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# It's more unsettling than the rape.
Or the requisitioned prison metalwork thingummy.

I really enjoyed the film, but there are so many uncomfortable bits I find rewatching it deeply unpleasant.
(I helped save b3ta! Curis, Sat 13 Mar 2010, 0:22, archived)
# The bit with the industrial grinder and the limb
still (thankfully) gives me a sense of sheer disbelief.
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Sat 13 Mar 2010, 0:25, archived)
# In the book the guy just gets stabbed in the neck which is far less gory.
Was it a deliberate decision to ramp up the violence and hence stylise the film?
(I helped save b3ta! Curis, Sat 13 Mar 2010, 0:30, archived)
# Yes, I think so.
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Sat 13 Mar 2010, 0:33, archived)
# They made the ending less laughable than the comic
but still managed to keep mass murder and execution of a major protagonist.

most un-hollywood
(I helped save b3ta! fatbouy you can't spell 'analytics' without 'anal', Sat 13 Mar 2010, 0:30, archived)
# I would've preferred the laughable book ending to the one we got.
Just so we could've seen the repulsive DNA nightmare organism.
(I helped save b3ta! Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Sat 13 Mar 2010, 0:35, archived)
# I take it all back
I forgot about the awful "happily ever after" epilogue.

and why show the news stand guy? There was no kid reading the pirates comic was there...?

maybe I'm just exhausted after 3 hours of it.
(I helped save b3ta! fatbouy you can't spell 'analytics' without 'anal', Sat 13 Mar 2010, 1:01, archived)
# nothing seems unsettling once you've watched irreversible
really - don't do it; you'll never be right again...
(I helped save b3ta! fatbouy you can't spell 'analytics' without 'anal', Sat 13 Mar 2010, 0:35, archived)