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Dead Man Walking.

Agree with Requiem for a Dream, definitely. Add Schindler's List.

There are several, but damn if my mind didn't just go blank, except for Cry Freedom. Oh and I can never, never watch the opening scenes for Elizabeth or Cold Mountain ever again--something about them turned me into a sobbing mess.

Now work, brain, work, so I can remember the other films I can never bring myself to see again.

Beautiful Country. It's about the son of a Vietnamese woman and a US GI rjected by his community, conned into slave labor in US, completely lonely. Brilliant film. Utterly, utterly depressing.

Synecdoche, New York. Brilliant, brilliant, utterly depressing and draining film.

Leaving Las Vegas

Really, any movie with a graphic rape scene.

Or Nicholas Cage, for that matter.

Quite possibly Slumdog Millionaire, definitely The Piano - and for that matter The Pianist.

Pan's Labyrinth.

TK - good point, I don't think I could see The Accused or Leaving Las Vegas again. Both have graphic rape scenes.

Heat.

Another vote for Requiem for a Dream...and also Apocalypse Now.

I would totally watch Pan's Labyrinth again. In fact, if I can't get BSG Season 2.0 on DVD tonight, I may just watch that instead. So there!

Also, "The Sea Inside"

Where the Boys Aren't 15. I just don't think I have the strength in me to go through it again.

(OK, in all seriousness, I don't think I'd want to watch There Will Be Blood again. It wasn't that great of a movie to begin with, but apparently I'm a heathen for thinking so. I'm sorry, but if I wanted to sit through almost three hours of drama for a comedy, I'd watch Saturday Night Live.)

Requiem for a Dream and Leaving Las Vegas were the first two that came to my mind.

I might also add Chinatown. Don't know why, but I don't think I ever need to see it again.

Irreversible

Defintely Boys Don't Cry. I had a hard enough time sitting through it once.

Whore and Leaving Las Vegas, both thanks in part to the rape scenes. And Pan's Labyrinth, because a good friend of mine was so distraught after watching it with me.

On the other hand, I own Requiem For A Dream and have probably watched it 20 times. The first time I saw it, I was a bit traumatized, but it's SUCH A GOOD MOVIE that I had to watch it again. And again. Same for Schindler's List, which I also love.

I don't think it's great, but yeah, "Requiem For A Dream" was an unrewarding buzzkill on what had been a nice night up to that point. I'm never watching "Happiness" again either, though I thought it was well made. Once was probably enough for "Barry Lyndon"--it was very surprisingly engaging despite being a glacier, but I don't think I need another romp through.

I'd definitely have to be drunk to watch "Burden Of Dreams" again. It became a valiant struggle to not leave the room (the professor was long gone), but some of us stuck it out. Even drunk it'd still probably make me wanna scream.

Well, The Night Porter, except for one scene:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVBdqGLtqFc&feature=related

Oneiric?

Ditto on Schindler's List - that's an amazing work of art that depresses you for a week.
But yeah -
-Schindler's List
-Oldboy
-Pi
-Sympathy for Lady Vengeance

Children of men. It ripped my heart out and tore it to teeny pieces, especially Michael Caine's part and the ending. Also, the near future it showed was so eerily close to what we could end up becoming. I sobbed when I saw it in the theater, and even though it was my favorite movie that year, I'm not sure I could see it again. At least, I'm not ready yet, and it's been a few years.

okay, maybe I'm just kind of twisted but I love quite a few of these movies people are listing and would watch them again (American History X, There will be blood, Pan's Labyrinth, City of God [seen that one probably about 20 times]). Although I do agree with Requiem.

Personally I'd go with:
Blindness - About the time the hallways filled with human waste which people then trample through I knew I'd never be able to watch that movie twice.

Flight of the Navigator - Saw it once as a kid and loved it. But after re-watching Explorers and Spacecamp recently I've realized that some movies should be left as memories.

Talladega Nights - I was in a very strange place in my life when I saw this movie and really have no idea why I enjoyed it. I'd say it's best just to leave it at that and not try watching it again. I'd put Clerks II in this category as well.

Rebel Without a Cause.

"You're tearing me apaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaartt!"

Who can handle that much actoring in one film.

Oh, Giant is another one.

One and done.

Monster with Charlize Theron. One of the best performances ever on film. Brilliant and harrowing and I am still not over the scene with the tire iron.

