I've been squicked

[51stcenturyfox]

We don't see many movies in the theatre anymore. I think the last one was the latest Indiana Jones flick.  (Which was worth it because the poor staff decorated the entrance to the screening with vines and had to dress up in costumes and we had LOLZ along with our greasy butter-hands.)

So the spouse brought some DVDs home: The Bank Job and Transsiberian.

BOTH had some surprise shit I just hate in them because it SQUICKS me out but I'm only going to spoil Transsiberian under the cut.



First, The Bank Job. Decent flick. An elaborated-upon true story. Soundtrack was good. Loved the period (early 70s) styling and the look of the film. Not a huge standout but not bad either. Jason Statham is hot and Peter de Jersey turned in a great performance as Michael X. I don't have any good review wordiness to put in here but it definitely didn't suck.

Second: Transsiberian.  Started out great, though I'm not a Woody Harrelson fan, but I'm liking Emily Mortimer and Kate Mara's characters. (Woody and Emily play a couple traveling from China to Moscow and they meet Kate's char- she's a boho type travelling with her Spanish boyfriend -  played by Eduardo Noriega.) 

Not only was I pissed not to see Eduardo nekkid, because he and ol' Emily's character were USTING LIEK WHOA but then we end up with...

innocent tourists implicated in drug-smuggling plot.

Innocent tourists implicated in drug-smuggling is my squick!

Brokedown Palace? Fuck that, I am not watching it. They even popped  that evil scenario into Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason. That was a comedy, but surprise innocent tourists implicated in drug-smuggling pisses me right off. I don't want to see helpless, frantic people freaking out over being used by some heartless and gutless smuggler and beaten by cops. Or threatened with the Gulag. Or the many other things that can happen to you when you lose your American Express card and your passport on the same day and some asshole plants horse in your luggage.  Run on sentence. Sorry.

I know it's stupid but it's my squick and I'm owning it. 

Another thing I despise: Creepy (often apparently inbred) freaks terrorizing stranded/lost travelers. 

Do you have any unusual squicks related to films you wish they'd warn about?  Surprise clowns, something like that?

By the way, I saw this product in a GIANT bottle at the supermarket today and it made me larf.  Head Lube. It's glossy!

Comments

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

Sadistic doctors taking advantage of patients = instant squick.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

OH yes. Especially if they're gynos or dentists.

Dead Ringers comes to mind.

Marathon Man?

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

It's not unusual, I suppose, but: Public humiliation. To be fair this extends to TV, books, and theatre as well. It's almost ubiquitous in cinematic comedies these days, which is why I don't go to the cinema much (I also am not fond of: explosions, shakycam, or bad writing, which narrows my field basically to Pixar and after Wall-E I'm not even sure about them).

It's that moment where the hero is in front of a crowd of judgmental strangers and has just done something for which they are being Judged. It's meant, archetypally, to reinforce collective social values, but I hate the sense of comform-or-die it inflicts on me and the cringe of shame I feel on behalf of the hero.

This is also the reason that there are only about forty seconds of "Something Borrowed" that I'm willing to watch, and the reason I can't adore "Captain Jack Harkness" as much as most of my friends. Because dude just kissed a guy in the middle of a room full of HOMOPHOBIC SOLDIERS UNDER HIS COMMAND, judgmental 1940s are judgmental! And that's probably the reason he dies the next day.

Uh. You may have hit a hot-button issue with me. Disregard as Cranky Sam Hates Cinema. :D

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

I hate the sense of comform-or-die it inflicts on me and the cringe of shame I feel on behalf of the hero.

I do feel that too. We're supposed to (and maybe it's a cheap reaction grab) but it doesn't technically squick me.

The Captain Jack Harkness moment is utterly bewildering to me. I have to rationalize it as Rift Magic with nobody in the dance hall remembering the period before Jack and Tosh were sucked backed to the present.

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

It's not unusual, I suppose, but: Public humiliation.

Butting in to hardcore agree, I absolutely HATE Cringe Comedy.

[qthelights.livejournal.com]

Oh humiliation squicks me BIG TIME. Interestingly, i've never found that with Torchwood though.. I guess because there are competing emotions that overtake me at the time..

but, Mr Bean? I cannot watch. At all. Radio contests on the phone with some person - even when the humiliation might just be them getting the answer wrong? Have to change the station.

Almost any movie these days with stupid characters... oh wait yes, i mean "comedies".. not a chance. Jim Carrey... Adam Sandler... Those recent movies that I make myself sit through watching between my fingers because I want to see Paul Rudd.. blech. Most 'funny' things with steve carrel, or will ferell. something about mary. god no.

