Great movies you no longer enjoy watching?

[Ray Jackson]

For me it would have to be Heat.

This has been in my top five for longer than I can even remember. But somehow I can't bring myself to watch it anymore. Part of it is the fact than I simply know it too well now that I've seen it so many times. But it's also due to the fact that I usually sink into a deep, debilitating funk for at least two days after I see it.

From the moment my beloved Neil steps off of that LA metro train at the very beginning of the movie, I can feel my heart breaking. The music is so haunting and the bitter end is so tragic.

The reality of his inevitable demise leaves me a broken man from the moment the opening credits start.

[Ray Jackson]

Sometimes I find myself screaming at the television set and imagining that Robert Deniro will somehow hear my words and get on that plane to New Zealand and forget about killing Waingrow.

"Don't do it Neil!....For the love of God, don't ROB THE ****ING BANK!!!...Leave Waingrow alone and get on the damn plane!...For God's sake, everything that really matters is sitting right next to you in the car!!!!!"

But it never works.

He never hears me.

He always dies in the end.

...and he will never go back.

[demonknight]

The Dark Knight Trilogy

[Al_The_Strange]

Maybe not "great" to begin with, but my enthusiasm over the Star Wars prequels has plummeted. I used to be so unapologetically in love with them, but last time I saw them, Eps I and II have dragged quite a bit.

[The Great Owl]

My friends and I wore out my DVDs of Office Space, Old School, and Eurotrip.

I'm pretty much over those movies now, and I have not bothered to upgrade them to Blu-ray.

One of these days, though, nostalgia will hit me, and I'll want to remember those days of quoting these movies all of the time with others.

[Don Corleone]

Back to the future

[Samus Aran]

Look up the TV movie L.A. Takedown. Then you'll have a much different viewing experience of "Heat."

[Pizzamorg]

Although I like to think of myself as a "Film Fan" there are very few films in my life that I've watched more than a dozen times and still enjoy the experience each time - even rarer I enjoy the experience on the same level. Guardians is the first film I've chosen to actually go to the cinema to watch multiple times other than when I was a child and family members would take me to see the same movie unaware I was already taken by someone else.

[Ray Jackson]

Originally Posted by Samus Aran

Look up the TV movie L.A. Takedown. Then you'll have a much different viewing experience of "Heat."

How so?

[Ray Jackson]

Originally Posted by Al_The_Strange

Maybe not "great" to begin with, but my enthusiasm over the Star Wars prequels has plummeted. I used to be so unapologetically in love with them, but last time I saw them, Eps I and II have dragged quite a bit.

I don't formally acknowledge the existence of these Star Wars prequels you speak of.

[Ray Jackson]

Carlito's Way is another great one I can't watch anymore.

The ending just kills me.

[Samus Aran]

Originally Posted by Ray Jackson

How so?

Because it was Michael Mann's original Heat idea in the form of a TV movie which he also directed. Michael Rooker was Bosko and Xander Berkeley was Waingro.

[L.J.]

Titanic comes to mind.

[Elvis]

What comes to my mind are some of the great comedies that I grew up with as a teenager. Caddyshack, Stripes, Vacation, Porky's, Up the Academy, Ghostbusters Animal House etc...they were great back in the day but I think I just have seen them so many times they are no longer that funny. That's why I don't have too many comedies in my collection they just don't have the staying power over the years.

[KubrickKurasawa]

I actually find it difficult with Blu-Rays uncompressed audio standard (usually) to watch movies with oldschool/lacking soundtracks/scores/sound editing.

It's actually the first thing I notice now when I re-watch anything I've seen in the past. I used to watch many movies on HBO/Cinemax/VHS/DVD in regular tv stereo with small stereo speakers. A lot of DVD's imho had less than stellar quality or 5.1 limited use mixes.

One that I used to really enjoy watching on a slow day was Goodellas on DVD, but after listening to the 5.1 on the B;u-Ray it bored me. So Goodfellas by Martin Scorsese I don't care to watch any longer, because the audio is so un-exciting. It was tolerable in 2 channel when I didn't notice audio, but now I expect more from the audio in movies now. That's evolution for you.

[AudioWarrior]

Originally Posted by demonknight

The Dark Knight Trilogy

One + for that! I tend to like Batman Begins the most though.

[A Sith Lord?]

Dark Knight Rises comes on HBO still, hasn't made it's way to cable TV yet.

I still enjoy watching it.

I don't enjoy watching Begins and Dark Knight on cable (TNT, Spike) because of the commercials. They're both long enough movies as it is, and to have to sit and wait for commercials is rough. It's a movie I have to watch continuously. I'm sure I'll feel that way about TDKR when it makes it's network TV debut.

I can still watch LOTR though, maybe not in it's entirety.

[Optimus-Prime-Rox]

Terminator 1 & 2.
Spider-Man 1 & 2.

[JimDiGriz]

Originally Posted by Ray Jackson

Sometimes I find myself screaming at the television set and imagining that Robert Deniro will somehow hear my words and get on that plane to New Zealand and forget about killing Waingrow.

"Don't do it Neil!....For the love of God, don't ROB THE ****ING BANK!!!...Leave Waingrow alone and get on the damn plane!...For God's sake, everything that really matters is sitting right next to you in the car!!!!!"

But it never works.

He never hears me.

He always dies in the end.

...and he will never go back.

Its not just you! I want an alternate version where he gets on the plane and the film ends

[KubrickKurasawa]

Originally Posted by Optimus-Prime-Rox

Terminator 1 & 2.

Yep I think this series became the 80's version of Star Wars, tied along with Back to the Future series.

Good soundtracks/sound editing, but the time-traveling idea's only intrigue the first few times imho. Plus time-travel will never work LOL! DUMB.