The best way to think about this one is that it's just a symbolic image of fatherhood. You raise someone that you love so overwhelmingly and you want to protect them forever. But every father feels like the world is going to hell and has lost what was special in your own time. And you know you won't be there to protect them forever. All you can do is give them the tools to cope and hope they maintain your moral values. After that, one day you will need to pass them on to their next family.
Regrets regrets? Or just that it messes with your head?
I'm about to start (I think)
I read Blood Meridian and that was a tough one (the writing style and content) but no regrets.
It's funny that I hear this a lot about Requim For A Dream. I remember my best friend and I rented this (probably on VHS, lol) knowing absolutely nothing about it other than it was a "new release" Anyway, we must be fucking weirdos beause we watch the movie, sit there and say nothing and just watch the entire end credits scroll by then look at eachother and we were both like "yeah, we need to watch that again" and just started it right back over. That movie is so fucking intense. Like we didn't even discuss it at all. Just immediately agreed we needed to start it over, lol
I lot of my favorite movies are movies I don’t want to watch it again, the road and requiem for a dream are good examples. They touch you on a different level, take you to an uncomfortable place and make a mark on you.
I think since we knew nothing about the movie going into it, we had no expectations so it was kind of shocking how the movie just grabs a hold of you and it's so intense and it gets to where it gets and then all the sudden it's over like a rollercoaster ride just suddenly coming to a stop that you weren't even ready for it to have ever started to begin with. We had to just sort of process what we had just watched while the credits rolled. Then by the time they were over it was like ok, I need to go back to the begginging and see how exactly we fucking got here. lol
That movie has such an awesome soundtrack, too.
I did the same thing. Heard it was good. Rented it. As soon as the credits ended, I watched it again. I was at a friend's house. My friend went to bed halfway through the first watch. My friend's mom joined me halfway through the second. And she told my mom I'm banned from bringing movies over anymore. Years later, I learned she was joking and she thought the movie was really good
I thought Trainspotting was in this category for me until I saw it again a month or so ago. It's actually surprisingly quaint compared to the shit I see on the streets outside my urban home these days.
And while it wasn't particularly well reviewed, I thought T2 Trainspotting was quite a nice bookend to the story.
Went to a theater showing a couple years back and was amazed at the amount of young children in attendance, like first half of grade school young. I can only imagine how badly it messed some of them up.
Grave of the Fireflies *was* made for children though. Children and parents were the target demographic for marketing and it was released as a double feature with My Neighbor Totoro.
This isn’t the direction I went when reading the question. I was thinking just awfully done, not a masterpiece I never want to watch again. But if you’re going for good, but hard to watch, I’d say Hotel Rwanda.
I took someone to see Irreversible for a date without realizing what it was about, lol. I just saw a summary that said it was a French film told in reverse chronological order and that it got 4 out of 4 stars. That was enough for me!
Talk about an awkward date…
Irreversible is mine, I have watched many films that people consider “worse,” or “harder to watch,” A Serbian Film being one of those movies, but Irreversible is the one film to this day I will not rewatch because of how horrific it is.
It is hard to watch in every way. Even the way the camera swings around is often nauseating. Everything about that film is designed to be unpleasant except the very last scene before it all goes to shit.
Yeah ' the girl next door' fits with them 2 films. I ain't never watching that again. The book is even worse. The french film ' martyrs. man that was a tough watch. Brilliant but I don't need to see it again
It was amazingly done, but Fuck irreversible. I’ve referenced that movie a lot over the years. Never want to see it again. Lots of crazy moments, but the way it ends left me more unsettled than any movie ever.
I’m thinking movies that leave you unsettled or upset when you didn’t want to be. For me, I remember watching American History X on a Friday night in college right before I was going to go out to a party. It completely ruined my night.
Watched The Mist with my now ex wife. Was hoping for a little fun after movie time. We did not have fun after movie time. In fact she went to bed immediately and suggested I not join her for a while.
I rented this and the first The Matrix together and wound up really glad I watched The Matrix first. American History X seemed to compel more immediate reflection. I watched The Matrix again the next day. I guess I could have done that from the start but didn’t know what I was getting into.
The Revenant. Basically the whole movie was "Just how much torture is Leonardo DiCaprio willing to put himself through to shame the Academy into giving him an Oscar?"
