Movies you found were incredibly hard to watch

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MattyintheHatty

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Fear Dot Com. That movie was just god awful. But if we are talking about a movie that was hard to watch emotionally I would have to put 127 Hours, an incredible movie but simply hard to watch.
 

Weealzabob

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World's Greatest Dad. I'll admit I'm not the biggest fan of black comedies, but when they're done right I adore them. This made my skin crawl, and it was off within half an hour.

I'm not a nitpicky person, and it was kind of entertaing, but Resident Evil 4 had me howling at the screen. The silliness, the slow-mo, and the way it blatantly rips off any cool action scene from the past half decade.

There were quite a few parts in the Watchmen that I felt pretty uneasy watching.

The ending of Toy Story 3 left me in an emotional daze. (It wasn't helped by the fact that I saw the film on the eve of my 18th bithday)
 

funguy2121

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Z of the Na said:
I now pronounce you Chuck and Larry is the only movie I can recall ever seriously having trouble watching. It sounds like a weird choice, but when I watched this film, this was right after my father left my mother on account of him discovering himself being a homosexual, me being 10 years old at the time.

I...did not enjoy that movie. It wasn't funny with all the gay-bashing, nor did I quite understand the context of the humor. Not fun, I'll tell you that.
I also walked out on this movie. I even left before he felt up Jessica Beal, knowing that the scene was coming up from the previews. Making a movie about a group of people you don't understand or respect? That's Amos & Andy territory. I'm sure it wasn't intended as such, which means that the filmmakers were just fuckin' stupid.

I haven't enjoyed a Happy Madison film since The Wedding Singer, but this has definitely been the worst.
 

Android2137

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Oh my gosh. OH MY GOSH! I once took a class on Korean cinema and so many of the films drove me nuts, but by far the worst were The Housemaid (1960) and Madame Freedom (1956). Yeah, I know there's a historical gap involved as well as a cultural one, but DEAR LORD! In those two movies, it's like the only sane people were the kids! In Madame Freedom, it felt like everyone was having an affair except the 8 year old! And in The Housemaid, aside from the kids, I found the only sympathetic character to be the antagonist! I mean the other characters had their moment, but then they all descended into such levels of stupidity, I had to resort to writing rants in my notebook to keep myself for yelling at the screen. At least it felt like the antagonist had a good excuse for going nuts, and she struck me as adorably eccentric from the beginning anyway.

There's also Save the Green Planet, but I couldn't really call that one "bad" so much as "really really painful to watch". Y'know, like how people say Old Boy is good but in the same breath tell you not to watch it. (I haven't yet, but considering how I started feeling physically ill during Save the Green Planet I can safely assume I'll have a similar reaction.)
 

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The Dark Knight.
The minute I saw that poor excuse of Joker, I left the cinema. I later got the bluRay and watched the whole thing.

I still think the movie is a mess and a disgrace to the Batman comics and its characters AND the previous batman movies. It lies right next to Batman and Robin for me.
 

funguy2121

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Just_A_Glitch said:


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.
***SPOILERS TO ALL WHO HAVE NOT YET WATCHED THIS FAN-FUCKING-TASTIC MOVIE***

Why, because, um, guy #2 died? Or because of what happened to the family? I rather liked the ending, personally, even the tragic parts.

The absolute best part of the movie, though, was how they dealt with the human reaction to one of the most worn-out sci-fi tropes. Sam Rockwell, future Academy Award recipient.
 

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Philadelphia. I had to watch this in my health class during a week we had a sub. The movie we had watched before was on how the American medical system is eeeevvvviiiilll and that the Europeans have a much better system. I thought nothing could be worse. I was wrong. This movie was just bad. I didn?t enjoy watching it at all. I also don?t like that the teacher used this for a lecture on her socio-political beliefs. I also got booed by my class mates for pointing out that the verdict was a bit high, citing a problem with runaway juries, or the fact that despite the portrayal in the movie, the evidence was circumstantial, or at least I thought so. The sub even rebuked me, and said that that aditude was not welcome in class. Why ask what we think if you don't want to hear the answer?
 

funguy2121

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Borat was absolutely fucking horrible. That shit is simply not funny. I like, how do you say, CLEVER comedy scripts. Intricate comedy scripts--A.D. being the obvious example.

I want to make fun of Arabs as much as anyone, but ffs Borat was so utterly unfunny. Turned it off after giving it a half hour.

Ali G starts to approach 'mildly amusing' after I've taken too many rips from the bong or spliff; I think that's telling enough.

Anything with Jason Statham.
Anything made by Michael Bay. I can enjoy it to a point, but I get bored after so many improbable chase sequences loaded with product placement (ugly-ass new Dodge Chargers...)
Oh how can I forget anything Shamalamadingdong has made aside from The 6th Sense.
...Borat isn't Arabic.

But I'm glad to hear that you (and apparently, everyone) want to make fun of them.

