Terrible Netflix Decisions!

So I was skipping though the world of Entertainment Blogs and came across a rant about how one film can ruin you for an actress or even mess with your head enough that sleep is hard to find and Netflix decisions are behind the trauma. I was tempted to rent the movie Hard Candy, then I found out it was a pretty sick horror flick and it was deleted from my queue pretty darn fast.

It’s the last line of the blog that made me start thinking…What movie did I regret so much that I too pretty much ran to get it out of my house? My Answer: Irreversible! I rented this at least 2 years ago and it haunts me still. GAH! Possibly the most pointless, violent and physically revolting movie experience I have had. I thought it was a Memento like movie that runs backwards and it was French and supposed to be edgy and a thinker flick. In all fairness I had been warned by reviews that it had some tough stuff, including a rape scene, but I was tricked by some decent reviews into thinking it would be thought provoking. For me it provoked the thought that destroying this DVD would break laws (it was Netflix property after all) and should not be done no matter how much I wanted to and it would not solve the problem of more copies of this thing.

NOTE OF CAUTION: SPOILERS WILL BE WRITTEN HERE…so if you planned to traumatize yourself with this movie, stop reading…but please rethink watching this movies…it is terrible!

Nauseating camera moves that made motion sickness immediately trigger should have been warning one. The opening scene in a super raunchy Paris gay bar that shows fisting: warning 2 that we have a problem. Quickly compounding matters was warning number 3…the hate crime of literally bashing in a gay guy’s head in graphic detail. The next scenes were awful and involved trying to find a rapist and a lot of anti-gay talk. The rape scene…well let’s see that was big red flag sirens going off that this movie needed to go home. It was beyond graphic and went on for almost 10 minutes and well it was horrifying. I looked away…I thought this has to be over soon, right? No, it was awful and the movie just kept on going. Shortly after that scene came some more nauseating camera moves and my own feelings of being dirty for watching something so pointless and awful. Then silly drama in a bar and that made no sense and was foreshadowing the rape I just suffered through (remember the film moves backwards) and I then decided I had to turn off the movie, seal it back in it’s Netflix envelope and get it the hell out of my apartment. I left my apartment went downstairs and outside to the mailbox at 11pm to get it on its way back home to Netflix. I then ran upstairs and searched out The Princess Bride to try and wipe the gross flashes and scenes from my head with gentle and silly comedy.

So, long story short it took a while for that one to be semi-erased from my mind and it definitely made me rethink supposedly “edgy thinker films” from France and Netflix reviews! Lesson learned for now...and Irreversible is added to my NEVER AGAIN list of movies!