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Sun Jan-16-05 12:48 AM
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Name A Movie You Loved But Cannot Watch More Than Once? |
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I probably would have to put American History X at the top of the list. For me it is the saddest movie I have seen in my life. I just cannot watch it again.
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Sun Jan-16-05 10:00 AM
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44. same here. I bought the DVD but can't make it to the opening credits. |
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Sun Jan-16-05 12:50 AM
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2. Remains of the flippin' Day. |
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Sun Jan-16-05 12:50 AM
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3. "House of Sand and Fog" |
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Sun Jan-16-05 01:20 AM
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Maybe city of god. But I'll watch in again someday..
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Sun Jan-16-05 12:56 AM
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11. Not only can you only watch it once, but you can't even finish it =P |
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Sun Jan-16-05 01:00 AM
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Sixth Sense When you know the end, not much point to go through the whole thing again.
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Kind of loses the whole feeling of suspense if you know what's coming.
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Sun Jan-16-05 01:09 AM
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19. seen big fish 3 times .. |
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Tears but a warm feeing of family and love.
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Sun Jan-16-05 10:43 AM
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I loved that movie, but don't think I could watch it again
Same goes for Life is Beautiful.
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Sun Jan-16-05 12:55 AM
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9. Saving Private Ryan... |
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It captured the spirit of war...too well. Brilliant film making but too painful to watch more than once
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Sun Jan-16-05 12:59 AM
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14. What timing - I rented it again this weekend. Figured it was time. |
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There were some great performances in it I want to see again.
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Sun Jan-16-05 01:08 PM
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Watched it, loved it, but once was enough. Call me a coward, but that was an intense movie.
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Rented it, liked it, bought the DVD, haven't watched it in over a year.
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Sun Jan-16-05 01:11 AM
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21. Interesting, as soon as I got it, I watched it 12 times in 6 months |
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Sun Jan-16-05 03:24 AM
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33. One of my top five faves |
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I could watch it over and over again. LOVE it.
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Sun Jan-16-05 09:50 AM
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42. If You Loved "Amelie"....... |
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....you need to run to immediately see "A Very Long Engagement." Wonderful movie with the same actress. Take some Kleenex......
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Sun Jan-16-05 10:38 AM
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53. If you loved Amelie you also MUST see |
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"He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not". The movie begins showing events from Audrey Tautou's character's eyes... then starts all over again as seen through the eyes of her love object. Totally different story which explains everything. Clever technique, fascinating, and Audrey is at her best.
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Mon Jan-17-05 12:48 PM
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88. Yes, that movie is sort of the "anti-Amelie" |
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Sun Jan-16-05 10:41 AM
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55. Check out "Happenstance" |
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I found I can watch Amelie over and over and over again without it losing it's appeal :)
but seriously, Happenstance is a very cute movie.
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Sun Jan-16-05 12:56 AM
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12. A dual approach here... |
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From other DUers, I'm in total agreement on: American History X House of Sand and Fog
In my own life: Memento The Hours
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16. i was going to post this too. |
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any super sad / war movie, i just can't do twice.
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I'm glad I saw it, never want to see it again.
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Sun Jan-16-05 01:05 AM
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17. Oh Brother Where Art Thou? |
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The first time I saw it, I totally loved it.
I rented it again some months later and for whatever reason (my mood maybe?) I didn't enjoy it at all. I turned it off less than 1/2 way through.
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The sappiest flick ever made. It insults my intelligence but I get caught up in it whenever I start to watch it.
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Me too. I hate watching it but if I channel surf into it, I'm done. I think it is because I can find no real reason to watch it, but am never willing to give up on bad celluloid. Dunno...
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just too much blood for me....
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Sun Jan-16-05 03:25 AM
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34. I just saw that tonight |
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I wouldn't say I loved it. It was very well done though. But I never want to see it again.
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I don't see how anyone could watch it a second time.
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Sun Jan-16-05 01:33 AM
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27. That movie pissed me off |
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I was sooooo mad after watching that
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76. The book pissed me off more than the movie...n/t |
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73. I love it.. I watch it all the time |
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or did until someone borrowed it and didn't give it back. I get chills just thinking of the little girl screaming toward the end.
