Embarassing / Awkward / Disturbing Moments in Cinema

[bdlaw]

Damn near every single fucking moment of "Bloody Mama" (1970).

Corman flick about the Barker gang, starring Shelly Winters, Bruce Dern, Pat Hingle, Robert De Niro, and Scatman Crouthers.

[MCA™]

I watched the original version of The Wicker Man last night, expecting a creepy occult-horror-thriller. Instead, I got a movie with no less than 4 musical numbers straight out of Hair (including a naked Britt Ekland singing a song of longing for Edward "The Equalizer" Woodward) and the great Christopher Lee dressed up like Austin Powers. Talk about embarrassing. Is there any way to delete it from my Netflix history?

[CeeDub]

Cronenburg *clearly* belongs in the disturbing category, if not at the head.  Like a car crash - want to look away, but . . . you . . . can't.

[bdlaw]

Any given moment in any David Cronenburg film.

[jcindahouse]

the ooky red-hooded murderous dwarfette attacking Donald Sutherland in "Don't Look Now"

[justiceiro]

Ska-  I was out of the country during the late 90s, and swing never made it to Central Europe; so I don't have the viscerally negative feelings toward "swingers" that might entail.  Had I been in the US, I would likely feel the same way.

Breaking the waves sucked.  I would like to insert some pithy comment linking "waves" to a floating turd, but the movie is so bad it enrages me to the point where the satirical side of my brain has difficulty operating.

Typical Lars  "I love to criticize American culture and society, but I'm too pussified to fly in a plane, so I've never been there" Van Trier bullshit.   Not surprisingly, he's a co-founder of dogshit 95.

[skwirrlking]

Anything involving Pee Wee Herman.

So AWKWARD and DISTURBING and all-in-all discomfiting.  Gives me the heebie jeebies, even before the guy was found in the porno.

PeeWee Herman opinions aside, I didn't mind Paul Reubens in Blow and liked his various cameos in Cheech & Chong movies. However, Meatballs Part 2 was a disgrace.

[PhillyGirl]

Anything involving Pee Wee Herman.

So AWKWARD and DISTURBING and all-in-all discomfiting.  Gives me the heebie jeebies, even before the guy was found in the porno.

Oh, and that mikey scene, and any other scene in any movie that involves the awkwardness of post-date too-early phone calls.  CRINGE.

[Bobblehead]

How about all of Breaking the Waves?    I think that's at the top of the list for "don't watch again."

[Soshin]

All Chan-Wook Park movies disturb the hell out of me, they are kinda like the cinematic version of a Bukowski novel in that you feel like you need to take a bath afterwards because you feel dirty.

The first one I saw was "Oldboy".  A guys gets kidnapped and locked up for 15 years then goes out to get revenge on those that did it.  I won't give away the twists but suffice to say, if you watch then movie and find yourself laughing then you need to check into the Happy Valley Funny Farm right away because you are seriously messed up in the head.  File under: incest and the eating of live octopus (common in asia but usually chopped first - this one was whole).

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Don't even get me started on "Sympathy for
 Mr Vengence".  If dead kids and murderous deaf-mutes are your thing then you'll love this movie.

As for embarrasing moments, well Tom Cruise has a bunch of them but I'd like to give special mention to his Irish accent in the movie "Far and Away" or "Foir and Awoiye" as we call it in my house.

[justiceiro]

Too bad Persis Khambetta is dead.  She was hot.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/vXWh3dNQkw4" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/vXWh3dNQkw4</a>

[bdlaw]

(Waiting for someone to post our performance on YouTube...  )

[fasteddie]

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/iVh3tlVf7L8" target="_blank" class="new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/iVh3tlVf7L8</a>

[Skadave]

I haven't seen swingers since i first saw it in 1998. . . so perhaps it's not too bad anymore. I just remember rolling my eyes at 75% of the movie. You have to remember that 1998 was when swing was reaching it's apex in popularity (superbowl halftime show, MTV and whatnot). Plus all of the douches calling everything "money" after the movie came out made me hate it even more. I think everyone wanting to be vince vaughn that made me despise the movie more than the movie itself.

