Movies that you'll never watch or watch again

[Rabelais]

Re: Movies that you'll never watch again

For me, it is the movie Splice.

Clive and Elsa are a pair of brilliant scientists whose cutting-edge experiments in genetic engineering make them superstars in their field. As devoted to their careers as they are to one another, they start conducting unauthorized experiments with new animal species that show great promise. Drunk with their god-like powers, they introduce human DNA into one of their creations, producing a creature that is greater than the sum of its parts: a rapidly developing animal/human hybrid that may be a step up on the evolutionary ladder. While this female creature inspires maternal feelings in Elsa, she evokes something far-from-paternal in Clive, something that poses a threat to them all. Then, when this seemingly perfect organism makes a final, shocking metamorphosis, it is mankind itself that is threatened.

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

The sickness of the whole thing. The fact that Clive had sex with Dren before it morphed and then killed him and raped and impregnated his wife. The 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! I do understand that everyone is different though.

I started to watch Splice once. Never got to the gory and sexual bits. The acting and production values were so bad that I opted out after about 15 minutes.

 

[Rabelais]

I've watched "Steel Magnolias" about 5 times because it reminds me of my childhood.

You know how they translated the title "Steel Magnolias" into French? "Potins de femmes"= Women's gossip. Yeah. The French "spin"…

WHAT? What a moronic choice of translation of the title!

Nothing is more stupid that change the title of a movie in a totally different way that the original... And it is te the case in France... I noticed that for a while...

Heh heh... I'll never forget my amused reaction, shortly after arriving in France, and wandering through a video store and seeing Dents de la Mer... teeth of the sea. It was Jaws.

 

[Psalehesost]

Are you saying that the food/impressions can have different polarities? Wouldn't that mean that we assign polarities to food/impressions based on what belief system we carry?

If I look at an apple, I do not judge the apple by being bad or good, just neutral. If I have a belief that says that an apple is bad, then the impression will be filtered thru that belief making every apple as bad it can be.

In ISOTM I didn't find yet if the impressions can have dual nature or more?

It usually comes to the level of interpreting the impressions according to the activated belief system.

Simple analogy: Some food is damaging to the body (see the Diet and Health subforum) - it is unhealthy regardless of what anyone believes - and some food is optimally healthy, again regardless of what people believe. Air with toxic pollutants is harmful regardless of what people believe - clean air is healthy and would be so even if people believed it otherwise. And the same naturally goes for impressions - examples can be seen in studying how people (including oneself) are affected by different ones.

 

[MK Scarlett]

Even the animatrix episodes are very interesting in the sense to know the background. I like to watch wizard of oZ and Gandhi whenever i get opportunity.

I do not know them, a small gap to be maybe filled...

 

[Ðekel]

MK Scarlett,

The Animatrix episodes are cool and if anyone here likes Anime i would also suggest the original Aeon Flux animated series !!

it originally aired on MTV during the nineties and the producer / creator used Egon Schiele's painting style as a reference to the characters and movement. it's also quite philosophical at times. :)

 

[seek10]

Even the animatrix episodes are very interesting in the sense to know the background. I like to watch wizard of oZ and Gandhi whenever i get opportunity.

I do not know them, a small gap to be maybe filled...

_http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/animatrix/

The Animatrix is a collection of several animated short films, detailing the backstory of the "Matrix" universe, and the original war between man and machines which led to the creation of the Matrix.

 

[cubbex]

I just saw a movie named "Creep" with some friends and it's completely sick.

 

[Iron]

The worst movie I ever saw was a disgrace called "Martyrs". A quest for vengence ends up really bad, with the protagonist being tortured for more than one hour of film, for no reason at the beggining, but later the purpose of the never ending tortures is revealed: They are trying to break her mind, because when the mind of certain women is broken in the most extreme of pain, they can see the other world.
They even remove her skin with her alive.
This film at the time made me seriously reevaluate my life, and some of my acquaintances...

