Most Difficult Movie to Watch?

[Olgar Shiverstone]

I'm not a fan of slasher movies.

My wife, on the other hand, cringes at The Princess Bride, A Christmas Story, anything by Monte Python, and anything starring Will Ferrell or Jim Carey.

 

[Avaru]

Mostly everything by Takashi Miike. Ichi the Killer is old, but one of the most painful movies to watch ever. I know, it's cheap ... but it works!

 

[Zombie_Babies]

I'm not a fan of slasher movies.

My wife, on the other hand, cringes at The Princess Bride, A Christmas Story, anything by Monte Python, and anything starring Will Ferrell or Jim Carey.

Good point. Jim Carey is terrible.

 

[trappedslider]

Meh, they're not that bad. I mean, I guess they're 'hard to watch' in that the only 'plot' is shock factor and it's pretty easy to remember it's all fake. Hostel was ok but the second one was lame cuz, well, we'd already seen it. Not a lot of life there, really. Hmm ... do you consider the Saw franchise 'torture porn'? I could see that but they've got more going on than just gore.

I tend to try to avoid movies who sole basis to me is shock value and yes I do count the Saw movies as torture porn, the first may be light on it but the sequels (especially from the third one on) most certainly aren't and considering the series is known more for the gore than any other aspect....

 

[Kramodlog]

I'm not sure what all the fuss was/is about the Saw films. I saw the first two and they were terrible. I expected gore and actual, you know, torture porn, all I got were cheesy special FXs and no actual shot of the foot being sawed off.

If we would have seen actual gore, maybe that would have excused the lame story, but it wasn't the case. Just lots of blood (oh, so horrible!). They are more thrillers than horror flicks.

 

[sabrinathecat]

Godfather is one of those movies that is supposed to be so incredibly awesome, but just left me totally cold. Who cares about these people? Not I said the little red hen. I just didn't see the point of the thing. Maybe it's one of those movies where you have to either have lived on the east coast or had a huge family, but it did not work for me at all.
So hard to watch because it's boring is not going to win any prizes.

Watching 15 people throwing spears at elephants, and the elephants trying to fight them off and use their trunks to remove the spears sticking out of their flesh--that is disturbing. More so because it was real. And done again and again and again... each time a different 'phant

 

[Kaodi]

Melancholia.

 

[Callahan09]

My indisputable top 3 in this category, and I am surprised that none have been mentioned yet (not necessarily in this order, mind you):

Salo: The 120 Days of Sodom
Begotten
Antichrist

 

[Jester David]

Tideland.

 

[Homicidal_Squirrel]

Godfather is one of those movies that is supposed to be so incredibly awesome, but just left me totally cold. Who cares about these people? Not I said the little red hen. I just didn't see the point of the thing. Maybe it's one of those movies where you have to either have lived on the east coast or had a huge family, but it did not work for me at all.
So hard to watch because it's boring is not going to win any prizes.

Actually, I live on the East Cost and have a large family, and my family is Italian, and I just didn't care about this movie. It's boring. It's boring to the point that I can't ever finish watching it. I've never seen the entire movie. I've never even seen the end. I've caught the movie playing on TV at different parts of the movie, and I think five minutes is the most I can put up with watching it. Horrible movie.

Watching 15 people throwing spears at elephants, and the elephants trying to fight them off and use their trunks to remove the spears sticking out of their flesh--that is disturbing. More so because it was real. And done again and again and again... each time a different 'phant

What are you talking about? There was only one Marlon Brando in that movie.