Not sure if you read the comments, but after enjoying your videos for the last few weeks I have to tell you how much I dig your work! You're witty and snarky without coming off like a pretentious a-hole. Your sense of humor and honesty are great man, keep it up :)
Yeah. Paul is actually really insightful. You should watch and review the film "Mysterious Skin" if you read this Paul. Its a lot like some of the films you mentioned today.
Bill Thompson - Title is "GREAT" movies I'll never watch again, not disturbing pieces of shit that don't deserve to be mentioned to anybody ever, let alone viewed.... Otherwise any odd horror film could be slammed onto the list. I've never heard a single person say that it was even remotely a decent film, let alone a great one.
MrJakku26 "Happiness" is probably one of the best movies I have ever seen. I can't even count how many times I've seen it. No need to scream like a baby if you couldn't handle adult subject matter, there are plenty of films for you. I'm sure you'll love "The Emoji Movie".
"There are no happy endings in Requiem..." When I first saw the movie, I remarked that it was a terrifying sign of how awful everything turned out in the movie that the least terrible ending was the guy who wound up in jail (Marlon Wayans). My girlfriend at the time disagreed, and said that the happiest ending was Jennifer Connelly, because "At least she got her drugs!" It was in that moment that I realized things probably weren't going to work out between us.
Oh hell no, brother. That was the biggest depressing thing to see. Drugs drove her to degrade herself that bad for a fix. Wow, sorry to hear that. Stay safe my friend 🙏
@@Scottocaster6668 seeing a guy loose his arm and be convicted, and seeing his mother become a vegetable due to amphetamine psychosis and ECT, was *LESS* depressing than seeing a drug addict become a sex worker? At least she has a future, even if it involves prostitution.
What the fuck kind of work was Wayans doing at that prison? I've only ever seen the movie twice and I couldnt figure out what the prisoners were doing.
that was a really good movie. you should check out the book, too. i won't spoil anything, but it's a bit different and equally (moreso?) impactful. good taste. :)
That movie haunted me. The way the townspeople treated the mom and taunted her was almost as gut-wrenching as what Kevin did. That kid was so disturbed but no one but his mother could see it. I watched an interview with that kids mom and dad from Colombine and they were so lost and clueless. Regardless, that movie left it's mark on alot of us.
@@jenniferreese2770 Yes, that was almost equally disturbing regarding the people in her town, especially since she was paying for the transgressions of a son she really didn't want in the first place but still did her best for.
@@samanthacreeden8388 I had friends advise I watch it and, even though I'm a fan of Bjork... the movie just seemed to draaaaaag. I stopped RIGHT before things went crazy and, you can imagine my friends' reaction when I told them. "NO! DUDE! Keep watching!" So, I took their advisement and finished the movie and had my soul run through a meat grinder. My roommate walked in from work to find me in the living room, rocking back and forth in the fetal position, sobbing. I was so offended that someone saw me so broken, i punched him in the arm and stormed off to my room.
Boys Don't Cry is one movie I will never watch again. It's a lot like Elephant in that it mostly just asks questions, and flatly doesn't have answers. It shook me for days, and I still feel that way when I sit and think about it.
Ylatch I just searched through all the comments, shocked that no one mentioned BDC. Glad I’m not the only one who was deeply troubled by this one. Made it through once and will never do it again.
Although I was devastated after watching it the first time, many moons later I managed to see it again. Like Schindler's List and quite a few other films, I could never buy and own a copy because if I watched it over and over, I'd be desensitized and that would ruin the whole point.
i started watching your videos "by accident", stumbled over what went wrong with Hellraiser and that was about when i got carried away by your humor with an attitude. now i see/hear you are a much deeper person with views and opinion of the world and people that i could reflect on and more importantly take something from that for myself... good job, sir! and thank you!!!
Gale Hutchinson bruh that shit was awesome. i'd watched the trailer before but it seemed schlocky. so when i was in the mood to watch schlock i finally saw the movie and i was really taken off guard by how good it was.
Just reading through all of these comments to see if this one was listed. Guess I don't have to post it. Great film, but it's a "watch once" kinda movie!
Irreversible.. when you think the movie breaks you, you get to the ending, which is the beginning and then it breaks your mind. It makes it really hard to go back and watch it ever again.
Philip Seymour Hoffman had the tendency to be in these types of movies. If I weren't such a mental masochist I probably wouldn't keep obsessively coming back to Happiness and Synecdoche, New York.
aaronsdavis I'm holding off on the yms series until he's finally done with it. I'm very interested in what Adam had to say about it seeing as it has taken him years to make a full rundown.
archibald senpai it's weird for sure but mostly I just think it's a great depiction of sadness not just in the story but in the cinematography as well.
The movie adaptation of "Bridge to Terabithia". When it came out I had no idea it was a book and I knew absolutely nothing about it, but from all the trailers it looked to be something "Narnia"-esque or perhaps "Spiderwick Chronicles" like. Wrong, but it still turned out to be a pretty good tale. However, not knowing what to expect, the ending just flew right in under my RADAR and ripped my guts out. Very few movies get to me, this one did big time.
This one! I know it's not as heavy as most movies listed here, but I went into it expecting an easy to watch wholesome movie to fall asleep to. Boy did it have 15ish year old me bawling. I had recently lost a friend who reminded me of the young girl, and it was just too much. Haven't had any desire to rewatch it since as I don't see myself enjoying the experience.
"Salo' or The 120 Days of Sodom". In fact, the director of that movie was killed after he'd made it. Although the story was written by Le Marquis de Sade a few hundred years ago, it's updated to 1940's Mussolini's Italy and it's quite a literal version of the phrase "Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter". Speaking of which, there are also hints of Dante Algheri's "The Divine Comedy" mixed in (Hence the titles of the 3 Acts: The Circle of Flesh, The Circle of Sh*+, and the Circle of Blood). Then watch "Quills", which portrays Le Marquis as the "Hero Freedom Writer" who's always being pressed down by the big, bad establishment.
ive had this kind of feeling with the book 1984 . it was brilliantly written but for me it was too dark . not even because of the violence or cruelty just the constant crushing hopelessness the whole way through
Happy McJoyjoy The ending to Brazil was a happy ending, in it's own way. Sam managed to live out his fantasies, and escape the bureaucratic insanity of the Ministry, even if it was only in his head. What makes it happy is the fact that, whether it's real or not, Sam is living far away from civilization with the woman of his dreams. His mind is happy.
ThoughtCriminal yes and no, he failed to see far enough ahead to realize that the greatest threat to mankind's independence wasn't totalitarianism/manufactured belief, but sanctioned pleasure for pleasure's sake.
Butterfly Effect for me. With multiple endings, all bad, it just showed the futility of ever trying to strive to change things for the better. I actually tried to watch it a second time, but couldn't.
Grave of the fireflies is such a movie for me. An animated masterpiece so incredibly provoking, disturbing and depressive. I just can't find the courage to watch those two brothers go though that nightmare again.
its amazing how an animated movie had evoked such strong emotions from me more than any other live action movies or performances ever. this masterpiece made me depressed for days.
I agree. The best war movie ever made and one of the most harrowing things I've ever seen. It broke my heart. However it wasn't two brothers, it was brother and sister.
Gaspar Noe's (Irreversible's direction) earlier film "I Stand Alone" is another I cannot watch ever again. I heard someone call his movies "Corrosive" and that is so accurate it hurts.
I love Gaspar Noe's '' Enter the Void'' its a hard movie but i have seen it 3 or 4 times and will definitly see again. I Stand Alone i never heard off, how does it compare to the others in the '' suffering'' scale?
It's pretty high up there I'd say. I've heard people rank them 1, 2 and 3 with Irreversible being first, I Stand Alone being second and Enter the Void third.
Irreversible.... the only film that ever left me actually speechless at the end. Watched mid day on a rare "we have the same day off" moment with my best friend. " Got nowt on today...lets get stoned and watch some films! YAAAY!" Sheesh ! Both sat there stunned at the end. Looked at each other and passed a wordless psychic "i'll get back to ya in 10 minutes" message to each other. >minutes later.......< Got up and did the very British thing of making a sugary cup of tea to sooth a trauma, sat back down and uttered "What. The. Fuck!?" It's a film i've recommended to few, and warned most not to watch.
