Movies You Wish You Could Forget... But...

[K'Tesh]

I like watching some movies over and over... And I find myself wishing that there was a way that I could forget some of them... Not because they're bad... But to re-capture that first time experience.

A few of them would be...

Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters Afterlife

ALIEN
ALIENS

The 6th Sense

The Back To The Future trilogy.

Contact

Star Trek 3, 4, 6
Star Trek Generations, First Contact

Star Wars

The entire MCU franchise (Esp. Guardians of the Galaxy)

The first 3 Indiana Jones movies

E.T.

The Iron Giant

Blade Runner

The Shawshank Redemption

The Lost Boys


A few that I wish I could erase from my memory completely and never experience again (preferably I'd also get the time I spent watching them returned to me)

Hannibal
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Gladiator
Prometheus
Covenant

 

[Hobie1dog]

Every movie with violence in it that I've watched.

 

[K'Tesh]

Every movie with violence in it that I've watched.

To re-watch? I think you missed the point hobie...

 

[Antares JS]

I've never felt what you mentioned about wanting to recapture that first-time experience about a movie, but I feel that way about a video game called The Outer Wilds.

In it, you fly a spaceship to explore a solar system (an alien one; your character is not a human), uncover clues about an alien race that used to live there when your race hadn't fully evolved yet, and put the clues together to find how to reach the end, all while experiencing a 22-minute time loop that ends with the sun going supernova.

The game has no combat of any kind. The gameplay entirely revolves around exploration and discovery, and when you piece all the clues together and reach the end of the game, the payoff is absolutely sublime.

I can play again and revisit some old favorite locations, but I will never discover anything for the first time in Outer Wilds again. I also already know all the solutions so I will never piece the clues together and see the ending for the first time either. And that makes me very sad.

 

[neil_w]

In no particular order:

Star Wars - I've never had a first movie viewing experience like that
Aliens
Terminator 1 and 2
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Love and Death
Body Heat
The Matrix
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind

 

[K'Tesh]

Another one to add to the list... Blazing Saddles

 

[mo2872]

I’ll have to think on the ones I’d like to forget to see for the “first” time again.

one I’d love to forget forever, though…..and I’m ashamed to say I even watched it to begin with……The Banana Splits……

 

[lakeroadster]

Dazed And Confused

My Uncle told me about this movie a month ago. He said it was supposed to be the "American Graffiti" of the 70's. So I rented it.

What a truly horrible movie.

Another one to add to the list... Blazing Saddles

Say What? That's on my Top Ten list.

 

[Hobie1dog]

To re-watch? I think you missed the point hobie...

oops, sorry.

 

[Hobie1dog]

I’ll have to think on the ones I’d like to forget to see for the “first” time again.

one I’d love to forget forever, though…..and I’m ashamed to say I even watched it to begin with……The Banana Splits……

couldn't resist, besides EVERYONE loves the theme song:

 

[lakeroadster]

I gotta tell ya @K'Tesh, you win the award for most confusing thread title ever...

A movie to re-watch.... and... re-capture that first time experience

2001: A Space Odyssey​

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I saw it when it was 1st released in 1968. Watched it at the drive in, on the roof of a station wagon. I was 7 years old and my friend from school who got me into rocketry was there too.​

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What a great movie to watch, under the stars.​

 

[Rob Campbell]

Another one to add to the list... Blazing Saddles

Better hurry up and buy a copy.

https://babylonbee.com/news/frenzie...azing-saddles-before-it-goes-down-memory-hole

 

[lakeroadster]

Another one to add to the list... Blazing Saddles

Better hurry up and buy a copy.

https://babylonbee.com/news/frenzie...azing-saddles-before-it-goes-down-memory-hole

We have it on DVD and just watched it the other day. My wife and I both agreed there is no way it could be made today.

Folks today just don't have a sense of humor.