Gaslight! Paula, Paula, Paula. Maddening, maddening, brilliant, maddening.

I'm sure there are more but I have blocked them out.

I have avoided The Accused because I know it will be a. really good and 2. give me fits.

Of course, now I am curious to see Requiem for a Dream.

saving private ryan

I was forced by the ex to go to a theatre to see "The Passion of the Christ." He bawled like a baby (he's gotten RELIGION since....I'm still a heathen bitch..hence, the ex-ness) I don't dig any form of torture porn, and found it unnecessarily violent and just, well, boring. So, umm, yeah, I'll NEVER see that bloody turd again.

Oh, and you could not pay me enough to watch Boys Don't Cry. My poor mom innocently asked me if I was going to see it (since it dealt with LBGT issues) having no idea what the actual subject matter was. I was quite emphatic in telling her that hell no, I had no interest in seeing a film in which a transgendered person gets brutally raped and murdered.

And I'm sticking to that decision.

The Virgin Suicides

:(

Ok, here we are all talking about Requiem and NOBODY has said it....what is wrong with you people? I KNOW you are all thinking it.....

The Crying Game.

I'm on the Boys Don't Cry train, I can't ever watch it again. There was one I remember seeing in high school about homeless kids and Sean Astin overdoses? Where the Day Takes You maybe? I thought it was a good movie but for whatever reason I was just inconsolable after watching it.
And I shouldn't watch Happy Feet anymore, but I do. I inexplicably cry every time I watch it.
Maybe I'm pregnant.

Requiem, American History X, Au Revoir Les Enfants (man, I'd forgotten about that one, french class was such a downer) and Pi.

I KNOW you are all thinking it.....

Youuuuuu want me to scream "ass to ass"?

Because I wasn't thinking that, but now that you're being so emphatic....

Now...

GAAAAAH!! "Blade Runner" is two words!!!!

Requiem, as so many people have said, but I honestly found all of the characters to be assholes, which has more of an impact on my desire to watch it again than the bleakness. I can handle bleak, but if I don't like the people the movie is about then why would I watch it again?
I agree on the whole brutal rape thing, that's the one thing I really can't handle in movies. Otherwise few things are so disturbing to me that I can't watch a film again.

Once were warriors.

"Brokeback Mountain." I may watch this again at some point in my life, but it will be a long, long, time before that happens. I love this movie so much, but it just rips my heart out every time I watch it. I get seriously depressed for at least a week after watching it. And now after Heath Ledger's passing, I don't know if my poor little heart can stand it. I pretty much lived through a female version of this story, so that adds to the pain of it all. (No, smart alecs, I'm not a cowgirl and neither I nor the other girl involved were beaten to death, but you get my point.) So, yeah...sorry to get all heavy on here. Next time I'll comment with something really sarcastic and nasty.

Irreversible. Absolutely mind blowingly incredibly excellent film.

But it has that head smashing scene and the NINE MINUTE SINGLE TAKE RAPE which i watched while screamingly hungover, alone in a very dark and creepy library.
I've never felt threatened by strange men in a casual setting but that film had me eyeing everyone without ovaries like they where some sort of mutant child/woman catcher, prowling around with a net and concealed cage in their backpack

I'd love to watch it again to experience its excellence as a piece of cinema and to be able to boggle at the performances and content less critically( i was watching it for my final Dissertation) but i can not to this day bring myself to put it on, its horrible to watch alone and i say that as some one who's not normally freaked out by films =s

Ooh, I forgot The Sea Inside. Wonderful movie, but I just couldn't watch it again.

Schindler's List, The Accused, Leaving Las Vegas, Requiem and any other movie that makes me feel wrist slit-y.

Grizzly Man

An interesting documentary, but it was one of the first movies my girlfriend and I really connected over, mainly because we found it so hilarious.

She bought it for me, but I haven't been able to put it in again. I'm convinced it won't be as great as the first time we watched it in her apartment a couple of years ago.

Dancer in the Dark, without a doubt, is one of my favorite movies, but I am always reluctant to watch it again. It is bleak. And then when you don't think it will get bleaker, it does. And then when you think a musical number will come in and lighten the mood just a little, a musical number comes in that makes it the most depressing thing you've ever seen. And then it gets bleaker.

Dogville, too, is a pretty good film if I remember correctly, but I have no desire to watch it again (thanks, Von Trier!). Honestly, I want to see Von Trier try his hand at a romcom, just to see what the hell would happen.

