Movies you can't take more than once?

Nicole asked me if there were movies that I loved, but couldn’t handle more than once because of the deep emotional investment. I have to say, there are few. I love that deep emotional involvement, and the deeper, the better. LOVE Sleeping with the Enemy – I can watch that again and again. I love how a straightened towel is frightening. LOVED Shutter Island. Saw it threw times. That was freaky and deeply emotional.

Here’s Nic’s list with my commentary (did you think I’d let that go? Without an opinion? As if!) Dead Poet's Society; (Can’t remember it, so therefore, no need to see it again.) Patch Adams – I’m not a Robin Williams’ fan, but I can’t remember this one either. Other than he had a clown nose, and clowns scare me); Michael Collins (Never saw it, is it violent?); The Sixth Sense (Loved it, saw it many times.) and Titantic (Hated it. Too unrealistic, and my only feeling in the movie was WHY when the ship is going down does this idiot need to chase people with a gun. Survival instinct would have kicked in, no?)

However, my thing is violence. I can’t take the violence or the evil of mankind, which rules out all Holocaust movies. So here are movies I loved, but can’t see again:
Cinderella Man
The Fighter
Sophie’s Choice (UGH!)
What about you? What emotional depths have you plunged in movies and can’t go there again?

Comments

[Chris]

Schindler's List
Passion of the Christ
and most recently One Day - I don't think I will ever have to see that again!

I was 8 months pregnant when I saw Titanic the first time - hormonal/emotional - and it really affected me. So much so that I only watched it for the second time this year - 13 years later!

How about movies you could watch over and over?

[NickinooOz]

Oh, One Day definitely, I should've had that on my list. Titanic, to me, wasn't so much the movie being 'great' it was the reality of it when I was watching it. Like, the CG of the people falling from the top of the ship as it was sinking, the unfairness of the poor people being locked in. I kept thinking, "This really happened. People really went through this horror." I couldn't care less about the Jack and Rose story. Michael Collins is about the beginning of the IRA in Ireland. It has Liam Neeson and Aidan Quinn in it. The unfairness and tragedy, oh dear.
I can't watch Holocaust movies either.

[Lauri]

I rarely watch movies that aren't light fluff. So I don't know. Did anyone see the Ides of March? It was good, but I don't think I'd like to see it again except to pick out landmarks.

[Suzanne]

The Notebook - saw it once and sobbed myself to sleep that night. Never again.
Life is Beautiful-too emotional, can't bear to watch it again. Like you, holocaust movies are awful.

[Katy McKenna]

Movies about Northern Ireland pull me in, and then they tear me apart. Too close to my heart. Michael Collins is fantastic and I have seen it twice, but it was so painful both times. The Wind In The Barley is haunting and beautiful, but I could barely watch it once. Same with Life Is Beautiful. I will NEVER be able to watch Schindler's List again, though it was one of the most important films I've ever seen.

[katie]

i rarely watch movies, and when i do they pretty much need to be fun and entertaining. i can't handle horror or depression in movies - my life has enough drama in it without bringing it into my life on purpose. :) schindler's list definitely was one of the most sobering movies i ever saw that i will not ever sit through again. as was titanic. and all the 9-11 footage...

[slynn]

I can't watch The Yearling again. Too sad. Your daughter better never watch it.

[Tony]

Daylight, an old Stallone disaster film. I was watching it while drugged up from getting my wisdom teeth removed. The movie freaked me out. Getting stuck in the tunnel with water rising and the only way out was to blow up the tunnel and rise to the surface. /shudder. I was really into it but don't want to see it again.