Personally, "A Beautiful Mind" is one of those movies that is incredible, but I can't bring myself to ever watch it again. My mother has schizophrenia, and not only is its depiction of the disease spot on, but also its depiction of how it effects on those surrounding the inflicted. To watch someone you love, someone you rely on and care deeply about, completely break from reality is unbearable. I lived a very similar experience to the wife in the movie, and it broke through to things I hadn't felt or thought about in well over a decade. I cried like a baby for well over an hour after the movie finished. And I haven't cried like that in a very, VERY long time. It's easily the most amazing movie I have ever seen. And I will never watch it again.
DemonGrenade274 it is an incredibly powerful heart wrenching film. I'm so sorry about your mom. Hopefully you can take away a bit of optimism at the end as John Nash ultimately triumphs over his condition, although he continues to suffer from schizophrenia.
I found it to be very moving and very powerful but I could watch it again. The thing is, why would I? The most powerful scenes, like when we see the mad cut outs and scribbles that show us and Nash just how disturbed he is, can't be rewatched. Realizing some of the characters are in his mind, etc can only be enjoyed once.
My favourite Novel. The key line is where O'Brien asks Smith if he believes in God, to which Smith replies in the negative. Everything that follows, the psychological and physical torture, the crushing weight of utter hopelessness of ever defeating the System is predicated on Smiths Atheism, because without an Eternal Being, where can hope or memories or love or freedom dwell? Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but who ever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on Him. JOHN 3:36
@@stevencoates3382 Stephen king left his ending vague, 'up for interpretation' if you will. I recently read King was approached about the ending they had in mind for the movie and he actually really liked it. I haven't seen the movie for a long time but I remember how everyone in the theater boo'd it. Personally, I thought it was well done; What would you do when a certain agonizing death was waiting you and the people you care about?
I was also just out of high school when the Columbine shooting happened and it always made sense to me. When in high school, I hung out with the weirdos and freaks and figure that probably some of the people I graduated with might have thought 'we barely got out alive' (which would be ridiculous, but people like my group of friends were exactly the ones profiled and claimed to be a danger in that time). It was absolutely no accident at all that Columbine was a newly-built school. It was one of the first schools filled with security cameras, with metal detectors at the doors, police patrolling the halls on some days, etc. It was a locked-down prison. And human beings react poorly to that kind of control. Some just snap and are willing to throw away their own lives to escape it. Schools create a kind of tunnel vision that makes it impossible for students to recognize their own existence as a human being or anything more than a student in the school to be examined, surveilled, controlled, etc. When you turn schools into prisons, students will start acting like prisoners. It's that simple. Remember the lists of 'warning signs' that came out after Columbine? Things like playing violent videogames or writing violent stories or dressing differently, those sorts of things, that were supposed to identify the people who were potential future school shooters? I always had a problem with those lists. An accurate list would identify 1 or 2 students at 1 school about once every 5 years or so. Instead, the lists they put out identified dozens of kids at every single school every single year. It was flagrantly obvious that the lists weren't made to help with school shootings, they were just there to give teachers and excuse to justify their harrassment of the weird kids who dare to do their own thing. I was unsurprised when more school shootings followed in the years after Columbine. It's what you get when you continuously denigrate and ratchet up control over every aspect of the life of any group of human beings.
Exactly. I went to high school shortly after Columbine.. I was one of those different kids. I dressed different from everyone else and for the first couple years I was bullied constantly which had the obvious effect on me. I became quiet, sullen, and withdrawn. I played a ton of video games. This made me a walking target for harassment by teachers, counselors, and even some of the other students even though I didn't own a gun, didn't have access to a gun, and never had any desire to shoot up my school. I did however develop an explosive temper as a result of all this bullshit. After putting one of my bullies in the hospital (the fight happened outside of school and he was too embarrassed to tell the police who beat the shit out of him) the rest of them left me alone.. things got better after that and my last two years were pretty good. I got lucky.. there were other people who were in the same situation who never learned how to cope and several of them never recovered. School isn't supposed to destroy your life, but the bullshit pressure to conform and be just another drone in the consumer hive is all school is apparently good for now.
I was one of those kids myself. Got bullied pretty bad too from middle to high school, to point I was getting shoved down staircases and the cunt administrators refused to abide by the 0 tolerance policy in my district. It was hard for me cuz I grew up in a single parent house, with no father to teach me how to handle shit man to man. Even defending myself would've gotten me an "Assault" collar, but still would have drove the point home
Going back to watch signs, red flags, and fitting profiles.. do you guys remember Richard Jewell ? That guy "fit the Olympic Bomber profile to a T", according to the FBI. Turned out he was 💯 innocent !!!
@John Doh tbh the school could be partly to blame given that not all people have the same psyche. If the had guidance councilors with better eduication maybe even take a route into being a therapist. Then maybe this would happen less and less. They would have someone to talk to and actually listen.
For me, it's von Triers' Dancer in the Dark, absolutely the most gut-wrenching film I've ever seen. (I found it interesting you described Magnolia in much the same way.) The hypnotic musical numbers - the one on the train especially stands out - only serve to heighten the harrowing inexorableness of the experience Bjork's character undergoes and where ultimate redemption comes through total devastation.
Dancer in the Dark is a great call, but for me it is Breaking the Waves. Seen it twice it the cinema and cried both times. What a horrible great movie.
I never want to rewatch any of Von Triers films, they're just too dark and at times perverse (antichrist). The only one I've rewatched is Meloncholia. I'm not denying his talent, I just don't wanna get sucked into Von Triers deep and profound personal suffering as a human being.
I don't know about one and done but a film that I think is brilliant but difficult to watch is Night Crawler its because as u watch u start to realize the main character(Jake Gyllenhaal) is a borderline psychopath and that can make the film uncomfortable
The first Unkle albums uses great samples of Tony Aiello's speeches from Jacob's Ladder -- a great take on Ambrose Bierce's A Happening (or was it Incident?) at (something) Creek.
@@dirtylabrat958 yes. It's all hilarious to me because Edward Norton severely overacts and just wasn't very believable. The whole set up and premise felt like a bad after school special. There were other films that tackled the subjects better like the believer, steel toes,etc.
@@CalderaXIIwow so because my post doesn't jive with your opinions and feelings I am an obvious troll? Really? How's that work exactly? Did someone place you in charge of the comment section? It seems YOU are the troll. Back to middle Earth with you , troll.
really? i thought it was easy to get into and its emotional moments never became too overbearing. i wouldn't say it has any outright depressing scenes, more bittersweet and melancholic.
What? That's in my Top 10, and my wife and I both love watching it together. Sad at times, sure, but it's so honest and clever that I wish I thought of it first.
After barely surviving a ten year pill addiction myself. You're right Paul, "Requiem" is a very good movie, that is tough to keep on going back to. It's a very good representation of how hopeless one feels as an addict. As well, as the falling further, and further, away from family and their struggle with a seemingly, hopeless situation......
I was student teaching when they were filming. I was in the school that the really socially awkward kid was from in Iowa. I didn't have any contact with him, but i taught his sister. I hope they are all doing better now.
Once Were Warriors is one of those movies. It follows a Maori family in modern-day New Zealand as they deal with living a marginalized life: poverty, loss of heritage and identity, alcoholism, brutal scenes if spousal abuse, child molestation, etc., which culminates in a truly heart-breaking, gut-wrenching suicide. It was an emotionally exhausting experience that left me gutted for days afterward. I grew up near a former Indian reservation here in the US, and I felt like iknew this family, they were my neighbors and friends, and I had seen it all play out in real life. Having it shoved in my face in movie form, every ill condensed into 90 minutes or so, was overwhelming.
Katheryn Saunders read through comments expecting to list Once Were Warriors myself, along with Breaking the Waves. Both films I can never watch again.
No I love that film, I revisit it once a year or so. I didn't come from a perfect home either but the performances in it are brilliant and unforgettable.
Good video. Gummo and Trash Humpers are pretty disturbing, in a different way than Kids... also by Harmony Korine. Leaving Las Vegas is very dark, and does for alcoholism what Requiem did for drug addiction.
For me it was We Need To Talk About Keven. Fantastic movie, I could write a whole dissertation singing it's praises, but I don't think I could ever watch it again. Like Elephant, it also examines the story of a school shooter, but this time from the perspective of his mother. It's an angle we never really get, and I really adored it, but it's such a downer I don't think I could ever revisit it.
