Movies you found were incredibly hard to watch

[Zero_ctrl]

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.

Care to explain?

Anyway, my family tried to watch Talladega Nights together. We got to the scene where Ricky is with his family at the dinner table. In summary, not exactly a good family movie for a 12-year-old.

EDIT:

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.

...Borat isn't Arabic.

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

Reported.

I was being facetious. Good God some of you ponces on this site really get yer panties bunched up easily.

Don't worry, I felt the same way when I saw that.
People here really read between the lines looking for an excuse just to push the report button.
That's why you got to be careful and never give 'em the chance.

 

[Zack84]

Fargo.

I tried... So many times... I just don't get it. I keep wanting to try to watch it again to gain SOME understanding of how it could be so widely acclaimed, but now my husband won't let me anymore!

Those guys mess with me. I either LOVE their movies or they are COMPLETELY over my head!

...and I s'pose that's your friend over there in the wood chipper?

Best line in the movie. I dunno, I just found the characters interesting and the whole thing was darkly humorous.

 

[whtkid6969]

300. I've tried watching this movie several times, but for some reason i always fall asleep during the sex scene. I've even had friends over to try and watch it and make me awake, i went out like a light.

 

[teebeeohh]

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.

did you watch the horrible american remake or the original?
The original was fucking awesome but the remake was kinda weird. But apparently i did something wrong watching it because apparently normal people are supposed to not sit through this one.


OT: Mama Mia, everyone in my family loves this piece of crap and i had a serious falling out with my parents when i took out my DS in the theater and started playing because i couldn't take it anymore and leaving was not an option.

 

[LawlessSquirrel]

Pulp Fiction. I know, I know, it's meant to be a great movie or something, but I just found it boring and hard to watch. It's not like I'm an action-junkie either - I often enjoy slow movies more than fast ones - but I can't make it half way through without getting up and leaving.

I feel like I'm missing out...but I just can't get through it. Sorry people, it's not for me.

 

[Dagnius]

Watchmen for me... I wanted that movie to end so we could watch something else (was a visiting some friends I hadn't seen in a long time so I didn't say anything XD). I seriously thought that movie was 'ending' 3 or 4 different times and got excited... then let down lol.

Gamer. Need I say more?

I got that movie for free and still never watched it, couldn't be bothered. I don't even know where it is anymore. I probably tossed it.

 

[Tentickles]

Schindler's List. Fantastic movie, but it...takes some effort to get into it and try and sit through all the depression.

When I watched the scene where he's about to flee because he used "slave labor" and he starts freaking out. Oh god... I balled my eyes out for the rest of the movie. Even watched the entire procession of survivors at his grave at the end.

Even thinking about it now makes me have that chest tightening feeling.

I just could not finish Antichrist (2008, starring Willem Dafoe). The stark portrayal of a couple grieving over their lost child. Wonderful movie but I tried to watch it 6 months after my father suddenly died. I only got half way thru. Been meaning to watch it but can never get too it.

 

[akfg666]

A Serbian film

I don't even wanna talk about it...

 

[AkaDad]

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

From Wikipedia:

"It is based on the book The 120 Days of Sodom by the Marquis de Sade. Because of its scenes depicting intensely graphic violence, sadism, and sexual depravity, the movie was extremely controversial upon its release, and remains banned in several countries to this day."

This is the most disturbing movie I've ever seen.

 

[pfc_river]

Requiem for a Dream was incredibly hard to watch, but it stuck with me. It became one of my favorite movies, and I have a copy (though I have yet to rewatch it). Irreversible was also incredibly difficult to watch. No movie has ever made me squirm like that one did. With the fire hydrant, I kept thinking to myself "just...stop!"

I have yet to sit through Eraserhead. I think I got about 40 minutes in, before I finally just said "fuck this movie, I'm done." Taxi Driver and Deer Hunter were insanely bleak and just sucked the life out of me when I tried to watch them. It made me wonder how much it must have sucked to live through the 70's if those won for best picture in their years.