 

[KristinLynne]

The top 3 of movies I can't watch again... would be The Faces of Death which they showed it to a group of us kids in middle school. That movie disturbed me greatly with all the violence and cruelty and I think it was part of a series. Later as Don Diego mentioned earlier The Exorcist was a very hard one to watch because it was all the more believable at the time and with all this new information it would seem even more real if that's possible. Last one is like Mrs. Tigersoap Into The Wild. It was a heartbreaking movie because it was based on a true story as well.

I read a lot of Stephen King books as a teen and had little problem with those because they were fiction but any movie based on a true horrific story is so very hard to watch more than one.

 

[MK Scarlett]

Even the animatrix episodes are very interesting in the sense to know the background. I like to watch wizard of oZ and Gandhi whenever i get opportunity.

I do not know them, a small gap to be maybe filled...

_http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/animatrix/

The Animatrix is a collection of several animated short films, detailing the backstory of the "Matrix" universe, and the original war between man and machines which led to the creation of the Matrix.

It was so great! Thank you so much seek10 for giving the link, I really think this series is interesting in many aspects, included graphism...
I "saw" Asimov indeed and it makes sense by knowing his books.

 

[Mrs.Tigersoap]

I saw an interview where the director (Gaspar Noe) stated that even though he made a movie about afterlife, his views on the subject are "very materialistic".

Considering the director, I have seen his earlier movie Irreversible as well, years ago. That is another very disturbing film, very violent and pathological. Certainly a trend here, and mr. Noe's movies are ones to avoid from now on.

The worst movie in the world, a french movie called "the irreversible". I went with some friends to the cinema and we choose this one randomly. The three of us (three adults) spent all the time with the eyes close and the fingers in the ears. I thought I was the only one to have had the eyes close and when we got out I found out that nobody watched the movie. Extremely violent, a real torture!

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 :O
Then there is the brutal beating scene in the bar and then there is this horrendous 10 minute rape scene (during the Cannes projection, many women felt sick and several hundred people left the room). Monica Bellucci wanted some credibility as an actress (since she used to be a model) and so she accepted to play in Noé's film. But as far as I'm concerned, it did the exact opposite: I think I respect her less as an actress to have accepted to play in such a violent, voyeuristic movie with such a scene. Some films may talk about rape and make an interesting statement. Here, it really feels like Noé just enjoys humiliating and soiling a beautiful woman. I don't understand how she did not get that. Later on, Noé proposed to Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel (her real-life husband and partner in the movie) to make a porn movie. They refused, of course. But it speaks volumes about Noé...

Noé is sick (Lars von Trier sick) and his films are as well. His whole filmography is in that vein. I saw two of them (Seul contre Tous/I stand alone, out of curiosity and Irréversible to check what the hoopla was about) and it cured me of my curiosity regarding his works. I'm never watching a Noé movie again.

 

[MK Scarlett]

I saw an interview where the director (Gaspar Noe) stated that even though he made a movie about afterlife, his views on the subject are "very materialistic".

Considering the director, I have seen his earlier movie Irreversible as well, years ago. That is another very disturbing film, very violent and pathological. Certainly a trend here, and mr. Noe's movies are ones to avoid from now on.

The worst movie in the world, a french movie called "the irreversible". I went with some friends to the cinema and we choose this one randomly. The three of us (three adults) spent all the time with the eyes close and the fingers in the ears. I thought I was the only one to have had the eyes close and when we got out I found out that nobody watched the movie. Extremely violent, a real torture!

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 :O
Then there is the brutal beating scene in the bar and then there is this horrendous 10 minute rape scene (during the Cannes projection, many women felt sick and several hundred people left the room). Monica Bellucci wanted some credibility as an actress (since she used to be a model) and so she accepted to play in Noé's film. But as far as I'm concerned, it did the exact opposite: I think I respect her less as an actress to have accepted to play in such a violent, voyeuristic movie with such a scene. Some films may talk about rape and make an interesting statement. Here, it really feels like Noé just enjoys humiliating and soiling a beautiful woman. I don't understand how she did not get that. Later on, Noé proposed to Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel (her real-life husband and partner in the movie) to make a porn movie. They refused, of course. But it speaks volumes about Noé...

