Gynomite!

I wish we could have watched this happen to Emilie Hirsch’s annoying character in Into the Wild…

October 31, 2010 at 8:44 pm (movies) (127 hours, fainting, james franco)

So far, 10 people have passed out during screenings of James Franco’s new movie, 127 Hours. The movie is about a guy who goes hiking with few supplies and without telling anyone and then gets his arm caught under a rock. After five days, he decides to amputate his own hand to escape, and that’s what has people so fainty.

From the LA Times:

Although Boyle does not depict Ralston’s backcountry surgery in medical-school-like detail, his cameras do not shy away from some of the amputation’s grislier steps, such as when the hiker snaps a spaghetti-like nerve strand. Like much of the movie, the procedure is filmed in a realistic, documentary style, with the camera sometimes mere inches from Franco’s body. Boyle employs a variety of sound effects during the amputation, amplifying the bone breaks with a gun shot and the nerve-cutting with an electronic vibration. As he’s chipping away at his flesh, the hiker quietly says — in a line perhaps directed as much at the audience as himself — “Don’t pass out.”

I say this calls for bringing back the old school movie tactics- have nurses stationed at every theater, a Groucho Marx-style doctor making the rounds with a cigar and waggling eyebrows.  Let’s do it!