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monochrome		#41	[-]
Mar 22 11 4:29 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Eddie Slovic in THE EXECUTION OF PRIVATE SLOVIC because the executioners were too upset to shoot straight, and Eddie writhes for a while.
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M F Berry		#42	[-]
Mar 22 11 4:45 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Gets it as in "is killed first". Yeah, I understood what you meant there, but ... how exactly is that "way more realistic?"
Uchujin65		#43	[-]
Mar 22 11 5:30 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	M F Berry wrote: Gets it as in "is killed first". Yeah, I understood what you meant there, but ... how exactly is that "way more realistic?" Because in real life I think the innocent and the meek are victimized first and the tougher, more street smart types stick around longer or are left standing. jlcarrozza.com
Zombie Dad		#44	[-]
Mar 22 11 10:08 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I'll add a couple more. That most unfortunate guy who wakes up from a nap to find the soldier ants in his lap and racing up to his eyes in THE NAKED JUNGLE. Amber Tamblyn's unforgettable death in THE RING--seared into my mind forever by the artistry (I believe) of Rick Baker. ZD Zombie Dad's Online Art Store www.zazzle.com/zombiedad
Jonatwork		#45	[-]
Mar 22 11 11:31 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Joe Pesci in CASINO Holy cats... “The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.” Joseph Priestley
Jonatwork		#46	[-]
Mar 22 11 11:34 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Monstroso Sabroso wrote: Rock Hudson in Seconds ... The kids in the anime Grave of the Fireflies (This may be the saddest film I've ever seen. It's been known to make flinty old men cry buckets; not disturbing as in gross, or "just" sad, but it just gets to you on every level.) Monstroso Sabroso, I didn't dig GotF as some told me I would, but it does have this prevailing sadness. Can't believe SECONDS didn't pop into mind instantly. When you understand what's happening, the inevitability of it just builds, and the close-ups of his struggles.... Goldsmith's cue that follows is just perfect, as is the shot on the beach. What could have been...if only... I'm not a huge animation fan, but in AKIRA, there's this scene where a girl gets crushed. Man. The 'nice' characters who get brutal deaths always get me. P.S. Off-topic, but the scene of Welles in TOUCH OF EVIL where he says, "What do I have? My little turkey ranch..." and his voice cracks. This is a guy who's been rushing toward oblivion since his wife died, the death that's behind so much of what he does and is hardly mentioned. “The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.” Joseph Priestley
blackbiped		#47	[-]
Mar 23 11 1:59 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Jonatwork wrote: Joe Pesci in CASINO Holy cats... This was such a total downer for me that I never had any interest at all in seeing CASINO again. When I watched THE LAST MILE as a kid, the scene where death row convict Mickey Rooney coldly executes a hostage who's begging for his life bothered me for a long time and made me hate Mickey Rooney. The worst, though, has to be EDEN LAKE. That movie has more than one disturbing death, but the powerful, hopelessly nightmarish ending left me in a state of genuine grief which lasted for at least a week or two. Legend, oh legend, the third wheel legend...always in the way. Porfle's Secret Blog HK and Cult Film News Andersonvision.com Last Edited By: blackbiped Mar 23 11 2:06 AM. Edited 1 times.
