I am aware that there are threads about favourite horror movies etc. But that is not what I am asking. What movies do you struggle to sit through? Perhaps there is a scene that you just cringe at, perhaps a movie affects you personally and because of that, you are disturbed by the content.
Doesnt even have to be violent, I remember switching channels to find 'Jarhead' was on, I watched the scene, a bunch of soldiers putting on an tape of 'The Deer Hunter' to find a homemade porno of one of the troops wife having sex with their neighbour.
That is the only scene I have seen in that movie, at the time I was in a relationship and was expecting that girl to be up to something behind my back (turned out to be true). Being highly suspicious and viewing that scene at the time caused it to disturb me more then it should have. I have never rewatched it, but I cringe personally because the thoughts of that movie, even though I havent seen it, brings me back to an unhappier time.
Another movie I struggle with is 'Threads'. A docudrama from the 80's enacting what may happen to the UK if the Cold War had escalated into a nuclear war. Nuclear warfare is scary as shit no matter how you look at it, and this movie is by far the best to portray it in my opinion. Starting off as a normal movie, introducing characters that arent that deep, but will do, while American and Soviet governments are gradually getting more hostile in the background, eventually escalating to a probable nuclear attack. That attack happens about halfway through the movie and in all honesty, the mushroom clouds were all stock footage and looked a bit silly. I didnt take it seriously at first.
But then the movie became as far as I know, the best movie to explore the concept of a Nuclear Winter. We see the effects on the UK, we see corpses, we see a wasteland, we see people getting shot, people killing each other for food, the population decreasing to medieval level. It is a miserable little film with no hopeful ending, and for that matter, not an ounce of hope as soon as we hear that first blast.
Here is the disclaimer regarding the drama before it was first broadcast, if you havent seen it I recommend you have a look sometime. Its not perfect, but I certainly found it disturbing.
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So what movies did you struggle to sit through? For whatever reason?
Doesnt even have to be violent, I remember switching channels to find 'Jarhead' was on, I watched the scene, a bunch of soldiers putting on an tape of 'The Deer Hunter' to find a homemade porno of one of the troops wife having sex with their neighbour.
That is the only scene I have seen in that movie, at the time I was in a relationship and was expecting that girl to be up to something behind my back (turned out to be true). Being highly suspicious and viewing that scene at the time caused it to disturb me more then it should have. I have never rewatched it, but I cringe personally because the thoughts of that movie, even though I havent seen it, brings me back to an unhappier time.
Another movie I struggle with is 'Threads'. A docudrama from the 80's enacting what may happen to the UK if the Cold War had escalated into a nuclear war. Nuclear warfare is scary as shit no matter how you look at it, and this movie is by far the best to portray it in my opinion. Starting off as a normal movie, introducing characters that arent that deep, but will do, while American and Soviet governments are gradually getting more hostile in the background, eventually escalating to a probable nuclear attack. That attack happens about halfway through the movie and in all honesty, the mushroom clouds were all stock footage and looked a bit silly. I didnt take it seriously at first.
But then the movie became as far as I know, the best movie to explore the concept of a Nuclear Winter. We see the effects on the UK, we see corpses, we see a wasteland, we see people getting shot, people killing each other for food, the population decreasing to medieval level. It is a miserable little film with no hopeful ending, and for that matter, not an ounce of hope as soon as we hear that first blast.
Here is the disclaimer regarding the drama before it was first broadcast, if you havent seen it I recommend you have a look sometime. Its not perfect, but I certainly found it disturbing.
[YOUTUBE]pfFa-jlN22U[/YOUTUBE]
So what movies did you struggle to sit through? For whatever reason?