Perhaps I am a crazy person, but there are some terrific movies out there, that I just can't watch again. I love them, and perhaps even own them, but have the hardest time watching them again...mostly because I know what is going to happen in them.
Dances With Wolves...just can't stand to watch the whole wolf scene. Animal cruelty is just too hard to watch.
Last Of The Mohicans...this is great but just the overall end of the movie is a bummer and I really have to be in the right frame of mind to do it.
Saving Private Ryan...this one is just such a heartbreaker.
Black Swan...I felt stressed out and anxious through this entire one, even though I liked the movie, I couldn't watch it again.
Gangs of New York...great movie but just so awful at the same time.
Update: A Simple Plan...just a complete downer, even though it is a great movie.
Casino...just because of the violence and the knee drilling...ewww!
Reservior Dogs...just so harsh and the policeman scenes...
Boys Don't Cry...just another complete downer
Full Metal Jacket...kid goes crazy and commits suicide and then war scenes
Slingblade...because I love the main character and it sucks how it ends...
This, of course, is only a small segment of those great films that are hard to watch (for instance there are several war movies that I could list). And who knows, maybe that they are hard to watch is what, at times, makes them great films. I am sure I will be watching most of them again at some point in the future but when I am scrolling through the movie channels on cable, and one of these is available, I tend to skip over it for something less stressful, cruel, or sad...
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Eight Years Ago on In My Words...Locked Out (one of my funnier moments)
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