# Violent scenes in TV/movies that were \*too\* well done (potential spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 9, 2002, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violent-scenes-in-tv-movies-that-were-too-well-done-potential-spoilers/127656 "2002-09-09T14:47:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violent-scenes-in-tv-movies-that-were-too-well-done-potential-spoilers/127656/21 "2002-09-10T03:10:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Honey \* > \*\* > > Also, when they put the guys head in a vise (I can’t remember the character’s name) and tighten it so much that his eye pops out. As they keep tightening it, he actually begs to be killed. Yuck! \*\* :eek: :eek: I have seen that movie several times, and I sure don’t remember any eyes popping out! ---
**Author:** ![montag01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@montag01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/montag01)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violent-scenes-in-tv-movies-that-were-too-well-done-potential-spoilers/127656/22 "2002-09-10T05:37:34Z")
The opening brutality of _A Clockwork Orange_ is my choice. The movie has several other choice sequences, but that beating/rape scene is just too much. ---
**Author:** ![Baraqiyal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@Baraqiyal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baraqiyal)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violent-scenes-in-tv-movies-that-were-too-well-done-potential-spoilers/127656/23 "2002-09-10T05:54:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Stoid \* > \*\* > > :eek: :eek: I have seen that movie several times, and I sure don’t remember any eyes popping out! \*\* Me too. I was watching for it, but it never came. I wonder if it was edited out for home video. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violent-scenes-in-tv-movies-that-were-too-well-done-potential-spoilers/127656/24 "2002-09-10T10:47:11Z")
Must have been edited out. I saw the eyes pop; quite freaked me - in the cinema in Ireland. ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violent-scenes-in-tv-movies-that-were-too-well-done-potential-spoilers/127656/25 "2002-09-10T10:56:04Z")
I second the scene from _Audition_, it made me cringe and films rarely do that to me. The first rape and murder we see in [IFrenzy\* is another scene I have a hard time watching. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violent-scenes-in-tv-movies-that-were-too-well-done-potential-spoilers/127656/26 "2002-09-10T13:11:05Z")
Any Given Sunday, where the football player loses an eye and they show it lying on the field. My first video I ever saw when my dad brought home this new toy called a VCR was Alien. I was an impressionable 13 and to this day I cannot watch the scene where the alien explodes from the guy’s stomach. (Covering my head in anticipation of the thrown eggs and tomatoes) the scene from Titanic where all the people are screaming in the water…and then, later, when they’re no longer screaming. Ditto for the knife fight in Saving Private Ryan. ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violent-scenes-in-tv-movies-that-were-too-well-done-potential-spoilers/127656/27 "2002-09-10T13:14:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Stoid \* > \*\* > > :eek: :eek: I have seen that movie several times, and I sure don’t remember any eyes popping out! \*\* It is cut out when shown on TV. The rental version shows it. Look carefully. ---
**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violent-scenes-in-tv-movies-that-were-too-well-done-potential-spoilers/127656/28 "2002-09-10T15:06:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dooku \* > \*\*I have only actually watched the hobbling scene in _Misery_ one time - the first time. Now I have to leave the room when it comes on. \*\* I had trouble _reading_ that part in the book. My vote goes to Martin Sheen in _Apocalypse Now_, the scene where he goes loco in his room and breaks the mirror. He actually broke a real mirror and cut himself. That was **his real blood** in that scene. Method actors… ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violent-scenes-in-tv-movies-that-were-too-well-done-potential-spoilers/127656/29 "2002-09-10T21:55:58Z")
I’ve never met Michael Madsen, have never talked to him, have never seen him interviewed, and have NO idea what he’s really like. For all I know, he could be a devout Christian, a delightful human being, the nicest guy on Earth… But having seen him as Mr. Blond in “Resevoir Dogs,” having seen him torture that cop, having seen him cut off the cop’s ear… I simply CAN’T accept Madsen in any other role but psycho killer. When I saw him playing a warm, genial father figure in “Free Willy,” I couldn’t buy it. When I saw him as a good-guy lawman in “Wyatt Earp,” I couldn’t buy it. He was WAAAY too good and WAAAY too convincing in “Resevoir Dogs” for me ever to accept him in any other role but homicidal maniac. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Cheatem_Undhow)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violent-scenes-in-tv-movies-that-were-too-well-done-potential-spoilers/127656/30 "2002-09-10T22:14:01Z")
Re: Casino – it was on one of the premium cable channels last night, uncut. The eyeball indeed pops out. Joe Pesci even comments on it – he’s trying to get his victim to tell him a name, and says something like “Look, your f_ **in eye just popped out, give me the f** _ing name!” My eyes hurt just thinkin’ about it. ---
