getting queasier as one gets older.

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i know i am. lately have actually experienced turning my head
away from the tv, watching thru fingers etc. i used to
take pride in watching everything i could that was horror/
bloody, nasty etc. mainly it's because you're banned/not allowed
stuff as a kid. hitting about 25, i suddenly discovered that
i couldn't stomach even schindler's list.
also i really wanted to see 'salo' from age 15 onwards, but it
sits in HMV's shelf unwatched to this day. can't face it.

that fat girls/feeders thing has confirmed all this.

― piscesboy, Saturday, 29 March 2003 12:38 (twenty-three years ago)

I used to think grown ups were making it up about fairground rides making them feel sick and then I realised they weren't in Sheffield, 1996.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 29 March 2003 13:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, I got sick on a carnival ride this year for the first time in my life (granted I had just eaten a lot of sag paneer and I was going round and round and round). Oh, and I also cried during Autumn in NY (I could live on crappy movies). Whadafuk is that all about? I watch the surgery channel and try to make my boyfriend accidentally open files from rotten.com. I have no clue.

― Carey (Carey), Saturday, 29 March 2003 14:21 (twenty-three years ago)

I watched a Japanese film called "the Audition" the other day. My favorite part is when the psychotic new girlfriend saws off the main character's feet with a razor-sharp piano wire. Oh, he also has six-inch pins in his eyes. That bondage stuff is so hot right now.

― tiiiiiiiiiim (tiiiiiiiiiim), Saturday, 29 March 2003 15:13 (twenty-three years ago)

mmmmmmmm then she throws up in a bowl and he eats it
is that the same film ?

― piscesboy, Saturday, 29 March 2003 15:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Audition is a truly horrific film. I didn't feel sick or anything but there was a general air of disbelief going around the cinema.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 29 March 2003 15:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, I was watching parts of the big final scene between my fingers - it's the only film where I've felt like that.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 29 March 2003 15:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Is it that you've got more to lose? What with home ownership, 401K etc.

I can do a couple roller coaster rides but thats about it. I can sometimes even feel a bit of motion when I take a nap after a bike race (if its a criterium).

― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Saturday, 29 March 2003 17:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Films, among other things, offer vicarious experience. Young proto-adults are especially hungry for experiences that they were protected from as children, as a way of discovering what they were missing, testing their mettle and asserting their new adulthood. Horrific films offer a fairly painless way of wading into those waters.

Later, when adults have forged much deeper into life, they begin to have painful, personal referents for some of the simulated pain in films. When you wonder what it feels like, it's different than when you know.

― Aimless, Saturday, 29 March 2003 18:14 (twenty-three years ago)

I haven't had my feet cut off (I know my legs are short, but that isn't the reason) or had six inch pins stuck in my eyes.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 29 March 2003 18:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Ooo that sawing.

Kitty Kitty!

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 29 March 2003 19:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Aha, I suppose that's why Welcome to the Dollhouse becomes less powerful the older I get.

― Wintermute (Wintermute), Saturday, 29 March 2003 20:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Every time I watch Dead Alive I have Thanksgiving flashbacks, it's v. uncomfortable

― Millar (Millar), Saturday, 29 March 2003 22:07 (twenty-three years ago)

I saw "The Rules of Attraction" recently. There is a scene during which a character slits her wrists in the bathtub. It isn't very explicit, but there is a close-up shot of a razor pricking her wrist; when I saw a drop of blood swell up, my stomach completely turned sour. After that part there is no other shots of blood, but rather about 5 minutes just focusing on this girl's face as she bleeds to death. I've never felt so queasy and ill from a film before this one.

― Mandee, Saturday, 29 March 2003 22:31 (twenty-three years ago)

The DVD has a commentary track by Carrot Top. It's the best thing about the film.

― Millar (Millar), Saturday, 29 March 2003 22:47 (twenty-three years ago)

When I was a kid I was totally squeamish about all the "gross" things kids are supposed to love. I'm pretty jaded now but I'd still find it easier to sit through almost any violent movie than a single episode of Fear Factor.

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 30 March 2003 08:24 (twenty-three years ago)

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