Movies that you'll never watch or watch again

[EmeraldHope]

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The sickness of the whole thing. The fact that CLive had sex with Dren before it morphed and then raped and impregnated his wife. he whole thing was creepy on I level that really bothered me and I have seen tons of horror movies. Gore is gore- this was twisted on a whole different level.


To be honest, I want to ask how it didn't bother you, especially the sex with a half human child he raised as his daughter who he tried to kill at one point, and then the insensitive killing of Clive ( its prior lover when female)before that thing changed into a male and raped its mommy? And it was really its mommy as it it her dna!

Well, I've forgotten this one in fact and now I understand your point !
I rather remembered the subject of "man made" creature and DNA manipulation. I think that the fact it seems so far away from our daily routine prevents me to feel involved. (hope it's clear, I'm not sure)

I see. I guess that my thoughts, in addition to the above, went to the C's and the engineering of a new species for 4d STS . Goodness only knows what type persons have access to DNA and what could be coming to a town near you at any time . Infinite potential is , well, infinite.

 

[melatonin]

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[timmyman]

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of horror movies i have prettymuch liked two movies - pandorum... it was just unbelievably good and the thing... both are pretty gory but they dont make you puke... and pandorum had a really really good story plus i'm a really big sucker for sci fi:) talk about star wars:D

but of movies i was actually even ashamed of watching... beacasue they were so popular at the time were the hostel series... they just made me sad and what feeling they provoked in everybody around me... you know like would you do it? would you wanna kill somebody... just made me really sad.

if you know of the movies i bet you know what im talking about... if you dont, i guess youre better off

 

[Kaigen]

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As I was 16 I watched Horror movie with a friend with who I made Karate. He was a little crazy he was eating raw chicken and so. That time it was a little crazy for me, but after he showed me the movie I couldn't watch it and had nightmares a few days after. Since them I don't like Horror movies at all.

 

[EmeraldHope]

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One of my favourite movies is called "Harsh times".
Seen it nearly as much as i have "V".
Not sure what draws me towards it.
Maybe because i sympathise with the main character, being used and abused by the system. But i also like the friendship between him and his closest friend which is very loyal, despite them both struggling through life.

Melatonin, I'm curious. Did you read the title to this thread or any of the posts?

 

[Mrs.Tigersoap]

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May I ask what is the reason ? It's not a so bad movie for me.

This movie was discussed in this thread: http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,19343.0.html
It is a creepy movie.

I used to like horror movies. But as many on this forum, they have become unbearable. As Laura was saying, the news is horrible enough as it is. Life is hard enough. A colleague of mine was recently strangled by her husband. I'm having recurring dreams about end of the world scenarios, cataclysms, psychopaths on a killing spree where I try and help people but witness them being killed. I don't need one more minute of that sort of stuff in my life.

Movies I would never want to watch again:

- Eraserhead (I like some of Lynch's stuff but this one is just too creepy for me)
- The Hills have eyes (even if nothing happens in the end, the scene with the baby stressed me out so much I almost cried)
- The Strangers (three people terrorize a couple in their home, which reminded me of :
- Funny Games
- Audition (the 'acupuncture' scene)
- The Road (see the thread on this forum)
- House of 1000 corpses by Rob Zombie

 

[Jacques]

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or things like 28 Days Later...

I thought the "28 Days" series was beneficial in the way that it depicted fast moving zombies, something zombie movies didn't really contain before that. I remember being truly scared for the characters faced with intelligent, quick, contagious monsters that couldn't be simply ran away from like in previous films. Now when I worry about zombies, I try not make the mistake of underestimating their power/ speed. (and contagiousness).
As for a movie I won't watch again, how about "Monster" with Charlize Theron. Truly a tragic life, a tragic film, and tragically reality for a lot of women. I can't stand seeing a perfectly good person being "throwed away." That's the feeling I had at the end of it. She had been "throwed away" all her life. Its soul-smashing for me so to speak.

Hi lizzietreid.

Welcome to our forum. :)

We recommend all new members to post an introduction in the Newbies section telling us a bit about themselves, how they found the cass material, and how much of the work here they have read.

