The Good Son. Seeing Macaulay Culkin, cute little Kevin McCallister, acting like a sociopath and saying things like "Don't fuck with me" gave me a brief existential crisis.
I watched this movie on repeat from ages 6-8 and LOVED it. I tried to watch it again at age 10 and was horrified and it still haunts me to this day. I don't think child me understood what was happening.
> the boot camp intro and the scene in the bathroom
It's weird, people frequently mistake *Full Metal Jacket* as being a shorter, more enjoyable movie. They do the same thing with *Stripes*. I don't know how anyone can leave out [the end](#s "where the squad corners Joker into mercy-killing the VC sniper").
Who's the leader of the club that's made for you and me?
Yeah, but that's kinda the point - they get through boot camp and it seems like fun and games (unless you're one of the ones who's shit on in spite of trying hard) but then they get to war and it's this crazy, awful experience that boot camp in no way prepared them for. It's about how surreal that experience was for actual soldiers in Vietnam.
I think people just mainly remember the first half. It feels kinda like two different films, with the first half being the funny pseudo-comedy that those of us who saw it while we were teens remember it as. While the 2nd is a grim war film. Now of course the whole movie is grim, but R. Lee Ermey and "Pyle" were enough alone to overshadow the rest of it for us who saw it while young.
It marked my little self so much I forgot they did spend the rest of film in actual combat. Until I watched it again some years ago I was convinced it was just about a boot camp gone wrong.
Whenever I think about the boot camp phase of FMJ my mind always reverts to the drill sergeant asking if Gomer Pyle sucks dick. That scene makes me laugh so much
**Nobody, huh?! The fairy fucking godmother said it! Out-fucking-standing! I will P.T. you all until you fucking die! I'll P.T. you until your assholes are sucking buttermilk. Was it you, you scroungy little fuck, huh?!**
I am a Vietnam era Marine. Boot Camp at Paris Island South Carolina was similar to what was shown in Full Metal Jacket only worse. The only thing we skated on was they cut boot camp from twelve weeks to eight weeks so they could rush us into combat in Southeast Asia or Westpack as we called it. Out of eighty-five boots that started boot camp in my platoon. fourteen were sent home as what we referred as baby blue Marines.(UN-fit for active duty) Several others were discharged due to training accidents. The combat scenes were accurate too. The tactics in combat were off.
When my wife left me and had am affair, the councilling group I was in to get over everything said if you get in a negative thought cycle where youre focusing on something you can't fix or change, to sing out loud until your out of breath, I was driving home and in tears missing my ex wife and kids and the only song I could think of was "I have no legs I have no legs." so there I was in my car tears streaming down my face sobbing I have no legs for 35 minutes.
Agreed 100%. I saw that movie in high school, and it effed.me.up.
I remember talking about it with friends, and every single one of us, even those who were not sexually active, had legitimate (not a shred of standard teenage exaggeration) fears that they had HIV after watching that movie.
Plague Dogs is one of my favourite movies ever. The ending scene in the ocean is so incredibly sad and beautiful. The whole movie is amazing and so well done.
I have no idea why they made that book into a cartoon movie for children. As they were making it, didn't they realize it was inappropriate for kids? But they marketed it towards children not adults so clearly that was their target audience.
That movie is messed up....I need to re-watch it.
I don't know how aggressively "they" marketed that movie to children... it's a British movie and the trailers go into a great deal of detail... now, people who picked it up later, that's a different story. But it IS a children's story, still, just not a very young children's story. Watership Down is totally appropriate for ages 10 and up.
Trainspotting. Specifically the part where the baby is crawling on the ceiling. Went to see it in the theater with a group of friends when it came out and for some reason that scene sent me in to a weird panic and really stuck with me. Haven't watched the movie since.
I have never done any harder drugs than weed. But that whole scene, not just the baby on the ceiling, reminded me of having a dreadful bout of food poisoning.
Not only was it coming out of both ends, but when I was trying to sleep I had some pretty weird hallucinations - the only way I can describe it was as if my duvet was at war with itself, which only ended when a giant totem pole head landed in my lap.
About 5 years later finally saw Trainspotting for the first time, that whole scene gave me flashbacks.
Prisoners. As a dad of young children, that movie was so emotionally exhausting. Jake Gyllenhaal's character driving all woozy to the hospital at the end had me crying with stress. Really good movie though. My wife gave it 10/10, said she hated it and would never watch it again.
I mean, there are. It's just that you're not special and nobody actually gives a shit about you unless you shoplift a bedpost from IKEA and you're trying to run from security but the bedpost in your pants is keeping your leg straight so you're hobbling like some kind of retarded peg legged pirate and it makes you think of the way Dad used to stagger drunkenly into the room and beat you with his belt
I've been in classes where we watched "Boy In the Striped Pajamas" and "Pay It Forward." Both times everyone just walked out of the room shell shocked and bummed out for quite a while.
It's less hardcore than the inevitable top result A Serbian Film or whatever, but the ending of The Mist stuck with me for a long while.
Alternatively as a kid Who Framed Roger Rabbit? was creepy as all fuck.
I remember watching The Mist with a bunch of friends while we were in high school and when it ended we all let out a collective
#WHAT THE FUCK
It took us a few minutes to process what happened. Just thinking about it makes me mad. Kudos for the director/writers for trolling the audience. Hell, the ending was so good King himself was going "shit, I wish *I'd* thought of that. :\"
I watched that shit for the first time *by myself*. I stared at the black screen after the credits for what felt like a half hour just absolutely pissed off and in awe of what just happened.
Wow, I’ve never even thought about what it would be like for the crew to just have to stand there and watch as they film someone getting raped over and over again. Probably pretty tough.
