Movies you found were incredibly hard to watch

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Gettysburg, the movie based off Michael Shaara's classic The Killer Angels.

FOUR AND A HALF FUCKING HOURS of bearded men speaking to each other.

 

[Auxiliary]

Biodome.

 

[Slenn]

"Fight Club" and "Snatch". Not exactly because it stars Brad Pitt, although both his characters in both movies are incredibly annoying and don't follow any character archetype that I know of. Snatch was annoying mostly because everyone was talking fast in english accents with slang that made the movie hard to follow. If my friend hadn't turned on the subtitles, I would have only understood 33% of that movie. As it stands, I understood about 75% of that movie, and I still don't understand what was the connection between the diamond and the unlicensed boxing ring.

Fight Club was unbearable mostly because it was so freaking cerebral that by the time the movie ended, my head really started to hurt. Don't get me wrong, thinking's cool and all, but when I want to watch a movie I want to be entertained. All this stuff about post-modernism, Project Mayhem,

Spoiler

The fact that Brad's character was really a figment of his imagination

, and even the purpose of the girl in the movie was confusing. In the end I could only really understand 60% of that movie. (I know I'm using a lot of percentages, but I'm trying to show what I think.) If you want to sit down in front of a movie to think, that's cool for you but it's not for me.

 

[fragmaster09]

"The Human Centipede"....enough said, that film is.....is.....I don't even want to know what the writer was thinking, nor do I want to know how the actors felt doing those roles. Its not as gruesome as I thought it would be based on what people told me, but it didn't need to be, it was disgusting as it was :/

So yes, name some movies you found hard to watch for some reason or another, either particular scenes or the entire movie.

the writer came up for the concept from saying that pedophiles should have that happen to them...

i havent even watched it, just read the plot from wikipedia, but i am still disgusted

 

[Charli]

The last airbender. Subsequent rape of source material was enough to have me gritting my teeth and attempting to pull my friends from the theater.

Hey M.Night? Give me damn money back. Now.

 

[Acier]

1. A Serbian Film - watched out of curiosity, felt disgusted to be called a human afterwards (anyone who's seen the scene will understand)
2. Death Race - pretty much a Fallout version of Mario Kart - it took itself too seriously for an event so stupid
3. Borat - lame
4. Scotland P.A. - 70's version of Macbeth - easily one of the worst movies Christopher Walkin has been in
5. can't remember the title for this one but it was a modern "ghetto/ganster" version of Romeo and Juliet - I mean seeing street punks jump out of lowriders waving around their guns proudly stating their counterpart names from the play felt horrendous
6. another film I can't remember the name of but was considered a Mexican food film - practically the same as Romeo and Juliet but centered around a girl who's mother made her personal caretaker - made food that somehow aroused people by "absorbing her longing for the man married to her sister". Her sister develops and then later dies by having bad gas and at the end, the couple gets together to die in a fire caused by the literal heat of their passion

these were only off the top of my head, getting late so going to stop for now

That last one is Like Water for Chocolate. There was an American version and it's an adaptation of a "great" book. WHY DO PEOPLE LIKE IT SO MUCH THERE ARE 3 VERSIONS? UGGGH. In the book the end is even more crazy (haven't seen the movie but you didn't list these details so I'm assuming they were cut) the guy fucking dies in the middles of sex, the girl realizing she can never have that level of passion again eats candles so she can have her aforementioned firey orgasm.

My answer us Grave of the Fireflies. I basically start crying at the beginning and don't stop. Th fact that it's basically autobiographical doesn't help at all

 

[floppylobster]

Peeping Tom, I found the killer to be a sympathetic character and didn't want him to get caught.

Pepping Tom is so good like that. It really holds a mirror up to the audience. Destroyed the career of the guy who made it but what a bold move.

Personally I don't see the need for animal torture in films, Cannibal Holocaust is the only one that springs to mind but I know there are others. I didn't like the hung cat at the start of A Short Film on Killing but that was a great film.

A Serbian Film was a pretty hard to watch but only because it was trying so hard to be controversial but failed to say much else. I know controversy was the point of the film but it was still a weak film. At least Irreversible had some redeeming features.

And strangely I loved Human Centipede. But then again I've never been bothered by scat.

 

[babinro]

Watchmen, it was just soooo boring.

I agree...I tried to like it because my friends loved it. The graphic novel is good stuff, but the movie just has terrible pacing for lack of a proper way to explain it.

