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[[File:bitchtitsbob.jpg|link=Fight Club (film)|frame|This is Bob. Bob had bitch tits.]]
While most [[Hollywood]] actors and actresses are attractive, there are times [[Fan Disservice|where the fan service gets unattractive.]]
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* When the Creature Shop designed [[The Dark Crystal|Aughra]], did they really have to give her such [
* The infamous shower scene in ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[Big Fish]]''. Danny DeVito's naked backside. There is no [[Brain Bleach]] strong enough to erase it from your memory.
* ''[[Black Book]]'': Carice Van Houten is put through a [[Humiliation Conga]] by the Dutch resistance as punishment for sleeping with a Nazi, which involves her being stripped naked, forced to sing ''Happy Days are Here Again'', gets hits with a stick to get her in position, has a bucket of crap dumped on her (apparently placed there just for that reason), and they finally finish her off by "cleaning" her with a high pressure fire hose, another example is the first sex scene with the above Nazi - 'is this Jewish?'.
* The nude fight scene in ''[[Borat]]'', while also a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]], showed us way more of Borat and Azamat (especially the latter) than anyone wanted to see.
* The movie ''[[Quills]]'' features a camera panning over [[Kate Winslet]]'s naked body in extreme close-up. {{spoiler|Too bad she's, you know, a corpse.}}
* ''[[Blade Trinity]]'' had a [[Shower Scene]] for Jessica Biel. She's washing off the blood of close friends and deadly enemies.
* Pretty much everything even remotely sexual in the Bob Guccione film ''[[Caligula]]''.
* ''[[
* The opening shower scene in ''[[Carrie]]'' starts out as straight fanservice, with shots of most of the female cast members naked or topless. (The scene in question was even used in ''[[Judd Apatow|Knocked Up]]'' when Ben's friends are creating their celebrity porn site.) It quickly turns into disservice when Carrie starts having her period for the first time and is absolutely horrified by what's happening with her body.
** The 2002 TV remake follows this by having her fully nude and in a foetal position on the shower floor while the blood trickles into the locker room. Then you get the rest of the girls who are all in towels and their underwear surrounding her chanting "period" with the eeriest looks on their faces. There's later another scene where Carrie gets into the bath (fully clothed) but you still see a lot through her dress. {{spoiler|She's also covered in pig's blood and her mother tries to drown her}}.
* If you can stomach the nudity in ''[[Cannibal Holocaust]]'', then you need to have your stomach replaced.
* ''[[
* ''[[The
** And earlier in that movie, Charlize is trying on clothes with two other women whose faces briefly turn into some sort of weird demon-thing.
** There are many other examples in this film. Remember, [[Sex Is Evil|lust IS one of the]] [[Seven Deadly Sins]].
* ''[[
* ''[[The Nutty Professor]]'' ''2'' shows a dream sequence with Grandma Klump leaping through a field of daisies with her enormous, saggy breasts flopping up and down inside a see-through nightgown.
* ''[[Schindler's List]]'': Helen Hirsch, a Jewish woman, is hiding from the SS man who's preying on her. He enters the room. She's standing there while he talks to her and caresses her, with her nightgown being clingy enough to show her nipples. The fact that she's scared out of her wits and that he then beats her up removes any possible fan service this might have had. The film also contains male and female full frontal nudity, but this is during the concentration camps entrance process, thus lacking any eroticism. As a rule, you cannot get fan service in a film about The Holocaust.
* ''[[Walk Hard]]'' offers us a dangling male member. [[Judd Apatow]] was so tickled by this that he's used it in every movie since.
* ''[[The Shining]]''. You know, the scene one involving the woman in room 237?...
* ''[[
* ''[[Requiem for
* Now, one would think that [[Jodie Foster]] in a knotted shirt with no bra would be highly attractive, but [[Taxi Driver|not when she's 14]]. This one was clearly intentionally not meant to be sexy and more to reflect the abuse she was suffering as a child prostitute.
* ''[[
* ''[[The Evil Dead]]'''s infamous "tree-rape" scene.