You can have a look through that board to see how others have done it.

 

[EmeraldHope]

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May I ask what is the reason ? It's not a so bad movie for me.

This movie was discussed in this thread: http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,19343.0.html
It is a creepy movie.

I used to like horror movies. But as many on this forum, they have become unbearable. As Laura was saying, the news is horrible enough as it is. Life is hard enough. A colleague of mine was recently strangled by her husband. I'm having recurring dreams about end of the world scenarios, cataclysms, psychopaths on a killing spree where I try and help people but witness them being killed. I don't need one more minute of that sort of stuff in my life.

Movies I would never want to watch again:

- Eraserhead (I like some of Lynch's stuff but this one is just too creepy for me)
- The Hills have eyes (even if nothing happens in the end, the scene with the baby stressed me out so much I almost cried)
- The Strangers (three people terrorize a couple in their home, which reminded me of :
- Funny Games
- Audition (the 'acupuncture' scene)
- The Road (see the thread on this forum)
- House of 1000 corpses by Rob Zombie

Thanks for the link. I did not know that it had been discussed- I see I am not alone in my opinion. I had no clue what the movie was about. I had the TV on HBO and it came on, and when I saw what the premise was in the beginning I just went with it as it had to do with genetics. Boy, was I in for a surprise, lol.


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[melatonin]

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One of my favourite movies is called "Harsh times".
Seen it nearly as much as i have "V".
Not sure what draws me towards it.
Maybe because i sympathise with the main character, being used and abused by the system. But i also like the friendship between him and his closest friend which is very loyal, despite them both struggling through life.

Melatonin, I'm curious. Did you read the title to this thread or any of the posts?

Its been deleted. Thanks for picking me up on it.

 

[anart]

Re: Movies that you'll never watch again

One of my favourite movies is called "Harsh times".
Seen it nearly as much as i have "V".
Not sure what draws me towards it.
Maybe because i sympathise with the main character, being used and abused by the system. But i also like the friendship between him and his closest friend which is very loyal, despite them both struggling through life.

Melatonin, I'm curious. Did you read the title to this thread or any of the posts?

Its been deleted. Thanks for picking me up on it.

melatonin, you've been asked before to please not delete your posts - it's really rude to do that, since it can make the thread very hard to follow. It's also merely a reflection of your self-importance, so please try to make this the last time you delete a post.

 

[tschai]

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In particular I dislike zombie movies-fast moving or not, the premise of dead things coming and eating people is just plain stupid and gross-I mean they are dead, would have no metabolism and could not use the ingested protein as dead tissues cannot regenerate so what's the point in eating anything, especially human flesh??? Still the thought just plain terrifies me and I just can't watch such things.

I did watch (forced myself is more like) to watch 28 days after and the zombie diaries-both were in my opinion forgettable, although the 28 days was more "real" in that the people were not technically zombies (returned from dead) but were deranged by the transmitted pathogen-but close enough. Would not watch those again even if someone offered to pay me. Just stupid.

I used to have hideous nightmares about such things when I was little (I did NOT watch horror movies at that age-I am talking around 4 years old) stuff NO kid should experience-as well as my share of the earth change, nuclear holocaust and alien invasion nightmares)

I dreamed my grandpa got up from his coffin and started chasing me-I woke up screaming-which was a frequent occurrence according to my mother.

Slasher movies such as Halloween and the Nightmare on Elm Street series etc. are just not a big draw for me - as others have expressed there is enough horror and real life "monsters" in our current reality that fiction creatures pale in comparison (at least we can turn them off if it gets too much)-the real life monsters go on doing their carnage until they hopefully are exposed and dealt with.

 

[Laura]

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In particular I dislike zombie movies-fast moving or not, the premise of dead things coming and eating people is just plain stupid and gross-I mean they are dead, would have no metabolism and could not use the ingested protein as dead tissues cannot regenerate so what's the point in eating anything, especially human flesh???

Never thought about it that way, but you are right. Guess I won't be worrying about zombies anymore!