[xtricks.livejournal.com]

It's funny, hanging around in the kink community has sub-defined 'humilation' for me. I cannot stand to watch all those 'comedies' out there that basically depend on the unwiling embarassment/humilation of a character for humor/effect or whatever. I often have to leave the room when that sort of stuff comes on.

I don't mind, so much the hero being judged because I figure she's going to go 'fucke off, I'm right' and get on with it. (since I pretty much do that myself when people try and judge me). I also didn't mind Capt. JH because the guy chose to do that himself (Jack didn't instigate it), so he knew the concequences/felt it was worth it. I think it some way, that was kinda the point of that part of the episode; how exhausting and de-humanizing it is to live a life in the closet and how good it feels to finally stop.

What I've ended up with is ... I can't *stand* when someone is publicly (or even privately) embarassed or humiliated against their will or 'accidentally' or, basically, without consent.

People who consent to it (even if they're not aware of the details) and enjoy it (or feel its worthwhile) - that's a whole different thing, to me. And potentially quite enjoyable.

[lionessvalenti.livejournal.com]

I love House of 1000 Corpses/The Devil's Rejects too much for their utter hilarity and over-the-topness (Though the first one is more over the top than the sequel which is played straight a lot more, but you still find yourself getting a giggle out of the horrific deaths, but the movie is from the perspective of the killers who really do find it amusing) to give freaks terrorizing travelers a thumb's down. Wrong Turn sucked balls, though. Not worth it, not even for Eliza.

I don't like awkwardness. I don't like comedy that comes from someone being put in an awkward/embarrassing situation. I had to fight to watch I Love Lucy as a kid (I often, literally, ran out of the room because whatever Lucy was doing was so embarrassing to me), and it's just gone on since then. It will take me hours and hours to watch some movies because I'll just pause it until I feel like I can get back to it. Romantic comedies have this a lot, and I don't find it endearing. Especially in unrequited love with a love triangle storylines.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

Oh, you know... Lucy? Yes.

I sort of *like* awkwardness in rom-coms if it's endearing awkwardness.

Hugh Grant is the king of endearing awkward moments.

[shane-mayhem.livejournal.com]

Squicks:

Ten-minute rape scenes, which I was not prepared for when I watched The Baby of Macon. NOT OKAY. In fact, I actually almost threw up.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

Whoa. Now I have another film to add to the "do not watch" list.

I haven't heard of that one, though.

[blue-fjords.livejournal.com]

Well, like a lot of people on here, it appears I am in the same category of public humiliation. I can no longer watch "Seinfeld." I just feel bad for everyone around them and I get antsy. This is especially true when George is onscreen.

Squick: impaling. Things like arrows, spears, etc. I'm okay w/ blood on my screen and in real life. I just don't want to see the thing sticking out of flesh. Major squick.

Squick: hurting animals. I am in animal protection for my job, and there is a world of shit that humans throw at animals, in the most casual way possible. Don't want to see it in something that is supposed to be entertaining me.

Squick: fake boobs. They just don't move naturally. And then I get embarrassed for the poor actress who felt she needed to enhance her boobs for the job, and they look so terrible. (I could only get through one episode of "Californication" for the fake boobs, and one other squick, which I'll get to. I'd say that the little girl who used to be on "The Nanny" had real boobs, but damn I couldn't look at her -- she used to be on "The Nanny"! She should not even have boobs! You know what I mean.)

Squick: skeevy guys who still get women despite oozing skeeviness (see "Californication") -- we are not that desperate.

Squick: fat jokes. They are never funny. I fucking hate fat jokes.

Damn, I have a lot more. But I will shut up now. And go to bed!

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

That's it. Nothing is safe for you to watch! Interesting list.

Animals being hurt. I find that disturbing as well.

Impaling as in "on a pike, the hard way". NO THANK YOU. I don't even want to read about Vlad.


Really, there should be a website specifically for listing the 100 most-common entertainment squicks, with like... bingo cards for films/TV.

[lionessvalenti.livejournal.com]

*comment jacks*

I saw The Butterfly Effect in the theater and first off, the movie was totally fucked up anyway, but what I really remember from it was this sequence where this kid kills a dog, and I was so disturbed I almost threw up. I don't even remember it being especially graphic, but the whole thing was incredibly disturbing. And considering that six comments up I'm talking about laughing over brutal murders in another film - it takes a lot to disturb me. *shudders*

As a fat person, I agree on the fat jokes. And half the time, fat jokes are directed at people who aren't even fat. I don't understand!