Thissss! I watched it, loved it, and have found myself thinking about it on multiple occasions afterward. But I know I probably will never watch it again.
Blue valentine. I can not watch it again. Not only did not have a happy ending, it leaves you asking why?. I recommend watching it at least once. Keep up the good work
Rodrigo Kane oh god, I just commented the same. Seriously it hit sososososo hard. I can't even think of watching even the poster of the movie ever again
@@BonkMachine Actually I liked it, I started my comment saying it was a great line. You didn't need that extra nonsense, it would have stood on it's own. That extra space read more shit is a sign of weakness, lose it.
Ass to ass..... Seriously though Requiem is a tough watch, especially considering the fact that the last time I watched it my own mother was basically the same character a the one in the film. She had found a doctor that prescribed her whatever she wanted, and it was eerie to see the look on her face become a facsimile of the character's.
james staggs my best friend's mother has had one of those doctors for the better part of 20 years, its sad to watch her slip into benzo related dementia/degenerative mental disease while rarely leaving her bedroom, much less the house.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind for me. That movie made me reflect on my feelings following a bad breakup, and even thinking about it takes me back to that moment. It's a beautiful film, I could discuss it and break it down all day, but I'll never watch it again.
I would include "Dogville", "Dancer in the dark", these two by the danish director Lars von Trier. I would also include the anime movie "Grave of the Fireflies". I think the 3 of them are great, but I would not dare to watchh them again. You list is great by the way.
Arronowski's movies seem to have that "great but don't wanna see it again" effect, yeah. For me, the one that is more unpleasant and depressing even from Requiem is The Wrestler. Man, the whole things is so desperate, it reeks of loneliness and that ending. So powerful. And ofcourse the performance of his life from Mickey Rourke (and the genius decision to cast him to play that particular role).
It's even worse than you remember it, Heath ledger won in the supporting category, in the Leading category Mickey Rourke lost from Sean Penn for Milk...
fuck that movie, I had a friend who always tried to get us to watch it. She would put it on, and the part with the kids who sold the cats for meat is about as far as we ever got. It was made by someone who had some association with Kids, I believe. That was always her selling point.
have you ever seen Ken Park. . I believe it was around 1998 or so. . pretty crazy movie, but follows Korines style. . Also Bully, is a really powerful one from him. but takes you on a very dark journey. and the last Harmony Korine one I would recommend is wassup rockers. it is in the style of Kids but just doesn't hit home as hard for me. . Being that, as I watched KIDS as I was graduating and skateboarding, and partying, it was like a look into our lives(minus the hiv)
I've always respected Harmony's ability to make movies so uncomfortable and honest. Telling of the awful traumatic sides of adolescence instead of hiding it away and sugar coating it. That being said I understand why people can't get through them and they definitely fit the criteria for am "I'm never watching this again" list. Then there's Trash Humpers which is just fucking meaningless and kind of shit.
Howdy, Paul! Really enjoying your work, thanks. Thoughtful, informed, and only cynical when you need to be! Two films I could add to the list of “Loved it... but, never again!” are actually companion pieces and quite recent. Both are superbly crafted documentaries, and both are mind-blowing, surreal, “I cannot believe they got this on film” creations: - “The Act of War” - “The Look of Silence” Impossible to describe in this short-scale forum, but utterly unforgettable. Highly recommend. Best, - Dave, N. Hollywood, CA
I don't know about great but I thought it was good, Dancer in the Dark is one of the movies that I can't watch again. It was so sad and depressing, but I think Bjork did a great job acting.
Most def 'The Road' - one of the bleakest films i've ever seen. Even heard the book is bleaker. Also 'Biutiful' but mostly because of the cancer sequences...
Try" Bad Boy Bubby," a great Australian film. its almost a never watch but underneath is such a sweet story you may be able to watch again. I do forward the first 20 mins just because his mother looks a wee bit like my own. Only watched Happiness once but felt the same, may give it another go.
Hereditary made me have a long anxiety attack. Never again. I don't know why it messed me up so much, but for about a month, my anxiety was at its peak. :/
@@LightShadowButterfly the music. Horror movies that stay with you afterward do that because the music and sound seep into your subconscious. Hereditary has great sound.
@@TheSpencerHayes My anxiety is pretty specific though.. I think it was the unnerving mentality of it... and the way everyone died. Not that everyone died, but how it went about them dying, how it actually established the characters..how out of control it was for them. Many horror movies give the main characters some semblance of control...you find yourself saying "if only they didn't go into that house when they heard the weird sounds" or "if only they left as soon as they thought ghosts were there" but with hereditary, it literally had to do with something that was out of the control of anyone and everyone involved... The scene where the sister died and how the brother reacted to it...the movie felt like anxiety Like being trapped in a reality you can't escape.. And after that, I kept thinking of the inevitability of death and how it was out of my control. And how it was out of everyone else's control. These are things I already knew..already thought about... but the images from the movie kept flashing in my head whenever I tried to sleep. I would say that it was well done in the aspect of actually messing with my mind, but I didn't like it. I'm not used to seeing real emotions in movies. Well, I think typing this out made me realize what it was haha. Thanks XD
Martyrs. I've seen worse and more disturbing, but that one....I don't know, man. That one just levelled me for days afterwards, even now many months later I just cringe at the savagely realistic violence and horrendously oppressive tone of the film that does not leave you walking away with any sort of hope for humanity. Even the demon girl thing....just GAHHHH o_O
I would consider myself as a horror buff and I have seen thousands of movies in that genre and adroe those to death. But Martyrs, as much as I love that one, good god I was shaking by the end of it. The entire movie feels so oppressive as you say, and some pictures are still hard to sit through just by the context. Amazing movie but a real gut punch. ^^
Mysterious Skins has to take the spot for me, it was a great and compelling film. But I will not watch it again. I seen it once and vividly remember enough of it and the empty hollow feeling the film leaves you with, that I just could not bear to watch it again.
I always wondered if I was the only person that found the mother's situation in Requiem by far the most disturbing. I am actually a former heroin addict and yet the ONLY storyline that truly haunted me after watching it was that of the mother (probably because the guilt of "abandoning" my own mother during my years of drug use runs so deep). Excellent picks for truly disturbing films!
and about movies that you can't bring yourself to watch more than once. I've watched Gummo several times and the more I watch it the more shock value wears off and the beauty and uniqueness shines through. It's one I'm glad I watched more than once.
The LittleRock Clydesdale Gummo is an awesome movie. Doesn't belong on this list. Easy to watch multiple times. It's hilarious. They filmed it in Nashville even though it's supposed to be somewhere else. I am from Nashville so maybe I am biased because I am familiar with the places the movie was shot. That purple car in the albino chic scene was owned by someone I went to highschool with lol. It had hydraulics 😂. Idk...I just find Gummo hilarious far more than disturbing. Even though it definitely is disturbing 😂
For me it was Nocturnal Animals. I've never had a movie disturb as much as this one did. Idk what it was it made me sick to my stomach, could not get out of my head. Fantastic movie but never again.
I just stumbled upon this awesome vid. Subscribed. I would have to add The Lobster and Killing of a Sacred Deer, loved both but I couldn’t watch either again. Gummo was tough to check out a second time but also a good flick. A Serbian Film was a heavy gut check.
Wow, great video and very interesting. Do another one please. Maybe do a series and change it up by doing movies that are disturbing that you can't stop watching over and over, instead of just once Or funny movies that you find funny every time you watch them but can't stop watching them or for that matter, funny movies you can only watch once because once you see the joke it's not funny any more. Similar type of idea just changed up. I'm going to watch all the movies you mentioned ( once only...lol) and if you do a series it will give all of your viewers great movies to watch. I find choosing movies the hardest thing to do so any help would be appreciated . .... keep up the great content..... cheers mate.
I have seen movies that I can barely remember the plot to, but my brain tells me clearly not to watch again. Requiem is one of them. So is A Serbian Film. That's pretty firmly blocked from my conscious mind. Antichrist is another movie I have snippets of in my memory that I don't want to watch again. The Woman is a movie I remember quite clearly and don't wish to revisit. From childhood, Sleepaway Camp purely for the ending and though I have hesitation, I have rewatched Event Horizon. More for the existential dread than the content of the film today, though it scared the shit out of young me.