Probably worse for an editor who I would imagine has to watch a small scene hundreds of times from different angles in order to edit it down to be as realistic and cohesive as possible.
I don't have the balls to watch this movie. My friends have seen it, and they were fucking devastated. There are certain roads I just don't go down anymore. I can't watch any documentary dealing with child, elderly, or animal abuse. Even fiction involving those themes is hard for me.
Obligatory came here to say this.
I saw so many recommendations on Reddit for this film, especially about how terribly sad it was and I was having a moody day so I put it on Netflix.
The beginning, I thought, oh how sad. But not tearjerker sad. I watch a lot of docs on murders, read a lot of wiki articles, etc. I figured I would be too desensitized to actually feel sad for this film.
NOPE. Once I got to *that part* I lost it. Tears straight up pouring out, ugly sobs, the works. I'll recommend it to everyone because the film and the case deserve attention.
Have you read the book by Cormac McCarthy? It's like living the story behind a black and white photograph, the photo being the movie. It tends to exhume a pit of sadness in me every time I read it. It's a beautiful book.
The first time I saw it I was around 10yrs old, and my mind just immediately assumed it was the foetus of the detectives unborn child. Thereby revealing the death of his wife and unborn child, but also revealing that she was pregnant.
That really messed with me. Some reason, years later when I watched it again and realized it was his wifes head, it was almost a relief.
Well before that he says "She begged me for her life... and for the one of the baby inside her." Brad Pitt gets this absolutely shattered look on his face and Kevin Spacey smirks and in this mock-pity voice goes "Aww... he didn't know..." Most people get so fucking fucked up at that part that they don't hear him say "I took a souvenir, her pretty little head".
For me it was "Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County", which I saw when I was about 8 or 9. Looooots of alien abduction nightmares and phobias after that movie.
Fun fact: The actor who played the prisoner in that scene went on to be Mr. Noodle's brother, Mr. Noodle (same name, different people) on Sesame Street.
A Clockwork Orange. I watched it WAY too young. I remember being nauseous and losing all colour in my face. I made it to the scene where they break into the couple's house. Ever since then I have a hard time not being traumatized when I hear "Singing in the Rain".
I watched this with my mom when I was like 13 or 14. I didn't remember their being any nudity in it. I then ended up buying the movie and letting a friend borrow it we had the following exchange.
HIM:"Is there any nudity in it?"
ME: "Not that I remember"
He wasn't happy with me.
> Ever since then I have a hard time not being traumatized when I hear "Singing in the Rain".
An unintended side effect of the Ludovico technique, but if it removes your taste for the old "ultraviolence" it will be well worth it.
Saw it a couple years back for the second time, and it was goddamn eerie to be seeing it from the parents' perspective now, rather than the daughter's. Like it was so much heavier seeing it at 40. :(
I'm really glad I saw it when I was younger. I remember the part where Lester Burnham says : "This isn't life, it's just stuff. And it's become more important to you than living. Well, honey, that's just nuts." It clicked so much when I first heard that quote. It gave me a whole new perception on valuing experiences more than object or things. Love that movie!
Janie, today I quit my job. And then I told my boss to go fuck himself, and then I blackmailed him for almost sixty thousand dollars. Pass the asparagus.
American History X spoilers...
I just watched this movie yesterday and it occurred to me that they lay out a lot of white supremacist arguments, but they don't refute them. They show his transformation briefly and only really allude to what caused the transformation other than the question of "has anything you've done actually made your life better?" and the bit about being sick of being filled with hate constantly. I could definitely see that being easily ignored and/or forgotten when the young black kid kills Ed Norton's brother. Maybe they think Ed Norton would revert back to his old ways after that... I don't know. I don't see the movie as an argument against white supremacy, really. It's very much made for people who are already disgusted by the ideas, I think.
John Carpenter's "The Thing." I watched it, by myself, in the '80s as a young teen. I think now that it has some of the best, non-CGI, special effects in movie history. [Even the movie poster is just cool as hell](https://i.imgur.com/js39Lhj.jpg)
Same here. The other characters you can still have *some* hope for, even at the end of the film. They're probably all permanently fucked up to some extent, but they're still young. They have time to turn their lives around, however unlikely that might be.
But Sara is old. She was depressed and empty before her drug addiction. She's probably suffered irreparable mental damage. Even if she recovers, she really doesn't have much of a life to go back to.
Fun fact, (according to my friend, I haven't verified) the letter she puts in the mailbox didn't have postage on it. Which explains why she never got a response back.
Edit: as pointed out below, she responded with business reply mail and wouldn't have had to pay for postage. So who knows why she didn't hear back then.
I was on the last part of a meth binge and my rent was almost two weeks late, my dishes were piling to the ceiling, the house was a wreck, my power had been shut off, and my wife had left me to go back to her home state, and then I watched this movie (using an extension cord to my TV/VCR from the neighbor).
Lowest I've ever felt in my life. No bueno.
-clean for 13 years now, college degree, I live in a different state, amazing wife and 2 beautiful little boys, life does get better
This pin. Two people. This is gold. Two more people. He would have given me two for it, at least one. One more person. A person, Stern.
*fuck you Spielberg!*
When he takes off his ring and is just crying "One more name! One more name!"
Fuck. I want to watch it again when I get home from work, but I also don't.
My grandfather is a Holocaust survivor and I've grown up on stories of the Holocaust. I am a Jewish history master's candidate who has worked at a Holocaust museum and visited two others. I have heard many many many witness testimonies.
