# You can watch the movie...except for one scene **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 25, 2002, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-watch-the-movie-except-for-one-scene/99926 "2002-03-25T01:57:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Wicked\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/2acd7d/32.png) [@Wicked\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wicked_Blue)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-watch-the-movie-except-for-one-scene/99926/1 "2002-03-25T01:57:29Z")
Huh? ---
**Author:** ![Fred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/db5fbb/32.png) [@Fred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fred)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-watch-the-movie-except-for-one-scene/99926/2 "2002-03-25T02:28:00Z")
Yay, a broken thread. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-watch-the-movie-except-for-one-scene/99926/3 "2002-03-25T02:54:24Z")
I’m gonna go out on a limb and extrapolate the meaning of this thread. In _Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country_, I always cringe at the part where Spock asks McCoy if he will assist him in modifying a photon torpedo to take out the cloaked Klingon ship and McCoy replies, “Fascinating”. NO BONES, THE CORRECT ANSWER WOULD BE, YES!!! ---
**Author:** ![Fred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/db5fbb/32.png) [@Fred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fred)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-watch-the-movie-except-for-one-scene/99926/4 "2002-03-25T02:58:04Z")
Take off the scene at the end of Schindler’s List, in which Oskar breaks down crying. Too maudlin. ---
**Author:** ![Albert\_Rose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Albert\_Rose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Albert_Rose)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-watch-the-movie-except-for-one-scene/99926/5 "2002-03-25T03:10:52Z")
I can watch and “enjoy” _Poltergeist_, but I most certainly do NOT want to see the fellow rip off his face while looking in the mirror. I don’t much like that scene. The end of _Psycho_, with the pat wrap-up explanation, fails to live up to the rest of the movie. Fortunately, the disturbing final image (a close-up of Norman’s face, with skull superimposed) rescues we viewers. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-watch-the-movie-except-for-one-scene/99926/6 "2002-03-25T03:49:36Z")
Us. ---
**Author:** ![Daniel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Daniel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daniel)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-watch-the-movie-except-for-one-scene/99926/7 "2002-03-25T04:00:48Z")
Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame is actually not that bad a movie if you fast-forward through Jason Alexander’s song. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-watch-the-movie-except-for-one-scene/99926/8 "2002-03-25T05:45:29Z")
I have never seen the Ghost scene in any movie version of Hamlet. Either I fall asleep, or I’m in the bathroom, or the kitchen, or the phone, or something else - but the fates have decided that I don’t see Hamlet’s father show up… ---
**Author:** ![Kaitlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/73ab20/32.png) [@Kaitlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaitlyn)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-watch-the-movie-except-for-one-scene/99926/9 "2002-03-25T07:39:02Z")
_Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid_: "Raindrops keep fallin’ on my head . . . " ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-watch-the-movie-except-for-one-scene/99926/10 "2002-03-25T10:30:04Z")
**Forrest Gump** –everything after Jenny’s death. ---
**Author:** ![Caesar\_s\_Ghost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/73ab20/32.png) [@Caesar\_s\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caesar_s_Ghost)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-watch-the-movie-except-for-one-scene/99926/11 "2002-03-25T14:08:36Z")
_Moulin Rouge_ is my favorite movie in the entire world (and yes, I know about the majority of Doper’s opinions of the movie, and I don’t care). I think most of the scenes are clever and interesting, and I love every song scene. Except, however, for “Like a Virgin”, with the Duke and Zidler. I can’t stand that scene. I always fast forward on VHS or skip it on DVD. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-watch-the-movie-except-for-one-scene/99926/12 "2002-03-25T14:32:18Z")
I loved **American History X**. My friends rented it, and we watched it about 4 times (each time someone hadn’t seen it, and we insisted that they watch - but they didn’t want to watch alone). I think that movie is incredible social commentary, and Edward Norton’s performance is one of his best (and I haven’t seen him in a bad role yet). But the scene where (highlight to read) he stomps the guy’s teeth out on the curb is 100% unwatchable. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-watch-the-movie-except-for-one-scene/99926/13 "2002-03-25T14:49:00Z")
There’s a glitch in the software, it doesn’t always show the start of a thread. We’re looking into it. Thanks for bearing with us as we play “find the bug.” your humble TubaDiva Administrator ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-watch-the-movie-except-for-one-scene/99926/14 "2002-03-25T14:49:41Z")
**Munch** , I agree with you absolutely. In fact, it will take exactly the right circumstance for me to ever watch that movie again (I’ve seen it once). It’s the best movie I don’t want to see again. As for another, in Star Trek II, there’s this scene where Khan puts these little larval things in Chekov and his commander’s ears and they’re screaming and such. For a long time I would close my eyes for that part. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2002, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-watch-the-movie-except-for-one-scene/99926/15 "2002-03-25T16:52:11Z")
I enjoyed **A.I.** very much except for that stupid and annoying “Dr. Know” scene. ---
**Author:** ![ElwoodCuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2002, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-watch-the-movie-except-for-one-scene/99926/16 "2002-03-26T04:34:05Z")
Unwatchable–the needle part during Uma Thurman’s OD scene in Pulp Fiction. Ruinous–the last 30 seconds or so of “Unbreakable”. Totally unneccessary (although some may say the whole movie was unneccessary). ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2002, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-watch-the-movie-except-for-one-scene/99926/17 "2002-03-26T04:44:08Z")
Oh, Noooooooooooooooooooo!!! I swear I had the text on this thing last night. Then I clicked to start the thread and the transfer stopped at 39% and I never had any notifications (why would I?);I didn’t think it had made it through. Logged off in resignation. Imagine my shock when I found the broken thread tonight. Sheesh. Here’s what I had said: There’s a movie you like to watch and have seen more than once. But there’s just one scene you have to fast forward or look away from because it makes you uncomfortable, nervous or sick. Here are mine: _One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest_: the scene where they give Jack Nicholson electric shocks. Can’t bear to watch. _Midnight Express_: the scene where a couple of the prisoners are trying to dig their way out but of course they’re in danger of being caught. Makes me so nervous I have to hit the fast forward. _Schindler’s List_ : When they make the women and girls strip and walk into the “showers.” Fortunately, it turned out to be just water, but it still makes me sweat. My apologies for the break. I really didn’t think the transfer had gone through. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2002, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-watch-the-movie-except-for-one-scene/99926/18 "2002-03-26T04:45:25Z")
Looks like everybody “got it,” though. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2002, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-watch-the-movie-except-for-one-scene/99926/19 "2002-03-26T04:57:58Z")
Since this is a fairly old movie, I’ll assume that we’re spoiler-friendly, here. In **Jacob’s Ladder** , that scene where he’s in his ‘alternate world’ and gets wheeled off to what looks like a derelict hospital to get examined by a faceless surgeon–that scene always creeps me out. It’s a creepy movie, though. So I guess it belongs there. ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2002, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-watch-the-movie-except-for-one-scene/99926/20 "2002-03-26T05:15:13Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by vivalostwages \* > \*\* > Schindler’s List : When they make the women and girls strip and walk into the “showers.” Fortunately, it turned out to be just water, but it still makes me sweat._\* ??? I thought that was one of the hottest scenes in the whole flick! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-watch-the-movie-except-for-one-scene/99926.md?page=2)