This video is nearly two years old but I just lucked upon it. I've gotta say my friend you took my thoughts and verbalized them on gore and humans and how reality is so more scarier. You don't wanna feel certain things and most watch movies to escape those feelings. They may be movies we don't wanna watch again but they touched something in us at the time. Great analysis of all these films.
The last house on the left. The rape scene went on and on like, goddamn I think the director got carried away. Didn't even check for deleted scenes, probably 15+ hours of deleted rape scene.
@@helterskelter7745 you mean wes craven? Produced by Sean Cunningham... two names synonymous with 80s and 90s horror. Have you not seen straw dogs? Or I spit on your grave?
@@helterskelter7745 yeah that's gross. As a survivor of childhood and adult sexual assault those movies are cathartic to me... but I'm not everyone and I get why they fuck with people.
Good reviews! My fave one I'll never watch again is Man Push Cart. It gave me hope at the beginning, an immigrant experiencing the American dream. But it evolves into such unsupervised tragedy and hopelessness by the end, I couldn't ever watch it again. Brilliant movie though that shows that hope and struggle don't always pay off. Yet the struggle to retain a shred of hope as life goes on is best we can hope for.
hey man i love your usual humor videos but i liked this honest vulnerable emotional in depth stuff too by the way i think you'd make a great father buddy ! are you one yet?
Not sure if you read the comments, but after enjoying your videos for the last few weeks I have to tell you how much I dig your work! You're witty and snarky without coming off like a pretentious a-hole. Your sense of humor and honesty are great man, keep it up :)
Ebon Gear Agreed!
Yeah. Paul is actually really insightful. You should watch and review the film "Mysterious Skin" if you read this Paul. Its a lot like some of the films you mentioned today.
Bill Thompson - Title is "GREAT" movies I'll never watch again, not disturbing pieces of shit that don't deserve to be mentioned to anybody ever, let alone viewed.... Otherwise any odd horror film could be slammed onto the list.
I've never heard a single person say that it was even remotely a decent film, let alone a great one.
MrJakku26 "Happiness" is probably one of the best movies I have ever seen. I can't even count how many times I've seen it. No need to scream like a baby if you couldn't handle adult subject matter, there are plenty of films for you. I'm sure you'll love "The Emoji Movie".
Jesus... yeah that was random. Haha and wtf was that shooting blanks comment at the end. My guess is alcohol was involved... heavy amounts of alcohol.
"There are no happy endings in Requiem..."
When I first saw the movie, I remarked that it was a terrifying sign of how awful everything turned out in the movie that the least terrible ending was the guy who wound up in jail (Marlon Wayans).
My girlfriend at the time disagreed, and said that the happiest ending was Jennifer Connelly, because "At least she got her drugs!"
It was in that moment that I realized things probably weren't going to work out between us.
Oh hell no, brother. That was the biggest depressing thing to see.
Drugs drove her to degrade herself that bad for a fix. Wow, sorry to hear that.
Stay safe my friend 🙏
@@Scottocaster6668 seeing a guy loose his arm and be convicted, and seeing his mother become a vegetable due to amphetamine psychosis and ECT, was *LESS* depressing than seeing a drug addict become a sex worker?
At least she has a future, even if it involves prostitution.
THOT , self-patrolled.
What the fuck kind of work was Wayans doing at that prison? I've only ever seen the movie twice and I couldnt figure out what the prisoners were doing.
I'm getting a bit tired of Chauncey's boneheaded comments.
Funny comment. Too bad it will be lost forever
Yeah, it’s very rattling. I definitely have a bone to pick with him
Medeyer sir this is a micro aggresion gtfo
Are you proud of that joke?
The etching around the orbitals... that's not Chauncey... oh, God... we now know what happened to Joe.
Exploring the mother/son relationship: _We need to talk about Kevin._ Starring Tilda Swinton and John C Reilly. It stayed with me for a couple days.
that was a really good movie. you should check out the book, too. i won't spoil anything, but it's a bit different and equally (moreso?) impactful. good taste. :)
@@jD304304 Thanks! Will do.
I agree, saw it once, don't think I could ever watch that one a second time. Tilda Swinton and Ezra Miller are fantastic in the movie though.
That movie haunted me. The way the townspeople treated the mom and taunted her was almost as gut-wrenching as what Kevin did. That kid was so disturbed but no one but his mother could see it. I watched an interview with that kids mom and dad from Colombine and they were so lost and clueless. Regardless, that movie left it's mark on alot of us.
@@jenniferreese2770 Yes, that was almost equally disturbing regarding the people in her town, especially since she was paying for the transgressions of a son she really didn't want in the first place but still did her best for.
Ellen Burstyn's performance in Requiem was heartbreaking, devastating... no mother deserves that.
"Dancer in the Dark" was the most emotionally draining movie I've ever experienced... and yet... masterfully made.
I was just about to comment that! It's my favorite movie and I'll never watch it again. Shit killed me a little.
@@samanthacreeden8388 I had friends advise I watch it and, even though I'm a fan of Bjork... the movie just seemed to draaaaaag. I stopped RIGHT before things went crazy and, you can imagine my friends' reaction when I told them. "NO! DUDE! Keep watching!"
So, I took their advisement and finished the movie and had my soul run through a meat grinder. My roommate walked in from work to find me in the living room, rocking back and forth in the fetal position, sobbing. I was so offended that someone saw me so broken, i punched him in the arm and stormed off to my room.
Boys Don't Cry is one movie I will never watch again. It's a lot like Elephant in that it mostly just asks questions, and flatly doesn't have answers. It shook me for days, and I still feel that way when I sit and think about it.
Ylatch I just searched through all the comments, shocked that no one mentioned BDC. Glad I’m not the only one who was deeply troubled by this one. Made it through once and will never do it again.
Although I was devastated after watching it the first time, many moons later I managed to see it again. Like Schindler's List and quite a few other films, I could never buy and own a copy because if I watched it over and over, I'd be desensitized and that would ruin the whole point.
Me too
“Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom” I will never watch again. The only film I felt sick during and after I left the theatre.
You saw that shit in the theater lol
@@booooo-urns I was wondering the same thing. I can't imagine a theater that would screen Salo lmao
i started watching your videos "by accident", stumbled over what went wrong with Hellraiser and that was about when i got carried away by your humor with an attitude. now i see/hear you are a much deeper person with views and opinion of the world and people that i could reflect on and more importantly take something from that for myself... good job, sir! and thank you!!!
I would suggest We Need to Talk About Kevin. Great movie to start a conversation but a little slow.
Gale Hutchinson bruh that shit was awesome. i'd watched the trailer before but it seemed schlocky. so when i was in the mood to watch schlock i finally saw the movie and i was really taken off guard by how good it was.
i had to watch that movie a couple times because it was so bizarre... but i'm weird.
Just reading through all of these comments to see if this one was listed. Guess I don't have to post it. Great film, but it's a "watch once" kinda movie!
Nah, just read the book!
great movie...so disturbing
“Irreversible “
Irreversible.. when you think the movie breaks you, you get to the ending, which is the beginning and then it breaks your mind. It makes it really hard to go back and watch it ever again.
100% surprised that "We need to talk about Kevin" isn't on this list
Philip Seymour Hoffman had the tendency to be in these types of movies. If I weren't such a mental masochist I probably wouldn't keep obsessively coming back to Happiness and Synecdoche, New York.
aaronsdavis I'm holding off on the yms series until he's finally done with it. I'm very interested in what Adam had to say about it seeing as it has taken him years to make a full rundown.
Synecdoche, New York is the weirdest movie I have ever seen, its just disturbed in so many ways
archibald senpai
It is my favorite film
archibald senpai it's weird for sure but mostly I just think it's a great depiction of sadness not just in the story but in the cinematography as well.
archibald senpai theres an insane amount of hidden meanings ...there's a youtube video that explains them ...its quite interesting
I feel this way about Interracial Hole Stretchers 6. I'll never watch it again as long as I live.
Jane Poultney The ending though, where he comes off on her butt, and not on her face. No one saw that coming, most of all her, so to speak...
Jane Poultney Ooh come on, watch with me, it'll be fun
Brinson Harris HAHAHAHAHAHA
Brinson Harris your so funny
Brinson Harris or “Men Alone2: The KY Connection!
