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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[cruentum.livejournal.com]

Jackass is awesome. It makes me want to puke soemtimes (this time they ate all the eggs they could eat and... yeah), but yeah, I do like these type of recorded-family-mishaps/people-hurting-themselves shows ... I'm probably a bad person for it but I laugh a lot about it.

Schadenfreude.

It IS a German word :P

[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.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

The light. It burns us!

[filthgoblin.livejournal.com]

Even thinking about butterflies makes me cringe. I can't watch them on TV. And seeing them in the fluttery flesh makes me squeal like a little girl.

And with reference to the squick for cringe comedy, I'm British rather than English. I'm Welsh. I'm not from England. Small point

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

You're Welsh? I did not know that. Oops!

Do you speak/understand the Welsh language?

(I don't like BEES around me. Sorry, apiphile.)

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

People are looking at me! MAKE THEM STOP! :D

[filthgoblin.livejournal.com]

I quite like bees. There's been a lot of big bumbly ones around recently as spring is springing all over here, and I've taken to talking to them. I do worry about me sometimes.

I do speak/understand Welsh. Not a huge amount, and I understand much more than I can speak. That's probably something to do with confidence too, though. I can listen to an overheard conversation (like when I was at the theatre on Friday night) and get the gist of what's being said for sure. I could tell you what my name is, where I'm from, what I do for a living, what the weather's like and how I'm feeling but that's about my limit in terms of confident conversation.

[andreth47.livejournal.com]

The hobo scene is just as awful in the movie as it is in the book. However, the movie does not include Bateman parading around his apartment with a decapitated head stuck onto his erection. Which is when I screamed out loud in horrified, disbelieving hysteria when I read the book. I will never, never get that scene out of my head! Nor are there melting eyeballs or lengthy descriptions of body processing in the movie. It's really nowhere near as graphic as the novel.

The scene where Bale just knocks it out of the fucking PARK was, I think, invented for the movie. He's losing it, being pursued by cops, not really sure if he's hallucinating or not (and neither is the audience), and he hides out in his office. He's hysterical, sweating, hiding from police helicopter searchlights behind his desk. He calls his lawyer and confesses to all his murders. "I ate...I ate some of their brains" he whispers into the phone, to the lawyer who doesn't even know who he is, because all the clones and their business cards look so much alike. Goosebumps, I"m telling ya. Bale rocks that scene.

(yeah, right there with hubby on the severing thing. Do. Not. Want.)

[andreth47.livejournal.com]

We can never be friends again.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

NO SHIP WARS. ILU.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

I am squicked just reading this and remembering the book.

Okay. You may have convinced me.

I do like Bale (even though he's crackers in RL, apparently.)

Is there gratuitous Phil Collins in the film?

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

I think Cruentum (points upthread) is learning Welsh.

It seems like a difficult language, but I like the way it looks in print. Intriguing.

[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?

[oneloveonelight.livejournal.com]

No, but I have a copy of Suicide Club (AKA Jisatsu Saakuru) and it's been compared to Battle Royale. A friend of mine LOVES the very type of films I get squicked by - Hostel, Saw, etc. He sees them all and one of his favorite films is Suicide Club and even bought me a copy. UGHHHH!!

True, I didn't watch all of it but I just couldn't. It's set in Japan and suicide is the big fad in this film. Yeah, basically students think it's cool to commit suicide, usually in groups so they all do things like jump in front of subway trains in groups. *squicks*

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

Car-ree-pay!

Though I actually liked Battle Royale. Probably because a few people I trust hyped it so hard-core before we watched it together. It's a bizarre one.

[oneloveonelight.livejournal.com]

Here's the "Freebird" Devil's Reject scene. You might not appreciate it fully if you haven't seen the film, though. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XooEpeaL5Fo

I may have to see Battle Royale out of curiosity now!

[andreth47.livejournal.com]

Just kidding, of course. ILU 2, BB!!!!

[andreth47.livejournal.com]

Bale is a PSYCHO in real life. Whoa.

Re Collins: That's one of the best parts! Every time Bateman's working himself up to a murder, he puts on 80s crap pop like Collins or Huey Lewis and the News or Whitney Houston, and goes off on these hilarious ranting reviews about how wonderful they are and how deep their music really is and how unappreciated they are...

and then he chops somebody up.

It's sooo funny!!

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

BUT NOW you have piqued my curiosity.

*listens*

[andreth47.livejournal.com]

I was just making fun of you because Bridges of Madison County is so...romance novel Oprah Book of the Week stuff.

Please tell me you don't read Barbara Cortland novels...??

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

FUCK NO.

I only watched the film because it had Meryl Streep in it and I fancy her when she does accents.

Fap.

[andreth47.livejournal.com]

I can get behind the Marvellous Meryl thing. She's fab!

I just had the greatest afternoon. I took a 4-hour road trip in my old pickup truck, roaring out some CDs I made of the soundtrack from Supernatural Seasons 1&2. COCK ROCK, bb!! I was wearing my black leather jacket and my cheap sunglasses. There's nothing better than driving and singing along to loud music. *happy sigh*

Now I have to say goodbye to my pickup. She's rusting apart, got 200K miles, leaking fluids and dropping pieces everywhere she goes. 'Bye, Gertrude! Gotta get a new car. *sob*

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

There's nothing better than driving and singing along to loud music.

In leather and shades? You are sofaking über cooler than me.

I have a Honda Accord. But for cars I couldn't care less. ;)

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

Wait. I need to use a cool username icon. You have outcooled me.

That's twice on one thread. Andreth is wearing shades and leather and has a pickup like Corky in Bound.

STOP GAWKING AT SAM. :D