Films that aren't shit but you could never watch again.
- Thread starter ATOMIC SUPLEX
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Biglittlefish
Active Member
Well I wouldn't want to sit through it again.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Biglittlefish
Active Member
And as mentioned in the other thread Breaking the waves. An innocent girl fucking unpleasant men for 3 hours. Can't say its bad but won't be in a hurry for another siting.
I did that with a mate with just weed and coffee at our disposal. It was torture but I'm quite proud in a geeky way to say I managed it.
i don't think there is, really. It's not complicated, unless you have a very narrow idea of what "art" is. If art is allowed to be, say, harrowing, then it's not complicated to have great art you wish to experience only once
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
4000 words on my desk by monday.
Also, revive that game thing you did where people had to make essay titles from random subjects, because I have this idea about the nature of beards in popular sci fi (usually used to signify the male characters loss of control)
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
Time Bandits. It's a great film but I just cannot watch it again because basically I watched it too much when I was a kid, to the extent of being able to quote almost every scene from start to finish.
ajk
that's a shame
Is there also a corollary to this, that there can be rubbish art that you're happy to experience repeatedly?
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
No I don't, you only have to look on this thread to see that I said Happiness and Sympathy for Mr Vengeance were good films. I think you just notice when I say something is shit because you always seem to like it. I think the problem is that you are into shit music and films.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
I did this with Brazil which for many many years was my only VHS tape. It's etched in my brain.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
I like good stuff while you wank into a cup over obscure stuff because you love wanking into a cup.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Happiness and Sympathy for Mr Vengeance are not obscure films, they may not be hollywood blockbusters but if you think they are obscure you have no place making judgments on or comparing the merits of any film ever.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Biglittlefish
Active Member
I like Happiness. I was surprised when I left it downstairs once and my housemates, who would shoot themselves before watching an indie movie ,watched it, loved it, told loads of their friends about it and watched it three more times.
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
I guessed the twist before I even saw it.
The thing with Time Bandits is that it's great, but also flawed. I actually find the Napoleon section extremely tedious. The rest of it is ace, though.
I watch, on average, two films a night...with mates or on me todd...if I watch a film again it's out of courtesy to others but if I bothered to watch the amount of films I do watch again I would never get anything done...at all 
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saying that I would watch pretty much anything I'd bothered to watch in the first place...because if I can still watch them again..if I want... if I watch a film I don't like I do not watch it ever aagin ever ever.
this is why computerers are geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeereaaaaat..you do what you want to...not coz it makes you. you do it when you want to, where you want to, how you want to, with whoever you want to.
I have my coffee ready, a tube built & Get Over It http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0192071/0 loaded ready to go.
Jus watched Autopsy (http://www.horrorfestonline.com/ )...neither of these I suspect I'll ever watch again but will share with someone else no doubt.... but I may watch the last of the evening's worthy offerings with some others...Attack Girls Swim Team Vs. The Undead BUT if someone else turns up I may have(and want to) to watch The Raspberry Reich.
...more .saying that I would watch pretty much anything I'd bothered to watch in the first place...because if I can still watch them again..if I want... if I watch a film I don't like I do not watch it ever aagin ever ever.
this is why computerers are geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeereaaaaat..you do what you want to...not coz it makes you. you do it when you want to, where you want to, how you want to, with whoever you want to.
I have my coffee ready, a tube built & Get Over It http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0192071/0 loaded ready to go.
Jus watched Autopsy (http://www.horrorfestonline.com/ )...neither of these I suspect I'll ever watch again but will share with someone else no doubt.... but I may watch the last of the evening's worthy offerings with some others...Attack Girls Swim Team Vs. The Undead BUT if someone else turns up I may have(and want to) to watch The Raspberry Reich.
Fucking bollocks.
Totally understand about Irreversible, but why wouldnt you watch Cache again? The part where the moroccan guy kills himself on camera?
Who the fuck was the stalker?? The son??
That's always bugged me.This. Also Scum, and I suspect probably Ringu as I am too much of a wuss
I actually want to watch Scum again, because the only time I watched it was when I was 13, and it was being passed around our class as some sort of elicit 'snuff video'. I.e. people were only watching it for the shock value, and I didn't really realise at the time that it was quite a highly rated drama.
I could watch this again, but in a similar vein, Bridge to Terabithia. It's a bit like a sort of American contemporary version of Pan's Labyrinth, with a gut-wrenching twist about 2/3rds through. The trailers made it look like a simple kid's fantasy film.
It was great, but I couldn't stomach it again.