The movie adaptation of "Bridge to Terabithia". When it came out I had no idea it was a book and I knew absolutely nothing about it, but from all the trailers it looked to be something "Narnia"-esque or perhaps "Spiderwick Chronicles" like. Wrong, but it still turned out to be a pretty good tale. However, not knowing what to expect, the ending just flew right in under my RADAR and ripped my guts out. Very few movies get to me, this one did big time.
This one! I know it's not as heavy as most movies listed here, but I went into it expecting an easy to watch wholesome movie to fall asleep to. Boy did it have 15ish year old me bawling. I had recently lost a friend who reminded me of the young girl, and it was just too much. Haven't had any desire to rewatch it since as I don't see myself enjoying the experience.
Oh I remember reading that book in fourth grade it made me cry so much
"Salo' or The 120 Days of Sodom". In fact, the director of that movie was killed after he'd made it. Although the story was written by Le Marquis de Sade a few hundred years ago, it's updated to 1940's Mussolini's Italy and it's quite a literal version of the phrase "Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter". Speaking of which, there are also hints of Dante Algheri's "The Divine Comedy" mixed in (Hence the titles of the 3 Acts: The Circle of Flesh, The Circle of Sh*+, and the Circle of Blood). Then watch "Quills", which portrays Le Marquis as the "Hero Freedom Writer" who's always being pressed down by the big, bad establishment.
ive had this kind of feeling with the book 1984 . it was brilliantly written but for me it was too dark . not even because of the violence or cruelty just the constant crushing hopelessness the whole way through
Happy McJoyjoy The ending to Brazil was a happy ending, in it's own way. Sam managed to live out his fantasies, and escape the bureaucratic insanity of the Ministry, even if it was only in his head. What makes it happy is the fact that, whether it's real or not, Sam is living far away from civilization with the woman of his dreams. His mind is happy.
rowan markovich I mostly agree. Still my favorite book though
Favourite book and film, although I do tend to worship Orwell as a modern day prophet.
Don't vote democrat...
ThoughtCriminal
yes and no, he failed to see far enough ahead to realize that the greatest threat to mankind's independence wasn't totalitarianism/manufactured belief, but sanctioned pleasure for pleasure's sake.
I regret watching Requiem for a Dream. It's haunting. Left me depressed for days.
rewatch it. its great
Butterfly Effect for me. With multiple endings, all bad, it just showed the futility of ever trying to strive to change things for the better. I actually tried to watch it a second time, but couldn't.
Yes. Absolutely. Butterfly Effect ate at me for a long time. Good film. Never again. One and done.
Grave of the fireflies is such a movie for me. An animated masterpiece so incredibly provoking, disturbing and depressive. I just can't find the courage to watch those two brothers go though that nightmare again.
Aleksander Gullanger Fuck, I was wondering if anyone would mention it. I think that's one of like 3 movies that has ever made me cry
its amazing how an animated movie had evoked such strong emotions from me more than any other live action movies or performances ever. this masterpiece made me depressed for days.
I agree. The best war movie ever made and one of the most harrowing things I've ever seen. It broke my heart. However it wasn't two brothers, it was brother and sister.
you are right. I watched the movie when I was quite young and with subtitles, so I guess i didnt really know the gender of the younger one.
dudeee the last 30 minutes were pure depression
I was expecting '' Irreversible'' to be on the list, its on mine for sure. I am glad i watched it but i will never do it again.
Gabriel De Liberatti Two words: fire extinquisher
Gaspar Noe's (Irreversible's direction) earlier film "I Stand Alone" is another I cannot watch ever again. I heard someone call his movies "Corrosive" and that is so accurate it hurts.
I love Gaspar Noe's '' Enter the Void'' its a hard movie but i have seen it 3 or 4 times and will definitly see again. I Stand Alone i never heard off, how does it compare to the others in the '' suffering'' scale?
It's pretty high up there I'd say. I've heard people rank them 1, 2 and 3 with Irreversible being first, I Stand Alone being second and Enter the Void third.
Irreversible.... the only film that ever left me actually speechless at the end.
Watched mid day on a rare "we have the same day off" moment with my best friend.
" Got nowt on today...lets get stoned and watch some films! YAAAY!"
Sheesh ! Both sat there stunned at the end. Looked at each other and passed a wordless psychic "i'll get back to ya in 10 minutes" message to each other.
>minutes later.......<
Got up and did the very British thing of making a sugary cup of tea to sooth a trauma, sat back down and uttered "What. The. Fuck!?"
It's a film i've recommended to few, and warned most not to watch.
Personally, "A Beautiful Mind" is one of those movies that is incredible, but I can't bring myself to ever watch it again.
My mother has schizophrenia, and not only is its depiction of the disease spot on, but also its depiction of how it effects on those surrounding the inflicted. To watch someone you love, someone you rely on and care deeply about, completely break from reality is unbearable. I lived a very similar experience to the wife in the movie, and it broke through to things I hadn't felt or thought about in well over a decade. I cried like a baby for well over an hour after the movie finished. And I haven't cried like that in a very, VERY long time. It's easily the most amazing movie I have ever seen.
And I will never watch it again.
DemonGrenade274 it is an incredibly powerful heart wrenching film. I'm so sorry about your mom. Hopefully you can take away a bit of optimism at the end as John Nash ultimately triumphs over his condition, although he continues to suffer from schizophrenia.
I found it to be very moving and very powerful but I could watch it again. The thing is, why would I? The most powerful scenes, like when we see the mad cut outs and scribbles that show us and Nash just how disturbed he is, can't be rewatched. Realizing some of the characters are in his mind, etc can only be enjoyed once.
You have terrible taste in movies then.
I’ll never watch D2: Mighty Ducks again... just too intense...
The Timster man you are funny. you should be a comedian
hunter s Hey thanks man! Appreciate it!
The Timster HAHAHAHAHAHA
Randy Hutchinson This guy gets it!
Its knucklepuck time
I can't ever watch Hotel Rwanda again.
Great film but it tore me up.
Geahk Burchill god, me too.
My favourite Novel.
The key line is where O'Brien asks Smith if he believes in God, to which Smith replies in the negative. Everything that follows, the psychological and physical torture, the crushing weight of utter hopelessness of ever defeating the System is predicated on Smiths Atheism, because without an Eternal Being, where can hope or memories or love or freedom dwell?
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but who ever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on Him. JOHN 3:36
If you study up on the full events the hotel Rwanda movie is fairly calm considering.
Grave of the Fireflies. An amazing movie, but NEVER FUCKING AGAIN!
I couldn't last. I tried. Plague Dogs is just the same.
Let me guess you would rather sit through the human centepide
So. You believe Human Centipede is a "GREAT" film? Do you not comprehend this video and comments thread?
craigdamage exactly!
Bruh.
The Mist with Thomas Jane... that ending. I was gutted, great movie, but damn.
I agree. I was done by the end of the end of THAT.
That ending sucks dick, they didn't make a realistic setup for the ending so it feels stupid
In the actual story (Stephen King's version), the ending was a happy one; it was the STUDIO that changed the original ending.
@@stevencoates3382 Stephen king left his ending vague, 'up for interpretation' if you will. I recently read King was approached about the ending they had in mind for the movie and he actually really liked it. I haven't seen the movie for a long time but I remember how everyone in the theater boo'd it. Personally, I thought it was well done; What would you do when a certain agonizing death was waiting you and the people you care about?
We Need to Talk About Kevin.
It's a fucking shame Ellen Burstyn never won for best actress Oscar for RFAD.
UncleAnaesthesia travesty.
I was also just out of high school when the Columbine shooting happened and it always made sense to me. When in high school, I hung out with the weirdos and freaks and figure that probably some of the people I graduated with might have thought 'we barely got out alive' (which would be ridiculous, but people like my group of friends were exactly the ones profiled and claimed to be a danger in that time). It was absolutely no accident at all that Columbine was a newly-built school. It was one of the first schools filled with security cameras, with metal detectors at the doors, police patrolling the halls on some days, etc. It was a locked-down prison. And human beings react poorly to that kind of control. Some just snap and are willing to throw away their own lives to escape it. Schools create a kind of tunnel vision that makes it impossible for students to recognize their own existence as a human being or anything more than a student in the school to be examined, surveilled, controlled, etc. When you turn schools into prisons, students will start acting like prisoners. It's that simple.
