Movie Scenes People Always Fast Forward Through

There's actually a few Trainspotting scenes you might want to fast forward through. This dark and disturbing film from Danny Boyle follows the '90s drug scene in Edinburgh and focuses on addict Renton (Ewan McGregor), who tries to kick his heroin habit but can't quit his druggie friends. The public bathroom scene is pretty rough, in which Renton sticks his hand in possibly the most disgusting toilet known to humankind to retrieve some drugs he dropped. We're throwing up a little in our mouths right now. But the scene in which the baby of a fellow addict (Jonny Lee Miller) is found dead in its crib from neglect? That's the one to go ahead and skip. It'll haunt you, as it does Renton later on in the movie. Can't wait to see what they've cooked up for the sequel.

The rags-to-riches story of a Cuban immigrant who becomes a druglord only to see his empire crumble at his bloodied, cocaine-caked feet, it's a given that Scarface is a very violent experience. Still, there's blood and gore...and then there's gratuitous blood and gore with a chainsaw. Early in the game, Tony Montana (Al Pacino) runs up against some seriously pissed-off Colombians, who want to show Tony why you don't mess with them by taking a chainsaw to one of his friends while he has to watch. Sure, there are plenty of horror movies that use this particular tool to gruesome effect (and we choose to skip over some of those scenes as well), but for Scarface, it's just not necessary. We get it.

This still makes our teeth hurt just thinking about it. The taut film from director John Schlesinger sees graduate student Babe (Dustin Hoffman) caught up in his older brother's (Roy Scheider) spy game that includes stolen diamonds and a Nazi war criminal (Laurence Olivier), a skilled dentist whose specialty in the concentration camps was, well, you get the picture. He captures Babe and tortures him by using a dental probe on one of his teeth, all while asking him, "Is it safe?" No, no it's not. This scene definitely enhances this superb crime thriller, but anyone with a dentist phobia—which is all of us, pretty much—will probably push that fast-forward button.

This Vietnam War drama from director Michael Cimino actually has two incredibly tense scenes revolving around the dangerous game of Russian roulette. The first shows best friends Michael (Robert De Niro) and Nicky (Christopher Walken) as POWs, forced to play the game for their captors' amusement. The men end up getting the better of the soldiers and escaping, but Nicky has been permanently scarred by the experience, as anyone would. It's really the second scene that it's too heart-wrenching to watch. Nick doesn't go back to the States once the war is over but stays in Vietnam, and when Michael returns to bring him home, he discovers a shell-shocked Nicky playing "professional" Russian roulette for money. Michael plays one more game with Nick, and watches his friend's luck finally run out. Can't handle it.

This Steven Spielberg classic still gives everyone shark nightmares, and it all stems from its opening scene. The poor doomed Chrissie goes for a moonlight skinny dip off Amity Island after a bonfire party on the beach. As the ominous John Williams score begins, we see something approach her dangling legs from under the water—and bang! She's violently tugged from underneath. With terror in her eyes, she's whipped around for what seems like forever, screaming "It hurrrrrts!" until she's finally pulled under for good. Better to just move along because we all know the real fun of Jaws is watching Brody (Roy Scheider), Hooper (Richard Dreyfus) and Quint (Robert Shaw) on the boat, hashing it out with the shark. (Speaking of which, Quint's untimely death is another scene you can skip, because OUCH!)

[Cue banjo music] We all know this one. No matter how much you love John Boorman's excellent thriller about four friends on a river rafting trip who run afoul of some backwoods folks, the scene in which Bobby (Ned Beatty) is raped by a mountain man is simply too disturbing to watch more than once. Once he's crawling around on the ground in his underwear, you really start to squirm—and then you hear, "I bet you can squeal like a pig. Wheeeeeeee!"

Poor Ed (Jon Voight), who's tied against a tree and has to hear it all knows he's going to be next, especially as he's being eyed by the mountain man's toothless pal. Nope, just press fast forward from the time Bobby and Ed get lost to seeing an arrow go through the chest of the rapist, shot by hunky Lewis (Burt Reynolds). Then you're relatively safe.

Look, we know this 1968 Stanley Kubrick film was way ahead of its time when it was released, and is widely regarded as a cinematic classic from a master director. It is a spectacularly visual film worthy of its praise. But man, that first part, with the apes and the black monolith and the men droning on in a sterile spaceship lounge, puts you to sleep. Just skip all that and get to the meat of the film, in which a ship computer called the HAL9000 goes creepily rogue after it realizes the humans might turn it off. HAL decides he'll take matters into his own hands, and it's just brilliant. Once Dave goes floating out into space, though, and there's the monolith and "it's full of stars"? You can skim again.

Poor Tom Hanks has a pretty rough time in Cast Away. Stranded on a deserted island, he has his leg slit open by a jagged chunk of coral before losing his best volleyball friend to an unforgiving ocean. Both scenes are pretty hard to watch — one because it makes you cringe in pain, the other because it makes you ugly cry like crazy. But if you were only allowed to fast forward one moment in this movie, you should save it for when Hanks is forced to remove his own tooth with an ice skate.

