# Uncomfortable scenes in movies by scene or actor. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 26, 2003, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncomfortable-scenes-in-movies-by-scene-or-actor/184546 "2003-06-26T16:39:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![greenphan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c37758/32.png) [@greenphan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/greenphan)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncomfortable-scenes-in-movies-by-scene-or-actor/184546/21 "2003-06-27T06:07:35Z")
The scene in **Swingers** where Mikey calls the girl he just met at a bar several times, trying to get the call right, messing it up worse with each successive call. It was just so uncomfortable and reminiscent (sp?) of things I’ve done and seen done that it just makes me squirm with unease. –greenphan ---
**Author:** ![Grousser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9d8465/32.png) [@Grousser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grousser)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncomfortable-scenes-in-movies-by-scene-or-actor/184546/22 "2003-06-27T07:30:40Z")
In **The Sweetest Thing** , the scene of stuck oral sex must have been very uncomfortable for **Selma Blair**. Not just to shoot, but to watch it after edited. I can’t say it better than [Berardinelli](http://movie-reviews.colossus.net/movies/s/sweetest_thing.html): _“Then there’s poor Selma Blair, whose only reason for being in this movie is to see just how much degradation an actress can endure. In her case, it’s a lot.”_ And not only poor Selma, that unfortunate movie is full of flaws. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncomfortable-scenes-in-movies-by-scene-or-actor/184546/23 "2003-06-27T08:07:15Z")
The scene in _Original Sin_ in which “Billy” is cutting Angelina Jolie’s character’s back. Seemed a little too tailored for the star, to the point of being invasive and exploitive. That wasn’t in the novel, (_Waltz into Darkness_,) was it? ---
**Author:** ![bifar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@bifar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bifar)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncomfortable-scenes-in-movies-by-scene-or-actor/184546/24 "2003-06-27T09:37:42Z")
Practically all of the first part of **Rebecca** , with Fontaine’s character being horribly shy and cringemaking. ‘No! Don’t hide the china cupid! Don’t listen to Mrs Danvers! Don’t wear that particular fancy dress costume! Gah!!’. ---
**Author:** ![curly\_chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@curly\_chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curly_chick)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncomfortable-scenes-in-movies-by-scene-or-actor/184546/25 "2003-06-27T10:16:32Z")
The scene in **Priest** where the creepy father tells the priest that all fathers want to have sex with their daughters. The actor was so good that I can’t see him in anything else without squirming ---
**Author:** ![NoCoolUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncomfortable-scenes-in-movies-by-scene-or-actor/184546/26 "2003-06-27T16:35:46Z")
The highest yuck per second rating has to be the scene in **Dial M for Murder** when the guy falls on the scissors. It’s that extra bump that makes it special. If you’ve seen it, you know what I mean. ---
**Author:** ![sirtonyh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@sirtonyh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sirtonyh)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncomfortable-scenes-in-movies-by-scene-or-actor/184546/27 "2003-06-27T21:49:34Z")
I’ll second or third both the tuna sandwich sequence and the father-son talks in **Happiness**. Seriously creepy and disturbing but a genuinely outstanding film. I’ll also add a couple more; - The mother “letting go” of the mecha child in **A.I.** - The entire last 20 minutes of the brilliant but obscure **Visitor Q**. - The “Kiri Kiri Kiri” sequence in **Audition**. :sirtonyh shudders just thinking about it: - I felt uncomfortable with the opening sequence references to 9/11 in **Anger Management** ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncomfortable-scenes-in-movies-by-scene-or-actor/184546/28 "2003-06-27T22:18:16Z")
I haven’t seen _The Blue Angel_ in ages, probably because I dread having to sit through the professor’s final humiliation at the end. Lots of things I can take, but there’s something about that scene… ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncomfortable-scenes-in-movies-by-scene-or-actor/184546/29 "2003-06-27T22:23:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MsWhatsit \* > \*\*The scene in **Happiness** in which > > the father has to explain his pedophilia to his young son, and the kid asks whether his dad would ever touch him in that way, and the father, nearing a breakdown, blurts out something to the effect of, “No, because I jerk off instead.” > > That scene is the most uncomfortable I have ever watched, and also the most uncomfortable I ever HOPE to watch, because I honestly almost had to turn the movie off at that point. Ugh. \*\* Okay, I’ve never heard of this movie, and now, I really wish I had not highlighted that! :eek: I saw _Interview with the Vampire_ on my first date. I was holding hands with said date (who I ended up being just friends with…) The scene in the theather where they strip the girl naked before they kill her was _very_ embarassing. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncomfortable-scenes-in-movies-by-scene-or-actor/184546/30 "2003-06-27T22:47:59Z")
The raping / strangling scene in _Frenzy_ is pretty freaky. “ **Love** ly!!!” Something about her tongue sticking out was quite unsettling too. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncomfortable-scenes-in-movies-by-scene-or-actor/184546/31 "2003-06-27T23:37:27Z")
