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 Posted:   May 18, 2023 - 12:54 PM   
 By:   Rameau   (Member)

Thinking of Joan's repeated viewing movies thread, I wondered about 10 films that you'd never watch again:

Skyfall - The worse Bond film ever.

2001: A Space Odyssey - I must have seen it 5-6 times at the Casino Cinerama, London, back in the sixties, but it bores the arse off me now.

Schindler's List - Not a lot of laughs, & I thought an awkwardly paced film, I couldn't sit through it again.

Apocalypse Now - I don't think it's aged well. I've tried to watch it a couple of times when it's been on TV, but gave up after half an hour.

Star Wars (& all the others) Please no.

Titanic - What a drag

The Thin Red Line - Ditto

Don't Look Now - Ditto

Citizen Kane - A great film, I've just seen it too many times.

Rosemary's Baby - Just a bit slow for me now...& hundreds more!

 
 
 Posted:   May 18, 2023 - 1:39 PM   
 By:   MikeP   (Member)

Fight Club
Natural Born Killers
American Psycho

Can't list 10, because I'd be open to give pretty much anything else a second chance. But not those .

 
 Posted:   May 18, 2023 - 1:53 PM   
 By:   Thomas   (Member)

I'll name a few that immediately spring to mind:

The Passion Of The Christ - Far, far too violent

Pulp Fiction - Irritates the life out of me

Don't Look Now - Good film, but the scene with the daughter at the beginning is traumatising

Rocky IV - Cringeworthy

Top Gun - Unwatchable

The Lovely Bones - A difficult watch

Angela's Ashes - Too depressing

I agree with your comment on Skyfall, hilariously bad.

 
 Posted:   May 18, 2023 - 1:56 PM   
 By:   Sean Nethery   (Member)

I'm not sure there are any movies I can say uncategorically I wouldn't watch again.

Even those I kind of despise - Leaving Los Vegas is one, The Moon in the Gutter another.

I might still give them a try if I were in the right mood or curious if my response to a film might change, which it sometimes has.

Oh, I know one - Casualties of War.

Not that I didn't think it was a great movie, because it was. I just found it too traumatic. I can't even listen to Morricone's superb score.

That's probably the only reason I would avoid a movie on principle. Shoah being another.

It's ok for some movies to be once-in-a-lifetime.

 
 
 Posted:   May 18, 2023 - 1:56 PM   
 By:   Rameau   (Member)

Fight Club
Natural Born Killers
American Psycho

Can't list 10, because I'd be open to give pretty much anything else a second chance. But not those .


Yeah, I've renamed it. smile

 
 
 Posted:   May 18, 2023 - 2:59 PM   
 By:   MikeyKW   (Member)

All of them, as I've lost all interest in watching movies and am selling off my collection.

 
 
 Posted:   May 18, 2023 - 3:07 PM   
 By:   TheAvenger   (Member)

Crystal Skullfuck

Skyawful

Specbore

And anything directed by Christopher Nolan.

 
 
 Posted:   May 18, 2023 - 3:45 PM   
 By:   .   (Member)

Anything with Will Smith in it.
Anything with Nicholas Cage in it.
Almost anything written by M. Night Shyamalan

 
 Posted:   May 18, 2023 - 3:59 PM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

All of them, as I've lost all interest in watching movies and am selling off my collection.

Sounds like a cry for help. See a therapist. wink

 
 Posted:   May 18, 2023 - 4:18 PM   
 By:   Spinmeister   (Member)

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (I haven't watched the orig. trilogy in over 30 years)

 
 
 Posted:   May 18, 2023 - 6:43 PM   
 By:   Ado   (Member)

I love Kubrick, but Clockwork Orange, good film, but painful watch.

Yeah, Nolan, Tenet, wow, it is really bad

 
 Posted:   May 18, 2023 - 7:20 PM   
 By:   Landstander   (Member)

Thinking of Joan's repeated viewing movies thread, I wondered about 10 films that you'd never watch again:

Skyfall - The worse Bond film ever.

2001: A Space Odyssey - I must have seen it 5-6 times at the Casino Cinerama, London, back in the sixties, but it bores the arse off me now.

