The best movies you cannot bring yourself to watch again.

[Knower of nothing]

Lars von Trier movies. He makes these movies that creep up on you and makes you feel bad. I think he hates people and wants to torment everyone. I watched "The House That Jack Built", there's a scene in that movie where the main character is very lucky, he meets a nice woman and takes her and her kids out on a date in the forest. And she is happy she met him and she is excited to go on the date. It could have been a very nice day. I never want to see that scene again, the psychological aspect of it is too rough. And von Trier is too good at making scenes like that, it's too well made. And that makes it truly horrible. Matt Dillon is very good in that movie, his acting, that makes it worse. And "Melancolia", don't want to watch that again either. Or "Antichrist".

And as Metalhead said, "Requiem for a Dream". Not watching that again. It's well made but after watching movies like that I just feel bad and want to get away from it.

There is absolutely a sadism involved in depicting suffering to a certain degree of detail and in our desire to watch it.

 

[Forest Cat]

There is absolutely a sadism involved in depicting suffering to a certain degree of detail and in our desire to watch it.

I'm pretty sure von Trier is a sadist.

 

[Mr. Stevens]

I'm pretty sure von Trier is a sadist. I don't watch movies like that anymore, it just makes me depressed and wishing I didn't watch it. That scene in that von Trier movie I mentioned, there are much more violent scenes in many movies but von Trier has a real talent for the psychological part of it. He gets into your head and he really got to me with that one.

Probably. I know Bjork has some awful things to say about him, after making Dancer in the Dark.

The Onion has a hilarious (joke) video about Lars von Trier making tourism ads for Denmark. It's pretty dark, so I'll let you look it up yourself if you're interested, but I thought it was funny. And maybe too realistic!

 

[Mr. Stevens]

I think my biggest issue with a lot of the MCU Marvel movies is their obsession with shoving random jokes in where it isn't appropriate, instead of just letting a serious/hard-hitting scene have a chance to sink in and allow us to emotionally process it.

Yeah, I can get that. They seem pretty manipulative, beyond the normal influence art can have. Some of the humor and allusions they work in are fun, but you think: what will this mean in 10 years? They know how to hook an audience and make you feel part of something, but the stories seem much bigger than they are.

Then sometimes they go for a serious moment, but it's not really earned. Like flashing back to Jean Grey's childhood and family situation in Dark Phoenix. The characters are pretty one-dimensional and there's no buildup or nuance. It's just the idea that his person was unloved so we should feel bad, but you can't just slot that idea into a story. It has to be organic.