Post by: Monkeyleg on December 02, 2006, 01:03:11 PM
But when I watch "The Exorcist," I'm really disturbed by it. One reason is that it's very professionally-produced, which adds to the frightening aspects. But there's something else I can't identify that causes the movie to really unnerve me.
The other movie that really disturbs me is "A Clockwork Orange." It's not a violent movie by today's standards, but it bothers me because the violence is real. When I watch "Goodfellas" or "We Were Soldiers," the violence is remote. I'm not in the mafia, and I'm not in combat. But the potential for the kind of violence portrayed in "A Clockwork Orange" is always a possibility in my life or in the life of people I love.
What movies are especially disturbing to you?
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Post by: Monkeyleg on December 02, 2006, 01:56:29 PM
Agreed, though, that Jodie Foster was well-coached on her gun handling in that film. And Anthony Hopkins is brilliant in his role.
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Post by: Monkeyleg on December 02, 2006, 02:03:48 PM
The first time I saw it, I was on LSD.
Talk about a fun time.
Post by: Cosmoline on December 02, 2006, 02:16:00 PM
"Come and See" is HIGHLY disturbing. I don't like to watch it.
Post by: slzy on December 02, 2006, 02:43:43 PM
Post by: Dannyboy on December 02, 2006, 03:28:55 PM
Yeah, that would do it
"Come and See" is HIGHLY disturbing. I don't like to watch it.
Sure is. I bought it a few years ago and have only watched it once.
"Come and See" is HIGHLY disturbing. I don't like to watch it.
Post by: Stand_watie on December 02, 2006, 04:36:19 PM
Natural Born Killers and Something Wicked this Way Comes
I found "Natural Born Killers" to be very disturbing, but not at first viewing...it was the reflection on it
a) how likable a pair of mass-murderers could hypothetically be
b) a writer/director deliberately setting out to make mass murderers likable
That bothered me in retrospect.
Post by: roo_ster on December 02, 2006, 05:17:10 PM
"A Clockwork Orange" is disturbing 'cause it is pretty much occurring around us.
I thought "The Thing" (Kurt Russell version)was bowel-loosening when I saw it at a young age.
"Nat Born Killers" I though way over the top & too campy to be taken seriously as a movie. The mind that would produce serial-killer camp qualifies as disturbing, though.
The "squeal like a pig" & "you sure do have a purty mouth" scene in "Deliverance" gave me the willies as did the Edward James Olmos flick "American Me."
A couple of movies I have refused to see did their best to sympathetically portray pedophiles. One is "The Woodsman" with Kevin Bacon and the other is "American Beauty" with Kevin Spacey. Oh, there is another named "Happiness." There is a term that ought to apply to those who produce and participate in such, "Not fit for polite society."
Post by: Antibubba on December 02, 2006, 05:42:53 PM
Post by: mtnbkr on December 02, 2006, 05:47:35 PM
The Exorcist
Those are the only two that get to me.
Chris
Post by: AJ Dual on December 02, 2006, 06:49:23 PM
Not disturbing in the "scary" sense, just in the "I feel soiled" sense.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_Lunch_%28film%29
Post by: 280plus on December 02, 2006, 06:53:02 PM
I LOVE "A Clockwork Orange", I found it more like something to think about as opposed to disturbing.
Willard
Post by: Cosmoline on December 02, 2006, 07:52:50 PM
b) a writer/director deliberately setting out to make mass murderers likable
That bothered me in retrospect.
That bothered me in retrospect.
That was the whole point of the movie, but most people missed it. In films such as "Bonnie and Clyde" hollywood has tried to make sociopathic monsters into lovable characters. "NBK" tweaked this around, and juxtaposed this tradition with graphic violence and sadism. It's as though someone cast Warren Beatty as Clyde Barrow again, but this time showed him blowing the heads off innocent people as that animal Barrow did in real life. I'm not sure Stone really pulled it off, but I appreciate his efforts. Plus, the soundtrack from Leonard Cohen is fantastic.
