Things that make you look away/cringe in movies/tv

[Zantera]

I talked about this with a friend earlier who is so easily scared that not just horror films but sometimes thrillers are met with looking away half the time. For me, I don't really get scared in that way, but there are other things that makes me uncomfortable to watch in movies.

For example, I have a really hard time watching scenes where a character does something grandiose like standing on a table in a public place and singing or yelling, and those "awkward" moments makes me cringe so hard that I have to look away. I just re-watched Scream 2 yesterday and it had a scene like that, and it's just tough to watch. I can take a certain level of people embarrassing themselves, but add in a huge crowd and it goes past that line for me. How I Met Your Mother has had plenty of scenes like that to.

Scream 2 scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z25Y9VxIkH0

With horror I'm not as easily disturbed, because I started watching them at a very young age and whether it's torture, scary clowns or spirits, I generally don't have to look away. But there was a scene in the first Hostel movie where a character got his achilles tendons cut off and he then tries to crawl away from the torturer. That scene still creeps me out.

While not exactly related to movies or TV, whenever I see an interview with an actor or director where the interviewer is a douchebag or accidentally pushes the actor into a temper tantrum, that's also hard to watch. For example:

Interviewer talks to Duncan Jones about Warcraft and goes on personal rants about him not liking the film (and eventually storms off) and Duncan does a great job of keeping a straight face:
https://vid.me/6R4V

Interviewer talks to Robert Downey Jr and starts asking personal questions about his past:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYrporR9hHE

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So yeah, what makes you uncomfortable enough that it's hard for you to watch? Maybe other pet peeves or something specific. 

[Kotowboy]

When people sing in movies acapella.

[MirrorMask]

I have two main pet peeves:

1) Sex scenes. God how I hate those sheets that the woman pulls up to cover herself, first she's a wild animal of desire - sex in movies is always "perfect" - and then she's shy and modest and covers her chest? I get it, it's not a porn, you can't show naked people, I'm fine with it. But seriously, 80-90 years after sex scenes started to appear in movies still no director found a better solution to the nudity problem than "she covers up her chest with a lot of sheets"? it takes me away from the movie and into reality.

This is even funnier-not-funnier when the movie or the TV series is adult oriented enough to show actual nudity, and so all you see is "Hey, this actress has a no nude clause, this other one doesn't".

2) Foreign people speaking in their own native language because it sounds cool and exotic and then switching to english.

You're two japanese people speaking in your own mother tongue, why you have to say "Sayonara" and then go back to english? Peter Jackson littered the LOTR movies of elves speaking a dramatic sentence in elven language among themselves, and going back to english in the middle of the conversation.

Either translate the whole movie, or do like Tarantino in Inglorious Basterds and have everyone speak always their mother language. English but the "catchphrase" spoken in chinese, japanese, elvish or whatever just sucks.

[King Postwhore]

That's a weird thing to bother you.  I figured it would be wearing a bra during sex.

[Zook]

Finger nails breaking.

That one scene in Osmosis Jones. You know the one.

I'll second the awkward moments like in Scream 2. That shit makes me uncomfortable, but mostly when I'm watching with other people. I feel embarrassed by the dangerously cheesy display going on. Another example would be Spider-man 3. The strut down the sidewalk is just silly, but the lounge club is downright embarrassing.

[Kotowboy]

1. People eating whilst talking and the boom mic is really sensitive and you hear all the plates moving and cutlery clinking and scraping on plates and water being poured loudly and swallowing

and chewing and they're talking with a mouth full too.    horrible. I hate really loud sounds like that.

2. When people are at a dinner table and you see them forever moving their food and cutting but not once does a fork ever go north. 

[Cool Chris]

2. When people are at a dinner table and you see them forever moving their food and cutting but not once does a fork ever go north. 

William Shatner talks about this on the STVI DVD.  He talks about how you never, ever want to actually eat in any shot in a movie, because once there is one shot of you eating, all the other corresponding shots from other angles have to show you eating as well to maintain continuity, and eventually you are going to be stuffed.

[FlyingBIZKIT]

Not that it really makes me cringe or look away, but I hate when there are scenes at restaurants with one person eating and the other person there trying to get information about something never orders food, and leaves in like 10 seconds.

[King Postwhore]

Vampire ducking on humans. My dad used to blow on my neck faking being a vampire and to this day I cant watch vampire movies.

[bout to crash]

Animal abuse. You can do fucking anything to a person but even just kick a dog and I lose it.

[Kotowboy]

FFS I had once and opened this thread and instantly forgot it...




How about : The first female that the male protagonist meets in the movie is the one he ends up with at the end.

[orcus116]

Closeups of needles going into arms/other body parts
Overly extended musical bits in shows (the song James and them make in Twin Peaks, Beth playing the guitar in The Walking Dead, etc)

[MetalJunkie]

Head/face smashings. A la Braveheart, Game of Thrones, Inglorious Basterds baseball bat scene

I mean, I guess I don't know exactly how brutal those scenes are, since I always look away.

[MirrorMask]

Another silly thing I forgot: men shaving.

