Movies You Can't Watch Because They're Too Upsetting- Page 2
Movies You Can't Watch Because They're Too Upsetting
#25re: Movies You Can't Watch Because They're Too Upsetting
Posted: 11/21/06 at 10:10am
Saving Private Ryan - The first 20 minutes are too difficult to sit through again.
Looking for Mr. Goodbar - The final scene is the most disturbing thing I've witnessed on film. It gave me nightmares.
The Exorcist - Though I've seen it a few times, I can never watch the entire film in one sitting.
Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction - I will never put myself through that again.
Though I've never seen it, I know I will never watch Irreversible based on what I've heard.
mejusthavingfun
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/12/06
#26re: Movies You Can't Watch Because They're Too Upsetting
Posted: 11/21/06 at 10:13am
He's going to be in NBC's "A Year Without Santa Claus" I hope it's good. I'm really lookng forward to it.
His work on Roseanne was awesome.
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#27re: Movies You Can't Watch Because They're Too Upsetting
Posted: 11/21/06 at 10:17amJohn Goodman is probably the most underrated actor working today
#28re: Movies You Can't Watch Because They're Too Upsetting
Posted: 11/21/06 at 10:21am
I adore John Goodman in everything that he does, including the recent episodes of Studio 60. He is truly fantastic.
This is going to sound weird, but I cannot finish watching The Crucible. I could not finish reading the play, and I can't finish watching the film. It's so frustrating and it makes me cry.
#29re: Movies You Can't Watch Because They're Too Upsetting
Posted: 11/21/06 at 10:22amI always have trouble making it through the end of Requeim for a Dream.
#30re: Movies You Can't Watch Because They're Too Upsetting
Posted: 11/21/06 at 10:39ami love watching movies that make me upset.
PED
#31re: Movies You Can't Watch Because They're Too Upsetting
Posted: 11/21/06 at 10:59amI loved the movie Open Water But I will never, ever watch it again.
#32re: Movies You Can't Watch Because They're Too Upsetting
Posted: 11/21/06 at 11:43amThe Life of David Gayle. Brilliant film, but I was messed up for a wee kafterwards. I can't bring myself to see it again anytime soon.
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#33re: Movies You Can't Watch Because They're Too Upsetting
Posted: 11/21/06 at 11:46am
FUNNY GAMES is an amazing, unbelievably disturbing film everyone should see and I've always wanted to watch it again but...I...just...can't do it!
FUNNY GAMES
#34re: Movies You Can't Watch Because They're Too Upsetting
Posted: 11/21/06 at 11:50am
John Goodman is probably the most underrated actor working today
You have got. To be kidding.
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
curly120
Stand-by Joined: 7/2/06
#35re: Movies You Can't Watch Because They're Too Upsetting
Posted: 11/21/06 at 11:50amSimon Birch. I've never cried so much at the end of a movie. I've seen it a million times, and still cry that much every time.
#36re: Movies You Can't Watch Because They're Too Upsetting
Posted: 11/21/06 at 11:56am
I love horror films and films that make me cry, so I'd say none.
Though I cry most at The Color Purple and The Joy Luck Club, I watch each every chance I get.
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
#37re: Movies You Can't Watch Because They're Too Upsetting
Posted: 11/21/06 at 12:00pm
Requiem for a Dream, hands down. I think it's brilliant, but I don't know if I can ever watch it again.
STEPMOM. When Susan Sarandon is saying goodbye to her kids on Christmas, and her little boy leaves and says "Will you make sure dad double knots my shoes the way that you do?" It kills me.
#38re: Movies You Can't Watch Because They're Too Upsetting
Posted: 11/21/06 at 12:00pmOH, and I adore John Goodman, but lately I AM afraid to watch HIM, as it looks like he might explode at any second.
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
thirdrowcenter
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#39re: Movies You Can't Watch Because They're Too Upsetting
Posted: 11/21/06 at 12:11pm
I can't watch any holocaust movie. I tried to see "The Pianist" but had to run out of the theater freaked out. I also ran out of "Boys Don't Cry" when I felt the violent ending setting up.