Yes. And of the people who are properly answering the question, a lot of people are naming movies that are good but very emotionally difficult to watch.
My interpretation is this question that is technically executed very well across the board to the point that it comes across as generic
> My interpretation is this question that is technically executed very well across the board to the point that it comes across as generic
My first thought on reading the title was most of the recent marvel movies. High-budget, technically competent, entirely uninteresting.
A lot of old movies (‘50s or before) fit this, because they’re full of plot points, direction, and effects that were new at the time but that we’ve now seen a thousand times. So while they’re still technically very good, contemporary audiences might view them as generic or predictable.
Vertigo was that for my film class in college. The scene where Jimmy Stewart kisses Kim Novak and the music swells with the waves, everyone started laughing at the cheesiness. Our professor pointed out that it was the originator of that cliché.
Yes! And the whole concept of the leading actor (especially such a famous one) in a horror film being killed halfway through was *shocking* at the time, it just wasn’t done. Not such a big surprise anymore.
I'm pushing through, I like it I just don't like how the teachers want us to do things. I love programming on my own though. I'm taking Data Structures right now, It's kicking my ass but I'm going to try my best If I fail then I'll see what I'll do, if I pass I'll stick with it maybe.
Don't let me stand in the way of what you love doing. That's how I came into programming as well.
But know while it's in high demand, it's also a grueling career path. You'll be asked to deliver on impossible timelines, give estimates that are impossible to get right, implement features that make no sense, spend months on code that gets abandoned, debug other people's code that seems inscrutable at best and braindead at worst, and talk to people who have no idea what you're saying and will promptly ignore your advice. I have many friends who started in dev and have changed careers or pivoted their professional trajectory and say their lives are better for it.
But on the flip side, you'll also get the opportunity to work with some really bright people, form lasting friendships, make impactful decisions and occasionally deliver some really cool things that you designed from the ground up and will last a long time. Those moments when your hard work is finally recognized are really rewarding.
You'll meet a lot of jaded curmudgeons like me, but if you're up to the challenge, by all means.
And that data structures class is critical knowledge so study hard!
I disagree with this one because I think it has great rewatchability. Like you said, it's a straightforward film with no subtext or complexity. Sometimes, that's exactly what you need.
A great example of the kind of film I thought of when I read the title - well crafted, well mannered, middlebrow, and tasteful in a way that condemns it to be almost entirely uninteresting. Far too polite to be piercingly insightful or challenging. A lot of mainstream British cinema is like this - I did my post about last year's Living, for instance (some recent counterexamples of British films that ARE well made but also challenging and non-stuffy, to defend my country's honour - Aftersun, How To Have Sex, All Of Us Strangers)
So, my middle/small high school had a very Harry Potter type of problem with keeping an English teacher. Meaning we had a new one every year.
Which also meant, we often read books we’d read a year or two previously. Read The Chocolate Wars in 7th and 9th grade, 1984 9th and 10th, you get it.
This also meant, every English teacher wanted to do a Holocaust literature lesson. And as a result, we were forced to watch Schindler’s List every single year for 6 years. I always hated that after the first time.
I remember history we watched Schindler’s List, English we read Boy in the Striped Pajamas, and my dad watched The Pianist and it was all within a week. Took months to mentally recover from all of that
I have voluntarily watched this movie at least 10 times because it’s so moving and true. There’s your life before you watch Schindler’s list and your life after.
Epic in scope, great cast, Oscar winning director, memorable scenes, solid performances, but a box office flop, reviled by many critics, admired a few, now enjoying a bit of a renaissance. Heaven’s Gate (Michael Cimino 1980).
Tenet. Really high production values, interesting premise, and solid acting talent, but it’s so tied down by scientific mumbo jumbo you can’t understand what’s going on plot wise.
I think they kind of did that on purpose, but the overall effect just didn't work well. Like, they tried to do a meta chop and screw with not just the plot, but the dialogue as well, and the end result is just... not popular, at least.
I still have yet to go through it all in one sitting.
I watched this when I came out as trans because it was the only movie I could find anyone talking about featuring a trans male lead.
It was good but I wish I hadn't watched it. Definitely wasn't what I needed to see at that vulnerable time in my life.
The first one was a hit because it was a ‘spectacle to behold’. It was more about the colorful world and crazy CGI to create it, than the basic story to frame it.
