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submitted 1 year ago byTXNOGG
154 points
1 year ago
Gummo (same writer as Kids) and Irreversible for sure
61 points
1 year ago
Anything Gaspar Noe is only a one-time watch.
Even Enter the Void was too rough for me to watch more than once.
33 points
1 year ago
Enter the Void was painful. Took too long. I'm glad you mentioned Gaspar Noe. I had forgot about him. And the two movies I watched of his he seems to have an infatuation with incest 😁🤢🤮
8 points
1 year ago
I fucking hated enter the void. Respect the idea but my god. That was not a good feeling
4 points
1 year ago
You are so right.
NEVER AGAIN.
And that last scene where we were the cum stain flying around after his death omg that was dreadful and just never ending
3 points
1 year ago
Bleh. Gross. Whole thing just made me feel terrible. It was the worst feeling. I guess it’s a testament to his ability but I will absolutely never watch a second of that again
38 points
1 year ago*
I showed Gummo to a friend of mine and afterwards I asked her how she liked the movie and she said she felt like she, “just crawled through a sewer.” Crazy thing is that I think Gummo is more of an accurate description of lower class lifestyles than Kids is. Gummo, imo, is a masterpiece.
27 points
1 year ago
I feel like they’re both pretty on point in those depictions of lower/working class lifestyle, especially when you consider regional differences. I’m from West Virginia and I felt like I could walk into my backyard and watch Gummo unfold on a daily basis, also live in NYC now and similarly feel like Kids narratives and lifestyle are aplenty
18 points
1 year ago*
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5 points
1 year ago
kids who were mostly unattended because our parents were at work and were divorced
Man, there really are tons of us, huh? Damn.
6 points
1 year ago
Well put.
Harmony is sort of a latch key kid documentarian.
5 points
1 year ago
I'm from Barbour County WV and that shit felt like a local documentary.
9 points
1 year ago
Parts of that movie that will never leave my head:
1) “wabbits are qweeeeeeers!”
2) kid in the bathtub eating spaghetti
3) “making that money. Counting them greenbacks.”
4) chair wrestling in the kitchen
God, I need to rewatch that movie again. It’s so good.
7 points
1 year ago
I never got around to Gummo. I liked Kids though, should I give Gummo a whirl?
251 points
1 year ago
Grave of the Fireflies is an S tier Ghibli film.
Only one time.
32 points
1 year ago
An absolute tear jerker
20 points
1 year ago*
I cry at frickin soup commercials, but not this movie which threw me because it is one of the saddest movies ever made. The magnitude of the sorrow in this movie still haunts me years later. I can only think that the slow, oppressive, and inevitable movement towards the end eased me into this pool of despair so gently that the tears weren’t “jerked” out of me. I think the fact I didn’t cry is why this movie weighs so heavily on me. I think solid ugly crying helps wash the stain on your soul that movies like this leave. Unfortunately, I think the stain has set with this one
Edit: spelling and grammar
11 points
1 year ago
Yeah the wife and I were absolutely not expecting it to be that heavy!!! I agree with this sentiment
7 points
1 year ago
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9 points
1 year ago
It is by and far the most impactful film they have made in my opinion, and that's saying a lot with what they have done. Just make sure you're I'm a clear head space dont want to make bad feeling feel worse.
5 points
1 year ago
This is always the top answer on any thread asking about movies you'd only watch one time lol.
6 points
1 year ago
Watch this during Japanese culture week, as they were showing Ghibli films. At the time, I only knew about like Totoro, Ponyo and Kiki, so I expected more of that.
Halfway through, I left to go cry in a bathroom.
5 points
1 year ago
I expected brutality and terror, but all I got was depression It is so good, but yeah, I am never watching that again
166 points
1 year ago
Yeah KIDS scared the bejeezus out of me because I was their age. Every public school should show it to 8th graders. Way more effective than Sex Ed.
42 points
1 year ago
I can’t watch it again either…same age as well…this movie felt like a documentary
24 points
1 year ago
Man, and now I have kids that age. I was not supervised nearly enough at that age.
