A movie that messed you up

[Tallim]

Watership Down messed me up a bit, I think. I saw it when I was around 5 years old back in 1984.

I don't think it's a kids movie.


LOL

The music makes it a bit epic, eh?

No I don't think it's a kids film either. The book is even worse and it was apparently a story the author made up on a long car journey to keep his kids entertained.

I only read the first 20 some pages or so of the book, it seemed like it was word for word, scene for scene, the same. I have never heard of another film being as close to a book as this one was.

You saying the book is 'worse' really makes me want to read it again... Thanks!

The movie is a very good adaptation but it leaves an awful lot out. Especially some of the really nasty stuff and that's saying something given they had the bit with Bigwig in the snare and Holly getting his ears ripped to shreds in the movie.

Watership Down is one of my favourite novels.

 

[epialesofaergia]

Zardoz starring Sean Connery. "The gun is good, and the penis is evil." Seriously check this one out.

Zardoz is one of those movies that a lot of people give shit, but I liked it. Cool to see someone else reference it!

Guinea Pig: Flowers of Flesh and Blood really fucked my brain out of my skull. It's literally the only movie I've ever seen that made me wave the white flag. August Underground is a nice close second, a movie with such a low budget that it makes you seriously consider its status as a snuff film.

On the less simulated snuff film side, Deranged, the biopic of Ed Gein made in the 70s was pretty hard to sit through.

 

[Tallim]

Watership Down messed me up a bit, I think. I saw it when I was around 5 years old back in 1984.

I don't think it's a kids movie.


LOL

The music makes it a bit epic, eh?

No I don't think it's a kids film either. The book is even worse and it was apparently a story the author made up on a long car journey to keep his kids entertained.

I only read the first 20 some pages or so of the book, it seemed like it was word for word, scene for scene, the same. I have never heard of another film being as close to a book as this one was.

You saying the book is 'worse' really makes me want to read it again... Thanks!

The movie is a very good adaptation but it leaves an awful lot out. Especially some of the really nasty stuff and that's saying something given they had the bit with Bigwig in the snare and Holly getting his ears ripped to shreds in the movie.

Thank you, thank you, thank you...

I didn't have another book to read after the fourth Game of Thrones A Song of Fire and Ice. I really needed a great book for my free time. I now know what to get again!!

I figure the parts near the end will be more dramatic as well.

"Dogs aren't dangerous!"

Poor General ; )

Fiver is also waaaaay more creepy in the novel. Psychic rabbits FTW. Hope you enjoy it as much as I do. It's a pretty huge book too. The end part with the battles against the other rabbits is much longer and involved in the book. The part with the "Utopian" society with the snares is also much more dramatic.

 

[Wuggy]

The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans

That movie just summarizes Nicholas Cage.

 

[Squilookle]

There was another movie that kind of screwed with me, but I can't remember the name. It had to do with this hero in a purple suit and a silver skull ring, and the bad guy was trying to collect these three mystical skulls to gain some kind of ultimate power. It was a great movie looking back on it, but it messed with me as a kid, especially the scene where a guy's eyes get gouged out by the blades hidden in the microscope's eyepiece. Looking back on it, that thing was sick, twisted, and frikkin' genius.

That'd be The Phantom. Go forth and find it and re-live your childhood!

 

[Aesir23]

Watership Down messed me up a bit, I think. I saw it when I was around 5 years old back in 1984.

I don't think it's a kids movie.


LOL

The music makes it a bit epic, eh?

O_O Holy f*ck. I'm really glad I never saw the entire thing when I was younger because that is just...Yikes. It makes me wonder why that movie was on a children's cartoon network at all at the same time I'm grateful it was presented in episodic format so that I didn't see the whole movie. I'm also incredibly reluctant to read the book that's sitting on my shelf now.

 

[Megabobster]

The first Jurassic Park movie when I was a little kid. I saw it in theaters. The part where the guy gets snatched off the john makes me laugh at this point in time, but it scared the shit out of me back then. There was another movie that kind of screwed with me, but I can't remember the name. It had to do with this hero in a purple suit and a silver skull ring, and the bad guy was trying to collect these three mystical skulls to gain some kind of ultimate power. It was a great movie looking back on it, but it messed with me as a kid, especially the scene where a guy's eyes get gouged out by the blades hidden in the microscope's eyepiece. Looking back on it, that thing was sick, twisted, and frikkin' genius.

