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I think that film is one of the few I've seen that deserves to be called a tour-de-force. What always staggers me about it is that it is far less gruesome than other war films, but the use of close-ups and certain shots make it feel as horrifying and brutal as a combat-grounded war film. It's a film that feels like it gets into your soul.
The Deer Hunter. So intense, I felt physically sick while watching it and I feel so strongly about the characters I just can't put myself through all the emotion and pain again.
The film that I don't think I can watch again is "Schindler's List" It is a film I believe everyone should watch. It is one of the greatest films I've ever seen and one of Spielberg's best. It's just so difficult to watch especially as a Jewish individual. Like you I don't get extremely or easily affected, offended or cringe, etc. I wasn't offended at all by how Spielberg went about making it. Spielberg keeps this so raw and the depiction of the Holocaust is exactly the horror I imagine and hear as I saw in the film. I cried, I had to watch it in multiple sessions. It is still such an important movie and one everyone should watch.
I feel bad that I have the 4k of it sitting on my shelf because I know I’ll probably never watch it again. Or if I do, it’ll be much later in life once I’ve forgotten most of it.
I watched _Grave of the Fireflies_ recently, at midnight. Grew up in Japan; know full well how the movie ends, just never sat through it; got it rental on a whim. Right around the end it just hit me and I became such a blubbering teary mess that I didn’t even notice the credits start rolling. I have a little brother who I’m basically a father figure to; just recently taught him to ride a bike. It’s funny because I’ve rewatched The Last of Us 2 playthroughs and reviews over and over, trying to figure out why the numerous shock deaths and surprise viscera are so underwhelming and meh; and here this cartoon that spoils its ending from the jump, has only zero-ish onscreen deaths, and it’s the scariest shit I’ve ever witnessed. It just hit me how easy it is for death to come get you; and how in the face of it; THERE ARE THINGS YOU CAN DO; THERE ARE THINGS YOU CAN SACRIFICE. You can let go of your pride; you can put up with the aunt; you can get a fucking job; there’s things you just gotta do no matter how bad you feel because if you stay in lahdeedah, death will sneak up on you in no time flat. People who call this an anti-war movie miss the point; it’s about how if you stay a boy, you die. And straightup, what I feel hardest in this movie is how the brother basically dies as soon as the sister passes; he just fucking gives up and becomes a broken husk in the train station, waiting for his body to catch up with his spiritual death. That’s me. If I had someone to take care of and I let that happen; I would have a hard time justifying my continued existence. This movie was a personal attack on my insecurities is what I’m saying. And again, the movie is absolutely tame in its imagery; the scariest shit is what you can’t see.
Bro I relate completely, I watched this movie august 2021 and I was crying like a baby. I have a younger sister who I'm a father figure to and this hit me hard. Sometimes you have to grow up and be more for you and someone else. Sometimes you have to know whats up and as you said you can't be a boy forever. Its much more than just anti-war.
"A Grave of Fire Flys" is an amazing movie, but I probably will not willingly watching it again just because it is so emotionally heart renting for me.
Saw that for the first time about 6 years ago. Saw it again with my sister a few weeks ago and it's still just as depressing lol. I remember the first time I saw it i had to put sponge Bob on afterwards just to lighten the mood 😂
I remember a scene near the end of Grave of the Fireflies showing that some people not only survive the war, but are able to return to their undamaged homes after the war. The two child protagonists, of course, aren't so lucky.
I've seen irreversible multiple times as well, but it's the roughest one to watch with repeat viewings just because of its subject matter and how authentically real the characters react. That long hold on the rape and the guy in the background not doing a damn thing sets me on a rage every time.Excellent filmmaking. I'm totally with you on the squemish bit and I've never been offended over any sort of media. I may not agree, but I've never went out of my way to want to ban someone's vision or anything of the sort. If you dont like it, turn it off, or walk the other way. Keep up the awesome work. Love your videos
Kobby...In my opinion the film portrays and even proselytizes a thoroughly corrupt view of human nature. It was disgusting. I primarily blame the director. I’ll never watch another of his films.