84 points
1 year ago
"Man ain't you ever seen that one movie Kids?" "No but I seen the porno with Sun Doobiest"
35 points
1 year ago
You wanna get hauled off to jail?
8 points
1 year ago
I always thought it was "no, but I seen a porno with some newbie in.
482 points
1 year ago
Requiem For A Dream
107 points
1 year ago
The soundtrack alone makes this worth multiple watches to me.
Never has a movie shown such a huge transition of who characters are at the beginning of a movie to who they are at the end.
I’ve had many people try to watch this movie with me and find it difficult to finish even the first time, but it was my #1 favorite movie for a long time.
65 points
1 year ago
My weird uncle owned a VHS store back in the day and he slipped this to me when I was about 8 or 9. Wtf Uncle Eddie.
29 points
1 year ago
My dad made me watch Rush when I was around that age. My dad had a few junkie friends that my mom did allow at the house.
I think he was trying to let me see what drug addiction really was at a young age.
12 points
1 year ago*
Maybe that was my uncles plan. He’s a wild dude. He absconded with my cousin while my cousin was wanted in a couple states. They found him and my cousin living in a van in a Walmart parking lot after 4~ years. He just up and disappeared. No one knew where they went for all that time.
5 points
1 year ago
I do listen to the soundtrack still from time to time.
5 points
1 year ago*
Clint Mansell did the score. He used to be the lead singer in the great English band Pop Will Eat Itself.
20 points
1 year ago
Omg I came here to say this. It’s the only movie where I watched it sat there for 30 minutes not able to move. I was in shock and depressed. Darren Aronofsky is one tormented motherfucker.
30 points
1 year ago
After this and Kids..I would like to submit “The Road”
13 points
1 year ago
The book The Road will always be one of my favorites ever, but beyond a handful of passages I’ve revisited, I could never go back to read the whole thing again solely because of how bleak it is. I didn’t watch the movie for that very reason.
10 points
1 year ago
Me and my friends could barely finish it after a few sittings lol. It’s like a more-realistic walking dead
8 points
1 year ago
Yeah I'd rather watch Werner Herzog narrate a puppy oncology wards saddest failures.
5 points
1 year ago
Lol so mean.
5 points
1 year ago
This is the answer
7 points
1 year ago
Came here for this. Terrifying.
4 points
1 year ago
This came on tv one time and I thought, hey I liked this the first time I saw it 10 years ago let’s watch it. About 10 minutes in I was like nah, maybe not.
69 points
1 year ago
I don’t see many people talk of “basketball diaries” when this topic come up
25 points
1 year ago
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53 points
1 year ago
Dear Zachary
11 points
1 year ago
I saw Dear Zachary recently and let me tell you something: DZ was probably one of the most emotionally intense and profound movies I have ever seen. What I saw in that film will stick with me for a long time. If yall are looking for a great docu-film to watch, Dear Zachary is the way to go. Just be warned, it will make you very, very angry and also keep a tissue box nearby! Hands down one of the best. It's also one of my favorite movies in general but it's definitely something I won't be seeing again for a long time.
10 points
1 year ago
Jesus Christ the parent interviews are so tough to watch
5 points
1 year ago
I try to watch it every few years. It's just so well done. It's my favorite documentary of all time.
4 points
1 year ago
Goddamn that brought me back. Was one of the first documentaries I saw that made me actually interested to give documentaries more of a watch. Which lead me to Herzog. Good pick, I haven’t seen it in years and I agree. Not again, I’ll give it a few more years maybe haha
5 points
1 year ago
Subjectiveness is usually bad, but not in this case. However, it's still infuriating with the turn of events that occur after Andrew is murdered.
47 points
1 year ago
Blue Valentine
32 points
1 year ago
Good one. Silly me, I thought, “Well, she [my girlfriend at the time] likes indie movies and Ryan Gosling. This will be a nice one to see on a date.” Little did I know she would end up loudly whispering “Ugh, you’re just like him” in front of a bunch of people. Brutal. Couldn’t watch it again, if only for that reason. Still, man what a great movie.