Uchujin65		#48	[-]
Mar 23 11 2:02 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	blackbiped wrote: Jonatwork wrote: Joe Pesci in CASINO Holy cats... This was such a total downer for me that I never had any interest at all in seeing CASINO again. Really? He was a monstrous human being and I thought he really and I mean really, got just what he deserved. jlcarrozza.com
blackbiped		#49	[-]
Mar 23 11 2:12 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Uchujin65 wrote: Really? He was a monstrous human being and I thought he really and I mean really, got just what he deserved. What makes it worse is the way his brother (it's his brother, right? I haven't seen it since it came out) is killed in front of him and dumped into the grave, and Pesci's character is dumped in on top of him. Then buried alive. Can't help but be disturbed by it. Legend, oh legend, the third wheel legend...always in the way. Porfle's Secret Blog HK and Cult Film News Andersonvision.com
Jonatwork		#50	[-]
Mar 23 11 2:46 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Uchujin65 wrote: Really? He was a monstrous human being and I thought he really and I mean really, got just what he deserved. Uchujin65, I was really struck by that death. I am disturbed by seeing a human being violently battered repeatedly by an aluminum baseball bat. I don't get a kick out of seeing anyone treated that way. That this was inspired by true events (and a great book) gives it that extra level of disturbance. The thread subject is about what disturbs you, and for me it seems it's the action that's disturbing. Movies to me are about experiencing someone else's experience second hand. In that moment I experienced the character's humanity. That he was a criminal doesn't make him less human. Some folks claim to be against all kinds of things, but it's okay when the 'right' people are victims of them. I don't agree. The character was a person, and throughout the movie we'd gotten to know him, and it was the nature of the situation that disturbed me--what a nightmare, you're with your trusted friends, and are painfully beaten, tossed into a grave with your brother, and then buried. I wasn't sitting there thinking "Good, glad you got your kneecaps busted painfully, you deserve it!" A lot of people probably think a lot of other people deserve something, and I guess that justifies their not being bothered by the pain and death inflicted, but to me, it was distrubing seeing someone in that position. “The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.” Joseph Priestley Last Edited By: Jonatwork Mar 23 11 3:17 AM. Edited 2 times.
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MikeTheMook		#51	[-]
Mar 23 11 5:56 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Mickey Rooney and William Holden at the end of BRIDGES AT TOKO-RI. Here are two major stars, Holden coldly and matter-of-factly gunned down at point-blank range, and Rooney killed by a grenade. No corny last words uttered, no fanfare. This must have stood out in it's day for being very unusual and disturbing, especially when audiences (myself included) MUST have been expecting a last minute rescue. Just remembered another one that made me cringe as a kid, from THE NAKED PREY. Don't remember the actor/character, but he's a friend of Cornel Wilde's, and he's caught by natives, encased in mud, and slow roasted over an open fire!!! You only see this briefly, but it disturbed me then, and still does now. Check out my NEW childrens story book! https://www.createspace.com/4065369 Please visit my online store at www.Cafepress.com/mwcoolpix for COOL photos and designs! Please visit my OTHER online store at www.Zazzle.com/mwimages for MORE cool stuff! Last Edited By: MikeTheMook Mar 23 11 6:06 AM. Edited 1 times.
DamienK		#52	[-]
Mar 23 11 9:20 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Kim Richards in John Carpenter's ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13. " I wanted vanilla twist".....her last words on earth One of my all time favorite films!
M F Berry		#53	[-]
Mar 23 11 11:22 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Oh yes, DamienK, how could I have failed to think of Kim's scene in Precinct 13 ... that really threw me for a loop. So senseless, and hideously, revoltingly casual ...
Jonatwork		#54	[-]
Mar 23 11 11:32 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	There are some movie deaths that disturb me in other ways--I'm less bugged by the character than I am by the director who wanted to show that. It's one of the things that turned me off from DePalma from THE FURY on--I found Cassavetes's death memorable in a Grand Guignol way, but it wasn't particularly disturbing. It did make me start to think about the director, and I haven't cared for any of his movies since. SISTERS, on the other hand, has a VERY disturbing death because the killing is so expected, during the presentation of a birthday cake. While what follows us gruelling and rather clever, it's also stupid--if I'd just been stabbed, the last thing I'd be doing is crawling to a window and writing on it with my blood. It was something that stuck with me and made me wonder about the director's mindset. “The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.” Joseph Priestley
Uchujin65		#55	[-]
