# Ow! or really painful moments in movies/TV shows that got to you **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 14, 2009, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ow-or-really-painful-moments-in-movies-tv-shows-that-got-to-you/496458 "2009-05-14T21:20:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ow-or-really-painful-moments-in-movies-tv-shows-that-got-to-you/496458/21 "2009-05-15T02:32:29Z")
> [@Jihi](#): > > For me personally the unexpected hits me harder than something graphic. > > I just got done watching the season finale of Lost and… > > (Spoilers. Insignificant but just to be safe…) > > Jack getting hit in the head with the toolbox made me flinch. Nothing else did. I don’t even particularly like the character. I just wasn’t expecting it. I cringed when the rebar started flying. I just knew somebody was going to get impaled. ---
**Author:** ![Mitijea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Mitijea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mitijea)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ow-or-really-painful-moments-in-movies-tv-shows-that-got-to-you/496458/22 "2009-05-15T02:44:39Z")
> [@Jihi](#): > > For me personally the unexpected hits me harder than something graphic. That’s why the Pan’s Labyrinth scene with the bottle was so intense for me. Up to that point I thought I was watching a children’s movie. I had to turn it off for a few minutes in numbness as I comprehended what I’d just seen. Boy, did that look real, and I had zero idea that something like that would happen. I was not prepared at all. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ow-or-really-painful-moments-in-movies-tv-shows-that-got-to-you/496458/23 "2009-05-15T02:53:40Z")
In an earlier episode of Lost from this season: John Locke has a broken leg and has to get it set, but is in a backwater clinic with minimal supplies. The doctor sets it while he is still conscious and under no pain meds. ---
**Author:** ![Jihi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jihi/32/17768_2.png) [@Jihi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jihi)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ow-or-really-painful-moments-in-movies-tv-shows-that-got-to-you/496458/24 "2009-05-15T02:59:23Z")
> [@Mitijea](#): > > That’s why the Pan’s Labyrinth scene with the bottle was so intense for me. Up to that point I thought I was watching a children’s movie. I had to turn it off for a few minutes in numbness as I comprehended what I’d just seen. Boy, did that look real, and I had zero idea that something like that would happen. I was not prepared at all. Agreed, completely on this scene. I actually just saw Pan’s Labyrinth for the first time a few weeks ago, so I knew it wasn’t a childrens movie, but the bottle scene near the beginning still made me pause for a moment. It seemed to go on for an inordinate amount of time. :eek: (Even though it was only a few seconds…) ---
**Author:** ![mack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mack)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ow-or-really-painful-moments-in-movies-tv-shows-that-got-to-you/496458/25 "2009-05-15T03:31:45Z")
The tooth extraction scene in Cast Away. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ow-or-really-painful-moments-in-movies-tv-shows-that-got-to-you/496458/26 "2009-05-15T03:43:35Z")
> [@mack](#): > > The tooth extraction scene in Cast Away. Oh yeah, teeth stuff is awful. There is a scene like that in “Bug.” ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Gutgore\_Blooddrink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Captain\_Gutgore\_Blooddrink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Gutgore_Blooddrink)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ow-or-really-painful-moments-in-movies-tv-shows-that-got-to-you/496458/27 "2009-05-15T04:01:37Z")
If any of you have ever watched the short Cutting Moments, there’s a whole wonderful bathroom scene involving some steel wool that made me cringe. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ow-or-really-painful-moments-in-movies-tv-shows-that-got-to-you/496458/28 "2009-05-15T04:12:14Z")
> [@Kizarvexius](#): > > That famous film of Joe Theisman’s leg snapping during a football game. Blood, gore, and violence in general does not affect my stomach, but that one shot makes me want to throw up every time. If we are including real-life moments in sports, then Go For Wand’s breakdown in the 1990 Breeders’ Cup Distaff is the worst thing I’ve seen in person. I have yet to watch a replay, and I never expect to. Up to that point, that race was so good I began applauding the great race that had unfolded up to that point. And then it’s like the crowd noise fell off a cliff. ---