Irreversible wasn't a great film, but it was certainly one I never need to see again.

Monster also wasn't that great (certainly good), but I will never need to watch it again. That film ruined Journey for me.

Pan's Labrynth
Oldboy
No Country for Old Men
Silence of the Lambs
Miller's Crossing

Million Dollar Baby left me depressed for days. And Requiem made me want to smash something.

Seen Requiem about 20 times, interesting to see that (almost) everybody only took "disturbing" away from it. This is a comedy, but .... "Zach and Miri make a porno". I've seen Superbad and Knocked Up about 10x each and love them more every time, but this movie was just...adequate.

The Reader
(Surprised no one else put this - maybe I was the only one to find it depressing.)

Not quite the same, but...supposedly, these are great movies. I would never voluntarily watch Gone With The Wind or Citizen Kane again. But then I didn't watch them by choice in the first place. Gone With The Wind is like a cruel film school initiation. By the time Clark Gable finally says the line that everyone knows, I didn't give a damn either. Citizen Kane is more entertaining but overrated. And long. And boring. I'm not a big Family Guy fan but this one quote always comes to mind..."It's his freakin' sled, I just saved you three boobless hours!"

Failing that, it'll be a while before I feel like watching There Will Be Blood again, but I love it.

I saw Pan's Labyrinth in the theater twice in two days, and I watch it every time it's on HBO. I'm a little addicted to that movie.

Me too Julie - I'd seen it alone and then couldn't wait to watch with my hubby. And it's the only DVD's extra features I've ever watched.

I'm surprised at all the people who don't want to see it again.

The Last King of Scotland.

Well acted film but the carnage really stuck with me.

I've also been on the Reqium bandwagon for some time.

MOVIES SO HORRIFIC YOU WISH YOU HAD NEVER SEEN/NEVER WILL SEE
- Dancer in the Dark: should I just kill myself now?
- Leaving Las Vegas: God, what I wouldN'T give to have those two hours back, instead of watching that movie with my dad at a movie theater, having no idea going in to it what it was about?
- Agreed, any movie with a graphic rape scene. I was traumatized as a young kid just seeing the advertisements for The Accused - hell no would I ever see it.
- Breaking the Waves: I wish that I had never seen this to start with. Just so fucking disturbing without any point.
- Monster: for the aforementioned reasons
- Boys Don't Cry: ditto
- Pulp Fiction: as a matter of long-standing habit
- Babel: don't make these movies just to hurt me, por favor

MOVIES SO GREAT YOU DON'T WANT TO MESS WITH THE EXPERIENCE YOU HAD THE FIRST TIME BY WATCHING IT AGAIN
- Brokeback Mountain
- Half Nelson
- Nights of Cabiria
- City of Hope
- Schindler's List

While only mentioned once thus far, I agree on Gone With the Wind.

Also, oddly enough Simon Birch. That movie just killed me emotionally, and I don't know why that one so much more than others.

"The Room" by nanni moretti. I think that's the english title, you posted a clip from it a few weeks back.
I promised my self I'd never ever watched again just it hits way too close home, but I would make an exception just to introduce it to other people. not that i have so far.

There Will Be Blood also gets an honorable mention for the absolutely cringe-inducing soundtrack.

You're just dumb.

Blood Diamond, Children of Men, and Network (though I will continue to quote the last one).

Sybil. The single most emotionally wracking and draining film I've every seen.

Hard Candy. Blame his skilled acting or the cringe-worthy subject matter, either way I can't look at Patrick Wilson and see any other character since watching that one.

KIDS

I will never watch KIDS again. The thought makes my stomache turn, and the final scene still haunts me.

Stomach.
It turned so much, I forgot how to spell it.

Trainspotting. Great movie, cannot watch the scene with the baby in it ever again. If you like babies, or even think you might, don't investigate my comment with a viewing.

Blindness-The Rape scene (the sounds of women crying-too much)
The Reader-SO GOOD-but it destroyed me
No Country for Old Men-i can't sit through it again

Thought of another one - INLAND EMPIRE. Not saying I'll never watch it again - but it's gonna be a while before I'm in the mood for a three hour audio-visual headfuck that leaves me edgy and paranoid.