* ''[[
* Ang Lee's film version of ''Lust, Caution'' was rated NC-17 in the States for containing around ten minutes of sex scenes with full frontal nudity. Depressing, tragic full frontal nudity.
* ''[[Strange Days]]'', a not-quite-cyberpunk film from the late '90s, had a plot which centered around the increasing use of recorded memories turned into a full-sensory virtual-reality experience. While the main character primarily deals in the obvious pornographic applications of this wondrous technology, things go bad when he receives a disc that was recorded by a rapist/killer who, in turn, was jacked into the victim directly -- so that both the user of the disc and the victim get a taste of the sensations of the rapist. The main character immediately threw up. The members of the audience were probably not that far behind.
* Famed example from ''[[Silence of the Lambs]]'': Buffalo Bill dancing naked with his penis tucked between his legs. His "Would you fuck me?" is answered around the world with a resounding "No" by the viewers.
* ''The Machinist'' has [[Christian Bale]] shirtless a lot, and even completely naked at times. Unfortunately, this is Christian Bale weighing all of 50 kg, and he looks disturbingly cadaverous--most likely intentionally. Though the man is quite handsome, the fact that when he kneels you can count his vertebrae and clearly see the outlines of his ribcage and shoulder blades cuts the squee factor considerably. Apparently Bale managed the feat by eating only a can of tuna and a single apple each day in preparation for the role and freaked the ''director'' out with his dedication. And then had to bulk up immediately after shooting, to play Batman.
** [[Natalie Portman]] did a similar thing in ''[[
** Speaking of ''Black Swan'', the lesbian sex scene comes across this way to some. Particularly with the revelation that Nina's imagining having sex with herself and you see her with a rather demonic look on her face.
* ''[[The Fisher King]]''. [[Robin Williams]]. There are circumstances where he could be considered [[Fan Service]] material (stop laughing)... but not when he's playing a mentally ill homeless man all covered in dirt. And he's ''jumping around'' for God's sake. That would be a turn off in the case of any full-frontal scene.
** His full-frontal scene at the very end of ''[[World's Greatest Dad]]'' is, in context, much less disturbing than the above (despite him being older). But it's still disservice to those who think he is inherently disgusting-looking. [[Squick|And then there was his poor daughter, Zelda...]]
** ''[[Jack (
** The outfit-changing scenes in ''[[
** As does the shower scene in ''License to Wed''. And yet it's still more watchable than the rest of the film.
** ''[[One Hour Photo]]'': Will Yorkin and Maya Burson are nude and forced to pose sexually by Sy Parrish at knifepoint. Very disturbing. Also, Sy has a shower scene after his [[Eye Scream]] [[Nightmare Fuel|nightmare]]. No, it is '''not''' a fanservice-y [[Shower of Angst]].
* ''[[Resident Evil (
** ''[[Resident Evil: Extinction
* ''[[Saw]] 3'' features a trap involving a completely naked woman in a meat locker who, after the protagonist enters the room, starts getting periodically sprayed with cold water, while he decides whether or not to save her before she freezes to death. [[Word of God]] says that they were going to have her in a t-shirt to preserve her modesty - but decided that erect nipples through a t-shirt, regardless of context, would tantalize too much.
* ''[[The Incredible Hulk (
** There's a [[Shower of Angst|somewhat similar]] [[Prison Rape|scene]] in ''[[American History X]]'' and the [[Prison Rape]] is itself [[Fan Disservice]].. Actually, Ed Norton spends quite a bit of [[American History X]] naked or partly clothed, and given the kind of shape he got himself into for the role it'd be rather nice... except for the huge swastika on his left pec.
** Same could be said when he's dying of dysentery in "The Painted Veil", just open shirt though.
* Borderline example: The Wall Slap scene from ''[[The Wicker Man]]'' is at once extremely sexy (naked Britt Ekland and naked Britt Ekland body double!) and extremely creepy.
* ''[[Coraline (
** And then, when the {{spoiler|Other Mother transforms, much of her chest becomes clearly visible, but she's so hideous otherwise that you don't even ''want'' to see it.}}
* ''[[
* ''[[
* The 1997 film of ''[[Lolita]]'' is a double dose. The sex scenes with the female lead are uncomfortable for [[Lolicon|obvious reasons]] (though [[Older Than They Look|Dominique Swain]] was [[Dawson Casting|actually 18]])... and then you discover how much worse it can get when Frank Langella, 60 years old and playing the pedophile Clare Quilty, starts running around in an open bathrobe.