"Boy's Don't Cry" the last 50 mins of that movie are just brutal Brandon Teena endured so much pain and suffering before his death and the movie doesn't shy away from that at all, definitely a movie i can only watch once.......
I watched this in a theater, first row. I and my friend remained literally speechless for half an hour after we got out. Beautiful movie, in many ways, but yeah, thanks no thanks. Not again.
Very much agree with the Joan of Arc mention. It felt like a minimalist horror movie powered only by clashing and contradictory convictions. Haven't heard many people talk about it!
There's an unsettling tone about Requiem for a Dream that I have never been able to quite put my finger on, but I do find it extremely uncomfortable to rewatch. It's not specifically to do with the visuals, or the music, or even necessarily the subject matter. Maybe it's just that I watched it at a certain time in my life that the horrors in it were so poignant that it has created a "trigger", but there's something going on that makes it a picture I don't want to sit through again.
Yes. Rowland's performance is amazing, but I HATE the writing of this movie, as well as Peter Falk's character. I am very interested in Casavettes as a filmmaker and I like hearing him being interviewed, but his style of making movies is not for me. Had the same issue with Gloria. Liked it better than WITU, but the writing in that was dreadful too.
For me "Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom" and "Come and See" are two movies I don't see myself re-watching anytime soon. Especially Salò was hard to get through, it took me multiple days to finish it actually. Come and See is a very good movie but it is quite disturbing and I don't feel the need to revisit it again.
For me as well, it took several sittings to get through it. The fact that most if not all of the actors are not professional actors lends some authenticity to it. But I will not watch it again. It is too disturbing.
we watched in class with our painting teacher and we had to pause it, have a cigarette, and THEN finish it. like, the whole class. loved it thou. cheers
For me there’s almost no films that I don’t feel comfortable enough to visit or revisit if they’re actually good but there is one that got under my skin so much I couldn’t shake it for a long long time. Stanley Kubrick called The Vanishing (1988) the scariest film he’s ever seen and it’s the same case for me. The ending is one of the most disturbing things I’ve ever witnessed in a movie and there isn’t even any gore in the film, just pure psychological and existential dread that’s simply suffocating. I’ve seen it twice now but just thinking about it gives me chills and it’s definitely not something I’ll return to often even though it’s one of my all time favorites.
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for me it is "Monster" actually....yeah , for me movies that are hard to see are often just too personal to me and hit too close to home , "Requem for a dream" is also scary tome because I have been opioid addict myself and this film just hits close to home aswell, I think that I have seen it all, losing an arm because of a drug... girls who become prostitutes and get abused over and over again, people who go to prison and people who go crazy because of drugs and I just dont want to bring those memories up... it is still very painful to me
I would love to see you analyze and older film called ‘Who’s afraid of Virginia Wolf’ some people can only tolerate that one once. I thought it was well made. Or ‘Happiness’ with Phillip Seymour Hoffman. Pretty dark comedy.
Saw "Blue Velvet" at an impressionable age and, even though I think I could handle it now, the image of Dennis Hopper doing that weird breathing thing or whatever the hell he was doing always keeps me away.
@@13abcde Yep, Dean Stockwell was also unforgettable in "Velvet," no doubt- always wondered exactly what the hell went on between his character and Frank.
For me it was awakening II watched it when I was a kid and seeing the patients come alive and then be tracked back to their paralyzed forms was absolutely heartbreaking and made me cry as a child. I don't think I could go back and watch that movie again.
Maggie what is your thoughts on Martyrs (2008) I recently watched it and it left me deeply disturbed, depressed, and exhausted in the best way possible. I'd love to see a review from you.