I ABSOLUTELY agree with Requiem for a Dream - - I just had this conversation with friends a few days ago. I know it's a wonderful film, but once is enough. I seriously could not get that damn thing out of my head for nearly a month. Still creeps me out to think about the last several moments of the film.

Also would list: There Will Be Blood, No Country for Old Men, Apocalypse Now (again, just too disturbing for my tastes).

Hotel Rwanda - I'd watch it again and again. I can take tragedy and horror so long as it's sprinkled with hope and loving kindness.

However, I somehow found enough that is redeeming in American History X and Pan's Labyrinth to warrant subsequent viewings. For the latter, I think it is the sheer beauty of the film. Gorgeous, despite its creepiness.

I actually bought Flight of the Navigator recently and no, it does not live up to memories. I can't say I hated it, thought. It was okay.

You're just dumb.

jamiepants: I'm all for thoughtful, well-reasoned arguments, but this just made me spit soda all over my keyboard.

Someone mentioned Kids which reminded me that I NEVER want to watch Gummo again. I don't really know how good that was to begin with though.

No matter how hard I try, I cannot get through Dancer in the Dark again. I just start crying hysterically and having an anxiety attack 10 minutes in and have to shut off the DVD.

Dogville's not a problem, though, or any other von Trier joint. Go fig.

Che - Fantastic movie, just way too long

Same thing for Band of Brothers. I may watch it again at some point, but not until I can sit through it all in its entirety.

Holy shit, Cara, Exorcism of Emily Rose.

I was TERRIFIED by that movie, and I usually love horror. It fucked me up.

Never. Again.

I couldn't even look at the posters when it came out on DVD.

Anything by Alejandro Gonzales Inarratu. Amores Perros, 21 Grams and Babel, all good movies, all contain great performances, all too emotionally draining to ever consider revisiting.

I didn't think Kids was all that great. Kiddie porn does not = great film.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

The entire "I wish I had stayed..." scene is so eerily familiar to me that I really have a difficult time watching it.

Boogie Nights

I love the fucknuts out of it but one night when I was chemically enlightened I watched it and completely flipped out to the third act where everyone gets their comeuppance/shit shot up/ass handed to them.

Kinda sad really, as its the only thing Mark Wahlberg has ever been good in.

Say Hi to your mutha for me.

Besides Requiem, I would say Party Monster. I don't think it's a great movie, but Seth Green is great in it.

But damn, it's an unsettling film. With the seizure-inducing outfits, the giant rat, a seriously obese Natasha Lyonne, Marilyn Manson in a bodysuit...it honestly makes me nauseous.

Oh, and weirdly enough, Chasing Amy.

It takes me back to a place in time where I was this fucked-up, closeted kid in a secret relationship with my college roommate, and it's too painful for me to watch Banky go through the same emotional torment, no matter if he is a fuckwad Scientologist in real life now. The movie made me cry then, and I'm afraid it would take me back to a dark place now.

Though, I do remember fondly, "What's a Nubian? Bitch, you almost made me laugh."

Requiem for a Dream
Schindler's List
Elephant Man
Hotel Rwanda
Pan's Labrynth
The Pianist
Boys Don't Cry

There are a lot more. Unfortunately I own all of them. Ug.

I have to second Snath on Grave of the Fireflies.
I own it and refuse to let my husband (whose never seen it) watch it if I'm home.
I was so heartbroken from the first second it was on, I know there's just no way I could ever relive that experience. I'd rather sit through Requiem or American History X which I do find disturbing, but no where near the strength of emotion I feel towards Grave. Seriously, that's the only film that's broken my heart and made me cry the entire length of the film without giving me any room to breathe. Thankfully I was home alone when I decided to watch it.

I'd agree that I'd never want to see KIDS again, but I wouldn't say it's a great movie at all.

Shocking, maybe. Over the top. Yup.

The Japanese film, "Nobody Knows." Which is beautiful, but has the kind of pacing that begs you to watch it in 2x speed and hit stop the moment the final credits start to roll. Then three weeks later you're proclaiming how beautiful it was.

'4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days.' Stunning, but man, what a painful film to watch. Particularly for a woman.

I also can't get through 'A Clockwork Orange'; the rape scene just leaves me sick and gives me nightmares for days.

Everything Darren Aronofsky has made ever.

Bad Lieutenant
Welcome to the Dollhouse

The Godfather Part II. Longer than the original, more complex and much more depressing. Bought it for 50% off when some mom & pop video store went out of business & its still in the original shrinkwrap. Never watched Part III a 2nd time either, but I wouldn't consider it a great movie.

