Aside from Patch Adams, has any movie ever been way too much for you to process, to the point where you've lost it and fainted or tossed your cookies?

The only time I came close was during the movie "Crash" (not the race relations one, but the Cronenberg one), at the beginning when everyone was getting into car crashes and Holly Hunter was hanging out of a windshield and shaking her bloody boob at James Spader. The accident scenes felt SO real that I had to tell the people I was with that I was feeling faint...fortunately, the movie mellowed out (as much as it could) and I was able to sit through the rest of it, which I actually quite enjoyed.

Another time, I took a friend to see "Dancer in the Dark" and the cinematography made her so dizzy that she had to excuse herself and go ralph in the ladies room.

So have any movies literally made you ill?

Graffiti Bridge.

Alien Resurrection

Nastinesssss

The first Jack Ass movie was disgustin', but I didn't earl or pass out.

Rinluv said:

That joint was hilarious

DanceWme said:

really? i thought that movie was funny. like, on purpose funny. it's the most enjoyable of all the alien movies for me, which i know is blasphemy to a lot of the sci fi heads on here. it felt more like an art film than a blockbuster action movie, almost like a parody of itself but not quite. was there gore in it? i just remember sigorney weaver looked like trent reznor.

Anx said:

The aliens just looked disgusting to me.

jerseykrs said:

The first time I saw that was in the theater with my mom, and at the end, she said to me, as if she were looking for a silver lining to cheer me up, "well, his hair looked really nice, didn't it?"

Anx said:

Ur mom has good taste

Anx said:

My girlfriend was like "Did you like THAT???"

I had to be honest and say, "God no, that SUCKED! "

jerseykrs said:

I watched it on VHS for the first time after convincing my friends to rent it. I almost got my ass kicked. It was so embarrassing.

"The Blob" ...I can't look at it

and "There's something about Mary" I freakin' despise with a passion that movie. ugh!!

Natisse said:

you mean you don't like 'something about mary' or that you just don't think it's funny? i mean movies that literally make you ill!

Anx said:

yeah, I mean it makes me heave I know what you meant

Movies that make me sick



Shindler's List: Love the movie, but can't handle the scene where the two boys are hiding in the cesspool.

Gone With The Wind: The man who is screaming when he's getting his legs sawed off .

Hannibal: The scene where he's cut the top of what's-his-name's head off.


ANY torture scene in ANY movie. I simply can't handle the site of torture.

Imago said:

and yet, some of the threads you force us to endure


is that irony???

Imago said:

oh, man. i was at the gym the other day and they had the TV on to one of those crime/medical drama shows and in one scene, they were sawing some dude's skull off and yanking out his brain. on a TV SHOW. that was a bit much. i mean, if i were in my artsy-fartsy transgressive mindspace, okay, i could deal with it. but i was listening to fuckin' DEEE-LITE on my headphones and sweatin' to the oldies. i didn't need to see all that.

Any Scarlett Johansen movie makes me wanna toss my cookies (cause theyre all so bad) AND toss her salad

I can't take gore of any kind. I can't even watch ER, that's how bad it is. I used to watch the beginning of 6 Feet Under from behind my hand, just barely peaking out cause I didn't want to see anything.

CarrieMpls said:

i'm that way with nip/tuck, but for some reason i could deal with the gore on six feet under. go know.

I watched Dolemite two days ago....I almost passed out from laughing.

FruitToAttractBears said:

I went to see Naked Lunch at a little "pizza and a movie" type place. They have a pizza parlor, and couches, very nice. Half way through the movie, I had to leave because I was feeling quite ill.

I don't know if it was the movie, or the fact that I had eaten the goat cheese house special pizza, of the fact that I drank a few beers, or some type of combo there. All I know is I got sick. I didn't puke. Not sure if I passed out. Just went home quickly and layed down.

The first time I saw Pink Flamingos I laughed so hard I threw up on my sister's coffee table and carpet. Not what you're going for, though...

The only time I can truly recall being revolted by a movie was when I saw the ....erm... scatological scene in Salo. It was obviously fake, of course, but just the notion of it was enough to make it unwatchable for me.

Nope.

origmnd said:

even ghost world? i thought that was a good one. match point? she's been in a couple of non-puke-inspiring movies.

Imago said:

I haven't seen ANY of these movies. Someone gets their legs sawed off in "Gone With the Wind"?! I seriously don't even know the story behind this movie.

The chainsaw scene in Scarface is pretty disturbing though. Nothing has ever made me physically ill though. Disturbed and sad, yes. Like The Deer Hunter.

Even Faces of Death didn't make me ill. It made me disgusted that people would do such things and/or film them, but I never get pukey from anything.

Anx said:

Ghostworld was good, but she was hardly even in it.

Not physically ill, but mentally ill, yes. The movie Kids did a little doosy on me and forever changed my approach to film watching. (I'm much more cautious now)

The other film which I am still struggling with and which I can't seem to get anywhere with and which still hurts and scares me is The Bridge which shows over a dozen people jumping to their deaths off the Golden Gate Bridge. It's an amazing film but it's really, really hard to handle.

origmnd said:

Really? I like all her movies.