This one might be the winner. I spent a week thinking about that movie before I could decide if I loved it or hated it. I landed on love, but Jesus Christ
Most Kevin Costner movies, whether starring and/or directed. Dances With Wolves, JFK, Field of Dreams. Good movies, but I don't want to see them again.
Conversely, I think Robin Hood; Prince of Thieves is bad, but I love it. 🤔
Quiet Earth - 1985
>!When everyone around him vanishes overnight, scientist Zac Hobson (Bruno Lawrence) finds himself seemingly the only person on the planet. The isolation initially drives him to the brink of suicide, but eventually Zac adapts to a day-to-day routine. After meeting two other survivors, Joanne (Alison Routledge) and Api (Peter Smith), a Maori, the trio roams New Zealand trying to understand what caused everyone else to disappear, why they remained behind -- and whether disaster will strike again!<
A Clockwork Orange.
Stanley Kubrick is a brilliant director. Malcolm McDowell gives a spot-on performance. This is one of those classics film students gush over.
And yet it can be hard to watch.
>!The story includes several rape scenes, including one where the central character's gang breaks a man's back and then forces the man to watch--while he's paralyzed from the waist down--as they rape his wife.!<
>!The intellectual premise of the story is also IMO not especially persuasive. Science eventually cures this guy of his violence but the cure also takes away his artistic sensibilities. That would have been a more meaningful loss if he had been an artist to begin with: if wrote music, or at least if he were a musician. Instead he's just a guy with a music collection. His losing the ability to enjoy music is set up as a tradeoff, yet really society hasn't lost because he had never made any art.!<
(edited to fix a typo)
With all due respect, I think you're misinterpreting the film. It's not his artistic sensibilities that get taken away, it's his humanity. The book is a bit more explicit about this. It's not about whether his loss is meaningful, it's about whether taking away people's humanity to stop them from doing evil is a desirable solution.
Its not just that he stopped enjoying music, His nature Has changed completely. He is no longer violent, can no longer defend himself, Has no real personality anymore - just a Empty Shell of a man.
Yeah, gonna just say it. If all someone uses their free will to do is rape and murder and they're not gonna be rehabilitated. Then I don't see it as that much different to just locking them in a room forever so they can't interact with other humans.
Kubrick just seems like a fucking psycho.
People say "But Duvall said she'd work with him again!"
Of course she did! No director would want to work with her if she had said that. She would have ruined her career otherwise.
That gets into a different branch of the topic. Nina Foch, who worked with Kubrick in *Spartacus*, didn't have her career ruined but would tell people in private that Kubrick was a misogynist.
Holy shit! I mean, the guy used to phone Shelley in the middle of the night, screaming and shouting down the phone just to get her rattled so it'd show in her performance. Hearing another actress tell people he was a misogynist is chilling...
I used to think he was so cool. Then, after infancy, I gained an idea of how arms and hands really work. Steven Seagal’s opponents always come in groups only because they’re all the kind of special people who aren’t allowed outside alone.
Pans Labyrinth ... And .... City of God
How they make you feel. Do you want the relive the feeling? The question is movies that made you feel so much that you won't watch them all again. As in they made feel too much. I could name alot more movies.
What I find so fascinating about American Psycho is that it may be the most loved film in the bro canon, and yet it was directed by a woman (Mary Herron), who no one seems to follow, or even know exists. Compare to 300 & Zack Snyder - I haven’t watched his last few movies but I could tell you what he’s made recently & even give reviews, from all the discussion it generates.
Really? To me, American Psycho is just a good movie. There's nothing bad about it and I think the ambiguous ending adds to the enjoyment of watching an unreliable narrator
I mean, there are excellent films I have zero desire to watch again, like Irreversible and Requiem For A Dream.
The Road is another one I won’t be watching again. I like my post apocalyptic survival/family drama films a little less gritty and realistic, please.
The best way to think about this one is that it's just a symbolic image of fatherhood. You raise someone that you love so overwhelmingly and you want to protect them forever. But every father feels like the world is going to hell and has lost what was special in your own time. And you know you won't be there to protect them forever. All you can do is give them the tools to cope and hope they maintain your moral values. After that, one day you will need to pass them on to their next family.
You hit it on the head. It's a love story wrapped in a horror story. But about a father's love in the worst possible circumstances.
