SO from "Precious" thread: Movies you were glad you saw, but don't want to see again.

[Syrreal]

I thought of another one: Irreversible
it began with a guy getting his head bashed in with a fire extinguisher and also invluded a 10 minute rape scene

 

[pirateofthecarolinas]

Slumdog Millionaire

 

[zachnsamsmommy]

Passion of the Christ. Glad I saw it but its like a slasher film for me (13 min. scene in real time). It distrubed me and upset me.

Yes...me too. I even bought the DVD, and have never opened it.

Also would add:

The Green Mile

 

[DVC~OKW~96]

Schindler's List
Boys in the 'Hood.

I can't even come close to watching Braveheart, or Scarface.

I absolutely would never consider watching the Passion of Christ.

Many that I'd never see more than once, I won't see at all, so that takes care of the problem.

 

[ElliePeters]

Shutter Island, Flight 93, and Saving Private Ryan.

 

[ElliePeters]

Schindler's List
Boys in the 'Hood.

I can't even come close to watching Braveheart, or Scarface.

I absolutely would never consider watching the Passion of Christ.

Many that I'd never see more than once, I won't see at all, so that takes care of the problem.

Passion of the Christ, saw it once, just tore my heart out, I wouldnt watch it again.

 

[ElliePeters]

DD had to watch Last King of Scotland for a college class and it moved her so much she was depressed for a few days after watching it. She described it to me and I was horrified.

Million Dollar Baby
Saving Private Ryan
The Exorcist
Sicko (especially if you have a loved one with cancer)

Terms of Endearment is one of my favorite all time movies - I've watched it several times!

Our loved one is in remission, could I handle seeing Sicko?

 

[LukenDC]

American History X

 

[Jazzybell]

Saving Private Ryan
Passion of the Christ
Million Dollar Baby

 

[leagirl12]

American History X

 

[Imzadi]

No one mentioned The Green Mile.

I can't watch the end of Braveheart.

Apocalype Now.
The Deerhunter
Any of the Godfather movies

 

[Pakey]

Requiem for a Dream.

This.

 

[bumbershoot]

EllaM, I didn't get Lost In Translation the first time I saw it, then the second time I really got into it and now love that movie. I also had some moments that felt just like the movie when I first moved to Taiwan I don't know anyone else that likes the movie though.

DH and I really like it. But I can't remember why. So now we're going to buy it through amazon's video on demand, LOL. To figure out why we liked it so much.

Rob Roy made me vow never to watch Braveheart except in small doses. I don't like movies with graphic rape scenes. Far too disturbing.

I'm not 100% sure there's actually a *scene* like that in Braveheart. They allude to it, when talking about "first night", which was yet another way the British controlled Scotland, by having the right to be with Scottish brides on their wedding night, and that's a brutal thought, for sure. And it's brutal to think about their feelings, as a bride is taken away and the groom cannot do anything about it and is absolutely distraught...but I dont' think there's a true scene.

However, it's the torture that they don't necessarily even show, they just give you the idea of it, of Wallace that makes it so incredibly hard for me to sit down to watch it. And RR, even though the acting is so good, and it was the FIRST time ever I have been able to watch Jessica Lange, yeah, that scene... But really for me it's just the subject matter that pierces my Irish heart...thankfully no one has made a movie about the potato famine (that I know of)...I don't know how those in Scotland can even think of their history let alone watch those movies. Too sad.




Thought of another one. The Mission. I actually own it, but I never opened it. The other week I had DH watch it, but then I had to go to bed before we got much past halfway through it. Too too sad. And the viewer is on the side of the missionaries, of course, not the slavers...BUT I have a problem with the missionaries as well. So even though it's gorgeous, the acting is incredible (look at the cast list!), it's based on true events...I'm on no one's side but the native peoples', and they definitely don't get out of it very well.

So I've still just seen it once. And that was when it was released in the theater in the middish 80s!

 

[Disneycrazy!!]

Marley and Me
Saving Private Ryan
Passion For Christ
The Green Mile