Gross!!!!

OpalCat · #1 01-02-2003, 08:03 PM

I hate it when a movie throws in something really gross totally gratuitously.

Example: Minority Report - the guy blowing his nose on the floor had nothing to do with the plot, and the rotten sandwich was pretty pointless as well.

What movies have grossed you out for no reason?

sleeping · #2 01-02-2003, 08:12 PM

I remember they specifically said "ONLY IN THEATERS!" for Minority Report, and now it comes out on DVD. Isn't that false advertising?

Freudian Slit · #3 01-02-2003, 08:14 PM

Well I know the eye thing wasn't really gratuitous, but it was just horrid to watch. First time in years I had to cover my eyes when something came on. Can't think of anything else, though...

Lobsang · #4 01-02-2003, 08:30 PM

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and the rotten sandwich was pretty pointless as well.

Pointless, but bloody funny! did no-one laugh at the cinema you watched it at?

I think films should have more irrelevant bits in. it makes it more realistic. afterall - life has lots of irrelevant bits.

OpalCat · #5 01-02-2003, 08:52 PM

I watched it on DVD and nearly retched. My mom also nearly retched. My husband said "ewww!". None of us appreciated it.

I don't mind irrelevant bits, I just don't like being grossed out for no reason. That scene with the nose-blowing, for example, has resulted in my not eating several meals because I'd remember it and lose my appetite. I am damned lucky I didn't throw up (since my surgery, I have a trigger stomach). Disgusting things don't go away for me, they resurface over and over, and they can and do actually affect my ability to eat, have sex, or sleep. Yes, that means I'm overly sensitive but there isn't a damned thing I can do about it.

So what other movies have grossed you out? (this wasn't meant to be a Minority Report thread)

Speaker for the Dead · #6 01-02-2003, 09:05 PM

Eighties version of Dune: Most scenes with the Baron, esp. the boils, and him pulling food out of Raban's (Feyd's?) mouth.

The Harkonnens are twisted, but they're not pointlessly gross.

Lobsang · #7 01-02-2003, 09:11 PM

While I would like it to be a Minority Report thread I will respect your will and set my mind to thinking of what films have grossed me out. It may take a while, as I am not easily grossed out. (and it is impossible to gross me out to the point where I would be put off my dinner)

Cisco · #8 01-02-2003, 09:13 PM

Opal - you probably already know this but that's what the filmmaker's are shooting for. They want their film to stick with you, even if it's not in an entirely positive way.

That said, the kid in Harry Potter puking those slugs kind of irked me a bit.

OpalCat · #9 01-02-2003, 09:16 PM

Cisco: yeah, but it would make me not go to another movie by that director in the fugure.

teela brown · #10 01-02-2003, 09:20 PM

The astronaut yarping up his breakfast in zero G in Apollo 13 left me feeling nauseated for days.

Lobsang · #11 01-02-2003, 09:20 PM

OpalCat so, no more Steven Spielberg films?

Eats_Crayons · #12 01-02-2003, 11:02 PM

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Originally posted by Lobsang
Pointless, but bloody funny! did no-one laugh at the cinema you watched it at?

I think films should have more irrelevant bits in. it makes it more realistic. afterall - life has lots of irrelevant bits.

As a matter of fact, when I saw it no one did laugh at that scene. It was too obvious a set up and a guy at the back groaned "oh, and I bet the milk too."

CSI has the only stuff that manages to gross me out fairly often. I have a stron squeamish threashold, but somehow it always works out that I'm eating something when CSI comes on and then I get yucked out.

OpalCat · #13 01-02-2003, 11:14 PM

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Originally posted by Lobsang
OpalCat so, no more Steven Spielberg films?

Well I know Spielberg from other stuff. If I see a movie from a director I'm not very well aquainted with, that would make me want to avoid them in the future.

FordPrefect · #14 01-03-2003, 12:04 AM

I haven't seen the movie, but having worked 7 winters outdoors, all I can say is whoop-de-doo. It is snot, and I would rather see it blown onto the floor than dripping down the upper lip...

OpalCat · #15 01-03-2003, 01:28 AM

It was a LOT of snot, dripping and dangling like gooey icicles from his nose. It was disgusting. He was in his own house, why not just use a tissue?

