non-comfort films or films you might only watch once

[Dennis]

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.

[Masked_Maverick]

Bad movies: Epic Movie, Hollowman (I absolutley hate this movie), American Beauty overrated peice of garbage

Good movies: United 93

[Mofo Rising]

Clean, Shaven 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.

[JaseSF]

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

[Bill C.]

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)

[Zapranoth]

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.

[raj]

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.

[Mr_Vindictive]

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. 

[Menard]

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.

[raj]

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.

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.

What we need is a sequel: Zardoz II:  Return to the Vortex 

[jjnewberry]

but wait...isn't Sean Connery dead? maybe they can use Daniel Craig?

[Mr_Vindictive]

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.

[Joe]

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.

[dean]

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.

[Joe]

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.