Grave of the Fireflies by Studio Ghibli. I love Ghibli movies, and this one was very moving, but if you’ve seen it you know why I won’t watch it again. Very powerful.
Very happy to own it, watched it in 4k. Will keep it forever. It will be a very long time until I watch it again. It was amazing, but if you’ve watched it you know why.
The Fountain, it’s one of those movies that just absolutely blew me away and I had to have it but I’m just never quite in the emotional state to revisit yet I still recommend. It’s breathtakingly beautiful and devastating. What Dreams May Come is a very close second, but I feel like after Robin Williams’ death it’s even more so, but the movie itself is just so beautifully done and heart wrenching.
I loved the fountain, too. It is so incredibly beautiful, and I’m glad to own it for the same reasons. I also can’t imagine when I’ll want to watch it again…
I watched it once as a kid when I saw it at the video store and rented it because the idea of a single film that spanned 4 tapes was insane. I haven’t watched it more than that one time. I don’t even really remember the plot or anything; but the boxed set looks hella nice which is why when I saw it for $5 at Suncoast back in high school, I snatched it up. I also couldn’t watch it even if I wanted to because it’s VHS and I no longer have a VHS player and it’s not like I can just go get one easily.
You should watch it again, it is excellent. Definitely a mini series though, not a movie. Basically an English sailor ends up shipwrecked in feudal Japan. I don’t want to give anything else away, it’s phenomenal. The book is absolutely one of my favorites as well.
in therms of a physical shelf, i have the back to the future trilogy i picked up for like 5€ in a yard sale. also the only movies i own on disk.
on my NAS, there are a lot of funky movies. i’m proud of all the shitty movies i watched just for fun, many of them will continue gathering dust on my hard drive.
I never watch a movie more than once unless it’s just happens to be already playing, and even then it depends if it’s actually worth watching a second time.
If it’s easier. You can think of the scenario being when browsing you have this reaction. “Yup! That’s a good ass movie” Skips to the next one everytime you see it.
This Tamil movie called Chittha that I watched recently. It’s a heavy subject (child abduction, implied child SA, and more), and most of the people I know skipped the movie including my wife and my parents (The movie actually kind of bombed at the box office because of how many people skipped it), but it was a damn good movie. As a father of an 8yo myself, it was a sobering must watch for me that I probably would never watch again.
I’ve got a solid one. Source code (2011), with Jake Gyllenhaal. And there’s a really specific reason for it because I do love that movie and definitely crack a smile when I see it in my libary. It’s that I just end up watching Inception instead.
Empire of The Sun and Fiddler on The Roof. Two classics, one with young Christian Bale, stupidity of war when people stop being humans, and second about dark Europe history but also love, family, getting older.
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