Shark Week

[Sara]

So I just watched about 5 minutes of one of the shows about shark attacks and they had on the real video of the lady who is screaming for help with a 15 foot shark attached to her leg. OMG, even though she was narrating the video, I got so upset I started crying!! I can't watch those kinds of things. It is one thing to have the reenactment because I know someone isn't really screaming for their life, but to see the real horror and hear her scream was too much for me!!!

Anyone watch that kind of thing?

[meeg124]

I can not watch "reality" shows where humans or other animals are being eaten. I can't even watch lizards eating bugs or licking their own eyeballs :lol I do like shark week though, as long as I don't have to see too many blood and guts.

[KaisaG]

Yeah I'm sorry but I don't think of a person being attacked as entertainment.

[lornabrown]

Tim was all over that show. The bite segments weren't that lengthy in comparison to the rest of the content. Mind you there was one shark show after another.

Tim flipped from the shark shows to a violent Jean Claudde Van Damme movie where he basically beat men to death with a prison audience including children. That was way more offensive.

[becky]

i have not seen this one. These kinds of things are disturbing but I like watching them.

[khanson]

I've never seen one where it was the real video. I don't think I'd be able to watch that.

[Leigh]

I'm with you,

I used to be able to watch something like what you are describing, where even though it was the real video, the person survived and is alive to tell the tale. (I NEVER was interested in crap like "Faces of Death" with video of events where people died.) Things like a forensic photo didn't bother me either.

Now that I have a child I have lost that ability for detachment. I can't watch real pain and horror any more, and I have trouble with a lot of reenactments now too.

DH and I were eating dinner while we watched the HBO "John Adams" series on DVD. With the "tar and feathering" scene in the first or second episode, I started crying and shaking and couldn't finish my dinner. It was horrible!

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[becky]

gosh i remember hearing about faces of death when i was in high school. I have never seen it myself but i looked it up online and i read that 40% is fake with most of the human scenes being fake except for news coverage. Seeing animals being slattered for food doesn't bother me but anything with humans is hard to watch. Still it seems extreme. The original 1978 is available online to view.

[Theresa]

DH and I were eating dinner while we watched the HBO "John Adams" series on DVD. With the "tar and feathering" scene in the first or second episode, I started crying and shaking and couldn't finish my dinner. It was horrible!

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I agree! That scene was a trip! I loved the series, but after seeing how the made it with all of the computer generation--it was hard for me to just watch it.

I didn't catch the shark episode. I'll have to look for it. :lol Not that I'll be able to watch, just to start seeing it, then freak out and turn it.

[Colleen&Kail]

i watched part of it, when the shark bit a chunk out of the seal and the ppl in the boat rescued it and put it back in shallow water. i know what you mean i hate watchign it, it makes so sad!