A great movie that you can't stand to watch?

[Fire Marshall Bill]

Blow

George Jung is the son of a struggling small business owner. Seeing his family struggle to make ends meet and failing, George vows never to share a similar fate. Moving to California, he starts his own pot pushing operation in which he finds both success and imprisonment. In prison, he meets a cellmate who introduces him into a partnership to the lucrative new market in cocaine. Upon release, George Jung quickly becomes instrumental in establishing the exploding US market for cocaine in which he claimed that he handled about 85% of the supply in the 1970's. However, for all the fabulous wealth and power he gained, the true costs of his dangerously treacherous occupation catch up with him in ways from which he would never recover.

This is honestly one of my favorite movies. Johnny Depp plays a man that is almost impossible not to like. What makes this movie worse is it's based on a real man, who they show at the end of the movie.

But I like him so much, I can't stand to watch the movie and all the misfortune it brings him. The ups in the movie are awesome. When they start going on the roll of all the fun they had over the years with the pot dealing and everything it's almost as they're so-called living the dream. It's like the drug dealers you never hear about. If there are any stories like that...

But the downs hit and I honestly can't watch because I can't stand to see it. Not the going to jail. If anything, the scene where he promises to teach the other prisoners how to smuggle drugs if they listen to him teach only makes me like his character even more. No, it really starts with his girlfriend(Franka Potente) and what happens to her. It's not like it's his fault, but I always tell myself if that didn't happen then he never would've met Penelope Cruz's character and his life wouldn't have turned into shit. It starts with his girlfriend going, but when I literally have to turn the movie off is when he meets Penelope Cruz. I almost wanna scream at the screen "DON'T DO IT!" Because we all know where it goes from there and how it turns out. It just pisses me off. Eventually they turn into the very thing that at the beginning of the movie he said he never wanted to turn into: his parents. And then the movie culminates with one of the saddest, most depressing endings you've ever seen. It seriously is one of my favorite movies, yet I can only get half way through before I have to turn it off.

Am I crazy? A little too into it I guess? Anyone else have a movie they're like this with?

 

[Mitch Henessey]

There's nothing wrong with you, and you're not crazy. I first saw Blow a little while ago(I've watched the movie about 10 times ever since) and I kind of have the same feelings about it. The scene where Cruz screw's him over pisses me off so much. He was actually close to getting back on track, but she fucked him over sooooo bad.

I guess an easy pick for me would have to be Scarface(1983). Tony Montana had it all, but he couldn't keep his nose clean, and his lack of trust in other people proved to be his downfall. As soon as Tony screws up the hit on the guy who was hell-bent on exposing Sosa and others, I always have a hard time trying to finish the movie, because I know what's coming next. If I have the DVD on, then I'll try to finish it sometimes, but if it's on TV, then I usually change the channel before the ending comes.

Another film that's hard for me to finish is Casino. Joe Pesci's character was a total dick throughout the entire movie, and he played a part in Robert Deniro's downfall, but nobody screwed him over as bad as Sharon Stone's character did. He tried to help her by giving her money and jewelry, and he treated her like a queen. Still, she choose to cheat on him, turn into a nutcase towards the end, and she even tried to kidnap their own daughter.

Sometimes we tend to lose ourselves in certain films, and we really get into what's happening on the screen, so watching a film that has a tragic ending might not be an easy thing to do.

 

[Davi323]

There are lots of shitty movies that I can't stand to watch, but as far as generally acknowledged "great" movies, and by great I don't mean box office take, because while Avatar made a shitload of money, it is not, under any definition of the word, a great movie in anything but visual effects. It was a piece of shit storywise, and had dreadful acting.

I can think of two great movies that I saw once, and only once...and for the same reason. Both are highly acclaimed, but depressing as hell.

Apocalypse Now and Schindler's List. Everyone should see each movie once...but after that, it isn't worth the ache in your soul. Both will put you in a very, very dark place mentally. I simply cannot watch them again. Ever. Too depressing.

 

[Buffalo Dave]

Did some of you people bother to read the title of the thread, A Great movie you can't stand to watch? Not any movie you can't stand to watch, because Ready to Rumble, The Stranger, Freddy got Fingered, and Guess Who are nowhere near greatness.

My pick is Gladiator. The movie is really good but Commodus's crazy actions just piss me off to no end, from what he did to do Marcus Aurelius, how he lusts for his sister Lucilla, and for what he did to Maximus and his family.The only good thing is that Maximus does get revenge on Commodus but not before Commodus delivers that lethal shot to Maximus before their fight.