What is a film that you regret watching?

Susperia. I saw it 15 years ago, but sometimes images from the film come into my head. Horrible. I think it is the vivid technicolor that makes it stay in the mind.

This clip is of from one of the less distrubing picture from the the film. But the heart getting sliced out and the razor wire nest are the ones that really get me. But it shows how even with innocuous action Argento creates something unsettling.

I avoid those movies....even trailers now can contain images that you regret seeing.

Requiem For A Dream. As someone who already has problems with depression, this movie certainly did not help at all. It made me feel awful for the next few weeks. Never watched it again.

IMDB review on " Good-bye Cruel World."

A complete waste of celluloid. Literally all the funny parts of this movie were in the trailer. Too stupid and pointless for even MST3K to tackle. One can only hope that all extant copies, plus the negatives, have been destroyed.

I waited until everyone was out of the theater, then escaped through the emergency door, so no one would see that I went to see this abomination.

r3 I feel the same way about Wendy and Lucy.

Probably the most depressing film I've ever seen.

Prime Cut - I watched it because it stars Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman and Sissy Spacek. Unremitting nastiness. No redeeming qualities. What a waste of time and attention.

People, stop misusing the word “depression.” Depression, in a clinical sense, is a complete absence of feeling, a dull, gnawing emptiness. Sadness is a valid feeling on the emotional spectrum that signifies a sense of grief or a loss, primarily of love. Feeling sad is valid, it’s not dangerous and shouldn’t be judged as bad. It is often a valid response to personal circumstances. You cannot feel “happy” all the time. Happiness is not the only valid emotion that we are capable of feeling - the obsession with happiness often suggests it is the last thing people are feeling.

Movies don’t depress you. They move you, they can make you feel elated, inspired, sad, moved, disturbed but it is highly unlikely that they can actually cause a clinical depression, lasting or otherwise.

Perception is everything. Maybe you’d have better mental health if you were more capable of actually defining your emotional states more accurately.

r7 is fun at parties.

Titus

R7s post made me clinically depressed with sadness.

Funny Games

The '51 Show Boat by MGM. What a nightmare. Even if Ava Gardner is wonderful, the film is a horror.

Every Tarantino film

R7 is a bossy bottom.

Irreversible. It literally made me sick with all the disoriented camera movement in the beginning. The head getting bashed in and 20 minute rape sequence was just the icing on the cake. Waste of time I will never get back, all that for the sake of “art”.

R7 I’ll see you fry in the electric chair for this. I’ll personally see that you fry in the goddamn chair for this.

I saw it mentioned above, but Funny Games for me as well. Truly repellent.

By the way, I've seen only a few Michael Haneke films (that one, Caché & The White Ribbon), and I can't say I like any of them.

Albert Nobbs

Have to second Requiem for a Dream.

Great performance by Ellen Burstyn but it is a brutal film.

Megan Is Missing

It is thinly veiled torture porn disguised as a warning about Internet safety. I should've turned it off after the main character, who was supposed to be 15, described her first sexual experience (a pedophile camp counselor teaching her how to give a blowjob) in VERY graphic detail. But I decided to watch it anyway and was treated to all kinds of grotesque torture and rape. Particularly in the last 22 minutes.

I have seen lots of horror movies in my time, but this is one of the only times where I questioned the director's motives and wouldn't be surprised if he really did turn out to be a creep/pervert.

Salo

Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer

I turned off Salo early.

The actors were way too young. It was gross and (IMHO) exploitative.

S21, about the Khmer Rouge in 1970s Cambodia.

Though it made me feel sick to my stomach, I don’t exactly regret seeing it since I’ve taken the impression of political fanaticism and considered it many times in other situations. Humanity can be both beautiful and horrific.

I’m a teacher, and last year I had the kids do family interviews about an elder’s childhood. The Cambodian kid’s mom came in for parent conferences. She explained, in very limited English, how her uncle, a monk, got her to the countryside as a very young child. Her parents and the rest of her family were all murdered. She was shaking and crying while her kids, who don’t speak Khmer and don’t know the story, looked on in confusion and empathy. It was intense.

The film made me understand far better why just the topic of her childhood could lead her to a breakdown.

And it made me see human beings, all of us, as extremely vulnerable to evil.

Martyrs (2008). It's not particularly gory except for one scene, but it left me depressed for days, losing the faith in humanity. Along with Salò, one of the most disturbing movie I've seen. I decided not to watch A Serbian Film since it sounded like these two movies but elevated to yet another level.

100% agree with the posters who said Funny Games, Irreversible and Requiem for a Dream. All absolutely vile.

Todd Haynes “Poison”. There’s a prison scene that grossed me out.

R7 Makes me really depressed now.

Dead Ringers. Based on a true story. It is about twin gynecologist. The movie is morbid and grotesque.

I’ve never seen anything as disturbing as the French version of The Vanishing. I think it’s a great film, but I would never recommend it to anyone.

Geez, 28. I Googled Dead Ringers and the images from the film alone was quite disturbing.

Have to chime in about Requiem for a Dream as well. An after-school special wearing an overcoat of torture porn. Yick.

Possibly Salo, but like many people, I didn't watch it till the end. Personally I stopped at the girl eating poo from a spoon. Suddenly something in my head went like: why am I watching this again? Don't I have things to do? Poof, it was gone.

There was that Silence of the Lambs sequel where that guy had no face or something and then his aides fed him to the dogs and it creeped me out for a long time. Actually just thinking about it now creeps me out.

R17, let me tell you about the time I saw Haneke in the Paris metro.

I wish I had never seen 'Angel Heart' or 'Jacob's Ladder'.

Who's that baldy at the stake OP? HE'S HOT!

This is an odd one and not really a film, but I will always regret watching the Cold Case Files episode on the Theresa Knorr case.

Of all the true crime shows I've watched -- hundreds -- nothing disturbed me like this one.

The Human Centipede...

I regret watching it ...sorta.

The Last Prom.

And about to get hotter r36!

The,PTA and Nolan films I've seen.

That's Oliver Reed, R36. Go watch Women in Love from1969 and come tell us about it.

We've had countless threads about this.

The foreign Vanishing is a a really taut thriller until the shattering ending that makes you sick that you participated and enjoyed the other hour and a half, which I guess was the point.

Irreversible was a cinematic look into the mind of a man who has a deep hatred of women and gay men.

Oh yes, of course. I have actually seen both The Devils and Women in Love. Reed oozes sex appeal. Thanks r42

The motion picture, Book Club, starring Diane Keaton.

I DON’T regret watching the 1980’s dance spectacular, Fast Forward. Kick those rapists in the nuts, Meryl!

