Movies that you watched once, and will never, ever, ever see it again because they hit their mark.

[Baitball Blogger]

Wicker Man is my top selection. I saw the original version years ago and refused to see the one that was redone by Nicolas Cage. I caught my husband watching it on t.v. and I warned him about it. "You are going to hate yourself for watching that."

Sure enough. He was not happy.

[riderinthestorm]

1. The original In-Laws movie. I've never watched the re-make

It can't compare to the original

[The empressof all]

2. OMG...Wicker Man

I saw that in a seedy fishing motel during a storm in Clallam Bay Wa. One of the coldest, dampest evenings in my life. Jeeze....Thanks for that memory.

[Lochloosa]

3. How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

[AwakeAtLast]

8. Others might disagree with me,

but you win the thread!

[Lochloosa]

10. Why thank you

Now , what do you want me to make sure you don't get for Christmas ?

[Liberal_in_LA]

71. the jim carrey remake is amazing

[betsuni]

72. It is!

My favorite part is when he's reading from his day planner wherein he schedules things like "wallow in self-pity" and "wrestle with my self-loathing."

[Sancho]

4. A Clockwork Orange

No remake is possible. It was timely for the era and timeless (scary) for truthiness.

[Baitball Blogger]

7. I wonder if it was remade, how they would interpret the job of the social worker.

I don't see evidence that the redemption business survived that era.

[With whom]

12. Great movie, however

the rampant gangs of that time (early 70's) was not what was depicted, the movie focused on what future changes to the penal system could produce. "Trainspotting" is relevant for the time.

From the imdb site: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066921/

In future Britain, charismatic delinquent Alex DeLarge is jailed and volunteers for an experimental aversion therapy developed by the government in an effort to solve society's crime problem - but not all goes according to plan.

"Trainspotting" from 1996 reflects the time period more accurately although its focus was on the effects of the drug culture.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

31. RE: Clockwork Orange

I thought the violence was exploitative to women because when they attacked women and ripped their clothes off, it was stylized like ballet. And I thought it was just an excuse to show naked breasts.

I'm not sure what the point was other than to show violent gangs terrorizing people, that that's the way Britain is or whatever. If I missed something obvious I would like to know.

[ailsagirl]

34. I hated that film for those very reasons

[U4ikLefty]

61. Do NOT wacth that film while on LSD.

bad move!!!

[ailsagirl]

82. Yikes!!!!!!

That must have been quite an experience!!!

[RandySF]

5. Audition (1999)

[Baitball Blogger]

9. I have no idea what that was about,

and no desire to find out after watching the trailer.

[Xyzse]

17. Heard about that. Haven't gotten the mood or courage to watch that yet.

[kairos12]

36. That was my pick. Won't see it again, and won't recommend it to others. Disturbing.

[newcriminal]

90. Great movie

[Ron Obvious]

6. The Wicker Man...

Damn, that is the fourth time this week that that movie came up, after I recommended it myself as flawed masterpiece here. It must mean something. Maybe I should watch it again soon.

Won't watch the remake either.

[seaglass]

54. Do not watch the remake. I never saw the original, my daughter and I watched the remake and

it was the absolute dumbest movie I've ever seen.

[UTUSN]

11. Just about any that I see through, hardly any. "Fish Called Wanda" - "Gladiator"

One of my greats: Reflections in a Golden Eye (E. TAYLOR & Brando never were better) . Topsy-Turvy. Mel GIBSON's Apocalypto. Les Mis. Lawrence of Arabia. Cabaret. Funny Girl.

you get the drift.

[Tom Kitten]

13. Blair Witch Project

Saw it in a matinee, sitting through it was like an ordeal, then, in the sunny afternoon, I forgot about it. But then I had nightmares two nights in a row. No desire to see it again.

[NewJeffCT]

15. Oddly

I almost never remember any of my dreams - maybe a handful in my lifetime. When I saw the Blair Witch movie, I was actually kind of disappointed - didn't find it scary at all. I figured maybe I got too excited because of the hype at the time and it was a letdown.

However, I had a weird nightmare about it a few nights later. Several people were out in the woods, including me. The only other person I remember was Jackie "The Joke Man" Martling who was leaning against a tree smoking a joint. (Martling was one of the joke writers on the Howard Stern show from the 80s through somewhere around 2000 or 2001?) No friends, relatives, co-workers, etc were in the dream. Just several random people, plus Martling and me, who were then terrorized by the Blair Witch.