* Pyramid Head in the ''[[Silent Hill]]'' [[Silent Hill (
* ''[[Mulholland Drive]]''. Near the end, Naomi Watts is seen masturbating. Is it arousing? Not really, unless you're turned on by a miserable, frustrated, crying woman trying furiously to climax.
** [[David Lynch]] is very good at this trope, as seen in ''[[Inland Empire]]'' as well. [[Laura Dern]]? A pretty attractive girl. Justin Theroux? A pretty attractive guy. You'd never guess that them having sex is actually one of the most [[Nightmare Fuel|nightmarish]] scenes in the film (probably thanks to [[Nothing Is Scarier]]). Probably has something to do with the fact that {{spoiler|It's the first scene where Nikki realizes she's lost in her character.}}
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* ''[[Videodrome]]''. Both the [[Show Within a Show|eponymous TV show]] (for most viewers, anyway) and the film itself. While James Woods is a handsome enough man, his shoving his gun inside the orifice that just split open in his torso was probably not meant to be sexy.
** [[David Cronenberg]] occasionally refers to [[Body Horror]] as "Venereal Horror", so naturally, his works of full of this:
*** ''[[Crash (
*** ''Shivers'' has a Lust Plague that will show you why everyone in the world screwing everyone else is ''not'' hot at all. The one scene that could have been hot (two attractive women making out) is ruined by the fact that their necks are throbbing with parasites.
*** ''Rabid'' has Marilyn Chambers (a softcore porn star of the day) as a sort of vampiric being, which is fair enough (especially when she goes after that bikini-ed brunette in the hot tub), except that she drinks people's blood through a tentacle which emerges from an anus-like hole in her armpit.
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*** ''Spider'' has a flashback scene of the title character, as a boy, sneak into a pub, where Miranda Richardson appears as a boozy, creepy slut and waves a breast at him. Made even worse by the fact that Miranda Richardson also plays Spider's mother. The flashbacks also have Richardson in a sordid and very unsexy affair with Spider's father (Gabriel Byrne), except because of [[Unreliable Narrator]], the father keeps getting replaced by Spider himself during the flashbacks.
* ''[[Let the Right One In]]''. Normally, I'd question the judgment of anyone who wants to get a peek at [[Little Miss Badass]] Eli (who is ''twelve'', even if she's been so for a long time) in the altogether, but Oskar peeps through the door at her while she's changing into one of his mother's dresses. And gets an eyeful. {{spoiler|Of unpleasantly mutilated groin, because Eli was a castrated little boy in life.}} The [[Mood Dissonance]] in some of the film's other scenes (between [[Toy Ship|"aww, how strangely sweet!"]] and [[Nightmare Fuel]]) might qualify as romantic fan disservice as well.
* ''[[
** ''[[Friday the 13th (
* ''Red Beard'' was the only film from director [[Akira Kurosawa]] that featured nudity. A naked young woman is undergoing surgery, and though it isn't graphically shown, the fact that she's thrashing around and screaming in agony (no anesthetic when the movie takes place) makes one eager for it to end.
* The film adaption of ''[[The Road to Wellville]]'' has this is spades. Nude scenes with [[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Colm Meaney]] and Camryn Manhiem, random shots of naked flabby men, [[The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
** Not to mention Lara Flynn Boyle, depending of course on how much you're turned on by skeletons with skin stretched over them.
* ''[[Final Destination|Final Destination 3]]''. The Tanning Bed scene. It ''begins'' as typical Fanservice, until you are forced to watch them either burn to death or (in the DVD version) collectively electrocuted. Just imagine getting burned in places you really don't want to feel on fire...
* ''[[
* In universe example: In ''[[Dazed and Confused]]'', Tony describes a dream he had in which he made love to a perfect female body... except it had Abe Lincoln's head (hat, beard, and all).
