# Scenes That Are Almost Too Uncomfortable/Awkward to Watch **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 22, 2008, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-that-are-almost-too-uncomfortable-awkward-to-watch/446449 "2008-04-22T20:42:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-that-are-almost-too-uncomfortable-awkward-to-watch/446449/61 "2008-04-24T03:14:50Z")
I haven’t seen _The Forty-Year-Old Virgin_, and don’t plan to anytime soon. There’s a great scene in _Chasing Amy_; the one where Holden and Alyssa are in his pickup truck in the rain, and he pulls over to the side of the road and tells her how he feels about her, even though he knows he has no chance. It hits a little close to home, but it’s done well enough to be hopeful, too. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_in\_second\_hand\_clothing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9d8465/32.png) [@wolf\_in\_second\_hand\_clothing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_in_second_hand_clothing)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-that-are-almost-too-uncomfortable-awkward-to-watch/446449/62 "2008-04-24T05:42:26Z")
I can’t watch _The Steve Wilkos_ show. You know that bald guy who worked security for _The Jerry Springer Show_? They gave him his own daytime talk show right before _Jerry_, but instead of being lighthearted and mostly about making fun of red necks or fatties, they’re _all_ about children being molested or something equally depressing. ---
**Author:** ![tesseract](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bb73d2/32.png) [@tesseract](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tesseract)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-that-are-almost-too-uncomfortable-awkward-to-watch/446449/63 "2008-04-24T07:46:12Z")
The sex scene in Monster’s Ball with Halle Berry and Billy Bob Thornton. Ack. ---
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-that-are-almost-too-uncomfortable-awkward-to-watch/446449/64 "2008-04-24T08:15:47Z")
**Hard Candy**. You know the scene. ---
**Author:** ![BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-that-are-almost-too-uncomfortable-awkward-to-watch/446449/65 "2008-04-24T09:01:32Z")
The “suck me, beautiful” scene from American Pie. ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-that-are-almost-too-uncomfortable-awkward-to-watch/446449/66 "2008-04-24T09:28:13Z")
Any scene where the “cool kids” are playing some horribly nasty (likely permanently scarring) prank on an unfortunate “geek” or misfit and the movie plays it as something cool and funny. ---
**Author:** ![Tristan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tristan/32/18058_2.png) [@Tristan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tristan)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-that-are-almost-too-uncomfortable-awkward-to-watch/446449/67 "2008-04-24T09:33:02Z")
[QUOTE=Kinthalis] But That doesn’t make sense at all. Unless I’m misremembering, the guy having a panic attack is just outside the door with his rifle, right? After the German soldier kills Chandler’s psycho roommate, he leaves the room and what, just walks by the armed American soldier? I recall him doing just that. Why would some random German soldier let him live and remain armed? This is the main reason why I thought it had been the previous soldier who they let live. It would make more sense that way since he was returning the favor. I have to re watch this movie. Sorry for the hijack btw, love these threads! [/QUOTE] It’s really the ultimate insult. The German, CLEARLY a warrior, and an effective soldier, doesn’t even have to worry about this pathetic child who is caught up in the maelstrom. He couldn’t help his freind, he’s clearly freaked out, and thus is not worth worrying about. Pretty sad, and I imagine that guy (I can’t remember if he makes it or not) is done for. Mentally, he is broken. ---
**Author:** ![Illuminatiprimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/illuminatiprimus/32/11520_2.png) [@Illuminatiprimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Illuminatiprimus)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-that-are-almost-too-uncomfortable-awkward-to-watch/446449/68 "2008-04-24T12:43:54Z")
[QUOTE=Robot Arm] I haven’t seen _The Forty-Year-Old Virgin_, and don’t plan to anytime soon. [/QUOTE] You should, it’s really good (and I’m not speaking as a typical lame-ass comedy fan type either). ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-that-are-almost-too-uncomfortable-awkward-to-watch/446449/69 "2008-04-24T13:53:16Z")
My wife can’t stand to watch the Gimp scene in **Pulp Fiction**. Me, I laugh. ---
**Author:** ![Ichbin\_Dubist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ichbin\_Dubist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichbin_Dubist)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-that-are-almost-too-uncomfortable-awkward-to-watch/446449/70 "2008-04-24T13:59:05Z")
The scene is _Happiness_ was the first thing that came to my mind. So I’ll kick in with: just about every scene involving the girl Jeliza-Rose and another character in Terry Gilliam’s seemingly invisible movie [Tideland](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0410764/). Not to spoil too much, but it’s the story of a horrific childhood seen through a child’s eyes: junkie parents, abandonment, death, insane neighbors… the whole movie is one big squirm. Hell, on the DVD Gilliam essentially _apologizes_ for it at the beginning, ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-that-are-almost-too-uncomfortable-awkward-to-watch/446449/71 "2008-04-24T14:05:15Z")
double post deleted. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-that-are-almost-too-uncomfortable-awkward-to-watch/446449/72 "2008-04-24T14:05:12Z")