Schindler's List - Not a lot of laughs, & I thought an awkwardly paced film, I couldn't sit through it again.

Apocalypse Now - I don't think it's aged well. I've tried to watch it a couple of times when it's been on TV, but gave up after half an hour.

Star Wars (& all the others) Please no.

Titanic - What a drag

The Thin Red Line - Ditto

Don't Look Now - Ditto

Citizen Kane - A great film, I've just seen it too many times.

Rosemary's Baby - Just a bit slow for me now...& hundreds more!



This list is so idiotic I suspect it's deliberate trolling.

 
 
 Posted:   May 18, 2023 - 9:48 PM   
 By:   Tall Guy   (Member)

“Never” is a big word, Ram, but I have one or two that will take some effort to make me ever sit down and watch them.

All pre-2009 Star Trek films, haven’t even watched all of them but give me TOS or nothing when it comes to the original cast.

Godard’s Weekend - brilliant first half but I won’t watch it again because of the onscreen animal cruelty.

X-Men Dark Phoenix - my only 0/10 film on the other thread, I won’t watch it again because of the onscreen audience cruelty.

 
 Posted:   May 18, 2023 - 11:02 PM   
 By:   Adventures of Jarre Jarre   (Member)

There are some movies which affect me so viscerally, I have to work up the courage to watch them again, like The Elephant Man, Bug, Plague Dogs, May, Elephant (different elephant metaphor movie), and Bastard Out of Carolina.

And there are movies I have only watched part of, have my intelligence insulted, and never bothered to finish them, like Kickin' It Old School and Pitch Perfect 2.

Then there's the bane of my existence, the one movie that I know deep down to suck every categorical ass imaginable, yet I seem to forget its ass-suckability after a while, then talk myself into thinking it was actually "not that bad", then watch it again to be proven right all along in some sick cycle. That movie is Less Than Zero, and after many years since the last viewing, I feel the pull again...

 
 Posted:   May 19, 2023 - 12:23 AM   
 By:   litefoot   (Member)

Titanic and Saw. Very grim experiences.

 
 
 Posted:   May 19, 2023 - 1:22 AM   
 By:   Prince Damian   (Member)

All star wars, most Star Trek, marvel , super hero films. Coz I can't be arsed and have seen them a couple of times anyway -enough.

 
 
 Posted:   May 19, 2023 - 1:27 AM   
 By:   Rameau   (Member)

This list is so idiotic I suspect it's deliberate trolling.

You obviously didn't get it. A lot (most?) of the films we see, we never see again, & we don't go out of our way to revisit terrible films. But...famous films, box office champions, award winners, agreed classics, that we just couldn't sit through again. It's not against the law to dislike any of those, we still have free will.

 
 
 Posted:   May 19, 2023 - 1:50 AM   
 By:   Prince Damian   (Member)

All of them, as I've lost all interest in watching movies and am selling off my collection.

Sounds like a cry for help. See a therapist. wink


His offer was rubbish.

 
 Posted:   May 19, 2023 - 2:37 AM   
 By:   steffromuk   (Member)

Most Cameron movies. I really want to rewatch The Abyss (waiting for the long awaited restored version) but I'm also scared that I'll be disappointed, Like I've been with almost all his films I used to dig as a teenager.

A good part of Fincher's films too, but not because I don't like them. He's one of these directors I like most of the movies of but, except maybe for a couple, I don't feel the need to revisit them ever again.

Crash de Cronenberg. It was one of the most painful movie experience for me. not related to the quality of the film but the subject really made me sick.

And all the bad films I've watched once. I can't list them, there are too many.

 
 
 Posted:   May 19, 2023 - 2:50 AM   
 By:   Rameau   (Member)

Most Cameron movies. I really want to rewatch The Abyss (waiting for the long awaited restored version) but I'm also scared that I'll be disappointed, Like I've been with almost all his films I used to dig as a teenager.


I've had The Abyss on the Tivo (in HD) for ages (well it does get deleted, but when it's on Film 4 (UK) again I rerecord it), I can remember enjoying it at one time, but when I try & watch it now, there's Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio stropping around, Michael Biehn doing a big moody & a load of duff dialogue & that big soppy ending coming up...& after half an hour I give up, but I will try again, maybe.

 
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