Movie/tv scenes that make you uncomfortable

[Soubriquet]

I don’t mean in horror or thriller or torture porn but I mean things that are supposed to be funny

Watching a film on Netflix called The Switch

A woman wants to have a baby by sperm donor, throws a getting pregnant party, and the best friend switches his sperm with the real donor.

Supposed to be a way of him covering up his accident of spilling said sperm but to me this just feels uncomfortable. The man made it clear from the start he doesn’t approve of her using a sperm donation and this is a way of him getting his “win”

[yourhairiswinterfire]

Rocky always bothered me but was a mainstay on TV due to my brother and father both loving the series.

I was coming to say Rocky too. The first kiss in the first film is awful.

Adrian is very shy, uncomfortable and says multiple times that she wants to leave, so Rocky blocks the door and traps her in the corner of the room with his arms to get her to stay and kiss him.

Not romantic at all.

[worried3012]

It's not meant to be funny so sorry for not picking a funny one but Fatal Attraction. I actually really like the film and seen it loads but it was only recently when I watched it that I realised my sympathy lay 98% (minus 2% for the bunny) with Glenn Close.

Like we were meant to be kinda on Michael Douglas side but really he was a complete arsehole to her and treated her like crap. Yes she was obviously very unstable but he was more of a villain in that then she was IMO.

For 'funny' uncomfortable movie or TV movements I'd say the obvious Benny Hills or Carry Ons but understand they were from a different era. Agree about Dirty Dancing being a bit creepy although I loved it growing up.

[EdgeOfACoin]

The 1950s version of A Christmas Carol. It's the bit where Scrooge has realised that he hasn't missed Christmas and will be a better man.

As part of his celebrations he seizes and pins his terrified maid to the stairs to kiss her. I think we're supposed to laugh at her discomfort because she doesn't understand what has happened to Scrooge.

That scene mars the whole film for me. It's not in the book, and fortunately the remakes have not seen fit to include a similar scene.

[DancelikeEmmaGoldman]

Pretty much all of Marilyn Monroe’s Bus Stop. He stalks her, kidnaps her, forces her to give up her job. I watched it once through my fingers when I was a teenager, but never again. It was supposed to be romantic comedy. 🙄

[SmokedDuck]

Oh, Weird Science was really quite awful. There was some other film from about the same time about a female vampire who only would stay young looking if she could drink the blood of a virgin, and there was only one adult make virgin in the town, a high school student. So she keeps after him. In the end he looses his virginity and the vampire i sout of luck. It was sooo weird and sexist.

I think at some level they were both supposed to be kind of sexist, that was part of the joke, that young men are such idiots. But they were still pretty cringey.

[EmbarrassingAdmissions]

I couldn't find Rita, Sue and Bob Too at all comedic.

I don't know if my reaction would have been different if I'd seen the films/TV when they were released but watching them now, they're so abhorrent it's hard to accept it was ever considered humorous.

Kathleen Turner's performance is probably good but I don't like Peggy Sue Got Married and the ending.

I don't care about the humour, variations on the film Sabrina or Gigi will never be OK.

[HearMeSnore]

Ah - but I've just realised you wanted scenes that were supposed to be funny.
Ignore me.
As you were.

[HearMeSnore]

Many, many scenes in Game Of Thrones. Too many to list... but having read the books it was at least consistent with the thoroughly dysfunctional and brutal world that GRRM created. However the one scene that sticks in my mind was Daenerys and Khal Drogo's wedding night. He assaulted her, and even in the context of the narrative there was no need for it. In the book that scene was totally different. He was gentle with her, and they up didn't DTD until she consented. It made the subsequent love story a bit more believable (as believable as it can be, when it was still about a young girl being sold in marriage to a notoriously brutal war lord).

[FrankButchersDickieBow]

16 candles is pretty shocking. Jock guy offers nerd guy his girlfriend, basically says he will get her off her tits on drugs, then nerd guy will be able to do what he wants with her. Sick.

Also 'Weird Science' showed up as a 12 on Netflix, so we watched it with 12yo dd and I obviously misremembered it, cos it was fucking gross, so so sexist. Dd was like 'why the hell would you think this was a good movie to watch.

It was disgusting.

[AcornAutumn]

@Biscuitsanddoombar

So many things in The Big Bang theory but my special 🙄🙄🙄 is reserved for the fact that throughout the show, Penny was one of the few mainstream female tv characters who was able to voice consistently that she didn’t want children (even though there were multiple scenes of Bernadette being a cow ti her about it) and then lo and behold in the final episode Leonard who really really did want children ‘forgot’ to use a condom and penny is pregnant. FFS on so many levels!!!!!

This.

[Zandathepanda]

...played for laughs

[Zandathepanda]

This Means War.
Really uncomfortable scenes of a group of men watching their colleague bedding a woman and recording it.

[Mygardenisnotperfect]

Pretty much all of Dirty Dancing. I remember telling my friends as a teenager back in the 1990s that it wasn’t romantic, it was creepy!! But I was on my own with that opinion at the time...

[Whatwouldscullydo]

Sorry just read uts meant to ve based in whats meant to be funny ( stupid ads making screens jumpy)

Although same kinda applies. There seem to be alot of lines kids seem to get in movies that are probably a bit iffy. There was one film can't remember the name of it but involved a family, at breakfast the parents were all " why didn't you come and get us " ( the parents had been "at it " ) and the kid replied " I didn't disturb you I wanted a brother or sister " u wouldn't expect a kid that young to come out with that .

