Good Movies I Can Only Watch Once

I’m kind of a huge film fan. Basically my criteria is as follows: If someone spent the time to put together a feature length story, I’ll watch it at least once as long as I can find the time. Now obviously this doesn’t mean I’ve seen everything, but my DVD collection isn’t tiny by any means and I spent a vast majority of my time in theatres. Anyways, I popped in Inconvenient Truth last night after catching the bit of Futurama that Gore uses in his presentation (clip below).

But after sitting through about half an hour of it, I realized that since I’ve seen it already, there really wasn’t a whole lot more I could get out of it. Thus, I made a list of movies that I probably don’t need to see anymore for various reasons. Here are the top 5:

Fahrenheit 911 – Depressing, Scary and its’ basically been all over the news for the past five years.

300 - Stylized, Lacks Story and I think the only reason I was at all interested in this in the first place was because Zac Snyder was relatively new at the time and I heard some buzz about what he was doing.

Milk - Good Story, Satisfactory acting but I think the length of this movie really killed the momentum. Now that I’ve seen it once, I think I’d enjoy an actual documentary about Harvey Milk rather than watch Sean Penn.

Requiem For A Dream – Great movie, but the amount of squeamish scenes is too much for me. I’m not a huge fan of watching people wig out and inject things into their bodies. The scene where Leto loses his arm is also quite disgusting.

King Kong (Peter Jackson) – This was definitely more of a theatre experience than anything else. Jackson really knows how to take advantage of the big screen and because my home TV can be counted by inches, I don’t think it’ll be all that impressive. Also cause if I ever do want to watch it again, I could probably just head over to Best Buy and sit in their made-up sample home entertainment system and watch it for free.

So there you have it, the top 5 films I don’t think I’ll ever watch again. I want to make it clear that none of these films are entirely “Bad,” but at the same time, I don’t think I can actually watch any of them ever again. There are movies that you love in the theatre, then take home and it isn’t the same, there are movies that are flat out terrible that you regret seeing and there are movies that teach you something that sticks in your memory leaving nothing more for multiple viewings.

See ya’ll later.