Phobias That wreck your enjoyment of Films, Television and Video Games. — Page 2

Ryan McAvoy said:

This specific alarm sound...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoX7vd30zq8

...spoils and takes me out of any movie or videogame it's in.

I worked really long nightshifts for a few years so I needed something loud and unpleasant on my iPhone to wake me up and make me go switch it off (Setting nice sounds only meant I'd sleep through them). The iPhone uses that exact sound ^, it was only later that I discovered that a few movies also used that sound and I'd developed a 'Pavlov's Dog' like response to it... of feeling almost physically sick at the dread of getting up and going to work exhausted.

 Ha,....that is unbelievable,...I'm exactly the same, I used that alarm for my wake-up,...now every time I hear it I get a jump

My phobias are Zombies.....can't watch any films or series like that...only ones I've seen are Shaun of the Dead, World War Z & Zombieland......thats enough

Creeps me out

J

Leonardo said:

the bean eating scene in "Blazing Saddles". You can't not laugh at that, IMHO.

Let me be the first to assure you it is possible :p

Turns out I have a disorder called misophonia which literally means "hatred of sound". A couple of my triggers are barking dogs and crickets and these things can infuriate me in movies or games almost as much as they do in real life. (I was kind of relieved to discover that it was an actual thing after thinking I was just going mental for the last ten years or so. Another name for it is "selective sound sensitivity" which I even came up with on my own and then dismissed because it sounded so made up).

Also, I'm not scared of the dark, but I am scared of the dark in video games. Scary movies are no problem, but when I'm in control and my dude's flare is going out or whatever... zoinks! Some games are just too scary for me unless someone else is in the room. I quit Silent Hill, Doom 3, STALKER and a couple of others because they freaked me the hell out. I even freak out if Lara Croft has to swim in the dark. You'd have hated it bkev. There were rats. Big ones.

Yeah, I've never laughed at a fart joke, ever.

Zombieland was great. 

Leonardo said:

I'd just like to say one thing in favour of fart jokes, yes, they are cheap most of the time, but: the bean eating scene in "Blazing Saddles". You can't not laugh at that, IMHO. Yes, farts are juvenile, but the scene reminds me that you see cowboys eating beans in many westerns, yet the obvious consequences are never heard on screen. :P

 that's because most people don't want to hear them on screen.    And yes, I can not laugh at that scene.   

After experiencing a real life event  i cant watch any movie/t.v. programme that has someone choking in it. Cant even bear to hear the noise of someone having a problem breathing, brings me right  back to when it happened.

To you or someone else?

TV's Frink said:

Yeah, I've never laughed at a fart joke, ever.

 YOU haven't?  I find this a bit difficult to believe.

So did I, but I'm happy enough. Fart jokes throughout his ridiculous edits would have ruined them.

I was born at the age of twenty-two.

Frink, are you sure you don't mean "I was born in '22"?

I see what you did there.

Warbler said:

space cakes?  never heard of them, I'll have to look them up.

edit: ok I've done some searching . . . Do you mean to say you've eaten cakes with marijuana in them?????    

Yeah... it has the added benefit of putting me off experimenting with recreational narcotics for life too.

You are supposed to try about half a cake and wait an hour so when my 15 kicked in it was pretty out there.

The sequel was I spent the whole of the next day with a weed induced nonchalance. An axe-wielding maniac would have been greeted with a bemused smirk if he came into my frame of register the morning after.It was an experience but thankfully a one off :-D

I hate the sight of rotting dead people. Dead people are OK, but rotting dead people are less okay. I hate the sight of maggots/worms even more. I've can handle them better than I used to, but I was freaked out by even the centipede things in AOTC the first few times I watched it. Wormy things crawling out of rotting dead people is a terrible combination and I have trouble stomaching that kind of thing.

I'm sure it isn't an unusual repulsion that I have, but that kind of thing wrecks my enjoyment of movies. Even reading about writhing, slimy slugs makes me feel slightly sick. However, it isn't really a phobia. I do have a slight fear of stepping on slimy, squiggly things in places like gardens, but I'm not afraid of seeing such things on screen.

I suppose sexist imagery is a real turn off when it comes to media related things.

It's not a phobia but it every time something I see something like that I grind my denture with disappointment.

There is a Prince of Persia game (I can't remember which one at the moment) which has a totally unnecessary practically nude woman in a rain storm walking about on a pirate ship. It was clearly meant to appeal to pubescent boys but I just kept thinking she'd catch a death out in all weathers like that :-D

Bingowings said:

Warbler said:

space cakes?  never heard of them, I'll have to look them up.

edit: ok I've done some searching . . . Do you mean to say you've eaten cakes with marijuana in them?????    

Yeah...

Somehow . . . I don't find the idea of marijuana in cakes to be all that appetizing.

They just taste like cakes. If you like cake it's cake.

If you have to investigate the effects of the ganja it's probably better to eat it rather than smoke it but in really small amounts.

Not 15.

Think stereotypical bad acid trip and you will be somewhere near the ballpark. And I don't like the way they hang their basketball hoop :-D

Bingowings said:

They just taste like cakes. If you like cake it's cake.

If you have to investigate the effects of the ganja it's probably better to eat it rather than smoke it but in really small amounts.

Not 15.

Think stereotypical bad acid trip and you will be somewhere near the ballpark. And I don't like the way they hang their basketball hoop :-D

 For my wife's 30th we went to Amsterdam & we had our first experience with space cakes.....we had one each....nothing much happened

We went to The Fly pub?....I think

Then the space cakes kicked in

Haven't laughed that much ever and since,.....but it took a long time for it to wear off...very wierd experience

Glad we only had one

J

bkev said:

Well.... I guess it isn't a phobia as much as an extreme distaste, but whenever the protagonist of a film gets wrongfully blamed for something he didn't do - and you have to watch the repercussions play out - I get incredibly uncomfortable.  If it's some sort of exposition that happened before the film takes place, however, I'm okay with it.

 What do you think of 'Shawshank Redemption' then?

well, I guess The Fugitive isn't for you.

RicOlie_2 said:

I hate the sight of rotting dead people. Dead people are OK, but rotting dead people are less okay. I hate the sight of maggots/worms even more. I've can handle them better than I used to, but I was freaked out by even the centipede things in AOTC the first few times I watched it. Wormy things crawling out of rotting dead people is a terrible combination and I have trouble stomaching that kind of thing.

 But worms are full of protein ...