Barton Fink: It’s awkward and uncomfortable to watch Fink rant about “the common man” when he patently has little real interest in or comprehension of them. It’s downright painful to watch the scenes where he has to deal with the utterly impossible film producer Lipnick.
It’s been a while; is this the scene where the guy has sex with the developtally disabled girl?
Kind of mild, but the scene in Eve’s Bayou* where 14-year-old Meagan Goode sits in her father, Samuel Jackson’s lap. It’s not until they kiss that something in my stomach just turns over. Until then, it doesn’t bother me (embarass me, that is) at all.
- I just realized I’ve seen two films with Goode in them in as many days, just channel surfiing.
Once Were Warriors. Do I need to be specific?
In Gummo, when the boy is making foreplay talk with the prostitute with Downs syndrome.
Travis Bickle taking his date to a porno.
I saw it on youtube and I must be missing something. The actual stomp was with the camera on Ed Norton’s face right? We didn’t really see anything. It didn’t look as bad as a lot of movie scenes
I concur with the the Private Ryan scene with Mellish and the German. Freakin’ brutal.
I didn’t get that at all. He strolled past interpreter-boy with hardly a look because he had no fear that the kid would unsling that gun and shoot him.
The scene in Dolores Claiborne where we see why she REALLY wanted to kill her husband…
you see dad and the girl played by Jennifer Jason Leigh sitting side by side on a ferry, and dad moves his daughter’s hand into his lap…
Jeez, I need a shower now.
The 40-Year-Old Virgin, when he tries to pick up a woman in a bookstore. Interestingly, Steve Carrell picks up another girl in another movie (Dan in Real Life) and it goes way better…
And one like no porno I’ve ever seen. Who gets off on the images of spermatazoa?!
That’s exactly how I read it too- Upham was so much of a pussy that he wasn’t any more of a threat to the German soldier than a cowering civilian would have been.
Had it been a more 50s style war movie, the German probably would have spit on him or done something more obviously demeaning to him.
The child abuse in “Sybil.”
Just a week or so ago:
The scene in John Adams where is daughter has her breast removed due to cancer. This is early in the early 19th century with nothing but basically a chew toy as anesthetic.
I wondered about this when I watched the episode - didn’t they have ether at that time?
Truly a disturbing scene!
I’m not enough of a historian to know. They gave her something to drink, to what end I have no idea.
edit: According to Wiki, first used in surgery in 1842.
I guess I didn’t need to actually see what happened to have it affect me. YMMV.
Steve Martin Pennies from Heaven
All Jerry Lewis movies.
That’s the first scene I thought of.
Also:
Trainspotting - Dead baby crawling on the ceiling. The scene where the baby is found dead, didn’t bother me as much because I figured he/she was better off.
The Sopranos - Every scene where Tony’s mother is bad mouthing him and he just stands there and takes it. Things that remind me of my childhood are much more uncomfortable than watching people get whacked. 
Monster - The job interview mentioned earlier. Also when she’s riding to the interview on that broke down bike, wearing that horrible suit.
- Monster’s Ball* - The racial spewing of the Peter Boyle character.
How about that episode of Star Trek: TNG where they found Scotty? The whole “out of time, out of place” aspect of it really came to a head during the scene in engineering where Scotty is going on to Geordi about “You told him how long it would really take? How do you expect them to think you’re a miracle worker …” Geordi turns on him a yells, “Look, I’ve got a job to do here, and frankly, you’re in my way!”, followed by Scotty standing there with a stunned look on his face.
I’ll bet every TOL fan watching that scene was just as stunned as Scotty.
A group of us rented it because we’d heard so much about it. We then proceeded to watch the silliest, vapidest movie we could think of to clean out our brains.
The Netherfield ball dinner scene in the BBC Pride and Prejudice. Everyone I know fast fowards through it. So many awkward things happening in far too short a time.
had trouble with the burning at the stake scene near the end of “silent hill” my my father got burned real bad a few years back, and the special effects lookd a bit too real for my tastes… especially 40ft tall in front of me… shudders did not want to be reminded of seein that…