Cisco · #16 01-03-2003, 01:53 AM

Opal I can't quite remember which scene you're talking about. Are you talking about the doctor guy? The guy that played the nihilist in the Big Lebowski and the psycho in Fargo? Wasn't he supposed to be a drug addict in this movie? Maybe he just had nasal diarrhea from whatever drugs he was doing.

I must admit to having no idea where they were trying to go with that character though. First he gives cruise a shot and says how he's gonna get him back for sending him to jail, then he operates on him just like he was supposed to and leaves. Wtf?

SlickRoenick · #17 01-03-2003, 02:06 AM

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom dinner scene.
The Exorcist throat operation scene.

I can't remember anymore "gross-me-out" scenes.

Keith Berry · #18 01-03-2003, 03:07 AM

The hidden-room concealed behind the diaherra-and-shit splattered bathroom in Desperado.

That was just plain disgusting.

Of course, there's a lot of movies that are just gross all the way through, but I figured I'd cite an example of a singular nasty scene from a otherwise average movie.

Typo Negative · #19 01-03-2003, 05:30 AM

I never need to see any character pee or vomit. It adds nothing to the story. Especially peeing. I remember when Jessica Lang sqatted by the river in Rob Roy, I thought "why the heck would you want film that??"

The Controvert · #20 01-03-2003, 09:22 AM

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Originally posted by spooje
I never need to see any character pee or vomit. It adds nothing to the story. Especially peeing. I remember when Jessica Lang sqatted by the river in Rob Roy, I thought "why the heck would you want film that??"

Possible spoiler:

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yojimbo · #21 01-03-2003, 09:35 AM

Spoiler:

The guy blowing his nose made sense to me. Cruise was going to a dodgy place to get an illegal operation done. The snot blow added to the impression of how much of a low life this guy really was. The rotten food added to Cruise's disorientation as he was expecting a fresh sandwich and as far as he was concerned he'd been lied to.

Ok both things aren't necessary to the plot but the snot blow barely registered with me and I found the sandwich and milk mix-up funny. YMMV

SlickRoenick · #22 01-03-2003, 09:53 AM

I thought of another one:

Jackass: The Movie I didn't need to see that idiot pee on a snowcone then eat it and puke it up 20 seconds later.

KneadToKnow · #23 01-03-2003, 10:00 AM

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Originally posted by sleeping
I remember they specifically said "ONLY IN THEATERS!" for Minority Report, and now it comes out on DVD. Isn't that false advertising?

Maybe I'm being whooshed here, but you do understand that saying a movie that's out in theaters is "ONLY IN THEATERS!" doesn't mean that it's only ever going to be in theaters, right? That after it's in theaters, it's liable to be on home video, on pay cable, on regular cable, and available on street corners as pirated video, right? (Not necessarily in that order.) "ONLY IN THEATERS!" means "Authorized presentations of this film are currently only available in theaters, so don't buy that $4 DVD from the hash dealer on the corner."

This reminds me of a patron who came in a few weeks ago just after a big ice storm. She remarked that she had heard that there were "Trees down all over the county," and so found it strange that so many were still standing nearby. I looked at her the way my dog looks at me when I speak German to him and said, "You know that doesn't mean every tree in the county is down, don't you?" She honestly didn't seem to understand that, and my helping hint seemed only to confuse her further.

bordelond · #24 01-03-2003, 10:08 AM

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Originally posted by OpalCat
... and the rotten sandwich was pretty pointless as well.

Ah ... but there was a point:

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yojimbo · #25 01-03-2003, 10:14 AM

Ah but bordelond

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Goofus · #26 01-03-2003, 11:50 AM

I can't say it was there for no reason, but here's a gross scene I'll always remember: Ewan McGregor entering the (worst) toilet (in Scotland) in Trainspotting.

I still hesitate to go inside a public bathroom.

bordelond · #27 01-03-2003, 12:01 PM

Yojimbo, continuing from your spoiler above, I think the surgeon DID do something about it:

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Siemsi · #28 01-03-2003, 12:09 PM

spooje

Wasn't Jessica Lange's character trying to **ahem** clean up her privates after being raped? I don't think she was peeing.

Still, it is quite disturbing.

tracer · #29 01-03-2003, 12:11 PM

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Originally posted by OpalCat
What movies have grossed you out for no reason?