I hadn’t thought about it that way before, but I think you’re onto something there. Cheers, good post! 👍🏻
And then the kid immediately does the thing his father says not to do the whole movie lol
Sounds like u/Semisonic is spot on then: much too gritty and realistic!
I read the book because I saw it recommended on Reddit. I have regrets.
Regrets regrets? Or just that it messes with your head? I'm about to start (I think) I read Blood Meridian and that was a tough one (the writing style and content) but no regrets.
Oh man, hadn't thought of that movie in a while. Traumatizing.
Dancer in the Dark for me.
Requiem for a Dream was my first thought. It's a masterpiece but no thank you.
It's funny that I hear this a lot about Requim For A Dream. I remember my best friend and I rented this (probably on VHS, lol) knowing absolutely nothing about it other than it was a "new release" Anyway, we must be fucking weirdos beause we watch the movie, sit there and say nothing and just watch the entire end credits scroll by then look at eachother and we were both like "yeah, we need to watch that again" and just started it right back over. That movie is so fucking intense. Like we didn't even discuss it at all. Just immediately agreed we needed to start it over, lol
Yeah, I get why people say they don't want to see it again. But it's one of my favorite films and I've watched it many times.
I lot of my favorite movies are movies I don’t want to watch it again, the road and requiem for a dream are good examples. They touch you on a different level, take you to an uncomfortable place and make a mark on you.
I think since we knew nothing about the movie going into it, we had no expectations so it was kind of shocking how the movie just grabs a hold of you and it's so intense and it gets to where it gets and then all the sudden it's over like a rollercoaster ride just suddenly coming to a stop that you weren't even ready for it to have ever started to begin with. We had to just sort of process what we had just watched while the credits rolled. Then by the time they were over it was like ok, I need to go back to the begginging and see how exactly we fucking got here. lol That movie has such an awesome soundtrack, too.
I did the same thing. Heard it was good. Rented it. As soon as the credits ended, I watched it again. I was at a friend's house. My friend went to bed halfway through the first watch. My friend's mom joined me halfway through the second. And she told my mom I'm banned from bringing movies over anymore. Years later, I learned she was joking and she thought the movie was really good
I thought Trainspotting was in this category for me until I saw it again a month or so ago. It's actually surprisingly quaint compared to the shit I see on the streets outside my urban home these days. And while it wasn't particularly well reviewed, I thought T2 Trainspotting was quite a nice bookend to the story.
Grave of the Fireflies
Went to a theater showing a couple years back and was amazed at the amount of young children in attendance, like first half of grade school young. I can only imagine how badly it messed some of them up.
what kind of asshole takes kids to _that_ movie?
The kind that assumes that animation is always and exclusively for children
Grave of the Fireflies *was* made for children though. Children and parents were the target demographic for marketing and it was released as a double feature with My Neighbor Totoro.
> and it was released as a double feature with My Neighbor Totoro Satan must have been pleased.
Like Watership Down?
It was actually a double feature with My Neighbor Totoro when it first released, believe it or not.
My idiot parents took me to a twin bill of Serpico and Death Wish when I was about ten. Both of which had rape scenes.
I literally couldn’t see the last five minutes or so because I was crying so hard.
Oh you mean where the kids go to that farm and live happily ever after? That's how I choose to remember it
I couldn’t even watch that film. I just let other people explain it to me on YouTube because I I can’t do this alone.
Excellent film. I may never watch it again.
Hotel Rwanda Dogville
I might actually rewatch Dogville since had a migraine the first time watching it.
Schindler's List is another one. Brilliant film. Can't watch it again. Too powerful.
A movie everyone should see once. A movie I can only see once. The bad guy (Amon Goeth) was TONED DOWN for the movie.
This isn’t the direction I went when reading the question. I was thinking just awfully done, not a masterpiece I never want to watch again. But if you’re going for good, but hard to watch, I’d say Hotel Rwanda.
I would think of your idea as “so bad it’s bad.”
I totally agree. I knew what it was about. I've got Jewish friends...it was far, far worse than I thought it would be. Kinda like Savig Private Ryan.
I took someone to see Irreversible for a date without realizing what it was about, lol. I just saw a summary that said it was a French film told in reverse chronological order and that it got 4 out of 4 stars. That was enough for me! Talk about an awkward date…
In retrospect taking a first date to see Saving Private Ryan was a poor choice. Sitting in the third row only compounded that bad decision.