Sophia's Choice i think it was called. I've avoided other films starring that ham if she's still around.

Requiem for a Dreams.

The house that Jack built with Matt Dillion. It made me sick. I can see why people threw up at Cannes.

Wow - I’m surprised people remember Dead Ringers. One of those movies that stands out in my mind. Gruesome - and disturbing because it’s based on a true story. I have never seen it referenced since it came out. But a weirdly memorable film at least.

Cutting Moments

Just looked up The House that Jack Built, of course it's Lars Von Trier. That reminded me of that cinematic shitfest Dogville. 2 hours I can never get back.

The Mr Hands footage .....

I saw the beginning of Dead Ringers some years ago. Supremely boring. Had no idea it was disturbing, even with Cronenberg and borefest Jeremy Irons on board.

Jeremy Irons! I regret watching ANY MOVIE with Jeremy Irons in it. What boring and self-absorbed work he turns in, film after film.

Just his presence makes me puke.

"Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?" from 1971 starring Shelley Winters and Mark Lester. Always heard about it but never saw it until a few months ago on TCM. Always read it was sort of a Hansel & Gretel telling but it turned out to one of the meanest spirited movies I ever saw.

Mondo Cane.

Bloodsucking Freaks

It barely even had a plot. It seemed to exist just to show naked women being tortured in different ways. I don't know how they got them to agree to degrade themselves in such ways. It certainly couldn't have been for the money since it was on a shoestring budget. But it is a nasty, mean spirited movie for no apparent reason.

I feel like watching again Salò, but that's probably not a good idea. I'm watching Teorema instead. Another bad idea, probably.

Maybe these doesn't count, but the only things I truly regret watching are YouTube videos and news footage of actual deaths and accidents. Literal car accidents you can't turn away from, but God, I wished I had.

I never watched the footage from Twin Towers and never will.

Girl, Interrupted. It disturbed me for days.

The Poughkeepsie Tapes - it made me very uncomfortable because it felt just a little too close to the real thing. I watched it twice and now I am done. I don't have any desire to see it ever again.

Omg OP The Devils is an awesome spectacle. The 17th century atmosphere and the startling visceral imagery. The burning at the stake scene looked so real I felt sick. The scene also of Vanessa Redgrave being tortured by doctors was intense. The whole film is a feverish nightmare.

At a theatre play I went to half a decade ago, the director had the misplaced idea of subjecting us, the audience, to a lengthy recording of the Jonestown massacre. The final words of many of the people there. It was horrible. I almost wrote a letter of complaint then couldn't be arsed. In typical Internet fashion, I unsubscribed from the theatre's newsletter.

r61 reminds me: I really regret watching The Bridge.

The Bridge is tough.

R37 I looked up Theresa Knorr and I shouldn't have. This is so disturbing.

Yeah r69.

After I watched the show, I went outside and took a long walk. It was just too much.

Interestingly, I had R37 on Ignore anyway.

Interesting indeed, r71, because I'm not a troll

OP, r37, r70, et al

Dear Zachary. As if I needed another reason to hate the world we live in.

Last Tango in Paris - Marlon Brando putting his real life ugliness on the big screen in the guise of "a work of art".

The Family Stone - I just hate this movie and lost respect for several actors for appearing in it.

R59 - I second your pick of Bloodsucking Freaks. Early 70s equivalent of a Snuff movie.

I think Million Dollar Baby is a pointlessly cruel and sad movie. I understand it's theme, but it wasn't worth it.

Requiem for A Dream also has no point but to show us human degradation and suffering. But it's a pretty great film. Once is enough.

I never bothered watching Million Dollar Baby. I'm always a bit wary of people who claim they "loved" it.

Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway

Dear lord, just based on the description and stills, Bloodsucking Freaks is more than disturbing .

Gummo.

Eraserhead. On second thought, pretty much any David Lynch movie is a mindfuck.

Strangely, I don't regret watching Ken Park, but maybe I should.

Several years ago, I saw an Australian film called "Snowtown" (aka "The Snowtown Murders"). It was based on a true-life series of killings in & around Adelaide back in the 90s.

It had been praised by critics -- including Roger Ebert -- for being dark and edgy. Well, I'm okay with dark & edgy, but I found the film to be vile & reprehensible with no redeeming value. Characterization was nil, social context or commentary was sorely lacking, and the whole film just seemed to wallow in the most repellent aspects of its story (which included M/M sexual abuse, pedophilia, homophobic violence, and butchered kangaroos). Absolutely disgusting.

Salò is the only movie I can think of that I wish I had walked out of. No redeeming value whatsoever. Pasolini is a minor filmmaker overall, although Teorema and Medea have some qualities because of the actors involved.

Gummo and Keetje Tippel because they both obviously killed cats and puppies for their movies, which is just fucking ridiculous.

Pasolini is not a minor filmmaker r83

Knife+Heart, with Vanessa Paradis. The local rag gave it a rave review and it was about a female film producer who makes gay porn, set back in 1979. Boring, stupid and worthless.

R84 And the only reason nobody got sued was because it couldn't be proven, I guess.

Silvana Mangano looks like a whore in Teorema, so I won't be watching. I avoid movies with whores. Granted, that's a lot of movies since they're usually made by losers who can only get "attention" from whores.

Cinema is a very sick industry. It's not art like theatre, it is a very low form of art - it is entertainment, like the circus or a freakshow.

Not sure about Gummo, R87, but I don't think anyone in the Netherlands in 1975 cared if someone killed puppies for a movie. Bergman's Autumn Sonata in 1978 had a dog actually hanged by a rope for a scene, and while it didn't kill the dog, it obviously hurt him.

Mama Mia

The Little Hours with James Franco pretending to be mute in a medieval nunnery and tempted by the nuns. I think it was supposed to be a comedy, but it wasn't funny.

Mame.

"Light the candles...." keeps me awake every. fucking. night.

Pasolini's "The Gospel According to Matthew" is pretty amazing, even to an atheist. And Jesus is a hot Spaniard.

R91 wins, but isn't that Dave Franco rather?

^^^ Oops, yes, usually assign the bad taste to James and must have done that by default! He must have done it because his wife was in it and an opportunity for them to work together, but it did their careers no favor.

r7 has been listening to Marianne Williamson.

All of the ones with that woman named Streep.

Like MAMMA MIA!

Irreversible, by Gaspar Noe.

The French Lieutenant's Woman. Godawful piece of shit.

And I'm not Glenn Close.

I HADE A FARME IN AFRRIIKAAA....

The new movie "The Nightingale" sounds unwatchable.

