I also thought Enough Said was both great, and pretty absent some big Trailer Moment, which is kind of what I liked about it.
Gunn: You ready? Fred: Is no an acceptable answer?
'Lineage'
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erikaj - Jun 16, 2014 8:54:09 am PDT #27091 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 16, 2014 9:01:58 am PDT #27092 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Where the Read Fern Grows was my big childhood introduction to animal death-based trauma. Not the best choice for my four-year-old self's first movie at the theaters.
The only Disney animated film I recall being bothered by as a kid was Peter Pan, when the alligator was trying to eat Captain Hook. And that sequence is still pretty disturbing to this day.
Sophia Brooks - Jun 16, 2014 9:02:36 am PDT #27093 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I was really scared of the big black dragon in Sleeping Beauty.
Dana - Jun 16, 2014 9:04:08 am PDT #27094 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Dumbo.
Beverly - Jun 16, 2014 9:05:00 am PDT #27095 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Singing flowers in Alice in Wonderland. I was three, my mom had to take me out of the theater, and I had nightmares about being chased by people-sized singing flowers for a long time after.
Sue - Jun 16, 2014 9:16:27 am PDT #27096 of 30000
hip deep in pie
I always cried at animal deaths, but I was never traumatized by them. But when I was around 7 or 8, I watched a movie w. my brother called The Odessa File, about the Nazis operating in modern day that gave me lifelong nightmares.
Fred Pete - Jun 16, 2014 9:54:15 am PDT #27097 of 30000
Ann, that's a ferret.
My first movie in a theater was Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, when I was about 5. I remember the Child Catchers as slightly disturbing then, more disturbing when I watched it again a few years ago. But not as disturbing as the idea of naming a character Truly Scrumptious.
billytea - Jun 16, 2014 12:36:02 pm PDT #27098 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Meanwhile, Ryan's traumatic Disney moment is: when Lightning McQueen was chased by the police car. He has quite the bar for trauma.
Juliebird - Jun 16, 2014 1:47:54 pm PDT #27099 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
I always cried at animal deaths, but I was never traumatized by them
Likewise. I read Where The Red Fern Grows in fifth grade, and was just finishing it at the beginning of first period and was sobbing. But it was just sadness, not trauma.
I think the closest a movie got me to traumatized was The Crow, and that was a fairly deep depression that lasted a couple of days. No particular scene, just the whole experience of viewing it.
Trauma-inducing viewings that included fear of what was in my house trying to kill me was a documentary on Easter Island and the cannibals: highschool.
Unable to sleep as a kid (five years old): Friday Night Frights or something like that.
Dark Crystal: as a middle schooler I'd laugh delightedly at my aunt's discomfort and revel in its creepiness.
Jessica - Jun 16, 2014 2:43:24 pm PDT #27100 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The two movies that scared the shit out of me as a kid were The Last Unicorn and Ghostbusters 2. (And yes, by the time Ghostbusters 2 came out I was way too old to be that freaked out by a movie, but the scene where the pink goo comes out of the bathtub and reaches for the baby stayed with me for YEARS.)
So far the only movie Dylan has reacted to that way was Brave, but I wouldn't say he was traumatized by it, because he has no memory of being terrified and spending 80% of the movie on Ethan's lap. That said, it's going to be a while before he gets to see Spirited Away.
I love Dark Crystal. Is it on Netflix? Can I watch it right now? [Damnit, no. Several digital rental options, but no free streaming.]