September Film Challenge 🎬

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Day 20: A great movie you will never watch again

I’m not sure I’d classify this as a great movie anymore. I did like it a lot back in the day. And normally that’s the sort of thing I’d revisit periodically to evaluate how well it holds up with me. But you know, monster.

I think every movie I will never watch again has more to do with the people involved with it than anything about the movie itself.

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 20: A great movie you will never watch again.

Irréversible is a 2002 French art-house horror film. There are technical reasons it was made to be uncomfortable, including using the jerky camera method as well as subsonics added to the soundtrack for the first hour. Ultra low sounds that physically affect the audience, causing low level nausea, were pumped through the speakers (and I saw it in a theater with a really good sound system). But mostly, because it embraces it's theme: "Le temps detruit tout" -- "Time destroys everything." And it shows that, brutally.

Irréversible has 13 scenes, shown in reverse order, from the end of the night to the morning. They are all single shots, with superb edits in places to keep that illusion going. It opens with a horrific murder and the aftermath, and spirals out from there. The film is infamous for its rape scene, which is utterly brutal. Nine unflinching minutes, with no fetishization or sexualization, just the agony and degradation of what Monica Bellucci's Alex endures. And you understand the reason for the murder at the beginning, and the futility of it hollows you out. It is like having Cassandra Tears -- you see the vengeance play out, and the cause, and you know that even that cathartic act is destructive and pointless, but you can't do anything about it. And time flows backward, from violence and horror to a quiet revelation. And that quietness is gutting.

It isn't a perfect film by any stretch of the imagination. Most of the characters are unlikeable, and the jittery camera grates. But the structure, putting the violence and terror at the start and working backwards makes you confront that through the rest of the movie. I can't say I liked it-- this isn't a movie made to be liked. But it stayed with me, though I only watched it once.

Irréversible (2002)

 

[UnquietDreams]

Putting this on my watchlist immediately.

It is a fun film. Avoid the sequels at all costs, unless you love to watch Walken slum it. And maybe avoid them even if you love that.

I suggested a friend watch this. She texted me she was, but was very confused: where was Christopher Walken, and what was the deal with the freaky bear. "The Prophecy," love. That article is very important.

 

[curious_slut]

It is a fun film. Avoid the sequels at all costs, unless you love to watch Walken slum it. And maybe avoid them even if you love that.

I suggested a friend watch this. She texted me she was, but was very confused: where was Christopher Walken, and what was the deal with the freaky bear. "The Prophecy," love. That article is very important.

Glad you and @SalaciousMonkey22 gave me a heads up about the sequels.

My reading comprehension sucks apparently because it took me a second to realize that was a different movie poster linked. I had my hopes up for a side plot about how Lucifer created cryptids

 

[DirrrtyDanny]

Day 20: a great film I’ll likely never watch again — Deer Hunter. I just don’t feel like I need to see it again. Very affecting. Said what it needed to say.

 

[BreukelenAnima]

Day 20: A great movie you will never watch again
Come and See - (1985)
A harrowing, unsettling portrait of war. ...It's one of the best anti-war films ever made.

 

[EndCreditsPart2]

Day 20: A great movie you will never watch again.

United 93

 

[vagrantx]

Day 20: A great movie you will never watch again
Come and See - (1985)
A harrowing, unsettling portrait of war. ...It's one of the best anti-war films ever made.

I've only read about this film, and that was enough for me to never want to watch it. I'm sure it's fantastic, but things like using real live ammo(!!!) just to capture true and sincere fear in the actors is just.. I don't even have the words.

 

[lavendersilk]

 Day 21: A movie that makes you cry

Toy Story 2 (1999)

The first one made me cry as well, but this one has a Sarah McLachlan song that steps up the tear factor IMO. I can't even watch this clip without getting teary eyed.

 

[DirrrtyDanny]

Day 21. A film that makes me cry. A lot of films make me cry. Hard to pick just one.

American History X.

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Day 21: A movie that makes you cry

Shoot, I’m crying just thinking about it. I talk about this movie a lot. But that’s because I feel it’s deeply under appreciated. The Academy is a circle jerk.

 

[Grant55]

Day 21: Ten North Frederick

Gary Cooper plays a successful businessman/ politician who is driven into the ground by his wife. He falls in love with his daughter's friend. The tears come when the daughter finds out that her father found happiness with her friend.

 

[vagrantx]

Day 21: A movie that makes you cry

I'm tired, boss...

 

[Love_Is_Blonde]

Day 21: A movie that makes you cry

Ok. I’m going to have to risk a spanking from our gracious hostess @morelikeasong because my choice is THAT GOOD but technically not a movie.