Eyes Wide Shut...I like Gaspar Noe' movies myself. Requiem is frustrating by the end..but that's really the senses being hit on multiple angles/levels. Nice to hear you enjoy other people's "never again's"😎👌
Even though Treasure Of Sierra Madre is one of my favorite films, I can't watch but every few years. I find psychologically very disturbing. It shows some people being their worst selves.
Eh, A Serbian Film is so over the top and disturbing for the sake of it, it's basically a parody of itself. Didn't really bother me. Same for stuff like Human Centipede 2. Plus, they're garbage movies anyway, that have nothing to offer other than violence and rape, so why would anyone even bother watching them again.
Compliance (2012) It’s one of those true stories where you think “no way did that actually happen”, then you look up the real story afterwards and realise everything was true. I found it tough to finish and definitely won’t be watching it again.
Definitely agree with Compliance. I thought the movie absolutely had to have exaggerated what actually happened, but then I looked up the real case and the movie was spot-on with how everything went down. It's got to be one of the craziest true stories I've ever heard.
I would say that Mysterious Skin was really painful to watch, but more in a cathartic way for me. It definitely helped me come to terms with some of my experiences. With that being said, I want watch it again, but not anytime soon 🤣
@@mabusestestament yes I love a lot of them and for me I can watch them over and over again, I would like to be able to leave it at just one watch but I can't
David Lynch's Inland Empire I would imagine many wouldn't want to see multiple times as it's very long, 4+ hours with director's cut and extra footage/scenes. Also insanely experimental and alien at times, typical Lynch I guess. But probably still my favorite of his features. That fucking face towards the end is still the most terrifying thing I've seen in a movie.
"Gardens of the Night" is haunting. Only ever watched it once, but the butterfly metaphor has stuck with me. Also, Human Centipede. The concept alone was enough for me, so I've never seen more than the first ten minutes.
After Von Trier's "Antichrist", I decided to avoid ultra-violent movies. Life's short & getting shorter all the time. I'd rather fill my eyeballs with beauty &, oh, silliness.
I'd have to go with the French version of Martyrs. It's just so assaulting with its intense visuals, ontop of the disturbing themes. I dont think I've had such a sense of unease in any movie I've ever watched, and there was a time where I was purposefully watching films for the sake of being offended.
I actually own this one. The raw, visceral emotion and authenticity of suffering in this film is like nothing else, it's not torture porn, it's a masterpiece.
@@mellyje2587 Yeah I think to me thats what actually makes it harder to watch. It doesnt feel gratuitous or campy, the realism kind of sets the mood and grounds it in realism.
The stranger in the background wasnt actually supposed to be in the movie, he was trying to get to the train station and i assume when he saw the camera crew he turned back around obviously the scene is a one take long shot and it happened to work perfectly
If you are asking about films that we *consciously* avoid watching after the first viewing, then I have precious few. Many movie lovers love the very act of watching moves, so they are often undeterred by any reason for not doing so. Wanting to not watch a movie is an unnatural thought for them, which goes against their innate love of the movies. It's especially true for the more adventurous movie fans. There is no subject so abhorrent that a movie made about it can't be watched. If someone makes a 9-hour movie that is nothing but a shot of the Empire State Building, a movie lover will watch it.
Martyrs, while being a horrible experience, is a great movie. Actually - and I'm not kidding - it's one of my "favorite" horror movies of all time. One of the very, veery few hyper brutal movies that is actually good.
Interesting thought about Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Haneke was quoted as saying something similar about Schindler’s List. For both films I disagree however; I feel with Boy it is meant to be shocking because this is the main character you follow the whole movie and due to the nature of the holocaust it showed you no one is safe and I found it quite effective. For Schindler’s list the shower scene got a lot of controversy but I didn’t have an issue with it; I think it placed you right in the middle of that terror just like the people there felt and as was in real life you didn’t know what was going to come out of the shower. Especially Schindler’s list I think was done very respectfully
There aren't really any films I can only watch once (minus A Serbian Film and 120 Days of Sodom), but there are def films that ruin my weekend. Films that put me in a pensive mood from which I can't get unstuck. But these tend to be some of my favorites for exactly that reason. - Incendies - Dogville - Te Doy Mis Ojos - Dancer in the Dark - Martyrs (2008 I think) - Pink Flamingos - Audition - The Last House on the Left (OG) - Synecdoche, New York (just hits way too close to home) - Portrait of a Lady on Fire (it's recent, so I think this is likely the mood I was in when I watched it) - Scenes from a Marriage (the series, not the film, again, prob a mood thing) - The Chaser - Requiem for a Dream (this was the OG of films that ruined my weekend, but I haven't watched it in 10 years, so now, who knows?!)
