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!

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[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.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

I absolutely HATE Cringe Comedy.

David Brent-style?

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

RICKY GERVAIS MUST DIE. DIE. IN THE MOST PAINFULLY PROTRACTED FASHION IMAGINABLE AND AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. DIE. OH GOD.

I FUCKING HATE RICKY FUCKING GERVAIS

... yes. Essentially.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

Don't hold back, Del.

The David Brent character doesn't make me cringe so much as want to get a running start and kick him square in the ass. Or in the arse. So hard that he'll land in a country where we spell it "ass". Too unlikable to make me cringe, even.

Ricky himself?



I sort of liked Extras.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

The Butterfly Effect passed me by. Okay, I read themoviespoiler.com for that one and skipped it.

There's an appalling dog murder in American Psycho. (In the book, at least. I can't bring myself to watch the film.)

Don't actually like the book, either.

ETA: Except for the business cards bit, which is genius.

[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.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

The first really skeevy-guy character I remember seeing and being repulsed by was Mike Damone in Fast Times At Ridgemont High. Urrgh.

Hygiene fail? Double urrgh.

Oh man, it's bedtime here too.

[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)

[andreth47.livejournal.com]

Oh, god, you've got to see American Psycho! Bale is unfuckingbelievable in it. And it's so inexplicably, horribly, fantastically funny. If you can take the book, you can take the movie: it's nowhere near as bad. Although the same dog murder is in it.

There's one scene I've watched over and over and over, and it never fails to make goosebumps rise. You must see!

[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.

[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.

[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.

[cruentum.livejournal.com]

I actually liked it even though it took me a few eps to get into it. But then, I think I have a thing for fucked up little things and relationships...

[cruentum.livejournal.com]

I actually threw the book into a corner after I was halfway through because I was getting sick of the gory. I was sitting on the bus reading pages after pages after pages of women being taken apart and dude, I'm unsquickable usually but I kind of ... missed the plot in the book.

Or ... maybe I just didn't get it.

I think I gave the book to a friend to read and never got it back. Oh well, no big loss.

[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!

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

It may be noted, I do not go out in public much. :D

[blue-fjords.livejournal.com]

It's a show that totally could have grown on me (I really liked the daughter), but I couldn't find one thing that I liked about the main character, and I need to. I need something to make me connect, or else I'm not going to watch.

I sometimes feel like I fail at empathy. My idea of a fucked up character to get behind is someone like Mary from "In Plain Sight" and the obvious examples of Jack and Ianto. But w/ Duchovny's character, my reaction was, "Dude, pull yourself together. Everybody's got problems, stop whining." I have this reaction to most of the Bad Boy stereotype, actually, and it makes me feel mean. But you know, Bad Boys get a lot of lovin; I think they can handle my rejection.

[blue-fjords.livejournal.com]

*Adds movie to list of ones I don't need to see* Thanks for the warning!

Hollywood has such skewed ideas on body image. We could talk about that for days and days. And i never saw this movie, but I remember when Gwyneth Paltrow was doing publicity for that movie where she wears the fat suit -- she said she put it on and left the set and was devastated by how nobody looked at her. She felt totally unreal. And I was just -- yeah! So enough w/ the fucking fat jokes, then, okay?

[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]

BALE. Do I even want to know which scene that is?

The hobo shivving in the book actually made me ill.

I asked the husband, and his film squick is people having their digits severed. He can deal with hands and legs (Army of Darkness, Grindhouse) but fingers? NO.

In Bound, when Caesar whips out the cigar cutter, he's all: "Uhhh, I need a drink, BRB-no-really."

Hey! Skeevy guy. Corky and Violet are going to need those fingers later.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

Mr Bean makes me cringe too. We found one!

When it comes to comedies like those you mention, if the the written dialogue is solid and funny, I like them.

But if they depend on mugging and repetitive character tics (OHAI Jim Carrey!), I don't.

However, I love Steve Martin in The Jerk. The script is funny.

[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.

;)

[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.

[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*