Has anyone mentioned "Lilia 4EVER" yet? Starring the beautiful Russian daughter from Bourne? About Eastern Block pre-teen tricked into coming to Western Europe where she is forced into sex slavery? Jesus H., that one will be with me a while.
Requieum also--never again.
Exotica--tragic Canadian Atom Egoyan pic. Oh so saaaadd...whimper

Watched a documentary called "Earthlings" and it was 2 and a half hours of all the ways animals are tortured for food, fun and profit. Narrated by Joaquin Phoenix.
I don't eat meat anymore.

DANCER IN THE DARK

:(

The Pursuit of Happyness, Dear god there is no way in god damn hell I would want to ever watch this movie again. It's to damn sad and well it's sad the ENTIRE way through until the end where you don't even get to see Mr. Gardener Enjoy his life and be Happy. it's the "test pops up and fills in the rest of the story" thing... Telling you he's Happy.

Glengarry Glen Ross - Fuck you, I'm a good father and I'm going to play with my kids.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

I saw it once, back when I was in college, at one of those midnight showings on Halloween where you brought all of the props (toast, etc.), and played along. We didn't go full-bore and dress-up, but it was fun; a good time with friends whom I now miss dearly, but it's not something I've ever had the urge to repeat.

I absolutely adore some depressing movies. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is my current favorite. It's so beautifully tragic. I haven't cried that hard over a movie in so long. That being said there are some movies I completely avoid because I know they'll make me too sad. I have never seen, nor will I ever see, Hotel Rwanda, Trade, or anything that likely involves the death of an animal.

One movie I have seen and will NEVER watch again (although I'm embarassed to admit I ever saw it) is Eight Below. I CANNOT watch those dogs die again.

The Sound of Music

I can agree with just about everything so far.

Anything where a dog dies. My dog skip is even a little borderline, I started sobbing when he got hit with a shovel.

Also, and I'm a bit surprised that no one has mentioned it: Magdeline Sisters. Absolutely killed me.

Also, would never watch Kids again, not necessarily because it was great (though I've had many people try to convince me it was), but because my mom tried to make me watch it after she found out I was having sex. As a lesson. I was 16 in a northern Canada logging town and inner city teens with HIV really had nothing to do with my life. I walked out. My mom stayed, God only knows what she was thinking. I later repayed her by recommending she do a paper on Magdeline Sisters for part of her Masters. She too said it was a great movie, but she'd never watch it again.

I am never, ever, ever, ever watching Se7en a second time. The body part that I was sure was in the box was even worse than what was actually in there, and what was actually in there was horrifying enough.

Downfall. I actually had to waste 45 minutes after walking out of the theatre after this film because I was too messed up to drive.

The Bridge, a documentary about people committing suicide off the Golden Gate. It was powerful...but it's a documentary about suicide.

Siege, thanks for mentioning this one. I recorded it for a friend and watched it myself on IFC one night. The guy that wandered around for hours before jumping breaks my heart. I am not a sensitive person and I'll be damned if that movie did not have me in the fetal position and crying my damned eyes out. It was well done, tasteful, and never felt exploitative. It has also stayed with me ever since I saw it. I consider it one of the best documentaries I have ever seen.

Full Metal Jacket - It messes me up for days and I love war movies.

If you have never seen it (and have a VERY strong stomach), I would recommend In My Skin. This movie is so...... indescribably intimate and utterly disturbing I'm not sure I can bring myself to watch it again.

Also, very strong recommendation for Twisted Masterpiece review

I see alot of Oldboy and Half Nelson on your lists. I love both those movies, Oldboy is a fantastic modern Greek tragedy- gotta watch it every time. Half Nelson I love just because the themes in it are just so perfectly distilled and easy to relate to (there is the family dinner scene)

But one movie I'll never watch again is In America. "Say goodbye to Frankie, dad."

Now cry, pussy.

wish i never saw " there will be blood" in the first place but a great film i will avoid seeing again is " the reader ".

wolf creek oh god wolf creek

and of course requiem- the thought of both of these movies still disturbs me. But, weirdly, I'd recommend them to anyone to watch (once)

there are a few i've seen on the list that i refuse to watch for fear of going into an unshakeable depression- eg hotel rwanda, brokeback mountain

Kelly... The Fox and the Hound is probably the most manipulative movie ever. I haven't seen the whole thing and never will, as it only took me until the end of the opening sequence to start bawling. (I walked out around the halfway point.)It haunts me as well, to this very day.

