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Originally posted by Tompow:
Funny you mention The Road... that's the first thing that came to mind.

Same here. First thing that came to me.

Blue Velvet

Used to love Law and Order SVU, until I had kids.

My imagination is way to vivid and now I cannot watch that show if it involves kids, or really any type of TV or movie where I could envision my family going thru whatever terrible thing is happening to them on the screen.

I have a difficult time watching rape scenes in movies, but the rape scene from the original Swedish version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo disturbed me the most.

I also once attempted to watch The Human Centipede because everybody I knew was talking about it, but I didn't get very far. It's the epitome of disturbing, imo.

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Originally posted by dry-fly:
Personally, and I know this is stupid, the Walking Dead bothers me. I tried watching it when it first aired and stopped. Tried again years after and stopped. Just picked it up recently for a third time.

Why do you keep watching if it disturbs you so much?

I get disturbed by the opposite. I like harsh brutal storytelling. I dislike pulled-punches and forced niceness and banality in my stories. So, if I sense a story is softening its edge to be more palatable to a general audience, it makes me feel really claustrophobic and icky.

Because of this, I bailed from The Walking Dead. It flirted with coolness and badass-ness, but it just lacked the balls. All these epic showdowns that just deflated pathetically. I couldn't take it anymore.

It's why I don't care for all these summer blockbuster superhero-disaster-monster movies. Entire cities are destroyed, but no graphic deaths are shown on screen? If a normal audience can watch a city destruction scene and not be disturbed, that disturbs me. But, if regular people are bothered by all the destruction and death in a film or show, then I tend to be entertained. That's more organic storytelling I can relate to.

It's also why I am disturbed by network sitcoms, especially if they take place in a suburban family atmosphere with a laugh track. All that syrupy artificial niceness. Bleah!

The movies "Iris" and "Schindler's List". Well done movies, but just can't watch them again.

The movie Higher Learning left me feeling very disturbed at the end.

No "two girls and a cup"?

For me it is "The Deer Hunter".

there was a scifi movie i watched.. cant remember the title but these aliens would ripp out your brain and spinal cord and use them in there machines..

Horror films, the entire genre.

Austin Powers
I just can't stomach that type of humor.

Elf - same level.

dumb & dumber- I just don't get.

I can't watch any of these for more than 5 minutes. I'd rather talk politics or religion with my mother in law

The movie that bothered me the most was The Passion of the Christ. The scourging scene onward to crucifixion was as uncomfortable as I've ever been watching a movie.

United 93 was also tough. It was one of those "glad I watched it - never want to see it again" movies for me.

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In actuality, a number of the films mentioned above. Also 13 hours, about Benghazi.

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:

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Originally posted by YellowJacket:
Requiem for a Dream

Yep. Good movie, but I have no desire to see it again.

Have you seen Pi by the same director? I found it far more disturbing than Requiem.
I would have to add Pi to my list.

Many of the above listed make my list. Most Quentin Tarantino movies do as well. I saw the rape scene from pulp fiction when I was too young to have been watching that.. and cannot bare to watch that movie to this day.

Also The hills have eyes

anything about birthing,
I hate Law & order and it seems like its on 24/7

Irréversible, a french movie that has a protracted and very vicious rape scene that is just... visceral to watch. That one was a bit disturbing to me.

This came from a coworker who was always telling me about offbeat movies he watched. He told me about several films that I would have never found.

Any time the Mrs watches the real housewives of wherever....

United 93; perhaps more dispiriting than disturbing.

The Killing Fields. This really is an excellent film that draws you in, but the subject matter... survival in the genocide... don't buy into the bullshit that Nixon bombing Cambodia caused the genocide.

Tropic Thunder. Due to their real life leftist politics I was rooting for the natives to kill the Jack Black and Ben Stiller characters. Perhaps its illogical but I associate Tropic Thunder to the Killing Fields. Begone leftist fools!

Roman Polanski films are a no-go. I watched a bit of RB and was baffled at the appeal. The Ninth Gate was technically good. But as a reviewer on IMDB stated 'this film was made by a man that surely knows that he is going to Hell'. So I avoid them all now.

The Kite Runner. Depiction of life under the Taliban, ugh.

Real-life videos of women being stoned to death.