:eek: :eek: I have seen that movie several times, and I sure don’t remember any eyes popping out!
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.
Me too. I was watching for it, but it never came. I wonder if it was edited out for home video. :mad:
Must have been edited out. I saw the eyes pop; quite freaked me - in the cinema in Ireland.
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.
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.
It is cut out when shown on TV. The rental version shows it. Look carefully.
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…
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.
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 fin eye just popped out, give me the fing name!”
My eyes hurt just thinkin’ about it.
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.
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.
[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]
Reservois Dogs
Viva la Muerte
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.
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!!
These images will haunt my dreams for all eternity.
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 !
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.)
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.