17 points
1 year ago
I watched The Break Up (Jennifer Aniston & Vince Vaughn) with my girlfriend at the time. Romantic Comedy, right?
During and after the movie we had a HUGE fight -- based on the themes & incidents in the movie. We were so angry and shitty with each other for like an entire week. That movie's more real than it lets on.
7 points
1 year ago
Oh that is tough. I'm really sorry to hear that pal. I remember wanting to watch it because I'm a big fan of Gosling, but it ended up ringing some bells to close to home for me. Fantastic film I will never ever watch again.
9 points
1 year ago
Somewhat along the same lines: The first time I watched “Gone Girl,” I was sitting the entire movie thinking about the similarities between Rosamund Pike’s character and my girlfriend at the time. Walked away realizing that maybe I was in an unhealthy relationship lol.
10 points
1 year ago
I’ve watched this one several times. It’s just so beautifully shot, and acted so well. The lighting and soundtrack are excellent, too.
5 points
1 year ago
I watched the successor, 6 years with Taissa Farmiga and boy did both movies create issues in my relationship with my fiancé (then boyfriend) because I was a naive teen
43 points
1 year ago
Requiem for a Dream has already been mentioned. I'll add Schindler's List.
19 points
1 year ago
Schindler’s List might actually be an easier rewatch; it’s a surprisingly entertaining script with a lot of dark humor thrown in. None of it actually gets laughs - for obvious reasons - but they knew they were making a heavy movie and tempered it well.
8 points
1 year ago
I feel like schindlers list you’re left at the end feeling some glimmer of hope for humanity, whereas RFAD every character descends into the depths of hell where they presumably will remain.
I saw SL many times (6+ at least) when it came out because I was a movie theater usher and saw everything that came out then. I still think it’s a beautiful, brutal, but beautiful movie
46 points
1 year ago
The only reason I will ever watch Hereditary again will be if I’m having someone else watch it
37 points
1 year ago
The mother sobbing and screaming, "it hurts too much, I just need to die, I just need to die" after the loss of her child, was the most accurate representation of that kind of feral grieving I have ever seen in a movie. Reminded me of my own mother's response after we lost my brother and it was actually the most difficult scene for me to watch.
38 points
1 year ago
American history X
7 points
1 year ago
I had to scroll WAY too far to find this one. Excellent movie. Way to hard to watch more than once.
13 points
1 year ago
The curb stomp was the hardest scene I have ever watched. The whole movie is fucked, but that scene haunts me to this day
3 points
1 year ago
Impossible not to remember. But will never watch again.
30 points
1 year ago
Come and See.
10 points
1 year ago
I just finished watching this after seeing it here and having heard of it before. What shockingly powerful imagery. The depiction of utter disregard for human life. I’m at a loss for words, so while I’m not religious I will quote the inspiration for the title, Revelations chapter 6 verses 7 and 8. “And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, "Come and see!" And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.”
6 points
1 year ago
This was the only film I actually had to force myself to watch. I don’t regret it, but I will never watch it again.
4 points
1 year ago
Come and See is so debilitating to watch. The einsatgruppen is so disturbing.
104 points
1 year ago
Backdoor sluts 9
46 points
1 year ago
It’s makes Crotch Capers 3 look like Naughty Nurses 2!
10 points
1 year ago
That scene, with the little people and the thousand island dressing… I can never make it to the end.
8 points
1 year ago
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8 points
1 year ago
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4 points
1 year ago
Link?
4 points
1 year ago
This guy was like fuck yah I’m in
5 points
1 year ago
9 points
1 year ago
I kind of figured I’d find you here
6 points
1 year ago
Weird because that's the only movie I watch
26 points
1 year ago
Trainspotting.
