"What film should you avoid seeing again?" Topic

I recently watched "Mosquito Squadron", a film that inspired me from my childhood. Should have left it there. It turned out to be (to me), really really bad. I know now how my snobby modeller friends must feel when they watch a "historical" film.

Serpent and the Rainbow. Pretty good movie when I was 12. Not so good later in life.

Zardoz!
The Neptune Factor!
The Devil in Miss Jones!

Iron Man
Buckero Bonzai
Breakfast Club

Not so much a film, but I recently re-watched The UNknown War, picked it up on DVD. I remember watching it as a kid. But now that I re-watch it now, I feel I should have left it with nostalgia…

Damon.

Blowup

Seems like a funny question – if you hate a movie why even consider watching it again

The new Conan. It as like taking a forced enema the first go around. Cant imagine a second pass.

irreversible – the director should be put in a cell and the key dropped somewhere in a sewer. I have rarely seen so violent trash in the name of cinematographic "art"

I second the new Conan. What a stinker! I got lucky and the speakers blew out halfway through the movie enabling me to get a refund. Bad, bad movie.

The new Conan. I was like taking a forced enema the first go around. Cant imagine a second pass.

The Silence of the Lambs. Brilliant movie and I believe everyone should see it. But it left me so emotionally empty (or maybe exhausted) that I have no desire to see it again. I literally couldn't smile for 3 days afterwards.

Alien 3. It ruined my joy of Alien and Aliens. I almost needed therapy to get over it!

Warlock, saw it when i was a kid and thought it was great, saw a bit of it a while ago- sweet jesus if was woeful.

Maple leaf, I didn't know I hated it, in fact I loved it, or at least the version of it I remembered. It's like the soundtrack to "Squadron 633", love it, play it, but I'm scared to see the movie, because I suspect it'll destroy my memory of it.

Whereas "Zulu" is on continuous loop.

Barb wire – tried to watch it twice and gave up at the same point each time.

Terence Hill and Bud Spencer movies were hilarious………

Saving private Ryan – I felt like crap after that movie.
Pulp Fiction – What a horrible movie!

Seven, for the same reason that Billiam has concerning Silence of the Lambs.

The Thin Red Line. Total waste of time.

Next is Anzio. Still can't past the first 5 minutes.

Any of the "something"-Movie series. Most of the jokes were stale when they came out.

Tomb Raider, I know the film exists, and I have watched something that claims to be it, but at the end I just have 90-odd minutes of lost time.

Highlander, a perfect example of a movie that is utterly brilliant at telling complete nonsense that is amazing the first time round. Not so much fun the second time around (thank Cthulhu they never made any sequels …)

Hudson Hawk. Nuff said.

Buck Rogers (the seventies version), other then Wilma Dearing it was not worth watching again. I was never that impressed with the Ardala character

I dunno, I rather liked Ardala. Great stuff for an adolescent boy's hormones :) Still, the show itself doesn't bear watching a second time. Having seen Zardoz once it is not neccessary to watch it again.

In the interest of full disclosure, I'm pretty much this way about movies I like. They stick in my head and I don't need to see them again for several years. Even my favorites.

Serpico – it's a pretty good film, but in my memory it was a masterpiece.

I like Zardoz and have seen it many times.

gods and generals

Disrict 9.

Silent Running. Watched it yesterday and it didn't quite have the same appeal as when I was a kid.

DM

Once again, it is entertaing to see how many totally fail to get the point of the OP. You gotta read more than just the title…

I don't think I would want to see a movie again whose plot tists took me comletely bu surprise. I thought that The Sixth Sense and Murder on the Orient Express were fine movies that knowing the ending would ruin.
I can watch The Godfather, The Man Who Would be King, Last of the Mohicans, etc 24/7, because it's the story that gets me every time. No huge surprises or Gotcha! scenes.

Ok, OFM….. The Crying Game

When I was 9, Attack of the Mole People scared the crud out of me. When I saw it again a few years ago, it was just silly.

However, for really bad, Warriors of Virtue. All copies should be reduced to their component chemicals and recycled as cat food.

Dragonwars… never in my life have I seen such a Bad mix of …Everything!

I don't think I would cry nearly as much at the end of Old Yeller at my age, but you never know. I'm a sentimental SOB.

I loved Mel Gibsons "Attack Force Z" as a kid, I wonder if that holds up at all.

What Kyote said.

When I was a kid the television shows, Combat and Rat Patrol I couldn't wait to see. I watched an old Combat recently and went Wow, these are really bad.

As movies go, Flyboys is awful.

Silent Running. Watched it yesterday and it didn't quite have the same appeal as when I was a kid.

DM

Exactly.
I cried as a kid but not recently when I saw it again..
The memory was much better.

Anything with Chuck Norris in it (whatever it seems to be about) …

Taking Chance ,,,a good film about a fallen iraq soldier and how he was brought home . Cried more than old Yeller .

Schindler's List. Very powerful film, but once is enough.

Pearl Harbor

Schenectady, New York – a so relentlesly bleak and depressing it would seem to have been created to drive the viewers to suicide.

Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky

and

Hawk the Slayer

Anything that I've seen with Wesley Snipes
3 Kings
U-571
Sammi and Rosie Get Laid
Truly Madly Deeply
Shooting Fish

Because they're all utter guano.

Death in Venice….I cannot ever watch it again..

Death in Venice….I cannot ever watch it again..

Niether can Gustav von Aschenbach.

Anything with Mel Gibson starring in it.

I know it's trendy around here to dislike Mel but I actually can't stand him as an actor.

Witness for the Prosecution. Once you see the ending…and its a great film… you never need to watch it again.

The Poseidon Adventure (1972). No man should be exposed to Shelley Winters in wet underwear more than once.

There's too many to list as being crap, but the onlyone for sentimentle reasons is Croc Dundee. Shortly after my lady and I had seen it three or four times she dropped me for an older man.

Maybe we shoulda gone only one time…

Several,many of which I avoid on principal ,if able.