Chad picked up on my un-expounded upon theme in his comment below about Shrek 2: there are some films that are just excellent but you simply don’t think to look at. In that category I would list: Shrek & Shrek 2, Chicken Run, Dave, Toy Story and Toy Story 2, etc. Then there are flicks that are incredible but too painful to watch over and over again: Lost in Translation, and Leaving Las Vegas come to mind.
The latter film I watched once, went on a bender sufficiently similar to the main character’s that I woke up in the middle of the night with the delirium tremens and had to have a drink to go back to sleep. I decided I’d never need to see that film again. It wasn’t the bender that bothered me – an occasional incapacitating bender is good for the soul – it was that the film was so powerful and so melancholy that it would be physically painful to watch it again.
What flicks am I missing? I know there are others.