As far as unwatchably bad, there's a few. Funny People was absolutely not fucking funny. I agree that the "slappin de bass mon" from I Love You Man was cringe inducing. Anything with Will Ferrell aside from Stranger Than Fiction is in my opinion devoid of any entertainment value. Fuck Anchorman and 40-year-old Virgin, classic comedies my ass. There's a reason CollegeHumor came up with the "Random Will Ferrell movie generator".

 

[Koroviev]

Pan's Labyrinth. While I adore the film, the overwhelmingly oppressive atmosphere is perhaps too well achieved.

 

[Atticus89]

Funny People and Stepbrothers.

Funny People was depressing, kinda annoying, and I really didn't need to see Adam Sandler having sex with some floozy.
*spoiler! Adam Sandler has sex with a floozy*

And Stepbrothers... I refuse to watch that movie again. A comedy movie should not piss me off. All that kept me from leaving is that I came with someone else who was my ride.

I'd rather see GI Joe: Rise of Cobra than either of these. It was a horrible movie, make no mistake, but at least I enjoyed watching it.

 

[remnant_phoenix]

I guess the Idea of black swan is ninas story is...the story of swan lake more or less, with a little phychological horror thrown in, it makes sense anyway

[spoiler/] girl trapped in the body of a swan= Nina traped by her controlling mother

Prince falls for the wrong girl= Lily and the ballet director

the only way for her to be free was in suicide..and fully accepting her black swan side/madness ok I dont exactally have much of a grasp on the swan lake thing..but yeah there is a reason for all the stuff that happens[/spoiler]

Yeah I got that impression...it's just that...

Spoiler

I didn't feel that the parallel between her story and the story of Swan Lake was convincing, particularly from the romance angle. I understand that they were trying to be subtle in the parallel, but for me it all just came off as a bit too...postmodern, for lack of a better word. Maybe I'm just too thick or too old-school (pre-postmodern) for my own good, but at the end of the movie I didn't really get the light bulb moment of "Ah! She truly becomes the Swan Queen!" For me, it was more like, "So they were trying to parallel her life to the story of Swan Lake? I....sort of see what they were going for, but...meh?

as for requiem...are we talking about

[spoiler/] ass to ass? amazing film anyhow [/spoiler]

Really just the last 15-20 minutes of the movie...

Spoiler

The old lady going nuts. Jared Leto jamming a needle into the huge black sore on his arm. The black guy being trapped in a ass-backwards racist city. Jennifer Connolly literally becoming a drug whore. The cold crushing engine of reality weighing down on your mind as you boldly realize that these souls have been utterly destroyed, directly or indirectly, because of drugs, and all the while the amazing and intense music plays in the background.

It's a damn good movie in terms of its quality, but I can't say that I thoroughly enjoy watching it and it haunted me for a good number of hours after I finished it.

On a funnier note, after watching the movie my friends and I joked that they should scrap the D.A.R.E. program in schools and, instead, just show this movie to them and say, "Okay kids, THIS is why you don't mess around with drugs."

 

[WaReloaded]

The Hangover, it was on the odd occasion funny, but for the most part the movie was a chore to sit through.

 

[mexicola]

No specific names, but those like Italian b-horror movies from 80's when there was no CGI but all effects were made by hand. It's just ugh. Although for some reason I used to watch a late night show about those movies hosted by two freaky cinematography nerds. It was part morbid curiosity, part boredom from not having anything else to watch and in the end I learned way too much stuff I didn't need to know.

 

[Brutal Peanut]

The Room. It's bad and awkward. I was cringing through most of it. Luckily, I didn't pay to see it.

Did you happen to see it in a film studies A level class? That's how my friend saw it - and she loved it "so bad it's good" with it's EPIC line delivery :L I don't like it (It's bearable - and the whole copypasta sex scene is quite lol) but it was quite funny ^_^

At the time it was hard to watch, but now I agree it's pretty funny because it's so terrible. A friend and I were quoting it just the other day.
"YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA!"

 

[BNguyen]

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