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Coping with 15 and 18-rated films
BillieTheBot
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I watched a few 18's when I was below-age. Now that I have gone well above that (I'm 29), I find that I'm unable to watch many 15's and 18's, especially those that are graphic. The definite no-no's are:
- A Nightmare on Elm Street
- Starship Troopers
- Dusk 'Til Dawn
(all 18's)
Then I recently discovered Cube Zero. It's only a 15 and it has the most grusome death scene I've ever seen. I did like the rest of the film and its concept though. If it's all action and explosion, like Arnie, Bond 007, Demolition Man, Mad Max etc, then I have no problem with those. If it's graphic, then no-no. Having said that, I don't have a problem with Silence of the Lambs.
Does anyone else find this?
- A Nightmare on Elm Street
- Starship Troopers
- Dusk 'Til Dawn
(all 18's)
Then I recently discovered Cube Zero. It's only a 15 and it has the most grusome death scene I've ever seen. I did like the rest of the film and its concept though. If it's all action and explosion, like Arnie, Bond 007, Demolition Man, Mad Max etc, then I have no problem with those. If it's graphic, then no-no. Having said that, I don't have a problem with Silence of the Lambs.
Does anyone else find this?
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Is it a good film? Remember watching the first one, some gruesome parts but very engaging all the same.
Starship Troopers is a satire, all the gruesome parts have comical elements to them.
As for your question, nope, I can watch pretty much anything and not get weirded out by it.
I'm the opposite, watched to much shite through my years very little if anything makes me turn off. Saw Cannibal Holocaust about 4 years ago which is infamous for torture/abortion, and even worse real animal sacrifices (including one very graphic scene with a turtle)
Which is quite weird, 'cos when I see fake animals dying in films it normally has a deeper impact than watching a person die.
That said, IT the clown scared the shite out of me when I was 6, had nightmares for weeks. And there's no way on earth I'd sit through '2 girls, 1 cup' after some cunt tricked me into watching it. If that counts? Savage!
I watched that because someone told me I had to. I can't say it did anything for me, but it didn't make me want to be sick like some people claimed. There's no context to the video, so there's nothing for me to get bothered about in the slightest. I have no problem watching over the top violent films, especially horror films, because they're usually pretty shit, and so over the top that they lose any effect. Give me the final scene of Dancer in the Dark, or the bit of Apocalypse Now when Clean gets shot. Watching a film where a character you've built an emotional attachment to has something like this happen to them, and it's far more effective. A random person getting something horrible done to them is far worse. Incidentally, this is why Irreversible is far more disturbing the second time round, because you know the characters when you see what happens (if you haven't seen it, the scenes play out in reverse order, so all of the horror that you see near the start has no context until you watch the end, which is actually the start
Gawd yes. After I was just sat in silence in my living room for half an hour in shock I guess.
Yeah I think I'll go along with that
(In terms of gore Saving Private Ryan out does them all, but is a pretty good movie
Requiem for a Dream is the most sickening film i've ever sat and watched. Watching it years ago, I vowed I'd never sit through it again yet after watching it earlier tonight I realise you don't need gore, violence to make a film. Real life is a far scarier thing.
I'd vow any one single member of this forum to sit through that film and not feel deeply appauled. Certain scenes are just unwatchable. Seriously, felt heart strings move I never knew I had.
Fucking deep.
Still, glib, sensationalist American bollocks mostly.
Incidentally, has anyone seen Inland Empire? If so, did you shit yourself when they had the extreme slow motion of Laura Dern running towards the camera with an absolutely manic look on her face, and then he suddenly speeds the footage up? Lynch films are normally scary in the other sort of way, but I jumped out of my seat at that bit. The image still gives me the shivers, because I think they use the start of it in the trailer.
Agreed, bloody good film but no way am i ever watching that again...
And like Yerascrote said, the mother's story si the most disturbing out of all of them.
Bit harsh on Hubert Selby Junior there - it does suffer from being updated from the late 70's period it was written in. Bear in mind that to Selby Requiem is actually a pretty positive and redemeptive story. Oh and the jail and heroin stuff was based on his own experiences in the 60's that ended up with him doing two months for possession.
If you, err... enjoyed isn't quite the right word is it? - anyway, if you were moved by Requiem I'd definately suggest tracking down the film of Last Exit to Brooklyn - which is just as overwhelming and has an even stronger story.
I bought this off Amazon on the recommendation of a friend. I have watched it once and I doubt I'll watch it again. It's very grim, but very powerful. Perhaps I'll convince myself that rewatching it is a good idea, but at the moment I'm happy to let it gather dust. Fantastic film. I must look out for Pi.
I don't like sexual violence i.e. non-consensual sex things etc. I found the scene in the film 'Crash' where the policeman 'finger-fucks' the woman whilst searching her to be horrible.
Also, and this is a bit embarassing, I find some scenes in like soap operas to be really painful to watch although I don't switch off. Like at Christmas when the Branning family was falling apart and the affair came out and the mum had a go at her little daughter for not telling her as soon as she found out, well I found that so hard to watch. I guess it's because I come from a rather painful 'Eastenders' style family background and it brings up a lot for me. I found it fine to watch the same mother later try to murder her husband though, probably because this isn't something that I have personal experience of.
I cannot watch horror films though. Not any. I've seen just a few and I literally can't watch them, they scare me so much. I don't mind seeing someone violently attacked but as soon as you add a creepy element to it like someone hiding in their house with some creepy background music I can't watch.
Can't watch The Ring though, that still has me jumping at static TVs and I saw that 5 years ago.
It wouldn't have had much effect on me aged 12 either, I don't think. It's not that type of film where the younger you are, the more disturbing it is.
I have really bad nerves so horror stuff is a no-no for me too. I was soaking wet of transpiration when I went out of the cinema watching Hostel.
/e: I'm really afraid to watch requiem for a dream now :nervous: heard it's a must see flick.
I watched parts of the ring when I was high like a kite. All the people on that party were shitting themselves but I found it funny and amusing, which is rrrreeally weird for me
Where's Two Girls One Cup?
and evil dead i kinda hid in part of that...
other than that i'll watch pretty much anything...i want to watch the orphan when i get a chance.