Great characters, story line snd script. I loved and hated it.

Indy Israeli doc "The Flat" was *really* good.... but no desire to see it a second time.

OTOH... of recent releases: i'd like to see Disconnect at least one more time.

Well, that's about it

and you're kind of like "holy shit that's a goat fetus coming out of his head!"

And I've seen some fucked up movies.

But coming down, different story

Fear and Loathing was probably the only movie that made me feel like I was on something psychoactive.

I tend to have a bad time with psychotropics.

I didn't like Pulp Fiction that much bit everybody days it's great. Monster was good but I don't ever want to see that again. Syriana, I just can't handle torture scenes.

Once you learn he was killed ten seconds into the movie and he's one of the dead people, the movie loses its power.

My parents dragged us to it when I was a young child. I have never been able to sit through it as an adult. All I remember from seeing it the first times was all that sand.

Tried again but the first 15 minutes freaks me out.

It's about the Israeli involvement in the Lebanese Civil War, the assassination of Bachir Gemayel by pro-Syrian extremists & the events leading up to the Sabra and Shatila massacre being told from the point of view of the filmmaker and his platoon-mates in retrospect: they'd all been low-level enlisted personnel in the IDF at the time and were present on the outskirts of the camps for the massacre.

What was an entirely logistical decision to animate WwB, the fact that several of the people being interviewed refused to be interviewed if their likenesses were used, in the third act becomes a brutal and effective kick in the face to the audience. One second you're looking at an animation of the horror of witnessing on the face of the narrator as they walk into the camps, the next...a quick cut to a slow montage of one photograph after another after another of the atrocities found after the Sabra and Shatila massacre, the only non-animated portion of the film. Even knowing it's coming, you cannot be prepared for what you will see.

I can only take a few minutes at a time before I need to stop and collect my thoughts.

People who can write and tell stories like these make me extremely envious. I've been wondering how to make sense of my own war time experiences and how to pass that feeling on to my family and loved ones since I got back from Iraq in 2005. I tried and failed miserably with a couple of attempts years ago and I've been desperately eager to write a book or something about the war as I saw it in Iraq and how it continues to impact me nearly every moment of every day almost a decade later.

I'd like to think that I'm certainly smart and creative enough. Some of it is probably me feeling sorry for myself, but I just can't concentrate or focus on large projects like this anymore like I used to before the war. Also, whenever I really do start to get into it all I get overwhelmed with the emotions. Recalling events, even some of the more despicable moments, brings out a sense of yearning for the feelings of strength and anger that made me feel alive when I was in Iraq. As negative as those emotions may feel, I find that I get trapped in their allure and I start to spin into a very destructive mindset.

Anyways, the animation and the subtleties of the "Waltz with Bashir" are striking. I just watched the part where the film maker mentioned that he had his first flashback after more than 20 years since the war. He was transformed into a Soldier walking with a rifle in a very public and non-combat zone setting. There isn't an easy way to describe it, but that is a feeling that I constantly find I have.

Maybe part of my problem telling my story is that a book is the wrong medium for me? Anyways, thanks for posting this and keying me into this movie. I'm sorry for the ranting and babbling reply I gave you!

Back to trying to watch another couple of minutes of the movies before my next break.

Beautiful movies, but just can't do it again.

just too painful to see more than once.

Really good, really well done, shocking revelation near the end, but no, I do not want to see it again.

I also agree with Monster, Requiem for a Dream, and several others that people mentioned above.

Great movies all, but they're filed under the category of "I'm not putting myself through that again."

Shoah

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090015/?ref_=sr_1

Grave of the Fireflies

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095327/?ref_=sr_1

me sick to my stomach) are:
Sophie's Choice
The Pianist
The Deer Hunger
Requiem for a Dream
Trainspotting
and many more that I can't think of off the top of my head....

Pulp Fiction
Heat
Vertigo
2001
Eyes Wide shut
A Clockwork Orange

and etc.

The former due to the annoying backwards plot and utter gratuitous violence.

The latter due to it being much too slow moving plot-wise. Great film "on paper" though: Beautifully shot and acted, plus I love the haunting music and imagery of the opening credits.

I cannot explain how much this movie effected me....her mother reminded me so much of my own, it hurt. I am so glad Monique got awards for her portrayl, but damn....I'll never watch this movie again.

Just too damn depressing.

a fictional story about the extremely violent lives of young boys in gangs on the streets of Rio was riveting, one of the most intense film experiences I've ever had. But it was too intense to see more than once.

Another masterpiece (a stunning 7.7 rating on imdb) is the 1927 silent film Napoleon by Abel Gance. I saw this 6 hour film at a local art film theater in the late 70s when Francis Ford Coppola arranged screenings of it across the U.S., with a soundtrack written by his musician father. It truly is an amazing film, a masterpiece, involving at one point a tryptych composition (three screens at once, horizontal end-to-end to take in a wide screen of action). The battle scenes and scenes of the French revolution were amazing. But at 6 hours of silent film, even with the extraordinary soundtrack is too much for me now.

Ah, good times.

Gotta admit, I'm not up for that with my Christmas brunch