Mar 23 11 11:36 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Jonatwork wrote: Uchujin65 wrote: Really? He was a monstrous human being and I thought he really and I mean really, got just what he deserved. Uchujin65, I was really struck by that death. I am disturbed by seeing a human being violently battered repeatedly by an aluminum baseball bat. I don't get a kick out of seeing anyone treated that way. That this was inspired by true events (and a great book) gives it that extra level of disturbance. The thread subject is about what disturbs you, and for me it seems it's the action that's disturbing. Movies to me are about experiencing someone else's experience second hand. In that moment I experienced the character's humanity. That he was a criminal doesn't make him less human. Some folks claim to be against all kinds of things, but it's okay when the 'right' people are victims of them. I don't agree. The character was a person, and throughout the movie we'd gotten to know him, and it was the nature of the situation that disturbed me--what a nightmare, you're with your trusted friends, and are painfully beaten, tossed into a grave with your brother, and then buried. I wasn't sitting there thinking "Good, glad you got your kneecaps busted painfully, you deserve it!" A lot of people probably think a lot of other people deserve something, and I guess that justifies their not being bothered by the pain and death inflicted, but to me, it was distrubing seeing someone in that position. I haven't seen the movie in about five years, I just remember thinking that. I was more immature back then though so maybe I'd think differently if I saw it now. This was a man who had committed horrible acts of torture for the mob and a myriad of other crimes so I have trouble feeling pity for him but I do agree that violence just breeds more of the same. The Sisters murder is quite good/disturbing, it looks so horribly painful. I think DePalma's most effective and disturbing death scene is the drill in Body Double (one of my personal favorites of his movies), poor Deborah Shelton! jlcarrozza.com Last Edited By: Uchujin65 Mar 23 11 11:39 AM. Edited 1 times.
Jonatwork		#56	[-]
Mar 23 11 11:49 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Uchujin65, Well, the thread's about disturbing deaths, not deaths of likable characters, ya know? I've long been annoyed at something Hollywood does, which David Foster Wallace once wrote about: the audience is goaded into hating the villains so any barbaric behavior shown by the vigilante no-trial executioners on the screen is 'deserved'. It's anti-dramatic, and the morality of it is kinda spooky. (See Harlan Ellison on how the audience reacted to the death of a GOOD character in THE OMEN.) I don't get pleasure at anyone being beaten to death on that disturbing' level--if I saw someone getting that kind of beat down, I wouldn't ask if he had it coming before I reacted. “The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.” Joseph Priestley Last Edited By: Jonatwork Mar 23 11 2:29 PM. Edited 1 times.
Grant		#57	[-]
Mar 23 11 12:00 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	MikeTheMook wrote: Mickey Rooney and William Holden at the end of BRIDGES AT TOKO-RI. Here are two major stars, Holden coldly and matter-of-factly gunned down at point-blank range, and Rooney killed by a grenade. No corny last words uttered, no fanfare. This must have stood out in it's day for being very unusual and disturbing, especially when audiences (myself included) MUST have been expecting a last minute rescue. There are also those very SIMPLE last words, like Steve McQueen in The Sand Pebbles - "What happened?"
blackbiped		#58	[-]
Mar 23 11 1:26 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	ALICE SWEET ALICE has some disturbing death scenes in it. Legend, oh legend, the third wheel legend...always in the way. Porfle's Secret Blog HK and Cult Film News Andersonvision.com
riotengine		#59	[-]
Mar 23 11 2:41 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	MikeTheMook wrote: Mickey Rooney and William Holden at the end of BRIDGES AT TOKO-RI. Here are two major stars, Holden coldly and matter-of-factly gunned down at point-blank range, and Rooney killed by a grenade. No corny last words uttered, no fanfare. This must have stood out in it's day for being very unusual and disturbing, especially when audiences (myself included) MUST have been expecting a last minute rescue. I was about to post on Bridges At Toko-Ri. As a kid in the 60s I saw the ending on TV one afternoon and was totally expecting the rescue to succeed, then things go horribly wrong. The rescue helicopter gets disabled, then Earl Holliman gets machine-gunned. It's made worse by the fact that Rooney and Holliman were the comic relief guys throughout the movie. That ending was most definitely burned into my young brain. GREG ESPINOZA I made it possible for you to come here! I welcomed you to this Earth, you made it a charnel house! http://www.comicspace.com/gregespinoza/ Last Edited By: riotengine Mar 23 11 5:19 PM. Edited 1 times.
Victor Frankenstein		#60	[-]
Mar 23 11 3:30 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	GEEZ LOUISE! How about the teeth-to-curb (death?) in American History X ???
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