Ugh, I can’t believe I’m admitting to actually having WATCHED this, but the scene in _Problem Child 2_ where the kid pees in the lemonade pitcher. Then… the guy drinks a glass and says, mmmm…tangy! Where’s a barfing smiley when you need one? Oh, and the entire duration of _Dumb and Dumber_. My best friend and my sister were howling. Meanwhile, I could feel my IQ dropping with each passing moment. God, I hate Jim Carrey. As for serious movies, the rape scene in _A Time to Kill_. They show it from the girl’s point of view-it’s like you’re literally lying there while these assholes are abusing you. It freaked me out. (Funny, I saw that movie with the same guy I saw IWTV!) ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Tambo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@Mr\_Tambo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Tambo)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncomfortable-scenes-in-movies-by-scene-or-actor/184546/32 "2003-06-28T00:31:53Z")
The scene in _A Clockwork Orange_ where Alex is making jabs at the rich woman with the marble phallus, and finally brings it down hard on her face, and for a moment or two the screen is filled with a screaming cartoon mouth. That film certainly has no shortage of extremely disturbing moments, but somehow that one really really got under my skin. The scene in _The Elephant Man_ where the night watchman puts him on exhibition. One of the customers; a greasy man with a whore on each arm, is really incredibly disturbing just to watch as he forces one of the prostitutes on top of John Merrick, and then nibbles on her neck. ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncomfortable-scenes-in-movies-by-scene-or-actor/184546/33 "2003-06-28T01:28:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mr Tambo \* > \*\*The scene in _A Clockwork Orange_ where Alex is making jabs at the rich woman with the marble phallus, and finally brings it down hard on her face, and for a moment or two the screen is filled with a screaming cartoon mouth. That film certainly has no shortage of extremely disturbing moments, but somehow that one really really got under my skin. \*\* If you think ACO is uncomfortable (which it is, I agree), try watching **Caligula** with Malcolm McDowell. Not only is he in it (fisting people and what not), but also Peter O’Toole and John Gielgud. One uncomfortable scene involes O’Toole in this giant pool with naked kids, whom he calls his “fishies” (I believe I got that scene right. I haven’t seen it in a long time). ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncomfortable-scenes-in-movies-by-scene-or-actor/184546/34 "2003-06-28T02:11:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fibber McGee \* > \*\*Indeed. Not even Halle Berry’s beatuiful breasts are worth the sight of Billy Bob Thornton’s hairy bobbin’ man ass. \*\* Agreed. I didn’t enjoy that movie anyway, but that part was the worst section of it. ---
**Author:** ![vl\_mungo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc8723/32.png) [@vl\_mungo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vl_mungo)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncomfortable-scenes-in-movies-by-scene-or-actor/184546/35 "2003-06-28T02:39:29Z")
The entirety of **Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer** … especially the scene where Otis is watching the video. Now I’m stuck with that image for the rest of my life. It’s a great movie, but I _never_ want to see it again. ---
**Author:** ![Thunderclap\_Monolith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@Thunderclap\_Monolith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thunderclap_Monolith)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncomfortable-scenes-in-movies-by-scene-or-actor/184546/36 "2003-06-28T02:55:58Z")
The rape scene from “Boys Don’t Cry” is rough. Does bad acting make anyone else uncomfortable? There are numerous examples, ranging from Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford in “Return of the Jedi,” but one that really gets me is any scene involving Patrick Swayze in “Red Dawn.” That movie was on TV late last night, and boy, I just cringe every time he opens his mouth, especially when he meets with his dad at the prison camp or admonishes the other “Wolverines” for crying. Truly painful. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncomfortable-scenes-in-movies-by-scene-or-actor/184546/37 "2003-06-28T05:27:34Z")
In **Antwone Fisher** … easily the basement child molestation scene – simply because the camera holds on the basement window, leaving the horror to your imagination. In **Eve’s Bayou** it was watching Megan Goode, the young actress who plays Samuel L. Jackson’s 15 year old daughter, reach out and give her father a grown woman’s kiss – brrr. Annnnd watching Ned Beatty squeal like a pig in **Deliverance.** William Wallace’s torture at the end of **Braveheart.** The scene in Mel Gibson’s **Hamlet** where the woman is being raped on the stairs in the castle. The whole froggy rain in **Magnolia.** But **MsWhatsit** takes the win for mentioning **Happiness** first. I can’t think of ANYTHING as remotely disturbing and unpleasant to watch as that. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncomfortable-scenes-in-movies-by-scene-or-actor/184546/38 "2003-06-28T06:52:34Z")
**Thunderclap** : > [@](#): > > Does bad acting make anyone else uncomfortable? You bet! Steve McQueen’s laughter in _The Thomas Crown Affair_ is just awful. But I still love the movie and McQueen. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Elvis_Rojo)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncomfortable-scenes-in-movies-by-scene-or-actor/184546/39 "2003-06-28T11:29:50Z")
One of the most awkward scenes in a mainstream movie for me is the sex scene in **Lost Highway**. It’s just friggin creepy and very uncomfortable to watch. I’d also like to jump in that pretty much _EVERYTHING_ about **Happiness** is offsetting and creepy as hell. Pretty much any rape scene makes me queezy (no one’s mentione **Eye for an Eye** yet, so I’ll just throw that in there). ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncomfortable-scenes-in-movies-by-scene-or-actor/184546/40 "2003-06-28T13:27:48Z")
It was just on TV last night and, man, the scenes with Steve Buscemi and the little girl in **Con Air** are creepy beyond all belief. And I’m a huge Buscemi fan. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncomfortable-scenes-in-movies-by-scene-or-actor/184546.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncomfortable-scenes-in-movies-by-scene-or-actor/184546.md?page=3)