I know some people here are desensitized to many forms of violence or related things in fiction. When 11-12 years old talk openly about seeing movies like Hostel, Saw or the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, there is not too many secrets anymore and the shock factor in films isn’t what it would have been 20 years ago or earlier.
However, I wanted to discuss movies that you may have found tough to watch because of their delicate topics or their story ( not because they were bad!). For example, Schindler’s List was a great film but it was difficult to watch because it showed the reality of the death camps.
I have seen the following two movies and I think they qualify as great films I found very difficult to watch because of their topics. They are not for everyone ( people who liked the films listed in the first paragraph would find these boring for sure), but those who like different kinds of film will like these for their great artistic qualities despite them being tough to watch.
This is dating me a bit, but, I found the Exorcist genuinely frightening and difficult to watch. I saw it back in the 70s when it was released in theaters. That movie was very disturbing to me.
To the contrary. We watched a later show, and the gf’s were too scared to go home and sleep all by themselves.
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BTW: watch the first CRASH if you want ‘disturbing’…
Illywhacker’s Crash is a drama where many different people’s life become somehow interconnected over the course of a few days. It is disturbing in the fact that the prejudice-driven behaviour exhibited by many characters makes you think about your own behaviour in a sometimes scary way.
Herbie’s Crash is a David Cronenberg flick. Need I say more? Well in case you don’t know, it’s about some high class people who get aroused by racing and crashing cars. Weird stuff.
I’m with you hitest!@!@@! I saw The Exorcist when it was first released and found it frightening and disturbing…It didn’t help the senses or maybe it did, for the movies mega profits, that the St.Johns’Ambulance were standing guard outside the theatre. Don’t bother with the sequel though, sucked big time…As for Crash, the Cronenberg flick, well, I suppose it is rated as mild porn, I don’t know, filmed in Toronto, with John Spader…Weird!!! As for disturbing and frightening, don’t know, not into horror so I suppose the most “disturbing???” is the fact that there are how many “Scary Movie” sequels now??? 14??? I find it disturbing that folks made it past the first one!@!@!@!@ All a matter of taste, I know@!@ In total agreement with you Big Thumb RE: Violence and kids today…Another great movie, Sophies Choice…There are so many more but my memory is bad!@!@!
Bad memories and horrors , like the Tingler , the Thing , Psycho “the first” and yes Candyman again the original ,Let us not forget Whatever happened to Baby Jane . I also find that there are far to many sequels for many of these new movies. Too much Blood and Gore , kidsdo feed of this crap and then they do not get enough and they have to get into more with their video games. I seem to recall years back when the fisherman was killed here in the rinse by those four or five youth , I heard they watched Natural Born killers many times before they acted out . Plus do we not have enough of the same thing with our daily news? When will they make a movie of the pig farm ?
Just expressing myhis has thoughts or views as I see it . There would have to be more time for such a discussion and I believe this has been done many times before. Plus I hate to argue with anyone , I choose to believe that I just post it and then I am gone .
Passion of the Christ. The scene in the square where they torture him. It takes quite a bit for me to turn my head, but here were a couple of moments that I had to.
Two movies I had a tough time with were the pursuit of happyness just because the guy was such a screw up for so long and Million dollar baby the first half was good but I it was tough watching her in the end.
