Films that aren't shit but you could never watch again.
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Then Haneke can fuck riiight off!
I didn't say there was no stalker!!
Spit it out!
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
Deliverance
Requim for a Dream
Come and See
Nil By Mouth
Generally speaking deeply depressing/realist films...TBH, i could probably watch Deliverance or Come & See again, I just haven't been in the right mood for either. Requim is possibly the bleakest movie ever...after Kes, which just thinking about makes me sad/angry...one of my favourite films too...
Requim for a Dream
Come and See
Nil By Mouth
Generally speaking deeply depressing/realist films...TBH, i could probably watch Deliverance or Come & See again, I just haven't been in the right mood for either. Requim is possibly the bleakest movie ever...after Kes, which just thinking about makes me sad/angry...one of my favourite films too...
electrogirl
dignity is overrated
I'm not sure I could watch Deliverance again.
Azrael
circling Airstrip One
Can't think of any film I couldn't watch again -- I have a strong constitution for simulated nasties. (I cracked up laughing at the most "disturbing" part of Alexander Nevsky as its blatant propagandising broke the forth wall.) Can think of plenty films I've no wish to watch again. Latest example is The Reader. Good film, well made, but I got it first time round ta.
Harrowing films can work if my mood's right. I've watched Cross of Iron a few times, ditto La Haine.
Hmmm, actually, In the Name of the Father comes closest. I find torture scenes especially disturbing, and add to that a black and white plot and one-dimensional characters … meh.
Harrowing films can work if my mood's right. I've watched Cross of Iron a few times, ditto La Haine.
Hmmm, actually, In the Name of the Father comes closest. I find torture scenes especially disturbing, and add to that a black and white plot and one-dimensional characters … meh.
Azrael
circling Airstrip One
Is Come and See really *that* unwatchable? There's village burning and atrocities, but there's also a cathartic execution of evil Nazis and some groundbreaking cinematography. (Some claim Mr Spielberg was "inspired" by it in Saving Private Ryan.)
I found Cross of Iron much bleaker. Das Boot also, come to think of it.
I found Cross of Iron much bleaker. Das Boot also, come to think of it.
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
I find the violence in films like Scum the hardest to watch - zombie movies can be guts a-go-go, slashers can slash nubile teens into strips of bacon, but the kind of violence in Scum, NBM and to a lesser extent the implied violenc in The Cook, The Thief... (especially the castration)...they all give me a physical revulsion type reaction...
The Octagon
Stop...Hammertime
Another vote for Requiem For A Dream.
Me and a flatmate watched that one night, once the credits rolled we looked at each other with proper depressed expressions and went to bed (separately, just to be clear).
Ruined a chilled friday night that did.
Me and a flatmate watched that one night, once the credits rolled we looked at each other with proper depressed expressions and went to bed (separately, just to be clear).
Ruined a chilled friday night that did.
Biddlybee
making knots with sticks
3rd or 4th time this has been mentioned. I've never heard of it.
Aye, films like that I find really hard to watch again.
Azrael
circling Airstrip One
Bar my squeamishness of torture scenes, I'm not too bothered even by "realistic" faked violence. I can never predict what's going to get to me. I was more disturbed by the Ellis Island eugenics in Golden Door than I was by Mr Winstone asking who the daddy was, for example.
Before I get written off as a psychopath, I'm a wuss when it comes to film of actual violence. I still wish I hadn't watched Eduardo's injury on MoTD.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
'Once, in a time not to unlike our own there was a fine actor who specialised in the role of old wise man....'
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
Azrael
circling Airstrip One
And in the right thread this time ...
If I recall right from the one time I saw The Shawshank Redemption:
And this is a hopeful movie?!
If I recall right from the one time I saw The Shawshank Redemption:
Man is falsely convicted of murdering his wife. Spends 20 years in lock-up with corrupt guards and periodic sodomy and brutality, digs his way out with a toothpick or something, and gets to spend the rest of his life on the lamb in Mexico. But at least his pal skips parole and comes to join him.
And this is a hopeful movie?!
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
And in the right thread this time ...
If I recall right from the one time I saw The Shawshank Redemption:
Man is falsely convicted of murdering his wife. Spends 20 years in lock-up with corrupt guards and periodic sodomy and brutality, digs his way out with a toothpick or something, and gets to spend the rest of his life on the lamb in Mexico. But at least his pal skips parole and comes to join him.
And this is a hopeful movie?!
nah, it's a treacly piece of shit
I think you can get away with spoiler for such well known films
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
And in the right thread this time ...
If I recall right from the one time I saw The Shawshank Redemption:
Man is falsely convicted of murdering his wife. Spends 20 years in lock-up with corrupt guards and periodic sodomy and brutality, digs his way out with a toothpick or something, and gets to spend the rest of his life on the lamb in Mexico. But at least his pal skips parole and comes to join him.
And this is a hopeful movie?!
Yup - persistence of belief in yourself, never giving up, 'Getting busy living and not busy dying'
Azrael
circling Airstrip One
I got what the film was going for, but didn't feel the ideals matched the reality of (Googles imdb) Andy Dufresne's situation.
But then I'm dubious about the concept of "feel good" movies altogether. What I've heard about Slumdog Millionaire, for example, makes me doubt whether it'd make me feel particualry good. (Not commenting on its quality as I haven't seen it.)
I'll say this for Shawshank though: at least it kept Star Wars off the top spot in one of those "best movie ever!" polls.
Mrs Miggins
Eternal
Fucken Blair Witch Project because I think I am actually the only person who was scared shitless by it 
electrogirl
dignity is overrated
Fucken Blair Witch Project because I think I am actually the only person who was scared shitless by it
No I was too. I can't watch it alone.
electrogirl
dignity is overrated
I've actually watched the Cook, The Thief... quite a few times.
Me too. I have to be in the right mood though.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
I've actually watched the Cook, The Thief... quite a few times.
Me too - it's ace.
I've seen Come & See twice too.
And I've seen Requiem For A Dream a couple of times.
Thing with the Cook the Thief... is that even though it's grim, it looks absolutely wonderful. It doesn't look like a grim and nasty film. It's quite a clever trick, that not many people that I can think of offhand have really achieved. That's why it's much more rewatchable than say Lilja 4 Ever.
Not sure I could watch Requiem again.
Not sure I could watch Requiem again.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
I don't think it's grim at all. What's grim about it? It's really funny, which is quite an achievement for Peter Greenaway
That's what I mean though - the subject matter is theoretically grim, but the way it's done is so colourful and artistic and stuff that it isn't.
electrogirl
dignity is overrated
It's funny and grim. It is grim.
It's definitely one to watch more than once though, because of the way it looks. There is alot to take in.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
how is it grim?
electrogirl
dignity is overrated
Well some bits are hard to watch aren't they?
The bit with the little boy springs to mind, the way he treats her in general.
And the end of course.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
oh yeah, the belly button thing's not very nice.
The end is just daft.
All I really remember is the eating n shagging though.
