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Are you completely desensitised, or are there scenes that make you cringe?

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The last one I can think of was in Syriana when
they pull Clooney's fingernails off or break his fingers or whatever they did exactly
, I forget the details but I know I squirmed for a little bit there.
 
Ordinarily I don't, but I cringed today when watching
Teresa get bonked in the head
in Twin Peaks.
 
Iamthegamer said:
The grusome deaths in robot cop made me cringe a bit. And the ones in the Animatrix, my god, what kind of sick bastard would put so much detail into people getting torn to pieces:lol
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Good call. I remember even starting a thread about how disturbing those scenes were.

I've seen plenty of anatomy pictures and stuff but for some reason that "experiment" scene disturbed me a bit.
 
bune duggy said:
I haven't even seen this movie and that scene makes me cringe just thinking about it.
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Honestly it's not all that bad, and the action isn't even performed onscreen. You just hear a "Cleeeeebullllggursh!" and then police sirens.

You guys've got your panties in a bunch :D
 
Nick said:
Straight porn.

Edit: Straight love scenes.
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girl on girl okay then?


As for the topic, I'm completely desensitized. Recently watched Takashi Miike's banned american movie, Imprint, and not even the abortions or pins under nails fazed me.
 
Ancestor said:
The last one I can think of was in Syriana when
they pull Clooney's fingernails off or break his fingers or whatever they did exactly
, I forget the details but I know I squirmed for a little bit there.
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ya I was just about to post that. Also every time some one losses in Russian roulet in Deer Hunter.
 
The barf in Audition was pretty rough. I'm not a fan of vomit.
Sewer drill in Tetsuo.
There was one scene in Tromeo & Juliet that made me get kinda squeamish, when the one cousin is stuck in the car window and the punch him until he falls off and hits his head on a fire hydrant. Him picking up the little gooey blobs and trying to stick them to his open wound was pretty weak. Actually, whole movie was pretty weak, but that's what stuck out the most.
 
I've never seen that movie, but, thanks to everyone talking about how bad the curb stomp was, I went on good old youtube and watched it. That was...not bad...at all. I was expecting far worse and got that.

Thanks to playing games like Resident Evil 4, and watching films with gore in them, I have been pretty much desensitised. I can see a man's head blown off, limbs detacthed, tortured, or whatever...I will say, when I was younger...i was cringing off of that scene in black hawk down, where they had to dig the bullet out of that guys leg with no equipment.
 
A lot of stuff still bothers me even thought I've seen a ton of violent movies. For some reason I hate it when people have their necks snapped or throats slit regardless of the situation. It just makes me cringe really bad. The curb stomp got me just because all of the build up and the messed up shit that happened before it. Norton's character build up until then just put him in a completely messed up place in my head and the curb stomp was pretty much the culmination of that.
 
The good old fashioned achilles tendon slice usually gets me every time. I know that I've seen it done in at least three movies, spoilers for one so I won't mention, but I know there must be some more out there. I think it is the combination of slicing a part of the body that is in constant state of tension, and the helplessness that it renders the victim. Now whoever did the slicing, usually a sneak attack, can continue to do whatever he or she wants.

Also hyper-extension of limbs used to get to me when I was a kid, but enough martial arts movies will cure you of that.:)
 
I guess it might not count.

But the end of the Berserk anime still haunts me when I think about it.

I still think that scene is more ****ed up than anything I could ever imagine.

Oh and eye stuff. Or wierdly enough any kind of actual surgery(well fake actual surgery) in movies makes me squirm. I can watch decapitations with a smile but something that looks like a real surgery makes me uncomfortable. <shrug>
 
Master Shake said:
Honestly it's not all that bad, and the action isn't even performed onscreen. You just hear a "Cleeeeebullllggursh!" and then police sirens.

You guys've got your panties in a bunch :D
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Uh you acutally see his head come apart from the jaw.