[bigwillq]

19. I thought it was awful, and not scary.

It's rare that a movie actually scares me. I do "jump" during scenes in scary movies, but it's rare that a scary movie affects me.

Criminal Minds, on the other hand.

[NewJeffCT]

20. When I saw the movie in the theater

I wasn't scared a bit - more annoyed & bored. Which is why I found it strange that I had that one nightmare a few nights later.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

32. I thought it was annoying.

Hitchcock had already thoroughly covered the ground Blair Witch was trying to cover. He didn't show violence but the suspense and the pictures you imagined were terrifying enough. I thought the people who made Blair Witch were kids who were not aware of Hitchcock's work who thought they were doing something new.

Get off my lawn!

[Pike Bishop]

35. What hasn't Hitchcock covered?

The Blair Witch was terrible, but Hitchcock has influenced all horror and suspense. When asked about to whom he looked for for influence for The Exorcist, Friedkin said "for everything, I watch Hitchcock over and over, as everybody should.

[gopiscrap]

38. Welcome to DU

[jobycom]

25. Wow, that wasn't just me, then.

I saw it, thought it was a decent but not great film, and went to bed without thinking of it much.

And then I woke up a few hours later, trembling in pure terror. I've never had that reaction before or since to anything. I couldn't breath, I was afraid of the closet door, I kept imagining an old, decayed woman reaching out from under the bed (yeah, like the Rockwell video, basically). Part of my mind was saying "Come on, Joby, there's nothing here, a switch just flipped in your head," but I couldn't shake it. I finally reached over, using more courage than I thought I had, and turned on the lamp.

I slept with the light on for two weeks, terrified. Then it just went away, never returned. Weirdest thing. I guess that first person perspective triggered stuff we didn't know was being triggered.

[NewJeffCT]

14. I won't say "never", but it's never on TV

The Killing Fields - watching that movie just left me drained because I thought it was so intense. I never see it on TBS, TNT, FX, AMC, etc, so I'm not sure if I'll ever watch it again.

[B Calm]

16. Rocky - The God Father

[ok_cpu]

18. Precious

Can't imagine watching it again. So powerful, but emotionally draining.

[AngryOldDem]

78. Same here.

I have it on DVD and only watched it once.

[newcriminal]

91. i agree, it was great, but I will never see it again

[Jenoch]

21. There are a few movies I have watched

but do not intend to watch them again. No Country for Old Men fits that category.

[Tireman]

22. My sisters keeper...

[cemaphonic]

23. Eraserhead and The Tenant

Amazing unforgettable movies, but they both burrow straight down into a pretty uncomfortable spot in your psyche and stay there.

As for the Wicker Man, the remake sounded really stupid, so I've avoided it so far.

[lame54]

43. Eraserhead was soooooooo bad....

I finally got around to watching it out of curiosity

it was so excruciatingly boring and stupid I had to break it up up into 3 viewings

but I was determined to finish it so I could say I've seen it

it was terrible - can't figure out why people thinks its genius

[hunter]

59. Eraserhead is a really bad "date" movie.

I had two girlfriends who loved David Lynch movies. I married a woman who prefers Romantic Comedies. Her real life career often involves horrors worse than anything David Lynch has ever imagined.

I dabbled briefly in the very dark places but I burned out and now I'm mostly a hermit writing.

[GOLGO 13]

24. Most horror movies are one & done

Blair Witch, the excorcist, Jaws and the new breed of torture porn is interesting but once the "scare" is revealed it losses it's replaybility. Oh and the shitstain that is League of Extordinary Gentleman was from a great comic book and shat on by Hollywood.

[jobycom]

26. A Grave of Fireflies, and Amour. And A Bridge to Terabithia, for different reasons.

Both were so heartwrenching.

Amour may be the best film I've seen in a decade, and I'm really not the kind to go for obscure foreign films. It was just truly beautiful, painful, and in some odd way, joyful.

