Movies that you'll never watch or watch again

[Mrs. Tigersoap]

I will defend the idea of starting a movie from the ending and going backwards in time. That was done to marvelous effect by Christopher Nolan in Memento. The content of Irreversible would be impossible to stomach no matter the form of storytelling IMO, but like how the movie is filmed, it seems Noe's purpose for reversing the timeline would again be to disorient. Easily the most unwatchable film I have ever come across.

Exactly. The purpose of Memento is not to make you sick to your stomach, contrarily to Irréversible. Nolan is not sick. He actually writes and directs really interesting and creative stuff (the Prestige, Dark Knight, Inception). He does not need to shock for the sake of shocking because he has nothing to say, like Noé.

[hiker]

Irréversible is one of the worst. First of all, it is backwards (begins with the end and ends with the beginning) which was disconcerting. There is a low frequency sound in the background for about 30 minutes that makes you feel uneasy without being able to pinpoint why.  Apparently, when watched with a cinema sound system, it can actually make you sick 

There was a low frequence sound humming more or less throughout Noe's Enter the Void as well. It certainly made one feel ill at ease, even during scenes where nothing particularly "bad" was happening. I didn't consciously realise the connection between the sound and feelings of uneasiness when watching the movie, your post made me see the link.

Come to think of it, in some of David Lynch's movies there seem to be occasional usage of low frequency sounds to create unnerving sensations also.

[D]

I want to add the movie Cube to the list of movies I'll never watch again. Although it was a interesting premise and ending it was a very gruesome movie and I don't think I could ever watch it again. I also watched the second one Cube 2: Hypercube which followed the same premise as the first and was also very gory.

Both of them (especially the first one) had me pretty horrified for a while after watching them.

[loreta]

L'homme qui voulait savoir its a movie I will never watch again even if they give me 100 euros. If they offer me one million dollars maybe. But not under this price. When I saw the movie I was almost sick, feeling what the character was living. And obsessed during days. So never again, no thank you.

Saw, also. Never again this type of movie, sadistic movies. I like horror films but not sadistic films.

[Zadius Sky]

I want to add the movie Cube to the list of movies I'll never watch again. Although it was a interesting premise and ending it was a very gruesome movie and I don't think I could ever watch it again. I also watched the second one Cube 2: Hypercube which followed the same premise as the first and was also very gory.

Both of them (especially the first one) had me pretty horrified for a while after watching them.

I've saw the first one back when it first came out - I had nightmares after that. Never watched it again. Never saw the second one.

[Goemon_]

I am a dvd seller and some time I take  one to watch.

I had never wanted to watch the two peter jackson's movies : "Bad taste" and "Braindead".

Recently I have sale this two movie to one person via internet at a good price (40 € fort the two).

I decided to see them.

This is kind of zombie movie but it isn't Romero (who make some kind of critics of the society with is zombie series).

It's only gore scene on gore scene, particularily Braindead. So, what you've got, a man's legs strip to the bone ;-), decapitation, jointing, mixing members in the mixer, etc.. Well, I can't name same all, they have been so creative... so to speak.

Could be seen once, no more.

More disapointing "The war zone" by Tim Roth : I watch this one on a theater after riding the synopsis. They must have make a mistake or I would had never choose it. It's a story of a man who rape regularily is daugther and even is young one just naked... brrrrhhh.


Talking about changing name : you've got the french movie "Taxi", re-make by the americans, same name, and then it comes on french screens and becaume "New York Taxi".