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Sun Jan-16-05 07:36 PM
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74. That is the one for me too. |
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I have never been able to watch it again. It makes me so sad.
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Sun Jan-16-05 01:32 AM
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26. Please don't snicker ... The Lion King |
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When Simba comes upon his dead father and tries to move his paw, to find a sign of life, I almost fell apart. I know it's anthropomorphizing to assign human emotions to animations (of all things!), but it just broke my heart.
FWIW, I could never bring myself to watch Bambi, because I had already heard what happens to Bambi's mother.
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Sun Jan-16-05 01:43 AM
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28. I was so pissed there were little kids in there with me seeing that! |
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I saw it in the theater when I was 18 or so.
MAN. I was gutted...and then here come Timon and Pumbaa. I was like, don't try that happy funny crap with me! I think they irritated me all the way up to Hakuna Matata.
At the time I could not understand AT ALL why someone would let their young children watch that scene, and I was mature enough to wonder that VERY LOUDLY at the close of the film.
My little kid loves that movie, but I still ff a few scenes in that movie--just hit me that it's probably not the most satisfying viewing experience for her!
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Sun Jan-16-05 03:43 AM
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38. What exactly are you talking about? |
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I haven't seen that movie in years, so I have no idea what you mean.
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Sun Jan-16-05 09:54 AM
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highlight the white space below, didn't want to spoil the one person who hasn't seen it!
where Simba sees his father die, then tries to rouse him, and :cry: then climbs under his limp paw so it looks as if his dead father is holding him and lays there devastated. Scar then comes and runs a game on him, makes him think he's to blame for his father's death, and Simba then runs away--where the hyenas are waiting. He outruns them and passes out in the desert, all alone, presumably to die.
Emotionally loaded for young children, I think. Like I said, I was 18 or so and was not happy--and I'm not a touchy feely cry all the time kind of chick. :(
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Parts of it really don't work, other parts hit way too close to home.
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The cast was awesome. The acting was superb, as was the direction, but its so sad I can't bring myself to watch it a second time.
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Sun Jan-16-05 10:04 AM
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46. Great film, and cannot bring myself to watch it again on cable. n/t |
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48. Although it isn't really considered a film, "Angels In America". n/t |
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a Czech animated film I saw as a teenager. I enjoyed it then, but fear I would find it lacking now.
I actually enjoy watching the down beat and harrowing. It can move as art. Time and time again.
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35. It's one of my favorite movies |
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It holds up quite well. I have watched it often.
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I will succumb to temptation :)
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41. Saw it twice the day after it came out. |
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Sun Jan-16-05 03:27 AM
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36. I was going to say American History X even before I |
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read the rest of your post. Excellent movie, great acting (esp. Edward Norton), but I never ever want to see it again. I think my blood pressure sky-rocketed during that movie. It was so sad, and so horrifying and so freaking disturbing.
My other picks would be F911 and Schindlers List.
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37. Fahreinheight 911, Schindler's List |
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I didn't love Mississippi Burning, although the performances were wonderful...couldn't finish it because I had gotten so angry.
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geez that was disturbing.
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Sun Jan-16-05 10:28 AM
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51. haven't been able to bring myself to watch that even once |
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The clip they showed at the Oscars was enough for me. I want very badly to see Hilary Swank's performance, but I just can't.
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Sun Jan-16-05 02:07 PM
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66. Yep... That's Another One... |
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I own the DVD, but I've only watched it once.
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Mon Jan-17-05 11:58 AM
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83. I saw a documentary about that and couldn't even go to the movie. |
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The movies I love are the ones I could watch 1000 times. There are some others like "Saving Private Ryan" that were interesting, and I'm glad I watched them one. But I didn't really even 'like' them.
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depressing as hell but a good movie about drug addiction(s) and the ultimate price paid.