So, not a film about Jenny Lind then?

Jumanji was absolute torture. Miserable. Why did I agree to go???

Melancholia. Dull, pointless and the egregious shaky cam gave me a headache for days.

I don't regret watching The Beach, but it was a very boring film and I fell asleep in the theatre. Danny Boyle kind of regrets making it, or at least making it the way he did. Also, growing up on the coast, I never really saw what the big deal about a "beach" was.

"The Devils" was pretty intense, but it's also very funny. I saw it in a theater when I was 19 and I liked it. I've seen it a couple of times, broadcast on TV, even. I did not think it was ever released on DVD, but I could be wrong about that. I think its inventiveness sort of overcame the gruesome aspects. "Seconds" with Rock Hudson I thought was terrifying, when I saw it on LSD at age 20 or so - I've never worked up the nerve to watch it again. I walked out of "Suspiria" when that ax swung around a hallway corner into the face of an unsuspecting pedestrian. I've seen almost all of Pasolini's movies, most of them more than once, but have never watched "Salo", for some reason. "Gummo" was violent and kind of creepy but I enjoyed it, esp. when the little boy in the garbage dump jumps out from the behind a pile of trash, wearing a pair of pink bunny ears, and pointing a gun, and screams "Die, motherfucker!" You know, the thing that just occurred to me about Pasolini movies that I noticed in the past is that they seem kind of puny and vague when you watch them on a small video screen, but on a big screen in a theater they are really impressive.

The Blob.

-R1- Not only does that look dumb, but (SNORE) fucking BORING!!!!

La classe américaine. Way too full of shitty gay jokes.

Anything with Jean Dujardin in it, to be fair.

A Serbian Film. I didn't know how bad it would get until it was already there.

Spinal Tap. I was dead sober with an underdeveloped sense of humor.

I considered listing Nymphomania, but the movie did correct my misconception that being or knowing a nymphomaniac would be fun.

Dear r3: I felt numbed in a bad way by the end of "The Day of the Locust," and it was very much like how I feel when i am depressed (for which I take medication). I felt that the world was suddenly a bad place, and it took me an hour or two to shake that feeling off. So I would say yes, I was depressed by it.

You have no right whatsoever to tell anyone else how they felt after seeing a movie. No one appointed you the emotional police officer.

Shame on you.

I can't believe there are no mentions of "The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover" - old Helen Mirren flick with her totally the buff. It's not necessarily gory, but the level of cruelty & depravity stayed with me for a while.

Same with Hostile - just pointless cruelty, which unfortunately is all too common...

Yes, I regret watching Dear Zachary too, though I was a bit surprised to find out that the Canadian justice system is just as fucked up as the US - just in different ways.

El Topol

[quote] I can't believe there are no mentions of "The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover" - old Helen Mirren flick with her totally the buff. It's not necessarily gory, but the level of cruelty & depravity stayed with me for a while.

It depressed me when I saw it that Peter Greenaway was hailed as a visionary when really he was just being as nasty as he could be in it. The torture of the child was just beyond the pale.

So I did love it when not long after he experienced that infamous takedown when he premiered "The Baby of Macon" at some film festival and some old British lady stood up during the director's Q&A and read the film for filth, and the whole audience applauded.

For those who mentioned The Vanishing, are you referring to the 1988 movie or the 2018 movie?

A Serbian Film was a boring mess. Liked this song though.

^^^^

[quote]The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

All I remember about that movie is a scene where the two lovers are naked in a room filled with rotting meat for some reason and a scene where she later fed her husband her dead boyfriend's body, which featured the memorable line, "Try the cock. It’s a delicacy."

Bohemian Rhapsody.

Antichrist, just a pointless ugly movie.

Tusk, same.

The Mummy with Tom Cruise. I actually got a migraine from it.

Bohemian Shitstory. I never left a cinema so fucking pissed off before in my entire life. I was insulted that someone expected me to enjoy that shit. When someone asked me to see Rocketman with them I immediately refused.

"On Golden Pond." That hussy Katharine Hepburn kept using filthy language to refer to Henry Fonda! I was shocked.

R120 I remember they made the singing kid eat buttons (?) until he died. Or something like that. Maybe it was paper shoved up his nose. Idk, I was 12 when I saw it. Weird movie.

The Exorcist.

Vanilla Sky was a hot mess.

The cook the thief yadda yadda was one of those late 80s films that tried exasperatingly to be as artsy as possible. It really just looked like another film that tried to hard. Way too hard. Much like most of David Lynch’s later films.

"Vanilla Sky" If I ever meet Tom Cruise I will demand $10 (non inflation cost). I actually thought I should have stayed home and cleaned out my refrigerator, would have been more fun. If I meet Oprah it's $12 for "A Wrinkle in Time"

Faces of Death and Traces of Death. I don't like to watch anything with real footage of killings, suicides, sickness and animal torture. That's all these films are.

How odd you watched them, then.

R7 reminded me of Sarah Huckabee and now I’m clinically depressed and swimming in a sea of sadness with no shore in sight. That post was a Tsunami of sadness 😰

Martin Scorsese's New York New York was torture. I was an infant when it came out but this guy I was dating excitedly wanted me to watch the Blu Ray release with him. It was so long and terrible and badly done. What the fuck WAS that?

Suicide Circle!

se7en. I wish I could un-see it. Also, anything in the Saw franchise. Stuff like this just doesn't need to be made. I hate that I watched it.

Most of you sound like a bunch of pussies.

The film that I regret seeing the most was Forrest Gump, while trapped in a theater with friends and an audience that loved it. 2 1/2 hours of my life that I will never get back. Fuck your chocolates and the Jenny you rode in on.

Seven - torture porn

The ear slicing scene in "Reservoir Dogs". The victim's acting was so good I felt like I was watching actual torture.

The torture gimp rape scene in Pulp Fiction. Actually I could’ve been okay not watching that movie.

A website that you don’t want to see is 4chan. Every horror on earth is on that site.

Another vote for Eraserhead. And, on the complete other end of the spectrum but just as horrible in a completely different way, Roma.

"Girl, Interrupted. It disturbed me for days."

You might be comforted to know it was mostly fiction. It was based on a memoir, but most of the movie never happened.

The Crossing Guard. Synechdoche, NY (or however it was spelled). Living Out Loud.

Flowers in the attic. Fucking awful

Brokeback Mountain

Much like life in America under the Trump administration, the antiwar flick 'Johnny Got His Gun' is just unremittingly depressing, dark and horrendous.

I saw the musical version of LOST HORIZON during its first run.

