of a movie, I will avoid it.

[Walleye]

37. "Bambi" A powerfully influential movie

Sometimes I can’t even watch the nature programs, because of the destruction of their habitats

[NJCher]

31. looks like there's a lot of us

I won't even watch a movie with animals in it. Too scared of the emotions it might bring up.

[madaboutharry]

7. Pelle The Conqueror

This movie is the story of an impoverished Swedish father and son who immigrate to Denmark in the 1850's.

It is one of those angst filled and depressing Scandinavian epic films with magnificent acting from Max Von Sydow that leaves you bereft.

It is a great movie but one that most would never want to see a second time, at least I don't think so.

[bluedigger]

8. Trainspotting.

[Walleye]

10. "Revolutionary Road"

[cmeneer]

17. Agree

It was incredibly sad.

[Roland99]

11. Legends of the Fall

Got more depressing as it went along

Really good film, though

[Thomas Hurt]

12. Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan

Can't watch them again

[mdelaguna]

13. Million Dollar Baby, & Mystic River

[Walleye]

20. Mystic River was tough to watch. But so well done

[Mike 03]

14. Mother and Antichrist

Mother directed by Dan Aronofsky

Antichrist directed by Lars Von Trier

[IADEMO2004]

15. Joker

[softydog88]

16. So many!

You didn't say "you only want to see once," so I'll go with movies I've seen many times, but never again. Chronologically --

1. Bananas
2. Sleeper
3. Love and Death
4. Annie Hall
5. Interiors
6. Manhattan
7. Zelig
8. Broadway Danny Rose
9. Purple Rose of Cairo

OK, this is tedious. You all see where I'm going with this.

[rzemanfl]

18. "Fahrenheit 911." n/t

[Maeve]

19. Titanic

[samnsara]

24. i havent even seen that movie yet..

[NJCher]

33. yeah, me on that one, too

I think it's because my spouse looks like the captain and refuses to watch the movie. I told him he was the captain reincarnated.

He spends most of his time around here re-routing water around the house, which is located on the side of a mountain. We have a most intricate, extensive water routing system. French drains, water wicking pipes, an elaborate gutter system that takes water far from the house. He set up drainage in a nine-foot terrace by filling it with gravel and sand. He had a tunnel dug under the asphalt in front of the hospital for drainage. He set up a French drain around the pool. Everyone in the neighborhood has basement problems, but not us!!

Not obsessed with water or anything.

[Shermann]

38. They forgot to tell the stations which have it on endless rerun loops nt

[samnsara]

21. terms of endearment, dumb and dumber, lost in translation....

...and another one with bill murray that had Flowers in the title.

[KarenS]

23. Sophie's Choice

[samnsara]

25. actually if this was asked of me July 5 I would have said Hamilton...but after

..listening to the sound track about 20 times I have come to really enjoy the movie (now that I dont have to have closed caption on).

It was an acquired taste....

[Ztolkins]

26. Requiem for a dream

[if..fish..had..wings]

27. There Will Be Blood

[Shermann]

28. Django Unchained

Tarantino movies normally have amazing replay value for me

[Clash City Rocker]

29. A lot of them are Oscar winners

The academy comes across to me as very insecure...they have only chosen four comedies as best picture ever, and they prefer movies that are long and incredibly depressing and violent. Oscar winners in my lifetime include...

The Deer Hunter
Platoon
Unforgiven
Schindler’s List
American Beauty
Million Dollar Baby
Crash
No Country for Old Men
The Hurt Locker

All of which I’m glad I saw, but wouldn’t want to see again.

[Glorfindel]

30. "Shenandoah" - unbearably sad

American Civil War film about a wealthy widower who has remained steadfast in his opposition to the war on moral grounds. However, he is forced to become involved in the conflict when his son-in-law is called upon to serve in the Confederate forces, his youngest son is captured by the Union army, and another son and his pregnant daughter-in-law are killed by looters.

James Stewart, Doug McClure. Very well done, but I don't like sad.

[Chipper Chat]

32. Out of Africa

[riverwalker]

34. "Taking Chance"

“Based on real-life events, Lt. Col. Michael Strobl, a volunteer military escort officer, accompanies the body of 19-year-old Marine Chance Phelps back to his hometown of Dubois, Wyoming”.

I never cried so hard in my life. Body shaking sobs, completely drained. Made the mistake of watching it while my grandson was deployed in Afghanistan. (He made it home, he is fine)

[Mad_Dem_X]

35. The Accused, Awakenings, Edward Scissorhands

The Accused because of the rape scene, the other two because of the endings.

[Shermann]

39. The Shawshank Redemption

Just kidding, this would be the opposite of that.