FYI, here's a clip from "Jacob's Ladder" that's been stolen from many times in subsequent films and video games:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCZN60mBeaQ
Whoever uploaded it added some more music, I'm not sure why. But it's still disturbing stuff.
Post by: K Frame on December 02, 2006, 08:55:30 PM
The dentistry scene makes me very sick to my stomach.
Post by: brimic on December 02, 2006, 09:57:42 PM
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I thought "The Thing" (Kurt Russell version)was bowel-loosening when I saw it at a young age.
me too.I thought "The Dreamcatcher" was really disturbing.
Post by: S. Williamson on December 02, 2006, 10:08:35 PM
The Alien trilogy bugged me for the longest time, until I actually sat down and watched all three in a row to try to scare myself. Instead, they're now in my top 20 favorites because they're sci-fi.
The tiny bits of House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects that I've seen looked interesting to me, and indeed scary, but nothing to be too worried about.
The movie I refuse to see? The Day After. I did some growing up in Olathe, KS with family in Salina, Kansas City, and Lawrence. nowadays, just seeing the locations gives me chills.
Post by: BakerMikeRomeo on December 02, 2006, 10:19:52 PM
The Alien trilogy bugged me for the longest time, until I actually sat down and watched all three in a row to try to scare myself. Instead, they're now in my top 20 favorites because they're sci-fi.
I'm 100% with you on that. I was really little when I first saw Alien and Aliens, and they freaked me out. A couple of years later I busted them out to watch, and now Aliens will forever be in my top 5 movies.
~GnSx
Post by: S. Williamson on December 02, 2006, 10:24:49 PM
Post by: gunsmith on December 02, 2006, 10:42:38 PM
and wondered into a mostly empty movie theater in Manhattan
that played old and obscure and art films...
The movie that night?
Night Of The Living Dead
Over 20 years later the memory still disturbs me.
A 1930's film Freaks (one of us, one of us)
I saw a disturbing movie called crash in the mid nineties
about erotic car crashers, the next day Princess Di died..that was weird.
Blair Witch Project has to be one of the scariest movies ever.
Exorcist is terrifying because it portrays a modern family without
any beliefs dealing with an ancient demon.
There was a movie that dealt with aliens already being here and infiltrating
our society..."The Arrival" maybe? ...seemed plausible at the time
It had that freak sheen in it, I wasn't as politically aware then or I would not have watched it.
Post by: Headless Thompson Gunner on December 02, 2006, 10:46:56 PM
The opening scenes of 2001, with the apes and the big black monolith, were definitely disturbing. Not scary, just disturbing. Stanley Kubrick was one seriously messed up dude...
Post by: 280plus on December 03, 2006, 12:32:40 AM
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Post by: JAlexander on December 03, 2006, 06:33:42 AM
James
Post by: 280plus on December 03, 2006, 07:14:42 AM
"Rocky Horror" but that one was more disturbed than disturbing...
Post by: Unisaw on December 03, 2006, 07:28:53 AM
Post by: grislyatoms on December 03, 2006, 07:32:46 AM
The Shining. Kubrick was, indeed, twisted.
The scene in "Hannibal" where Dr. Lecter is feeding Ray Liotta's character his own brain, a little bit at a time. That scene made me physically ill.
Speaking of Dr. Lecter, the villain (Buffalo Bill, was it?) in "Silence of the Lambs" seriously creeped me out.
All I can think of for now.
Post by: 280plus on December 03, 2006, 07:33:23 AM
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When I was a little kid, the flying monkeys scared the crap out of me.
Me too man! Other parts that scared me was when the witch appeared on top of the house and threw that fireball at the scarecrow. Oh, and then when she was writing in the sky on her broom. Great kid's movie 
Post by: Ron on December 03, 2006, 08:30:40 AM
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A couple of movies I have refused to see did their best to sympathetically portray pedophiles. One is "The Woodsman" with Kevin Bacon and the other is "American Beauty" with Kevin Spacey. Oh, there is another named "Happiness." There is a term that ought to apply to those who produce and participate in such, "Not fit for polite society."