In retrospect, The Passion of the Christ was traumatizing. I got there late with a friend and we were stuck in the front row, so I didn't feel like I could just walk out. Nonstop sniffling to quiet sobbing (on my part) for most of the movie. And the whipping just kept going.... Guess nobody told Mel less is more, sometimes.

So, yeah, I think I regret that one, too.

"Pleasantville." I thought it would be funny but it wasn't funny. It was just damned boring.

"Moonrise Kingdom." Again, I thought it would be funny, but it wasn't. It wasn't funny, clever or interesting at all. I actually got physically ill watching this, came out of the theater with a splitting headache. I vowed to myself never to a Wes Anderson movie again.

"The Fighter." Christian Bale and Melissa Leo won Oscars for this movie, but I couldn't even watch it all the way though. I hated every single character in it.

"Saving Private Ryan." It was supposed to be such a big deal, but I didn't like it at all.

"The House of the Spirits." Long and boring, boring, boring.

^^^ Yes, House of Spirits was a travesty.

Tons of shitty Oscar bait. Things like Hitchcock, J. Edgar, Theory of Everything, etc.

I liked The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover. But I've been a Greenaway fan for years. The Pillowbook is my favorite. But I also like Prospero's Books and Drowning by Numbers.

A film I despised all the way through was Larry Clark's Kids. I've never been able to watch anything else he's made.

I'm not a huge fan of Harmony Korine either, but thought Julien Donkey Boy had its moments.

And I disliked Lars Van Trier's Breaking the Waves intensely. I thought Nymphomaniac had enough interesting moments to be kind of fun, but was way way too long.

Alpha Dog starring Anton Yelchin, Emile Hirsch, Ben Foster. It was based off a true story where some drug dealers kidnapped the teenage brother of one of their clients who owed them money. They kept him for a few days until...

I knew the outcome going into the movie, but I was hoping it’d have a different ending. Total bummer.

[quote] It was based off a true story

No, it was based ON a true story.

I agree with those who've said, Requiem For A Dream.

Never been a fan of Peter Greenaway. I walked out of The Cook... because there was somebody masturbating in the audience. The movie was boring enough as it is.

I enjoyed The Pillow Book, the one about Rembrandt was again super boring. Can't say if I saw it till the end. Maybe I saw half?

Another vote for "Funny Games" (the original, not the remake) which I saw at the cinema when it came out and was completely disturbed by for days/weeks afterwards with images flashing across my mind in my sleep.

Having said that, given that Haneke's purpose was to disturb and implicate the audience in the on-screen actions, the film definitely worked as intended. I went on to watch his English-language remake which was far less effective/disturbing, maybe because I knew what was going to occur.

Marvel movies. I occasionally say yes to seeing them but afterwards I know my brain has been damaged and my overall culture lowered.

The War Zone, a film directed by Tim Roth dealing with sexual abuse within a family. It's actually very well-made and acted, with excellent direction. But I never want to see it again. It's incredibly hard to take.

Also, a film called For a Lost Soldier that I know has been discussed here many times. The younger version of the main character is supposed to be 12, but the actor looks all of 10, and either way, I was skeeved as hell.

I felt that way about Pixote, r160.

I always wondered whatever happened to the guy who played Lilica. He seemed like a good actor.

Jaws because of the scene where Robert Shaw gets killed.

Come and See. If you’ve seen it, you’ll know. Very well made but...

It took me years to realize that--if a movie is upsetting--I can get up and walk out.

Walking out of movies was excellent training for walking out of jobs and shitty situations in general. You don't have to stay.

I walked out on Mishima over the scene where his chest is made less perfect by being cut with a razor blade. I actually staggered out because of nausea.

Breaking the Waves. What a pile of misogynistic tripe presented without any nuance or analysis. No redeeming value whatsoever and a total waste of my time. Haven’t watched a Lars von Trier film since.

The Act of Killing. I wish I hadn't seen it because I will never forget the look on the man's face when he gleefully describes getting to rape 14-year-old girls and the man sitting next to him realizing that that talk is not for the camera--but it's a question of discretion, not shame.

Murderous Maids. Walked home more than 60 blocks after that because I needed the cool air against my skin as I found myself crying intermittently afterwards.

Bastard Out of Carolina. Ron Eldard is a great actor and I don't know what he did to fuck up his career. Nonetheless I hate the friend who put that on. It was her third time watching it and I don't know what to make of that.

I'm still traumatized from OLD YELLER.

R153 I felt the same about Sicillian Ghost Story, based on Giuseppe Di Matteo's murder. I thought ot would get a different ending but it didn't. It's not graphic at all but there was a part where they pour his remains dissolved in acid into the sea and the image is stuck in my head. Somehow the fact that there was little pieces left made it even worse .

Django Unchained. I didn't watch it when it first came out, but bought the DVD a couple of years ago.

There's that one scene where the sadistic plantation owner played by Leonardo DiCaprio has two slaves fight against each other and forces one to poke the other's eyes out. I expected the film to be violent, but this was too much. Someone's eyes being poked out is the one thing I NEVER EVER want to see. I just know it would give me nightmares for the rest of my life. And I feel an irriational hatred for any director who shows that on screen. I don't care if it's justified, if the story calls for it or whatever ... if you show THAT, it makes you a sick pervert in my book.

Okay, actually I'm not even sure how much you see in the film because I immediately covered my eyes. But the crunching sound and the screaming of the poor guy being mutilated was already more than I could take.

I was also forced to watch Kill Bill (don't remember which part) in school and if I remember correctly, there also was a scene where someone got shot or stabbed in the eye. Tarantino is a sick fuck.

A film that didn't traumatize me, but which I found incredibly boring and depressing was Blue Valentine. I didn't finish that one either.

Gaspar Noe and Lars Von Trier really are horrible people, aren't they?

If we're going to go back that far, I was the odd kid out who -hated- Bambi.

I always thought the hunter just got his mom and Bambi was left alone to make his way in the forest. Which, to my credit, would be a shitty Disney movie. It wasn't until I got to college that I talked about it and realized the strange deer with antlers who shows up at the end of the film was his dad. Who, arguably, Bambi didn't know, so it still sucks.

Easy choice for me. I so regret paying to see JFK. As a movie, it was fine. But an abomination when it comes to history, as it was treated by too many people. About a year later, I saw Oliver Stone in person and glared at him.

'Kids." That's what it's about; utterly loathsome, repugnant kids. This whole film is revolting, but the scenes where "Telly", a repugnant 16 who likes to bust the cherries of twelve year old girls, is french kissing his 12 year old lover, both of them with their mouths wide open, are vomit inducing.

