The 4 Most Uncomfortable Movies to Watch With Your Family
Back in high school I had a female friend whose parents had a descrambler, which was a blessing and a curse. Because of the little black box I was able to see the Howard Stern New Years Eve special, which back then was a major moment in my young life. However, it also led to some really uncomfortable situations because my friends father would constantly watch porn.
I would be hanging out with his daughter then walk out in the living room to leave and go home and he would be sitting there watching a girl get plowed. Now there is nothing wrong with porn, but at that age it was utterly uncomfortable because he would start having a conversation with me and I wasn’t sure if I was supposed to look at him, the tv, or at the wall. It was just really odd…
A couple of days ago my friend and I brought this up and talked about it, cracking some jokes. It got me thinking about what movies would be the most uncomfortable to watch with your extended family, be it parents, your significant others parents, children, or whatever…
The 4 Most Uncomfortable Movies to Watch With Your Family
4) Natural Born Killers
I have never gone to a movie and left the end of it not knowing what the hell I just watched. When I saw this movie in the theater I couldn’t tell if I liked it or hated it, my friend Heather who I saw it with, had the facial expression of someone that just watched their dog get hit by a car over and over again.
While the over the top violence has lost some of the edge it had when the movie first came out it still is slightly disturbing to watch. Bonus uncomfortable points if you sit through the Rodney Dangerfield scene with your daughter.
3) Caligula
Anytime the head of Penthouse Magazine helps finance a film you know that it isn’t going to be something that is exactly family friendly. This movie was supposed to be a grand telling of the story of the Roman leader Caligula but instead turned into a political and sexual nightmare. The movie was plagued by shooting problems, and Roger Ebert lists it as one of his least favorite movies ever. He dropped this gem about the movie, “This movie,” said the lady in front of me at the drinking fountain,”is the worst piece of shit I have ever seen.”
In the unrated version, which was also it’s most profitable, there were scenes that depicted anal fisting, sibling incest, urination, and castration. I am sure Malcolm McDowell, Peter O’Toole, and Helen Mirren list this high up on their resumes, this is without a doubt Christmas time viewing material for when the entire family is around.
2) Spanking the Monkey
I am sure nobody has watched this movie that is reading this blog, to sum it up… Boy comes home from college for summer, boy loses internship and girlfriend, his mother breaks her leg, boy takes care of mother, then boy has an incestuous relationship with mother.
My friend’s mother used to rent just about every new release that came out no matter what it was. When this came out my friend and her watched it together, not knowing what the movie was about before hand, which was the most excruciating moment of his life. I stopped by their house before a summer baseball game to pick him up after they had just finished watching it. Walking into the house, I felt like someone had just died because it was so quiet, I asked my friend what was going on and he told me they had just finished watching a movie.
Me: What movie did you guys watch?
Friend: Spanking the Monkey.
Me: Uh, never heard of it, what is that about?
Friend: (looks over at his mother then quickly moves his eyes to the floor) Um… I’ll tell you in the car…
Of course he told me the story and I couldn’t stop laughing, we got to the game and as we begun to stretch we all started talking. I of course had to say, “Hey tell them about the movie you just watched.” He didn’t hear the end of it the entire summer.
1) Crash
I am not talking about the movie that won the Oscar, dealing with racial tension in the Los Angeles area. No I am talking about the other Crash, here is a plot summary from IMDB.com:
Since a road accident left him with serious facial and bodily scarring,
a former ‘TV scientist’ has become obsessed by the marriage of motor
car technology with what he sees as the ‘raw sexuality’ of car-crash
victims. The scientist, along with a crash victim he has recently
befriended, sets about performing a series of sexual acts in a variety
of motor vehicles, either with other crash victims or with prostitutes
who they contort into the shape of trapped-corpses. Ultimately, the
scientist craves a suicidal union of blood, semen and engine coolant, a
union with which he becomes dangerously obsessed.
This film ended up with an NC-17 rating and rightfully so, with scenes that some would label as disturbing. It is like a combination of Red Asphalt and uh… some movie where people get turned on by touching scars of people that had auto accidents.
I know when I watched it I wasn’t sure if I should scrub myself with bleach or look for hot, blonde, car crash victims that were into kinky sex.
What movie have you found uncomfortable to watch with family?