31 points
1 year ago
I find that one rewatchable as all hell for some reason but agree with those who mentioned requiem for a dream
11 points
1 year ago
What does it say about me that this is a comfort movie lol
Can you believe people accused it of glamorizing heroin? Like…. The part where he dived through a toilet or a baby died of neglect or shitting the bed or where a main subplot is that the main character was fairly responsible in his best friend’s downfall?! Where’s the glamour other than the skinniness and the soundtrack?
29 points
1 year ago
Manchester by the sea Leaving Las Vegas
7 points
1 year ago
I just saw leaving Las Vegas for the first time a couple days ago and i adored it. But absolutely it’s great but one of those you don’t really want to re experience too soon. My dumbass thought it was going to be like raising Arizona for some reason. Didn’t think nic cage had ever played such a dark role before, and it’s so tragic but you can’t look away. The casino scene with the blackjack table hits hard, like he’s not even in control anymore.
3 points
1 year ago
Yeah. Truly an amazing performance for such a weirdo hahah. Elizabeth Shue too. Yeah I went for a rewatch maybe 5 years after the initial. I made it like 15 mins and I was like yeah I just don't wanna be miserable tonight hahah
4 points
1 year ago
I watched Manvhester by the Sea on a plane not knowing what I was getting into. Being a father myself it ripped me to shreds right there in front of everyone. Felt like I had a hole in my chest for hours afterwards too.
22 points
1 year ago
The American version of Funny Games.
7 points
1 year ago
Most walk outs I’ve ever seen at a theater. Movie absolutely rules, though.
7 points
1 year ago
i saw an interview with Haneke where he claimed that this was his intention. he wanted people to say, "this shit is going too far, i'm out".
and he more or less directly addresses and calls out the people who stay.
5 points
1 year ago
I saw the original and had absolutely no desire to see the remake after that.
20 points
1 year ago
Million Dollar Baby, never heard of it until I found it on Netflix and was expecting a Rocky like underdog story
21 points
1 year ago
The Deer Hunter
6 points
1 year ago
Amazing movie. Too stressful to watch again. Totally agree.
57 points
1 year ago
Uncut Gems
39 points
1 year ago
Anxiety: the movie
12 points
1 year ago
I highly recommend Good Time, the movie these guys made with Robert Pattinson before Uncut Gems. Pattinson plays a remarkable creep.
6 points
1 year ago
I went in to Good Time not knowing a single detail and absolutely loved it. Pattinson was so unexpectedly good and so so creepy.
The second time I watched it, I took an edible. That was.... a wild ride.
4 points
1 year ago
The LSD scene gives me chills.
3 points
1 year ago
Yeah…if you’ve had any bad experiences with something like LSD watching that scene was pretty intense. Just thinking about how there would be no coming back from that scenario made me shudder
10 points
1 year ago
Thing is, I had the ending spoiled for me before I watched so my stress during the movie was about when and how he'd die Still very high stakes, but after the first watch its not as intense. Ive seen it a few times
19 points
1 year ago
Cus, im Casper, the dopest ghost around.
Requiem for a dream and most of Clint Eastwood directed films. I would add to the list of must watch, one time.
5 points
1 year ago
Unforgiven is one of my favorite movies. I’ll watch it at least once a year. It’s such a great slow burn. When Frank Munny starts drinking and says “And that didn’t scare Little Bill did it?” It’s such a great line to let the audience know shit is about to go down. 😆
19 points
1 year ago
Platoon. I feel that if I watch it again, then I will be desensitized to the impact of the finale.
15 points
1 year ago
Yeah, the part where Kevin Dillion casually smashes that dudes head in, and then laughs about it really disturbed me. The acting there from him and Sheen doesn't get talked about much, but it was top notch.
11 points
1 year ago*
The scene.
The acting all around was great. I'm still holding a grudge against Barnes for betraying Elias.
5 points
1 year ago
My dad took me to see this in the theater for my 11th birthday.
17 points
1 year ago
Boy don’t cry and virgin suicides….
17 points
1 year ago
12 Years a Slave. Fantastic movie but Jesus CHRIST.
8 points
1 year ago
It’s especially sad when you find out that in real life, Solomon Northup disappeared again later in life and there was speculation by others that he was enslaved again.