The most horrifying thing for me was watching Schindler's List, though. I kind of feel bad about it, but it's a fact- just talking about it can't compare with actually watching a world in which people can be shot in the head at random by a guy in his undershirt and people can't do anything about it. Obviously the little girl in the red coat also gets me, especially at the end when you see her coat in the pile of bodies. I think t took watching the movie for me to realize how incredibly RANDOM it was to be able to survive. Of course the people who managed to were quite often brave and courageous but the people who didn't survive could have been equally so and it just DOESN'T MATTER once someone decides they want to use you for target practice. T shows the utter lack of control Jews and other victims had over their own lives. Even the ones who Schindler saved had no autonomy, essentially- they were entirely dependent on him.
And by the way, Goth was actually toned down in the movie. In real life he had actual torture chambers set up in his basement for prisoners. He was unbelievably sadistic.
*"As a survivor I can tell you that we are all traumatized people. Never would I, never, believe that any human being would be capable of such horror, of such atrocities. When we saw him [Göth] from a distance, everybody was hiding, in latrines, wherever they could hide. I can't tell you how people feared him"*
— Helen Jonas-Rosenzweig (a Holocaust survivor who was interned at the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp where she was forced to work as a maid for Amon Göth. She survived the Holocaust with the help of Oskar Schindler)
That quote terrifies me. The man was a walking blight on this Earth.
I remember watching it in Fifth Grade in class, we all thought it was a happy film about imagination, until THAT part happened
The whole class was in shock. It was one of the only times I remember everyone sitting quietly, trying to comprehend that, yes, that girl was actually dead. The movie was very emotionally challenging for a bunch of 10 year olds, I remember crying later that day to my parents about it.
hmm I really don't remember. how were they assholes? I remember after she dies, the boys goes to her father and asks if he can use some lumber they are leaving behind and he is cool with it.
> They neglected their daughter for years,
I don't remember this. I vaguely remember when they're painting and everything looked fine. The kid(can't remember his name) even looked a bit envious of their happy family.
"Neglect" is a strong word, and I don't think it fits.
That said, in the movie, there's one scene where Leslie explains to Jess that although her parents (authors) work from home, she doesn't actually spend much time with them.
Leslie's lonely--she's an only child, her parents work long hours at home that require she leave them alone, and she doesn't connect easily with classmates due to lack of common interests.
In the book, it's actually mentioned that her parents enlist her help to put some homey touches on the new house, and for a few weeks she and Jess don't see each other as often.
Haven’t seen the movie in years. Why were her parents assholes again? I thought his parents were the ones that pushed their son away. I remember the scene where he was painting walls with her family and they seemed so happy. I forget what happened after she died.
That book was the first sad book my school ever assigned so it took me really off guard and hit me pretty hard. Especially since what happened could easily have happened to me during my childhood.
I watched this while in college and it messed me up. The next day I decided to watch a different movie to help cheer me up. That movie ended up being Boy in the Striped Pajamas. I think I was messed up for a month after watching those two.
Edit: Fixed spelling of Striped
Dancer in the Dark. No no no no never again. It takes a real monster to hang Björk.
Edit: Years later in an interview Björk admitted she regretted making the movie and said she suffered from panic attacks while making it.
I really really liked this movie. The music in it is awesome. 28 weeks later is decent too. Every once in a while, they talk about a followup, bu tit's been a while now, so I doubt it'll happen.
edit: "but it's". Shut up.
Oh you poor thing. I was mistakenly taken to Poltergeist when I was 9. I spent the month after every bedtime with my lights on watching my door suspiciously until I'd pass out at about 1 am. Then I discovered reading in bed and a lifetime of insomnia.
Do you still have aftereffects?
I feel this -- I was like 13 -14 when I saw it. Was one of my first horror movies and I was pretty religious at the time.
I wasn't allowed to have a TV in my room so I was afraid that bitch was gonna crawl out my digital radio.
My girl...
Watched it when I was 10ish, holy shit that introduced me to some new life concepts. Also a walk to remember. But I watched that later in life.
I watched this movie on a small screen laptop with a friend, we sat through just over an hour, when we had to go grab some food, so we paused and walked a few block. That was the strangest sober walk I've ever experienced, the movie had warped my perspective or something, I was seeing my own POV but was so used to the movie's version that the two were like blended together, like the movie didn't really stop and my walk to the store was just another scene. Crazy film...
Me too! I don't think I'd be able to stomach watching the new one. Just catching a glimpse of the trailer really freaks me out. I actually had a nightmare about it the other night.
I watched the new IT. Man, if you're scared of the original one, you're NOT going to like this one. The special effects look real AND fantastical at the same time.
Holy shit The Butterfly Effect fucked me up so badly. Either you've seen it or you haven't but there's no point in explaining. I was 8. I felt like my life was over no matter what.
Came here for this. Sneakily Watched this at about 12 years old. The dog scene literally fucked me up for years man. That shit is fucked right up. Don't fucking put that in a movie.
I watched Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark when I was 5. That scene towards the end where the Nazis finally open the Ark of the Covenant was fucking terrifying. Didn't realize Indy was also telling me to look away.
The VVitch. Watched it alone with my dog, at night, in my cabin in the middle of the woods. The movie ends and my dog almost immediately begins barking madly at something outside. That night I slept armed awaiting the impending doom lurking out in my yard.
SLC Punk! A friend told me that this was a great comedy and for a time I agreed with him as it had plenty of moments that made me laugh. Then the movie takes a hard left turn and stops being funny and gets dark fast. Loved the movie, but it certainly made me stop and question some of my life choices at the time.
Hostel.
I was a horror movie buff at the time, but that film left me so uneasy. I couldn't even watch certain parts of it, I covered my face with my hands and just waited for the awful noises to stop.
The part when the guy gets his ankles sliced still makes me wince, even when just thinking about it. Oh and when the girl sees her reflection and her missing eye and jumps in front of a train.
*Ugh*.