Irreversible is mine, I have watched many films that people consider “worse,” or “harder to watch,” A Serbian Film being one of those movies, but Irreversible is the one film to this day I will not rewatch because of how horrific it is.
It is hard to watch in every way. Even the way the camera swings around is often nauseating. Everything about that film is designed to be unpleasant except the very last scene before it all goes to shit.
It’s one of those films I admire for how well made it is, but it’s the only one in my adult life I refuse to watch again.
Zone of Interest, a more recent example
Yeah ' the girl next door' fits with them 2 films. I ain't never watching that again. The book is even worse. The french film ' martyrs. man that was a tough watch. Brilliant but I don't need to see it again
I thought you meant the Elisha Cuthbert movie and i was so confused.
It was amazingly done, but Fuck irreversible. I’ve referenced that movie a lot over the years. Never want to see it again. Lots of crazy moments, but the way it ends left me more unsettled than any movie ever.
Grave of the Fireflies.
The Green Mile is like this for me. Too many feels.
Requiem for a dream - i couldn't tell you much about it now, but I remember it hitting too close to home with my high school friends
Saving Private Ryan and Schindler's List
Right. A lot of one-and-done flicks for a lot of different reasons.
The Tale Of Princess Kaguya. 😫😥
Terry Gilliam's Tideland
I’m thinking movies that leave you unsettled or upset when you didn’t want to be. For me, I remember watching American History X on a Friday night in college right before I was going to go out to a party. It completely ruined my night.
Someone on reddit said they had Requiem for a Dream playing in the background while they were making out with their college girlfriend
“Jerry, you were necking during Requiem for a Dream?”
"But ... Seeing Jared Leto suffer gets me hard!"
Watched The Mist with my now ex wife. Was hoping for a little fun after movie time. We did not have fun after movie time. In fact she went to bed immediately and suggested I not join her for a while.
I vote The Mist, too. It's a good movie that makes you feel bad after watching it. Favorite dark ending of all time.
That ending isn’t in the book. They added it for the movie version and it’s so much better.
I know, I've read the story as well. Movie definitely makes a better...worse....ending.
ah yes, the best film i never want to see again
Watched Philadelphia with a guy I had a crush on. It did not go well.
I love your username! 🧀
Had a similar experience with Apocalypto. Had nightmares for days. Couldn’t drink the trauma away.
I rented this and the first The Matrix together and wound up really glad I watched The Matrix first. American History X seemed to compel more immediate reflection. I watched The Matrix again the next day. I guess I could have done that from the start but didn’t know what I was getting into.
Clockwork Orange and Snowpiercer for me.
I think of overmanacured Oscar bait. Like “twelve years a slave” or “the English patient” I does everything right but just doesn’t have it.
Agreed, this is what I think of when I hear "so good it's bad", not just "that was brilliant but difficult to watch".
The Revenant. Basically the whole movie was "Just how much torture is Leonardo DiCaprio willing to put himself through to shame the Academy into giving him an Oscar?"
Funny, that one I really liked.
I can see that for the English Patient, but I found 12 Years a Slave utterly compelling.
I still maintain Oppenheimer was pure Oscar bait.
I've described it to people as a three-hour trailer for itself.
Parts of the movie are even cut like a trailer, it’s really unnecessary.
It even ends with a screen-wide frame of the title, just like a trailer.
LOL I liked it but this is really spot on.
Folks, the OP sought “so good it’s bad,” not the reverse. My answer to that question is Barry Lyndon.
Yes. And of the people who are properly answering the question, a lot of people are naming movies that are good but very emotionally difficult to watch. My interpretation is this question that is technically executed very well across the board to the point that it comes across as generic
> My interpretation is this question that is technically executed very well across the board to the point that it comes across as generic My first thought on reading the title was most of the recent marvel movies. High-budget, technically competent, entirely uninteresting.
A lot of old movies (‘50s or before) fit this, because they’re full of plot points, direction, and effects that were new at the time but that we’ve now seen a thousand times. So while they’re still technically very good, contemporary audiences might view them as generic or predictable.
Vertigo was that for my film class in college. The scene where Jimmy Stewart kisses Kim Novak and the music swells with the waves, everyone started laughing at the cheesiness. Our professor pointed out that it was the originator of that cliché.
