Meet the Feebles
My parents thought it was the muppets. I watched it when I was 6.
I still get Vietnam flashbacks.
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Hello fellow Feebles watcher. I was about 12 when my parents left me home with this lovely "kids classic" to amuse myself.
I'm sure this movie is to blame for a lot of my... quirks....
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oh my God
I'd never heard of it so I looked up the synopsis on Wikipedia and holy **** I cannot believe the sheer volume of horrible things happening. every fucking line I was going "dear Lord, it gets worse???" I cannot imagine seeing this as a child. how did your parents not realize how fucked up it was and turn it off in the first couple minutes? I am astounded something like this even exists, what could possibly be the audience for this? people with a craving to just watch the world burn??? I simply do not understand. truely, you are most deserving of being at the top of this thread. if there were only one forget-a-movie pill made for all the world to share, I would give it to you, no question. my condolences for your murdered childhood innocence after watching that. holy fuck.
Lol thank you for your sympathies. I don't know the exact conditions for how my parents came into possession of this movie, but I was left to view it in its entirety without interruption. I appreciate the brains capacity to repress traumatic events - I only remember bits and pieces. Upon watching it as an adult, I was shocked to realise it was much worse than I remember.
The Matrix. Blew my fucking mind the first time I saw it. It's awesome on repeat viewings, but that first watch is magical.
Could you imagine forgetting The Matrix, but not the sequels?
Ironically…Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
I don’t remember anything about it. I saw it after chugging a bottle of Robitussin DM and rented it thinking “Oh, Jim Carey, this’ll be hysterical”.
It wasn’t.
Who hates that movie? I mean if you don't like indie romcoms... It's definitely not your standard Jim Carey flick.
It’s probably a great movie. But it’s a terrible film to watch when you’re robotripping and expecting a comedy.
But it’s the perfect movie to forget… because you’ll just up watching again anyway.
The Mark Wahlberg's planet of the apes.
It featured Helen Bonham Carter in full monkey makeup.
It awoke something inside of me that I wish had remained sleeping.
Ape* makeup. Not monkey. Ape. Have you forgotten the scene in which Mark Wahlberg's character called them monkeys and one of them got on him and corrected him?
I’m surprised no one has mentioned Fight Club as a thing to rewatch with no memory that would be amazing.
For a film I’d want to erase cause it was awful I’d go with the last Jedi I genuinely hated that film. Or Star Trek into darkness hated that also.
So tough. Three choices:
Enter the Void
Not4Sale - TV Sheriff and the Trailbuddies
Freddie Got Fingered
All three are the most incredible masterpieces I’ve watched for the first time while on LSD.
I think I’d go with Enter the Void.
I'd go with Freddie Got Fingered so I could experience it for the first time again
Excellent choice. If you haven’t seen the other two and are okay with doing acid, put them on with no context while tripping. It’s worth it.
Man if I could find acid anymore I'd love to. Magical stuff.
Will still check em out though, thanks for the recommendation.
Wish I could beam ya some. Snagged a vial when one was available, and that’s probably enough for the rest of my life hahaha
I developed a moderately effective technique to suppress memories to the point where they're functionally removed. Perhaps not coincidentally, I don't know of any movies I want to forget.
how do you know it works?
I have been reminded of events that I intentionally blocked out, and the resurfacing memories typically come with memories of me intentionally going through the process to forget them. Also, I've had fewer intrusive thoughts of momentary shame from long-distant social faux-pas, which is what I think I usually use it for. I don't think I've ever suppressed the memory of a substantially lengthy piece of media though; I don't think the technique is that effective over reasonable time scales.
Memento. But first I'd tattoo "Don't trust 'Memento'" on my stomach.
I was reading the comments and realized that most people would want to forget a good movie so you can enjoy it again for the first time. But the first thing my negative ass thought of is "well I really wish I could remove the movie Tusk from my mind".
Shit, same tho. They brought him a fucking fish at the end. What. The. Fuck.
Star wars sequels
Fucking Serbian Film. And eff your post for reminding my stupid brain that that film exists. /s
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The X-Files: I Want to Believe
I fucking hated this film. The Mulder and Scully parts didn't feel like "oh, they finally got together". They felt like slash fanfic. "we had a kid off screen and ~~it died~~, feel sad for us. Oh, also, we finally fucked." Stupid, stupid.
Edit - kid was given up for adoption, not died.
I thought they sent the baby away for his own safety.
It's been 20 years, I can't be 100% certain. I searched and I can't find any mention of it. All of the plot summaries don't discuss it.
Thank you! I was having no luck on DDG.
The Irishman. The fact that I lost 3 hours to that pointless slog is so painful I'd rather just forget all about it. I'll never get those 3 hours back, but at least the regret will be gone.
This movie was so bad and the worst thing about it was how everyone was praising it. Are they all just pretending to like it cuz it’s Scorsese?? It was such a piece of shit movie!
A Serbian Film
Battle Royale 2 or Waiting 2.
Both of them were sequels to movies I loved that nearly ruined the first one retroactively. Usually I just chock it up to bad movie, but those two were beyond painful to watch.
Probably something like An American Tail so I could enjoy it for the first time again after randomly stumbling upon it on my external hard drive.
I'm an avid movie watcher.
- Atonement
- Melancholy
- Devil Dog
You should have given the reason. Details gentlemen!
Gasper Noe's IRREVERSIBLE. It's brilliant and amazing and so very traumatic. But in more ways than I expected.
Gravity.
Every day, Gravity.
Requiem for a Dream - Especially now, later in life when I see addiction in so many people in my personal life.
It is a powerful movie on the various ways addiction can take hold of your life, even with doctor prescribed medication.
That being said, unless you're into the final scene with Jennifer Connoley, it's not something you'd necessarily want to watch again.
Side note, if you did enjoy it and want a look into mental health issues in a similar lense, among other things, Pi is a great movie by the same guy.
'a star is born'.
triggered back my suicidal tendencies so badly after 2 years.
I have watched Star Trek: Insurrection three times.
I know this only because three separate friend groups have all confirmed that I watched the movie with them.
I have no recollection of the film whatsoever.
So apparently, that one.
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I'd go with Back To The Future. Cozy and fun.
~~There are so many candidates. It is genuinely impossible to pick just one. But anything I watched on the recommendation of someone who refers to a snack as "a bit naughty" is on the list for being dull. I would keep "the human centipede" and remove "love actually". I would remove the English patient, but I've only ever been able to watch the first 10 minutes before falling asleep so it isn't taking up much room.~~
Edit: nope, the Truman show. My English teacher made us watch it 20 times looking for religious symbolism as a film analysis project. I'd gladly forget it.
Crystal Skull for me.. the first 3 Indiana Jones movies are near perfect, but all in different ways.. but the thing that ties them together is action, adventure, a simpl-ish story, some treasure, and they are beautiful. I was so pumped for Crystal Skull.
I was away for work, had a free night and there was a cinema a stroll away. I got a 6 pack of wild turkey and coke and started walking only to find it was about a 90min walk.. I was 6 turkeys deep but this was going to be magical, right? Nope, it was the biggest disappointment of a movie I have ever seen, then I had to walk 90mins back to my hotel reliving it.
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