Too grim to watch again but really liked it as a movie.
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Film Movies you liked but would only ever watch once.
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Too grim to watch again but really liked it as a movie.
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All of them, don't really get the point of watching films again.
Think comfort food in movie terms.
The Mist (2007).
I always liked movies where a group of people are stuck together in one place due to outside danger, for example Dawn of the Dead (original and remake), but unlike Dawn of the Dead, I just can't rewatch The Mist. It's too grim.
I always liked movies where a group of people are stuck together in one place due to outside danger, for example Dawn of the Dead (original and remake), but unlike Dawn of the Dead, I just can't rewatch The Mist. It's too grim.
Only watched this recently. Definitely no need to rewatch it though.
Shawshank redemption, and, green mile. Good movies but once you know how they end it's pointless sitting though 74 hours again.
Twelve years a slave.
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Interstellar the first that came to mind for some reason. Maybe because it's on Sky all the time.
I'm wanting to rewatch that. More so that I was a bit too tired the first time I tried to see it.
Beasts of no nation.
Plenty more if I’m honest.
Plenty more if I’m honest.
Never watched Titanic, but i feel like if i did i would only watch it once.
The boy in the striped pyjamas. Such a beautiful film that ripped my heart up, threw it in the bin then set it on fire.
As good as it is, I will never watch it again.
As good as it is, I will never watch it again.
Loved that film but like you it was a one watch only
Grave of fireflies. Saying that I watched it a second time while showing it to someone else, still horrible even if you know what's coming.
Inception
Requiem for a Dream
Ah yes. Great movie, but that definitely is a one time watch only.
That's most movies for me. It's a much shorter list of films I would rewatch, even if I thought they were great. I'd rather watch something new, in general.
Citizen Kane.
Yeah me too but i wouldn't walk out of the room if Indiana Jones was on the tv. I'm pretty sure i'd be hooked on it again pretty quickly. Grave of the Fireflies, Requiem for a Dream, the Road - i'd find something else to do / somewhere else to be.
First to come to mind….
Schindlers List
The Deer Hunter
Silence of the Lambs
Schindlers List
The Deer Hunter
Silence of the Lambs
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I enjoy a bleak film, but this drags bleak to a new level. The last hour is horrific.Only watched this recently. Definitely no need to rewatch it though.
On the theme of nuclear apocalypse - Miracle Mile. Very slept on film, must watch, but only once ffs.
100% on all three. I'd add Irreversible to that list. Those 4 films, you'd feel better taking a hammer to your own nuts instead of going through those emotions again.
Nil By Mouth. Ray Winstone beating the shit out of his pregnant wife was more than enough the first time around.
Pretty much any movie where it’s main stand out point is having a major twist.
M. Night Everything.
Ah two spring to mind.
Midnight Run with De Niro
And Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
Both brilliant on first watch but not watchable again when you know what happens.
Midnight Run with De Niro
And Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
Both brilliant on first watch but not watchable again when you know what happens.
Oh. Also Se7en - although most of us did get the ending before it happened.
Harry Potter
Came to post this.
The Road is a great shout.
I always find threads like this really useful to tell me which films I should completely avoid 
I agree with every word on this post.
I rarely watch films more than once unless I'm researching or watching it for filmmaking.
Earthlings.
Weekend at Bernies.
Weekend at Bernies.
In some cases yes, but movies like Star Wars and lotr Franchises I watch many multiple times
plenty of movies so far in this thread though I’m in same boat, great movies but never gonna watch them again; boy in the striped PJ’s, schindler's list for example
plenty of movies so far in this thread though I’m in same boat, great movies but never gonna watch them again; boy in the striped PJ’s, schindler's list for example
I have actually only ever seen the Road once. But I think I’d like to see it again
Raging bull. Masterpiece but a gruelling view. Same with Reqiuem for a dream, The master and The Elephant Man.
Requiem for a dream
Dick in a box!