Movies that make you uncomfortable

[Waus]

So, I rented "Happiness" to watch with my roomie last night. Now, the movie was actually pretty good - but there was definitly a handful of scenes that made the room tense.

Seriously though, who would you really be comfortable watching a movie about pedophiles, phone sex perverts, and puberty with? Maybe I'm uptight, I mean - we did laugh at the parts where the dad was trying to drug the kids...but...

Happiness on IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0147612/)

[abcdefz]

A Berkeley freebie has (had?) a section of their review which was overheard comments from the crowd exiting a movie. For this one, they had a guy saying, "Calling that movie 'Happiness' is like calling 'Jaws' 'Dolphin!'"

I loved that. Never saw the movie.



Anyway.

There are certain movies that have a kind of ick factor, which makes me uncomfortable. The Shining, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Dead Ringers, and Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer all did that for me. I'm not sure if that's exactly what you're talking about.

[YoungRemy]

Philip Seymour Hoffman is incredible in that movie...

now that I think about it, its a great ensemble cast...

Dylan Baker, Cameryn Manheim, Jane Adams, Ben Gazzara, and even Jon Lovitz in his small role in the beginning...


"You think I'm shit? Well I'm Champagne..."

[jlees_mcsd]

For the most part I love horror movies, but I can't handle movies where anyone is raped,children die, or hate crimes are shown. I watched American History X and there is a scene that shows Ed Norton kill a man, OUCH!

[cookiepuss]

^ yeah that creaped me out in Amercan History X


I've said this a few times: Irreversible. the whole movie is uncomfortable from the first scene to the 12 minute violent ass rape scene. I wept.

[jlees_mcsd]

I never saw that one and from the sounds of it I won't be watchin' it now.
My sister-in-law watched Hostol and she couldn't handle it so now I DEFINETLY have to watch it.

[Lex Diamonds]

The other day my mother was watching some hard-hitting BBC drama about gay Thatcherite politicians in the 80's, and a bumming scene came on. As they bounced and grunted away, my mum turned to me and said "this isn't the kind of scene you'd want to be watching with your mother, eh?" I looked up from my copy of the Guardian Sport supplement and replied "This isn't the kind of scene I'd want to be watching with anybody, but at least I'm not watching it alone". With that, I returned to reading the latest daily news update on Wayne Rooney's fourth metatarsal. (y)

[Warrior]

brokenback in the mountain

[paul jones]

Titanic

pile of shit

[jackrock]

watching movies as a young adult with sex scenes in it and my parents around, made me feel akward at times.
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[jlees_mcsd]

Titanic? The fake one with Leonardo or the fake one made in the 50's?

[paul jones]

Titanic? The fake one with Leonardo or the fake one made in the 50's?

Leonardo

[DipDipDive]

That scene in Punch Drunk Love when Adam Sandler's character is at his sister's house gives me awful anxiety. I think that's the point, so it's very well done, but none-the-less, I don't enjoy watching it because it makes me insanely uneasy.

[Ace42X]

Trying to explainer the type-writer gay threesome sex scene in Naked Lunch to my mother. Ick.

Generally I am not particularly squeamish when it comes to fiction though. I think games have desensitised me. Real life operations though, where they show you blood and guts and bits of skin coming of sometimes make me really freaked out.

Also, the original poster's The Onion avatar amuses me greatly.

[jlees_mcsd]

Leonardo
I agree!!!!!!!!!
It sure wasn't no 'And The Band Played On'

[paul jones]

I agree!!!!!!!!!
It sure wasn't no 'And The Band Played On'
exactly(y)

[kaiser soze]

Gummo, Kids,

looks like HardCandy will make people twitch in their seats

[jennyb]

Gummo *shudders*

but I really like the movie Kids :confused:

[Randetica]

i "heard" schindler's list a few times but im not able to watch it
i really cant

though i dont mind watching second world war documentaries :confused:

[Chicka B]

Ummm, I was at my friend's house and we were Eurotrip. Her dad walked in right when it was on the scene where all them hairy naked dudes were running on the nude beach. That was mighty awkward. :p

[Waus]

Also, the original poster's The Onion avatar amuses me greatly.

Word. :cool:

[jennyb]

I hear ya on 'Natural Born Killers'... that movie bothered me too.

Oh and has anyone said 'The Exorcist' yet? Eek! Simply typing it weirded me out.

[enree erzweglle]

I have a terrible time watching violent movies. Especially if there's torture. I know it's a depiction, but it makes me ill to see it anyway. Movies like that and war movies--those are usually right out unless I stand to learn some previously unknown thing from watching them and even then, I deliberate for a long time and then usually vacillate bunches before going.

As for movies with an adult scene or two, I can see them easily with my family and friends. If I happen to see something like that with my dad, we usually just laugh about it. He'll go, "Oh Man" and then we have a laugh over it. But I wouldn't plan to see an adult-scened movie with my dad--like I wouldn't see 9 Songs with my him. What's the point of that.

[like2_drink]

grade 7, rock horror picture show thinking it would be a comedy. damn.