Some people want to be able to watch a movie “for the first time” all over again. Others want to forget a rubbish one. If you could remove just one movie from your memory, which would it be?
Meet the Feebles
My parents thought it was the muppets. I watched it when I was 6.
I still get Vietnam flashbacks.
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.
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…
Kids classic is right!
That’s why I donated copies of it to every child care centre in a fifty mile radius.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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 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”.
Memento. But first I’d tattoo “Don’t trust ‘Memento’” on my stomach.
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.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Star wars sequels
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.
Gasper Noe’s IRREVERSIBLE. It’s brilliant and amazing and so very traumatic. But in more ways than I expected.
Eat Pray Love. My girlfriend asked me to watch it with her and it was shit. Oddly, she didn’t like Wolf Creek.
Spirited Away. I’d love to see that movie again for the first time. So beautiful and magical