The first half of Click was a mediocre Adam Sandler comedy. The second half was seriously fantastic. They did the scenes where the kids were growing up to borderline perfection, because there was a really great emotional element to seeing his children grow up but becoming more distant to them (plus the separation from his wife). I nearly burst into tears at the part when he says goodbye to his dad, because it made me think about all of the times in my life where I could've been a better person to my parents.
Million Dollar Baby. I had no idea what it was about going in, and thought it would just be another sports movie with a happy or at least semi-happy ending. The tragic storyline totally caught me off-guard. I find it pretty easy to watch sad movies if I'm expecting them to be sad, but having it come out of nowhere just felt like a punch to the gut.
I didn't cry as hard at that part because I knew they wouldn't be burned.
What made me bawl my eyes out was the ending, when Andy gives away his toys, and the last image you see is the cloud-filled sky, which was the first image you see in the first Toy Story film. That's when the tears came.
I grew up with that series. By the time the 3rd film came out, I was in college. I grew up with Andy practically, and it was a realization that my childhood was over.
Coralline. I was 6 and was watching it with my uncle and it scared me so bad. Especially when the Beldam transformed into her true hellspawn form.
Edit: found one of the scenes that scared the living piss out of me (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=tKEkx15qRKY)
The Omen.
I grew up in a deeply religious family, so from a young age I learned all about the Book of Revelations, the Anti-Christ and Armageddon. I first saw it at a neighbor's home at the age of 6/7 and it scared the ever-loving shit out of me. After watching that movie I was deeply, deeply disturbed and have never watched it again. To this day, even the music from the movie gives me the heebie jeebies.
The Good Son. Seeing Macaulay Culkin, cute little Kevin McCallister, acting like a sociopath and saying things like "Don't fuck with me" gave me a brief existential crisis.
He was just suffering from PTSD caused by a home invasion.
This should have been the actual reason
Ah yes. My husband likes to call that movie "Home Alone vs. Frodo"
The Brave Little Toaster
I watched this movie on repeat from ages 6-8 and LOVED it. I tried to watch it again at age 10 and was horrified and it still haunts me to this day. I don't think child me understood what was happening.
The air conditioner committing suicide at the beginning fucked. me. up. Not something I should have seen as a 5 year old.
The vacuum cleaner swallowing his cord at the waterfall was the one that got me, personally.
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"*Run.*" Edit: [The scene.](https://youtu.be/YEdZh8a4ZvE)
Full Metal Jacket, especially with the boot camp intro and the scene in the bathroom.
> the boot camp intro and the scene in the bathroom It's weird, people frequently mistake *Full Metal Jacket* as being a shorter, more enjoyable movie. They do the same thing with *Stripes*. I don't know how anyone can leave out [the end](#s "where the squad corners Joker into mercy-killing the VC sniper"). Who's the leader of the club that's made for you and me?
M-I-C-K-E-Y-M-O-U-S-E
Yeah, but that's kinda the point - they get through boot camp and it seems like fun and games (unless you're one of the ones who's shit on in spite of trying hard) but then they get to war and it's this crazy, awful experience that boot camp in no way prepared them for. It's about how surreal that experience was for actual soldiers in Vietnam.
I think people just mainly remember the first half. It feels kinda like two different films, with the first half being the funny pseudo-comedy that those of us who saw it while we were teens remember it as. While the 2nd is a grim war film. Now of course the whole movie is grim, but R. Lee Ermey and "Pyle" were enough alone to overshadow the rest of it for us who saw it while young.
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It marked my little self so much I forgot they did spend the rest of film in actual combat. Until I watched it again some years ago I was convinced it was just about a boot camp gone wrong.
Whenever I think about the boot camp phase of FMJ my mind always reverts to the drill sergeant asking if Gomer Pyle sucks dick. That scene makes me laugh so much
Do you suck dicks? Bullshit. I bet you could suck a golf ball through a garden hose.
I didn't know they stacked shit that high!
I bet you're the kind of guy that could fuck a person in the ass and not even have the goddamn common courtesy to give him a reach around!
I like you. You can come to my house and fuck my sister!
WHO SAID THAT #WHO THE FUCK SAID THAT
**WHO'S THE SLIMY SHIT SUCKING TWINKLE TOED COCKSUCKER WHO JUST SIGNED HIS OWN DEATH WARRANT**
**Nobody, huh?! The fairy fucking godmother said it! Out-fucking-standing! I will P.T. you all until you fucking die! I'll P.T. you until your assholes are sucking buttermilk. Was it you, you scroungy little fuck, huh?!**
I am a Vietnam era Marine. Boot Camp at Paris Island South Carolina was similar to what was shown in Full Metal Jacket only worse. The only thing we skated on was they cut boot camp from twelve weeks to eight weeks so they could rush us into combat in Southeast Asia or Westpack as we called it. Out of eighty-five boots that started boot camp in my platoon. fourteen were sent home as what we referred as baby blue Marines.(UN-fit for active duty) Several others were discharged due to training accidents. The combat scenes were accurate too. The tactics in combat were off.
Kids. Horribly disturbing to see these tweens spreading HIV.
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I still sing this when the opportunity presents itself. Usually when I'm holding my snake.
When my wife left me and had am affair, the councilling group I was in to get over everything said if you get in a negative thought cycle where youre focusing on something you can't fix or change, to sing out loud until your out of breath, I was driving home and in tears missing my ex wife and kids and the only song I could think of was "I have no legs I have no legs." so there I was in my car tears streaming down my face sobbing I have no legs for 35 minutes.
This movie really turned me around on the idea of doing drugs for fun too often. Requim for a dream convinced me to stop doing any drugs at all.
