There are quite a few films that I would put in this catagory. I'm pretty sure Irreversible would be at the top of my list. I didn't get any comfort from viewing that film. It was quite disturbing in fact! Tokyo Fist & Flight 93 are two more I do not plan on ever seeing again.
Now who is just expecting me to say it?
Yes, my entry is...
Zardoz!!!!!!
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Somebody lock the doors of the asylum, please. (http://smileys.on-my-web.com/repository/Tongue/mockery-022.gif)
Killer Condom and Killer Tongue come to mind. They were fun films and not unwatchable but I'm not going to see them again.
I have yet to see those films Zardoz, Killer Codom & Tongue but I wil make a note to avoid them. Ok, well maybe I'll see them once.
Keeping with the theme of Bad Movies maybe on the lighter side I would not see Ghost Dad nor Howard the Duck again either!
Oh man there are 100's I could care less if I ever saw again .... what comes to mind right off of recent views.
The Devil wears Prada (Over rated chick film)
Mystic River (Over rated Sean Penn)
Bareback Mountian (Does eewww cover this?)
Idiocracy (I swear I lost at least 50 IQ point watching this tripe)
that's just a few ...
Quote from: CheezeFlixz on February 03, 2007, 05:04:45 PM
Bareback Mountian (Does eewww cover this?)
Please, for the love of God, tell me that you meant to type "Brokeback Mountain."
Quote from: Andrew on February 03, 2007, 05:07:07 PM
Quote from: CheezeFlixz on February 03, 2007, 05:04:45 PM
Bareback Mountian (Does eewww cover this?)
Please, for the love of God, tell me that you meant to type "Brokeback Mountain."
Yes I did ... shows you how much I like it. Should have been call Bareback Mountain or Humpback mountain perhaps I heard it called that on RUSH. I never finished it.
I have never seen Irreversible, and I never will. A few seconds of the fire extinguisher scene made up my mind right there and then.
I thought that The Butterfly Effect (Ashton Kutcher) might have been a good movie, and I actually bought it unseen on DVD. Awful and depressing movie. Never again.
Most of the other non-comfort movies were such non-events that I've forgotten them anyway. Although I do remember a really bad movie called 'Hellfire', a scifi techno thriller about some kind of biological warfare compound or something. Ah, it's this one:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165433/
Watched it once, and I will never see it again. Very disjointed and poorly produced.
Two, and I have had no qualms about noising these about:
Requiem for a Dream
Millenium
-Ed
A Crack in the Floor
Dark Side of the Moon (not to be confused with the PF album)
The Haunting (1999, or 2000, or whenever it was made...)
Super Beast- And let me tell you, it was incredibly hard for just that one sitting.
Killing Birds- If not just to see how not to make a completely effective horror film...
Backwoods- This one was also hard to sit through only once.
Open Water- Great movie, but once you know what happens the rest of the film is ruined.
Matrix Reloaded- I tried to sit through it a second time. It hurt. Bad.
Little Miss Sunshine- I know a lot of people like this film, but I couldn't find enough that I personally liked to warrant another watch on my behalf. I guess it's just me...
The Godfather 2.
Hard Candy - not that it was bad, but I just don't see myself ever watching it again.
Daredevil.
I'm trying to think of movies that genuinely disturb me or put me in a nasty mood.
Legend of the Overfiend
Corky
The Omen
Howard the Duck
A Clockwork Orange too bad I bought a copy, great movie, but not something I want to watch often. But I love the book and would consider rereading it.
The remake of Children of the Damned - just annoys the p**s out of me.
The Boondock Saints
Whale Rider - Again great movie, but the scene when the girl is at her class recital and she's making her speech, and she gets choked up when she realizes her stubborn grandfather isn't coming chokes me up just to think about. Shut up! I can watch Old Yeller or Brian's Song a million times and not bat an eye.
I should try to watch They Might be Giants again, I haven't run across it in years. I liked it when I finally saw it and it was one of my father's favorite movies. When I got older, and went through some rough patches myself, I kind of figured out why.
There are two for me, Dude, Where's My Car? and The Butterfly Effect, the one is just stupid, and the other is just depressing and they both star Ashton Kutcher, who I rank right up there with Paris Hilton as far as acting ability goes. :thumbdown:
Bad movies: Epic Movie, Hollowman (I absolutley hate this movie), American Beauty overrated peice of garbage
Good movies: United 93
Clean, Shaven (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106579/) pretty much fits the bill, although I've seen it twice now. Great movie, just unsettlingly unpleasant. There's one scene that will burn into your brain.
Most of the films about/involving rape prove plenty unpleasant and are often tough to revisit. These are tough to rewatch but despite that I do have most of 'em somewhere in my collection because they do show the true ugly reality of it all. I just won't make too much effort to revisit them very often:
LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
STRAW DOGS
DEATH WISH
There are probably three films that really fall into this category for me...films that are exceptional, yet so unrelentingly %(#&%*&!! dark and/or depressing you can't watch them on any sort of regular basis:
Grave of the Fireflies
Se7en
1984 (the John Hurt/Richard Burton version)
Quote from: Bill C. on February 05, 2007, 03:08:51 PM
There are probably three films that really fall into this category for me...films that are exceptional, yet so unrelentingly %(#&%*&!! dark and/or depressing you can't watch them on any sort of regular basis:
Grave of the Fireflies
Se7en
1984 (the John Hurt/Richard Burton version)
Add Saving Private Ryan to that list.