Noé is sick (Lars von Trier sick) and his films are as well. His whole filmography is in that vein. I saw two of them (Seul contre Tous/I stand alone, out of curiosity and Irréversible to check what the hoopla was about) and it cured me of my curiosity regarding his works. I'm never watching a Noé movie again.

I ever wanted to look at this movie too violent for me and beyond what I am able to support in the life and across a screen. At the moment where I learnt there would be this horrendous rape scene - I was shocked at first by understanding the meaning of this kind of scene - I decided I would not watch it, ever. No way.

The World is full of psychopathy and Gaspard Noé is surely one of them.

 

[Beau]

Then there is the brutal beating scene in the bar and then there is this horrendous 10 minute rape scene (during the Cannes projection, many women felt sick and several hundred people left the room). Monica Bellucci wanted some credibility as an actress (since she used to be a model) and so she accepted to play in Noé's film. But as far as I'm concerned, it did the exact opposite: I think I respect her less as an actress to have accepted to play in such a violent, voyeuristic movie with such a scene. Some films may talk about rape and make an interesting statement. Here, it really feels like Noé just enjoys humiliating and soiling a beautiful woman. I don't understand how she did not get that. Later on, Noé proposed to Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel (her real-life husband and partner in the movie) to make a porn movie. They refused, of course. But it speaks volumes about Noé...

I ended up turning off the movie after a few minutes in to the infamous rape scene. Whatever else the film was about, that scene made the whole movie irredeemable. You're right also, about the way the movie was filmed. The vertigo-inducing descent into the club in the beginning is shot seemingly with the sole purpose to disorient, and can be compared to a descent into hell. It truly became unwatchable during the rape scene, but the scenes preceding it do not lend the film much watchability either.

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.

 

[cassandra]

Trainspotting is a film I can never watch again. For those who haven't seen it, it is a film based on a book by Irvine Welsh starring Ewan McGregor, about heroin addicts in Scotland. It is a well-made film, featuring lots of funny scenes and trendy music, very popular at the time. I watched it at the cinema, but about halfway through there was a horrific scene about a dead baby, who had not been fed or tended to by its parents for days, because they had simply forgotten all about it.
I couldn't enjoy it after that, and was disgusted when I heard laughter 5 minutes later, continuing throughout. It haunted me for weeks.

 

[paralleloscope]

Easily the most unwatchable film I have ever come across.

Noé is sick (Lars von Trier sick) and his films are as well. His whole filmography is in that vein. I saw two of them (Seul contre Tous/I stand alone, out of curiosity and Irréversible to check what the hoopla was about) and it cured me of my curiosity regarding his works. I'm never watching a Noé movie again.

Fully agree on these comments.

At a recent x-mas video get-together with 'friends', Noé's latest "Enter the void" came up and I was intrigueed by the colourful cover and reference to the tibetan book of the dead. Only after it started did I link it to Noé and the feeling of sensual rape seeing 'Irréversible'. The movie starts out with persistant strobe lights, so much I had to leave. I watched it the day after in a fast-forward kind of way (20 minuttes of less than curious viewing). On the positive side or rather it's aesthetic hook is it seen through a well made 1st person POV. Even though I just skimmed the movie I felt sick and angry.

*Spoiler* The Main character dies early in the movie and floats around for the remainder of the movie, attaching himself to his sister, who he has gotten to Tokyo and into exotic dancing. She is eaten up with grief, not accepting her brothers death. We are shown endless loops of sexual consumption and just plain deterioation from the innocent kid we see her as in the start of the movie . The movie ends with the dead brother being born back into life (no 5D), which Noé seemingly views as a pointless nightmare. The light of the afterlife is portayed in an artificial and superficial psychadelic hue much like Tokyo's neonscape. My friends are unfortunately intrigued by such nihillistic treatments and 'art' like this probably cements doubtful positions within life. It's 'artsy' lure: a package of strobing colours, 3d cinematic tricks of dissociation and a pseudo-mystical exploration of sensations in an explicit and desensitizing manner.