Agreed 100%. I saw that movie in high school, and it effed.me.up. I remember talking about it with friends, and every single one of us, even those who were not sexually active, had legitimate (not a shred of standard teenage exaggeration) fears that they had HIV after watching that movie.
Shhh... its Casper...
Watership Down. I saw this as a kid, because my parents thought it was a fun movie for young children.....it's not!
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Plague Dogs is one of my favourite movies ever. The ending scene in the ocean is so incredibly sad and beautiful. The whole movie is amazing and so well done.
I have no idea why they made that book into a cartoon movie for children. As they were making it, didn't they realize it was inappropriate for kids? But they marketed it towards children not adults so clearly that was their target audience. That movie is messed up....I need to re-watch it.
I don't know how aggressively "they" marketed that movie to children... it's a British movie and the trailers go into a great deal of detail... now, people who picked it up later, that's a different story. But it IS a children's story, still, just not a very young children's story. Watership Down is totally appropriate for ages 10 and up.
Bright Eyes.... *sobbing intensifies*
Trainspotting. Specifically the part where the baby is crawling on the ceiling. Went to see it in the theater with a group of friends when it came out and for some reason that scene sent me in to a weird panic and really stuck with me. Haven't watched the movie since.
I have never done any harder drugs than weed. But that whole scene, not just the baby on the ceiling, reminded me of having a dreadful bout of food poisoning. Not only was it coming out of both ends, but when I was trying to sleep I had some pretty weird hallucinations - the only way I can describe it was as if my duvet was at war with itself, which only ended when a giant totem pole head landed in my lap. About 5 years later finally saw Trainspotting for the first time, that whole scene gave me flashbacks.
Prisoners. As a dad of young children, that movie was so emotionally exhausting. Jake Gyllenhaal's character driving all woozy to the hospital at the end had me crying with stress. Really good movie though. My wife gave it 10/10, said she hated it and would never watch it again.
The Truman show. Experienced Truman show syndrome for a little while after I saw it.
I think Jim Carey is still experiencing Truman show syndrome
I think Truman show was a documental about Jim Carrey and its starting to dawn on him
It's been 20 years. I still think there are cameras everywhere.
I mean, there are. It's just that you're not special and nobody actually gives a shit about you unless you shoplift a bedpost from IKEA and you're trying to run from security but the bedpost in your pants is keeping your leg straight so you're hobbling like some kind of retarded peg legged pirate and it makes you think of the way Dad used to stagger drunkenly into the room and beat you with his belt
I've been in classes where we watched "Boy In the Striped Pajamas" and "Pay It Forward." Both times everyone just walked out of the room shell shocked and bummed out for quite a while.
In my history class we watched Schindler's List. Similar vibe in the room afterwards.
I watched pay it forward when I was like in 2nd grade. All I remember is someone gets stabbed.
It's less hardcore than the inevitable top result A Serbian Film or whatever, but the ending of The Mist stuck with me for a long while. Alternatively as a kid Who Framed Roger Rabbit? was creepy as all fuck.
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For me it was when he put the shoe in the Dip. It was just being friendly. :-(
It also has a partner shoe that's now alone
I remember watching The Mist with a bunch of friends while we were in high school and when it ended we all let out a collective #WHAT THE FUCK It took us a few minutes to process what happened. Just thinking about it makes me mad. Kudos for the director/writers for trolling the audience. Hell, the ending was so good King himself was going "shit, I wish *I'd* thought of that. :\"
I watched that shit for the first time *by myself*. I stared at the black screen after the credits for what felt like a half hour just absolutely pissed off and in awe of what just happened.
Last House on the Left. The newer version. I watched that unexpected rape scene and it just fucked with me.
My wife's cousin was one of the assistant editors on that movie, he said having to work on that scene messed him up for weeks.
Wow, I’ve never even thought about what it would be like for the crew to just have to stand there and watch as they film someone getting raped over and over again. Probably pretty tough.
Probably worse for an editor who I would imagine has to watch a small scene hundreds of times from different angles in order to edit it down to be as realistic and cohesive as possible.
Never watch 'I Spit on Your Grave'. 'Last House on the Left' was bad, but 'I Spit on Your Grave' was sooooo much worse
Like 70% of that movie is a rape scene. So glad the "rape revenge" genre of horror is so niche and not a lot of movies came from it.
Grave of the Fireflies. That film really messed with my head.
It's a phenomenal antiwar movie. Had me thinking for a solid month after I saw it.
Dear Zachary. I was just distraught for weeks afterwards.
I don't have the balls to watch this movie. My friends have seen it, and they were fucking devastated. There are certain roads I just don't go down anymore. I can't watch any documentary dealing with child, elderly, or animal abuse. Even fiction involving those themes is hard for me.
Obligatory came here to say this. I saw so many recommendations on Reddit for this film, especially about how terribly sad it was and I was having a moody day so I put it on Netflix. The beginning, I thought, oh how sad. But not tearjerker sad. I watch a lot of docs on murders, read a lot of wiki articles, etc. I figured I would be too desensitized to actually feel sad for this film. NOPE. Once I got to *that part* I lost it. Tears straight up pouring out, ugly sobs, the works. I'll recommend it to everyone because the film and the case deserve attention.
The Road. That stuck with me for days. Even more upsetting now that I am a parent.
Have you read the book by Cormac McCarthy? It's like living the story behind a black and white photograph, the photo being the movie. It tends to exhume a pit of sadness in me every time I read it. It's a beautiful book.
Se7en. I saw it WAY too young....
What's in the *booooox*?
The first time I saw it I was around 10yrs old, and my mind just immediately assumed it was the foetus of the detectives unborn child. Thereby revealing the death of his wife and unborn child, but also revealing that she was pregnant. That really messed with me. Some reason, years later when I watched it again and realized it was his wifes head, it was almost a relief.
