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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I didn't see anyone else mention it, but the scene in King Kong where one of the guys is eaten alive by four or five giant worms, each one starting from a different limb (the last one swallowing his fucking head).

Doesn't matter that they were setting him up for you to root for him to die, it's still way too much for me.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Ohchr.org daily reports

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The Australian series Love My Way. Got to the end of series 1 and was so shattered I couldn't keep watching.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I can still taste that toothpaste

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Season 3, Episode 1 of The Office, and "The Gay Witch Hunt."

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Transistor (game). The Sopranos, after a couple seasons in a row.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Outer Worlds. Specifically when you have the conversation with Parvati in the bar about asexuality.

As someone who's generally not been sexually attracted to anyone but is masculine, I felt a connection in the dialogue that I've never really felt from any media before, ever.

"I've tripped up folks in the past. Folks I thought cared about me for me. People said I was Cold."

Man I've never felt representation like that. Sex to me is so strange and often gives me a disgusting vibe, though I won't deny it to my partner, its just not in my DNA I guess.

Anyways. Never finished that game. After that conversation, I lost most interest in any other dialogue in the game. Might go back at some point, but not yet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The ending to Station 11 (the miniseries) was so weepingly, heartwrenchingly beautiful. I could not stop thinking about it for weeks.

An really interesting show, would highly recommend. Actually thought it was much better than the book.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I was really surprised by the book (I read it after watching the series). It is rare that I feel a TV adaptation of a story is more engaging than the the book, but that was certainly my takeaway in this instance.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Grave of the Fireflies. I figured out what was in the tin and immediately turned it off, I was not willing to put myself through that and I'm still not. It makes me well up just thinking about it, and I haven't even watched it. Brutal.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I didn't stop but 1917 was very intense for me. I felt emotionally and physically drained after watching it in the cinema.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Public media everytime somewhere is a war.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago
  1. That was just so vividly depressing and anxiety inducing I couldn't go more than a few pages a week, and eventually I just stopped and read the summery instead.
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Not in the same league as most of the other responses but I cannot watch About a Boy. Yes the Hugh Grant film written by Richard Curtis. I’m not a big crier but that film is like a giant TEARS ON! Button for me.
I tried to watch it again last year as it’s one of my Wife’s faves and it was on already. I was in floods even before I’d sat down.
Something to do with the boy, his situation and the fact his only friends are adults kind of resonates with my childhood.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Platoon.

Made me feel sick

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I rewatched Once Upon A Time In America recently, didn't find it all that enthralling but it was ok. Kind of like I enjoyed it for being so against the grain, but one of the rape scenes made me turn it off. Really off putting, middle of the day I had it on too.

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