I feel the same way about the Land Before Time, although I've seen it many times. It never fails to make me misty.

As for actual grown-up movies, I'd have to go with:

All the Beautiful Girls
Atonement
Breaking the Waves
Dancer in the Dark, which I have mercifully repressed.
In the Company of Men
Leaving Las Vegas
The Magdalene Sisters
The Wrestler
Whale Rider
there's a few more that I could list but are escaping me at the moment.

I'm amazed that only one other person mentioned 'Atonement'. That much bleakness wrapped up in such a gorgeous film was like biting into a chocolate truffle with ground glass filling. Any movie that makes me wonder why I don't just drive my car off the overpass won't be getting a second viewing, no matter how good it is.

A Guy Named Joe. WWII-era tearjerker. Can't watch it again. Won't even look at the remake that was done later, either. Just too sad. But a beautiful film.

Here goes

-Irréversible : thought it was incredible but so draining. and when I found out they used some audio in a frequency that causes nausea, sickness and vertigo in the first 30 min of the movie
-Audition : So fucked up
-The Ring : original Japanese one,haven't seen the remake. Scared the living crap out of me, don´t want to ruin the memory of it, just want to have it hold that place in my mind.

Funny how many people are mentioning Requiem for a Dream I love that movie and have seen it many times.

Visitor Q. My memories of this movie are enough to make me want to curl up into the fetal position. By the same director of Odishon, but way, way, more disturbing.

I will also never watch Eraserhead again.

I think "Elephant" was great. It may have been. But I will never watch it again.

Dogville

it made me so freakin' mad!!! and boy those people deserved their punishment in the end.

Deffffinitely Dancer in the Dark for me... I sobbed uncontrollably for a long time afterward. And I'm not a movie crier. I think part of it has to do with the fact that people tell me I look like Bjork. It was like I got hung with her at the end of the movie or something.

The Fountain

Oldboy....great film, but I wanted to scrub my brain afterwards.

Look here: there are a lot of movies that I won't see again because they are important, ponderous, blah blah.
BUT. That would be a very, very long list.
As for a movie I never need to see again because it was utterly, achingly beautiful and because it destroyed me, that would be, hands down, AWAY FROM HER. I cried so hard my face hurt a little. And, I think it's important to note, this was not just some emotionally manipulative film. It was to-the-bone honest, and beautifully told. I remember much of the film vividly, and I think if I saw it again, I'd need IV fluids.

I read every single comment, a rarity for me! Thank you for such a fascinating read.



I definitely agree with Requiem For A Dream (literally ran out of the theater at the end), Boys Don't Cry (violently weeping by the end), and Happiness (I had to leave during the scene when the dad tells the son he's a pedophile).



I remember freaking out about the Cape Fear remake, but that came out a while ago so I could probably deal with it now.



I can't handle movies where animals are hurt, killed, or even yelled at. So I avoid them at all costs. The worst part is when they sneak that in when you don't expect it, like the ferry scene with the puppy in The Panic In Needle Park. EVIL!!



I am writing some of these films down, though, because they seem intriguing.

Beloved. Rape scene. Slavery. Dead baby. Once was more than enough.

Benny, "Eternal Sunshine" is my best movie ever that I can't bear to watch. Probably because my boyfriend of six years and I were in a turning point and trying to figure out if we were going to bail or not... When Joel says, "she was just a girl".... oh man... I can't watch that beautiful, beautiful movie again.

Probably also didn't help that as I was sobbing afterwards from the movie, got a text from said-boyfriend, "thank you for the letter, I need more time. I love you."

goddamn it joel and clementine!

Dancer in the Dark. And Breaking the Waves, come to that. Both left me a soggy, depressed mess for days.

Memento. What would be the point? Once you know, you know!

Blue Velvet - something about it is just too disturbing for me. Generally, I can only view a Lynch movie once.

"Suicide Club"...I was at my ex girlfriend's house sharing a bottle of SoCo. Like the flick a lot until I realized afterward I couldn't stop shaking. I was up for about three days until my brother forced me into the VA hospital for PTSD (not for the flick of course, but it did trigger some bad Iraq memories.)I really liked the film but I find I can't watch anything with blood now or I start to freak out.