Fake boobs are just sad.

[servus-a-manu.livejournal.com]

I admit, I have a weak stomach so anything involving bathroom humor makes me gag. Going with the immediate, visceral reaction definition to "squick", I think gagging qualifies. Also, that part in Van Wilder with the dog semen and the cream puffs... ugh, I REALLY can't go there and I'll never forgive the person who made me watch that and didn't warn me first. In fact, I have to gargle with 2 liters of mouthwash right now just from thinking about it.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

I feel ya.

Though if it's a really over-the-top cracky ridiculous scenario, it's different to me (not to you, obviously)!

That scene was very, very wrong, yes. So wrong that it missed funny by a mile.

[andreth47.livejournal.com]

So...how did you react to 'Countrycide'?? I'm guessing not well? o_0

Giant Head Lube!! Send some to the Face of Boe, quick! (okay, I think I just squicked myself)

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

Head Lube. You have rimshotted. :D

Countrycide: (SPOILAZ!) I thought we were dealing with aliens for most of the episode, so... that was different.

The X-Files episode Home? Hated it.

[qthelights.livejournal.com]

Not a squick, but a guaranteed to make me cry? One - old people in vulnerable situations (shawshank redemption when the old guy is "free"... i cannot watch). Two - animals dying... not children, just animals... Three - When couples have to leave each other (hi, long distance relationships and me.. bah) - the end of bridges of madison county? DESTROYS ME.

[blue-fjords.livejournal.com]

Okay, we cry at the same things. Though I've never seen "Bridges." And I know it's unrealistic in the long-term, but I always try to give Jack & Ianto a happy ending. I don't want to cry!

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

...the end of bridges of madison county? DESTROYS ME.

*Cry* Me too. Because they were totally MEANT for each other.

*More protracted crying*

[cruentum.livejournal.com]

squick - umm, oh I almost said none, but actually, House squicks the hell out of me because I spent four hours afterwards convinced I have something no-one has discovered yet and will died within the next two weeks. House is a total no-go for me, because I can't properly disconnect from what's happening there.

Other than that, no squicks, I don't think.

And I do watch Mr Bean... and think it's funny. Umm. I also watched Jackass and thought it was funny.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

I hear you! ER is bad for hypochondria, too.

Admission: I like Jackass even though it elicits wincing. The humiliation there is voluntary.

[filthgoblin.livejournal.com]

I think I'm pretty much squick-proof in terms of sex, drugs and violence, but I'm totally up there with the dislike for awkward/cringe comedy. I can't watch it. At all. People raved and raved about Ricky Gervais in The Office and I couldn't watch a single episode. I haven't been able to watch any of Extras for the same reason - I just expect to spend my entire time trying to retract my head inside my neck. That's not entertaining for me. That's just painful.

Oh, and in terms of out and out screaming mental squick that I wish they'd warn for but never do? Butterflies. They freak me the fuck out. I don't think they're pretty, they're just wrong and give me shivers. Wrong, wrong, wrong.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

Butterflies? I like them but I don't want them ON me. The only insects allowed to alight on my person are ladybugs.

Biology class stop-motion videos of maturing pupae did gross me out as a kid.

Ha. Cringe comedy. Perfected and yet despised by the English.

;)

[oneloveonelight.livejournal.com]

I don't squicked out too easily. I love horror films. However, I do wince when something involves torture, like long drawn out torture, especially when the person is innocent. Hostel, Saw, etc. (although I loved the first Saw and will see it again, parts of it bugged me). Kids or animals getting hurt or killed bothers me to no end.

Yeah, basically, innocent people getting hurt/humiliated in fairly likely scenarios gets me riled up (does not include Nightmare on Elm Street or Friday the 13th type of movies because those aren't "likely" scenarios to me).

That's probably why I hate the show Punk'd. On the flip side, I LOVE Jackass because, as someone mentioned here, they're getting humiliated and hurt WILLINGLY! LOL.

I didn't care for House of 1,000 Corpses, but oddly, I liked The Devil's Rejects. That Freebird scene at the end rocks. And I don't even like that song.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

Hostel, Saw, etc.

Eeeeek! Being forced to watch those is my idea of hell.

Love horror films, though. Cheesy horror? Great. Suspense? Great.
Torture (and tourist torture)? Eek.

I don't mind gore in itself.

Chica, have you seen Battle Royale?