Their was also the series of the "Y a-t-il..." ("is there...."). There was a french movie named "Y a-t-il un français dans la salle". And a lot of american movies have begun to be som "Y a-t-il...". The naked gun series ("Y a-t-il un flic pour sauver... le président ?", ... la reine ?", ...hollywood ?") in desorder. Then Airplane (Y a-t-il un pilote dans l'avion ?).
Then you can find  Y a-t-il un commandant pour sauver la NAVY ? (Down Periscope), Y a-t-il quelqu'un pour tuer ma femme ? (Ruthless People), Y a-t-il un flic pour sauver l'humanité ? (2001 : A space travesty) -this one seems like a follow up and is not, La Castagne 3 - Y'a-t-il un joueur pour sauver la junior league ? (V) (Slap Shot 3: The Junior League) - this one is so funny, they translated word by bord and then they added their Y a-t-il thing -, Y'a-t-il un exorciste pour sauver le monde ? (Repossessed), Y a-t-il un parrain pour sauver la mafia ? (Kiss Toledo Goodbye).

There is also "Baise-moi" with a rape scene with explicit sex, as you may call it.

[loreta]

I will never watch again BUG by Friedkin. Absolutely crazy movie. I like crazy movies but this one is boring. Good actors but what is about BUG? Really, really....

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0470705/

[amd57432]

Will not watch: any of the SAW movies
                         Hostel movies
                         anything by Tarantino
                         Scream movies

Will not watch again: Zombie Diaries it was not what I thought it was.
                                  Food of the Gods saw in the theater and was the first I walked out of.
                                 
                                 

 

[hallowed]

Those SAW movies are everything that is wrong with this culture.

I saw Scarface today, not graphic violence, interesting story, and there was something really authentic about it, a nieve bad guy, with a sense of care for family, but without any faith in life perhaps?

[Goemon_]

Inglourious Basterds (last Tarentino) is kinde of a Masterpiece, even if with Tarentino it is more entertainment that anything else.

[Renaissance]

Inglourious Basterds (last Tarentino) is kinde of a Masterpiece, even if with Tarentino it is more entertainment that anything else.

I can't stomach hardly anything by Tarentino. His stuff seems pretty pathological/sickening. I'm don't see anything entertaining about his movies.

[Graalsword]

Battleship. That's one I regret to loose my time seeing it and won't see again at all. What a ridiculous propaganda of US Navy and US war power. I just went to accompany a friend in his birthday and it sucked hugely.

The Passion of the Christ. Another one I disliked totally and won't see again, except if I am paid 1 million dollars to watch it again.

I have no problem with horror movies, because I generally try to find meaning and symbolism within most of movies, parallels with real life, etc., but I have become much less interested in horror movies than several years ago.

I dislike a lot those action films where Americans are the cool heroes that save the world from evil guys who come from undesirable countries, or outer space.

[Amy]

I hate movies that give NO meaningful/intelligent scripts.
I don't like Movies that their only aims are to show you HORROR and VIOLENCE.
So the list of movies I will never watch again should be very very very longggg.

Maybe  we should start a subject called: movies that I want to watch again.

[meta-agnostic]

Irreversible is what came to mind when I found this thread.  A friend of mine has something of a "torture porn" proclivity (also watched The Audition because of him without foreknowledge. Mistake) and before I became fully aware of this he got a group of us together to watch Irreversible.  I was determined to tough it out through the rape scene even as some of my other friends were leaving the room in disgust, and my friend had been assuring us that by the end, the movie would redeem itself.  What ended up happening was there were scratches on the DVD so we could never finish the movie.  I'm still kind of pissed at both him and the video store for that, and certainly have no desire to seek it out and finish it. [spoilers welcome for those of you who agonized through it]

The Elephant Man also had quite an emotional impact on me and I'm not sure I could subject myself to it again, although I recommend seeing it once.

Requiem for a Dream I know I have seen at least once or maybe twice but somehow I can't remember any details about it.  Although I do remember the weird detail of someone else telling me almost the same thing: the didn't remember seeing it until they saw it again, or something along those lines.

[chachazoom]

Inglourious Basterds (last Tarentino) is kinde of a Masterpiece, even if with Tarentino it is more entertainment that anything else.

I can't stomach hardly anything by Tarentino. His stuff seems pretty pathological/sickening. I'm don't see anything entertaining about his movies.

I agree.