# 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:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-watch-the-movie-except-for-one-scene/99926/41 "2002-03-28T03:59:42Z")
The part in Disney’s _Hercules_ after I rewound (yes, singular) it and hit play. ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-watch-the-movie-except-for-one-scene/99926/42 "2002-03-28T04:58:41Z")
The matrix, I didn’t like the scene where they just keep on interrogating morpheus, we got the point after the first 30 seconds. ---
**Author:** ![malkavia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malkavia/32/5621_2.png) [@malkavia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malkavia)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-watch-the-movie-except-for-one-scene/99926/43 "2002-03-28T05:40:52Z")
In Pet Semetary, where the sister scuttles across the floor… Holy jesus. _shudder_ Reservoir Dogs. I -love- this movie, I’ve probably seen it 50 times, but I cant watch the cop/ear scene. I just can’t, AI… the last 25 minutes of the movie. It felt like a perfect Kubrick ending and then it felt like Spielburg just HAD to throw in some stupid Mickey Mouse rhetoric. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Little\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Bird)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-watch-the-movie-except-for-one-scene/99926/44 "2002-03-28T06:08:22Z")
Singing in the Rain. Totally cute, clever movie, with a weird, scary, annoying, jarring, out of place, LSD-ish production number right in the middle. The “Gotta Dance” scene. Away with you, Little Bird cries! ---
**Author:** ![Lizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@Lizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lizard)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-watch-the-movie-except-for-one-scene/99926/45 "2002-03-28T06:34:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by malkavia \* > \*\*In Pet Semetary, where the sister scuttles across the floor… Holy jesus. _shudder_ > \*\* I didn’t think I had anything for this thread, until I read this. Oh hell yes. I quiver and shut my eyes every time at that. It’s creaping me out just thinking about it while I type. I also couldn’t watch most of “Resident Evil.” Trhe soundtrack was so incredibly nerve-wracking. I thought the ending was totally kick-ass though, with her waking up to the end of the world. ---
**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 28, 2002, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-watch-the-movie-except-for-one-scene/99926/46 "2002-03-28T14:38:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TheeGrumpy \* > Which also implies that the aliens somehow configured our mathematical space such that the ratio would work out like that. \*\* No, it implies that the aliens found an underlying harmony in the universe expressed in pi, and conveyed that to Jodie Foster. Sorry for the hijack. ---
**Author:** ![Aleq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@Aleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aleq)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-watch-the-movie-except-for-one-scene/99926/47 "2002-03-28T15:59:49Z")
Pet Sematary, oh yes, but for me it’s the scene where the kid gets hit by the truck–I have to leave the room because it’s so disturbing. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Bedrosian\_Bixby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecae2f/32.png) [@Bedrosian\_Bixby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bedrosian_Bixby)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-watch-the-movie-except-for-one-scene/99926/48 "2002-03-28T16:45:04Z")
I can;t watch the scene in Saving Private Ryan where the Jewish soldier gets stabbed in the chest. It’s one of the realist and most disturbing death scene’s I’ve ever seen in a movie. The image was heart breaking(no pun intended). To see that shocked, scared look on his face was too much. ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-watch-the-movie-except-for-one-scene/99926/49 "2002-03-28T16:50:48Z")
**Chasing Amy**. Wow, what a great love story. Love against the odds, the guy and girl find each other, and realize after a great friendship that they were meant for each other. Then he fucks it up. And to make matters worse, she takes offence at his attempt at a solution, and breaks up with him. The last fifteen minutes of the movie just ruin the previous hour and change. ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-watch-the-movie-except-for-one-scene/99926/50 "2002-03-28T17:00:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lightnin’ \* > \*\ ***Chasing Amy**. > > Wow, what a great love story. Love against the odds, the guy and girl find each other, and realize after a great friendship that they were meant for each other. > > Then he fucks it up. And to make matters worse, she takes offence at his attempt at a solution, and breaks up with him. > > The last fifteen minutes of the movie just ruin the previous hour and change. \*\* Well, yeah, but I always see CA as a movie where, several times, there are two choices, and the main character consistently picks the BAD one, even to the end. Now, I dislike the last scene, when he shows her the comic book, because I assume I’m supposed to think he learned his lesson, but he didn’t. He still has no clue what the problem was. I’ll throw in Billy Crystal’s scene in The Princess Bride and hide behind a dumpster. The movie is nice, funny, clever, entertaining, and in the middle of it there’s this awful scene with Billy Crystal turned up to 12 that ruins the whole thing for me. I can’t stand it. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-watch-the-movie-except-for-one-scene/99926/51 "2002-03-28T17:01:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Daniel \* > \*\*Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame is actually not that bad \*\* Have you read the book? The moral is “If you are ugly, you’re screwed.” ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-watch-the-movie-except-for-one-scene/99926/52 "2002-03-28T17:50:38Z")
Oh God, I just remembered the dental flossing scene in _Kingpin_ …Woody Harrelson teaches Randy Quaid how to floss, and Quaid eats what’s on the string. My stomach flip-flopped when I saw that. I plan to close my eyes if I ever come across it again. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-watch-the-movie-except-for-one-scene/99926/53 "2002-03-28T18:07:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Legomancer \* > \*\* > I’ll throw in Billy Crystal’s scene in The Princess Bride and hide behind a dumpster. The movie is nice, funny, clever, entertaining, and in the middle of it there’s this awful scene with Billy Crystal turned up to 12 that ruins the whole thing for me. I can’t stand it. \*\* You’re kidding me. You don’t _love_ Miracle Max? “Have fun storming the castle!” “Do ya think it’ll work?” “It’d take a miracle.” Classic! Ah well, one man’s meat, etc. etc. ---
**Author:** ![Mogwei22](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@Mogwei22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mogwei22)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-watch-the-movie-except-for-one-scene/99926/54 "2002-03-28T18:11:15Z")
**Aleq** and **Malkavia** …I’m right there with you on those two instances…but can I also add the part where the son Gage is hiding under the bed and slices the back of Herman Munster’s ankle…egah!..I’m convulsing just thinking about it. ---
**Author:** ![Jman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jman/32/4416_2.png) [@Jman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jman)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2002, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-watch-the-movie-except-for-one-scene/99926/55 "2002-03-28T18:18:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness \* > \*\* > Speaking of bad Spielberg endings, the end of _Saving Private Ryan_. Again, forced tearjeaking, except this time it makes no sense from a narrative perspective. How can he be flashing back to events he didn’t experience? \*\* See, I always thought of him remembering Tom Hanks’ character, and then we see why he remembers him, and the whole story starting from Normandy is part of that person, and the story of finding Private Ryan. The movie is never told from Ryan’s perspective, so I don’t consider it a flashback, just ‘he remembers this guy, here’s the story about why he had an impact on his life.’ No flashback, no error in the film. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-watch-the-movie-except-for-one-scene/99926.md?page=2)