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
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:
“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.
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?
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!!’.
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
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.
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;
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…
Okay, I’ve never heard of this movie, and now, I really wish I had not highlighted that!
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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.
The raping / strangling scene in Frenzy is pretty freaky.
“Lovely!!!”
Something about her tongue sticking out was quite unsettling too.
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!)
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.
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).
Agreed. I didn’t enjoy that movie anyway, but that part was the worst section of it.
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.
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.
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.
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You bet! Steve McQueen’s laughter in The Thomas Crown Affair is just awful. But I still love the movie and McQueen.
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).
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.