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One of the worst beating scenes I've ever seen!!

posted 11 years ago by rubblebubblecake
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The more I watch this movie, the more I enjoy it. However, the ending is just too brutal for me. When it gets to that point, I have turn away. This has to be one of the most graphic, intense beating scenes I have watched. Not that I want to see it, but is there another scene from any other movie that's more brutal than this?? I can't imagine anything being worse than this beating.

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[–] stewie-3 11 years ago

SPOILERS (for several films) to follow:

There are only a handful of scenes I can think of off the top of my head that come close to the beating Nicky and his brother take in Casino. It's not just the level of violence, it's the fact that the scene feels like it's never going to end. The scenes between Tommy (Pesci) and Billy Batts in Goodfellas are just as graphic, if not more so, but they are over with in short order.

Anyway, here would be my short list:

-The whipping scenes in High Plains Drifter, especially the one flashback of the Marshal's murder (another scene that feels like it's never going to stop).

-Ray Liotta's beating in Killing Them Softly.

-The beating/murder of Bobby Kent in the 2001 film Bully (based on a true story, btw). Not as intense as the Casino scene, but brutal because you have a bunch of teens turning amateur murderer. In a way, that bothered me more than the "professional" killings doled out by mobsters.

Two I haven't seen, but have heard are really awful: The beating/rape scene in Irreversible (I heard it lasts almost ten minutes, with no cutaways), and the beatdown Ryan Gosling delivers to some guy in Drive.

[–] oos_005s 11 years ago

Honestly, I didn't find that scene to be that disturbing... I've seen worse. I found the head in the vice scene more difficult to stomach.
The cornfield scene was brutal, but not that gory.

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[–] cabal24 11 years ago

The rape scene in Irreversible is indeed much worse for me than this one. Casino was definitely brutal but these aren't the best of guys. Still somewhat difficult to watch.

I have the rape in Irreversible and the rape scene in Clockwork Orange as two I found most difficult. Maybe its because its a rape or maybe Im less affected about violence towards men than against women.

However the first time I saw Reservoir Dogs that got to me too. So Im not really sure what my trigger is.

[–] fairy_depp 11 years ago

There are a few really horrible scenes in this film which stuck with me since I last saw the film about 10 years ago until I watched it again today.. The scene where Nicky stabs the man in the neck with a pen, the head in the vice scene and the end where Nicky and his brother are beaten with the baseball bats (I think his brothers beating was much worse than his and to see the lifeless body is horrible).

For me I think some scenes in Django Unchained were awful.. The scene where they set the dogs on one of the slaves and with the Mandingos.

[–] z-stripes81 11 years ago

A Serbian film and the august underground movies are much much worse. 120 days of sodom also is terribly brutal.

[–] KBrown29 10 years ago

Good Lord man! Don't unleash Salo on these poor people

[–] manage-932-700755 10 years ago

I haven't seen anything like this. But a couple that I recall approached this.

1. In "Sugartime", the bio of Sam Giancana, or more accurately the story of Sam's relationship wiht Phyllis McGuire, we see part of a scene where Sam's henchmen beat a guy viciously wiht a baseball bat while he is tied up.

2. In the 1966 filem "Naked Pray," directed, produced and acted in by Cornel Wilde, we see a scene where a white hunter is roasted alive by being bent over a bar over a fire where the bar goes round and round while the guy is roasted.

[–] Strangerhand 10 years ago

See, if you can, the "hobbling" scene in Rob Reiner's Misery [1990], based upon the Stephen King novel.

Holy Mother of God! To say Poor James Caan doesn't begin to say it! I usually can't watch the horror of it, often turning my gaze away, but the sounds of the scene are no better.

[–] MisterE (733) 7 years ago

When I saw "Misery", I was recovering from a car wreck where I crushed one foot, broke the ankle on the other leg, and spent 3 months in a wheel chair. That scene was painful to watch!

[–] SlickySlixta 10 years ago

The beating scene in 'Wonderland' (2003) made me feel a little queasy.

[–] GravityCakes 10 years ago

Yeah, that was intense, and based on the true murders and murder scene. Those murders were horrendous and really never solved. I have to say that Jodie Foster's rape scene in The Accused is pretty brutal (my wife can't watch it -- she just cries when Foster runs screaming out of the bar after being publicly gang-raped while other patrons choose to ignore what they are seeing). On that front, the rape scene with Hillary Swank in Boys Don't Cry is truly brutal but very realistic, based on the tragic true story, without any "Hollywood-dizing" of the event. Peter Saarsgard does a fantastic job as the petty, vicious criminal who brutally raped Brandon Teena and then later murdered her after she reported the rape. (Brandon was born genetically female but lived as a boy and was attracted to girls sexually). All based on the true story as well -- the police treatment of Brandon Teena was horrible as well, asking her unbelievably crude questions about (among other things) whether or not Teena had had sex with a man before (she had not). That film is courageous, and it pulls no punches in the rape scene, showing how brutal and repulsive a crime it is, and how it is used for power, domination, and cruelty -- and to degrade the victim. The boys rape and beat Brandon to show Brandon "that he is really a girl."

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