I’m going to do it anyway though because this was all I could think of when I saw the theme. It had to be The Last of Us, Episode 3: Long, Long Time.

*sob*

Oh my… this episode was its own island within this series. I’m not a fan of zombies or walking dead or anything like that, but I gave this show a try because Pedro Pascal is in it, and well…Pedro Pascal. I made it to episode 3, and at the end, I stood up, went upstairs, changed my tear-soaked shirt, and called it a day on that show. I loved the episode because it was a truly beautiful love story, but omg SO FUCKING SAD.

I highly recommend it when you need a good cry.

I’m ready for my spanking now.

 

[BreukelenAnima]

Day 21: A movie that makes you cry

Jacknife - 1989
A tough challenge... This is a small film, but there's a great scene at the end between the two main characters that is very emotional and brought together by great acting. So long ago... but I do remember getting emotional watching it.

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Day 21: A movie that makes you cry

Ok. I’m going to have to risk a spanking from our gracious hostess @morelikeasong because my choice is THAT GOOD but technically not a movie.

I’m going to do it anyway though because this was all I could think of when I saw the theme. It had to be The Last of Us, Episode 3: Long, Long Time.

*sob*

Oh my… this episode was its own island within this series. I’m not a fan of zombies or walking dead or anything like that, but I gave this show a try because Pedro Pascal is in it, and well…Pedro Pascal. I made it to episode 3, and at the end, I stood up, went upstairs, changed my tear-soaked shirt, and called it a day on that show. I loved the episode because it was a truly beautiful love story, but omg SO FUCKING SAD.

I highly recommend it when you need a good cry.

I’m ready for my spanking now.

Absolutely one of the greatest hours of TV ever made,

 

[curious_slut]

Day 21: A movie that makes you cry

Since @SalaciousMonkey22 got to my first choice, I'm going to pick the first movie that make me sob. If you didn't cry at least a little bit when Mufasa died, I don't quite trust you I'm not evil so I won't embed that clip even though it came up in my search results. Who tf is looking for that specific part of The Lion King?

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Day 21: A movie that makes you cry

Since @SalaciousMonkey22 got to my first choice, I'm going to pick the first movie that make me sob. If you didn't cry at least a little bit when Mufasa died, I don't quite trust you I'm not evil so I won't embed that clip even though it came up in my search results. Who tf is looking for that specific part of The Lion King?

Sorry not sorry. Glad I was able to convince you to watch it though

 

[curious_slut]

Sorry not sorry. Glad I was able to convince you to watch it though

I snoozed and I lost! However, one does not convince me to watch something with Andrew Scott cos I'm already all in it would take a lot of convincing for me to not watch something he's in and I'm not sure that anyone is that convincing!

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

I snoozed and I lost! However, one does not convince me to watch something with Andrew Scott cos I'm already all in it would take a lot of convincing for me to not watch something he's in and I'm not sure that anyone is that convincing!

Of course you are correct. I should have said I’m happy I encouraged you to watch it

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Day 21: A movie that makes you cry
Sad on its own. Sadder that it came out and I watched it not long after my mother died.
Best not to watch this one too soon after a family member passes.

 

[AuntieDisco]

Day 21: A movie that makes you cry

Ok. I’m going to have to risk a spanking from our gracious hostess @morelikeasong because my choice is THAT GOOD but technically not a movie.

I’m going to do it anyway though because this was all I could think of when I saw the theme. It had to be The Last of Us, Episode 3: Long, Long Time.

*sob*

Oh my… this episode was its own island within this series. I’m not a fan of zombies or walking dead or anything like that, but I gave this show a try because Pedro Pascal is in it, and well…Pedro Pascal. I made it to episode 3, and at the end, I stood up, went upstairs, changed my tear-soaked shirt, and called it a day on that show. I loved the episode because it was a truly beautiful love story, but omg SO FUCKING SAD.

I highly recommend it when you need a good cry.

I’m ready for my spanking now.

That show has no many layers….i felt so much and so many things…from him losing his child to becoming a father figure. But this episode was brilliant!

 

[lavendersilk]

I debated doing the sad react for every movie today but thought that would be too sad.

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

I debated doing the sad react for every movie today but thought that would be too sad.

I would argue that my choice is a brutally sad movie but is ultimately optimistic.

 

[Girly_girl]

Day 21: A movie that makes you cry
Sad on its own. Sadder that it came out and I watched it not long after my mother died.
Best not to watch this one too soon after a family member passes.
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This was an ugly sobfest for me when I watched this for the first time.

Day 21: A movie that makes you cry