Name a movie you liked but will never watch again.

[Morbius]

Perhaps because it is too painful. For example, Pay It Forward.

[hlthe2b]

1. The list is short as to those I will watch again... not that they weren't good, but once seen I'm not sure

that I really want to watch them again. Usually, those I do have either incredible acting or gorgeous cinematography, making them worthy of repeated viewing.

I guess you can put Titanic on the list--that for me, once was enough.

[OC375]

2. Blackhawk Down

Blackhawk Down

[Upthevibe]

3. Morbius............

Here's my list of movies that were excellent but too devastating for me to ever watch again:

(In no particular order):
The Deer Hunter
Sophie's Choice
The Pianist
Manchester by the Sea
Dear Zachary
Trainspotting
Requiem for a Dream
The House of Sand and Fog
Grave of the Fireflies
Leaving Las Vegas

[yellowdogintexas]

16. definitely Grave of the Fireflies. Devastating nt

[LiberalLoner]

56. Yes.

[greatauntoftriplets]

4. Saving Private Ryan.

It's a wonderful movie, but my father landed in Normandy on day 4 or 5, and I likely wouldn't exist if he had gone ashore earlier. So I just can't.

[Dan]

5. The first EXORCIST

scared shit out of me.

My sister had the opportunity to see if before older brother. Older brother and his wife went to see it and asked sister to baby sit their baby. She fed the baby green pea soup that evening. Brother and sister-in-law picked up the baby. Two-three hours later, they called sister because baby was puking green stuff, they were terrified. hahahaha

[uppityperson]

6. Grave of the Fireflies

Miyazaki

[Junipercity]

8. Best me to it by seconds. :)

.

[KatyaR]

30. I've been holding off on watching it.

I will someday.

[Junipercity]

7. Director Isao Takahata's

"Grave of the Fireflies"
Everybody should see it once.

[Morbius]

9. I thought of one.

When I got a DVD player, one of the first DVDs I bought was Ghandi. I still haven't rewatched it. First rate movie, as I recall. Can't bring myself to watch it again.

[rsdsharp]

10. Schindler's List. Shortly after we saw it in the theater I bought the laser disc.

Yes, I was one of the seven people who owned a laser disc player. We never watched it. I still own it, but not the player.

[mucifer]

14. Yup, that movie made me physically ill. And yet,

I still laughed at the Seinfeld episode about Schindler's list.

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[Mad_Dem_X]

37. I have the film on DVD and have yet to watch it.

Don't know if I ever will, because I know it will upset me greatly.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

39. That's my choice too.

I took a first date, and my ONLY date with that particular young lady, to the opening of Schindler's List in 1993.

So my idiotic choice for a first-date movie is an unpleasant memory. That... and I don't care to rewatch an accurate and very long depiction of the HOLOCAUST either!

[rsdsharp]

40. The first movie I saw with my future wife was The Deer Hunter.

Nothing says romance like scenes of Russian roulette!

On the other hand, she says the moment she fell in love with me was when I dumped most of a large buttered popcorn in her lap during that movie.

[displacedvermoter]

11. Blue Velvet

David Lynch, too unsettling!

[WVGal1963]

12. Trying again! Sorry if I messed up my last post....

…….but we were talking about this exact topic today at my store.

1) Schindler’s List
2) Missing
3) Dances With Wolves
4) The Last Of The Mohicans

[LSparkle]

13. Parasite

Great movie — deserved all the awards — but it’ll probably take another 5 years before I’ll even think about seeing it again.

[Archae]

15. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Great performances, great actors.

Just depressed the hell out of me.

[Junipercity]

25. I have had the distinct honor

Of screening this film for "clients" within the walls of the original location. 😁

The film was greeted with great enthusiasm! 😊

The days of electroshock were long past by this time, but our charges took delight in identifying each location, and even a doctor or two.

Nearly all of those buildings have since been demolished, but those images will be forever preserved in film.

OSH has a long and interesting history, as does the Kirkbride movement that the original hospital was modeled around.

[dwayneb]

46. Same. Struck too close to home.

[OilemFirchen]

17. Midsommar

IYKYK

[johnp3907]

18. Man Bites Dog.

It feels like you're watching a Snuff film.

[-misanthroptimist]

19. Glory

[displacedvermoter]

57. Agree, you become emotionally attached to each character

and inevitably you know each man's fate.

Visited home in Lennox, MA last year where Gould lived. Wealthy people sacrificing their lives and comfort to a higher purpose, what a concept!

