Did You Ever Find a Movie Too Disturbing to Watch?

Marcy Sheiner said:
Actually, I've seen that several times and obviously love it. Great acting.
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As you know the movie was actually tame compared to reality . The character Pesci played who was in real life Tommy Simone was played down for the movie , the old mob would have taken out Simone right away , would have not tolerated the problems he caused but Goodfellas was when the mob was on its way out as far as not being what they were .

Goodfellas were a Family under a bigger Family a ''sub family'' like movie Donnie Brasco which again was great .

I thought it was a great movie .

Did you see Casino again with actors De niro and Pesci ?

Loved it .


My father was Sicilian so I speak Italian and I grew up in area with low level Mob retirees from Sanitation , Construction for big City Construction contracts who flew under the radar though granted most did some jail time but imagine they did get away with much and retired . Different times .

They were as nice as one could be to us but my father avoided them like the plague as far as just chatting with them if they ran into each other he called them sociopaths , I did not avoid them .

In fact my 3 sisters were not allowed to date their sons / grandsons .

I was drafted and that saved my @ because I saw them as okay guys , after getting out I got a job that one of them ran , a guy I respected selling junk stocks to elderly people and could not believe how blind I had been .



Keep in mind back then you did not need to pass the series 7 tests if they even had it or think the owner of the business had it .

I quit after one day and did not sell the poison , went to trade school which now is called technical school , lol but know those involved made a fortune and fairly fast since no real regulations .
 
Yes.
The Lobster where a woman kicks this guy's dog to death for no other reason than a very cold meanness towards the guy she's supposed to be involved with.
Reservoir Dogs where they torture some guy in a garage. This hits too close to home where a girl's high school student was kidnapped off the streets in my neighborhood, tortured, murdered and cut into pieces and left in a wooded area.
 
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JustDave said:
I have a fairly strong stomach for just about anything produced in Hollywood and I've sat through some very disturbing movies where I even questioned whether watching was in some way harming myself. But the answer is not a definitive yes or no either. I have turned off disturbing movies, not because they were disturbing, but because I wasn't in the mood to watch that crap. Pardon my language, but that is precisely the thought in my head when I decide to turn it off; "I don't want to watch this crap." Sometimes I'm just not willing to be revolted by some director trying to yank my strings.
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I'm a movie junkie and like scary movies but not disgusting blood and gore , now most '' scary '' movies poorly written just blood gore .
 
OldFeller said:
Yes.
The Lobster where a woman kicks a dog to death for no other reason than meanness towards the guy she's supposed to be involved with.
Reservoir Dogs where they torture some guy in a garage. This hits too close to home where a girl's high school student was kidnapped off the streets in my neighborhood, tortured, murdered and cut into pieces and left in a wooded area.
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I vaguely remember seeing Reservoir Dogs and being freaked out.
 
gilead said:
'Schindler's List' was for really hard to watch. Seen it one time only at the cinema with SO. I have a copy of it but can't watch it.
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Another movie based on reality which was played down or they would not have an audience .

As you know Amon Goth who ran the camp was tamed down a lot for the movie / documentary and yet bad enough .

It is worth watching if ever you try again and at least Goth never escaped . .


Uprising is another good movie which Schindler's List just reminded me of .​

 
Marcy Sheiner said:
Schindlers List was the last holocaust movie I've seen, where I vowed never to watch another. I also cannot stand movies about slavery or domestic violence. I've done so much reading and viewing on these subjects I don't feel a need to learn anything more about them.
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Recently, I've watched docudramas about treatment of black people--slavery and so on, but to learn about it. I do not take on the shame nor guilt of those people who treated them so horribly. As a child I was on a city bus, and standing in the aisle was a black smiling man dressed in overhauls. He looked down at me, I guess I smiled back, surprised/confused at seeing a black man on the bus. In my mind, no problem, but I was confused.....there was supposed to be something wrong with his being on the bus? But what?
 
NotCompSavy said:
Another movie based on reality which was played down or they would not have an audience .

As you know Amon Goth who ran the camp was tamed down a lot for the movie / documentary and yet bad enough .

It is worth watching if ever you try again and at least Goth never escaped . .
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I've watched a few movies about the subject until I finally wondered if there was something wrong with me. I kept hoping John Wayne would come & save the day. I've progressed to watching movies & TV Series about WWI. I wanted to get a better understanding of that conflict. Not much into the 'slasher/eerie' type movies & sci/fi is questionable at best. Seen too many 'lame' ones in 50's

'1917' is my most watchable version, along with 'All Quiet on the Western Front' The earlier version. I have a few British streaming sites & I've watched most of those WWI documentaries. It was brutal but watchable. I've seen 'Sgt York' with Gary Cooper, OK but not realistic, too dated. Mel Gibson made a good WWI movie (Gallipoli) early on in his career.
 
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Yes, it was called Hostel and was the most disturbing thing I can remember watching. I actually couldn't watch it all and still had nightmares. I am sure it was shown on late night TV.

In Hostel three male backpackers travelling around Europe are seduced to Slovakia on the promise of hot women only to find themselves victims of a torture factory where wealthy men and women can murder them in any way they wish for a price.​
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Night of the Living Dead
I did watch whole thing, but was running around my apartment screaming. It was wee hours of Xmas, has just been to Xmas Eve Midnight Mass at St. John the Divine. No one in building seemed to mind me screaming at 2am.
 
Brutal murder "games" I cannot watch: "Squid Games" I was unable to watch more than two episodes...was hoping it would get less masochistic but it didn't. It was terrible.

Other movies I have found hard to watch - due to emotion were
"Boy in the Striped Pajamas" (2006 Holocaust historical fiction) and "War Horse" (2011 historical fiction).
Both were VERY good movies but emotionally draining and so SAD I ended up crying, which I rarely do with movies.

Another that is very hard to watch both as a military member and a woman is: "Platoon". The brutality is horrendous and I could not get past the rape scene without significant flashbacks. Rape scenes should be against the law.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
I was a Corpsman in the U.S. Navy. I saw too many blinded 18 year old kids, and a Corps school classmate was killed in Vietnam about 2 months after we graduated. I can't watch true war movies.
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My DH, a Marine for twenty watches war movies and then the nightmares come...but he watches them...but I think he enjoys the memories of the fellow Marines and shipmates in the Navy most...so he endures the nightmares of the bad scenes to watch the heroic, friendship, funny moments in some war movies.
 
The 1951 movie, 'The Greatest Show on Earth'.
Jimmy Stewart plays a Clown.
First saw it as a kid and every time they showed Clowns, I'd lose it.

Family thought I was a pretty strange kid. Everybody loves Clowns.

This is ironic, since people on my mother's side of the family, were co-owners a Circus in the early 1900's,
but sold their share in 1913.

Maybe Karma has tagged me, if they mistreated their Clowns.
 
Feelslikefar said:
The 1951 movie, 'The Greatest Show on Earth'.
Jimmy Stewart plays a Clown.
First saw it as a kid and every time they showed Clowns, I'd lose it.

Family thought I was a pretty strange kid. Everybody loves Clowns.

This is ironic, since people on my mother's side of the family, were co-owners a Circus in the early 1900's,
but sold their share in 1913.

Maybe Karma has tagged me, if they mistreated their Clowns.
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I have two daughters who can't manage clowns. I don't like them or dislike them, I find them oddly weird.
 

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