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Your most cringe-inducing movie scene.

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Different strokes for different folks. Irreversible haunted me for several days, but the only thing that made me feel bad about Human Centipede was that it was a bad movie. The sequel was far better, and I still have a vivid mental image of the main actor's sadistic chuckling, and the look in his eyes.


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Don't think that Irreversible didn't haunt me. Oh man....that movie.

Another one that made me cringe was Gaspar Noe's I Stand Alone.
When he beats the shit out of his pregnant wife...and a few other ghastly bits.
The director's got the knack for making me uneasy... yet I can't stop watching his movies.
 
This still gets me to this day.

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Oh yes... that girl's only purpose in this movie is to either get Jeff Goldblum in shit and that HORRIBLE scene.


Here's mine:

Goddamn you americans and your patriotism

It's so f***in Cheesy.

Patriotism done right and badass.
 
Syriana: Fingernails

And much of Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance. Almost every act of violence bothered me, especially the Achilles' tendon slicing in
neck deep water
since it
happens to a guy you were rooting for
.

And I Saw the Devil. Dem Korean films, man
 
One that also gets me every time is the death of the snipers in Black Hawk Down. When that Somali dude finishes Shughart off with a pistol at point blank range, and then everyone swarms them and throws rocks and then drags their dead bodies out — ugh. And that actually happened, too.

Yeah, that's an awful scene. In fact, the movie had many scenes that were difficult to watch.

I'm not sure if many people know this but the pilot that they tried to rescue, Mike Durant, wrote a book a few years after Black Hawk Down came out about the crash and his capture by the Somalis. In the movie they depict him getting hit in the face by a rifle after Gordon and Shughart were killed, which wasn't actually true. In Durant's book he said that the Somalis had started mutilating the bodies of his crew and that they almost beat him to death with his co-pilot's arm before dragging the bodies naked through the streets. Terrible.
 
The orgy scene from Requiem For a Dream. I cringed because of how bad it was. Also, the fire extinguisher scene from Irreversible (albeit for an entirely different reason)
 
Don't think that Irreversible didn't haunt me. Oh man....that movie.

Another one that made me cringe was Gaspar Noe's I Stand Alone.
When he beats the shit out of his pregnant wife...and a few other ghastly bits.
The director's got the knack for making me uneasy... yet I can't stop watching his movies.

I really should see that one, but for some reason I haven't had a hurry to do so.
 
The scenes involving Nils Bjurman in the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
Especially when he rapes her.
Just disgusting.
 
So fellow GAFer's. What is the oné scene that is the most cringe-inducing for you? A scene that actually made it feel quite hard to watch.
I am not talking about HOSTEL rated gore scenes because honestly those kind of scenes are just damn stupid. In fact, I encourage anyone to not post that kind of scenes.

Here is mine from Saving Private Ryan (knife scene):

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I can watch the entire movie over and over again but that scene always makes me feel terrible for as long as it lasts.

lol that was well acted but it was sooo obviously fake.... it was a fake body with his head through the floor...
 
To bounce back on Gaspard Noe, the scene in Enter the Void where...
you get a solid 10 seconds in-vagina close-up of a penis pouncing the screen. Awesome, WTF, jesus fucking christ and holy shit at the same time.
 
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All scenes involving Peter Parker using the venom suit killed me a little inside. It was so embarrassing sitting in that theater watching this peter parker shit.
 
The Swingers phone call scene is probably the top of my list. That whole movie has a lot of uncomfortable truth to it, but that one scene is the nightmare scenario.

In terms of "cringe at how awful it is," most of The Happening, but in particular the scene in which Wahlberg tries to placate the crazy old lady near the end. "MA'AM! NOO! MA'AM!"

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One of the worst moments in a trilogy filled with numerous instances of cringeworthy moments that would have Tolkien turning in his grave.

His leaden writing made a lot of competent fiction authors turn in their graves first, so I say turnabout is fair play.
 
Yeah I know, it's like, "ooh, he broke his nose. Oh shit, his nose has disappeared into his face. Oh shit, his face has disappeared into his face. Oh shit, it's now just a fruit bowl." Man, scene is so fucked up.

wow that bad guy in that movie was a cocksucker.....
 
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The cutting didn't make me cringe, it was the sounds they used for when he touched a nerve.
 
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Taxi Driver
Travis takes Betsy out on a date..... :(

I watched this for the first time ever about 6 months ago...... it was a very good movie until the shitty hollywood ending....
I can't believe he lived smh.... ending was laughable
shame too it just totally takes away from bob's performance.
 
Saving Private Ryan is the correct answer. Find myself avoiding that movie just so I don't feel my skin crawl and nausea rise as that scene unfolds.

best part of the movie was the first 30 mintues... the knife scene just wasn't done good. I never like that actor or character either. but its just sooo fake looking
 
There's this one scene in one of the SAW movies (At least, I think it was SAW) where this chick lands into a pit of syringes. I had to look away.

And another in one of the Jackass movies where they give each other paper cuts with those manila envelopes. Cringe every time I think about it...
 
This, definitely this.

Brilliant film though.

yeah I always liked Franco but this movie was amazing.... James is the fucking man.. one of my favorite actors. I was crying something fierce when sigur ros came on... it was a happy cry though. That movie will really show you some perspective... if you're having a shitty day, depressed... watch that shit. You will not complain anymore.
 
The "he fought the good fight" scene in Shawshank Redemption. Not because of the subject matter, but because of the terrible narration and music that literally made me cringe from how melodramatic and cheesy they made it.
 
What? The knife scene is amazing

I could just tell the way the done it instantly..... I watched the making of a few years after and was right 100% I usually never look for immersion braking things in movies you know mistakes and what not it totally takes away from the point of watching a movie. o well At the time it was just the best way to do the shot though. Now they would make the knife CG lol
 
127 hours

The cutting didn't make me cringe, it was the sounds they used for when he touched a nerve.

Forgot about that. Yeah, I think I covered my eyes the the theater for a few seconds of it. Horrifyingly painful to watch.

And that scene from Drive also. That was totally out of left field in it's level of ferocity.
 
yeah I always liked Franco but this movie was amazing.... James is the fucking man.. one of my favorite actors. I was crying something fierce when sigur ros came on... it was a happy cry though. That movie will really show you some perspective... if you're having a shitty day, depressed... watch that shit. You will not complain anymore.
It's definitely a very inspiring film.
 
Oh god, I got one. Episode III.

Anakin: You are so... beautiful.
Padme: It's only because I'm so in love.
Anakin: No, it's because I'm so in love with you.
Padme: So love has blinded you?

WTF shut the fuck up
 
I watched this for the first time ever about 6 months ago...... it was a very good movie until the shitty hollywood ending....
I can't believe he lived smh.... ending was laughable
shame too it just totally takes away from bob's performance.

He's condemned to continue living in hell.
Nothing's changed, his glance in his rearview mirror when we last see him confirms this.
He will continue to exist and for as long as he does so he will continue to suffer.
I'm not sure if this is 'Hollywood' as it's not as if he gets the girl and they live happily ever after or anything.....
 
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