Remember the lists of 'warning signs' that came out after Columbine? Things like playing violent videogames or writing violent stories or dressing differently, those sorts of things, that were supposed to identify the people who were potential future school shooters? I always had a problem with those lists. An accurate list would identify 1 or 2 students at 1 school about once every 5 years or so. Instead, the lists they put out identified dozens of kids at every single school every single year. It was flagrantly obvious that the lists weren't made to help with school shootings, they were just there to give teachers and excuse to justify their harrassment of the weird kids who dare to do their own thing. I was unsurprised when more school shootings followed in the years after Columbine. It's what you get when you continuously denigrate and ratchet up control over every aspect of the life of any group of human beings.
Eloquently said.
Exactly. I went to high school shortly after Columbine.. I was one of those different kids. I dressed different from everyone else and for the first couple years I was bullied constantly which had the obvious effect on me. I became quiet, sullen, and withdrawn. I played a ton of video games. This made me a walking target for harassment by teachers, counselors, and even some of the other students even though I didn't own a gun, didn't have access to a gun, and never had any desire to shoot up my school. I did however develop an explosive temper as a result of all this bullshit. After putting one of my bullies in the hospital (the fight happened outside of school and he was too embarrassed to tell the police who beat the shit out of him) the rest of them left me alone.. things got better after that and my last two years were pretty good. I got lucky.. there were other people who were in the same situation who never learned how to cope and several of them never recovered. School isn't supposed to destroy your life, but the bullshit pressure to conform and be just another drone in the consumer hive is all school is apparently good for now.
I was one of those kids myself. Got bullied pretty bad too from middle to high school, to point I was getting shoved down staircases and the cunt administrators refused to abide by the 0 tolerance policy in my district. It was hard for me cuz I grew up in a single parent house, with no father to teach me how to handle shit man to man. Even defending myself would've gotten me an "Assault" collar, but still would have drove the point home
Going back to watch signs, red flags, and fitting profiles.. do you guys remember Richard Jewell ? That guy "fit the Olympic Bomber profile to a T", according to the FBI. Turned out he was 💯 innocent !!!
@John Doh tbh the school could be partly to blame given that not all people have the same psyche. If the had guidance councilors with better eduication maybe even take a route into being a therapist. Then maybe this would happen less and less. They would have someone to talk to and actually listen.
For me, it's von Triers' Dancer in the Dark, absolutely the most gut-wrenching film I've ever seen. (I found it interesting you described Magnolia in much the same way.) The hypnotic musical numbers - the one on the train especially stands out - only serve to heighten the harrowing inexorableness of the experience Bjork's character undergoes and where ultimate redemption comes through total devastation.
Ah I just wrote about this. Totally agree
Dancer in the Dark is a great call, but for me it is Breaking the Waves. Seen it twice it the cinema and cried both times. What a horrible great movie.
I never want to rewatch any of Von Triers films, they're just too dark and at times perverse (antichrist). The only one I've rewatched is Meloncholia. I'm not denying his talent, I just don't wanna get sucked into Von Triers deep and profound personal suffering as a human being.
I don't think a movie has ever made me ugly cry so hard as Dancer in the Dark
Great video! Another film I found compelling but too tragic to watch again is THE ELEPHANT MAN
Mark Pawziuk That’s one for me too. I saw it as a kid and was completely gutted by it.
I don't know about one and done but a film that I think is brilliant but difficult to watch is Night Crawler its because as u watch u start to realize the main character(Jake Gyllenhaal) is a borderline psychopath and that can make the film uncomfortable
Jacob's Ladder. Watch that and feel good!
I love that movie...definitely need at least a few months between viewings haha
The first Unkle albums uses great samples of Tony Aiello's speeches from Jacob's Ladder -- a great take on Ambrose Bierce's A Happening (or was it Incident?) at (something) Creek.
The film sixth sense ripped off!.
@@scottneil1187 No, that was The Jacket (a film I still love btw)...
I absolutely love Jacob’s ladder. One of the greatest horror films ever
The movie that fits me for this list would be America History X
I laughed through the whole thing. I look at it as a dark comedy.
@@cheshire_skatkat9093 pretty sick thought. Even the curb scene?
@@dirtylabrat958 dont feed the very obvious troll
@@dirtylabrat958 yes. It's all hilarious to me because Edward Norton severely overacts and just wasn't very believable. The whole set up and premise felt like a bad after school special. There were other films that tackled the subjects better like the believer, steel toes,etc.
@@CalderaXIIwow so because my post doesn't jive with your opinions and feelings I am an obvious troll? Really? How's that work exactly? Did someone place you in charge of the comment section? It seems YOU are the troll. Back to middle Earth with you , troll.
Magnolia is an underrated masterpiece.
The Deer Hunter is one I could never watch again.
Agreed, Magnolia By PlayBoi Carti is an underrated masterpiece
Dancer In The Dark is also on my list.
Fafane67 mine too
Damn that movie.
Same here. All these movies HAVE NOTHING on Dancer in the Dark.
Damcer in the Dark is a movie I wish I hadn't seen the first time
Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind is great but a hard watch.
Red Law it's weird when you love something that is so depressing. Great movie!
really? i thought it was easy to get into and its emotional moments never became too overbearing. i wouldn't say it has any outright depressing scenes, more bittersweet and melancholic.
Great acting & original story but makes you work for it!
What? That's in my Top 10, and my wife and I both love watching it together. Sad at times, sure, but it's so honest and clever that I wish I thought of it first.
also it isn't scary.. uncomfortable at times sure, but this is a list of movies that are legit scary.
After barely surviving a ten year pill addiction myself. You're right Paul, "Requiem" is a very good movie, that is tough to keep on going back to. It's a very good representation of how hopeless one feels as an addict. As well, as the falling further, and further, away from family and their struggle with a seemingly, hopeless situation......
I couldn't watch Trainspotting again. Brilliant but upsetting.
I would say Bully is a movie I never want to see again. It's by the same dude who did KIDS and it just as disturbing.
I almost forgot about bully... That's a crazy fucking ride...
That movie with Tom Arnold and Rick Moranis?
I was student teaching when they were filming. I was in the school that the really socially awkward kid was from in Iowa. I didn't have any contact with him, but i taught his sister. I hope they are all doing better now.
More disturbing.
That movie was dark darker darkest.
Once Were Warriors is one of those movies. It follows a Maori family in modern-day New Zealand as they deal with living a marginalized life: poverty, loss of heritage and identity, alcoholism, brutal scenes if spousal abuse, child molestation, etc., which culminates in a truly heart-breaking, gut-wrenching suicide. It was an emotionally exhausting experience that left me gutted for days afterward. I grew up near a former Indian reservation here in the US, and I felt like iknew this family, they were my neighbors and friends, and I had seen it all play out in real life. Having it shoved in my face in movie form, every ill condensed into 90 minutes or so, was overwhelming.
Katheryn Saunders read through comments expecting to list Once Were Warriors myself, along with Breaking the Waves. Both films I can never watch again.
Katheryn Saunders
I love that film!
cook the man some fucken eggs.
No I love that film, I revisit it once a year or so. I didn't come from a perfect home either but the performances in it are brilliant and unforgettable.
Uncle Bully...
Good video. Gummo and Trash Humpers are pretty disturbing, in a different way than Kids... also by Harmony Korine. Leaving Las Vegas is very dark, and does for alcoholism what Requiem did for drug addiction.
cruddddddddddddddd . Yep, it kinda glamorized it in a way while making you believe its a cautionary tale. Hate 'Requiem'. Sucks eggs.
Gummo and kids aren’t that bad at all lol.
Your videos are great man really glad I found your channel. Can’t wait to watch all these movies
I recommend Babel. It's not exactly disturbing, but it is very raw and emotional. I've watched it a few times.
I love that movie. I like the Mexican and the mute japanese storylines
"Ive watched it a few times"
This videos about movies people only watch once.
I don't think I could ever watch Hachiko again. That film's just too sad.
Simon Turner is that the dog movie? If so, that is the only movie i can think of that i will NEVER watch again.
Simon Turner even I cried.
Gotta love your Candidness. I know I don't need to say this but please keep it up keep going your way, it's great.
Ellen Burstyn’s monologue in Requiem is still among the best ever recorded on celluloid.