 

[EmeraldHope]

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In particular I dislike zombie movies-fast moving or not, the premise of dead things coming and eating people is just plain stupid and gross-I mean they are dead, would have no metabolism and could not use the ingested protein as dead tissues cannot regenerate so what's the point in eating anything, especially human flesh???

Never thought about it that way, but you are right. Guess I won't be worrying about zombies anymore!

I see zombies in a different way. In the Return of the Living Dead movie, I found in very amusing that the central focal point was the mall and the Zombies like to eat peoples brains. Perhaps an analogy for current society? Let the dead bury the dead comes to mind here also.

 

[mada85]

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I had the great misfortune to watch Hostel and Saw a few years ago – both were utterly vile. I found Hostel really disturbing and couldn't get it out of my mind for days afterwards. I felt really unclean and contaminated by it. Those are two movies I will never watch again – actually I wish I'd never watched them in the first place! At the time they held a sort of horrid fascination for me and I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. I haven't seen any of the other Saw films or the Hostel films and I won't be watching them. I avoid anything which contains scenes of torture. Like others here, I found Splice to be really disturbing and couldn't watch to the end. It just seemed to be really perverted and sick for the sake of shocking the audience, or seeing what the director could get away with.

I did watch (forced myself is more like) to watch 28 days after and the zombie diaries-both were in my opinion forgettable, although the 28 days was more "real" in that the people were not technically zombies (returned from dead) but were deranged by the transmitted pathogen-but close enough. Would not watch those again even if someone offered to pay me. Just stupid.

28 Days Later is another one I wouldn't watch again – it just went on and on . . . and on . . . and on . . . relentlessly. Plague victims chasing the uninfected humans and no plot, for two hours.

Here in the UK, DVD packaging is required by law – as far as I know - to give a brief description of the type of violent scenes a film contains, but even so it seems that some films or shows seem to slip in torture under the radar, so to speak. Or perhaps the BBFC now think that a bit of 'mild' torture is OK. It seems de rigeur for the studios to include violence and torture – whether necessary for the plot or not – in just about any film these days.

There's an entertaining film called The Bank Job, set in the early 70s in the UK, which contains a short scene of torture. It's totally gratuitous and unnecessary, and is not mentioned on the DVD packaging. If Hollywood could get away with it, they'd have scenes of torture in an adaptation of Black Beauty! It is certainly not necessary to show torture – a good director knows how to speak to the viewer's imagination, which will do a lot of work for him. The less said - or shown - the better, in many many instances, imho. I find it disturbing enough if a character says they have been tortured, or describes it.

One could almost say it is a deliberate policy to include scenes of torture in modern films as a way of desensitising the audience, but directors and other 'auteurs', I am sure, will say it is necessary for 'progress' and 'freedom' and 'pushing the boundaries of modern cinema'. As if a good story cannot be told and will not get any viewers without such 'boundary pushing'.

When I was about 12 or 13, I saw an old black and white film about explorers in the Himalayas who were looking for the yeti. One night, with the camera filming inside the tent, we see the sides of the tent being struck by 'something', and hear strange sounds coming from outside in the snow. The film showed us nothing – no creatures, nothing – and yet the scene was really scary. I had a very active imagination at the age of 13, and it supplied everything necessary to make that scene frightening.

 

[Finduilas495]

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Here in the UK, DVD packaging is required by law – as far as I know - to give a brief description of the type of violent scenes a film contains, but even so it seems that some films or shows seem to slip in torture under the radar, so to speak.

In the German speaking countries these films have a big 18 on the DVD cover (which is the youngest age for which they are considered suitable) and these are the ones I stay away from. I never understood why people watch that stuff. My cousin likes horror movies, and some of her descriptions are already too much for me, let alone actually watching the movies.

The last horror movie I saw was the Blair Witch Project, and I didn't dare go in the basement for months after watching it. Definitely never again.

Lars von Trier isn't my cup of tea either, haven't seen Breaking the Waves, but Dancer in the Dark from the same trilogy, and it was so sad and hopeless that I swore never to watch that again.

Another one was The Notebook - I cried so much at the end of that movie that I couldn't even draw breath... don't want to go through that again. I had the feeling it brought out something I ought to work on (some old trauma maybe) since my reaction was so extreme.