A long time ago I watched a movie with Clint Eastwood as a detective chasing a pedophile/killer. That movie made me depressed for days and I am happy that I can hardly remember anything about it now.
It was an early attempt at showing criminal profiling where the detective gets into the mind of the killer. Just creeped me out big time. I think Clint blows the guy away in the interrogation room at the end.
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Post by: wingnutx on December 03, 2006, 11:50:03 AM
Still no way I am ever going to watch that movie.
I won't watch movies like "Hostel" which are basically just about torture. Violence and gore I have no problem with as long as they are not the entire point of the film.
Post by: Felonious Monk/Fignozzle on December 03, 2006, 12:01:01 PM
The one that did a real number on me psychologically was Silence of the Lambs. Se7en was pretty intense, too.
Post by: grampster on December 03, 2006, 12:07:57 PM
Around the same time, The Creature from the Black Lagoon came out and then a bunch of warped critter movies where nuclear radiation made monsters of them.
It was the '50's. Lots of scary movies. Better than today as those movies built suspense up and up and up....not graphic, gratuitous violence and gore like today.
Post by: Matthew Carberry on December 03, 2006, 12:19:11 PM
The harming of the innocent when the hero is actually unable to do anything about it is what gets me. I don't fear much for myself, but the idea that I might be unable to help my loved ones is torture.
So the "wife disappears and the husband has to try and find her" movies get me. Frantic, the one with Kurt Russell on the highway, those movies bug me. Se7en worked because the killer was good and the cops were playing by the rules of police work.
Horror movies that just tick me off are the ones with the actually unstoppable villian. If the laws of physics (or even internal logic) aren't going to apply at all and there's no supernatural counter, what's the point of watching the movie? I'm looking at you Japanese movies.
Friday the 13th, Halloween, even vampires are not those kind of movies, they do go down occasionally (when hit with big enough stuff), and anyone with a lick of sense and decent resources would, instead of running off like a chicken, just cut off their hands and head and keep them in a bag for the rest of the movie and burn them to ash when they get the chance. The monsters have not shown, in the continuity of the movies, the ability to regenerate those parts and all are more or less harmless without heads and hands.
Big animals or mutants? If they bleed, we can kill them. So no "horror" there, just a hunter/hunted scenario.
So, it's only the realistic, competent, human monsters that get me creepy. Cape Fear is a good example. You have to be at the top of your game to take a guy like Max Cady. Though in the movies the protagonists very seldom take the expedient route of just aggressing against the threat and executing him first rather than waiting defensively. given a similar "real-life" scenario, I'd rather worry about getting away with the murder than I would waiting for him to choose the time and place. Which is why realistic movie protagonists are rarely modeled on former military and shooters. We actually have the "hammer" for "nail" problems.
Post by: gunsmith on December 03, 2006, 01:53:17 PM
shoots the bad guy ending the reign of terror.
Post by: Monkeyleg on December 03, 2006, 01:59:16 PM
The first time my wife and I watched that movie together, and Buffalo Bill was acting obviously psychotic, I turned to my wife and said, "reminds me of one of your old boyfriends."
The look I got was so cold that the furnace kicked in.
Post by: Volt on December 03, 2006, 02:42:55 PM
Post by: Cosmoline on December 03, 2006, 02:59:50 PM
Just the trailer for "8mm" freaked me out pretty badly, so I did a bunch of research on snuff films and found that the FBI and Scottland Yard had never found a real one in all their years of searching. That was very reassuring.
The irony is, in the post 9/11 world the once mythical snuff films are not only real, they've been seen by millions worldwide. It shows how once was once unthinkable can become commonplace.
One upshot is, the gore and sadism of so many films these days is laughable. After seeing real people get they're heads chopped off by some muslim a-clown who can't even do it right, the shocker films are a joke.
I find myself drawn more to films such as the original "Cape Fear," where the superlative acting and writing do the work.
