Name an agonizing movie moment...

[Wetzelbill]

Something cringe inducing that no matter how many times you watch it, it still leaves you with a bad feeling afterwards.

Mine would be in the movie "Swingers" when Jon Favreau gets back from the club, and calls that girl "Nicky" and he keeps leaving her all these pathetic messages on her answering machine. Oh man, that just kills me! He just keeps calling and calling, digging himself in a hole! It's painful to watch. :)

So what about all of you?

[Starbucks Anarchist]

1. A much different tone, but...

The "curb" scene in American History X. :scared:

[RevolutionaryActs]

2. Just thinking about it...

:shudder:

[Wetzelbill]

7. yeah that's a tough one

no doubt.

[Oeditpus Rex]

9. Oh, gawd

I was gonna say the rape scene in "The Accused," but that "curb" scene... well, I don't even like thinking about it.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

42. Oh yeah, that is one hell of a scene.

:scared:

[swag]

3. The thing in "Gigli" where Jennifer Lopez spreads her legs and says

to Ben Affleck, "It's turkey time. Gobble, gobble."

[Wetzelbill]

6. !!!!!

:puke:

Glad I never watched that steaming pile of... :)

[swag]

20. They didn't show that in the Cut Bank public schools?

[Wetzelbill]

29. thank god

:)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

8. Are you joking?

Gee I'm glad I missed that...

[swag]

21. How the world wishes I were joking.

Glitter with Mariah Carey is also excellent in so many ways.

[rucky]

4. A Clockwork Orange - the rape scene.

and every time Sofia Coppola speaks in Godfather III

[jpgray]

10. You'll have to be more specific

That's like saying "the violent scene." :P

[rucky]

35. Big giant dildo.

is that specific enough for you?

[jpgray]

52. That wasn't a rape scene...

That was a beat-an-old-woman-to-death-with-a-giant-phallus-suclpture scene. It could be seen as a metaphorical rape scene. :P

[Wetzelbill]

11. oh those are both good picks

A Clockwork Orange is a film full of agonizing moments. "Singing in the rain... " :)

Sofia is a much better artist than an actress. :) Excellent writer/director.

[jpgray]

14. Boo! I say to her writing/directing

Ambiguity isn't art, and satire of Cameron Diaz is hardly cutting edge. x(

(Lost in Translation wasn't a -bad- movie necessarily, but I don't get the raves at all)

[Wetzelbill]

18. I think her writing is overrated

she's good, but not absolutely great. I like "The Virgin Suicides" a lot. The visuals were great. The raves for "Lost In Translation" were overdone, she probably shouldn't have won an Oscar for the screenplay. Too much missing from it, too vague. I like ambiguity, but "French Connection" type ambiguity, not the kind when nothing happens at all, you know? I think her work is excellent, but not in a cutting edge way, she's not nearly as good as some of the younger directors, like her ex, Spike Jonze or David Fincher and she can in no way write like say, Stephen Gaghan can.

[momophile]

48. me too. that's when I take a potty break. nt

[GoddessOfGuinness]

5. Sophie's Choice

When she makes her choice, my stomach feels like a brick just hit it.

[Parrcrow]

25. that's what I was going to post

absolutely wrenching moment

[khashka]

41. Yeah...

When you find out what her choice was... it knocks the breath out of you.
Khash.

[auntAgonist]

12. Sybil .. in the movie

Sybil is tied to the piano leg while her 'mother' plays, she's told she can't relieve herself, her bladder has been manually filled, the child is sitting in a puddle of water ..

the other scene that bothers me even more is when the child is on the kitchen table, legs suspended .. I can't even type a description .. it makes me ill to even think about it ...

[laheina]

33. That one is terrible.

I still have flashbacks.

[KitchenWitch]

34. Close to the end of "Life is Beautiful"

When the Adrian Brody character is just about to die, and he tells his son to run and hide.

[dolo amber]

40. Ugh

Ugh. Ugh. Ugh. That movie made me nearly die with the crying. And I never cry. So on top of being gut-wrenchingly sad, it pissed me off that it made me cry.

Perhaps I need therapy. :shrug:

[CBHagman]

53. You mean Roberto Benigni

I wept uncontrollably at the end of that movie.

[Beware the Beast Man]

13. Tyler Durden's "Our fathers were our models for God" speech

in Fight Club. Between the lye burning Jack's hand, and the idea that since our fathers abandoned us, so has God, leaves me with a pretty crummy feeling.

[MrScorpio]

15. "Is it safe?"

Marathon Man

[qnr]

23. Good choice. n/t

[Common Sense Party]

27. LOVE that movie. I haven't seen MM in years. n/t

[leftofthedial]

16. that one scene

in that one movie

about five minutes after you have to pee so bad you don't think you're gonna make it

that one is just excrutiating

it's always the longest scene in the movie and frequently has a waterfall in the background

[RevCheesehead]

17. In the movie "SE7EN"

at the end when the guy opens the box... :scared:

[SeattleGirl]

19. No kiddin' Rev!

:scared:

[Wetzelbill]

24. have you ever seen the William Shatner parody of that?

OMG, it is hilarious!