And speaking of Robocop, the part with the acid melting the guys hands off was pretty nasty.
 
Achilles tendon... the thought at having that cut just sends chills down my spine.
Fingernails... finger nails being torn or even just having something wedged under them for torture like in LOST.
Limbs being hacked off slowly... i don't really get bothered by gore or anything... but having a limb cut off and it taking time is just disturbing.

Stuff that you can relate to and won't actually kill you. Makes me cringe
 
The only thing in recent memory that made me cringe was the part before, during, and after the dude in Saw cutting his leg off to escape
 
Der Kommisar said:
Uh you acutally see his head come apart from the jaw.
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No you don't. I just watched the scene 5 times. He stomps, and it cuts pretty quickly. No head can be seen being severed or anything.
 
Ecrofirt said:
No you don't. I just watched the scene 5 times. He stomps, and it cuts pretty quickly. No head can be seen being severed or anything.
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Seriously? Eh, well I guess I imagined it.

I could've sworn right after he stomps you can see the top half of the other guy's head come off, guess not.
 
The thing with the curb stomp is it rather Hitchcockian in construction and execution, that being the violence remembered in the scene is much more gruesome and stark within the mind then it actually was on screen. This is accomplished by not showing everything or keeping the pace quick and so on and so forth and letting the resonance of the scene the imagination take over to fill in the blanks.
 
i can't remember the last time a movie made me cringe or sick. But i was damn close to tears watching the footage of Hurricane Katrina. i saw a photo of a dead body floating in the murky waters in Time's "best photos of 2005" issue. In that same issue was a dead man, covered in the rubble of a collapsed building from an earthquake. i could pick out half a dozen other photos that touched me somehow from that same issue

i also remember watching a 20/20 bit on trepidation that made me literally sick to my stomach.

In short, videos and photos of things in real life affect me more than stuff made for entertainment.
 
aoi tsuki said:
i can't remember the last time a movie made me cringe or sick. But i was damn close to tears watching the footage of Hurricane Katrina. i saw a photo of a dead body floating in the murky waters in Time's "best photos of 2005" issue. In that same issue was a dead man, covered in the rubble of a collapsed building from an earthquake. i could pick out half a dozen other photos that touched me somehow from that same issue

i also remember watching a 20/20 bit on trepidation that made me literally sick to my stomach.

In short, videos and photos of things in real life affect me more than stuff made for entertainment.
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I wasn't in tears, but, that did touch me a bit (mix of anger and sadness). Real life images get me. I guess, its because deep down, I know someone actually suffered, and it wasn't something fake. More mental than anything.
 
Broken bones ... or rather showing limbs being snapped. I can't stand that sound. Everything else seems cheesy and over the top to me.


Nothing gets me worse though, when I watch medical procedures and they cut into peoples eyeballs. AIYEEE
 
moonwalker.jpg

*cringe*
 
I'm kind of a pussy when it comes to this shit... at least, in theory. I don't think I've seen too many disturbingly violent sequences in my movie watching career, but the thought of them itself makes me not want to. For example, I was afraid to watch Saving Private Ryan, but then when I did, I didn't have any problems at all.

Basically what I'm getting down to is: Man Bites Dog is arriving via Netflix tomorrow. How bad is that movie?
 
moist said:
or the fire extinguisher.......
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I hated that movie so much, but I did rewind (or fast forward since it's all in reverse) the story to see
if the guy they end up killing was actually the rapist.

But it wasn't him. They just killed some random dude.
:(
 
Master Shake said:
Wow, way to go man :(

You just spoiled the ****ing movie.
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Sorry. Fixed. I figured the rape sequence was also a spoiler and that one wasn't blacked out, so...

BTW, if you haven't seen the movie, do yourself a favor and don't. It's horrible, in the worst possible way.
 
In a ghost movie or something, if they fall or enter into a dark closed space, or into dark water, and suddenly they find out they are not alone.

That still gets to me.