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When I was a kid, I went with to see The Thing (The original movie) with my aunt and my dad. I spent most of the movie down on the floor of the theater I was so scared. I had dreams about that movie for months. Iirc, the monster was played by a young James Arness.
It's a very good film, and was a cut above most of the 50's monster movies. Howard Hawks himself had a big hand in it, and you can see his influence in the fast-paced, smart dialog and tight action scenes.
Post by: tyme on December 03, 2006, 11:35:22 PM
Suspiria
Session 9
Perfect Blue (1997) (anime)
Audition (1999)
Mercy (2000)
Hard Candy (2005)
For gore/fright, the ultra-modern Saw I/II/III, Hostel, Wolf Creek, and Hills Have Eyes (2006) are pretty bad.
Post by: 280plus on December 04, 2006, 12:31:48 AM
Post by: client32 on December 04, 2006, 03:31:03 AM
Just the trailer for "8mm" freaked me out pretty badly, so I did a bunch of research on snuff films and found that the FBI and Scottland Yard had never found a real one in all their years of searching. That was very reassuring.
Still no way I am ever going to watch that movie.
Still no way I am ever going to watch that movie.
Not familiar with 8mm, although the mere thought of snuff films reaches the heights of my personal taboos and fears.
I did see 8mm and didn't know what it was about when I went. That has been the only movie to disturb me.
There is a line in there where Joaquin Phoenix is accusing Nicolas Cage of enjoying the snuff films. Nick says nope, not me. Mr. Phoenix returns with, "well, you aren't exactly turning away." The lines comes at a point in the movie where most the audience has hardened themselves and is able to watch the violence. Many other un-nerving things in the movie, but that was the one that really got to me.
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Post by: Chris on December 04, 2006, 05:14:02 AM
8mm was truly disturbing, thinking in terms of those kinds of people living in the same world as me and my children.
Blackhawk Down is disturbing, thinking of how politics cost so many soldeirs their lives. But, at the same time, it is great to know and see the courage those same soldiers can, and did, exhibit when called upon.
Kiss the Girls as a film doesn't do the novel justice. SPOILER ALERT!!! The idea of a pair of serial rapists/killers working in unison, and feeding off of each other's "work" is frightening.
Post by: DrAmazon on December 04, 2006, 05:51:24 AM
Yech.
Post by: richyoung on December 04, 2006, 06:02:52 AM
"Dual" - the TV movie thta put Speilberg on the map - Dennis Weaver's traveling salesman verses the unseen psycho truck driver.
:The Great Vampire Hunters" - combination of the twist ending plus knowing what happened to Sharon Tate...
Post by: wingnutx on December 04, 2006, 06:08:11 AM
old Superman episode (the B&W kind with George Reeves) where these little guys came out of a really deep oil well shaft. Scared the living crap outta me. I thought scary looking little people lived under the ground. LOL...
That one scared me when I was a little kid.
Post by: Ezekiel on December 04, 2006, 08:56:57 AM
In a similar idea, I found Solaris to be highly disturbing: I hate it when a flick messes with my reality.
Overall though, portions of Apocalypse Now leave me quite unsettled...
Post by: Perd Hapley on December 04, 2006, 09:23:19 AM
I thought that he was corrupting his conscience to save someone else, and that was interesting to me. But maybe there were things going on that I didn't see.
Post by: gunsmith on December 04, 2006, 10:36:55 AM
(must be my refined nu yawk upbringing)
Henry portrait of a serial killer manages to be very disturbing without
any real gore (by movie standards) also River's Edge with Dennis Hopper and Crispin something
is a great disturbing movie...you need to see this one!
To Die For Nicole Kidman is pretty good.
Out of the Blue Dennis Hopper, Raymond Burr
Post by: wingnutx on December 04, 2006, 10:57:01 AM
Post by: Iain on December 04, 2006, 11:37:46 AM
Saw The Ring a couple of years ago and that just freaked me out. Had to watch two hours of Scrubs and Family Guy in order to get to sleep.
Post by: gunsmith on December 05, 2006, 01:13:57 AM
Dennis hopper was persona non grata and he ruffled a lot of
hollywood fur with his saying this is how the "easy rider" generation turned out.
