The Virgin Suicides for me. I bought it last week and haven’t been able to work up the gumption to watch it yet. Maybe tonight.

  • Kühlschrank@lemmy.world
    19·
    5 days ago

    Requiem for a Dream. Aronofsky is a legend and totally up my alley but this and a couple other films he has done I only have the energy to watch once.

    • bulwark@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      5 days ago

      I thought of this one as well. It’s my favorite movie I never want to see again.

    • Psaldorn@lemmy.world
      4·
      5 days ago

      What makes it worse for me is there was an old channel 4 advert that kad clips from lots of movies and the names of the movies in the current roster.

      I thought the names matched the clips… and requiem for a dream appeared alongside a film I’ve not actually identified with a guy shooting over a limo saying something like “death to some thing something and bad cinema”

      So a few years later I finally sit down to watch requiem for a dream expecting some weird Hollywood critic (or something)

      Kept waiting for that scene until things got really dark and then kind of knew something was amiss.

      On the upside: no heroine for me thanks

    • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
      3·
      5 days ago

      I, too, remember this one. But it’s so long since I’ve seen it. But every time I consider a re-watch I wuss out.

  • mech@feddit.org
    13·
    5 days ago

    The Road
    The only truly realistic post-apocalyptic movie.
    There is no hope. There is no humanity pulling together in times of crisis.
    Just one man trying to keep his son and himself alive for another day, after losing everything else.

    • jpeps@lemmy.world
      112·
      5 days ago

      Maybe I just didn’t give it enough of a chance, but I really just didn’t get this film honestly. For me it just felt like a sort of ‘depression porn’ without really much substance to it.

      • fake_meows@sopuli.xyz
        3·
        5 days ago

        The movie is an adaptation of the book by Cormac McCarthy. The book won the Pulitzer and the James Tait Memorial Prize.

        “Depression Porn without substance” is a funny way to characterize the movie.

          • fake_meows@sopuli.xyz
            1·
            5 days ago

            Have you seen some of the other film adaptations?

            All the Pretty Horses

            No Country for Old Men

            The Counselor

            Child of God

            • jpeps@lemmy.world
              1·
              4 days ago

              I’ve seen No Country for Old Men, unfortunately nothing else from your list. I did enjoy that one.

  • Ilandar@lemmy.today
    12·
    5 days ago

    I would say Grave of the Fireflies, but like a lot of people I’ve never wanted to watch it again so I’m not sure if I could say it’s my favourite.

      • Ilandar@lemmy.today
        1·
        5 days ago

        I’ve forgotten a lot of the plot but I’ll never forget the feeling at the end. It was just this big empty pit in my stomach, I felt so empty. I often wonder if this is perhaps one of the greatest films I’ve ever watched, because no other film has even come close to making me feel whatever that was. But again, I don’t want to go back and test this theory.

  • BentiGorlich@gehirneimer.de
    111·
    5 days ago

    Interstellar and Arrival The scene where cooper watches his kids grow up and get kids of their own in like 5 minutes always gets me.

  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
    9·
    5 days ago

    There was something in Trainspotting that fucked me up so hard I never, ever went near that movie again.

    And it’s not explicitly a horror movie, so valid in this context.

  • lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de
    5·
    5 days ago

    The Whale broke me. And Zone of Interest is also a really hard pill to swallow. First time I was sitting in a fully packed theater and not a single person bought any snacks. We all knew it would be horrible.

    • Bruhh@lemmy.world
      4·
      5 days ago

      Holy fuck The Whale. I rarely get emotional for sad movies and usually my eyes well up at most but The Whale opened the flood gates. Watched it at the movie theaters and remember the credits rolling in silence while everyone is sniffling and sobbing. Cried on the way home too. I bought it on blu ray and have not worked up the courage to rewatch it.

  • danh2os@piefed.socialEnglish
    6·
    5 days ago

    Everything Everywhere All At Once. I watch it every year and I pretend I’m a different character every time. I’m in my Waymond phase now. Watch it from his point of view when you’re ready.

  • djdarren@piefed.socialEnglish
    5·
    5 days ago

    I, Daniel Blake

    When I say ‘favourite’, I mean it’s the most compelling, devastating, truthful movie I’ve ever seen that I was transfixed by for it’s entire duration, and never want to see again.

    I’ve been on job seeker’s allowance. I’ve suffered the indignity of the weekly visits to the job centre to be sneered at for not applying for an adequate number of jobs, of for not just accepting the first shitty delivery jobs on the list. But I was lucky enough to be healthy. I can’t imagine having to deal with all that shit while also being sick.