The Last Starfighter. They showed:

the Beta Unit in mid-development with its half-formed face "breathing" in and out
Xur torturing a captured spy by laser-drilling into his skull (you could hear crackng noises just before they cut away)
The Starfighter game machine causing the xan-do-xan's disguise to crack and fall away from its face with all sorts of oozing slime

If I wanted to see that sort of stuff, I'd go see a cheap 1980s horror movie.

Siemsi · #30 01-03-2003, 12:11 PM

The Controvert

(sorry I did not see your spoiler...) oops.

Velma · #31 01-03-2003, 12:18 PM

Not only in a movie, but I also can't stand overly gross things on TV. It is more annoying now than ever, because of the popularity of shows like Fear Factor and the episodes of survivor where the contestants eat disgusting things. I avoid shows like this for that reason, but do they need to keep advertising those scenes over and over? I hate it because those images stick with me, too. Attention advertisers...I turn off shows with scenes like this! they are disgusting and literally make me feel sick to my stomach...not a good association to have with your product.

It's like a competition now of what show can be the most 'outrageous' and shocking by being gross.

I really can't stand to watch people vomit in films, either. Really, we understand what they are doing, do we actually have to see it come out?

ruadh · #32 01-03-2003, 12:18 PM

Well I wouldn't say it exactly grossed me out, but I found it disappointing that the Blair Witch disembowled her victims. It seemed like a cheap, gratuitous appeal to the popular Friday-the-13th school of icky horror films rather than the infinitely superior IMHO psychological horror films which I thought TBWP really was, or should have been.

Kaio · #33 01-03-2003, 02:42 PM

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Originally posted by Siemsi
Wasn't Jessica Lange's character trying to **ahem** clean up her privates after being raped? I don't think she was peeing.

Well, since it's already been spoiled...

actually, there are two riverbank scenes. The first one has her getting up in the morning and squatting at water's edge to pee. The second is the post-rape scene, where she's up to her hips in water.

Max Carnage · #34 01-03-2003, 03:20 PM

Not really 'no reason' since I think the movie was made just FOR the reason of grossing people out, but I've never been able to sit through an entire viewing of Peter Jackson's Dead Alive. After that movie I will NEVER eat custard again.

Avalonian · #35 01-03-2003, 03:30 PM

The thing with the eyes got to me in Minority Report. My wife felt it was gratuitous, I didn't. I felt it was meant to make you uncomfortable, and it did. Especially me... I'm not squeamish in general, but nasty stuff happening to eyes gets to me. On the other hand, I though the part where he had to chase his eyeballs as they rolled down the hallway was hilarious, in a good way.

[hijack]I'm not a big Spielberg fan, but I thought Minority Report was one of his best films in a long time. It worked on several levels, not the least of which was a subtlety very rare in a Spielberg film. I haven't been this happy with a Spielberg movie since Close Encounters. One of the reasons for this was exactly what OpalCat didn't like -- the fact that some elements of the film just seemed random.[/hijack]

Gratuitous moments in a movie rarely gross me out... mostly because they're gratuitous. That never gets under my skin. However, a well-placed disturbing scene can really bother me. A few come to mind...

The disembowelment at the end of Braveheart is positively excruciating for me, mostly because you can't really see what's happening. What the executioner is actually doing is left entirely up to the imagination (with helpful sound effects), which makes it even worse.

The trachaeotomy (sp?) scene in The Princess and the Warrior made me squirm quite a bit, only because it's very real. Touching, in a way, but also extremely uncomfortable.

The scene in Blade Runner in which Roi Batty pops out Terrell's eyes and crushes his skull used to be impossible for me to watch, but I've mostly gotten over it now. Again, most of the really grisly stuff is left to the imagination.

OpalCat · #36 01-03-2003, 09:52 PM

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Originally posted by bordelond

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Then later, when the still-blind Anderton reached for the frontmost of the two sandwiches in the fridge, it was the previously-planted rotten one. Wasn't that how it went?

No, they were on different shelves. It was total chance that he grabbed the wrong one.

OpalCat · #37 01-03-2003, 09:53 PM

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Originally posted by Velma
Not only in a movie, but I also can't stand overly gross things on TV.