This is a really disturbing film, not scary and neither is rivers edge, but really disturbing.
You will need a bath and a good cup of coffee afterwards.
Post by: LadySmith on December 05, 2006, 02:14:57 AM
I liked River's Edge, but then later befriended a girl who went to school with the real-life killer. She, like so many others, heard about it but thought the guy was joking. She swore she didn't go to the river.
Crash bothered me. Weirdo people.
The first movie to shock me was Caligula.
I was in a Roman mood, got it along with Gladiator without knowing the details. Same with Baise Moi, peddled as the French Thelma & Louise. Yeah, right.I like House of 1000 Corpses and Devils Rejects for their utter lack of any socially redeeming values.
I'd have to say Suspect Zero is currently the most disturbing movie for me thanks to Ben Kingsley's character. Got some serious mixed feelings about that boy.
Post by: gunsmith on December 05, 2006, 02:37:17 AM
is a movie about making apocalypse now, that slaughter scene???
Lets just say "no animals hurt in this film" truly doesn't apply!
I tried telling my friends that scene was real when used to see that movie all the time
on 8th street in NY for the midnight movies...they wouldn't believe...I could tell...
The horror, the horror.
Post by: 280plus on December 05, 2006, 02:51:43 AM
I watched it with a real live VN vet one time and he was calling BS throughout. He said no way would Duvall's character be strutting around the beach with artillery shells going off all around him.
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Post by: TarpleyG on December 05, 2006, 09:07:21 AM
Greg
Post by: ONE-SHOT-ONE on December 05, 2006, 10:00:48 AM
made me angery and sad more than anything.
the part where the street thug in "Ghost" dies and is drug below
gave me chills, probably because of my church background.
Post by: wingnutx on December 05, 2006, 10:02:18 AM
DISTURBING
Post by: 280plus on December 05, 2006, 10:03:02 AM
Now you're talking!
Post by: Strings on December 05, 2006, 03:14:13 PM
Unfortunately, WAY to many people equate "oh my god, that makes me want to puke" with "wow, THAT was scary!". Silence of the Lambs was a good thriller: Hannible was mostly nothing but gore...
Another REALLY good flick: From Hell. It's about Jack the Ripper, and (for the most part) tells the story without the constant gore-fest...
Post by: 280plus on December 05, 2006, 05:15:10 PM
Post by: ...has left the building. on December 05, 2006, 06:51:19 PM
Old Boy
or
Ichi the Killer
Post by: LadySmith on December 05, 2006, 11:29:40 PM
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What was that movie where Rosie O'Donnell dresses up like a dominatrix?
That was Exit to Eden, and (gasp) she uses a gun!
Post by: mike on December 06, 2006, 03:28:03 AM
Failsafe
The Bedford Incident
Post by: w turner on December 06, 2006, 05:50:45 AM
I know this one hasn't been mentioned yet, but the original SAW really got to me. I guess it was just the thought that this is one scenario that could theoretically happen. Funny thing is that it seems to be in the same pattern of Se7en and that one didn't really bother me at all.
8mm didn't bother me much, mainly because the existence of a true snuff film has never been proven.
The original Amityville Horror scared the poop out of me when I watched. 'Course I was probably all of 7 or 8 when I watched it too. The new one was one of the few good remakes.
W
Post by: Perd Hapley on December 06, 2006, 12:15:08 PM
Post by: 280plus on December 06, 2006, 03:18:43 PM
The BOOK about the Amityville horror scared me more than the movie. I was comforted ny the fact that spirits cannot cross water and I KNEW there was at LEAST a couple rivers between me and that house.
Post by: Perd Hapley on December 07, 2006, 04:31:04 AM
Fistful? Who's that?
Did I get the name right? I was talking about Kiefer's dad.
Post by: Silver Bullet on December 07, 2006, 05:19:09 AM
Novocaine (the scene where Steve Martin pulls his own teeth).
The Prestige. Maybe still playing at the cinema.