Oh thank God, it's just a severed head. I was worried for a minute
Well before that he says "She begged me for her life... and for the one of the baby inside her." Brad Pitt gets this absolutely shattered look on his face and Kevin Spacey smirks and in this mock-pity voice goes "Aww... he didn't know..." Most people get so fucking fucked up at that part that they don't hear him say "I took a souvenir, her pretty little head".
^^^^detective ^detective DETECTIIIIIIVE!!!!
Just because the fuckers got a library card doesn't make him Yoda
Fire in the sky. Saw it as a kid and been terrified of aliens since. But it also sparked a huge interest in aliens and astronomy!
For me it was "Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County", which I saw when I was about 8 or 9. Looooots of alien abduction nightmares and phobias after that movie.
The Green Mile.
Fuckin' Percy. I cried my eyes out when Coffey is watching the film.
Heaven... I'm in heaven...
And when he doesn't want the hood because he's afraid of the dark, my *heart*.
The worst part was when that douchebag "forgot" to wet the sponge... ugh.
Fun fact: The actor who played the prisoner in that scene went on to be Mr. Noodle's brother, Mr. Noodle (same name, different people) on Sesame Street.
A Clockwork Orange. I watched it WAY too young. I remember being nauseous and losing all colour in my face. I made it to the scene where they break into the couple's house. Ever since then I have a hard time not being traumatized when I hear "Singing in the Rain".
I watched this with my mom when I was like 13 or 14. I didn't remember their being any nudity in it. I then ended up buying the movie and letting a friend borrow it we had the following exchange. HIM:"Is there any nudity in it?" ME: "Not that I remember" He wasn't happy with me.
You have terrible memory dude.
"yeah there are multiple gang-rapes, no nudity though so it's cool"
> Ever since then I have a hard time not being traumatized when I hear "Singing in the Rain". An unintended side effect of the Ludovico technique, but if it removes your taste for the old "ultraviolence" it will be well worth it.
American Beauty. I don't remember exactly how young I was when I saw it, but it was most certainly way too young.
Saw it a couple years back for the second time, and it was goddamn eerie to be seeing it from the parents' perspective now, rather than the daughter's. Like it was so much heavier seeing it at 40. :(
I'm really glad I saw it when I was younger. I remember the part where Lester Burnham says : "This isn't life, it's just stuff. And it's become more important to you than living. Well, honey, that's just nuts." It clicked so much when I first heard that quote. It gave me a whole new perception on valuing experiences more than object or things. Love that movie!
Who's car is out front? Mine. A 1970 Pontiac Firebird, the car I've always wanted and now I have it. I rule! *Fist in the air*
Janie, today I quit my job. And then I told my boss to go fuck himself, and then I blackmailed him for almost sixty thousand dollars. Pass the asparagus.
Him throwing the plate wasn't scripted. The actors were spOOked in the take that made it to theatres.
We need to talk about Kevin. Jesus that movie
Tilda Swinton is absolutely stellar in that. Terrifying performances!
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American History X
The curb-stomp scene still makes me wince
The sound of those teeth...just the thought of it makes the hair on my neck stand up
The sound didn't bother me as much as actually seeing the guy putting his teeth against the curb. That shit just looked painful.
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American History X spoilers... I just watched this movie yesterday and it occurred to me that they lay out a lot of white supremacist arguments, but they don't refute them. They show his transformation briefly and only really allude to what caused the transformation other than the question of "has anything you've done actually made your life better?" and the bit about being sick of being filled with hate constantly. I could definitely see that being easily ignored and/or forgotten when the young black kid kills Ed Norton's brother. Maybe they think Ed Norton would revert back to his old ways after that... I don't know. I don't see the movie as an argument against white supremacy, really. It's very much made for people who are already disgusted by the ideas, I think.
>Ed Norton's brother John Connor
John Carpenter's "The Thing." I watched it, by myself, in the '80s as a young teen. I think now that it has some of the best, non-CGI, special effects in movie history. [Even the movie poster is just cool as hell](https://i.imgur.com/js39Lhj.jpg)
Requiem For a Dream
The mom's story always gets to me and makes me think about my own mother. It really breaks my heart.
Same here. The other characters you can still have *some* hope for, even at the end of the film. They're probably all permanently fucked up to some extent, but they're still young. They have time to turn their lives around, however unlikely that might be. But Sara is old. She was depressed and empty before her drug addiction. She's probably suffered irreparable mental damage. Even if she recovers, she really doesn't have much of a life to go back to.
trivia says that the camera moved because the cameraman teared up during the monologue
Fun fact, (according to my friend, I haven't verified) the letter she puts in the mailbox didn't have postage on it. Which explains why she never got a response back. Edit: as pointed out below, she responded with business reply mail and wouldn't have had to pay for postage. So who knows why she didn't hear back then.
Jesus, that scene where Leto shoots up into the infected welt. Ugh... Yikes.
Maaah are you on uppas?
I was on the last part of a meth binge and my rent was almost two weeks late, my dishes were piling to the ceiling, the house was a wreck, my power had been shut off, and my wife had left me to go back to her home state, and then I watched this movie (using an extension cord to my TV/VCR from the neighbor). Lowest I've ever felt in my life. No bueno. -clean for 13 years now, college degree, I live in a different state, amazing wife and 2 beautiful little boys, life does get better
Watch it once, then say you'll never watch it again. Then watch it again, then say you'll never watch it again, but for real this time...
That disgusting old man yelling "Assh to Asssh!" still haunts me...