Bertolucci’s The Spider’s Stratagem is my second nomination. It is LONG, in two parts, and completely incomprehensible plot wise from beginning to end. Years later I was talking film with a psychologist , who, out of the blue, named this as her favorite film. I was speechless.
OTOH, being a film about *nihilism* that's not surprising ... :) We read that in high school, in AP Lang. & Lit -- I'm fairly certain that there were a few in that class who were in NO way prepared for it. I had seen the film, so it wasn't a wide venture for me, of course. Though anyone who thinks that Anthony Burgess is going to be a huge step down in "Intensity" from Kubrick's film is sadly mistaken.
I don't think it's a film about nihilism, though. It asks (although it's more clear in the book) whether a society can/should tolerate the loss of personal liberties if it would ensure that monsters like Alex no longer exist. And it does also ask about the role of art within such a society, as art has been across history potentially scandalous and subject to censorship.
@@bardw.3204 I don't disagree with you, really. But I do think it's certainly open to multiple interpretations, though. I think that the nihilistic approach transfers from Alex to society in general. In other words, "we" become what we supposedly loathe and detest and feel the need to rid ourselves of. And while that certainly spoke to me when I was 16-18 yrs. old, back in HS, I feel that after decades more experience and at least some knowledge gained, that is exactly how our society reacts to various problems: become what we are in theory fighting against. If I didn't have a stack of books waiting to be read sitting on my desk, I would head right back to it and give it another look. I know it's lying around here somewhere. Heh.
Top 8 great movies I could only watch once or twice. 8. Schindler’s List 7. A Clockwork Orange 6. Akira 5. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind 4. Amistad 3. Snowpiercer 2. Boys Don’t Cry 1. Hereditary
It’s a silly one but Knives Out is the first movie that pops into my head haha. I’m emetophobic and the fact that vomiting is literally a plot point is too much. Going into it I had no idea it would be a plot point, so imagine my anxiety watching it. I can handle vomit in movies if it’s in the toilet or on the floor and it only lasts a few seconds, but if it’s full on projectile or lands on another person (especially on their FACE) then that’s a nope for me. Fun movie though.
Although I saw it twice, when all was said and done, "Irreversible" was the first one that came to mind. Though, I don't blame anyone who doesn't want to venture in. But I agree in that I didn't see it as 'anti-feminist' at all. But I think it's a very difficult film. Great commentary on the film, btw.
That'd be funny if you did a video of movies people have walked out of in the theatre because they were so bad they couldn't sit through it. I turn 47 next month, so I have a few of these in my past, as follows: Sleepwalkers by Stephen King, Wired (about John Belushi), Mr. Magoo (w/ Leslie Neilsen), O' Brother Where Art Thou, Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull .... these are just the ones I can think of offhand.
god bless you. I thought OBWAT was terrible, just pretty pandering with no soul. Total insult to the music it showcased as well. I love about 75% of the Coens’ movies but that one hurt especially because audiences ate it up.
I can't watch Luc Besson's 1999 *The Messenger: The Story Of Joan Of Arc.* Good film. Seen it twice but that early *rape/impaling scene* is too brutal. I get *why* the director did it because one of the major themes is *her unstoppable rage.* This scene is designed to get us *enraged like her* so we follow her on her journey *all-in.*
For me, Precious. Monique was great in it (and she definitely deserved that Oscar) but I don't think I can sit through a 90 min. movie about a psychotic and abusive mother again--she was almost TOO good in that role! (And Gabourey was great in it as well).