I regret watching "Fists In the Pocket" as part of my "I'm too old to not have seen some of these Classic Movies" Kanopy jag. Skip it.

Count me among those who never want to see "The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover" again.

Some people have mentioned a movie that they wouldn't watch again but also would not say the movie was awful. That's my reaction to "We Need To Talk About Kevin."

I have a few of those r177, the most recent being The Hunt starring Mads Mikkelsen. It was a decent movie, but left me with a low feeling that I didn’t like. Kind of a downer of a movie.

Regret watching is different from didn't like, no? There are lots of terrible films, but not too many good films that were just too difficult to watch or so personally bothersome to regret seeing. I am a Tarantino fan, but like R172 I couldn't watch his brand of "realistic" violence mixed with real historical suffering seen in the beatings and torture of the enslaved in Django Unchained.

Kill Bill was gross but the violence had no context in reality. Notice how he's changed it up with the latest. He's a fascinating guy, unapologetic about grotesques displays of violence and bloody overkill. He thinks violence should appear painful, he's enjoys showing it and to him it's about entertainment. Funny that he romanticized the Tate/LaBianca murders after the snuff film that was The Hateful Eight.

This is short and insightful take on Tarantino, for anyone interested. He is thematic, which is not much different from obsessed. But some of the connections between his films were unnoticed by me. We are all triggered by different things but with some distance we can still evaluate the quality of films, books and art that we didn't like or enjoy or finish.

I regret watching "Pulp Fiction. All this fuss was made ove itr, so I watched it and I thought "THIS is the movie that's supposed to be so great?" I was totally underwhelmed.

I liked Kids. Think all of Tarantino is an overhyped waste of time, Lars Von Trier - ditto. Breaking the Waves is a self-indulgent bore-porn.

"Deconstructing Harry". I was a big Woody Allen fan, and loved a lot his films like "Radio Days", Manhattan", "Broadway Danny Rose" and "Manhattan Murder Mystery", but DH was just a big turnoff. It was weird...I think the profanity is what did it. I'm no prude (my all-time favorite film is fuck-a-minute GoodFellas), but just hearing the foul language coming out of Allen's mouth just ruined the picture for me. It seemed so out-of-place.

The Girl Next Door- not the Emile Hirsh comedy, but the messed up movie based on the torture and murder of Sylvia Likens. It’s about two girls who go and live with their aunt. Their aunt is a miserable fuck and beats them and lets her kids and the neighbors torture the older girl. Eventually she dies. She was 16.

It’s a difficult film to watch, to think that all these kids are so screwed up that they would partake in this abuse. And that no one helped this girl. Tragic.

I have to ask, r183, how did you fail to anticipate the horribility of that movie?

Idk, I thought the good neighbor kid would save her. Or tell an adult what was going on. Didn’t know it was based on a real person. :(

"I liked Kids."

What did you like about it? I thought it was totally sickening all the way through.

I couldn’t stand Telly. Could hardly understand him as well. Terrible Jersey accent. He had a very annoying habit of, kind of like braying when he’d talk or laugh. Difficult to explain, but it was annoying.

Kids was gross. Quills was another nightmare w the tongue being cutoff as punishment .....can’t get it out of my mind.

Frenzy for the rape and murder scene. Hitchcock's victimisation of women in Psycho and The Birds was tolerable but this is just too much.

I did find “KIDS” quite disturbing but I liked it.

I don’t regret watching “Trainspotting” but the scene when McGregor shoots up and dives into that shit-filled gas station toilet is what I see EVERY TIME I use a public restroom.

“Passion of the Christ” is more brutal than ANY Tarantino film and I kinda regret watching it.

“It’s My Party”--might be on my regret list because I think I cried more at that film than I have ANYTHING since and I was bummed for days afterward--and I’m NOT a crier.

Overall, I prefer films that make me somewhat uncomfortable.

Three Billboards and the beatings.

The domestic violence sequences in Once Were Warriors were graphic and brutal.

PINK FLAMINGOS.

The only reason for Divine to eat dog shit is to thumb her nose at the losers, me included, who would pay money to watch her eat dog shit.

Once you've seen this one, you never have to see it again. And that's the best thing about this movie.

I too regret sitting through "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri." A total waste of time. It got such good reviews I thought I'd see it but it turned out to be shit.

"Birdman" Same thing; the damn thing got good reviews, so I went to see it. But it sucked.

I liked Kids because it was scarily close to my adolescence. 10 years earlier. So it was interesting to see AIDS layered on top of that craziness. And to watch in amazement how

R194 - those would be the top 2 for me in the past year or two. It’s turned me off from watching “highly rated” movies for a while. Maybe we’ll acted - but boring, pretentious, absurdist stories with no real insight into life.

Based on this thread, I just acquired a copy of K. Russell's "The Devils". I scrolled through it and I think it's even better than I remembered it being. It's very good, certainly in the spirit of, and much better than, most of Peter Greenaway's movies (all of which I've seen more than once). If you like Greenaway, I think you'd like "The Devils". I'm going to watch it all the way through on Friday.

"Forrest Gump"...Hate it! It glorifies idiocy.

"Pulp Fiction"...mindless drivel.

OP, here is the cure for your PTSD from watching "The Devils."

Since Ken Russell followed up "the Devils" with his adaptation of Sandy Wilson's silly musical "The Boyfriend," Monty Python responded to it thus:

I had forgotten how hot Temuera Morrison was in "Once Were Warriors." He was playing a despicable character, but he was so gorgeous--his face was made for the movies.

Les Enfants du paradis, La Jetée, La Vie en Rose, La vita è bella, Evita, There will be Blood, Shoah, The English Patient, Apocalypse Now, The Tree of Life

Boondock Saints

Auto Focus.

Another for The House That Jack Built. What the hell?

"Vanilla Sky" was worth it just to hear Cameron Diaz deliver to Tom Cruise the never-to-be-forgotten line, "I swallowed your cum! That [italic]means[/italic] something!"

Anything by Harmony Korine is disgusting, pedophiliac and talentless. He must have sold his very soul for his career.

Blindness because of the gang rape scene.

Anything by Nicolas Roeg that stars Theresa Russell.

R176 the kid went on to play a drug addict on The Wire.

Seven Psychopaths with Colin Farrell.

The sawing off of heads of tied up mental patients was sick.

The whole film just felt 'icky'.

Most movies that starred Jack Nicholson, Chinatown and Cuckoo's Nest being the most memorable exceptions. HATED The Shining.

La La Land

Straw Dogs

[quote]La La Land

Oh, yeah. But TTYTT, I regret watching Moonlight equally.