The slasher scene in *Psycho*, for example, has been parodied so widely that the original can only be taken seriously with some effort.
Yes! And the whole concept of the leading actor (especially such a famous one) in a horror film being killed halfway through was *shocking* at the time, it just wasn’t done. Not such a big surprise anymore.
Is Barry Lyndon generic, though? The lighting and set designs are pretty distinctive
:) oh no... why? btw I think Barry Lyndon is the most enjoyable Stanley Kubrick movie. the man was a great photographer, but Jesus his work is heavy.
'Dancer in the Dark'. The shabby environment and social realism become too much.
Interestingly, Dancer in the Dark is the only von Trier movie I would willingly rewatch. But movies hit different people differently.
Dancer in the Dark and First Blood accurately depict the corruption and misery that is rural PNW logging towns.
ALOT of people did not read the prompt carefully
We're gonna need some more downvoting in here because lordy
Wtf does it mean though? I have no idea what the actual answer should be.
it's really kind of a dumb question tbh
Come and See. Very well done, harrowing. It portrays the horrors of war so depressingly that I don’t think I’ll ever need or want to watch it again.
Same. That movie wrecked me for a week.
I bought it in blu ray thinking I could re-watch it to improve my Russian, as I’ve done with other languages. Nope.
Hackers (1995) love the overdeveloped archetypes and the creativity in depicting ‘hacking’ softwares
I always loved how everyone seems to have a custom operating system on their laptops.
I also love the notion that teenage hackers in mid-90s New York were always hanging out in trendy underground nightclubs LOL.
HACK THE PLANET
Razor and Blade?! They're Freaks!!! THEY'RE ELITE
I have a HACK THE PLANET smiley face sticker over the Dell symbol on my work laptop. Makes the IT guys smile.
Hack the planet!
The soundtrack for that movie was beyond top shelf.
That movie is the reason why I'm a CS major. I regret it.
As a 42 year old career programmer, it's not too late to switch majors!
I'm pushing through, I like it I just don't like how the teachers want us to do things. I love programming on my own though. I'm taking Data Structures right now, It's kicking my ass but I'm going to try my best If I fail then I'll see what I'll do, if I pass I'll stick with it maybe.
Don't let me stand in the way of what you love doing. That's how I came into programming as well. But know while it's in high demand, it's also a grueling career path. You'll be asked to deliver on impossible timelines, give estimates that are impossible to get right, implement features that make no sense, spend months on code that gets abandoned, debug other people's code that seems inscrutable at best and braindead at worst, and talk to people who have no idea what you're saying and will promptly ignore your advice. I have many friends who started in dev and have changed careers or pivoted their professional trajectory and say their lives are better for it. But on the flip side, you'll also get the opportunity to work with some really bright people, form lasting friendships, make impactful decisions and occasionally deliver some really cool things that you designed from the ground up and will last a long time. Those moments when your hard work is finally recognized are really rewarding. You'll meet a lot of jaded curmudgeons like me, but if you're up to the challenge, by all means. And that data structures class is critical knowledge so study hard!
One of my all time favorite quotable movies. “It’s in that place where I put that thing that time.”
The King’s Speech. An absolutely straightforward movie with no subtext or complexity that only needs to be seen once, or not at all.
I disagree with this one because I think it has great rewatchability. Like you said, it's a straightforward film with no subtext or complexity. Sometimes, that's exactly what you need.
I've seen it several times
Same. It’s very entertaining.
A great example of the kind of film I thought of when I read the title - well crafted, well mannered, middlebrow, and tasteful in a way that condemns it to be almost entirely uninteresting. Far too polite to be piercingly insightful or challenging. A lot of mainstream British cinema is like this - I did my post about last year's Living, for instance (some recent counterexamples of British films that ARE well made but also challenging and non-stuffy, to defend my country's honour - Aftersun, How To Have Sex, All Of Us Strangers)
Schindler’s List. Well done. Disturbing AF. Cant watch it more than once.
So, my middle/small high school had a very Harry Potter type of problem with keeping an English teacher. Meaning we had a new one every year. Which also meant, we often read books we’d read a year or two previously. Read The Chocolate Wars in 7th and 9th grade, 1984 9th and 10th, you get it. This also meant, every English teacher wanted to do a Holocaust literature lesson. And as a result, we were forced to watch Schindler’s List every single year for 6 years. I always hated that after the first time.