**Author:** ![Valgard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ow-or-really-painful-moments-in-movies-tv-shows-that-got-to-you/496458/29 "2009-05-15T04:25:46Z")
This, right at about 3:25 of the clip: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu-bQ2CB0vg) It’s from the bus chase scene at the beginning of Jackie Chan’s “Police Story 1”. Double-decker bus screeches to a halt and two guys fall off the top onto the cement. You think “Wow, I wonder how they made that look so real?” The bus stopped short so the stuntmen missed their target and what you see is exactly what happened. ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ow-or-really-painful-moments-in-movies-tv-shows-that-got-to-you/496458/30 "2009-05-15T05:15:01Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > Anything involving nosebleeds gets to me. Two weeks in a row, **er** showed things involving noses bleeding and it was awful. The second was them cutting inside a nose and blood gushing–it happened so fast I didn’t have time to look and the image skeeved me for days after. > > Greg Kinnear getting beaten up in As Good As It Gets is painful too. You mean like in speed where the bad guy sticks his fingers into someone’s nostrils and lifts up? That was a brutal scene. Pretty much the only thing I remember from the movie. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ow-or-really-painful-moments-in-movies-tv-shows-that-got-to-you/496458/31 "2009-05-15T06:03:50Z")
_Twin Peaks_-Bob killing Maddie. ---
**Author:** ![VanillaGorilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f9ae1b/32.png) [@VanillaGorilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VanillaGorilla)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ow-or-really-painful-moments-in-movies-tv-shows-that-got-to-you/496458/32 "2009-05-15T06:13:18Z")
> [@tiltypig](#): > > This will sound silly, but the scene where the guys in Jackass give themselves paper cuts between the fingers and toes. While the injury of it is minor, I have far more direct experience of that kind of pain than the graphic ultraviolence in various other movies. For some reason that got me thinking of a clip I once saw of someone cutting their tongue down the middle with a razor. Like a body modification sort of thing. It was bleeding a LOT, and looked just terrible. So while that’s not from a movie or TV-show, that’s still my contribution to the thread. ---
**Author:** ![SurrenderDorothy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/surrenderdorothy/32/1221_2.png) [@SurrenderDorothy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SurrenderDorothy)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ow-or-really-painful-moments-in-movies-tv-shows-that-got-to-you/496458/33 "2009-05-15T06:28:06Z")
Any time in any show they find someone who buried alive or trapped or whatever (like in a closet, a freezer, a car trunk, a well… I watch too many crime shows) and they determine that the victim tried to scratch his or her way out. Bonus points if they pull bloody bits of fingernail out of the door/wall/coffin lid/whatever. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ow-or-really-painful-moments-in-movies-tv-shows-that-got-to-you/496458/34 "2009-05-15T08:43:31Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > Oh yeah, teeth stuff is awful… Is it safe? ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ow-or-really-painful-moments-in-movies-tv-shows-that-got-to-you/496458/35 "2009-05-15T13:50:03Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > If we are including real-life moments in sports, then Go For Wand’s breakdown in the 1990 Breeders’ Cup Distaff is the worst thing I’ve seen in person. I have yet to watch a replay, and I never expect to. > > Up to that point, that race was so good I began applauding the great race that had unfolded up to that point. And then it’s like the crowd noise fell off a cliff. God… I can still remember her groom cradling the mare’s head, sobbing “Wanda, Wanda…” over and over. I felt sick, and still do when I think about it. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ow-or-really-painful-moments-in-movies-tv-shows-that-got-to-you/496458/36 "2009-05-15T13:53:14Z")
> [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](#): > > The curb stomp in _American history X_. Mostly because of how terrified the victim was. He knew what was coming. This is the only answer in my book. Every other scene of pain, torture, etc. goes out the window in comparison. Just an absolutely horrifying scene to watch. Oh - and the papercut scene from Jackass: The Movie. ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ow-or-really-painful-moments-in-movies-tv-shows-that-got-to-you/496458/37 "2009-05-15T14:23:59Z")
The hammer to the toes of “Porter” (Mel Gibson) in Payback. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ow-or-really-painful-moments-in-movies-tv-shows-that-got-to-you/496458/38 "2009-05-15T14:31:52Z")
Anything involving dentistry. Getting me to watch Marathon Man would be like pulling teeth. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ow-or-really-painful-moments-in-movies-tv-shows-that-got-to-you/496458/39 "2009-05-15T15:06:45Z")
There’s a curb stomp (except without a curb) scene in The Sopranos, too. Also hard to watch…though I haven’t seen American History X so I don’t know how it compares. ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2009, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ow-or-really-painful-moments-in-movies-tv-shows-that-got-to-you/496458/40 "2009-05-15T15:08:45Z")
Onscreen shaving accidents always get to me, but the part in The Wall where Pink is shaving off all his body hair… and a nipple. I almost passed out. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ow-or-really-painful-moments-in-movies-tv-shows-that-got-to-you/496458.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ow-or-really-painful-moments-in-movies-tv-shows-that-got-to-you/496458.md?page=3)