**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:** [September 10, 2002, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violent-scenes-in-tv-movies-that-were-too-well-done-potential-spoilers/127656/31 "2002-09-10T22:47:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by widdershins \* > The first rape and murder we see in _Frenzy_ is another scene I have a hard time watching. Second that. “Lovely!! Lovely!!” And then she’s in that absurd pose with her tongue sticking out, which you think would make you laugh, but it doesn’t. I also have a hard time watching “Sloth” come back to life and start gasping for breath in _Se7en_. ---
**Author:** ![angelicate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@angelicate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/angelicate)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2002, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violent-scenes-in-tv-movies-that-were-too-well-done-potential-spoilers/127656/32 "2002-09-11T06:15:33Z")
I agree with the curbstomp in American History X. It freaked me out the first time I saw it, and didn’t know what was coming. I have to turn away when I see the movie now. I also cannot watch the rape scene in Boys Don’t Cry. The first time I saw the movie, I was expecting it, and watched a tiny bit before I had to fast forward through it. The next time I saw the movie, I didn’t even bother trying to sit through it, I just hit the fast forward button before it got to that point. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2002, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violent-scenes-in-tv-movies-that-were-too-well-done-potential-spoilers/127656/33 "2002-09-11T06:56:54Z")
[Joe BoB]H’ahm opposed to eye gouging, beheadings, arrows through the neck, cleavers in the forehead and pickaxes in the gazebos _unless it is nec’ssary to the plot!_[/Joe Bob] ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2002, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violent-scenes-in-tv-movies-that-were-too-well-done-potential-spoilers/127656/34 "2002-09-11T11:44:41Z")
Reservois Dogs Viva la Muerte ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2002, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violent-scenes-in-tv-movies-that-were-too-well-done-potential-spoilers/127656/35 "2002-09-11T11:56:35Z")
The rape scene in _C’est arrivé près de chez vous_, known as _Man bites dog_ in the US. Ye flippin’ Gads, that’s disturbing. The rest of the movie is quite humourous, even though it involves a lot of killing. But that rape scene is entirely too realistic. Ditto on _American History X_. ---
**Author:** ![Martiju](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@Martiju](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martiju)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2002, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violent-scenes-in-tv-movies-that-were-too-well-done-potential-spoilers/127656/36 "2002-09-11T12:09:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by postcards \* > \*\* > > I had trouble _reading_ that part in the book. > > \*\* And I thought I was the only one!!! In fact, I thought the film was easier than the book - it’s the shock of it! A similar thing on a BBC drama series recently about MI5 where a girl has her arm, then her face plunged into boiling oil…very VER Y graphic!! ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2002, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violent-scenes-in-tv-movies-that-were-too-well-done-potential-spoilers/127656/37 "2002-09-11T13:08:07Z")
These images will haunt my dreams for all eternity. ---
**Author:** ![Lockfist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/838e76/32.png) [@Lockfist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lockfist)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2002, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violent-scenes-in-tv-movies-that-were-too-well-done-potential-spoilers/127656/38 "2002-09-11T14:41:44Z")
Actually it would seem that the ear-slicing scene in **Reservoir Dogs** was not very realistic. If you’ve ever seen a film called **Chopper** with Eric Bana you’ll know what I mean. The film is the story of Mark “Chopper” Read, a famous criminal in Australia. He sliced both his ears off while in Prison (circa 1970something) and informs the audience via DVD commentary that **Quentin Tarantino** got it all wrong in Dogs. I guess ears bleed _a lot_ more than you might think ! ---
**Author:** ![jk1245](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2002, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violent-scenes-in-tv-movies-that-were-too-well-done-potential-spoilers/127656/39 "2002-09-11T16:24:27Z")
The scene in **Amistad** where they are tossing the slaves over the side of the ship to lighten the load was absolutely horrifying and realistic. Also, the “home video” scene is the reaason **Henry:Portrait of a Serial Killer** remains the only movie I have shut off in disgust ( I have shut off plenty because I was disgusted with how bad they sucked, but that is another thread.) ---
**Author:** ![Judith\_Prietht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@Judith\_Prietht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Judith_Prietht)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2002, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violent-scenes-in-tv-movies-that-were-too-well-done-potential-spoilers/127656/40 "2002-09-11T16:27:19Z")
It’s relatively benign compared to the scenes previously mentioned, but one that’s stuck with me is in **Mountains of the Moon** when Speke (Iain Glen) gets an insect stuck in his ear. The buzzing and clicking is slowly driving him mad. He gets the point of a compass, and _drives it into his ear_ to make it stop. It’s hard to tell the difference between the bug and his eardrum crushing on the soundtrack. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violent-scenes-in-tv-movies-that-were-too-well-done-potential-spoilers/127656.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violent-scenes-in-tv-movies-that-were-too-well-done-potential-spoilers/127656.md?page=3)