I like movies. I like intense, realistic movies. I like TV. I like realistic TV. I like violence, when it’s fun. Even when it’s not, if it serves the story. I have a very strong stomach and can tolerate many unpleasant images. With the advent of the Internet, I freely confess to having sought unpleasant images out, quite deliberately.
I just have one little bitty request. It’s not much to ask, and I really don’t think anyone would be upset if you granted it.
When characters, or even real people, disgorge the contents of their stomachs… please don’t show me the vomit actually exiting. Please. About the only time I can remember it being integral to the story was in The Exorcist. Outside of that, I got nuthin’.
It’s deeply disgusting and it takes me right out of the experience. I always take a moment to recoil and ask myself: Now WHY did they have to do that? Really. What did it add? How does making me want to disgorge the contents of my OWN stomach increase my appreciation of this entertainment?
Now, as far as television entertainments (or films like Jackass, ok, I’ll give you that. The barfing was part and parcel of the Fear Factor experience. However… I must protest the featuring of the barfing in advertisements for these things. If I watch them, I have to expect it. But if I’m watching, say, The Daily Show, I really dont’ appreciate being assaulted by puke-centric promotions for upcoming shows. And I really don’t think I’m being unreasonable.
So please… can you re-think the necessity of showing the vomitus at all, and at the very least save it for the show itself, not the ads?
No puke, please. Also no piss, puss, snot, shit or cum. The only substances I’m willing to see exit a human body onscreen are blood and spit, and those only in moderation
I totally agree. Vomiting scenes have become more and more common, it seems, and I hate them. Often my husband will want to start a movie while we’re eating dinner, but I’m now scared to because there’s so much puking in movies. Seeing puking makes me want to puke, which I’m guessing is a pretty common reaction from a lot of people. So why do directors insist on showing it to us? Shock value? Well, when I’ve seen it a thousand times, it’s no longer shocking. It’s gotten so bad that I can almost always predict which movies are going to have vomiting scenes, and I will ask him, “Is there going to be vomit within the first half an hour?” (if we’re eating). He’ll say no, but 15 minutes into the movie someone just has to puke and I’m sitting there with my fork halfway to my lips and no longer wanting to eat my dinner. Fuck!
I thought this thread would be about the scenes on America’s Funniest Home Videos when people send in tape of their darling infants shitting, puking, snotting, farting, pissing and belching. It’s gotten so that as soon as I see footage of a baby, I change the channel.
But I hear you on vomiting in movies. The worst was the astronaut hurling in zero-G in Apollo 13.
Movie puking doesn’t bother me. Real puking does. When I’ve helped my six year old son vomit into the toilet, it’s all I can do to keep from retching myself. It’s not the sound nor sight of it, but the smell.
Definitely agree with the OP. And, you fucking directors, you swine, you pathetic pieces of chopped up fish heads and egg-sacs, you evil-minded goddamn bastards who have shown yourselves completely incapable of making an enjoyable film despite millions upon millions of cocksucking dollars at your disposal and an entourage of helpers and underlings and toadies and slaves that would make Caligula get down on his knees and beat his head upon the marble floor of his palace out of existential despair - you unbearably slimy, sleazy, weaselly pieces of shit, who continually churn out utter garbage and then expect us to think it’s art - you fucking worthless afterbirths, you cocksuckers, who despite a history of ninety years of fine film-making behind you that ought to be providing inspiration and artistic direction, but which you are instead abjectly ignoring while you blaze your own ragged, winding, tedious, cum-stained path through cinema, soiling and spitting upon everything that came before you - do you think you could ease up on the male-ass scenes?