EDIT: just remember this. I watched The Ring alone, not only does it have the falling into a dark closed space with water thing....

...but at the end, when she comes out of the TV... it was the noise... the heartbeat like sound as the guy knew something was about to happen... that kinda got to me.
 
Blood in, blood out. When they drop the guy with his back on a fire hydrant to break his spine and paralyze him.
 
There was a scene in the Monster manga where someone screwed for torture purpose with someone's finger-nails. That really got me. You don't see that much, but just the imagination works...
 
I've been desensitized to deaths by explosion, gunshots, and decapitation. I still find graphic mutilation very disturbing: gutting, crushed faces, rotting flesh, all make me cry like a little bitch.
 
Nah, violence-wise, Im pretty much totally desensitized. I blame it on me watching violent movies from a very young age onwards. I actually applaud new and exciting scenes of violence and gore on-screen. Decaptitation almost bores me now. /sicko

Anyways, its more crazy/disturbing stuf that does get to me. For instance, in The Hills Have Eyes remake,
the shotgun suicide didnt bother me, nor did insane gore of the final acts. No, what really got me was the trailer scene, where the mutants rape the hot daughter, kill the mother and older daughter, and the threat of violence to the baby is implied that really got my stomach turning. Supremely well done though.
I felt sick the whole scene.

Same with like Oldboy.
The teeth extraction doesnt bother me at all, nor the tongue cutting out scene. No, what does get me though is Choi (Oh Dae Su) eating a LIVE octopus (several times over), and the revelation of the incest, and the utterly disturbing and unforgettable final scene where, it appears to me, the "monster" has won, and Dae Su will resume boning his own daughter.
 
Solo said:
Anyways, its more crazy/disturbing stuf that does get to me. For instance, in The Hills Have Eyes remake,
the shotgun suicide didnt bother me, nor did insane gore of the final acts. No, what really got me was the trailer scene, where the mutants rape the hot daughter, kill the mother and older daughter, and the threat of violence to the baby is implied that really got my stomach turning. Supremely well done though.
I felt sick the whole scene.
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What was with the
rape
? Can't call that a
rape
:P
Read the Battle Royale manga or partially Gantz for disturbing sexual stuff !
 
Teeth stuff like in Oldboy nearly kills me. Also, animal cruelty. I want to see Cannibal Holocoust, but the animal bits would probably be too much for me.
 
The scene in The Butterfly Effect where
the dog gets burned alive :(

Edit: Also, in Cast Away where
Tom Hanks breaks one of his own molars out of his mouth with an ice skate >_<!!! The sound like breaking porcelain rang through a horrified me!
 
Iamthegamer said:
The grusome deaths in robot cop made me cringe a bit. And the ones in the Animatrix, my god, what kind of sick bastard would put so much detail into people getting torn to pieces:lol
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Its the ****ing screaming as the soldier is torn out of the powersuit that gets me. :::GUUUUUH::::


And Hostel......
the drill...the goddammed drill
.
 
Drug use involving needles in film/TV makes me cringe every time, just because I hate needles so much. Not big on surgery scenes, either, but I've gotten used to those over the years.

Of course, if the video footage is real (like this traumatizing video I saw years ago called The Amazing Shocking Asia), that shit will scar me for life.
 
I am completely desensitized...nothing fazes me usually, real or not.

One day, though...when I was a little too sluggish on the way to work and had a few to many cups of coffee sloshing around in my stomach...I later stumbled upon the short story Guts by Chuck Palahniuk. After reading it I had to stay fight the shakes and sweating in the bathroom for about 30 minutes before I could compose myself and no longer feel queasy. I went back and read it later, and nothing...so it must have just been that extra special combo that finally got to me.
 
Not too much fazes me now-adays unless I know it's real. I do remember being grossed out during the "V" tv series, when a guy froze his arm in a liquid nitrogen leak or something and shattered it on a railing.
 
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