For me it was We Need To Talk About Keven. Fantastic movie, I could write a whole dissertation singing it's praises, but I don't think I could ever watch it again. Like Elephant, it also examines the story of a school shooter, but this time from the perspective of his mother. It's an angle we never really get, and I really adored it, but it's such a downer I don't think I could ever revisit it.
Luke Howel Agreed, I still think about parts in that movie now and then even though I only watched it once a few years ago.
I read the book and realised that there was no way I was going to watch it even once.
Thissss! I watched it, loved it, and have found myself thinking about it on multiple occasions afterward. But I know I probably will never watch it again.
I never saw the movie, but the book is one of my favorites. I highly recommend it.
I just mentioned that one before I read the comments. That one gutted me, too. Tilda Swinton was brill. But her son was...unforgettable.
Blue valentine. I can not watch it again. Not only did not have a happy ending, it leaves you asking why?. I recommend watching it at least once.
Keep up the good work
Rodrigo Kane oh god, I just commented the same. Seriously it hit sososososo hard. I can't even think of watching even the poster of the movie ever again
That movie breaks your heart. I will not watch that again.
You have a great channel. Wonderful, confident and thoughtful presentation. Just subscribed.
2 girls one cup, saw it once, never watched it again.
Great movie though!
BRN BDN I've never watched it. I just can't bring myself to go there
Great line but you ruined it with that annoying spacing so people have to "read more". That's a fad that needs to die.
@@SparksDrinker you're just jealous that my comment got 37 likes
Nobody likes playerhater!
@@BonkMachine Actually I liked it, I started my comment saying it was a great line. You didn't need that extra nonsense, it would have stood on it's own. That extra space read more shit is a sign of weakness, lose it.
Lol
you've probably already seen it, but martyrs (the french one) is very disturbing
Martyrs is definitely one for me, especially the second half, that was hard to watch
i came here to say martyrs. it's one of my favorite movies but it's draining
Your style of review is very thought provoking and enjoyable to listen to, you earned a subscription from me.
Watership Down, Animal Farm, Bambi, Dumbo.
Don't forget Plague Dogs
Oh god, Watership Down is insane.
Try out Grave of the Fireflies, it's about two orphans in Japan during WWII.
Ass to ass.....
Seriously though Requiem is a tough watch, especially considering the fact that the last time I watched it my own mother was basically the same character a the one in the film. She had found a doctor that prescribed her whatever she wanted, and it was eerie to see the look on her face become a facsimile of the character's.
Havent seen it for similar reasons being a H addict but sounds like a powerful flick from what ive heard
Yea i wont watch that one again...its too much
Darth Addictus if you are a shooter or are around people who are its nothing that shocking
james staggs
my best friend's mother has had one of those doctors for the better part of 20 years, its sad to watch her slip into benzo related dementia/degenerative mental disease while rarely leaving her bedroom, much less the house.
It's not "ass to ass;" it's "pooping back and forth."
Hey man, great job on this video. I feel like I’m back in film and English class. And that’s a good thing.
This is still one of my favorite movie review vids on UA-cam. Love your insight and voice mr z
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind for me. That movie made me reflect on my feelings following a bad breakup, and even thinking about it takes me back to that moment. It's a beautiful film, I could discuss it and break it down all day, but I'll never watch it again.
orvil grunmeier I hate that I love that movie and its a conscious choice to end up depressed to choose to watch it.
I love that movie and have seen it several times.
Dear Zachary is an amazing documentary that I never wanna watch again. Also, to a lesser extent, Montage of Heck.
koolman23 Montage of Heck is amazing but I agree, it's sad as hell
Dear Zachary was insane
I've seen montage of heck quite a few times
Great idea for the vid and great picks! Going to try happiness which I haven't seen yet.
man y'all need to bring this setup back
I would include "Dogville", "Dancer in the dark", these two by the danish director Lars von Trier. I would also include the anime movie "Grave of the Fireflies". I think the 3 of them are great, but I would not dare to watchh them again. You list is great by the way.
Panawil Dancer in the Dark is the only movie that made me ugly-cry
I know right?
Grave of the Fireflies has to be one of the saddest films I've ever seen and I doubt I'll ever watch it again. Glad I saw it, but once was enough
Arronowski's movies seem to have that "great but don't wanna see it again" effect, yeah. For me, the one that is more unpleasant and depressing even from Requiem is The Wrestler. Man, the whole things is so desperate, it reeks of loneliness and that ending. So powerful. And ofcourse the performance of his life from Mickey Rourke (and the genius decision to cast him to play that particular role).
Pi is the only one i've seen a few times, the rest are too depressing or too odd.
It's even worse than you remember it, Heath ledger won in the supporting category, in the Leading category Mickey Rourke lost from Sean Penn for Milk...
Deliverance and Oldboy
Only one I've seen from the list is Requiem for a Dream and I agree with you on that.
I'm surprised Oldboy wasn't on this list.
Dude cmon Oldboy is badass
You got me with Requirm.
Such a troubling film. So close to home.
"The Road."
Beckoning Chasm nah, the Road's just a dope movie.
Yep that's the on I was trying to add, totally agree never will watch that again.
That's a movie I'll never watch in the first place. I read the book. Left me in a place that I never want to go back to.
Beckoning Chasm The book tore my heart out. The movie was a great dark visual.
Great suggestion! That movie was excellently done. Kudo's to those who have read the book, I can only imagine how much worse it gets.
Gummo definitely fits this category for me.
fuck that movie, I had a friend who always tried to get us to watch it. She would put it on, and the part with
the kids who sold the cats for meat is about as far as we ever got. It was made by someone who had some association with Kids, I believe. That was always her selling point.
It's horribly fucked up, and it stays with you. Harmony Korine wrote Kids and Gummo was his directorial debut, I believe.
have you ever seen Ken Park. . I believe it was around 1998 or so. . pretty crazy movie, but follows Korines style. . Also Bully, is a really powerful one from him. but takes you on a very dark journey. and the last Harmony Korine one I would recommend is wassup rockers. it is in the style of Kids but just doesn't hit home as hard for me. . Being that, as I watched KIDS as I was graduating and skateboarding, and partying, it was like a look into our lives(minus the hiv)
I've always respected Harmony's ability to make movies so uncomfortable and honest. Telling of the awful traumatic sides of adolescence instead of hiding it away and sugar coating it. That being said I understand why people can't get through them and they definitely fit the criteria for am "I'm never watching this again" list.
Then there's Trash Humpers which is just fucking meaningless and kind of shit.
Came here to say Gummo...
Howdy, Paul!
Really enjoying your work, thanks. Thoughtful, informed, and only cynical when you need to be!
Two films I could add to the list of “Loved it... but, never again!” are actually companion pieces and quite recent. Both are superbly crafted documentaries, and both are mind-blowing, surreal, “I cannot believe they got this on film” creations:
- “The Act of War”
- “The Look of Silence”
Impossible to describe in this short-scale forum, but utterly unforgettable. Highly recommend.
Best,
- Dave, N. Hollywood, CA
Just came across your channel with this video. I have to say I really enjoy your insight and opinion.
Paul you're awesome man, I wish you nothing but happiness. Great video (as always) have a good night.
Nothing but HAPPINESS?
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indeed
He has to watch that movie FORVER DUN DUN dunnnnnnn
Did you manage to finish Garbage Pail Kids, and if yes, do you plan on uploading it to anywhere friendlier?
Yeah, but if they finished it and put it somewhere else I still want to see it
Travis Himebaugh I loved the garage pail kids but I'm a 80s child
Juice and Tangerine! Best villain couple EVER!
Here are mine, Bad Lieutenant (the original with Harvey Keitel), Requiem for a Dream, and very high up are Martyrs and of course Enter the Void
Glad to see someone else mention Enter the Void
jesus christ. will never watch martyrs again. the only real horror film
I don't know about great but I thought it was good, Dancer in the Dark is one of the movies that I can't watch again. It was so sad and depressing, but I think Bjork did a great job acting.
It was great. Once
Most def 'The Road' - one of the bleakest films i've ever seen. Even heard the book is bleaker. Also 'Biutiful' but mostly because of the cancer sequences...
'The Road' is bleak indeed, but not really a consensus 'great' movie.
Try" Bad Boy Bubby," a great Australian film. its almost a never watch but underneath is such a sweet story you may be able to watch again. I do forward the first 20 mins just because his mother looks a wee bit like my own.