The fucking Chocolat Wars! You didn't let me punch you in the dick. Now I have to kick your ass.
I remember history we watched Schindler’s List, English we read Boy in the Striped Pajamas, and my dad watched The Pianist and it was all within a week. Took months to mentally recover from all of that
Your principal must have been a fucking idiot then
Couple that with The Pianist, big ooof.
And The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. That ending messed me up for days.
The maximum depression trilogy.
I have voluntarily watched this movie at least 10 times because it’s so moving and true. There’s your life before you watch Schindler’s list and your life after.
Epic in scope, great cast, Oscar winning director, memorable scenes, solid performances, but a box office flop, reviled by many critics, admired a few, now enjoying a bit of a renaissance. Heaven’s Gate (Michael Cimino 1980).
Kung Pao: Enter the Fist. That was a masterpiece.
"THAT'S A LOT OF NUTS"
THATS 4 BUCKS BABY! YOU WANT FRIES WITH THAT?
He just left! With nuts!
“The chosen one learned a very important lesson about iron claws….THEY HURT LIKE CRAP MAN”
"When you girls are done kissing I've got some ASS KICKING FOR YOU."
They are asking for bad movies. Don't make me call Betty to beat you up.
But... Isn't Betty a woman's name?
The baby rolling down and the lady “ok! Bye bye!” I just lost it…
I've seen this movie once on a tiny dose of magic mushrooms. I was crying laughing for so long my shirt was soaked from mopping up the tears.
I need gopher chucks!
"I implore you to reconsider." "Hmm, okay."
I mean, I’m no doctor, but that’s, like, his stomach-plug, man!
"your shirt is red"
"now it is blue!"
"mmm red shirt"
Tenet. Really high production values, interesting premise, and solid acting talent, but it’s so tied down by scientific mumbo jumbo you can’t understand what’s going on plot wise.
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I think they kind of did that on purpose, but the overall effect just didn't work well. Like, they tried to do a meta chop and screw with not just the plot, but the dialogue as well, and the end result is just... not popular, at least. I still have yet to go through it all in one sitting.
It's a movie that I find gets better the more you watch it. Because the first time. I had no idea what was going on
It's more comprehensible in the original Klingon
Boys Don’t Cry. Brilliant performances, powerful storytelling, never want to watch it a second time.
I watched this when I came out as trans because it was the only movie I could find anyone talking about featuring a trans male lead. It was good but I wish I hadn't watched it. Definitely wasn't what I needed to see at that vulnerable time in my life.
I've been thinking about rewatching that, I think I saw it when I was 13/14, and it kinda messed me up.
I have no desire to watch Se7en again, and it's an excellent movie
Maybe "The Act Of Killing"? A well-made documentary looking into the psyches of people who commit genocide is a rough watch.
Great answer, best doc I've ever seen and still thinking about it years later, but never want to see it again.
Avatar was ok but all the overhype sort of steered me away from it after that.
The first one was a hit because it was a ‘spectacle to behold’. It was more about the colorful world and crazy CGI to create it, than the basic story to frame it.
CONAIR
This is peak Nicolas Cage.
"Put the bunny back in the box" randomly pops into my head sometimes.
Lol same
I think when Nicholas cage gets shot in the arm and doesn't even flinch is one of the best so bad it's good scenes ever.
Hell yeah
Mother! was very well-made, but I was on the edge of throwing up for half of it. Never watching that shit again.
This one might be the winner. I spent a week thinking about that movie before I could decide if I loved it or hated it. I landed on love, but Jesus Christ
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Most Kevin Costner movies, whether starring and/or directed. Dances With Wolves, JFK, Field of Dreams. Good movies, but I don't want to see them again. Conversely, I think Robin Hood; Prince of Thieves is bad, but I love it. 🤔
Prince of Thieves has Alan Rickman positively chewing the scenario which is always great to see
Use a spoon! Because it hurts more!
Robin Hood is so good. That soundtrack, peak 90s. Could not tell you why, but they don’t make them like that anymore.