Post by: StopTheGrays on December 07, 2006, 07:07:01 AM
I remember another one from way back. Disturbing for a kid anyways. It was this old SciFi job where a flying saucer landed out back in the fields and glowed for a while and somehow it was discovered that the Martians were using some kind of ray gun to melt through the ground and were tunneling everywhere. We beat them in the end though. Anybody recall the name of that one?
Invaders from Mars? If so, there were two versions. One was B&W and from the 50s or 60s the other was in color from the 80s.I think the most disturbing to me was Monster Squad. You think it is a movie for kids due to the fact the main characters are kids but when you see arms and stuff being ripped off and LEOs being killed left and right it puts you off a little.
I will also include "Twin Peaks-Fire, walk with me". The movie is just way to out there and WTF-ish to be watched.
Post by: RevDisk on December 07, 2006, 03:44:20 PM
Heh, I watch plenty of horror movies. No problem, I find them amusing, or completely ruin them by debating with my friends what doctrine is best for dealing with zombies/vampires/ghosts/etc.
However, Silent Hill bothered me. I can't exactly articulate why, but it bothered me.
Post by: wingnutx on December 07, 2006, 03:48:02 PM
Post by: gunsmith on December 07, 2006, 04:53:23 PM
Not scary or disturbing.
the Paltrow character would tell her husbands partner before telling her husband
that she is pregnant?...
Now on with disturbing films which to me does not mean gore stuff.
my long misspent youth is finally paying off (I was a 35 year old teen)
Baxter A smart misanthropic dog kills the sweet little old lady, goes to new owner who have a baby
"a hairless useless creature" and almost kills the kid then gets adopted by a young nazi wannabe and is finally happy.
One scene the dog (a spuds mckenzie type of pit) just sits still while a toddler sticks her finger in the dogs eye...I winced.
Felicia's Journey A nice innocent Irish girl meets sick twisted British serial killer.
I give it thumbs up for really disturbing
Heavenly Creatures The true story of two teenage girls whose obsessive imaginary world led them to plot and carry out a grisly murder in 1952 New Zealand.
(they are both out of jail now btw)
Bad Boy Bubby a great,funny ,disturbed movie (which hollywood tried to replicate but couldn't it's an aussie film)
A guy is kept in his apt for 35 years by his mother with no contact with the outside world.
Who would have thought incest and murder and dead cats and plastic wrap could be so much fun?
In the Realm of the Senses I've seen this movie a bunch of times, every young man needs to see this Japanese film.
Well thats enough for now ...I will try to educate all of you as soon as I can remember more better
Post by: wingnutx on December 07, 2006, 06:13:24 PM
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I will also include "Twin Peaks-Fire, walk with me". The movie is just way to out there and WTF-ish to be watched.
I agree. I rented the movie without ever having watched the TV show and it totally ticked me off. It didn't make any sense and I hated how they set up scenes where someone you thought would be a major character appeared once, said a line or two, and then you'd never see them again.
I just watched The Grey Zone and found it disturbing. Then again, it is a Holocaust movie.
An older movie I found disturbing and creepy but really liked was the original Assault on Precinct 13.
Post by: richyoung on December 08, 2006, 04:31:28 AM
Post by: p12 on December 08, 2006, 06:15:04 AM
And, I have tried.
I read a book about altruism and human behavior just before that movie came out.
After reading this book the movie really has an impact on me.
I find it very distrubing that humans can be capable of such evil.
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Post by: Felonious Monk/Fignozzle on December 09, 2006, 07:41:20 PM
It was inspirational, in that I came away with huge respect for Spielberg and his Shoah(sp?) project, documenting the survivor's stories as fast as humanly possible in order not to lose any/many of the remaining (and rapidly dwindling) survivor stories. Disturbing in the up close look at the whole horror.
Shifting gears, one I must add:
Brokeback Mountain.
Sitting around with nothing to do one afternoon last week, channel surfing and it was coming on...I really liked Heath Ledger in 'Roar' and 'A Knight's Tale',
so, I watched it...