I,Tonya was full of horrible people I would never, ever want to meet.

A Clockwork Orange - That is one nasty film, Kubrick was a sick fuck.

And the kid who played Telly was just as annoying in his fake-acting and nearly ruined THE WIRE. He probably can't act is all.

The abuse of a woman on stage in the first 20 minutes of Clockwork Orange didn't feel like acting AT ALL. I watched it in 1997 and felt even then it was about time this kind of shit be put to an end. Would such a director face backlash or career erasure today? Not that C Orange got a particularly warm reception, mind you.

Didn't the kid who played Telly die?

Ex Machina

It was a jerk fest for straight bro types. The portrayal of the women who were working in the I.T. company--I'm assuming--was hilarious.

Oh wait, never kind: it was the kid who played Casper who killed himself, not the kid who played Telly.

There's quite a bit about Justin Pierce's drug-related problems in A Killer Life, IIRC.

[quote] Ex Machina It was a jerk fest for straight bro types.

Um, did you not stay for the end?

There's only one movie I regret watching, and I've seen pretty much everything mentioned in this thread -- A SERBIAN FILM

Another vote for A Clockwork Orange. Where rape is fun! I saw it as part of a theory class as an undergrad and the women complained after seeing it. This was 1990. The professor didn't care because he said it was considered a classic and had vital things to say about society brainwashing and desensitizing man. It was pointed out Kubrick used the film to desensitize against sexual violence. I agree Kubrick was a sick fuck.

As far as depressing, The Human Condition, all 3 parts, left me unable to sleep for days. It wasn't really gory, it was very realistic about war. It was brilliant but you will only want to watch it once just to verify that humanity sucks. Great Japanese films with the beautiful Tatsuya Nakadai.

1900 because of the scene where Donald Sutherland tortures a cat.

The Wizard of Oz. The flying monkeys scarred me for life. No joke. They make me sick to my stomach. In the movie Minority Report, there was a scene with the cops flying with jet packs on. They had the same type of movements the monkeys did—ruined the movie for me.

Hated those Lollipop Guild fuckers, too. Just yuck.

r223, I guess you were OK with the scene where he swings the kid by his feet around and around until he bashes his head into the wall?

I had forgotten that since I saw the film a while ago but I do remember Pauline Kael's comment that there was a horror every hour in it.

Caligula was such a gross mix of titillation and gore I was tempted to walk out of the theater, but I was determined to get my premium $5 worth, when most movie tickets were $3.50.

1900 I stopped watching after the handjob scene (possibly the only thing I wanted to see). I don't remember any of it except Depardieu's unbelievable poodle hair. It was a very boring film, but then so are most of Bertolucci's films.

Grave Of Fireflies. 2 hours of weakness, oppression and violence.

I don't regret seeing it, but Grave Of Fireflies is another film whose point I don't get. It was, again, quite boring, and the minor mode will only get you so far.

Atomic Blonde. I am all for seeing women in leading roles but not as a lethal mercenary. And that scene where the woman gets garroted - I don't want to see that.

Alfred Hitchcock forever changed my relationship to birds. I saw "The Birds" as a child on "Saturday Night at the Movies." It scared me deeply. I'm not sure I regret seeing that film, because I don't like birds. But I admit I probably don't like birds because of that film.

I enjoy Alfred Hitchcock's movies most times, and I've seen a great deal of them. I have copies of about 5, maybe even more. I've never liked The Birds, however. There's something very unsettling about that film. I think it's the colours. They're extremely violent. I still love the scene with the birds assembling one by one, outside the school. It's masterful.

Somehow I made my peace with that film when I travelled to St Ives, Cornwall. The seagulls are a real menace there and on my trip I learned that this was where the original book took place - and it all made sense suddenly. The film is a nightmarish, garish version of reality. The reality is English, not American.

Actually R234 - it is reality on the Northern Coast of California too. I was in Mendocino (a little farther up from Bodega Bay on the coast) and birds were doing dive bombs and hitting people on the head. Totally freaky - right out of The Birds. People had to stand under a porch or roof and would make a run for their car. Saw 3 people get attacked. Not sure what causes it - assume somehow looking for food.

ALFRED HITCHCOCK UNLEASHED IT. OF COURSE.

Once the birds realized they were famous, it really went to their heads.

R235, that sort of uncharacteristic aggression in birds is almost always due to the presence of their eggs or their young hidden somewhere in the immediate area.

Wild. I just wanted to follow Reese on her hike and not be bothered with endless flashbacks.

I love the short scene at the airport - there is a restaurant in the background, in the terminal, and you can overhear a passenger ordering dinner: "Fried chicken."

A Polish film from a couple of years ago called Playground.

I'd read that it got mass walkouts at film festivals but I didn't know why. Anyway, I'm watching this film of 2 ugly obnoxious 12 year brats giving an equally ugly girl their age a hard time and then the film turned into something I never expected.

Just horrible. My partner and I let out audible groans of horror with what was unfolding.

If your curious google the film - the articles alone will make you shudder. The director should never be allowed to make another film again.

"Tras El Cristal" was something similar from Argentina, about a renegade Nazi who experiments on children and kills them for his own jollies. There is a scene where he injects a kid with gasoline...I got up and walked out. The movie was shown widely in US in "art theaters" when it was released. Disgusting.

La La land, for the brief time I spent watching it. After that charmless opening number, I knew it wasn't going to get any better, and it didn't. At least for the remainder that I saw. I finally bailed after Emma Stone and her friends went out for the evening, singing their way down the street. Boring song and not a decent voice in the bunch. Walked out of the theater and asked for a ticket to something else.

The Lobster with Colin Farrell was horrible.

I don't regret seeing The Lobster, but yes, it was dreadful. Dogtooth was worse, although it might have had a point re: cult life, isolation and authoritarian regimes. Let's just say it was interesting and awful at the same time. One of the main actresses killed herself before she was 30.

Attenberg was just as weird, but more enjoyable.

Kevin Smith's Tusk. I want to throw up just thinking about it. Will never watch a Kevin Smith movie again. He should never be allowed to direct another movie.

French film from last year about a group of dancers called Climax. Never before has a film made me physically nauseous.

Salo

I'm making sure never to watch any of those movies. Just checked some plot summaries and that was far enough for me. What the hell was going in the head of someone who thought "Tusk" was a good idea?

R168, I read the book “Bastard out of Carolina” in the 90s & thought it was good. Never saw the movie. Dorothy Allison, the author, quickly jumped the shark...

Kids, Trainspotting...don’t regret “Requiem” or “Clockwork,” but will not see again. I was seriously traumatized by Bambi...Old Yeller made me sob. I do, however, like David Lynch...Mulholland Drive is a fave.

