Films You Can't Watch Again

[FenellaTheWitch]

The English Patient.

I saw it at the cinema and I was absolutely heartbroken at the end. I was doing that uncontrollable crying and my husband didn't know what to do with me. Never watched it again after that.

 

[Linkylu]

I think you mean Bradley Cooper, but thank you so much for the mental image of Bradley Walsh starting in this film that made me laugh!

For me, I can’t watch Grave of the Fireflies or Schindler’s List again. Absolutely broke my heart.

Those two for me too

 

[Hunthehun]

About Time. The scene with his dad on the beach when he goes back to being a young boy… makes me sob like nothing else.

This film breaks me every time I watch it. Especially the uncle Desmond scene near the end

 

[Dogtanian]

The first ten minutes of Up! The rest of the film is very average but the first ten must be some of the best Pixar work ever.

 

[Wifo1976]

Manchester By The Sea - I’d completely forgotten about that, I watched it on a plane which I think helped but wow, just horrific and unbearable.

Lion, agree utterly heartbreaking at the end. Reminds me of Slumdog Millionaire and the child poverty in that

se7en gave me sleepless nights for weeks, I’m a bit of a wuss but that film is so depressing. It’s grey, rainy and miserable all the way through!


I made a decision not to watch anything like this anymore as I find myself thinking about them constantly and I’d rather be none the wiser 🫶

 

[jazzy22]

The first ten minutes of Up! The rest of the film is very average but the first ten must be some of the best Pixar work ever.

I’ve got the the little theme tune to that bit in my head now and feel like crying

 

[spookydooky]

Marley and Me, and any film where an animal dies. Just reading the plot of that Hachi film is enough
Requiem for a Dream, The Pianist, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Eden Lake. I usually like horror films, but not that one.

i remember renting Eden Lake from Blockbuster, I still think about it to this day!

 

[yellowmellow]

Clockwork Orange - Watched as a teen with a group of friends and just found it all very disturbing.

The Strangers - Not into scary movies at all but went to see this at the cinema with 2 friends and watched behind my hands. Was terrified of my own shadow for ages!

 

[blahblahboring]

Bambi, Dumbo and ET.

I could only watch them once because I CRIED

 

[Joon]

Cast Away..Tom Hanks at the end when his wife has got someone new because she thought he was dead.

 

[Dogtanian]

Cast Away..Tom Hanks at the end when his wife has got someone new because she thought he was dead.

I only realised recently that at the end of the film, he delivers the package from the island to the the woman with the welding gear, she was a famous country and western singer in real life. She died from cancer about 5 years ago and was only in her early 50's.

 

[Joon]

I only realised recently that at the end of the film, he delivers the package from the island to the the woman with the welding gear, she was a famous country and western singer in real life. She died from cancer about 5 years ago and was only in her early 50's.

Oh that is really sad. The music to the film is beautiful but also sad
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Oh that is really sad. The music to the film is beautiful but also sad

For those who Lost...by Alan Silvesti....

 

[Dianne]

Which films can you not watch again, for whatever reason, even though you enjoyed them?

For me, it's the Ian Curtis/Joy Division film Control.
I suffer from depression, etc anyway and choosing to watch that film at 1am when I was feeling a bit low was a very bad idea.
Even knowing Ian's story, and how his short life ended, I wasn't prepared for how bleak the film was and how absolutely devastates I felt when it finished.

You?

I watched this film in Media in college and found it so hard to hide my tears at the end! The way his wife was screaming ‘somebody help me! Can somebody help me!’ Really stuck with me
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Me and Earl and the Dying Girl is a really good film, but I don’t think I’ve ever cried so much watching a film. I’d still recommend it, but it’s so sad.

 

[D.W's Library Card]

Oh this is a good topic.

Another vote for The Green Mile - I've only seen it once and it was at someone else's house and I had to excuse myself to go to the bathroom where I started sobbing.

I Am Sam - Only got about half an hour in and was crying, turned it off so for all I know it could have a happy ending.

 

[FenellaTheWitch]

Another one for me is Casino.

I love a horror film or a good gangster movie. I am not squeamish in the slightest and violence normally goes over my head but there was one scene towards the end with Joe Pesci that really made me uncomfortable. I never got to the end of the film and have never watched it since.

 

[Libbylulu]

Oh this is a good topic.

Another vote for The Green Mile - I've only seen it once and it was at someone else's house and I had to excuse myself to go to the bathroom where I started sobbing.

I Am Sam - Only got about half an hour in and was crying, turned it off so for all I know it could have a happy ending.

I am Sam is my all time favourite movie. It does play on the heart strings and he’s made me cry every time I’ve seen it. Watch it through to the end

 

[Jelly Bean]

Another one for me is Casino.

I love a horror film or a good gangster movie. I am not squeamish in the slightest and violence normally goes over my head but there was one scene towards the end with Joe Pesci that really made me uncomfortable. I never got to the end of the film and have never watched it since.

Oh yes. I think I know the scene you mean. Very nasty. I could never ever watch it again because of that.

 

[Sparkledarmer]

My Sister's Keeper made me full on ugly cry, never again

 

[Im not ok]

i remember renting Eden Lake from Blockbuster, I still think about it to this day!

I love horrors but Eden lake was something else I remember sitting thinking what am I watching

 

[xvictoriax]

The first ten minutes of Up! The rest of the film is very average but the first ten must be some of the best Pixar work ever.

The score in the opening just makes me bawl. It’s stunning in so many beautiful and heart-breaking ways. There’s a fair few Disney songs that can reduce me to tears in fairness. Oddly Let’s Go Fly a Kite is up there even though it’s a happy one.

As for films I agree with the pianist, it’s wrenching to watch the scene with the SS raiding all the apartments, genuinely horrified me.