Big Mistake.
Such beautiful Wyoming scenery.
Not a bad musical score.
Such sick images framed by said scenery & music.
I apologize to any who are offended, but I have a hard time believing that the (Creator/the spaghetti monster/whoever you decide is your personal deity) is really cool with packing the fudge. I feel the need to pluck my eyes out, or dash them with bleach, or something to remove those images forever from my recollection. (where's the puke smiley?) :puke:
Post by: Monkeyleg on December 09, 2006, 08:14:16 PM
Hmmm.
"Schindler's List" doesn't upset me the way that "The Exorcist" or "A Clockwork Orange" do.
It upsets me in a much different way, one I can't describe. I never finish watching the movie without tears, and the same question that has nagged millions of people since the liberation of the death camps: why?
I've watched hundreds of documentaries about the slaughter and the absolute barbarism of those who ran them. I started reading about Hitler and the Nazi's when I was about thirteen or so and, 43 years later, I still don't understand.
"Schindler's List" isn't as graphic as the actual film footage from the death camps, nor does the movie depict some of the people responsible as the monsters that they truly were.
Perhaps that's why the movie is so successful. It puts a very human face on a very inhumane environment.
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Post by: richyoung on December 11, 2006, 10:40:34 AM
richyoung: "The Gauntlet?" Are we talking about the same movie, the one with Clint Eastwood and Sandra Locke?
Yep. The final delivery scene in the modified bus really struck me as an "irristable force vs. immovable object" conflict.
Post by: richyoung on December 11, 2006, 10:41:44 AM
Post by: Cosmoline on December 11, 2006, 11:05:55 AM
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'A Knight's Tale',
Now THAT'S a disturbing film! A cheesy B grade medieval tale set to "We Will Rock You" and "Low Rider"?? Everyone associated with that project should be drawn and quartered.
Along those lines, "Pearl Harbor" upset and disturbed me greatly. It wasn't just a bad film, it was a personal insult to every American and to everyone who fought in WWII. Michael Bay is fine with dippy action films, but giving him over 100 million to recreate WWII was a big mistake.
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An older movie I found disturbing and creepy but really liked was the original Assault on Precinct 13.
That's a real classic. The scene where the bullets perforate the precinct house with little noise and no soundtrack is fantastic.
Post by: Eleven Mike on December 11, 2006, 11:26:34 AM
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'A Knight's Tale',
Now THAT'S a disturbing film! A cheesy B grade medieval tale set to "We Will Rock You" and "Low Rider"?? Everyone associated with that project should be drawn and quartered.
Along those lines, "Pearl Harbor" upset and disturbed me greatly. It wasn't just a bad film, it was a personal insult to every American and to everyone who fought in WWII. Michael Bay is fine with dippy action films, but giving him over 100 million to recreate WWII was a big mistake.
I like Knight's Tale, but the leading lady's hair, make-up and wardrobe were most disturbing.
I've never seen Pearl Harbor, but I had a similar reaction to Saving Private Ryan. The idea of sending a dozen guys on a suicide mission to save one soldier who may have already been dead? Anyone who would make that decision should be drawn and quartered.
Post by: chaim on December 11, 2006, 06:08:40 PM
"The Others" with Nicole Kidman.
"The Beguiled" with Clint Eastwood
"Unbreakable" with Samuel L. Jackson and Bruce Willis
"The Sixth Sense", with Bruce Willis. So many of us have seen it so many times it has lost a lot of its shock value, but try to remember when you first saw it.
Post by: Guest on December 11, 2006, 08:08:32 PM
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I apologize to any who are offended, but I have a hard time believing that the (Creator/the spaghetti monster/whoever you decide is your personal deity) is really cool with packing the fudge. I feel the need to pluck my eyes out, or dash them with bleach, or something to remove those images forever from my recollection. (where's the puke smiley?) :puke:
I have a hard time believing someone could be dense enough to watch that film and not expect to see homosexuality in a controversial film about... homosexuals. Sorry if I offended anyone.