[justiceiro]

Skadave- I must strenuously disagree with you re:swingers.  Yes, the daddy-O bit is dated, much as Bogart's smoking jacket in Casablanca is dated.  But the themes of the movie- friendship, manhood, and confidence, are eternal.  Vince Vaughn's charachter in that movie is great- he's the  kind of friend that I would like to have, or to be.  Also, the but where he cuts his ex off just as she says "I lo...." is priceless.  How many if us haven't been in that dude's situation.

As far as "most disturbing" in the sense of "my god, I can't believe they spent 150 million dollars on this flick and hired an actor worht about $0.25 to read from a script better suited as ass paper" that would be the "declaration of love scene" from the second round of star wars films, where Annakin skywalker says "you're not like the others, you smell like trees" or some other bullshit to padme.  I don't remember the exact words, but I do remember the taste of bile that ACTUALLY FLOODED MY MOUTH, blending with the bitterness of the realization that George Lucas, I prefer to call him Jorge because it sounds like "whore" which is what he is, had rooked me for $10 plus popcorn.


As far as "most disturbing" in terms of being artfully disturbing woudl be the well montage from the american version of "the ring."  That shit is creepy.

As far as "most disturbing" as in "this movie actually does damage the psyche of the nation and contribute towards the coarsening of human life, Oh my God, I actually agree with James Dobson" it as to be "House of 1000 corpses."  Just check this image out:

[skwirrlking]

- when Harvey Keitel acts like a bad lieutenant
- most of Santa Sangre
- any time the two Corey's get together

[Skadave]

I cannot think of a movie that dated quicker than Swingers. I remember watching it in 1998 and thinking it reeked of 1996. That whole swing daddy-o thing got old quick.

[garyg]

In swingers when mikey calls the girl from the bar 3 or 4 times after just meeting her and then saying that he can't do thise yadayada.  I cringe everytime I watch it.

[Bobblehead]

How about when I started laughing at the "scary" parts of The Blair Witch Project in the movie theatre---does that count? 

[MCA™]

1. Every fight scene in The Human Tornado.

2. Every sex scene in The Human Tornado.

[Woodsy]

That guy eating the eclair in National Lampoon's Van Wilder.

[jcpeace]

Divine eats dog shit in the closing scene of Pink Flamingos

[missa]

miike's visitor q from beginning to end.

[AmbushBug]

Dave, you're not even gonna mention that Roddy Piper's friend was the ever imposing Keith David? The voice of Spawn?

The best part is that moment the first time you see it when you realize, crap, they're still fighting? Then they fight for another five minutes before Keith finally agrees to put on the glasses and observe the alien conspiracy.

[Skadave]

The infamous "They Live" fight scene. It's a 10 plus minute fight scene where Roddy Rowdy Piper tries to make his "friend" put on a pair of sunglasses.

Karen Duffy's acting in Dumb and Dumber.

[CeeDub]

oaky doakey
- any "curbing" like in AmericanX or in the Sopranos a coupla weeks back:
I've seen my share of blood and gore, a buddy is an Oral-Maxillofacial surgeon, but that particular act of violence  hits me hard;

- when Hannibal Lector does a a quick sweetbread saute of Ray Liotta's own brains and serves it to him, in whatever flick that was;

just for starters on the disturbing side

[jennymayla]

From Hand That Rocks the Cradle:  Annnabelle Scorria is having an asthma attack while in a fistfight with the nanny, Rebecca De Mornay, who kicks her inhaler away and says:  "When push comes to shove, you can't even breathe." 

One of the most evil bitch fight lines ever.  And a totally disturbing scene.  And movie.

[bdlaw]

#1: "I used to fcuk guys like you in prison."  Road House fight scene

#2: Rocky and Apollo clapping like retards and hugging on the beach.  Rocky III

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