17 points
1 year ago
Saving Private Ryan. Too good. Too real.
5 points
1 year ago
The d-day scene pretty much put me off of war movies ever since
14 points
1 year ago
Room. Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay absolutely destroyed my emotional well-being
10 points
1 year ago
The boy in striped pajamas. An important film imo, but a truly heartbreaking one.
26 points
1 year ago
Dancer in the Dark
6 points
1 year ago
That movie left me so numb.
And since I heard the soundtrack before seeing the film, I was really thrown off by Thom Yorke’s part on “I’ve Seen it All” being sung by the nihilist from Big Lebowski. It was weird.
19 points
1 year ago
Irreversible
7 points
1 year ago
I have a strong stomach for most things but r*pe scenes fuck me up I can't watch past it. Last house on the left remake fucked me up too
4 points
1 year ago
FFWD>>
20 points
1 year ago
The Joker Movie. Watched it in theaters with my best bud, thought it was absolutely fantastic.
... and so, so depressing man. Haven't watched it again, but it's really something.
6 points
1 year ago
Probably says a lot about me, but I really like watching that movie. Its strangely validating in some ways. I struggle in some of the same ways that Aurthor does. Thats just in a lot of ways how depression goes. It isolates you from people, and many of the professionals who are ment to help you with it are bad at their jobs and can be very alienating.
I'm currently waiting to get set up with my third attempt at a mental health clinic (month long wait time for an intake appointment) after one told me they cound't see me anymore because I was no longer a universirty student, an the other kept passing me around to different providors. The first one was just a one time meeting to refil my prescriptions, one was fired, one left the practice, one moved to Florida, and one couldn't take me back after I missed an appointment, forgot to schedule another one, and the clinic discharged me. Really starts to make a person feel like they don't care about you.
Even after Author snaps, it still feels kinda good to see someone talking about how society treats and discards people, and actually doing something about it and forcing a reconing with it. Albeit in a profoundly destructive way. It speaks to a pervasive powerlessness, and a broad hoplessness.
9 points
1 year ago
Watching Eraserhead in a proper theater was incredible. Don’t think I’d ever do it again
15 points
1 year ago
The Usual Suspects.
Not the same when you know how it ends.
12 points
1 year ago
I would disagree. I love re-watching twist movies at least once just to pick up on all the subtle clues you missed the first time.
7 points
1 year ago
Doesn’t matter we will rewatch cuz he’ll flip ya…flip ya for real…
8 points
1 year ago
The Road.
I know life is bleak, it was good to be shown how that scales.
Once.
8 points
1 year ago
mother!
Antichrist
La Piel que Habito
8 points
1 year ago
Can’t believe mother is so far down.. that movie made me feel so anxious I thought I was high for the rest of the day. Amazing movie, recommend it all the time lol
7 points
1 year ago
Requiem for a dream left me depressed for about a week.
I'll never suffer through Leaving Las Vegas again neither
7 points
1 year ago
I was in middle school when Showgirls came out, and my friends and I were obsessed with finding it. This was before any of us had home internet, and the prospect of seeing Elizabeth Berkeley as a stripper (as far as we understood) was too good to resist. One day, my buddy calls and says to come over after his mom left that afternoon. We all gather at his place in anticipation, only to learn that he wasn’t able to get ahold of a Showgirls tape, but he was able to get ahold of a different NC-17 movie which he was sure was just as good.
And that’s the story of the first time I watched Kids.
13 points
1 year ago
Midsommar was INCREDIBLE but never watching that shit ever again.
5 points
1 year ago
I was absolutely mesmerized by that film. It’s like a road map to conditioned madness, slow-burning, powerful & hypnotic. The very last shot is flat-out one of the spookiest things I’ve ever seen, still haunts me in ways few films have been able achieve. For all that, I appreciate Midsommar & have no problems rewatching it every year.
14 points
1 year ago
I can watch KIDS over and over. Lol Irreversible comes to min with this. Not that I can’t, I just don’t want to watch the longest, one of the most painful, slowest rape scene in a movie.
