# 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:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Osbie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/cdc98d/32.png) [@Osbie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Osbie)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2002, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violent-scenes-in-tv-movies-that-were-too-well-done-potential-spoilers/127656/61 "2002-12-02T04:33:05Z")
Though everyone else in the theater laughted loud and hard, the kid getting his head blown off in the back seat of the car in **Pulp Fiction** was a little too realistic for me. ---
**Author:** ![SoulFrost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@SoulFrost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoulFrost)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2002, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violent-scenes-in-tv-movies-that-were-too-well-done-potential-spoilers/127656/62 "2002-12-02T05:37:00Z")
Some of the ones I’ll never forget: The knife scene in _Saving Private Ryan_… was thinking about it today, actually. The scene where the thief gets his fingers snipped off into the toilet in _Bound_. But that was bad in a really cool sort of way. The whole traincar scene in _Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me_. I don’t know if it was the brutality or the music or the lighting, but I got physically ill the first time I saw it. The scene where Gage kills the old guy in _Pet Sematary_. : shudder : -David ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2002, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violent-scenes-in-tv-movies-that-were-too-well-done-potential-spoilers/127656/63 "2002-12-02T08:04:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Honey \* > \*\*It is cut out when shown on TV. The rental version shows it. Look carefully. \*\* I believe Casino was the last film to be cut in Sweden before it could be shown at the cinema. They are a lot harsher on violence than sex here. I haven’t seen it, but reading what I have here it sounds pretty grim. ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2002, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violent-scenes-in-tv-movies-that-were-too-well-done-potential-spoilers/127656/64 "2002-12-02T08:06:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by angelicate \* > \*\* > 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. \*\* True story. My second date with my wife-to-be was going to the cinema to see “Boys Don’t Cry”. I knew it has got good reviews, but I never actually read them. Boy, did I feel uncomfortable during that scene! ---
**Author:** ![Keith\_Berry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/22d042/32.png) [@Keith\_Berry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keith_Berry)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violent-scenes-in-tv-movies-that-were-too-well-done-potential-spoilers/127656/65 "2002-12-06T04:16:24Z")
Scenes I’ve always had trouble watching: EMANUELLE IN AMERICA----obscure Italian exploitation film that has a sex-obsessed female reporter tracking down a snuff film ring. The snuff footage she encounters makes the stuff from “8mm” look like a kid’s show: it’s filmed in what looks like a South American dungeon and has a group of drunken soldiers commiting unbelievably graphic rape, sexual torture, and murder on a dozen screaming naked women. The snuff scenes only last maybe 5 or 6 minutes, but I can never make it past the first minute. This title is actually going to see a U.S. DVD release next year. AUDITION----that torture scene is outrageous. BLACK HAWK DOWN-----the operation on the soldier’s wounded leg really made me cringe. SCHINDLER’S LIST----probably the first film ever that portrayed instantly fatal gunshot wounds to the head realistically. No last dying screams, no dramatic falling to the ground…just pop! and they fall bonelessly like a old stuffed ragdoll. It reminded me of old newsreel footage of actual executions, and the association was disturbing. MIDNIGHT COWBOY-----the flashback scenes of the female/male gangrape are always difficult to watch. Though they never actually show anything, the rapid editing concentrates on the helpless hysterical faces of John Voight and his girlfriend and make it very personal. ---
**Author:** ![digitalskeeza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@digitalskeeza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digitalskeeza)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violent-scenes-in-tv-movies-that-were-too-well-done-potential-spoilers/127656/66 "2002-12-06T10:44:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bomzaway \* > **Three Kings** I almost vomited when Marky Mark was force-fed oil…not a _bloody_ scene, but aaack! ---
**Author:** ![KidCharlemagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violent-scenes-in-tv-movies-that-were-too-well-done-potential-spoilers/127656/67 "2002-12-06T13:30:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Max Torque \* > \*\*All of _Last House on the Left_. \*\* Creepiest movie ever. ---
**Author:** ![Sebhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@Sebhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sebhal)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violent-scenes-in-tv-movies-that-were-too-well-done-potential-spoilers/127656/68 "2002-12-06T13:42:29Z")
I actually turned _Casino_ off during the ‘head in the vice’ scene, which was the first thing that sprang to mind when I saw the OP, and that was before it got to the eye popping out, which I’ve just found out about! I’m never going to watch that film again . . . Couldn’t stand the cutting the ear scene in _Reservoir Dogs_, ditto for the gang rape in _The Accused_, and for the head on the kerb scene in _American History X_. (Wouldn’t normally add my signature here, but I’ve just added the first quote and what to check it comes out right). N. ---
**Author:** ![Velma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/85e7bf/32.png) [@Velma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velma)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violent-scenes-in-tv-movies-that-were-too-well-done-potential-spoilers/127656/69 "2002-12-06T16:02:32Z")
Ugh. I had sucessfully blocked the movie _Kids_ out of my mind until this thread. The movie _American Psycho_ was hard for me to get through, and left me feeling pretty sick by the end. And I’ll chime in with the ear scene in _Reservoir Dogs_. I have a hard time with scenes that show people graphically being tortured, esp. if they draw it out. The anticipation of the moment is agonizing for me. If something has to happen, I’d rather not be notifed, like the arm-chopping off scene on this year’s ER. I’d have a much harder time watching that scene again now that I know what is going to happen. I know this is often the effect the filmmakers intend, and I’m not saying it’s a bad effect. It actually works too well for me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/violent-scenes-in-tv-movies-that-were-too-well-done-potential-spoilers/127656.md?page=3)