Suffering from the mother of all toothaches, Hanks' character (Chuck Noland) is forced to improvise, Bear Grylls-style. Fortunately, when his plane crashed, it was full of undelivered FedEx packages. Unfortunately, none of those parcels contained any novocaine. Instead, Noland uses two skates to perform his impromptu operation, using one blade as a mirror and one to knock that monstrous molar out.

As Noland readies himself for the big blow, we can hear that blade sliding around inside his mouth, grating up against his teeth, all while he's moaning in pain and nervous expectation. We can't help but wince as he picks up a rock and prepares to bash it against the skate. And when his tooth finally goes flying, Noland passes out — as does most everybody watching, except the few who were frantically fast-forwarding, unwilling to watch Tom Hanks go Marathon Man on his own mouth.

It's nearly impossible to look good while eating spaghetti, but filmmakers have done some pretty great stuff with pasta. The candlelight dinner from Lady in the Tramp is classic romance, seeing Saoirse Ronan learn the proper way to eat noodles in Brooklyn is super sweet, and watching gangsters cook dinner in The Godfather is mouth-watering. On the other hand, the spaghetti scene from Buzzard might make you lose your lunch and swear off Italian cuisine forever.

Directed by Joel Potrykus, Buzzard follows a sleazy slacker named Marty Jackitansky (Joshua Burge). An office temp with a grudge against the world, Marty spends his days playing video games, taking fashion tips from Freddy Krueger, and finding new ways to steal money from his employers. After he pockets a few illegally-obtained mortgage checks, Marty grows incredibly paranoid and goes on the run. With his stolen cash, he spends the night in a hotel room and orders a $20 plate of spaghetti. That's when things get disgusting.

Wearing a spotless white bathrobe, Marty lounges back in bed, sets that plate of cold pasta on his stomach, and starts slurping it all down, with spaghetti falling all over. Soon he's soaked with sauce. The whole scene plays out in one, long, unbroken take, forcing us to squirm as spaghetti strands fall from Marty's mouth...or until we find the remote as quickly as possible.

Green Room is the bloodsoaked story of punk rockers vs. skinheads, and as you can probably guess, this isn't a fair fight. After stumbling upon a murder scene, it's five good guys against an army of machete-wielding nazis, not to mention a couple of pitbulls hungry for musician meat. With the band members holed up inside the titular "green room," the odds don't start leveling out until our heroes take a skinhead hostage and get their hands on a gun. But these are just a bunch of kids who've never been in a life-or-death situation before, so when they start negotiating, they're tricked into handing over the pistol, convinced the nazis will let them walk away.

But as our terrified bassist Pat (Anton Yelchin) sticks his hand out the door, offering up the pistol, he realizes there's a group of thugs in the hallway, ready to kick down the door and turn the band into chopped liver. Pat tries to pull the pistol back inside, but instead of prying the weapon from his fingers, the bad guys decide to just hack his hand off with a machete. When we see what's left of the bassist's arm, it's enough to make even the most hardcore horror fan lose their lunch. It totally makes sense that people would want to fast forward through this scene. Unfortunately for people who can't stand the sight of blood, Green Room only gets worse from here. A lot worse.

If you're about to have a barbecue, then you might want to fast forward through the opening of The Bad Batch, a post-apocalyptic thriller that follows a young girl who's exiled from the U.S. and kicked into a no-man's land of cults and cannibals. Unfortunately for young Arlen (played by Suki Waterhouse), she stumbles into a bunch of flesh-hungry hillbillies in the first ten minutes of the movie. These desert-dwelling Jeffrey Dahmers chain her up, inject her arm with a painkiller, and then go to work with a hacksaw. We can hear the saw moving back and forth, cutting through bone, and seconds later, Arlen's arm is plopped down on a steaming hot grill. Soon, the cannibal is back at it again, hacking away at a leg before cauterizing the wound with a hot skillet. Again, this definitely isn't the best scene to watch before grilling a bunch of burgers.

The Killing of a Sacred Deer starts with an open heart surgery — an early clue that squeamish viewers may want to fast forward through pretty much every scene. The plot follows a doctor named Steven Murphy (Colin Farrell) who accidentally killed a patient while under the influence of alcohol. Without accepting blame, Murphy is trying to make amends by befriending the patient's son, an unusual boy by the name of Martin (Barry Keoghan). Unfortunately for the surgeon, it seems Martin possesses godlike powers, and he's looking for revenge.

Hoping to find justice, Martin curses Murphy's family. The surgeon's children (Raffey Cassidy, Sunny Suljic) lose the ability to walk and the desire to eat. Martin promises that soon they'll start bleeding from their eyes, and after that, they'll die. If Murphy wants to lift the spell, he'll have to murder one of his own family members. Naturally, Murphy is a little reluctant to kill one of his kids, but as they grow sicker, he slowly realizes what he has to do. Near the end of the film, the surgeon ties up his family (including his wife, played by Nicole Kidman), and places bags on their heads before he pulls a hat over his eyes, spins in circles around the room with a rifle, and randomly stops to pull the trigger.

It's an excruciating scene, especially since Murphy keeps missing. In a movie meant to make you cringe and cry out in agony, this horrid moment will send you scrambling for the remote.