Showing a man shaving seems so pointless that I always expect the scene to be there because he will cut himself, and I cringe at the possibility, I'm always a wuss when it comes to razor cuts - it's so small you don't even hurt, but then you bleed forever. I don't want to see it in movies 

[Cool Chris]

Don't ever, ever, ever watch Pink Floyd The Wall.

[MrBoom_shack-a-lack]

The only thing I can think right now is when operation scenes or gore scenes becomes to real. In general I don't react very much when heads or limbs get chopped off in movies but as soon as something feels to real I usually look away, i'm not sure what it is that makes it feel real but it's something. I remember an operation scene in Master and Commander that I reacted hard on, I saw it at the cinema and I just couldn't look at it and almost felt a bit ill. I think it was a mix of feeling nausea because I couldn't leave my seat and even if looked away I still had the sound, easier when your at home and you just lower the volume.

[hefdaddy42]

Don't ever, ever, ever watch Pink Floyd The Wall.

I understand what you mean. 

I watched it once, and will never ever do so again.

[Kotowboy]

When a character says an off hand line to the protagonist and right at the end of the film - the protagonist says the same line back to him at an important moment and it's supposed to be

meaningful. But it's a tired cliche.

[Chino]

I always look away if someone is helplessly suffering moments before death. The stabbing scene in Saving Private Ryan gets me every time.

[pogoowner]

Dubbed vocals are always painfully distracting to me.

[Big Hath]

Closeups of needles going into arms/other body parts
Overly extended musical bits in shows (the song James and them make in Twin Peaks, Beth playing the guitar in The Walking Dead, etc)

both of these, especially the needles.  Don't mind them in real life, but on screen it gives me the heebie-jeebies.




I also cringe when someone leaves an external door open.  If it happens in a scene I'm basically lost as to what happens until someone closes the door.

[masterthes]

The cuticle scene from Black Swan and the pencil through the foot in Evil Dead

[Kotowboy]

Hobbling.


You know what I mean.

[hefdaddy42]

People tortured by inserting things under their fingernails.  That really gets me.

Also, that scene in Misery.  You know what I mean.

[bosk1]

I don't know about "cringing."  But in terms of things that make me VERY uncomfortable, I have to go with shots that deal with the open ocean.  I know sharks are "scary" in general, but I have such an irrational fear of them that any shots of open water can get to me.  Sad to say, but I was literally hyperventilating at certain scenes in Finding Nemo when I first saw it in theaters.  The first half LONG segment of Unbroken when they were floating in the ocean on the survival raft had me squirming all over the place.  Needless to say, the trailers for The Shallows are completely freaking me out.  I'm cool with a jump scare from a ghost or slasher in a horror movie.  But one from a shark, or anything else in the deep, just sets me over the edge.  However, that terror is also complimented by a sick fascination.  So I will almost for sure see The Shallows eventually, although at home and not in a theater.  And definitely not in a setting as cardiac arrest-inducing at this:  https://www.slashfilm.com/alamo-drafthouse-the-shallows/

[bosk1]

Also, that scene in Misery.  You know what I mean.

Yup, I know.  No need for any more detail, thank you very much.

[Sacul]

Most corny/romantic-and-dramatic scenes, I can't fucking stand them. Also when someone does something fucking ridiculous and it's not in a satirical way.

[Kotowboy]

People tortured by inserting things under their fingernails.  That really gets me.

Also, that scene in Misery.  You know what I mean.

Hobbling.


You know what I mean.

Couldn't possibly.

[Kotowboy]

Most corny/romantic-and-dramatic scenes, I can't fucking stand them.

Yes when the protagonist goes out of his way to do something stupid just to get the girl.

Bleh.

[King Postwhore]

Well guys, most romantic comedies are not aimed for you.  Lol

[Kotowboy]

Thought of one...


When things are put in films that are germane to the characters or the theme of the movie but have absolutely zero impact on the story at all.


For example - say a film came out about two magicians. And they're called James Copper and Daniel Field.

Copperfield. Magic. David Copperfield I C WUT U DID THAR.

But why ? I see this kind of thing a lot in movies.

In Cube - all the characters surnames were names of prisons.

Why ? It doesn't make the film any better...

[Progmetty]

Whenever the dialogue is so painfully irrational I cringe, not when it's weak, just irrational.
Biggest example is when a character is supposed to ask painfully obvious questions about some mystery and they just don't, they just stay lost until the writer decides it's time for the reveal.

[Zook]

Dialogue is a big one for me too, especially expositional.

[Kotowboy]

Dialogue is a big one for me too, especially expositional.

I hate when I notice really obvious exposition.

Like when characters have a discussion about the plan 75% into the plan. Umm... Surely you would have had this discussion before you left ?

[Zook]

Dialogue is a big one for me too, especially expositional.

I hate when I notice really obvious exposition.

Like when characters have a discussion about the plan 75% into the plan. Umm... Surely you would have had this discussion before you left ?

Some of the worst is in the pilot for Supernatural like when Sam is telling the audience, I mean Dean about the times their father made them make silver bullets as if he wasn't there. This couldn't have been written any other way?