# Movies That Make You Cringe… **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 9, 2009, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-cringe/480490 "2009-01-09T04:48:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-cringe/480490/41 "2009-01-11T13:59:15Z")
Requiem for a Dream ---
**Author:** ![carlotta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@carlotta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlotta)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-cringe/480490/42 "2009-01-11T15:14:59Z")
King Lear. I figure it’s unlikely I’m ever gonna get around to reading the Shakespeare I didn’t get to in high school and college, so now that I have Netflix I will occasionally find a movie adaptation or filmed play of the ones I missed. I watched the King Lear with Ian Holm and very minimalist sets. I was like “What horrible people! And if I never see one person gouge another’s eyes out that will be too soon.” ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-cringe/480490/43 "2009-01-12T00:18:24Z")
I hear ya. I had the further cringeworthy experience of seeing a professional production of _King Lear_ with my classmates for a college English course. Then we discussed it in class the next day. They all loved it, I hated it with the burning heat of a thousand supernovas, and then I felt like a jerk even though I was just sharing my honest opinion. ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-cringe/480490/44 "2009-01-12T00:25:26Z")
> [@lobotomyboy63](#): > > Requiem for a Dream Why? ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-cringe/480490/45 "2009-01-12T00:38:08Z")
> [@Reply](#): > > Why? It was hard to watch them destroy themselves with drugs. When the guy shot heroin into his obviously infected arm, ewwwww! Then of course the famed Jennifer Connelly scene at the end. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-cringe/480490/46 "2009-01-12T00:54:40Z")
> [@carlotta](#): > > King Lear. > > I figure it’s unlikely I’m ever gonna get around to reading the Shakespeare I didn’t get to in high school and college, so now that I have Netflix I will occasionally find a movie adaptation or filmed play of the ones I missed. > > I watched the King Lear with Ian Holm and very minimalist sets. > > I was like “What horrible people! And if I never see one person gouge another’s eyes out that will be too soon.” Ooh, you’re gonna **love** [_Titus Andronicus!_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titus_andronicus)😃 ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-cringe/480490/47 "2009-01-12T01:06:16Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Ooh, you’re gonna **love** [_Titus Andronicus!_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titus_andronicus)😃 I had a (high school) Shakespeare teacher who had us read that first. She used it as an illustration that just because Shakespeare wrote it, it wasn’t good…at all. It was an interesting tack, but I think I would have rather had the time to read another good one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-make-you-cringe/480490.md?page=2)