When entertainment makes you sick

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This can be a broad topic - gross violence, something hard to see like a rape scene, bad acting, shaky camera work, The Last Jedi, whatever.

Last night I watched an episode of the Americans where they had to fit a dead woman into a suitcase by breaking her limbs. I had to get up and walk around. It turned my stomach.
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I had a pretty visceral reaction watching Todd Solondz's Palindromes, I was so mad at it
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The rape scene in Rob Roy comes to mind.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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The ending of Magnolia. The soundtrack (I guess intentionally?) drowns out the dialogue.
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Fake encores.

Either the crowd wants it or not. Don't leave the house lights down and your instruments out, then half-ass it after half the audience leaves.
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daft twat wrote:This can be a broad topic - gross violence, something hard to see like a rape scene, bad acting, shaky camera work, The Last Jedi, whatever.

Last night I watched an episode of the Americans where they had to fit a dead woman into a suitcase by breaking her limbs. I had to get up and walk around. It turned my stomach.
That episode was rough.
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That ep of Deadwood where Dan pulled that dude’s eye out.

Black Swan, too, though I can’t remember what it was. Toenails?
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The arm cutting scene in 127 hours.
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American History X curb stomp
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The scene on the road in Nocturnal Animals. The movie is so good, but when I tried to re-watch it recently I could not get through it, it hurt me
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Bambi's mother getting shot
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The basement scene in The Road
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Pretty much all of Hostel
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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tragabigzanda wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:The basement scene in The Road
good one
I still shudder thinking about it.
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EJ wrote:American History X curb stomp
This. I still get shivers just thinking about that.
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Monkey_Driven wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:The basement scene in The Road
good one
I still shudder thinking about it.
I might watch this again soon
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that scene in Gandhi where he refuses to engage in violence
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