I actually, literally, physically threw up after watching the SNL sketch where the family chewed the food for the (brother?) and then spit it into his mouth and he ate it. God just remembering it is making me gag.

Freudian Slit · #38 01-03-2003, 10:12 PM

Oh I remember that one! With the girlfriend. I've always wondered- were they actually doing that? I know it's live...but could you actually get actors to do that? I have to say I'd rather go into prostitution than do what they did...

False_God · #39 01-03-2003, 11:02 PM

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Originally posted by Goofus
I can't say it was there for no reason, but here's a gross scene I'll always remember: Ewan McGregor entering the (worst) toilet (in Scotland) in Trainspotting.

I still hesitate to go inside a public bathroom.

I was in Edinburgh in 98, and went to Leith for the ambience of Trainspotting. We had a great lunch by the Water of Leith, but we stopped in at a workingman's club on the way back. I found that bathroom. Peed from the door and went back to the hotel and scrubbed everything with rubbing alcohol.

OpalCat · #40 01-03-2003, 11:13 PM

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Originally posted by Zoggie
Oh I remember that one! With the girlfriend. I've always wondered- were they actually doing that?

Yes they actually did it. There was one sort of closeup where it was absolutely clear, and the guy on the receiving end looked like he was gonna puke for a minute.

CanvasShoes · #41 01-03-2003, 11:18 PM

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Originally posted by OpalCat
I actually, literally, physically threw up after watching the SNL sketch where the family chewed the food for the (brother?) and then spit it into his mouth and he ate it. God just remembering it is making me gag.

SNL, the "head wound" guy. I KNOW it was just karo syrup with food coloring, but watching the dog lick his "head wound",,,
ERRRRK!!!

I just about lost my cookies. And I'm not a wuss, I'm a mom, changed many a diaper, have seen many ugly "owies" and I nursed two very sick puppies through parvo. (you do NOT want to know what kinda stuff comes out both ends of puppies on the edge of death).

Peloquin · #42 01-04-2003, 07:36 AM

Ahh, but the sheer, accidental genius of "Massive Headwound Harry," is that the dog got a bit overzealous and started to gnaw on Dana Carvey's wounded scalp. If you look carefully, you can see Carvey valiantly trying to hold on to his flesh wound lest the beast tear it off and run away to feast upon it.

YUM!

OpalCat · #43 01-04-2003, 09:22 AM

Yeah but when it sort of stretches, it's pretty urg-inducing! Heh.

Sagasumono · #44 01-04-2003, 11:14 AM

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Originally posted by Zoggie
Oh I remember that one! With the girlfriend. I've always wondered- were they actually doing that? I know it's live...but could you actually get actors to do that? I have to say I'd rather go into prostitution than do what they did...

Then seeing it done live may or may not puke you out more. I actullay hated that sketch. My Japanese brother Riki has Muscualr Dystrophy and that IS the way he has to eat. His mother pre-chews his food for him,puts it on a spoon,then he eats.

That being said SNL can go to hell.

bordelond · #45 01-04-2003, 11:16 AM

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Originally posted by OpalCat
No, they were on different shelves. It was total chance that he grabbed the wrong one.

Okay. Thanks for the reminder ... I need to really watch the movie again. It's been over six months.

Still, I stick with my "not gratuitous" stance.

OpalCat · #46 01-04-2003, 11:38 AM

Ack! I think I'd use a food processor :X

Badtz Maru · #47 01-04-2003, 11:38 AM

Has anyone mentioned the gremlin in the microwave yet?

Starship Troopers has a ton of gross-out scenes. The brain-sucking scene was really gross, though not as graphic as some of the other scenes.

Badtz Maru · #48 01-04-2003, 11:44 AM

Oh yeah, The Fly with Jeff Goldblum...the fingernails, the vomit slurping, the compound fractures, the final transformation, the monster's demise...all incredibly gross.

Incubus · #49 01-04-2003, 12:27 PM

In the Fly, when he was arm wrestling that guy and he snapped the other guy's arm...made me cringe for a looooong time. Though stuff like vomiting/bleeding doesn't usually faze me.

Even when I saw Aliens for the first time as a child,

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didn't gross me out. I gave an

at first, but my dad explained, "don't worry, he's just a robot"