On 07/2/07 at 5:50 am
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NBK was a waste of film. I agree with your view of Crash - it was just way to creepy.\par
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The most awkward movie scene I ever saw with a family member was when my Grandmother decided to sit and watch a movie with us kids. It was When Harry met Sally and yep the scene was in the Deli. Pretty tame except for her - she was in church everythime the door s were open. Hell I think the pastor came to her for advice on sermons. I wanted to crwal under the house and die. My cousins all said the sme thing. and we were all in our twenties
On 07/2/07 at 5:58 am
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Scary Movie was an uncomfortable moment with Mom in the movie theatres. We thought it would be like Airplane…it was more like Airplane if Howard Stern directed it.\par
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Then there’s Problem Child. I don’t think a grown adult can sit through that movie…
On 07/2/07 at 6:01 am
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I can’t believe that I’ve watched two of them on your list (Natural Born Killers and Crash), LOL! And Crash had to be the most distrubing movies that I’ve ever seen!
On 07/2/07 at 6:02 am
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[quote comment="2463"]NBK was a waste of film. I agree with your view of Crash - it was just way to creepy.\par
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I had to watch NBK for one of my classes this semester. I believe Oliver Stone might be the most overrated director in the last fifty years. \par
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Yeah anything with an orgasm in general is bad to watch around grandma.
On 07/2/07 at 6:04 am
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[quote comment="2464"]Scary Movie was an uncomfortable moment with Mom in the movie theatres. We thought it would be like Airplane…it was more like Airplane if Howard Stern directed it.\par
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Then there’s Problem Child. I don’t think a grown adult can sit through that movie…[/quote]\par
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I hope one day to resurrect the Problem Child franchise
On 07/2/07 at 6:06 am
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[quote comment="2465"]I can’t believe that I’ve watched two of them on your list (Natural Born Killers and Crash), LOL! And Crash had to be the most distrubing movies that I’ve ever seen![/quote]\par
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I really think it might be an elaborate joke that we just weren’t let in on.
On 07/2/07 at 6:07 am
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Uhhhhh, you watch some seriously twisted shit.
On 07/2/07 at 6:08 am
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I rented the movie The Game once with Michael Douglas a long time ago when the movie was relatively new and I still lived with my parents. I was watching it on the couch with my then boyfriend and everything was fine until my Dad came into the room right as they are cutting to a blurry video in the movie of someone having sex with a hooker and lines of coke everywhere in the hotel room. Since he hadn’t seen anything prior it just ended up being a very awkward scene to walk in on.
On 07/2/07 at 6:16 am
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If we’re keeping along the lines of mainstream cinema, Nicolas Cage’s 8MM is pretty out there. It’s an entire film revolving around a supposed snuff video, in which Cage and Joaquin Phoenix go around and verify its authenticity. Throughout the film, you pretty much see the bottom of the barrel, or at least what Joel Schumacher thought was the bottom of the barrel in 1999.
On 07/2/07 at 6:24 am
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I’ve seen all of those movies.\par
But none of them with my parents.\par
I believe that both “Crash” and “Spanking the monkey” are made by Canadian directors, I KNOW “Crash” is, it’s a David Cronenberg movie. He’s a sick fuck. ALL his movies have a creepy edge to them. Try out “Dead Ringers” for shits and giggles, although it may not make you as uncomfortable as it did me, you’ve never had to visit a gynecologist.
On 07/2/07 at 6:33 am
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How about anything with Pauly Shore, I’m sure there’s a separate ratings system for his movies.
On 07/2/07 at 6:34 am
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[quote comment="2472"]How screwed am I?\par
I’ve seen all of those movies.\par
But none of them with my parents.\par
I believe that both “Crash” and “Spanking the monkey” are made by Canadian directors, I KNOW “Crash” is, it’s a David Cronenberg movie. He’s a sick fuck. ALL his movies have a creepy edge to them. Try out “Dead Ringers” for shits and giggles, although it may not make you as uncomfortable as it did me, you’ve never had to visit a gynecologist.[/quote]\par
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How about his acting tour de force in Nightbreed?
On 07/2/07 at 6:50 am
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The American Pie movies… unrated versions. I watched these with my mom when I was in high school because she was really into them. But she kept asking me if that’s what the people I went to school with were like.
