Great Films You Can Only Watch Once

I hated The Towering Inferno with a vengeance.
As a deck cadet in the Merchant Navy one of the jobs we were expected to do was to be the projectionist for the weekly film shown in the officers' bar/dining saloon. I was on a 314000 tonne supertanker when one of the films we received was Towering Inferno (5 reels).. Because of the watchkeeping system I had to show it twice in one evening and hand rewind the reels after both showings. The film freaked out our captain because the accommodation superstructure on the vessel was 6 decks high including the navigating bridge. For the next two days I was given the job of making a lifeline for each side of the bridge that reached down to the maindeck. 3" mailla rope straight off the coil, figure of eight knot every 5 feet because the captain was a short-a**e. Was he overreacting? Well, if the situation was so bad that it was impossible to get down from the bridge using the internal stairs, either of the port/starboard bridgewing ladders (that's stairs again for the landlubbers) , or via the walkway from bridge deck to the door in the funnel casing and down the internal ladders then even Newman and McQueen wouldn't have had a hope in hell of saving us.

Requim for a Dream. Brilliant film but massively depressing.

Most of the fav war movies tbh

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest is another

You could probably add Joker to this as well.

The Game

Bit surprised really. One Flew Over the Cookoo's Nest, Untouchables and Usual Suspects I've seen loads of times and still love

comment by Biglaa (U5954)
posted 3 hours, 34 minutes ago
Bit surprised really. One Flew Over the Cookoo's Nest, Untouchables and Usual Suspects I've seen loads of times and still love
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Untouchables I could and have watched quite a few times

All Quiet On The Wester Front.
Great film but soooooo long.

comment by *Michael Edwards FC {Proud owner of the 5 000 000th comment} Super Premier European Champions of the World (U2720)
posted on 4/5/20
You could probably add Joker to this as well.
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Yeah depressing, won’t watch again despite it being very good.