12 Great Recent Movies You'll Never Be Able To Watch Again
One and done.
Many great films are the ones you can watch over and over again. In doing so, you can even more enjoyment out of them and also discover more of their details and themes.
Then, on the other side of the coin, are great films that you can never watch again, usually due to them being too intense and upsetting for a second viewing; that's not a bad thing though. It's a sign of their strength and power.
Examples of this from the 21st century include: Requiem for a Dream, Dancer in the Dark, Pulse, The Road, 12 Years a Slave and The Revenant, which are all films you 100% should watch, but are very much one-and-done movies.
These following twelve films from the last few years can be added to that list as well. They're really worth seeing, but you're unlikely to want to see them again due to how hard-hitting they are.
In fact, in spite of how good these movies are, with some of them you should think carefully about watching them at all. They are not for the faint of heart...
12. Green Book
This one is a huge anomaly. Every other film on this list is something you won't want to see again because of the film's content, but this one is actually because of external factors.
Green Book has its issues, but it is a really, really nice drama film with its heart firmly in the right place that also has two wonderful central performances by Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali. So, what's the issue? It won Best Picture.
It's still hard to believe such an injustice actually happened. Green Book is a very solid film, but it's certainly not anywhere near worthy of Best Picture.
Given the huge number of films - including most of the other Best Picture nominees - released in 2018 that were better than this, Green Book winning Best Picture was a credibility-destroying blunder on the Academy's part.
As such, all the goodwill that you might've once felt towards it has probably vanished, and it's impossible to look at it now without thinking of it becoming the least-deserving Best Picture winner since Crash.
As such, few will want to revisit it and if they do, they're unlikely to be able to enjoy it much.