I was watching a movie today, and was quite unprepared for a scene in the movie- a woman severely cuts her hand on a glass. It got me wondering if other people have atypical things that freak them out that’d they’d like to at least be expecting before watching a movie.
I’d love a “hand/wrist injury” warning, since either type makes me feel ill: I have, and I’m sure you’re suprised, cut open both my right hand and wrist seperately and accidentally, and…I’d rather see a movie character’s throat get cut then for them to have their own blood all over their hands from an injury to them. For example I almost didn’t watch “Stephen King’s the Shining” because of this in one of the opening scenes, but I decided to look away and throughly enjoyed the rest. Fess up, what other weird warnings would make people feel better?
Dead animal, almost dead animal, injured animal, animal that looks like it might be slightly uncomfortable or perhaps only annoyed.
I am such a baby, but I just can’t deal with these issues. And I’m sure it displays some sort of grand character flaw, because most dead people (in movies) don’t upset me at all.
My friends know to give me movie reviews that cover animal issues.
spoiler for that dippy John Travolta movie, Michael, where he plays an angel …
I take my boss’s kids to go see this movie, they are 9 and 6 at the time. There is a scene where the dog gets hit by a car and dies, and I immediately go into hysterical sobbing. The six year old turns to me and says “Don’t cry, this is movie for families about an angel, so I’m pretty sure the dog’s going to be okay eventually.”
I mean geez. As an adult, I shouldn’t have to get this sort of counseling from kids, but I can’t help it.
(In case anyone is worried, the dog was in fact okay eventually.)
This movie is rated “VR-SC”: Visible Ribcage/Spinal Column. A woman who looks attractive with her clothes on will remove some articles of clothing and reveal an all too bony ribcage or protruding spine. You have been warned.
Darlin’, I know just how you feel. I’d rather sit through the first twenty minutes of Saving Private Ryan, the “squeal” scene from Deliverance, and every single slasher movie there is than hear a doggie yelp in pain.
The scene you mentioned very nearly made me cry just reading your description, so you can imagine how I reacted when I saw it on screen, unprepared.
For the record, I’m not much better about this kind of thing when it’s used for “comic” effect, so I even find things like the dog in There’s Something about Mary uncomfortable.
(((delphica)))
In response to the OP, I don’t think it nearly a good enough warning that they list her name in the opening credits when she appears in a film. I think between every two cards in the opening credits should appear the following:
NO, SERIOUSLY. MADONNA IS IN THIS FILM. ACTING. IF YOU CAN CALL IT THAT.
That way, if you get delayed at the snack bar or something and don’t get into the theater until say, they are telling you who the director of photography is, you still have a few chances to get out before it’s too late.