I think "The Sixth Sense" doesn't really work a 2nd time around. Once you know he's a ghost, the movie loses its mysteriousness. After the shooting in the 1st act, when watching Bruce Willis on screen, you're thinking he's dead and oh yeah no one sees him in this scene either.
Obviously "can only watch once" is hyperbole for most people. I take it to mean "not easily rewatch". For that, I think of Australian films The Nightingale and probably also Nitram. Also the South Korean film, "The Uninvited". All three of them are bleak explorations of their themes. That being said, The Nightingale ends very beautifully and powerfully, but the journey there is heartbreaking. Nitram was very difficult to watch, but very poignant in what it has to say. I saw it in a session with a Q&A with the director, and in the audience were people who survived the Port Arthur massacre or had loved ones who did ... or who sadly didn't. The Univited was quite bleak, but its themes, visuals and moments lived with me for weeks. The fact that it affected me so deeply says something about the film. And as much as I say I would cautiously rewatch these, I often find myself thinking or talking about them and reading and watching things about them. So yeah, "can only watch once" isn't usually literal. It's often about how the film affected the viewer in a personal or sometimes profound way that isn't easily revisited. Literally, however, I would only watch Charlies Angels once, but for a different reason. ;)
Sorry for coming in late, but maybe 2 Shin'ya Tsukamoto movies (he has this shock value). At first I thought Tetsuo will be a one-time watch, because it is an audiovisual terrorism of some sort, and really terrifying - but watched it years later, and I stil love it, a great movie after understanding the guy, and the motives behind it. But Kotoko is... absolutely hurtful. It's not bad, actually pretty good, but for me seeing a mother tormented by her demons to a certain extent is really-really heavy to see, and the protagonist Cocco is surprisingly good.
Synecdoche, New York, although its one of my favorites films ever, i think that the themes it touches and the way it deals with the "burden of existence" and trascendence feels so heavy to me, like swimming in a swamp kinda way
Pinche Vato Negro I agree. But for me the film was a meaningless meandering piece of trash. I was BORED and irritated. Afterwards, I was angry with myself for giving that film my time and attention.
Good answer, when i watched it for the first time i rewatched it right away, even through it made me cry. I wanted to watch it again because i honestly didnt get everything that was going on, but i knew that if i put it down, id never come back. And i havent, it sits right there at the very top of my Personal Favorite movies list, followed by movies like "das boot" or "the shining" that ive seen 20-30 Times
Marco Gianesello...If that we’re true, I don’t think I would remember it so vividly as a waste of my time. I am always happy when people find something of their soul in a film, even as I am left bewildered as to how that was humanly possible.
That's exactly how i felt about Requiem for a Dream. I watched a lot of Aronofsky's movies when i was younger but somehow skipped Requiem until my 30's and the only thing I could think was "this would have had a way bigger affect on me when i was younger". Complete opposite reaction I had to The Fountain, which I thought was pretentious drivel when I first saw it but I enjoyed on rewatch now that I'm older. Also love Clint Mansell's soundtracks in both
I think 12 Years a Slave immediately to mind for me. I won't say I'll never see it again, but I probably wouldn't watch it again by choice. It's not even a white guilt thing like it might be for sime people (mostly because I reject the concept), but it was just so visceral and emotionally raw, and I really felt for Northup. Definitely felt some of those fire in the belly moments. The rape and the whupping post moments got to me more than I expected, not that I was expecting to be completely unphased, mind you. The moment he got back home after everything really bummed me out too. Great movie, but not likely a repeat viewing.