I'm Irish.. and when the guy says "We'll take the blacks and the chinks, but we don't want the Irish" rotf lmao

 

[K'Tesh]

couldn't resist, besides EVERYONE loves the theme song:

I could sing that theme right now... Oh Damn.... Now It's gonna lodge in my brain for the next few days... Where the hell is "It's A Kind Of Magic"?

 

[K'Tesh]

Better hurry up and buy a copy.

To late... I've had a copy of Blazing Saddles for quite some time.

 

[Rob Campbell]

To late... I've had a copy of Blazing Saddles for quite some time.

Better buy two or three back-up copies, just in case.

 

[K'Tesh]

 

[CalebJ]

Better buy two or three back-up copies, just in case.

That article you linked was from a satire news site. I'm not aware of any concerns with it going out of production.

 

[Rob Campbell]

That article you linked was from a satire news site. I'm not aware of any concerns with it going out of production.

Yes, it is from a satire site. However, nobody knows what the future holds. The movie could eventually be banned.

 

[lakeroadster]

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19,000 posts! Holy Schnikey's. What's wrong with you?

 

[K'Tesh]

19,000 posts! Holy Schnikey's. What's wrong with you?

Yeah... I know... I'm still ~10.5K posts behind Chuck.

 

[lakeroadster]

Yeah... I know... I'm still ~10.5K posts behind Chuck.

Let me remind you...

 

[OverTheTop]

I thought Chuck was just a bot to get that many posts?

 

[cerving]

Angel Heart. Mickey O'Rourke in one of the creepiest movie endings ever.

 

[K'Tesh]

I thought Chuck was just a bot?

I don't think he's a bot... But he is a POSTING MACHINE!!! (it's not like I'm in competition w/him)

 

[Tech 68]

"Quigley Down Under" & "The Fifth Element" in the first category...
"Tears of the Sun" & "Performance" in the second.

 

[Cape Byron]

I’ll add the original ‘Rollerball’ with James Caan to that list.

 

[skaffgeorge04]

In no particular order:

Star Wars - I've never had a first movie viewing experience like that
Aliens
Terminator 1 and 2
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Love and Death
Body Heat
The Matrix
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind

I'd love to go back to just before The Holy Grail was released so I could see it again for the first time to remember what true side splitting laughter was like.I had never seen anything like it and I don't believe I'll ever see anything like it again.

 

[K'Tesh]

I'd love to go back to just before The Holy Grail was released so I could see it again for the first time to remember what true side splitting laughter was like.I had never seen anything like it and I don't believe I'll ever see anything like it again.

I wish that my first time seeing it wasn't the first time I saw it... I wish my mom had not tried to get me to watch it with her.

I was 9... Visiting my mom (this was just before the divorce) I wasn't in on the jokes... I was tired, achy, and scared by the amount of blood that was shown in the black knight scene, and the rabbit scene. That night I was trapped in a dream where I knew I was in bed, but I couldn't break out of the dream and it focused around the movie. The next morning I had a full case of the flu. That movie left me scared of it for nearly 20 years. I finally got turned onto Monty Python, and was able to overcome my dread of the movie at the age of nearly 30. I'm still angry however that my DVD didn't come with the "Pink Frilly Edges" in the letterbox edition that was described on the box.

On the truly negative side...

I still won't watch Heart of Darkness (the BTS film about the making of Apocalypse Now), or Apocalypse Now due to the fever dreams I had when I had the misfortune of watching that movie just as I was coming down with the flu.

I wish that I never saw "Raised By Wolves", and "The Boys". Both have scenes that are extremely bloody and violent that brought on memories of the suicide that I had the very serious misfortune of coming across on my way to my first day at my current job. This likely is also partially why I cannot raw meat here in China (it's a lot closer to the slaughter house than the nice packages we buy it in, in the US).

One of my co-workers thought "The Boys" was funny, and didn't tell me what I was about to see (guy hitting a woman so hard she explodes). Me retching in his apartment made his lack of judgement VERY apparent.

 

[CalebJ]

What did you dislike so much about Gladiator, @K'Tesh ?