Reported.
 

Weealzabob

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@Aku_San True. Aside from just being creepy, Gamer flat out executes any appeal in the Playstation home, Second Life types of interaction.
 

funguy2121

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The Room. It's bad and awkward. I was cringing through most of it. Luckily, I didn't pay to see it.
I heard that there wasn't even a room.
 

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From a "whuh?" angle, Black Swan was hard to watch. So much of the movie I found myself asking, "What's the point of this?" Also, there's more than enough WTF? factor to screw with your head, but unlike movies like FIGHT CLUB (which have you in WTF? mode for the majority, but then everything clicks together in the end), by the end of Black Swan I was still asking, "What was the point?"

From a "wincing 'oh I didn't need to see that...'" angle, Requiem for a Dream. Those of you who've seen it know what I'm talking about. I spent the rest of the night feeling as though my mind had been violated. No movie has disturbed me more.

From a "this is just...bad..." angle, I have two that come to mind. The first is Rush Hour 3. I liked the first two Rush Hour movies, but I stopped watching the third about 10 minutes in. The acting and the writing just seemed so forced...like they shot the whole thing over a weekend and everyone was allowed only one successful take before they moved on the next scene.

The second is Tristan and Isolde. As a married man, I've watched more than my share of chick flicks, but this one was just bottom-of-the-barrel bad. It was a bastardization of Shakespeare obviously designed to appeal to 13-year-old girls who like bad romance drama. We were, no joke, 20 minutes away from the ending when my wife said, "Do you even care how this ends?" This stands as the only movie that I have turned off after watching more than half of the way through.
 

Aphroditty

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I'm a fair bit squeamish, particularly when it comes to romantic embarrassment, so many rom-coms are actually a bit difficult for me to get through. But a movie that really got to me was Requiem for a Dream. There were definitely a few scenes that would get to a lot of people, but the entire film was difficult for me--it just exuded an overwhelming dread, a really baleful tension that I had a hard time sitting through. Fantastic movie.
 

Just_A_Glitch

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funguy2121 said:
Just_A_Glitch said:
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.
***SPOILERS TO ALL WHO HAVE NOT YET WATCHED THIS FAN-FUCKING-TASTIC MOVIE***

Why, because, um, guy #2 died? Or because of what happened to the family? I rather liked the ending, personally, even the tragic parts.

The absolute best part of the movie, though, was how they dealt with the human reaction to one of the most worn-out sci-fi tropes. Sam Rockwell, future Academy Award recipient.
It was just the lack of morality to it all. The premise of being completely alone,
with only yourself both figuratively and literally, and then to find out that you're just one of a million, complete cannon fodder, and all of your memories technically aren't yours...

Its really hard to explain in words exactly why it was so devastating to me, because a lot of films have similar themes to them, but something Moon did just crushed my spirit like never before.

Also, added a spoiler bar for you, just in case.
 

Vault101

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PoisonUnagi said:
Vault101 said:
Superbad

not a bad film..just not to my taste

I was gritting my teeth the whole way through think...uhhh I just want to watch somthing else, I dont like this shit

Transformers "why cant everyone just calm the fuck down and explain things to each other?"

28 weeks later "oh fucking great, this feels soo americanised, the army are being dicks...but not in the intersting way presented in the first one..in the SHOOT SHOOT TRADGEDY! way"

Crossroads...was actually fun to watch just to make fun of
Eh? What didn't you like about Crossroads?
assuming we are talking about the same movie....In my case some kind of, hmmm "drama"/romance? with britney spears in it

I mean its just soo horribly cliche'd...and stupid, I was only half watching it anyway

so...hmmm I THINK its about a girl into music (I dont know?) she a virgin (pfft yeah right) anyway her and her child hood freinds went seperate ways in highschool (you know..the black one...the "goth/punk" one...shes the blonde one)

so uhh for some reason they go on a road trip..for somthign music related...meet mr bland model male love interest, her and him have sex (I want my first time to be special...and all the romantic crap)

it was just beyond stupid really, oh and then she sings the song "Im not a girl...not yet a women" at the end
 

funguy2121

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KanHanderan said:
Monty Python's Life of Brian. Sure, there's quotable lines ("Romani i domo"), but it is no where near the level of Holy Grail, where practically every line can be quoted. I just didn't find it funny, even in a blackly humorous way.
MONTY PYTHON FANS: the purpose of the movies is not to be quoted. You are ruining the franchise for all who haven't seen the films yet, and you've already ruined it for the rest of us. You make something very very good very very bad. "Quotability" doesn't define comedy and neither does regurgitation. Please, please, in all sincerity and with sugar on top, knock it off. That is all.

Oh, one more thing. Life of Brian was totally better than the Holy Grail :p
 

Xman490

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Star Wars Episodes I and II
All I remember from Phantom Menace is the desert, and all I remember from Attack of the Clones is a big room of "clones" or something.