Maybe it’s too intense, too heavy, or too much of something that discourages you from watching it twice. But you will still consider it a great film.
For me:
Requiem for a Dream
Enter the Void
For me:
Requiem for a Dream
Enter the Void
Film Great films that you could only watch one time
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Grave of the Fireflies. It was great but I don't know why I'd want to watch it again.
Schindler's List.
Once was more than enough. Especially if you were stoned during that one time.Dr. Dolittle.
Groundhog Day, over and over, one time
I can't watch Forrest Gump again.
I was thinking about that the other day. Over the years I’ve seen clips from it here or there multiple times, but strangely never feel inclined to sit through another watch, while I’ve watched The Pianist at least 3 times.
There’s something very much disconcerting being confronted visually about the depth we could sink to, even if we have no problem soaking that in through another medium.
Book of Eli is another one for me.
Irreversible
Your two choices are also perfect
Your two choices are also perfect
Room springs to mind.
City of God
Grave of the Fireflies
I've seen irreversible, I think that scene was overhyped
A Serbian Film.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Midnight Run
Never be the same watching either of those again.
Midnight Run
Never be the same watching either of those again.
I tend to watch this every year around the same time Auschwitz was liberated.
Watched Inglorious Basterds at the cinema, loved it, but have never watched it again.
Still Alice - Too sad
Whiplash - Too uncomfortable
Whiplash - Too uncomfortable
Friend wanted to watch that, I flat out refused. Not for me.
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- Eraser Head
- Mulholland Drive
- Requiem for a dream
- Boyhood
- Schindlers List
You gotta be kidding
I never tire of the scene where Michael Caine is hitting Steve Martins leg with that cane.
You gotta be kidding
I never tire of the scene where Michael Caine is hitting Steve Martins leg with that cane.
Oh I can watch scenes ok Ruprecht was hilarious but I can't watch the whole film already knowing the ending.
2001 a space odyssey
Requiem For A Dream
Son Of Saul
Probably a few others i can't think of
Son Of Saul
Probably a few others i can't think of
American Beauty.
I've never had this to be honest. If I feel profoundly about a film I want to watch a second time to see how differently I react, and if my initial emotional reactions led me to miss any interesting things the first time.
Oldboy
"Great" film?
I wouldn't call it a great film, it's mainly interesting due to the extreme shock value.
The Usual Suspects
Midsommar.
Thought it was a brilliant, super unnerving horror which kept me creeped out and on edge the entire time, possibly making it my favourite horror movie ever. Watching it in the cinema was a real experience.
But I have no real desire to watch it again, certainly not ever alone. Same with Hereditary actually, they’re just not the kind of film that I feel have that much rewatch value. Knowing everything that happens beforehand in that kind of film which rely heavily on shocks to the senses kinda spoils it a little for me.
Thought it was a brilliant, super unnerving horror which kept me creeped out and on edge the entire time, possibly making it my favourite horror movie ever. Watching it in the cinema was a real experience.
But I have no real desire to watch it again, certainly not ever alone. Same with Hereditary actually, they’re just not the kind of film that I feel have that much rewatch value. Knowing everything that happens beforehand in that kind of film which rely heavily on shocks to the senses kinda spoils it a little for me.
I agree with the others but Mulholland Drive is the perfect film to repeat view. There's so much to see and contemplate.
Hi Eckers99, I tried, I'm a huge Lynch fan but I just didn't really enjoy repeat viewings. Same with his recent Twin Peaks. The original series has withstood 3 - 4 viewings but that last one just gave me a headache
Really? Sure, the surprise has gone but it's still a really enjoyable movie just for the performances alone
Martyrs (The original French version, not the shitty American, sugar-coated, remake from a couple of years ago)
Extremely violent & brutal movie, but it keeps you wondering right up the end as to why. Would be hard to sit through all that violence & brutality again, especially knowing the reasoning behind it.
Extremely violent & brutal movie, but it keeps you wondering right up the end as to why. Would be hard to sit through all that violence & brutality again, especially knowing the reasoning behind it.
Yeah I agree with this one, if you mean the french film
Fair enough. I've found myself looking for logic where there probably isn't any, tbfHi Eckers99, I tried, I'm a huge Lynch fan but I just didn't really enjoy repeat viewings. Same with his recent Twin Peaks. The original series has withstood 3 - 4 viewings but that last one just gave me a headache
Hard to say whether Lynch is being abstract or just fecking with the audience at times. Sometimes I just have to force myself to stop analysing everything on screen and just enjoy it as an experience. That's the beauty of his work though isn't it? No easy answers.It's about as unwatchable as Liverpool's current season for a Utd fan. It's that bad.
Human Centipede.