On 07/2/07 at 6:51 am
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crash is uncomfortable to watch period. humping someone in a sewn up scar area….i can’t believe i watched it. yes i can.
On 07/2/07 at 6:55 am
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Well what the hell, I’ve been sitting here bored at work, waiting for my little email to let me know you posted. So I take my lazy ass to your website and you already have. This sure isn’t myspace with instant notification, but I’m way more addicted.
On 07/2/07 at 7:39 am
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Spanking the Monkey was terrible - I can’t express how bad it was using only words. And to watch it with your own mother might actually be damaging.\par
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Now crash on the other hand, there is a film! Who doesn’t want to fuck in a car while it crashes into a bus and bursts into flames? \par
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And as for uncomfortable with the folks, how about “Shortbus”. I was uncomfortable just watching it alone.
On 07/2/07 at 8:02 am
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I have never seen or even would think any of those movies exsisted.\par
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The only one i actually heard of is natural born killers but still havent watched it. Its probably a really really good thing i havent.
On 07/2/07 at 8:14 am
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Any film with sex scenes makes me really uncomfortable around my dad as I am the baby and also of course a virgin! Lucky for me he usually watches pretentious crappy french movies, they have a lot of kinda sex scenes but I don’t have to watch the crap with him at least… as I am the baby and can get out of most situations without explanation.\par
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Now time to shave the legs and prepare to pick up my myspace man… are you on your way or what?
On 07/2/07 at 8:45 am
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Wow. Somebody else knows Caligula. That is one twisted movie. I watched that a few years back after a night of partying. It was so twisted, but we just couldn’t turn it off.
On 07/2/07 at 8:56 am
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Gee….I feel out of place here..I haven’t seen any of these movies but thanks for the heads up on what not to watch=]
On 07/2/07 at 9:23 am
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I did see “Spanking the Monkey” and I’m still waiting for the sequel. “Deliverance” is also a tough one to sit through with grandma.
On 07/2/07 at 10:46 am
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I had a hard time watching Wedding Crashers with my mom. Watching a man get jerked off under the dining room table next to her was less than comfortable. Had I seen these others? Well I can only imagine the outcome.\par
However, sometimes I catch myself watching the family fare of HBO’s Real Sex or the hooker documentaries with the folks… Hmmm. That’s weird.
On 07/2/07 at 11:01 am
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I could not watch this movie called “Harry and Max” with my family. \par
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Um it’s pretty disturbing, and I was gagging the entire time
On 07/2/07 at 12:16 pm
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Definitely “Snow White” ya know, the Disney one. My dad’s all, “That witch is demonized. This cartoon is from Satan.”
On 07/2/07 at 12:21 pm
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Indeed, Spanking The Monkey is NOT a movie that you want to watch with your family. That movie is best watched alone in a very dark room.
On 07/2/07 at 1:11 pm
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I’ve watched all of these, and I’d say that Crash is the most disturbing….Spanking the Monkey I watched when I was much younger, I don’t know if I even knew what was going on at the time…..I think a better choice for first though would have been “Happiness” …..if you know that movie, you’ll remember that it’s about a psychiatrist who molests children, and it’s a comedy….
On 07/2/07 at 2:13 pm
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You forgot Team America: World Police…the sex scene with the golden shower and such…yeah, pretty weird with your folks!
On 07/2/07 at 2:13 pm
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I was never censored as a child…so I pretty much got to watch everything with the occasional “cover your eyes for this”. Well…how uncomfortable do you think it was when me, my dad and MY GRANDPARENTS got that lovely surprise in “The Crying Game” \par
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I never watched another R-rated movie with them again.
On 07/2/07 at 3:54 pm
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My Mum (then in her 70s) rented Blue Velvet thinking it was National Velvet, but fortunately I wasn’t around. I never did find out if her and my stepdad actually sat through it waiting for Liz Taylor on horseback.
On 07/2/07 at 4:20 pm
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[quote comment="2498"]I think a better choice for first though would have been “Happiness” …..if you know that movie, you’ll remember that it’s about a psychiatrist who molests children, and it’s a comedy….[/quote]\par
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Oh good call… I totally forgot about that movie.