****SPOILER****
When I saw Bridge to T, I had never heard of it, and didn't know what was coming. I bonded to the girl in the movie because she reminded me of my own daughter. When they killed her off, it was a brutal blow. I really was physically depressed for a few days after it, and my kid probably got all kinds of treats and attention because of it.

[hunter]

27. Das Boot.

I couldn't even finish watching the trailer.

I don't hate myself for watching it, but it really hit the mark.

I've avoided realistic war movies ever since.

[msanthrope]

76. Totally worth watching the Director's cut. Sweatiest

movie, ever.

[DryHump]

28. 12 Years a Slave

powerful, historical and HEAVY. A great film but I've seen it once and will not tax myself seeing it again.

[surrealAmerican]

29. Pan's Labyrinth

Actually, I was glad to see this one on video, because there were scenes I would not have been able to sit through in a theater.

[Stuart G]

30. Truly Emotional and and very hard to watch movie, One Who Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"

It was a great film, but once was plenty...

[Manifestor_of_Light]

33. Tragic.

It shows how peoples' creativity and personality is snuffed out by the conformist guilt and shame inducers (Nurse Ratched--"I'll tell your mother if you're a bad boy&quot .

Nurse Ratched is normal but she's not healthy. Who is normal and who is healthy?

Heartbreaking movie that made me cry due to euthanasia and the freedom at the end for the Chief who escaped the system.
But I thought it was so good I took my mother and sister to see it, so I saw it three times in the theater.

[Auggie]

37. Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

The era, late 40s, was perfect for that story. Perfect cast and script. Well produced and directed.

[Blue_Tires]

39. I'm not going anywhere near this film ever again:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magdalene_Sisters

Powerful film, but very difficult to watch

[Sherman A1]

62. Great film

enjoyed both it and Rabbit Proof Fence.

Both I thought to be excellent films, both very sad stories, but well done.

[Initech]

40. Zero Dark Thirty

Great film and I can understand why it had to be made, but at the same time i could never watch it again because of the excessive torture scenes.

[IrishEyes]

41. Watership Down

My mom rented it. She didn't know anything about it. She thought it would be good kid's movie because it was an animated film about bunnies. She left me in the living room to watch it while she was in her home office doing work. I was six or seven years old. I just remember crying a lot. I will never watch that film again. She also rented the Little Mermaid film (not the disney version). It was really sad with a lot of death and sadness at the end. It was animated and mom thought anything animated was good for kids.

[Baitball Blogger]

42. Poor mom.

LOL!

I think the same thing happened to me as a mom. My daughter told me that my son was staying up to watch anime. I thought, it's anime. How bad could that be.

[Kber]

51. I credit the little mermaid with my life long dislike of the cinema art form

Mom took me to see it in the theater when I was maybe 4. Ever since, you practically need physical force to get me to a theater.

I watch on video, DVDs or Netflix because I need a quick escape route, physically and emotionally, if necessary.

[lame54]

44. Kids...

good movie - but hard to watch and very disturbing

[Hell Hath No Fury]

45. "Sid & Nancy" and "Glory".

Both incredible films, both too much for me to ever watch again.

[Liberal Veteran]

46. Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer

Too disturbing.

[kwassa]

47. These are the exact type of movie that I will see over and over again!

So many movies leave no mark at all because they aspire to nothing more than time-wasting.

To leave a mark requires great artistry.

[myrna minx]

48. Last Exit to Brooklyn and A Clockwork Orange.

I saw both about 25 years ago and they both haunt me this day.

[azurnoir]

49. Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon

Precious, Something Wild (the original), and Wicker Man

[lunatica]

50. Sophy's Choice

Maybe it was just too well done.

[Kber]

52. Schindlers List

[mucifer]

67. I came out of that movie exhausted with a terrible headache.

No desire to see it again. It was very well done.

I am Jewish and I did laugh at the Seinfeld episode where Jerry missed the entire movie because he was making out with his girlfriend in the theater.

[riderinthestorm]

55. Mary Poppins, My Fair Lady, The King and I nt

[elias49]

57. I don't like musicals either! nt

[Art_from_Ark]

56. Silence of the Lambs

The Exorcist

[TeamPooka]

58. a James Woods film called THE BOOST about a cocaine addict. It was great but too real

for me to watch again.
I lost a friend exactly like in this movie so...