Dancer in the Dark, Boys Don't Cry, and Meeting People is Easy. At the end of each, I felt like crawling in a hole.

I LOVED Pi, and went out and got Requiem for a Dream as soon as I could. I still watch Pi all the time. And Requiem? still sitting there after one viewing. I'm pretty wussy, but I also hate needles *shudder* and being scrape-me-off-the-floor depressed. My gf wants to see it and i'm dreading the event...

The movie that hit so close to home that I shouldn't watch again (but someday will) is Autofocus, with Greg Kinnear. It is like watching my own future through a scare-u-straight mirror, and it literally scares me to my core that I almost went down that road (and that sometimes I still want to). It scares me just thinking about it.

My friend lent me Oldboy a couple of months ago and I'm kinda scared, to be honest...

SuicideClub I'll watch again.

American Psycho - The only movie after watching I immediately thought to myself "I will never watch this again." I enjoyed the hell out of it but it just seriously creeped me out.

Gone With The Wind

Damnit, this is what happens when I don't have internet for a day; I miss an awesome diversion.

But who cares. Here's my list:

-Boys Don't Cry (I've tried, but God it's way too hard)
-Dr Zhivago (too damn long!)
-Trainspotting (*shudder*)
-Last King of Scotland (the scene where he finds the woman is burnt into my mind as one of the most horrifying images I have see in my life. Horrible)
-Taxi Driver (as great a movie as it is, it fucks you up something serious)
-Clockwork Orange (ick)

Never seen Requiem for a Dream. Am thinking I probably never should.

Straw Dogs.

Was thinking about this last night in bed:

"Sid and Nancy" about Sid Vicious, from the Sex Pistols.

Very gripping, beautiful film.
Only it rips your heart out..

Grtz
Magiel

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom. If that isn't masochism, I don't know what is.

Last Exit to Brooklyn, anyone?
*spoiler, as if you need it*
Horrible scene of Jennifer Jason Leigh getting gang raped and beaten (to death if I recall correctly).

please pass the cortex brush, must sanitize braaaain now...

Also, Crash - not the Haggis one, the Cronenberg one where they crash cars and have sex (actually right then *inside* the crashed car). Any minute amount of James Spader hotness was utterly negated by the rest of the movie. So completely wrong and weird and not at all erotic but ultimately just without a point and went on and on and on...

Really not worth ever thinking of again - unless its for the sole purpose of comparing it to the other Crash movie, over which it definitely wins. Because the Haggis one did not have Matt Dillon actually climbing into the carwreck to get it on with Thandie Newton right then and there...which could have been an improvement, who knows?

Hey, someone commented here 9 hours ago, so this thread's not dead yet. It's been a busy couple days at work.

Now I kinda want to see Requiem for a Dream. Don't really want to see Boys Don't Cry, never really did. Movies where rape is the central theme or plotline or pivotal action - just don't really want to see; yeah, I've seen The Accused, and it is a good movie, but that's the last one of that kind I've seen, I think. My standard for "great" movies is pretty high. I thought Leaving Las Vegas was pretty good, I wouldn't call it great, but it is the first one that came to mind when I saw the subject of the post. Don't want to see it again. I

Frances is a pretty good movie, and so very, very depressing. Gotta second Sybil (I don't think it was technically a "movie," I believe it was only ever on TV). Jesus Christ, what a horribly depressing miniseries. Sally Field was good in it, but damn... that shit was bleak.

Can't think of any movies that I've seen that I can't watch because they're too emotionally upsetting (maybe I'm dead inside), there are just movies that I can acknowledge are good and show real effort at art but are such a bummer that one viewing is pretty much all I need to get something out of it. Saw Oldboy, don't need to see it again. I wouldn't call it great, I'd call it better than most horror/suspense flicks, it's just kinda gross. If you haven't seen it yet, when he grabs the scissors, turn your head. You don't want to see. The Sweet Hereafter is quite depressing and pretty good.

Having said all that, there are a ton of movies I haven't seen, maybe I just haven't seen the one that devastates me yet. I think I have a problem forgetting that I'm watching a movie and that everything in it is make believe, that so and so isn't really dead or being raped or whatever. Real life is fucking scary, movies are just the reflection of that. Kinda hard to see the pretend stuff as traumatic when you have the real thing to compare it to.

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