[Jeebo]

20. The Passion of Joan of Arc

A 1928 silent film. It's one of the best silent films I've ever seen. The interrogation of Joan of Arc was carefully recorded by scribes, and that written record still exists. It is essentially the script for this film, which is why the film is so good, and so realistic. That this film is so realistic is why I cannot bear to watch it again, because of the burning at the stake scene at the end.

-- Ron

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0019254/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_5_nm_3_in_0_q_The%2520Passion%2520of%2520Joan

This is the imdb page, but I think you can watch the film itself on YouTube.

[KatyaR]

31. Such a great film, but hard to watch.

nt

[quaint]

21. A Boy and his Dog

Mildly entertaining. I'm not a radical feminist, but the ending sucked.

[Junipercity]

24. I am a radical feminist

And I thought the ending was hilarious! 😂
Possibly because I was a Harlan Ellison fan for many years. Ellison had a reputation for contentiousness, and it is quite possible the ending was an answer to the anti-male sentiment of some radical feminist at the time.

This possibility makes the ending that much funnier, as it would have been entirely within keeping Ellison didn't always pick sides, but he would pick fights. 😁

He was intensely anti-war.

[quaint]

26. I too am a Harlan Ellison fan.

But dog food?
Okay, I admit it was funny.

[marble falls]

28. I'm with you. If it had been "A Girl and Her Cat", it'd still be a funny, funny movie. Cherry 2000 was almost like that.

[Lochloosa]

33. She had particularly good taste.

[Harker]

22. I wanted to like "Andrei Rublev", but was deeply horrified.

For similar reasons I'll never revisit "Apocalypse Now."

[johnp3907]

52. Andrei Rublev just baffled me.

Writing this on a phone with a Stalker case. 🤣

[Harker]

55. I stopped running it when that poor old horse was brutalized and killed.

Why they did that left me baffled. And disgusted!

[debm55]

23. Jaws.

[Lochloosa]

35. ...

[marble falls]

27. Platoon. And I was Navy.

[CrispyQ]

29. Hachi: A Dog's Tale

I've never cried like I did with that movie.

[Squeaky41]

32. Funny once but not now

Airplane

[Lochloosa]

34. The Sixth Sense (1999)

Sucks when you know the ending.

[Mad_Dem_X]

36. Awakenings, The Accused

Both great movies, IMO, but way too upsetting.

[catbyte]

38. On the Beach

Great cast but waaaay too depressing.

[IcyPeas]

41. A Clockwork Orange

[Paladin]

42. "Barry Lyndon" and "Amadeus," both on account of casting choices.

I think Stanley Kubrick could have found somebody better than Ryan O'Neal for the lead in "Barry Lyndon." And I never could buy Tom Hulce as Mozart in "Amadeus"---not after seeing him as the goofy frat guy in "Animal House."

Both of those movies were worthy efforts, plenty of good, enjoyable work in each of them. The main-role casting just didn't work for me.

[edbermac]

43. I thought Ryan was alright in BL

Diehard Kubrick fan. Best scene was with his dying son retelling a story about the battles he was in. But with that movie, my eyes are usually glued to the film’s outstanding cinematography.

And Hulce was somewhat jarring in Amadeus though F Murray Abraham was terrific.

[Paladin]

45. Good points on both movies.

The cinematography in "Barry Lyndon" was extraordinary. As I recall, Kubrick did things with natural lighting that had never been accomplished before.

And F. Murray Abraham was just stunning in "Amadeus." What a great actor.

[subterranean]

44. The Elephant Man

[Mad_Dem_X]

49. I forgot about that one. Yes!

Heartbreaking.

[boonecreek]

47. Marley and Me.

The ending is just way too sad.

[milestogo]

48. Looking for Mr Goodbar.

Great cast, well acted, but devastating.

[AllaN01Bear]

50. plan nine from outer space . ugh

[Ocelot II]

51. The Killing Fields.

[aurora the great]

53. Once is all I could bear

Milos Forman's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Next
It was incredible and power, moving and heartbreaking
As a woman with a mental illness , Ptsd, it was all I could do to accept the journey of the story, and follow along, the one time. I will never go through it again but it is a Masterpiece. Oh and I could never bring myself to read the novel by Ken Kesey.

[jmowreader]

54. The Sixth Sense

That's a movie you can only watch once - after the plot twist is revealed the whole movie is screwed after that.

[Emile]

58. The Green Mile