 

[Ursus Buckler]

I usually have a pretty good stomach when it comes to movies... I watched through to the end of Bad Boys II, but I now hate anything Michael Bay... I couldn't sit through Transformers, I wish I had had the same sense when it came to Underworld, or Hurt Locker, or any one of the Saw Movies.
But I think to this day, Bruno has been the one film that I've started watching that I couldn't bear to watch all the way through, and being honest I adored Ali G and Borat. Just that one scene with the erect penis... too much. XD

 

[robotam]

Never before has a movie emotionally destroyed quite like Moon did. I've never cried during a film, until Moon.

I can't watch it again. I own it. I loved it. I look at the case every now and then, wondering to myself, "is today the day I watch it again?". I don't think that day will ever come though. I just can't.

For a moment I thought you were going to say that you didn't like Moon and I would have gotten angry (and you won't like me when I'm angry)

OT:Knowing. Terrible movie, I wanted to leave durning it but I was with friends.

 

[fragmaster09]

"Fight Club" and "Snatch". Not exactly because it stars Brad Pitt, although both his characters in both movies are incredibly annoying and don't follow any character archetype that I know of. Snatch was annoying mostly because everyone was talking fast in english accents with slang that made the movie hard to follow. If my friend hadn't turned on the subtitles, I would have only understood 33% of that movie. As it stands, I understood about 75% of that movie, and I still don't understand what was the connection between the diamond and the unlicensed boxing ring.

Fight Club was unbearable mostly because it was so freaking cerebral that by the time the movie ended, my head really started to hurt. Don't get me wrong, thinking's cool and all, but when I want to watch a movie I want to be entertained. All this stuff about post-modernism, Project Mayhem,

Spoiler

The fact that Brad's character was really a figment of his imagination

, and even the purpose of the girl in the movie was confusing. In the end I could only really understand 60% of that movie. (I know I'm using a lot of percentages, but I'm trying to show what I think.) If you want to sit down in front of a movie to think, that's cool for you but it's not for me.

i can understand you with the fast accents, if it was cockney(middle class london) then i know what you're on about, but other than that, Yorkshire is the only other accent that is hard to hangle

 

[Findlebob]

inglorious bastards, if it wasnt for the bear jew i couldnt watch it.

 

[fragmaster09]

Any torture porn movie is by definition hard to watch, but I also find movies like Boys Don't Cry, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and Brokeback Mountain hard to watch due a different sort of torture. Schindler's List was also really hard to watch.

we watched about 30 mins worth of extracts in school - not too hard to watch tbh, except the selection part and the dump with the red coat

 

[munx13]

Inception, Scott Pilgrim.

I regret watching them.

 

[Reyalsfeihc]

Skyline. In fact the bloom, horrible acting, cliche lines and the fact the whole movie literally takes place in the same two buildings made it so unbearable I didn`t even finish it!

 

[Snake Plissken]

Star Wars: Episode 6. Fuck you, you fucking Ewoks. Fuck you for ruining an otherwise decent trilogy.

 

[funguy2121]

It's been mentioned a couple times but Requiem for a Dream (damned ninjas!). Talk about a movie that makes you want to shoot yourself. The ending was particularly bad. "Ass to ass!" That was like a scene cut out of the worst porno ever. If you're going to make a "don't do drugs, kids!" movie, isn't it better to present a realistic portrayal of what can go wrong? "Don't do smack, or you'll end up doing the booty dance with some other flake using a 2-way dildo." Of course.

Can't believe I forgot Funny Games. Narcissistic director remade his own film after less than a decade. Sociopathic teens invade homes, fuck with families, torture them, then kill them all. The end. The bad guys aren't likable even in an ironic sort of way - more like an 80's high school villain, the sort you want to punch in the face the whole movie. It also has quite possibly the worst fourth wall breaking ever. I was so disgusted after I sat through that piece of celluloid shit that I looked it up to see if there was something I was missing. There wasn't. Apparently, the point of the film was to get the audience to get up and walk out of the theater.

to be fair though I dont think Requiem was ever intended to be an anti-drug PSA

it was just a movie about addiction..and all that (some of the scenes with Sarah in her house kinda hit home for me)

as far as "dont do drugs" goes....I think this one works anyhow

Darren Aronovsky came to speak at my university. When asked what the point of Requiem was, he said, "Don't do drugs."

I wouldn't say it "works anyhow." Lying about why someone shouldn't do something doesn't really work.

 

[Robert632]

Transformers two, But not for the reason you all think. The reason I found it so hard to watch was because of the sewage that somehow got into the theater we were in.That the movie was crap just made it worse.

 

[sheah1]

The Boy in The Striped Pajamas. Brilliant movie, but due to what happens in it.... I'm pretty sure that was the desired reaction, by the by.