* In the Russian film adaptation of ''[[
* ''[[The Hangover]]'' has both Alan and an old man's bare butt. Not to mention the worst of all, at the very end of the credits: {{spoiler|Alan getting a blow job in full view of the camera, given by an elderly lady.}}
** And in the sequel {{spoiler|hermaphrodite strippers.}}
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* Two words: [[Takashi Miike]]. Two more words: [[Film/Dead Or Alive|shit bath]].
** Takashi Miike again, but this time: ''Visitor Q''. Incest, necrophilia and milking are really just the start.
* ''[[Fight Club]]'' features very good-looking, shirtless, sweaty men... who then often have their noses broken, their teeth knocked out, or their faces otherwise caved in.
** And the above caption features [[Edward Norton]] [[Marshmallow Hell|being squashed by Bob's bitch tits]].
* In both of Rob Zombie's ''[[Halloween (
** Michael seems to enjoy killing women while they are partially or completely nude, since he does it so damn much. There's also the sex scene in ''Resurrection'' which is interupted when a ton of (fake and planted) body parts fall through the wall.
* There's two such moments ''[[The Good, the Bad
* [[Christina Ricci]] in ''[[Black Snake Moan]]''. When you're endowed like that, and your ribs are still more prominent than your breasts, you desperately need more starches in your diet.
* Many of the Mexican film output during the [[The Seventies|late Seventies]] and [[The Eighties]] consisted on "[[Pel Ã]]culas de Ficheras" ([[Exactly What It Says
** Possibly as a callback to this, the movie ''Attack of the Killer Tongue'' involves the alien-tongue-possessed Latina [[Death
* ''[[
* ''[[Dead
* ''[[Cabin Fever (
** In the sequel, there is a scene at the very end with a [[Sexy Schoolgirl]] stripper with a burst cold sore on her lip (our first clue that things will go Very Wrong). We see her act, overall okay, though she seems a bit tired, until she takes off her bra to reveal that her breasts are ''covered'' in pustules. One of her admirers in the audience indicates that he'd still tap that.
* ''[[The Boondock Saints]]''. [[Willem Dafoe]] in bed, shirtless, [[Yaoi Guys|with a cute Asian guy]]? Pretty good [[Fan Service]], if you're into that. Willem Dafoe crossdressing to infiltrate the [[Big Bad|Big Bad's]] hideout, seducing one of the guards, and then shooting said guard in cold blood when he [[Dropped a Bridget On Him|notices his manhood]]? [[Big No|Oh no stop no stop no stop no stop no]].
* ''[[
* Both ''[[The Abominable Dr. Phibes]]'' and ''Dr Phibes Rises Again'' have the title character ([[Vincent Price]]) dancing a waltz with his beautiful assistant, Vulnavia. Normally, there's nothing particularly horrific about this - except that Phibes has hideous burns all over his face and an exposed skull.
* The infamous rape scene with [[Monica Bellucci]] in ''[[Irreversible]]''.
** Speaking of Monica Bellucci, the scene from [[
* Medeiros from [[REC]] is definitely not someone you ever want to see naked and yet the camera takes at least a minute to pan over her mostly nude {{spoiler|deformed and mutated}} body.
* [[Norbit]]. Eddie Murphy in a fat suit as the title character's domineering, aggressive girlfriend. Also made somewhat weird in that Eddie Murphy (being Eddie Murphy) also plays Norbit.
* [[Adrien Brody]] {{spoiler|having sex with a woman/animal hybrid creature, which is also technically [[Parental Incest|his daughter]],}} in ''[[Splice]]''.
* [[
* [[Banlieue 13|''District B-13: Ultimatum'']]. The thong-clad exotic dancer. And because [[Fan Disservice]] is the intention... well, hello [[Unfortunate Implications]].
* An unpleasant scene in an otherwise fine movie-- ''[[Pay It Forward]]''. Scene in question was a love scene... between Helen Hunt and a badly-scarred [[Kevin Spacey]]. Creepy. Uncomfortable.
* ''[[The Last House
* The entire [[Star Wars|Skywalker family]] goes through fanservice-y moments, but...