Mmm, love Zardoz .
Bitter Moon. A very uncomfortable movie.
A knife in the Water. I still can't believe I actually sat through this one. It was college and all, but still, reall boring.
Prospero's book What the *&^@!#^%!! is going on here.
I don't pull out A Clockwork Orange very often, unlike Zardoz, but I will watch it every couple of years.
See, I am the opposite to what many on here are.
I personally love Grave Of The Fireflies, Clockwork Orange, and Requiem For A Dream. I know that nobody on here actually hated on any of those films, but said they were films that they wouldn't watch again.
I've watched Grave Of The Fireflies numerous times since I bought it. I still cry like a baby at the end of the film. There is a true magic captured in that film, it's unlike any other piece of animation I've ever seen. I start to tear up just thinking about it.
Then there is Clockwork Orange. The rape in the beginning of the film is certainly hard to watch, but the rest of the film is pure gold.
Requiem For A Dream has never disturbed me the way it has others. I love the film, I think it's excellently written, directed and acted. It's a great dark story about the various obsessions that people have and their eventual downfall due in part to those obsessions. I've just never felt it to be as soul-crushingly depressing as so many others have. It's a film I've watched many times. It is quite powerful, just not as strong as everyone says.
I rather enjoy disturbing films. They may depress me for a bit, but they always have the opposite effect after some reflection. A film as maddeningly sad as Grave Of The Fireflies just shows how strong love can be, and how important we all are to someone. It's a film about the human spirit, and it makes me feel much better about my own life.
Quote from: raj on February 05, 2007, 07:45:34 PM
Mmm, love Zardoz .
So that's why the doggie did a number on the carpet. A copy of
Zardoz must have been lying close by and he was just expressing his feelings. (http://smileys.on-my-web.com/repository/Tongue/mockery-022.gif)
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Quote from: raj on February 05, 2007, 07:45:34 PM
Mmm, love Zardoz .
So that's why the doggie did a number on the carpet. A copy of Zardoz must have been lying close by and he was just expressing his feelings. (http://smileys.on-my-web.com/repository/Tongue/mockery-022.gif)
Ha ha ha! More like he was upset that it's been over a month since we last watched it, and he wants to see it again. :tongueout:
What we need is a sequel:
Zardoz II: Return to the Vortex :twirl:
but wait...isn't Sean Connery dead? maybe they can use Daniel Craig?
Quote from: jjnewberry on February 05, 2007, 08:39:01 PM
but wait...isn't Sean Connery dead? maybe they can use Daniel Craig?
Connery has been dead for years now. It's just his clone that's walking around.
i think the rape scene in clockwork is rather funny actually, when hes's singin "singing in the rain". irreversible i love cause it WAS disturbing and a flick that can give me the chills like that i love because so few flicks manage to do that to me, too bad my a***ole friend borrorwed it and never gave it back, SOB. that fire extinguisher scene was f**kin boss. if you notice the film never cuts it just keep going like one big scene, its a nice piece of art in a cinematography sense, mabey not taste wise. last house on the left is a great flick too the ending just kind of cancels out the s**t they did to those girls because karma is a b***h especially if its in the form of a chainsaw. requiem for a dream gave and still gives me this unsettling feeling, i cant put my finger on it, mabey cause i know people that thats happened to (drug wise) and thats the eerie feeling.
I've just rented Irreversible, but haven't got to watch it just yet. But I did skip through and have a vague look at it, and it really does seem like the director really loves moving the camera in circular motions. So far I can tell its a film I really have to 'watch' if you know what I mean.
Oh and I'm also a fan of Requim For A Dream, Grave of the Fireflies and A Clockwork Orange. All great films [though Requim has it's bad moments] that I would watch more than once.
I tend to rewatch alot of films, so maybe this thread isn't really for me, but there are films, such as horror/thrillers that I'll probably only watch/enjoy once and just have a passing interest if I do happen to watch it again.
Can't think of anything too specific, but I do feel like The American version of the Grudge would probably be included in that category as an example.
well you have to rewatch irreversible a couple times to get everything but the basic plot is this dude who goes trys to find this other guy who raped his girlfriend and kill him.
EDIT:oh by the way the film plays out backwards which is another reason i like this flick.
2001: A Space Odyssey.
It was rough going from the moment I hit "play". The bit where Stanley wanted to show us every minute detail of the spaceship from every possible angle finally defeated me. I have no intention of ever trying to complete it.
As far as movies that I wouldn't watch again because they upset me emotionally, I couldn't tell you offhand. Probably any movie that showed cruel people not getting any kind of comeuppance.
Quote from: akiratubo on February 06, 2007, 09:02:28 PM
2001: A Space Odyssey.
As far as movies that I wouldn't watch again because they upset me emotionally, I couldn't tell you offhand. Probably any movie that showed cruel people not getting any kind of comeuppance.
That works for me. See enough of that in the real world. What, i wanna see more?
Never saw Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal...won't see the prequel.
Insted i'll watch the TREMORS flicks agine. At least there, the threat could actualy be stomped!
"Broke into the wrong #%$@*&^ rec-room diden't ya!?"