10 Movie Scenes Everyone Skips

Somehow, the skippable scene in Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan isn't the horrifying all-timer Normandy landing sequence, but the deeply upsetting scene later on where Private Mellish (Adam Goldberg) is slowly stabbed through the chest by a German soldier.

Mellish's death comes at the end of a hard-fought battle against the soldier, with the German eventually pushing his knife slowly through Mellish's chest and shushing him as he pleads for his life.

To make matters worse, a PTSD-stricken Corporal Upham (Jeremy Davies) is cowering with fear downstairs, unable to bring himself to help his comrade, which is at once infuriating and yet completely relatable. After all, in a real war most of us are far more likely to be Upham than John Rambo.

The intimacy of Mellish's death and the fact his demise was preventable makes it extremely difficult to watch, even more so than the considerably gorier opening battle scene.