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.
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.
The sex scene in Monster’s Ball with Halle Berry and Billy Bob Thornton. Ack.
Hard Candy. You know the scene.
The “suck me, beautiful” scene from American Pie.
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.
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.
You should, it’s really good (and I’m not speaking as a typical lame-ass comedy fan type either).
My wife can’t stand to watch the Gimp scene in Pulp Fiction .
Me, I laugh.
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. 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,
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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.
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.
Couple of scenes at beginning of Bad Boy Bubby
Deliverance Ned Beatty. Squeal.
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.
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]
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?
Most of “Happiness,” and the very first scene of “Kids” (along with a lot of the rest of the movie.!)
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.