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71. Yes, this one was just sad... |
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Ellyn Berstein (sp) was just so good in this, one of the best of her career, just such a perfect example of loneliness, and when she talked about how it is getting old, I really lost it...and Louise Lasser was too...I really think it portraits all of lifes addictions...and Jennifer Connolly was one of her best...the movie left me breathless...Great filming technique too...
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I loved the movie, but I was so drained at the end, that I can't bring myself to rent it or buy it now.
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52. Too many to mention.. |
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An absolutely amazing film, but incredibly depressing for me. The same with "Glory" -- saw it in the theatre, was incredibly moved, never want to see it again.
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Sun Jan-16-05 10:53 AM
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58. Jacob's Ladder, possibly Paths of Glory as well. |
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I don't know, I'll probably see them again eventually, but not for years to come. Both were agonizing experiences.
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Sun Jan-16-05 10:56 AM
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59. Not Another Teen Movie |
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I'd like to watch it, but can't for family reasons.
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Sun Jan-16-05 01:30 PM
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63. I wouldn't say I "loved" it, but Boogie Nights. |
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I'm glad I watched Boogie Nights. I didn't dislike it, but I don't think I'll ever be able to bring myself to watch it again.
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Sun Jan-16-05 01:33 PM
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64. Terry Gilliam's *The Fisher King* |
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Flashback to the shooting...can't do it. Sorry. Too viscerally disturbing, cannot imagine how anyone lives through something like that.
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Sun Jan-16-05 02:06 PM
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65. Long Time Companion, The Band Played On |
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68. End of Evangelion, the Ring |
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those two and maybe some others.
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Good film. But once knowing the ending, you can't look at the story again in the same way.
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Renee Zellweger was fantastic...but it was just too sad.
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72. One that I would like to try and watch again |
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was Chelsea Walls with Kris Kristofferson but I don't know if I could handle it...The nightclub scene with Jimmy Scott singing "I Didn't Mean to Hurt You" was just so representative of the whole movie...Ethan Hawke did a good job directing and Uma Thurman as usual was superb...
on edit: along the same lines was Million Dollar Hotel, where Mel Gibson, once again decides to do some real acting...Amanda Plummer, Jimmi Smits and a score of others ...also want to try and watch again
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Once you've been given the 'solution', it's all over.
I feel the same about "The Usual Suspects", but the performances are just so electrifying in that one, that I'll watch is again.
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I saw it when my kids were small and I was devastated for days on end. Kept flashing back to it. Wonderful movie but I could never do it again.
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Sun Jan-16-05 07:48 PM
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78. The Lost Prince (BBC) |
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it plays on PBS from time to time. Breaks your heart. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/lostprince/
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79. Anything by Quentin Tarantino |
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Good movies but they don't hold up well under repeated viewings, IMO.
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Mon Jan-17-05 11:59 AM
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84. I've watched Desperado a few times |
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It's the only one of that series that I've seen.
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any movie involving an animal which dies to forward the plot.
Although I finally got round to seeing Bambi when I had my own child and found that the bit with Bambi's mom didn't ruin the film for me as much as I anticipated it would. The forest fire was much scarier.
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Mon Jan-17-05 12:33 PM
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The crack-up scene was hard to watch. I thought the guy who played David Helfgott as young man was as good as Geoffrey Rush.
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Mon Jan-17-05 12:33 PM
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Far too disturbing to watch again.
Sort of off topic - it seems every time somebody starts a movie thread, I chime in with a movie from 1992-1996. I don't know if this is because I watched a lot more movies back then, or if the movies were just better. I was certainly a lot more adventurous with my choices back then.
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Oh my God, those poor little boys. :cry: I'll never be able to watch that one again. I almost couldn't get through it the first time. Tough movie to watch.
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I know my age is showing but it was just too upseting to watch it again.
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I was living in England when I saw this and I had some friends that were waaay too much like the people in the film.
It creeped me out big time. Can't watch it again but I thought some of it was funny like the dirty sheets scene.
The baby on the ceiling was my worst scene ever!
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a couple of characters in there would remind me too much of a typical Bush voter.
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94. count me in as well for American History X........... |
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The scene were the man is forced to put his teeth on the concrete curb haunts me to this day. :(
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