Only watched Happiness once but felt the same, may give it another go.
Is that the one with the fat bald guy that lives in the hotel room?
I couldn't even get through Requiem. Holy shit what a depressing film.
rabooey yeah shit movie
My films that make this List is Requiem for a Dream, and most recently.....Hereditary.
Hereditary made me have a long anxiety attack. Never again. I don't know why it messed me up so much, but for about a month, my anxiety was at its peak. :/
@@LightShadowButterfly the music. Horror movies that stay with you afterward do that because the music and sound seep into your subconscious. Hereditary has great sound.
@@TheSpencerHayes My anxiety is pretty specific though.. I think it was the unnerving mentality of it... and the way everyone died. Not that everyone died, but how it went about them dying, how it actually established the characters..how out of control it was for them. Many horror movies give the main characters some semblance of control...you find yourself saying "if only they didn't go into that house when they heard the weird sounds" or "if only they left as soon as they thought ghosts were there" but with hereditary, it literally had to do with something that was out of the control of anyone and everyone involved... The scene where the sister died and how the brother reacted to it...the movie felt like anxiety Like being trapped in a reality you can't escape.. And after that, I kept thinking of the inevitability of death and how it was out of my control. And how it was out of everyone else's control. These are things I already knew..already thought about... but the images from the movie kept flashing in my head whenever I tried to sleep. I would say that it was well done in the aspect of actually messing with my mind, but I didn't like it. I'm not used to seeing real emotions in movies. Well, I think typing this out made me realize what it was haha. Thanks XD
@@LightShadowButterfly you should watch high tension, one of the best horror/thriller movies ever in my opinion, aptly titles as well.
A friend of mine knows I adore Jennifer Connolly and recommended this film to me. I punched him.
Martyrs. I've seen worse and more disturbing, but that one....I don't know, man. That one just levelled me for days afterwards, even now many months later I just cringe at the savagely realistic violence and horrendously oppressive tone of the film that does not leave you walking away with any sort of hope for humanity.
Even the demon girl thing....just GAHHHH
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yeah it is one of the bleakest most nihilistic movies i've seen
Glad someone mentioned Martyrs. Holy crap it stuck with me for days after. I don't get disturbed easily but that movie did it.
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I felt the same
Martyrs is all 5 of the top 5 movies I will never watch again.
I would consider myself as a horror buff and I have seen thousands of movies in that genre and adroe those to death. But Martyrs, as much as I love that one, good god I was shaking by the end of it. The entire movie feels so oppressive as you say, and some pictures are still hard to sit through just by the context. Amazing movie but a real gut punch. ^^
Mysterious Skins has to take the spot for me, it was a great and compelling film. But I will not watch it again. I seen it once and vividly remember enough of it and the empty hollow feeling the film leaves you with, that I just could not bear to watch it again.
I always wondered if I was the only person that found the mother's situation in Requiem by far the most disturbing. I am actually a former heroin addict and yet the ONLY storyline that truly haunted me after watching it was that of the mother (probably because the guilt of "abandoning" my own mother during my years of drug use runs so deep). Excellent picks for truly disturbing films!
Your channel is really cool, man. Thanks for that. I truly enjoy your commentary.
Gummo, Warzone, Irreversible, and Ken Park without a doubt
imo Gummo gets better with repeat viewings. Definitely agree on War Zone though
and about movies that you can't bring yourself to watch more than once. I've watched Gummo several times and the more I watch it the more shock value wears off and the beauty and uniqueness shines through. It's one I'm glad I watched more than once.
I just have to be in a certain mood for Gummo. It's one of my favorite films and it's Nihilism wraps me like a warm blanket.
The LittleRock Clydesdale Gummo is an awesome movie. Doesn't belong on this list. Easy to watch multiple times. It's hilarious. They filmed it in Nashville even though it's supposed to be somewhere else. I am from Nashville so maybe I am biased because I am familiar with the places the movie was shot. That purple car in the albino chic scene was owned by someone I went to highschool with lol. It had hydraulics 😂. Idk...I just find Gummo hilarious far more than disturbing. Even though it definitely is disturbing 😂
The LittleRock Clydesdale I 100% agree in IRREVERSIBLE! Most fucked up movie ever! Idk who would watch that again lol
For me it was Nocturnal Animals. I've never had a movie disturb as much as this one did. Idk what it was it made me sick to my stomach, could not get out of my head. Fantastic movie but never again.
Misael Tamayo my favorite film of 2016.
Yeah, that one really stuck with me as well.
I read the book it was based on years ago, and it had the same effect. Outstanding writing.
The movie was okay, but definitely nothing disturbing lmao
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Misael Tamayo it was probably the opening credits. Can’t blame anyone to not wanna see that again.
I just stumbled upon this awesome vid. Subscribed.
I would have to add The Lobster and Killing of a Sacred Deer, loved both but I couldn’t watch either again. Gummo was tough to check out a second time but also a good flick. A Serbian Film was a heavy gut check.
Wow, great video and very interesting. Do another one please. Maybe do a series and change it up by doing movies that are disturbing that you can't stop watching over and over, instead of just once Or funny movies that you find funny every time you watch them but can't stop watching them or for that matter, funny movies you can only watch once because once you see the joke it's not funny any more. Similar type of idea just changed up. I'm going to watch all the movies you mentioned ( once only...lol) and if you do a series it will give all of your viewers great movies to watch. I find choosing movies the hardest thing to do so any help would be appreciated . .... keep up the great content..... cheers mate.
Mysterious Skin would top the list for me, check it out.
Mysterious Skin was very hard to watch! I've only seen it once but think about that movie still. I don't think I have the guts to watch it again.
That was a great movie
Yes! I just commented this. Amazing movie, but so, so hard to watch.
I have seen movies that I can barely remember the plot to, but my brain tells me clearly not to watch again. Requiem is one of them. So is A Serbian Film. That's pretty firmly blocked from my conscious mind. Antichrist is another movie I have snippets of in my memory that I don't want to watch again. The Woman is a movie I remember quite clearly and don't wish to revisit. From childhood, Sleepaway Camp purely for the ending and though I have hesitation, I have rewatched Event Horizon. More for the existential dread than the content of the film today, though it scared the shit out of young me.
Dude....I really like your critiques here! Now I gotta watch other vids on your channel!
This video is nearly two years old but I just lucked upon it. I've gotta say my friend you took my thoughts and verbalized them on gore and humans and how reality is so more scarier. You don't wanna feel certain things and most watch movies to escape those feelings. They may be movies we don't wanna watch again but they touched something in us at the time. Great analysis of all these films.
My top five great films I'll never watch again.
1. The Deer Hunter
2. Dancer in the dark
3. Irreversible
4. Requiem For A Dream
5. Crash (1996)
The last house on the left. The rape scene went on and on like, goddamn I think the director got carried away. Didn't even check for deleted scenes, probably 15+ hours of deleted rape scene.
Not a great film. An exploitation film.
My mother and father went to see it, I believe at a drive in. She thought is was going to be "like a Hitchcock film". Oops.
@@helterskelter7745 you mean wes craven? Produced by Sean Cunningham... two names synonymous with 80s and 90s horror. Have you not seen straw dogs? Or I spit on your grave?
@@helterskelter7745 that's pretty fucked up.
@@helterskelter7745 yeah that's gross. As a survivor of childhood and adult sexual assault those movies are cathartic to me... but I'm not everyone and I get why they fuck with people.
Good reviews! My fave one I'll never watch again is Man Push Cart. It gave me hope at the beginning, an immigrant experiencing the American dream. But it evolves into such unsupervised tragedy and hopelessness by the end, I couldn't ever watch it again. Brilliant movie though that shows that hope and struggle don't always pay off. Yet the struggle to retain a shred of hope as life goes on is best we can hope for.
Really interesting list. I've only seen Requiem for dream and never even heard of the other 4.
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21 Grams. Here's the plotline: life sucks and only gets worse, much worse. The End.
I knew if I kept scrolling I would have found this movie
I don't give a fuck what some movie says about life. Ima live it good damn it
dont forget Amores Perros
Really enjoy your honest reviews - thank you
hey man i love your usual humor videos but i liked this honest vulnerable emotional in depth stuff too by the way i think you'd make a great father buddy ! are you one yet?