On Scott's note, I wonder if you have any movies on your list that you were not able to watch in their entirety the first time round.
It could have been in the cinema or at home and it can be a scary movie or a romantic comedy (or an action flick for that matter) that you were forced to watch.
My list consists of the following films:
The Shining
A late at night watch were I decided to call it a day when Jack started to loose his mind (so pretty early). Went down better as an afternoon watch.
The Hitcher
Rutger Hauer as scary hitch-hiker who doesn't like if he's thrown out of the car. I still can remember the good guy eating a burger and finding a finger in his chips. It's so long since I watched that it might be interesting to give it a revisit. I also just saw that there is a 2007 remake. Anybody seen that?
Saw
Any of the saw movies. I started to watch the first installment once but really couldn't see why I should watch it to the end. Was never tempted to give it another or to watch the later films.
The Shining is an amazing film!!!
Agree on the Saw point - I can't see the attraction of those types of film.
I almost had to endure Mamma Mia! - now that was scary.
I saw Toys at the the cinema when I was young and that was really boring.
I Heart Huckabees was a turn off. Also Dark Blue (a much better book).
There will be more...
I have been forced to watch eclipse and full moon
really quite awful boring films they don't get anywhere near being as good as Lost boys.
I have 2 that have yet to make it into the DVD player Donnie Darko and Pans Labyrinth I'm just too chicken to watch them. It seems the older I get the more I stick to safe films although I would still watch a good horror as long as I've seen it before.
I refused to watch Donnie Darko for a long time just because I thought I wouldn't like it. I guess I expected something else than it actually is. It is really worth watching.
Pan's Labyrinth is a real treat. There are some scenes that are a bit scary (and that is the opinion from a person who is easily scared) but it is a wonderful and fantastic film.
I admit I have never got past the first 5 minutes of Saving Private Ryan. And I coudn't get past a particular short scene in The Last King of Scotland. Nothing to do with the qualitya of either film. Just out and out squeamishness.
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Jane Matthews
Platform home team
Do you mean the bit where they visit the memorial cemetry or the actual D-Day landing?
For a long time I couldn't watch The Exorcist- a result of my mother creating a myth about it as it was released the same year I was born and she ran from the cinema screaming! Interestingly the first time I saw it in its entirety was in the cinema about 15 years ago. To start with people were sniggering but by about half way people started leaving until a full cinema was about half full by the end! For pure realistic gore and sustained fear factor a French film called Frontieres gets me every time. I have to watch it in several parts and calm down in between!
Hi, I'm new to the group. And would like to know if anyone has actually sat through the entirety of 'The Deer Hunter'? I mean, I don't mind slow moving films, but with this, the paint actually watched IT dry!
I used to be a film journalist and I'm not sure I have watched the whole of the Deer Hunter. I also struggled with Gone With The Wind and David Lynch's Inland Empire. Sure there are some more too.
But I like slow, meandering films such as The Thin Red Line, The Assassination of Jesse James, The Road To Perdition...
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Scott (member of the Platform team)
@InScottLand
I was very disappointed with Horrors of Spider Island. Other than that I always enjoy watching those old free movies online
'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou'. Found it incredibly tedious & had to turn it off. To be honest i find most Bill Murray films a bit of a struggle.
I agree with Lisa about 'The Life Aquatic ....' but I generally like Bill Murray films. I didn't enjoy 'Groundhog Day' on first viewing but I've seen it three times now and love it.
By the way, I didn't find 'The Road to Perdition' slow and meandering. I was mesmerised from first shot to last.