[QUOTE=Tristan] It’s really the ultimate insult. The German, CLEARLY a warrior, and an effective soldier, doesn’t even have to worry about this pathetic child who is caught up in the maelstrom. He couldn’t help his freind, he’s clearly freaked out, and thus is not worth worrying about. Pretty sad, and I imagine that guy (I can’t remember if he makes it or not) is done for. Mentally, he is broken. [/QUOTE] My take on it was rather different: that the German guy was so shaken by the (very personal) killing he just did, that he simply hadn’t the heart for more. ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-that-are-almost-too-uncomfortable-awkward-to-watch/446449/73 "2008-04-24T14:17:46Z")
[QUOTE=gallows fodder] Almost all of [Nathan Barley](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=463100), which I found more painful than _The Office_. (Dude, I know – I didn’t think it was possible, either.) There’s a scene in the first episode in which the one remotely sympathetic character quits his job in a bridge-burning fiesta (painful), then goes on an extremely awkward interview in which he humiliates himself and ends by begging for the job (even worse), and then you see him trudging back to his old job and miserably pretending that his enthusiastic "fuck you!"s had just been a joke (so uncomfortable it took me a few tries before I could make it through the whole scene). And that’s just the first episode. Each passing episode is more and more agonizing. Despite demanding that its audience be made of masochists, it’s actually a good show. [/QUOTE] I would disagree, I found that one of the worst shows on british television by a long shot, made all the more worse by the two talents who wrote it. It was at least 5 years too late on what it was satirising, and it satirised all the easy targets too… I wouldn’t call it embarassing. Just bad. ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-that-are-almost-too-uncomfortable-awkward-to-watch/446449/74 "2008-04-24T14:20:47Z")
Couple of scenes at beginning of **Bad Boy Bubby** ---
**Author:** ![RiverRunner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/977dab/32.png) [@RiverRunner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RiverRunner)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-that-are-almost-too-uncomfortable-awkward-to-watch/446449/75 "2008-04-24T17:26:11Z")
_Deliverance_ Ned Beatty. Squeal. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-that-are-almost-too-uncomfortable-awkward-to-watch/446449/76 "2008-04-24T17:35:10Z")
**Requiem for a Dream** is avery hard movie to watch in many ways, but the one scene that always squicks me out is when Jared Leto’s character shoots up into this disguting looking infected wound on his arm. **United 93** is not difficult to watch in any scene, i.e. there is no single scene I want to look away from, but the whole movie leaves me so emotional that I think I should have looked away from the whole thing. ---
**Author:** ![HelloKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecccb3/32.png) [@HelloKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelloKitty)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-that-are-almost-too-uncomfortable-awkward-to-watch/446449/77 "2008-04-24T18:43:25Z")
The scene at the end of _The Grifters_ with John Cusack and Anjelica Huston: [spoiler]Huston plays Cusack’s mother. At the end they get in an argument and she wildly throws a broken glass at him…hits him right in the neck/jugular vein. He bleeds to death right in front of her, reaching out to her for help, and Huston just turns and walks out the door… I have never watched that movie again–just thinking of the scene gives me the cold chills and makes my stomach hurt.[/spoiler] ---
**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:** [April 24, 2008, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-that-are-almost-too-uncomfortable-awkward-to-watch/446449/78 "2008-04-24T21:58:42Z")
Most of the film _Welcome to the Dollhouse_. It’s one painfully awkward moment after another for poor, 7th grader, Dawn Wiener, who is a the VERY bottom of the social pecking order at school (known as Weinerdog). Her older brother is a nerd, but he’s smart and Dawn isn’t even that, and her little sister is the family favorite, a pretty little ballerina princess. Dawn’s own parents seem to view her with utter disdain, when she’s not invisible she is being unjustly punished or cheated out of her few pleasures in life. Post-movie spoiler. **WARNING:** Contains critical character information that’s not in the movie _Welcome to the Dollhouse_, but in a tangentally related film, _Palindromes_, and could affect your feelings of Dollhouse. _Palindromes_ is about Weinerdog’s cousin and opens at Weinerdog’s funeral. Weinerdog had become despondent and committed suicide. That’s how painfully awkward _Dllhouse_ is. Dollhouse and Palindromes were done by the same director as _Happiness_. What’s wrong with that guy? ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-that-are-almost-too-uncomfortable-awkward-to-watch/446449/79 "2008-04-24T22:47:26Z")
Most of “Happiness,” and the very first scene of “Kids” (along with a lot of the rest of the movie.!) ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-that-are-almost-too-uncomfortable-awkward-to-watch/446449/80 "2008-04-24T22:51:03Z")
[QUOTE=Swallowed My Cellphone] Dollhouse and Palindromes were done by the same director as _Happiness_. What’s wrong with that guy? [/QUOTE] I went to a screening of Palendromes that had a Q&A with Todd Solindz afterwords. He seems like a really nice guy…but you totally see him as the type of guy who would write this kind of stuff. He is kind of the anti Stephen King. Todd is exactly the type of weird you would expect. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-that-are-almost-too-uncomfortable-awkward-to-watch/446449.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-that-are-almost-too-uncomfortable-awkward-to-watch/446449.md?page=5)