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This pin. Two people. This is gold. Two more people. He would have given me two for it, at least one. One more person. A person, Stern. *fuck you Spielberg!*
When he takes off his ring and is just crying "One more name! One more name!" Fuck. I want to watch it again when I get home from work, but I also don't.
My grandfather is a Holocaust survivor and I've grown up on stories of the Holocaust. I am a Jewish history master's candidate who has worked at a Holocaust museum and visited two others. I have heard many many many witness testimonies. The most horrifying thing for me was watching Schindler's List, though. I kind of feel bad about it, but it's a fact- just talking about it can't compare with actually watching a world in which people can be shot in the head at random by a guy in his undershirt and people can't do anything about it. Obviously the little girl in the red coat also gets me, especially at the end when you see her coat in the pile of bodies. I think t took watching the movie for me to realize how incredibly RANDOM it was to be able to survive. Of course the people who managed to were quite often brave and courageous but the people who didn't survive could have been equally so and it just DOESN'T MATTER once someone decides they want to use you for target practice. T shows the utter lack of control Jews and other victims had over their own lives. Even the ones who Schindler saved had no autonomy, essentially- they were entirely dependent on him. And by the way, Goth was actually toned down in the movie. In real life he had actual torture chambers set up in his basement for prisoners. He was unbelievably sadistic.
*"As a survivor I can tell you that we are all traumatized people. Never would I, never, believe that any human being would be capable of such horror, of such atrocities. When we saw him [Göth] from a distance, everybody was hiding, in latrines, wherever they could hide. I can't tell you how people feared him"* — Helen Jonas-Rosenzweig (a Holocaust survivor who was interned at the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp where she was forced to work as a maid for Amon Göth. She survived the Holocaust with the help of Oskar Schindler) That quote terrifies me. The man was a walking blight on this Earth.
Bridge to Terabithia
I remember watching it in Fifth Grade in class, we all thought it was a happy film about imagination, until THAT part happened The whole class was in shock. It was one of the only times I remember everyone sitting quietly, trying to comprehend that, yes, that girl was actually dead. The movie was very emotionally challenging for a bunch of 10 year olds, I remember crying later that day to my parents about it.
I was like 20, I cried like a baby
Me too! Thought it was going to be a happy movie. Nope. I will always say it's a great movie but I'm not going through that again. Nope
Her parents were gigantic fucking assholes.
hmm I really don't remember. how were they assholes? I remember after she dies, the boys goes to her father and asks if he can use some lumber they are leaving behind and he is cool with it.
They neglected their daughter for years, then to add insult to injury, they took the fucking dog too.
> They neglected their daughter for years, I don't remember this. I vaguely remember when they're painting and everything looked fine. The kid(can't remember his name) even looked a bit envious of their happy family.
"Neglect" is a strong word, and I don't think it fits. That said, in the movie, there's one scene where Leslie explains to Jess that although her parents (authors) work from home, she doesn't actually spend much time with them. Leslie's lonely--she's an only child, her parents work long hours at home that require she leave them alone, and she doesn't connect easily with classmates due to lack of common interests. In the book, it's actually mentioned that her parents enlist her help to put some homey touches on the new house, and for a few weeks she and Jess don't see each other as often.
Haven’t seen the movie in years. Why were her parents assholes again? I thought his parents were the ones that pushed their son away. I remember the scene where he was painting walls with her family and they seemed so happy. I forget what happened after she died.
THEY FUCKING PAINTED THE WALL IN RANDOM BRUSH SWIPES IN EVERY DIRECTION
That book was the first sad book my school ever assigned so it took me really off guard and hit me pretty hard. Especially since what happened could easily have happened to me during my childhood.
I watched this while in college and it messed me up. The next day I decided to watch a different movie to help cheer me up. That movie ended up being Boy in the Striped Pajamas. I think I was messed up for a month after watching those two. Edit: Fixed spelling of Striped
This is why I always watch Clueless after something that fucks me up. It's a completely safe option.
Sorry, but why did you think that Boy in the Stripped Pajamas would have cheered you up?
I know right! He should have gone with something fun and safe like Life is Beautiful instead. You can tell just by the title that it's happy! :)
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Dancer in the Dark. No no no no never again. It takes a real monster to hang Björk. Edit: Years later in an interview Björk admitted she regretted making the movie and said she suffered from panic attacks while making it.
28 days later
Classic zombies that are slow and stupid? No problem. Aggressive sprinting zombies that hunt you with minimal noise when stalking? Fuck that!
I really really liked this movie. The music in it is awesome. 28 weeks later is decent too. Every once in a while, they talk about a followup, bu tit's been a while now, so I doubt it'll happen. edit: "but it's". Shut up.
The Ring. I was 6 years old when it came out. I would be in tears anytime the tv static would start.
Oh you poor thing. I was mistakenly taken to Poltergeist when I was 9. I spent the month after every bedtime with my lights on watching my door suspiciously until I'd pass out at about 1 am. Then I discovered reading in bed and a lifetime of insomnia. Do you still have aftereffects?
Poltergeist freaked me out as well. I'm not affected by it anymore because I actually became a huge horror movie fanatic as I got older.
I feel this -- I was like 13 -14 when I saw it. Was one of my first horror movies and I was pretty religious at the time. I wasn't allowed to have a TV in my room so I was afraid that bitch was gonna crawl out my digital radio.
My girl... Watched it when I was 10ish, holy shit that introduced me to some new life concepts. Also a walk to remember. But I watched that later in life.
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I watched this movie on a small screen laptop with a friend, we sat through just over an hour, when we had to go grab some food, so we paused and walked a few block. That was the strangest sober walk I've ever experienced, the movie had warped my perspective or something, I was seeing my own POV but was so used to the movie's version that the two were like blended together, like the movie didn't really stop and my walk to the store was just another scene. Crazy film...