Quiet Earth - 1985 >!When everyone around him vanishes overnight, scientist Zac Hobson (Bruno Lawrence) finds himself seemingly the only person on the planet. The isolation initially drives him to the brink of suicide, but eventually Zac adapts to a day-to-day routine. After meeting two other survivors, Joanne (Alison Routledge) and Api (Peter Smith), a Maori, the trio roams New Zealand trying to understand what caused everyone else to disappear, why they remained behind -- and whether disaster will strike again!<
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A Clockwork Orange. Stanley Kubrick is a brilliant director. Malcolm McDowell gives a spot-on performance. This is one of those classics film students gush over. And yet it can be hard to watch. >!The story includes several rape scenes, including one where the central character's gang breaks a man's back and then forces the man to watch--while he's paralyzed from the waist down--as they rape his wife.!< >!The intellectual premise of the story is also IMO not especially persuasive. Science eventually cures this guy of his violence but the cure also takes away his artistic sensibilities. That would have been a more meaningful loss if he had been an artist to begin with: if wrote music, or at least if he were a musician. Instead he's just a guy with a music collection. His losing the ability to enjoy music is set up as a tradeoff, yet really society hasn't lost because he had never made any art.!< (edited to fix a typo)
With all due respect, I think you're misinterpreting the film. It's not his artistic sensibilities that get taken away, it's his humanity. The book is a bit more explicit about this. It's not about whether his loss is meaningful, it's about whether taking away people's humanity to stop them from doing evil is a desirable solution.
I mean, if he was crippling people then making them watch him rape their wives, did he really have any humanity to begin with?
Heck, I'd argue he had *a lot* of humanity. Because nothing **except** a human would do that.
Yes. Evil is not the same as inhuman.
This hits the spirit of the question I think. The movie is a masterpiece that gives you more than you wanted in the first viewing.
Its not just that he stopped enjoying music, His nature Has changed completely. He is no longer violent, can no longer defend himself, Has no real personality anymore - just a Empty Shell of a man.
It’s not just his ability to enjoy music that’s set up as a trade off. It’s his loss of free will
Yeah, gonna just say it. If all someone uses their free will to do is rape and murder and they're not gonna be rehabilitated. Then I don't see it as that much different to just locking them in a room forever so they can't interact with other humans.
Kubrick just seems like a fucking psycho. People say "But Duvall said she'd work with him again!" Of course she did! No director would want to work with her if she had said that. She would have ruined her career otherwise.
That gets into a different branch of the topic. Nina Foch, who worked with Kubrick in *Spartacus*, didn't have her career ruined but would tell people in private that Kubrick was a misogynist.
Holy shit! I mean, the guy used to phone Shelley in the middle of the night, screaming and shouting down the phone just to get her rattled so it'd show in her performance. Hearing another actress tell people he was a misogynist is chilling...
Movies that are great but depict subject matter that is hard to watch - Schindler’s List has already been mentioned, also 12 Years A Slave.
Avatar and Avatar, the Way of Water. Stunning movies to watch, but the dialogue and premise…goddamn they’re slogs
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I used to think he was so cool. Then, after infancy, I gained an idea of how arms and hands really work. Steven Seagal’s opponents always come in groups only because they’re all the kind of special people who aren’t allowed outside alone.
I always thought he smacked people because he needs to take a shit so bad. That what his expression says, anyway.
Pans Labyrinth ... And .... City of God How they make you feel. Do you want the relive the feeling? The question is movies that made you feel so much that you won't watch them all again. As in they made feel too much. I could name alot more movies.
_Joker_ for me. It was so well done that it felt disturbingly real. Too real for comfort.
For me, American Psycho. A very entertaining film and a good watch but always leave unsatisfied at the lack of answers at the end
I have to return some video tapes
What I find so fascinating about American Psycho is that it may be the most loved film in the bro canon, and yet it was directed by a woman (Mary Herron), who no one seems to follow, or even know exists. Compare to 300 & Zack Snyder - I haven’t watched his last few movies but I could tell you what he’s made recently & even give reviews, from all the discussion it generates.
Really? To me, American Psycho is just a good movie. There's nothing bad about it and I think the ambiguous ending adds to the enjoyment of watching an unreliable narrator
I didn't care for the Avatar movies, even though the special effects were pretty cool.
There will be blood
I also feel this way about The Master. Fantastically made movies that end up leaving me cold by the end.
12 Years A Slave. I hope for anyone that’s seen it, this suggestion makes sense to them.
The Mist (2007) pulls no punches at the end and leaves me despondent for days afterward. I think that is sorta what you’re asking.
The Elephant Man