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Ummm...that was "The Skull" or something like that. I have it somewhere. It was kind of like a Zorro "clone" or whatever. Well, Zorro + Indiana Jones. I remember one of the major parts was that it was thought the dude was immortal, but really he just passed the job down from one guy to the next. I'll look for it the next time I'm at the house that movie's at (not an uber rich asshole with lots of money, grandparents bought a beach house and my parents inherited it). Crap, I just ended a sentence with a preposition and I have no idea how to reword it.

Anyway, OT: The Brave Little Toaster. I don't know how more people AREN'T saying this. That was a freaky movie, and I had nightmares about it for years after watching it, even though I don't remember most of it .

 

[Astoria]

Buried. The ending just...got to me. 28 Days and 28 Weeks Later still gives me nightmares just thinking about them. Damn movies.

 

[Custard_Angel]

I would say Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

I happily concede that it is a very well made movie, but that said, I fucking hate it and never want to see it again.

It's very atmospheric, but the atmosphere is claustrophobic and makes me really uncomfortable when watching it.

I'd recommend seeing it, but I have no intention to ever see it again.

 

[Aesir23]

Watership Down messed me up a bit, I think. I saw it when I was around 5 years old back in 1984.

I don't think it's a kids movie.


LOL

The music makes it a bit epic, eh?

O_O Holy f*ck. I'm really glad I never saw the entire thing when I was younger because that is just...Yikes. It makes me wonder why that movie was on a children's cartoon network at all at the same time I'm grateful it was presented in episodic format so that I didn't see the whole movie. I'm also incredibly reluctant to read the book that's sitting on my shelf now.

Careful, there was a remake that isn't nearly half as good as the original movie. If it has 'newer' animations, sharper/more color, it isn't as good. FYI.

Depends on if this remake was in the 90s, '94-'95ish. If so, then the one I saw might have been the remake. All I know is one of the scenes in that video was really bloody familiar....pun actually unintended.

 

[minarri]

American Psycho really bothered me, and I saw it when I was 22. Please don't take that movie at face value lol

 

[ScorpSt]

I was 8, and it was Terminator 2. After seeing that, I was afraid that everyone, including my own father, was the T-1000.

 

[SquirrelPants]

Well.
I've got a full-blown phobia of horror movies. Not the things IN the horror movies, the films themselves. Because as a kid I watched...
Scary Movie.

Yeah.

Last time I watched a horror movie was SAW, and...wow. It's amazing how I just can't stand them anymore because of a thing so silly.

 

[ThisIsSnake]

Alien Ressurection seen at age 7/8. Nowadays I have a pretty huge tolerance for horror, I find it hard to find a scary film nowadays but back then that albino alien haunted me in my sleep and has given me a permanent achilles heel for aliens. Due to this I found Signs to be pretty scary.

Jurassic Park as well. The T-Rex in that film was so perfectly scary, not to mention the fucking amazing effects in Jurassic Park that still hold up today. I occassionally have nightmares about trying to flee a huge dinosaur.

Honorable mentions to the shark from James and the giant peach, the entire poltergeist series, Jumanji, and another I can't quite remember.

 

[TastyCarcass]

I've seen loads of gorey films, but for some reason the only one that made me physically sick was Passion of the Christ. I feel so pathetic.

 

[necromanzer52]

Watership Down messed me up a bit, I think. I saw it when I was around 5 years old back in 1984.

I don't think it's a kids movie.


LOL

The music makes it a bit epic, eh?

That's the only film that's ever given me nightmares.

 

[ThisIsSnake]

The other one would have beem watching The Butterfly Effect when it came out, I remember it freaking me out a lot and I wasn't even that young, probably like 15 or so... I rewatched it recently and actually found it quite good. I guess I found many of the scenes quite confronting when I first saw it.

Same, it was something about that little kid that got me, he was just so angry and he beats people twice his size half to death for making stupid comments. That and the dog burning, baby killing stuff.