What were the movies you've had the most difficulty watching?

Fiddler on the Roof I saw the musical in Chicago. About 2 years later I had to watch the movie in class after we moved to Wis.

The movie was no competition for the live version.

Irreversible. Be warned. As the title says, when you watch it, you can’t unwatch it (backwards or forwards.)

Martyrs. It’s simply horrible.

I have a great problem watching movies that have slaves being whipped. I’ve had to leave. There was a movie series in the 70’s all my friends went to and I couldn’t do it. Paranormal Activity was very difficult, too, because it was boring and stupid! I didn’t watch it all, though, maybe it got good~

@faye That wouldn’t be Roots would it?

Dune. I really just wanted put out of my misery. Eventually I fell asleep.

@WestRiverrat No, I made it through Roots. This one started with M I think. There were 4–5 of them- I had to hang with myself! @deni I just reread Dune!

@faye Oh god. Science fiction is not my thing. Neither are super long movies. I Just cant do them. Awful combination. At least Kyle Maclaughlin (?) was in it…I loved him in Twin Peaks, so I think that was all that kept me from going crazy lol

The only movie I ever walked out on was Sophies Choice.
I had young children at the time, and when she was forced to choose between her children I couldn’t handle it and left.
Because of that, I waited a long time to watch Shindlers List. I was afraid it would have the same effect on me.

“Gardens of the Night” features Tom Arnold as a kidnapping pedophile. It will thoroughly creep you out.

The slave movie was Mandingo and it had some sequels. Sophie’s Choice I try to forget @Judi!!

If I have read the book or seen the play, I won’t spend money to see a movie.

Happiness and I did not manage to finish it because it made me feel incredibly uncomfortable. I turned the film off and took a shower.

I spit on your grave. Horrible.

Men behind the sun. Couldn’t watch this. Had to turn it off.

Cannibal Holocaust. I love a good cult 70’s horror film, but I had a lot of trouble with it. It’s probably the one I wish I could unwatch.
Blindness has a couple scenes I couldn’t watch. If you know the film or the book, you’ll know which ones. I spent most of the french movie Inside not actually watching it.

Someone would have to weld me to my seat & staple my eyes to my forehead for me to endure the shallow meanderings of those racehorse…..Sex in the Clitty gals. Just my slant on things, for what it’s worth.

The Last King of Scotland. Really good, extremely disturbing, still gives me the shudders just thinking about it sometimes.

@JilltheTooth, sometimes I have fun creeping out my gf with “Uganda is your father. Embrace your father.” ;-)

“A Clockword Orange” really disturbed me. I didn’t feel right for a couple of days afterward.

Julie & Julia – I was watching this with my wife, as sometimes I concede to chick flicks, but this was definitely the most horrible movie I ever endured, it was just sooooooo boring

@tedibear I loved clockwork orange, I dig Kubrick’s twisted mind lol

Eraserhead. It was just way too weird for me.

My Dinner with Andre. A girlfriend and her sister dragged me to this obscure, low-budget flick. It consisted of two men sitting at a table, one talking, one listening, for what was objectively 2 hours but seemed like 2 weeks. This could possibly be the most boring movie ever made. I’ve seen some absolutely awful films that at least held you in disbelief at how bad they were. This one was just intolerably boring.

Does Two Girls One Cup count as a movie?

I found It’s a Wonderful Life really hard to watch the first time I saw it… I cried at the end because he didn’t go through with it, then mourned my own personal loss… ho hum, c’est la vie (or not, as the case may be!)...

@Smashley My friend watched Irreversible and said that it was just horrible…
I’ve never actually seen it, but someone told me the movie Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom was supposed to be horrifying.

There have been a few: Schindler’s List immediately comes to mind for obvious reasons.
I think I liked A Clockwork Orange when I saw it in the 70s, but upon seeing again a year or so ago, I found it infinitely more disturbing, particularly the rape scene which I had completely forgotten about.
I found the movie “Crash” with Sandra Bullock disturbing for the way racism was exposed as alive and thriving in America today, in subtle ways we never really think about. It is one of the most thought-provoking films I’ve ever watched.
As far as just NOT being able to watch something, “Gothika” freaked me out so bad, it took me three separate times of trying to actually watch it to see the whole movie, I’m guessing because it seemed so plausible.

Eraserhead. All my friends kept raving about it, because Lynch is apparently some sort of fucking genius. NO! He’s a person who can’t make a fucking good movie even with a great plot idea. And he ruined Dune.

grrrrr

A couple scenes in “The Hills Have Eyes” are pretty awful. Same with the movie “Funny Games.” Also watching Apollo Creed die in Rocky IV was rough too

i will not even try to watch a torture film. so: saw, touristas, hostal, ... are all out.
i walked out of ‘against all odds’, and a gene wilder film called, something like, ‘funny thing about love’. also, ‘lost in translation’.
films that i feel are great but i can’t watch in one setting are: ‘8mm’ and ‘flesh and bone’.
worst movie i ever watched was ‘dead clowns’. you can read my review at amazon.com.
all movies about the black dahlia suck! but it’s an interesting murder case in real life.

@gespect I know what you mean about the Black Dahlia films. The one with Josh Harnett was just dumb.

Oh, I missed this one on its first go-around!

Irreversible was incredibly hard to watch. French film by director Gaspar Noe. The rape scene was too real, and the low-frequency buzzing sound and spinning camera…not to mention the tragedy of the whole thing…but I do like the movie, crazily.

Actually, all of Gaspar Noe’s films are hard to watch. They leave you disturbed and obsessed for days after seeing them.

Palindromes was very disturbing in a nondescript sort of way.

And then there were all the others that were just bad. I can’t begin to remember them all.

I just watched the Australian film Snowtown recently. It is based on a series of real murders and is very, very disturbing. Excellent movie but that people like this are walking around and people knew what they were doing but didn’t report them is just unnerving.