Animals getting killed is another thing I never want to see. Slavery, torture, and anything related to terrorism and 9/11 are subjects I can't watch at all.
#40re: Movies You Can't Watch Because They're Too Upsetting
Posted: 11/21/06 at 12:40pm
THE STRAIGHT STORY: I have never cried so much in a movie...reminds me of my grandfather
I almost had to turn away from REQUIEM FOR A DREAM and DANCER IN THE DARK, but I didn't.
#41re: Movies You Can't Watch Because They're Too Upsetting
Posted: 11/21/06 at 12:53pm
I third Fox and a Hound.....I cried like an infant!!
On then other end of the spectrum....Aracnaphobia...I cried because I am terrified of spiders, and my brother forced me to watch the movie. Wow, that was a long time ago
Personally, I can't watch any horror film. I refuse to watch any of the movies made about 9/11 yet.
BroadwayBoobs: I'll give all of you who weren't there a hint of who took the pictures ...it rhymes with shameless
SOMMS: I knew it was Tink!
kelzama
Broadway Star Joined: 9/14/04
#42re: Movies You Can't Watch Because They're Too Upsetting
Posted: 11/21/06 at 1:25pm
Two pages in and no one else has mentioned Hostel? Wow.
The Killing Fields. The Passion of the Christ.
#43re: Movies You Can't Watch Because They're Too Upsetting
Posted: 11/21/06 at 1:59pmDancer In The Dark. I have avoided to watch it again for 5 years since my first watch.
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#44re: Movies You Can't Watch Because They're Too Upsetting
Posted: 11/21/06 at 2:02pmOh, and how could we forget the ultimate trauma-inducing film of all time: BAMBI
#45re: Movies You Can't Watch Because They're Too Upsetting
Posted: 11/21/06 at 2:20pmI respect TRAINSPOTTING, but hell-to-the-no will I be watching that again.
It was awesome. - theaterkid1015
#46re: Movies You Can't Watch Because They're Too Upsetting
Posted: 11/21/06 at 2:21pmI was so traumatized by "The Brave Little Toaster" when I was little that I refuse to watch it to this day. My mom says that if I even saw the box to the movie, I would start screaming.
"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.
Kitzy's Avatar du Jour: Kitzy as Little Red Ridinghood in her college's production of "Into the Woods"
morosco
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
#47re: Movies You Can't Watch Because They're Too Upsetting
Posted: 11/21/06 at 2:23pmSTAR 80. Fosse did a brilliant job...almost too brilliant. I couldn't stay through the end.
#48re: Movies You Can't Watch Because They're Too Upsetting
Posted: 11/21/06 at 2:24pm
"The Incident" - A very creepy early sixties movie set on a subway train. Two thugs (one is Martin Sheen) terrorize a carload of subway riders with verbal and physical abuse. The movie touches on all areas - they terrorize a gay man, an african american and his wife, an older lady with a a wimpy husband, a soldier (extremely young Beau Bridges) and a couple with a young child (Ed McMahon plays the father). It's terrifying as they people do nothing to prevent the violence to one another.
"Glengarry Glenn Ross" - The emotional violence in this movie about a real estate office and the wise guy who comes in to terrorize and humiliate them into selling more land (Alec Baldwin) is just too emotionally abusive for me to take. I wanted to leave the theater when I saw it for the first time.
#49re: Movies You Can't Watch Because They're Too Upsetting
Posted: 11/21/06 at 3:46pm
* I cannot watch "Into the Bedroom" again. It's excellent in its portrayal of grief; so excellent that it's excruciating to watch. And the last 20 minutes were so harrowing that I don't think I can willingly put myself through it again.
* Dumbo and (I'm so embarassed to admit this) Muppets Take Manhattan destroyed me as a kid. Any movie that deals with abandonment or goodbyes always kills me. I haven't watched either in about 16 years.
Kitzy, I was the same way about The Brave Little Toaster. Thank God I wasn't the only one!
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