I've only watched Martyrs once, but think about it almost every day & have read or watched many reviews which keep me in touch with it, I suppose. I could say the same about Irreversible. Own both films. I almost prefer, now days, to stay away from Top Disgusting Movie Lists unless they are going to recommend something new or such a deep find that I haven't come across yet. They tend to desensitize or normalize which I find can diminish the effect of other great movies, and I'd like to preserve their power for the next time I do watch them since I hold certain of these kind in such high regard. But what I do remember hitting me too hard and I dont think I even finished at the time was Spike Jones's HER. I had recently broken up with my girlfriend at the time and the themes of loneliness, heartbreak or emotional pain was fucking with me and I couldn't enjoy it for what it was. But I should watch it again soon. But I think the only reason I wouldn't get to rewatching something is that there's just too many great movies that are coming out now in recent years and still many from the last 100 years of Cinema history to experience.
Two movies I've seen once and will probably never see ever again: The Virgin Suicides and Gran Torino. I watched The Virgin Suicides one afternoon and immediately went to sleep afterwards. It was so depressing I didn't want to be awake. Gran Torino.. I watched it in my apartment on my laptop one night. When it was over, I got up and went outside for a while. The Virgin Suicides made me not want to be awake. Gran Torino made me not want to be alive.
There are only two movies that I can think of that I wouldn't go back to are: Begotten (1989, Mehridge) Amores Perros (2000, Iñárritu) It took me a few tries to get through Begotten. I am glad I saw it, but it was unsettling. The dog fighting scenes were pretty graphic. I usually don't mind gore, but I just found this violence very real and incredibly sad. It was a good movie, but not something I need to revisit.
For me, content matters less than length and format. Documentaries are first on my list of very little rewatchability. Due to their length, films like Shoah or Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks or The Hour of the Furnaces are really hard to watch again. They’re kind of like exercises in tedium. See also Lav Diaz and the longer Frederick Wiseman films. In the other hand, because it’s scripted drama, I probably wouldn’t mind rewatching the entirety of The Wire or Twin Peaks: The Return again.
That you brought up "The Passion of Joan of Arc" in contrast to these films that make other people squeamish is .... intriguing. Certainly the presentation is raw, and the performances are discomforting, but both those things are tied to Dreyer's intent and since you've acknowledged your awareness of that in a previous video, it sort of surprises me you have bigger hurdles there than with Noe or von Trier. Then again I have an embarrassing answer as well. My never-again is "On the Waterfront", which has superb filmmaking but it goes places that rub me the wrong way (in particular a scene wedged between the second and third act where Brando's character goes too far). Different strokes.
Caligula (1979), with its artless and cringy scenes of sex and violence, is another film I will likely never revisit. New category: Movies You Wish You Had Never Seen.
My reason for not watching a film more than once is pretty mundane: for some films, even the good ones, once is enough. I loved "Out of Africa" and "The English Patient" in my first viewings, but have never watched them again. Maybe some films have gone passe for you. Maybe your taste changes over the years. Maybe you have simply forgotten about them, which is easy to do if you watch about 100 films every year like I do. (And that is just how many new films I watch. The number is higher still if I include films I re-watch.) I would say most people watch most films only once for whatever reasons.
Wow, yeah, I forgot about Irreversible. Fast forwarded the scene the first and only time I watched it. The opening sequence is dizzying... and ends (begins the film) very disturbingly. Of Noe’s films, no desire to rewatch. Noe has a way of making what seems like a real experience, less virtual like a ‘normal’ film. There’s usually some distance between me and a film, even films I enjoy. With Noe that distance feels shortened. That last one, about the bad acid trip, definitely left me unsettled.
yeah, of all of these I could only see grave of the fireflies once. the scene that strikes me most is when their city is firebombed. The boy's first natural instinct is to look around and search for water to put out the small fire that was made by one of the bomblets (the bombs the allies dropped had millions of these small bomblets, they knew that the japanese cities were made of wood). That you know this - how powerless they actually are and how pathetic any response is - and the fact that we as a species did this all just make me sob. and frankly, I'm surprised that threads didn't make the list - its also a film that I could only watch once.