Not mentioned yet but “Thirteen”...wish I’d never seen it.

I also regretted watching Mame. Oh Lucy, why did you have to star in this movie? I've included a sample if case you haven't seen the movie. You've been warned.

Mommie Dearest (1981)

The book was bad enough but to see all those lies played out on the big screen would have killed me if I had already passed.

Noah (2014)

The original Lolita because of the Peter Sellers scenes.

The only one that really did me in was The Day of the Locust. I was not expecting it to be as horrifying an ending as it has, with Donald Sutherland killing Adore by jumping up and down on him--that was really horrible. I left the theater with a friend and we both agreed the film made us think it was a horrible world we lived in.

"The Day of the Locust" is my #1 Christmas movie. I usually screen it on Christmas Eve and on Christmas Day, it's "The Honeymoon Killers."

Those films best illuminate the influence Christianity has had on the world.

Deadpool 2. A friend recommended it. I walked out in the middle. Now I question my friend’s sanity.

Caligula...I still need to bleach my eyes out

"mother!" (2017)- Absolutely unwatchable. And the cinephiles drooling over it made the experience worse.

The trailer makes it seem fairly coherent, but it is not.

No wonder Lawrence broke-up with the director!

I'll add a vote to Caligula, A Clockwork Orange and Angel Heart.

I'll also say The English Patient only because I regret wasting the hours I'll never get back while watching it. I wanted to walk out, but was with friends. (Should have spoken up...we ALL hated it.)

^^ I felt similarly about "Terms of Endearment" - too cold to walk home from the theater where I had gone with friends to see it; what a manipulative, wretched piece of shit. AND that Lars Von Trier movie with Bjork in it ( I won't even look up the title), where she gets executed at the end. I was enraged by its manipulative sentimentality, but it was pouring rain outside, and cold, and I couldn't get up and walk home. Both were before the days of Ubering, and we never had cabs in Atlanta.

R261. The English Patient has to be one of the most polarizing films ever..people either love it or hate it. (Remember the Seinfeld episode where Mr. Peterman made all of his employees watch it, because he liked it so much...Elaine detested it).

I loved it.

Me, too, r263. I saw The English Patient 3 times in the cinema when it was originally released. I adore that film.

Armageddon

Worst piece of shit I have ever wasted my time on.

"Shakespeare In Love". The only good thing is it seemed to end Paltrow's momentum, and she faded to guest roles in other people's movies.

The Untamed a movie about a squid shaped alien that fucks people to death.

I saw part of Salo on PornHub of all places and that movie is sick and vile and I hope it ruined the careers of everyone associated with it.

R268 The lead male died of and OD, if that answers your question. And Pasolini was assassinated on a semi-deserted beach, but you already knew that.

I also loved The English Patient and the little number of people I knew at the time loved it too, or at least said they did. I encountered one or two who hated it at the time, but these were people I didn't know well and I just assumed they didn't "get" the film. It's only recently that I've realised how polarizing the film is. I find that very interesting, though I can't quite explain it. That Seinfeld episode is hilarious in that regard.

Another nation here who adored The English Patient, and knew quite a few people who also loved it. We knew a handful of people, though, who just hated it. There was no in-between.

Who was the lead actor R269 I only watched part of the movie?

Just watched this trash called Take Me Home Tonight starring Topher Grace as an 80s MIT graduate working at Suncoast Video. The music was fun and nostalgic.

There was no real lead in that piece of shit of a movie, but I meant the young male who gets "married" (naked, I believe). Sergio Fascetti, died at 33.

He never made another movie, either.

I threw up from watching The Human Centipede.

Did anyone from Salo make another movie R274?

Salo looks like a bore. Don't see how it would really offend someone, unless they are offended by nudity in some euro art-house film. However, there is a film I regret watching with a parent.

Salo is a bore. It's also not as horrifying as people say, since it's so obviously fake.

Fake or not fake, I found it disgusting to no end, and the adult perverts abhorrent to puke-inducing levels.

Eden Lake starring Michael Fassbender, Benny’s Video, and Funny Games

All real downers.

R277 Yes. A number of the actors have appeared in other films.

Charlie Says (2019) directed by Mary Harron from a script by Guinevere Turner.

I'm sorry but I can't be convinced in any way that those hideous murderous cunts that slaughtered Sharon Tate and company are not fully responsible for their actions. Charlie made us do it. I was under his spell. Sprouting out all that shit. Fuck those cunts let them rot in jail until they die like Manson and cunt Susan Atkins.

To make matters worse Harron can't resist showing us glimpses of the slaughter - tacky, tasteless and repugnant film. If a man had directed this he'd be burned at the stake. Cancel Mary Harron now!

"The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter." It contained a couple of good performances by Alan Arkin and Sondra Locke (I think they were both nominated for Oscars) but it wasn't a good movie and it was relentlessly depressing.

R284 Yes, they were nominated and well deserved too. Cecily Tyson was also great in the film.

Brokeback Mountain. My b/f loved it went back and saw it again. I found it to be very depressing and a lot of it, for me, was too close to home.

Dark Water - so poorly made

American History X. Grave of the Fireflies. Seven. Cruising.

These scarred me for life.

Rhapsody in Blue (1945) after Alexis Smith exits and the focus is on the dreary Joan Leslie.

On the Beach (1959). Stanley Kramer makes a film about the end of the world deadly dull.

Was it dull? I saw the ads in archive NY Times recently and they were raves and saying it's the most important movie ever made and seemed intriguing.

R290 - Can't agree with you about "On the Beach". I read the book, and found the movie sad and touching, with a terrific supporting performance by Fred Astaire. And the theme music, Waltzing Matilda, was haunting.

I do know an interesting story about the film v. the book. The author, Neville Shute, in the book made it clear that the American submarine captain (Gregory Peck) only has the affair with the Ava Gardner character because he believes his wife (with the rest of the population of America) is dead. But in the film, the impression is given that the Peck character hasn't accepted that his wife is dead, which makes his affair with Gardner emotionally adulterous. Shute objected to this, and I think tried to sue, as he said it was a distortion of the character he'd created.

However, I don't know what happened with the lawsuit or even if Shute actually took the studio to court.

But I thought the film very fine.

R291 - As noted in my comment above, I think "On the Beach" very much worth a try. Striking photography, as well.

R292

Nell

Saving Ryan’s Private’s

Another vote for Saving Private Ryan, one of the worst scripts ever to make it the big screen.

Thank God I skipped them all.

You know.

