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
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.
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.
Ah … but there was a point:
The grungy surgeon still held a grudge against Anderton (Tom Cruise) for a bygone arrest. I’m forgetting the surgeon’s exact motivation for agreeing to perform the eye exchange for Anderton (probably immunity from future prosecution), but I remember that the surgeon wanted to throw Anderton a few payback jabs while he had Anderton at his mercy. The rotten sandwich and milk were two such jabs.
Ah but bordelond
While I agree that there may have been an element of revenge in it, if you look in the fridge during that scene there is a fresh sandwich and bottle of milk in the fridge aswell. I did think it was strange that they brought up the fact that the guy had reason to hold a grudge and never did anything about it. Maybe it was a intentional ploy to make you think something was going to happen just to heighten the tension or maybe something ended up on the cutting room floor.
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.
Yojimbo, continuing from your spoiler above, I think the surgeon DID do something about it:
[spoiler]The surgeon certainly exploited the tables-turned situation to make Anderton as uncomfortable as possible during his eye-exchange recovery. I recall the fresh food in the fridge now … thanks for the reminder. I take the fresh food being there as perhaps part of the jab.
I really need to watch that scene again … didn’t the surgeon prepare the fresh sandwich in front of Anderton, who couldn’t see but could smell the good sandwich? 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?[/spoiler]
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.
The Last Starfighter. They showed:[ul][li]the Beta Unit in mid-development with its half-formed face “breathing” in and out[/li][li]Xur torturing a captured spy by laser-drilling into his skull (you could hear crackng noises just before they cut away)[/li]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[/ul]If I wanted to see that sort of stuff, I’d go see a cheap 1980s horror movie.
The Controvert
(sorry I did not see your spoiler…) oops.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
No, they were on different shelves. It was total chance that he grabbed the wrong one.
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.
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…:eek:
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.
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.