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Films that are hard to watch..

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    #32
    Ravn
    Registered Users Posts: 9 ✭Ravn


    One that springs to mind is the Babadook. Very good film but almost an ordeal to watch given its themes of grief and loss. Its not a film ill be returning to anytime soon.

    Another one is The Road. Although I really enjoyed (if that’s the right word) it, it is relentlessly bleak and I can’t think of a more realistic portrayal of what I would imagine the slow, protracted death of the world would look like.


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    #33
    unplayable
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    Uncut gems is an attack on the senses I nearly watched it standing up. It’s non stop chaos but a fantastic watch.


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    #34
    Surreptitious
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    appledrop wrote: »
    Manchester by the Sea.

    Amazing film but the emotions are so raw in it I couldnt watch it again.

    I'm actually nearly crying here just thinking about it.

    I have that recorded. Would i need to be fairly in good mood to watch it?


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    #35
    silverharp
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    Last Exit to Brooklyn , just grim , would need to be paid several hundred euros to rewatch

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



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    #36
    Lynn Benfield
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    Lamb, (Liam Neeson and Hugh O'Connor) is the toughest, saddest film I've ever seen. Couldn't watch it again.


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    #37
    cml387
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    silverharp wrote: »
    Last Exit to Brooklyn , just grim , would need to be paid several hundred euros to rewatch

    Reading the synopsis is enough.

    Actually for oldsters like me I remember watching "Waiting For Mr. Goodbar".
    First of all turned me off Diane Keaton for life.
    There are no redeeming characters and it's a grim ending.


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    #38
    Coralcoras
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    Oh God, The Brave (1997)


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    #39
    Jequ0n
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    shazzerman wrote: »
    Salo
    Irreversible
    Come and See
    Nocturnal Animals

    Irreversible is incredibly hot though in all fairness


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    #40
    grassylawn
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    A Serbian Film is a bad and utterly horrible film. Do not watch it. It is like pushing excrement into your brain. I cannot overstate how much I hate that film. If you have seen it then it will be the first thing you think of when you see this thread.

    Midsommar is a very good and somewhat beautiful film that is also an unsettling horror that did something weird to my head and I still feel somewhat haunted by it months later. I don't really understand why it bothered me so much but I think it was something to do with the juxtaposition of aesthetic beauty and horror and the way it kinda leads you down a certain path emotionally that becomes extremely twisted.

    Martyrs was a rough watch until the doorbell went or the phone rang and I had a break from it. When I went back the immersion was gone and it seemed silly. An example of that torture porn genre that developed for a while.

    Scum is not an enjoyable film to watch. Young Ray Winstone is in a Borstal. It is good but very depressing and just puts you in a bad mood. I got an ex gf to watch it with me because I was angry about something and wanted her to suffer a little bit.


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    #41
    appledrop
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    Surreptitious wrote: »
    I have that recorded. Would i need to be fairly in good mood to watch it?

    Omg it's a film everyone has to see but put it this way its very emotionally draining.


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    #42
    landofthetree
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    Once were warriors.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Were_Warriors_(film)


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    #43
    silliussoddius
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    landofthetree wrote: »
    Once were warriors.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Were_Warriors_(film)

    Was going to say that. Watched it a few times when I was younger, being older and having children makes it more difficult to watch.


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    Joe_ Public
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    Found United 93 a hard watch knowing what the end result was going to be and trying to imagine what it would feel like to be in that situation.


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    #45
    Nerdlingr
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    Mysterious Skin was a tough watch when he realises what's going on. Was wincing through it. Fairly harrowing.


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    #46
    [Deleted User]
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    ztoical wrote: »
    Requiem for a Dream - the ending is really harrowing to watch, the music puts you on edge then the imagery....it's intense

    I laughed at it. Pure ****e.


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    #47
    breezy1985
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    Oranage2 wrote: »
    Grave of the Fireflies leaves you depressed just asking why


    Saddest film I have ever seen

    Sampson and Delilah (2009) is another


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    #48
    StevenToast
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    appledrop wrote: »
    Manchester by the Sea.

    Amazing film but the emotions are so raw in it I couldnt watch it again.

    I'm actually nearly crying here just thinking about it.

    I saw this thread title and came here to say this exact movie....

    Its a great film....so good in fact that i couldnt watch it again knowing what happens...i tried to but i couldnt.....

    "Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining." - Fletcher



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    #49
    breezy1985
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    [QUOTE=Joe_ Public;116997988]Found United 93 a hard watch knowing what the end result was going to be and trying to imagine what it would feel like to be in that situation.[/QUOTE]


    Ha when I read this I though you were on about the movie about Neville and the other United lads when they were young


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    #50
    Joe_ Public
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    breezy1985 wrote: »
    Ha when I read this I though you were on about the movie about Neville and the other United lads when they were young

    Such a movie would be a hard watch too, but for entirely different reasons!


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    #51
    foozzybear61
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    @ked[/EMAIL] now


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    #52
    breezy1985
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    Joe_ Public wrote: »
    Such a movie would be a hard watch too, but for entirely different reasons!


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Class_of_%2792


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    #53
    [Deleted User]
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    Some already mentioned that I watched because of the talk

    Serbian film is just ****ed up.
    100 days of sodom

    Never heard of martyr's (2008). Threw it on and really wished I hadn't.

    There's a Japanese movie about mass suicides, can't think of the name now. Was kinda interesting but very weird. The sequel made it even more confusing.


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    #54
    Sleeper12
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    My wedding video :)


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    #55
    Joe_ Public
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    breezy1985 wrote: »
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Class_of_%2792

    I dont think I've seen that. It's not the one in which gary neville has trouble locating the cutlery drawer is it? That scene is stuck in my mind for some reason but might be from something completely different.


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    #56
    limerickabroad
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    Don't think it's been mentioned yet but Precious is a very tough watch


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    #57
    [Deleted User]
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    limerickabroad wrote: »
    Don't think it's been mentioned yet but Precious is a very tough watch

    Is it any good


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    #58
    limerickabroad
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Is it any good
    Personally, I thought it was too grim - utterly unrelenting misery, really - even with a somewhat upbeat ending


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    #59
    breezy1985
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    limerickabroad wrote: »
    Personally, I thought it was too grim - utterly unrelenting misery, really


    Ya it lacked whatever it is that makes grim movies watchable.


    The limited series This Much I Know Is True is the same. It just piles on every type of tragedy you can think of


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    #60
    beauf
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    I thought Seven was grim from start to end.


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    #61
    Snake Plisken
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    We need to talk about Kevin, just so depressing but great performances from Tilda Swinton, Ezra Miller. And John C Reilly.
    Irreversible (not sure what's wrong with the poster who said it was hot, unless your depraved it certainly isn't hot)!
    The Mist The ending is just so depressing and hate it was changed from the book ending.


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