Years ago some friends invited me along to the movies. They said they were going to see The Klansman, so I said sure, I’ll go. Except I didn’t realize it was Klan, with a ‘K.’ Maybe I thought it was about a Highland Scot or something (‘Och, haud yer wheesht, laddies, it’s time to brrrrring in the crrrrrops!), I can’t remember, but I do remember scenes of horrifying racial violence with no redeeming message or merit, and I do regret having watched this film even all these years later.

If you do not enjoy Tarantino, you probably are not very bright...IQ of 60?

[quote]Years ago some friends invited me along to the movies. They said they were going to see The Klansman, so I said sure, I’ll go.

I never miss an O.J. Simpson movie.

Hachiko. That dog broke my fucking heart. x

The Big Lebowski

It was the stupidest piece of crap I’d ever seen. I enjoy farce, and generally either French and German farce (both pretty lowbrow) are my favorites.

This? Good god. I want to use a ball punch on every one who quotes from it. I don’t know what a ball punch is, but it sounds nasty and painful.

Eyes wide shut - just no, no clue why the movie was ever made.

The Human Centipede. It is disgusting, extremely poorly acted and directed, and overall just a thoroughly depressing and unpleasant thing to watch. I saw it as part of the Fright Fest film festival in London and if it hadn't been in that context I would have stopped watching it.

The Big Lebowski and The Usual Suspects are just two movies I can't get thru. I know they are lauded, but ten minutes in and I'm bored and turn it off.

Yes R304! Glad I'm not the only one that disliked those TRASH movies. x

It seems like there are two kinds of "regret" here. The first is... waste of time. The second is... disturbing.

Breaking the Waves, I can never see again. Disturbing, and yes, nauseating.

Brazil, Ok I saw it, but never need to see it again. Exhausting, nauseating (from endless quick editing).

Crash, Best Picture Winner, waste of time.

"Her Smell" stank. It was like a stagey, community theater idea of a girl rawker on the EDGE. Elizabeth Moss spends half the film with mascara running down her face. Her performance is one-note and that note is bad, and sometimes unintentionally funny.

R189, the rape scene in Frenzy was both offensive and hilarious. I didn't know a movie could achieve that until I watched that movie. It's so horribly done yet it's so obvious Hitchcock has a problem with women that it's bothersome.

I get why people are offended by a clockwork orange but it isn't making rape seem "fun". What the characters do and how they behave is MEANT to repulse you. But the government attempted reprogramming is meant to repulse you even more. If you didn't get that, you didn't get the movie.

Interstellar! Long and boring -- I fell asleep!

Seven years in Tibet. If really felt like Seven Years in my Seat.

Magnolia...the absolute worst, most pretentious movie ever.

Except for "West Side Story", any movie based on a Broadway musical has been awful.

I'll amend that. Almost every movie based on a Broadway play has been awful. They choose the worst ones to take to Hollywood and then ruin them.

The Heiress (1949) is much better than the play. And then of course, A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), kind of matchless.

I saw Clownhouse, directed by pedophile Victor Salva when I was in middle school. It's not particularly graphic, but the film is about childhood fear in a very effective way, and it really got under my skin. The film haunted me, so I looked it up online a few years later and learned what Salva did to the lead actor. I wish I never watched it.

Seconding "Eyes Wide Shut" here, only this time I did the sensible thing and left halfway through.

Oh - ditto the horrible most recent "Les Miserables". I left after half an hour.

I'd have left Saving Private Ryan and La La Land, as well, but on those occasions I was with someone I hadn't seen in awhile and we were going to dinner afterward.

If I'd been alone, I'd have left.

Time Bandits, Mother, Jugs and Speed, Bad Timing

The English Patient

Sweeney Todd

Braveheart

V for Vendetta

Every movie I've seen with Julia Roberts, Now I just skip them.

Pulp Fiction

It was a really well acted movie. It was powerful. It was probably one of the most depressing movies I have ever seen in my life. Sir Ben Kingsley, "House of Sand & Fog."

I Spit On Your Grave 2

Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer. Yikes, just ugh, felt physically ill for days after.

R320 I agree with you it was like living a real life nightmare The House is Sand and Fog.

Jughead (with Sean Young)

We Need to Talk About Kevin It will make you wonder why the human race continues to propagate.

Midsommar. Hope I'm spelling it right. It came out at the end of summer it's a horror movie. About a cult. Kinda like Wicker man. Oh, my God. Worse than Wicker man. So gory. The ending made me sick. Haven't been sickened and creeped out by a movie in a long time. And I see a lot of horror movies. It's one of those movies that just stays with you. You can't believe you saw something horrifying. I think after a few people actually a brave enough to see this. We should really do a thread on this movie.

Rabid directed by David Cronenberg, I heard for years about what a great horror classic it was but the acting was terrible and instead of scary it was more just creepy and depressing.

R322, as a balm, watch Caro Diario, an Italian film by Nanni Moretti (one of my favorites). In it his character, among other things, mentions this horrible film. It's a delightful, odd movie and might scrub Henry... from your mind.

JFK. Not so much watching, but paying to see it.

Jackie, starring Natalie Portman. It was atrocious. Just really bad. Pointless.

Gandhi

R163 My sister in a film and literature professor. She once told me that Come and See was "the greatest war movie ever made," so I watched it. I do regret it. Most people are just listings movies they don't like, but that movie was genuinely horrifying.

mother! was WORSE than I expected. Simply GARBAGE. And all the metaphors and symbolism were just so basic. It was sheer garbage. GARBAGE. The worst film I have seen in 10 years.

One film that I regretted seeing because it was a cliche wrapped in a cliche and wrapped in another cliche, yet so stunningly beautifully shot for an "ADDICT" film, was that shiftiest starring Steve Carell and the dude from Tell Me Your Fucking Name?

Fucking HILARIOUS, it almost made it into comedy territory as it was one big CRINGE. An addiction film for millionaires.

Every shot was impeccably lit, production designed- it was shot like it was a different film. WHAT a mess. I think I started a thread here around a year ago.

R332, the name of this thread is:" What is a film that you regret watching?

So we can name anything for a variety of reasons.

R333 Beautiful Boy. I never saw it, but remember when the book it's based on was released and Oprah and her ilk fawned all over it.

Fun fact: The author of the book, whom Carell plays in the film, wrote a truly terrible book on the evils of videogames called Game Over that I read as part of a Sociology course devoted to moral panics. While I'm not into videogames myself, I despise censorship. He actually compares video games to drugs and judges parents whose kids play them. Oh, the irony!

Anything by Polanski.

I skip anything made by Lars Von Trier or Gaspar Noe.