** Did we need to have Padmé and Anakin going after each other so intently in ''The Phantom Menace'', since canonically Anakin was ''eight'' and Padme was ''fourteen''? May be a [[Toy Ship]] to some, or a [[Precocious Crush]] for others, but for many people it came off as unsettling.
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* In ''[[The Magdalene Sisters]]'', there's a scene where young girls have to stand naked in front of nuns who cruelly comment on their body flaws until [[The Woobie|one of the girls]] burst into tears.
* A rare example not related to nudity or sexuality - the [[Costume Porn]] in [[Memoirs of a Geisha]] qualifies for fans deeper-in-the-know about geisha and/or kimono culture - while many say they can ignore the flaws and mistakes, there are also some who think the film has been ruined by excessive creative license.
* When watching ''[[Harry Potter (
* Similar to the [[Banlieue 13|''District B-13: Ultimatum'']] example above: the first ''[[Ace Ventura]]'' movie's big [[The Reveal|reveal]] is intended as this... but for some, the '''real'''' disservice comes from the really nasty bigotry (specifically {{spoiler|bashing trans women}}) that is the basis for said reveal and its intended [[Fan Disservice]].
* Ed Helms and Kurtwood Smith have a nude scene together in ''[[
* The man getting breast milk squirted up his butt in ''[[Mystery Team]]''.
* [[Flashdance]]. {{spoiler|Jeanie}} dancing naked in the Zanzibar bar while in in an [[Heroic BSOD]].
* The Swedish film ''A Hole in My Heart'', as thoroughly discussed on [http://www.reelviews.net/php_review_template.php?identifier=935 this review.]
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** Similarly, ''A Serbian Film'' - with sex scenes that are all as [[Nightmare Fuel|sick]], [[Nausea Fuel|nauseating]] and [[Gorn|bloody]] as possible.
* In ''[[X2: X-Men
* ''[[Withnail and I]]'' has a number of scenes in which Paul McGann is not wearing very much and looking [[Unkempt Beauty|attractively disheveled]]. A lot of them count as straight-up [[Fan Service]], but in one of them, his character has a [[Near-Rape Experience]] at the hands of a man who's possibly all of twice his size.
* Since [[Girls Behind Bars|women in prison]] films tend to be aimed at [[Whip It Good|a certain set of tastes]], with the ''[[Joshuu Sasori
* In the movie ''[[
* What's that? One of the major characters in [[Sherlock Holmes (
* There's a scene in ''[[The Black Dahlia]]'' where the cops watch a lesbian porn film. Said film features an actress who was brutally murdered, but the filmmakers deliberately prevent it from being sexy at all with shots of the actress in tears as she's doing the various sex acts, making it look like a rape video. One of the detectives actually throws something across the room in disgust at the film.
* ''[[Star Trek V:
* ''[[Crazy Heart]]'': The endlessly beautiful and sexy [[Maggie Gyllenhaal]] having sex with... [[The Big Lebowski|The Dude]]? [[Go Mad
* ''[[Bram
* The opening scene of ''[[Zombieland]]'' features many hilarious [[Black Comedy]] scenes of zombies chasing humans, including a ''zombie stripper'' chasing a guy in a business suit, clearly a customer of whatever risque club she was performing at. Covered in blood, partially decayed, the zombie stripper is wearing only a g-string with dollar bills still tucked in it, downright hilarious but not even close to arousing.
* ''[[The Abyss]]'' has a brief flash of Lindsey's breasts in one scene, but seeing as this is because she's nearly drowned and the other members of the cast are about to apply CPR, it's doubtful many fans were aroused. Still, the scene does take the standard [[Clean Pretty Reliable]] approach to it, so it could have looked far worse.
* ''[[wikipedia:Him (film)|Him]]'' is a notoriously bad porn film made in 1974 about a priest with a sexual fixation on Jesus Christ. [[Take Our Word for It]], it's [[So Bad It's Horrible|as bad as it sounds]]. Film critic [[Michael Medved]] "awarded" this movie the title of Most Unerotic Concept in Pornography in his book ''[[wikipedia:The Golden Turkey Awards|The Golden Turkey Awards]].''
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