I'm not sure if this DL works, I'm just trying it myself, but here is a link to the parody.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4487108880480995121&q=shatner+se7en

[Beausoir]

36. Shatner is hilarious. Great clip. n/t

[NMMNG]

22. In "Boys Don't Cry"

When the guys pull Brandon's pants down to expose his genitials to show what biological gender he is. Then, of course, the rape scene.

[Reverend_Smitty]

26. Recently, that scene in Syriana...

where Clooney's character was being tortured by that Hamas guy... :scared:

[Touchdown]

28. Requiem for a Dream

At the end, when the clips come in quick succession to a screeching climax, the scene where the boy gets his gangrenous arm amputated. It somehow disturbed me more than Jennifer Connelly's double dong "performance" a split second later.

[ghostsofgiants]

44. The part where Leto shoots up into the infected arm is nasty, too.

[Hardrada]

30. In Ben Hur

where Messala who is basically in shreds has to spit his late message of hate.

[Robeson]

31. "The Unbearable Lightness of Being "....

...when they were killed in the auto wreck, it was a heart wrencher...

[Ptah]

32. "Kid Dies"

http://kold.com/Global/story.asp?S=4454633

bout 475 students at Holaway Elementary School learned
on Friday that one of their schoolmates won't be returning.
Six year-old Trevor Lee attended school at Haloway,
which is on the corner of Prince Road and Cherry.
Some parents did not find out until that afternoon
that he was killed in a hit and run, and that the
driver has yet to be found.

[Orsino]

37. "The Accused" rape scene

Horrid.

[khashka]

39. Yeah that gets me too

It's really too much. I almost got up and walked out of the theatre.

Khash.

[khashka]

38. I Spit on Your Grave

The scene where she finally crawls home after a terrible gang rape and grabs the phone to call the cops.... And it's kicked out of her hand and the bastards are back for more. That moment just kills me. Only movie moment where I actually screamed.

The rape scene in A Clockwork Orange always makes me cringe. I think part of it is that it is simple, elegant and very ugly - things that do not belong together. That scene always hits me hard.


Khash.

[Scout1071]

43. "The Color Purple"

When Sophia (Oprah) gets pistol whipped for hitting a white man who had just hit her.

Or later in the movie, years later in the life of Sophia, when she finally gets to go home and see her family and children for the first time since that day and the white woman couldn't drive her car. Sophia is there for only 5 minutes before she is forced to leave and drive the woman home.

And finally, when Whoopi spits in her father-in-law's lemonade and then he drinks it up. GROSS!

Guess I'm on a Color Purple kick this morning.....

[ghostsofgiants]

45. Irréversible...really good french film, but...

During the first half hour the camera is in constant motion and there's a use of low frequency sound (28Hz, I think) that is almost inaudible, but is designed to induce a sense of vertigo. Trying to last out those 30 minutes was rough, haha.

There's also a scene where a guy gets his head smashed in with a fire extinguisher (which I think is during that first half hour) which was one of the most brutal things I'v ever seen captured on film, and a rape scee later on in the film (which, as fucked up as it may sound, was kinda tame after seeing the guys head smashed in).

Yet I still thought the film was great. I'm insane, clearly.

[Shine]

46. that scene in "Abyss" where the woman agrees to "drown" so she

can be brought back to life on the other side of the container thing they're in. It works, btw, but it was really an intense scene of self-sacrifice.

shudder, shudder...just thinking about it gives me the creeps cuz I hate the idea of running out of air.
:scared:

[maveric]

47. "Reservoir Dogs" when Michael Madsen brutalized the cop to Stealer's Wheel

"Clowns the left left of me, jokers to the right...". and "you can yell and scream but I've heard it all before".
Damn! That was an agonizing scene. Whenever I hear that song, that scene pops into my head.

[momophile]

49. Scarlett begging Rhett...

or however it happens. I haven't seen the movie for over twelve years because I get so mad at Scarlett and sick of her for whining.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

50. Blue Velvet - when Frank enters Dorothy's apartment and we are forced to

endure Jeffrey's POV voyeurism from the closet of the whole "baby wants to fuck" nastiness. Jeffrey's devastating line to Sandy the day after - "Why are there people like Frank in the world?" - really gets to me also.

Plus the whole scene ending in "Candy Coloured Clown" is hard going, but it's not quite so intimate.

[Kire]

55. Here's to your fuck!

Here's to your fuck, Frank.

[momophile]

51. the giant spiders scene from Harry Potter...

I definitely have to leave the room or plug my ears and close my eyes for that one.:scared:

[BikeWriter]

54. "Sometimes a Great Notion"

One killer sequence, however: Richard Jaeckel, as Newman's brother, trapped under a log in a river, slowly drowning despite Newman's best efforts to save him.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/630018188X/104-5208660-7489530?v=glance

[BikeWriter]

56. "Platoon" when William Dafoe gets left behind.

[CBHagman]

57. The interrogation scene in In the Name of the Father.

I saw that on video and realized that watching it in the theater would have probably driven me up the aisle and out of the building. The British cops are almost unbearably sadistic.

What is interesting is that the movie ultimately emphasizes the humanity of the Pete Postlethwaite character, who is able to rise above the wrong that is done him, even as it physically destroys him.