[Whatwouldscullydo]

Any film based on true stories of abuse children. They always seem to way overstep the boundries to the point where filming must basically constitute child abuse too.

[Xanthangum]

Saturday Night Fever has some very dodgy bits. But also some great music.

[nocoolnamesleft]

Fantasy detective series Grimm. The protagonist is played as a hero, and the good guy. At one point he ends up imbued with extra speed/strength. He's out for a run, in the dark, in a relatively remote area, and realises he can run faster than his usual. There is a woman up ahead. He starts running faster, pounding along behind her. She speeds up, tried to speed up more, looking behind her, scared. He goes faster, she goes faster, then he overtakes. She looks terrified, then he's past her and gone. Presumably we're meant to think how silly she is for fearing our gallant hero. But actually it made me think the protagonist was a totally selfish prick. Stopped watching the series.

[Hibari]

Rocky always bothered me but was a mainstay on TV due to my brother and father both loving the series.

The "romance" in that movie is just.. yeah no.

[GingerBeverage]

Recently, I turned off The Wrong Missy (netflix) because the male protagonist wakes up on the plane with Missy's hand down his trousers.
I mean, she's sexually assaulting him and it's played for lols. Hard yuck on that, thanks Hollywood.

[BlowDryRat]

*kiss

[BlowDryRat]

Anything where there's a serious age gap between romantically-involved male and female leads. The Wolverine was just gross. Tao Okamoto looked like a teenager. The Spy Next Door is the same. Jackie Chan as Amber Valleto's boyfriend They get married at the end of the film and the kids is an 'ew, creepy old man' moment.

[Xanthangum]

This scene in Star Wars Empire Strikes Back.

[Leia struggles with a part on the Falcon. Han moves in to help, but is pushed away.]

Han Solo: Hey, Your Worship, I'm only trying to help.

Princess Leia Organa: Would you please stop calling me that?

Han Solo: Sure, Leia.

Princess Leia Organa: You make it so difficult sometimes.

Han Solo: I do, I really do. You could be a little nicer, though. Come on, admit it. Sometimes you think I'm alright.

Princess Leia Organa: Occasionally, maybe... when you aren't acting like a scoundrel.

Han Solo: Scoundrel? Scoundrel? I like the sound of that. [Grabs and rubs Leia's hand]

Princess Leia Organa: Stop that.

Han Solo: Stop what?

Princess Leia Organa: [timidly] Stop that! My hands are dirty.

Han Solo: My hands are dirty too. What are you afraid of?

Princess Leia Organa: Afraid?

Han Solo: You're trembling.

Princess Leia Organa: I'm not trembling.

Han Solo: [moving closer to Leia] You like me because I'm a scoundrel. There aren't enough scoundrels in your life.

Princess Leia Organa: I happen to like nice men.

Han Solo: [moving closer still] I'm a nice man.

Princess Leia Organa: No you're not. You're—

[Han begins to kiss Leia]

C-3PO: [interrupting] Sir! Sir! I've isolated the reverse power flux coupling!

Han Solo: [annoyed] Thank you! Thank you very much!

C-3PO: Oh, you're perfectly welcome, sir.

[Leia walks away.]

[SmokedDuck]

Too many of the romcoms that humorously included the woman being spanked for some transgression or other.

Oh, they did this in Outlander, and it just didn't work, it was pretending to be about a cultural clash but was too obviously about a little sexy interlude. Maybe it worked in the books I guess but they just shouldn't have done it in the show.

[SmokedDuck]

Thinking of ones with kids, there was an Idris Elba show called Turn It Up Charlie that I enjoyed at the beginning, but made me more and more uncomfortable toward the end. The parents in the show were supposed to be kind of neglecting their child, that was the set-up, and the Idris Elba character befriends her. So that didn't bother me so much.

But as it went on, it really seemed increasingly like she was just being left to fend for herself in these rather questionable situations, while everyone else pursued their careers or had sex and got high. There was an element of the "precocious child" where I think the viewer was supposed to see her as becoming more resilient and adult and think this was good, but I just kept thinking how screwed up she would be.

I don't usually find things that are either meant to be serious and bad, like an assault, that uncomfortable as such. Though there are some exceptions, the movie The Sweet Hereafter for example really bothered me enough that I couldn't ever watch it again though it's a very good film. In the story, you discover in the beginning that the father is having an incestuous relationship with his teenage daughter. Shortly after there is a terrible school bus accident and several children are killed, and the daughter becomes paralysed from the waist down. The main part of the story involves a lawyer who comes to the rural area to convince the parents to sue - he's especially interested in the daughter as they can claim a lot of damages for her care. Her parents are keen, but while it's never mentioned openly a huge part of the drama is that the father can barely look at the daughter any more and retreats into being fatherly and pretends as if nothing had been going on, and she is furiously angry.

Stupid comedies I generally can't take the premises seriously and I don't think the audience is meant to. It's just a set up for what happens afterwards. They don't make me uncomfortable but I also don't find them funny.

[TeenMinusTests]

I will not have a word said against The Big Bang Theory.