On 07/2/07 at 4:21 pm
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whatever you do…don’t watch the movie roots with black people. not even if they are half black..that other half of them will hate you if you’re white that is.
On 07/2/07 at 4:21 pm
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[quote comment="2502"]You forgot Team America: World Police…the sex scene with the golden shower and such…yeah, pretty weird with your folks! :)[/quote]\par
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Golden showers bring families together
On 07/2/07 at 4:22 pm
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[quote comment="2494"]I could not watch this movie called “Harry and Max” with my family.\par
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Plot Outline:Two brothers, 23 and 16, who are both teen idols, come to terms with their dysfunctional family past and deep affection for each other\par
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Um it’s pretty disturbing, and I was gagging the entire time[/quote]\par
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Thanks I just vomited
On 07/2/07 at 4:23 pm
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[quote comment="2493"]I had a hard time watching Wedding Crashers with my mom. Watching a man get jerked off under the dining room table next to her was less than comfortable. Had I seen these others? Well I can only imagine the outcome.\par
However, sometimes I catch myself watching the family fare of HBO’s Real Sex or the hooker documentaries with the folks… Hmmm. That’s weird.[/quote]\par
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I have a deep love for the hooker documentaries.
On 07/2/07 at 4:25 pm
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[quote comment="2488"]I did see “Spanking the Monkey” and I’m still waiting for the sequel. “Deliverance” is also a tough one to sit through with grandma.[/quote]\par
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good call on Deliverance… and what would the sequel be titled?
On 07/2/07 at 4:25 pm
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Now time to shave the legs and prepare to pick up my myspace man… are you on your way or what?[/quote]\par
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Be right there
On 07/2/07 at 4:27 pm
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[quote comment="2471"]If we’re keeping along the lines of mainstream cinema, Nicolas Cage’s 8MM is pretty out there. It’s an entire film revolving around a supposed snuff video, in which Cage and Joaquin Phoenix go around and verify its authenticity. Throughout the film, you pretty much see the bottom of the barrel, or at least what Joel Schumacher thought was the bottom of the barrel in 1999.[/quote]\par
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Movies about snuff films aren’t family viewing? Well there goes THAT Disney script.
On 07/2/07 at 4:34 pm
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I have seen all 4 films.\par
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I’m surprised that you’ve seen “Crash” which was crazy, and steamy at the same time.\par
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My dad took me to see “natural born killers” when I was 8 years old.\par
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It didn’t phase me. \par
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My mom freaked out. \par
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Now a days, nothing shocks me.
On 07/2/07 at 4:55 pm
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I just added all four movies to my Netflix.\par
If its weird or creepy I have to see it. I expect to be completely grossed out and sick to my stomach after watching these films at night. Yet how could I not rent them! Thanks … haha
On 07/2/07 at 4:58 pm
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Exhumed and Eager is one of my favourites although, not intended for some younger viewers.
On 07/2/07 at 5:16 pm
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Never seen your 4 movies. :-(\par
The ONLY movie I’ve ever seen with my Mom that comes close was in 1978! I was in 7th grade, and Grease was out in the theatres. The backseat/condom part, and the autoshop dance when Zuko rubbed Saran wrap on his weiner area pretty much mortified me, although I barely really knew what it all really meant. All I know is that I looked at my Mom and she was no longer smiling. \par
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No that I have my own teenaged kids, I can watch pretty much whatever (even Chappelle, some of it), and even if I did try and explain something I thought they might not get, they would shoot me down and tell me “Mom we don’t have to know”.\par
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Is that bad?? Is anthrax bad?
On 07/2/07 at 5:52 pm
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I don’t know why anyone would watch a movie called “Spanking the Monkey” with their mom. I would say any title with the word “Spanking” in it would not be mother-friendly.
On 07/2/07 at 6:07 pm
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[quote comment="2515"][quote comment="2488"]I did see “Spanking the Monkey” and I’m still waiting for the sequel. “Deliverance” is also a tough one to sit through with grandma.[/quote]\par
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I think it would be a Prequel. Something like, “Thus Spank Zarathustra”. Now if you’ll excuse us, me and Mom are going to watch that delightful Mr. Brando in “Last Tango in Paris”. Please pass the butter.