[jmowreader]

60. The Sixth Sense

Never mind that it was made by M. Night Shyamalan, who needs to change his name to M. Night Hoover because his movies suck so bad you can pick up a bowling ball with one. No, once you know the lead character has been dead as a doornail since the first scene, it's impossible to watch that movie again.

[hatrack]

63. Dead Ringers (and I say this as a HUGE Jeremy Irons fan)

Wonderful acting and characters, and no blood to speak of (especially considering it's David Cronenberg), but ice-cold and way too deep a dive into mortality and mental illness.

Seriously disturbing movie, and one that stuck to my brain like mold on cheese. Yeesh.

[fifthoffive]

64. Truly, Madly, Deeply

Took me a full day to recover. Depressing and comforting at the same time.

[ailsagirl]

81. Loved that movie

Really well-done

I've seen it quite a few times!!

Juliet Stephenson is terrific in it-- fantastic actor

[murielm99]

65. Leaving Las Vegas. n/t

[lunamagica]

92. ITA. Once was more than enough for me. nt

[Tabasco_Dave]

66. Looking For Mr Goodbar

The end was very unexpected.

[avebury]

68. Lawrence of Arabia

My parents dragged the whole family to see it when it came out. I was a young kid and way to young to sit through this flick.

The only thing I remember about the film was that there was lots and lots and lots of sand. I have never been able to sit through it as an adult.

[Gore1FL]

69. Dead Girl

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0896534/

My skin crawls just thinking about it.

[Baitball Blogger]

70. Skeleton Key.

That's another movie I will avoid. Not enough fair play in that one.

[ailsagirl]

73. How about Birdemic??

Never saw it but it sounds like a winner!!

[Coventina]

79. The Rifftrax version is HILARIOUS!

Give it a try!!

[blogslut]

74. There Will Be Blood

Great film but damn, it was rough all the way through.

[Initech]

86. DRAINAGE, ELI!!!!

The last 30 minutes of that movie are well worth sitting through the rest of it.

"I have a straw, and you have a milkshake. My straw reaches across the room and it starts to drink your milkshake. I. DRINK. YOUR. MILKSHAKE. I drink it up!"

[JonLP24]

75. Dead/Alive aka Braindead

Not sure what the premise is for this thread but that is one movie I will never go back to.

Like an old Godzilla or dinosaur film but gross. Zombies, rat-monkeys, dismemberment.

Only movie that made me nauseous.

[ailsagirl]

84. I saw part of Last House on the Left...

thinking it was going to be one of those campy horror movies-- it was nauseating.

Saw it at a drive-in (ah, the good old days) and my boyfriend and I were freaked out.

We left before too long.

[grahamhgreen]

77. Deliverance. I'm done with romance movies!!!

[ailsagirl]

83. That was awful

I mean, good acting and all, but the point of the movie escaped me.

Same with Looking for Mr. Goodbar-- never saw it but know the plot and heard it was really upsetting for many. Strobe light flashing while Diane Keaton is being stabbed. Fade out.

And, speaking of upsetting, how about Easy Rider????????

[cui bono]

80. I'm unclear on whether you mean you wouldn't watch a remake or wouldn't watch the same

original again.

As far as a movie that hit its mark but I would definitely see again because it's so good - and should never have a remake:

Fearless - I didn't know what to do after seeing that. I'm so glad I saw it alone since I ended up just getting on the freeway and driving and driving because I didn't want to go home and I didn't know what I wanted to do... so I kept driving.

Amores Perros

The Brother from Another Planet

Clockwork Orange - I'm about to watch that again soon.

Network - !!! That is a MUST repeat watch movie.


So many great movies........ sometimes they are great because of how they hit you due to where you were emotionally and psychologically at the time you watched them. I have a couple of those where the movies in and of themselves weren't masterpieces but because of how it resonated with me personally I was hit hard by it.

[RobinA]

85. Lady of the Dunes

Saw it in film class in the '70's. Japanese. It's about a woman who lives in a sand dune. It was like watching paint dry, as she never left the dune, but actually very well done.

[Odd Won Out]

87. Exorcist, Requiem for a Dream, Eraserhead, Wild at Heart

[chrisa]

88. OHHH GOD NOT THE BEES! NOT THE BEES!

MY EYES! MY EYES! BBBPHHHTTT!