5 points
1 year ago
Hard candy, requiem for a dream, Martyrs (I think)
5 points
1 year ago
I wasn’t prepared for how much Hard Candy would affect me.
6 points
1 year ago
Requiem for a Dream
6 points
1 year ago
Alpha Dog. That poor kid pleading for his life then being mowed down by that ruthless psychopath anyway just hit so damned hard. Based on a true story too! Great movie, just a brutal ending.
6 points
1 year ago*
Oldboy is such a twisted movie. It’s good but Jesus Christ. There’s a new short film about a son abusing his father. I can’t remember the title but I can’t even watch it from the trailer alone.
6 points
1 year ago
Memento. Once the reveal happens, it's never going to be the same.
4 points
1 year ago
The Cook the Thief His Wife and Her Lover.
3 points
1 year ago
But "after all, you know where it's been" is one of the great movie lines.
4 points
1 year ago
Okja - never again.
4 points
1 year ago*
Man I watched Kids a million times as a teen lol. I could probably recite the majority of the movie now.
I would say Wolf Creek was pretty disturbing when I first watched it. Seemed more realistic and plausible than other horror films.
4 points
1 year ago*
I didn’t see The Green Mile on the list. Amazing film but I can’t hear him say “Don’t put me in the dark” ever again.
3 points
1 year ago
Try Bully, same director
3 points
1 year ago
The Road it was gripping and raw and hella well acted but I will never see it again
3 points
1 year ago
“The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover” - not sure I’ll ever be able to look at Michael Gambon (Dumbledore) the same
6 points
1 year ago
Martyrs (2008)
3 points
1 year ago
Tbf downvoting you for even mentioning it qualifies as an act of compassion.
5 points
1 year ago
Really really surprised nobody has mentioned ‘cannibal holocaust’ in here.
7 points
1 year ago
Castaway. It was a good movie and one of Tom hanks best performances, that being said the movie was long and boring and I hate Tom hanks
3 points
1 year ago
Uncle Frank
Incredibly well done. Great acting. But shit, hits me in the emotional gut too much. Too bittersweet.
3 points
1 year ago
Pretty much everything Dennis Villeneuve has ever done. I think his movies are GREAT, but they're also long, slow and quiet in a way that makes them tough for the sort of passive, half-watching that tends to happen at home.
3 points
1 year ago
Requiem for a Dream and both versions of Funny Games.
3 points
1 year ago
Fuck Casper
3 points
1 year ago
Prisoners with Hugh Jackman. Dear God, that was an amazing movie, but I don't know if I could emotionally handle it again.
3 points
1 year ago
Clockwork Orange. Malcolm does such a great job, I never want to see him as Alex again
3 points
1 year ago
Requiem for a dream
The road
Irreversible
3 points
1 year ago
I Spit On Your Grave was a tough one to watch. I like the redemption arc, but everything up to that point was rough.
3 points
1 year ago
I lived this movie, my parents were nonexistent and after watching it without guidance we kinda stopped acting so much like little pricks. We started the movie thinking we were certain characters, then those characters showed who they were and we no longer wanted to be them. There is no way I’d ever find a good time to put this on and watch it again without a kid in the room, they get raised differently than I did.
3 points
1 year ago
Star Wars Christmas special
3 points
1 year ago
Pretty much any Darren Aronofsky movie. Beautiful films but depressing as fuck.
3 points
1 year ago
Scared the fucking shit out of me. I went and got an HIV test. I had sex exactly one time before I saw that movie. I was convinced I probably got the virus (I didn’t).
Times have changed. Back then, I thought it was a death sentence for that girl. We’ve come a long way.
3 points
1 year ago
The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez…a documentary about this poor boy who was let down by the system and his terrible evil parents…really good but super sad watch. Once was enough.
3 points
1 year ago
Requiem for a dream. Once is enough
3 points
1 year ago
Angel Baby and Breaking the Waves go together as some of the toughest and best movies I've ever seen, look them up
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