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

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Oh yes -- I was speaking of mainstream film there, and you don't see much voluntary enjoyable humiliation outside of pornography. In a sexualised setting it is different. Mind you, for me it's also situational; spanking does nothing for me, and seems so...not undignified, that's not the right word, but unnecessary. Caveat: Personal Opinion, Not My Kink, I'm not gonna judge others. I'm not kinky in the slightest, but I know a lot about it because I have friends in the lifestyle and there are certain humiliation-related kinks I do find interesting, and I understand them on an intellectual level.

Am I hallucinating, or did you write that fic where Jack takes Ianto to a sex club and they have sex in a booth in front of a TV camera? I can't find it on your journal, so perhaps I'm mixing you up with someone else, but it's a good example -- the spanking made me skim on, but the public sex I was a-ok with. Which is not necessarily humiliation, but it definitely had aspects of it.

Involuntary humiliation, especially in a mainstream film, just...rasps against me. Perhaps because I can say "fuck off, I'm right," but I still squirm on the inside -- self-esteem is very much a learned behaviour with me :D

[xtricks.livejournal.com]

Yup. I did a sex club one: http://xtricks.insanejournal.com/13621.html

I have an Insane Journal where much of my fic and longer pieces go since the strikeout, I just link to it from there.

And, yes, I think much mainstream stuff (including reality shows) bother me so much because they are both 'non-con' and also ... so clearly meant as social control/social programming. So many things presented as 'humilating' or embarassing are actually just things that violate norms, especially sex and gender norms (men in drag in most mainstream movies for example).

On re-read, I think some of the fun of writing the sex club story was in the *lack* of (significant) embarassment or humilation in parts of it. Ianto had internal monologue about how seeing other people do what he and Jack did silenced is internal critic for a bit. WHich I think helped frame the public sex as pleasureable exposure rather than unpleasant humiliation.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Ah! That's the one. Liked it a lot, just had to skip the spanking bit. And yeah -- I also liked that moment where he thought, he could really be with Jack there because everyone else was obviously enjoying sex of all stripes and shades.

I think you've hit it on the head with social controls and programming -- I'm pretty sensitive to that stuff because I don't understand it very well, so I tend to violate it kind of a lot without meaning to :D