On 07/2/07 at 6:22 pm
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BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN WITH YOUR PARENTS
On 07/2/07 at 6:44 pm
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Haha.. I watched Spanking the Monkey with my sister about a year or so ago. I remember laughing a lot, but we’re a little disturbed.
On 07/2/07 at 9:15 pm
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Just so you know….I will be buying ALL of these movies…
On 07/2/07 at 11:23 pm
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Anything with sex makes me uncomfortable to watch with my parents.\par
The last really uncomfortable moment I can remember is when I was watching A History of Violence with my dad. And, yeah after this scene….I just walked out of the room and didn’t finish watching the movie. (Which is upsetting because I was actually into the film!)\par
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I also watched Breakfast Club with my Grandma, who’s the “church woman/no cursing/no anything because you will rot in hell” kind of person. And Breakfast Club is like…nothing, but all the swearing around her it was quite uncomfortable.
On 07/3/07 at 8:28 am
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OMG… Crash! That’s the name of that movie. I actually saw that on TV a while back. I only saw part of it. It was on LATE at night (big surprise there) and I actually fell asleep during that movie. \par
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Oh, and ironically enough, I did go see NBK with my family. Well, my brother and Dad. I had the same reaction as your friend and the dog.
On 07/3/07 at 8:44 am
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Okay, I don’t know who that is that’s next to me, but I can guarantee you it isn’t me. For one, I’m not a white man. And B, I’ve never uploaded an avatar for this blog. I just tried and it’s all screwy so I said forget it. Argh!
On 07/3/07 at 6:49 pm
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Pink Flamingos is definitely NOT a family film, but it’s a fucking classic. Chicken fucking, gaping assholes, and Devine?!! John Waters hit the trifecta there.\par
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Caligula was pretty awesome. I watched it alone. I have since recommended it to about everyone I know.\par
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The Forbidden Zone would be one I’d be reluctant to watch with family members, even though I usually laugh my ass off throughout it.
On 07/4/07 at 9:48 am
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i wanted to see borat because all my friends we’re raving about it. i rented it and my parents decided to watch it with me. when it got to the naked fighting scene, my dad actually turned off the movie. i still haven’t seen the end.
On 07/4/07 at 2:07 pm
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I watched Spanking the Monkey with my mom, stepdad and stepbrother. I think we were all contemplating suicide by the time it was done. Seriously the most horrifying experience ever.
On 07/6/07 at 1:28 pm
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The Brown Bunny…
On 07/6/07 at 1:30 pm
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The Brown Bunny… Chloe Sevigney’s Bj of Vincent Gallo is a masterpiece
On 07/6/07 at 4:00 pm
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Oh… good call
On 07/6/07 at 10:01 pm
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The Ballad of Jack and Rose is not a movie to watch with your father. There is some weird incest stuff in it, with other sex scenes thrown it. It’s just…awkward.
On 09/13/07 at 9:17 am
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Very Bad Things! \par
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Watched it with my parents and fiance’
On 12/31/07 at 4:36 pm
Beth said:
Boxing Helena was pretty weird to watch with the Family..that was a long time ago..lol…And..Oh, American Gothic…that was also another.
On 01/4/08 at 4:35 pm
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I would definitely NOT recommend “The Last House on the Left” and/or “The Island of Death” (if that’s the name of it.) It doesn’t get much better than sibling sex with a little murder, goat fucking, and being raped by a goat herder that can’t speak English.
On 01/7/08 at 5:25 pm
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“Happiness”… by far one of the hardest movies to watch. Also, “Rules of Attraction”… just the beginning scene alone when Shannyon Shassomon’s character is being raped and then thrown up on. And “Your Friends And Neighbors”… that whole scene with Jason Patric talking about raping that guy is hella disturbing.
On 01/30/08 at 12:49 pm
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Funny story…I was looking around the local porn store and guess what I find? Caligula. NATURALLY, I have to watch it. NEVER AGAIN. immensly horrible. As creepy as this is to say, the only time I found myself paying attention was during the “sex” scenes. I did however HAVE to look away when Caligula decided to anal fist a man with some lard that was handy. On the other hand, I also watched Natural Born Killers. I thought it was a great movie. Maybe a little misguided, but nonetheless, it was a messed up Love Story. I thought it was a different twist to even the movies today. I enjoyed this one. I need to see the other two. just for “seeing it’s” sake.