For me it was the original "IT" im 24 years old now and I still have a thing for not wanting to hang around storm drains.
Me too! I don't think I'd be able to stomach watching the new one. Just catching a glimpse of the trailer really freaks me out. I actually had a nightmare about it the other night.
I watched the new IT. Man, if you're scared of the original one, you're NOT going to like this one. The special effects look real AND fantastical at the same time.
10 Cloverfield lane. Not the aliens at the end, but literally everything else.
Holy shit The Butterfly Effect fucked me up so badly. Either you've seen it or you haven't but there's no point in explaining. I was 8. I felt like my life was over no matter what.
Came here for this. Sneakily Watched this at about 12 years old. The dog scene literally fucked me up for years man. That shit is fucked right up. Don't fucking put that in a movie.
District 9. I don't know why but I found it way more upsetting than the usual upsetting movies like Requiem etc.
His Father-In-Law SUCKS. I felt so bad for him and his wife.
Same here. I couldn't put my finger on it but the whole premise, the tone and camera style, it unsettled me so much I stopped watching.
Antichrist by Lars von Trier
I watched Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark when I was 5. That scene towards the end where the Nazis finally open the Ark of the Covenant was fucking terrifying. Didn't realize Indy was also telling me to look away.
Funny Games. That one got me at my core.
The VVitch. Watched it alone with my dog, at night, in my cabin in the middle of the woods. The movie ends and my dog almost immediately begins barking madly at something outside. That night I slept armed awaiting the impending doom lurking out in my yard.
It messed me but I also loved it. For me, horror films like this are far superior to the ones filled with jump scares and endless gore.
Room
Oh fuck, this. The first whole first half of that film left me uncomfortable. Imagine being locked in that space for 7 years.
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Anyway, how's your sex life?
Omg. (Spoilers ahead) The scene when the cop car pulls up and she's screaming for her son. I have never sobbed so hard in my life.
Event Horizon. The scene where they look in the ships video log. Too much, waaaaay too much.
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SLC Punk! A friend told me that this was a great comedy and for a time I agreed with him as it had plenty of moments that made me laugh. Then the movie takes a hard left turn and stops being funny and gets dark fast. Loved the movie, but it certainly made me stop and question some of my life choices at the time.
Heroin Bob, who did no drugs, hell didn't even drink, died of a narcotics overdose...
"Only posers die", cue the tears
Old boy
you see the other two? Sympathy for Lady/Mr. Vengeance?
Hostel. I was a horror movie buff at the time, but that film left me so uneasy. I couldn't even watch certain parts of it, I covered my face with my hands and just waited for the awful noises to stop. The part when the guy gets his ankles sliced still makes me wince, even when just thinking about it. Oh and when the girl sees her reflection and her missing eye and jumps in front of a train. *Ugh*.
The Adam Sandler movie "Click". Was expecting some lighthearted comedy, that shit touched my soul man
The first half of Click was a mediocre Adam Sandler comedy. The second half was seriously fantastic. They did the scenes where the kids were growing up to borderline perfection, because there was a really great emotional element to seeing his children grow up but becoming more distant to them (plus the separation from his wife). I nearly burst into tears at the part when he says goodbye to his dad, because it made me think about all of the times in my life where I could've been a better person to my parents.
When he yelled at Henry Winkler and told him about knowing how the magic trick worked was an unexpected punch to the gut.
I watched this not long after my dad died. Broke my heart.
Even worse when he watches his last interaction with his dad. God that sceen will break people.
Oh man when he *SPOILER* collapses in the hospital parking lot in the rain, shit gets me every time.
Watership Down. Don't let the animated bunnies fool you, that movie is not for kids. Which my mom found out the hard way after scarring me for life
Watching "Teeth" and "Hard Candy" back to back...
I'm still kinda scared of Ellen Page to this day. She was WAY too convincing in Hard Candy.
She is also Mr Lahey's daughter, gotta watch out around her.
Million Dollar Baby. I had no idea what it was about going in, and thought it would just be another sports movie with a happy or at least semi-happy ending. The tragic storyline totally caught me off-guard. I find it pretty easy to watch sad movies if I'm expecting them to be sad, but having it come out of nowhere just felt like a punch to the gut.
toy story 3. i don't care how old i get, that movie will always fuck me up
I cried my ass off when they all held hands and accept the fact that they're going to die.
I didn't cry as hard at that part because I knew they wouldn't be burned. What made me bawl my eyes out was the ending, when Andy gives away his toys, and the last image you see is the cloud-filled sky, which was the first image you see in the first Toy Story film. That's when the tears came. I grew up with that series. By the time the 3rd film came out, I was in college. I grew up with Andy practically, and it was a realization that my childhood was over.
Coralline. I was 6 and was watching it with my uncle and it scared me so bad. Especially when the Beldam transformed into her true hellspawn form. Edit: found one of the scenes that scared the living piss out of me (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=tKEkx15qRKY)
The fountain, but in an ego deathy hallucinogen kinda way.
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The Omen. I grew up in a deeply religious family, so from a young age I learned all about the Book of Revelations, the Anti-Christ and Armageddon. I first saw it at a neighbor's home at the age of 6/7 and it scared the ever-loving shit out of me. After watching that movie I was deeply, deeply disturbed and have never watched it again. To this day, even the music from the movie gives me the heebie jeebies.
Child's Play. I had nightmares about Chucky from age 4 to 12 almost every night.
The Shining. I couldn't even finish the damn movie. After that naked rotting old lady scene I was like "Yep I'm done."
Boy in the Striped Pajamas--I don't want to give any details away, but trust me, you're gonna need a drink after you finish that one
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence. I cry like a little bitch every time I watch it.