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(56,912 posts)ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)"holy fuck!"
Xyzse
(8,217 posts)Should I bother checking that out? Sounds scary.
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)Film: Total Eclipse
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Writer: Christopher Hampton (screenplay)
Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, David Thewlis and Romane Bohringer
The self-destructive relationship between 19th-century teenage French poet Arthur Rimbaud and his older mentor Paul Verlaine.
In 1871, Paul Verlaine (1844-1896), an established poet, invites boy genius Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) to live with Paul and his young pregnant wife, Mathiltde, in her father's home in Paris. Rimbaud's uncouth behavior disrupts the household as well as the insular society of French poets, but Verlaine finds the youth invigorating. Stewed in absinthe and resentment, Verlaine abuses Mathiltde; he and Rimbaud become lovers and abandon her. There are reconciliations and partings with Mathiltde and partings and reconciliations with Rimbaud, until an 1873 incident with a pistol sends one of them to prison. Codas dramatize the poets' final meeting and last illnesses.
more at link:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114702/
Xyzse
(8,217 posts)I am not surprised this is based on fact rather than fiction, but geeze.
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)That was awesome.
ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)No blood either.
ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)harmonicon
(12,008 posts)was it even rated NC-17?
Archae
(46,318 posts)ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)across the screen, it was really a "holy shit" moment for me - at 10 1/2
baldguy
(36,649 posts)ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)cliffordu
(30,994 posts)I remember... Yes...
hunter
(38,310 posts)They're brutal.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206634
ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)LeftOfSelf-Centered
(776 posts)I can't even imagine all of the work that went into setting those up!
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)The sound fx and reactions to the gunfire were very authentic. It was great in theaters and kicks ass on my home system.
Archae
(46,318 posts)kentauros
(29,414 posts)begin_within
(21,551 posts)Seriously. The first thing I thought of was a scene later in "Contact" when she is walking across the bridge to get into the machine and pauses to look down into the churning ocean waters below. That shot literally made me say, "Holy Shit!" But I also thought a little more about the film and remembered the sabotage of the first machine, and that was an even bigger "Holy Shit!" scene. But you got to it first...
kentauros
(29,414 posts)that later scene was also cool from a pure sound perspective. In fact, when I had access to friends with public radios shows, I sampled that sound and let them use is at "bed music" (music or sound used in the background when talking on mic.) Seems like I also used it for some meditation tapes I made back then. I have a sound editor that let's you made binaural beats, for entraining the brainwaves. The Machine is to be respected, yet has a tranquil sound to it, too
begin_within
(21,551 posts)I bought the VHS tape and then the DVD of "Contact" but a friend borrowed the DVD and never gave it back. Some friend. Anyway I can't even think of the music so I'll find it and listen to it. Speaking of "Holy Shit" scenes, how about the opening scene of "Contact" for one example?
kentauros
(29,414 posts)No music, other than what happens in the radio spectrum briefly.
Not to mention: Space Nazis!
The "music" when Ellie is walking to the globe over the second machine isn't music. It's the sound of the machine as it runs. I don't know what the folly artists used to make it, but they did an excellent job. Might not be as "tranquil" for everyone as it is form me. I love the sounds the "Big Machine" makes when Morbius is showing the captain and doctor around in "Forbidden Planet". Most people would call that noise
You might netflix the DVD and make a copy, versus buying a new one. Technically not bootlegging, since you do own the original box
begin_within
(21,551 posts)Bertha Venation
(21,484 posts)riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)For those that would chastise me for not seeing that factoid earlier, please note that I was just a teenager when that film came out.
Dances with Wolves - the buffalo hunting scene (holy shit in a good way)
The Crying Game - well, when "all" was finally revealed.
Meg Ryan's orgasm scene in When Harry Met Sally - made me laugh out loud while saying "holy shit" at the same time
ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)alphafemale
(18,497 posts)Did NOT see that coming.
ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)RZM
(8,556 posts)applegrove
(118,622 posts)FloridaJudy
(9,465 posts)The last two minutes of "The Usual Suspects" (major spoiler warning: do not watch this if you haven't yet seen the movie)
nolabear
(41,959 posts)WHAT? Holy shit!
FloridaJudy
(9,465 posts)Two "friends" ruined "The Crying Game" and "The Sixth Sense" for me, but I did not see that one coming!
valerief
(53,235 posts)ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)YankeyMCC
(8,401 posts)As they fall into the mountain
kwassa
(23,340 posts)ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)fizzgig
(24,146 posts)riverwalker
(8,694 posts)ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)kentauros
(29,414 posts)not to long before a "Holy Shit!" moment, one that garners the same kind of reaction from the characters, too:
ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)fizzgig
(24,146 posts)ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)Kennah
(14,256 posts)All but jumped outta my skin.
ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)davsand
(13,421 posts)When I saw the film in the theater there was a collective gasp at the end.
Laura
ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)Kennah
(14,256 posts)Best gunfights have more than 2 sides.
ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)AllenVanAllen
(3,134 posts)So having been a monster kid, who loved dinosaurs and was weened on Ray Harryhausen FX movies, this scene made me say.....holy shit!
And this was the coolest dino-chomping scene I had ever seen....
ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)smoochpooch
(711 posts)Holy shit!
ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)In National Lampoon's Vacation...
But the moment you blurt out "HOLY-" He pops back up
ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)Joe Shlabotnik
(5,604 posts)ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)HappyMe
(20,277 posts)ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)"I'll have what she's having."
RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)Ed Norton has the guy put his open mouth on the curb and slams his boot on the back of his head.
Lydia Leftcoast
(48,217 posts)Initech
(100,063 posts)"There were blanks in that gun!!"
geardaddy
(24,926 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)Dr. Strange
(25,919 posts)I mean it was supposed to be unsinkable, that's what everyone said--and then it sank! Great misdirection on Cameron's part. He earned the crap out of that Oscar.
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)wyldwolf
(43,867 posts)Hell Hath No Fury
(16,327 posts)when the brother is caught in bed with his sister, and jumps out from under the covers sporting a rather large and very real erection.
Honorable Mention: "The Crying Game"
I saw it in a packed theatre and, when Jay slipped off his dress to reveal a penis, the audience gasped and one guy blurted out loudly, "Oh, fuck!"
kentauros
(29,414 posts)WolverineDG
(22,298 posts)One of my favorite movies
kentauros
(29,414 posts)Notice, too, that it's Sigourney Weaver in another science fiction movie, and a brilliant comedy at that! She had some of the best lines, like this favorite:
"Look! I have one job on this lousy ship! It's stupid, but I'm going to do it! Okay?"
WolverineDG
(22,298 posts)Jason Nesmith: You WILL go out there.
Sir Alexander Dane: I won't and nothing you say will make me.
Jason Nesmith: The show must go on.
Sir Alexander Dane: ...Damn you.
kentauros
(29,414 posts)Sir Alexander Dane: To see if there's a pub!
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)My wife (girlfriend at the time) was so mad at me when I used my movie night to go see this. She bitched and moaned right through the previews but now it's one of her favorite DVDs.
Thing is I was using my movie night to get back at her for making me go see some really weepy chick flick the week before. I didn't expect this movie to be anywhere near as fantastic as it was.
kentauros
(29,414 posts)It's a wonderfully quotable movie, unless you don't know Thermian. I got about ten minutes into the Thermian redub. Supposedly there's a single word of English in there
Now introduce your wife to "Used Cars"
"Fifty bucks never killed anybody!"
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)That scene gave me nightmares...and I'm not even IN the Mob.
(And no...I won't post a clip of it...it still freaks me out THAT much).
GreatCaesarsGhost
(8,584 posts)Kennah
(14,256 posts)Kennah
(14,256 posts)It is a little known 1992 anti-war WWII flick. Whole thing is on YouTube. All 11 parts. Here is part 1.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)my2sense
(2,645 posts)Specifically - the scene where the ill man shats out a monster while seated on a toilet seat. That was the last scene I could take of that dreadful movie.
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)Actually I just know it from the book.
Not many of King's movies translate well to film.
I had to put down the book after that scene for a few minutes. I was repulsed but I was also laughing my ass off. (No pun intended.)
my2sense
(2,645 posts)name. I cringe just thinking of the scene. I'm sure the book was much more graphic.....LOL
TheMightyFavog
(13,770 posts)The rape scene in the Swedish version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (This was a disgusted "holy shit."
The lesbian sex scene in the Swedish version The Girl Who Played with Fire (This was more of a "Goddamn that was awesome!" kind of "Holy Shit."
The slaughtrering of the bull at the end of Apocalypse Now (this was a "What the fuck? Was that real?" "holy shit"
The latrine dive from Slumdog Millionaire (That was a more literal use of the term)
The George W. Bush cutout scene in Jesus Camp (A mixture of contempt, disgust, and what the fuck)
Catholic School Girls in Trouble from Kentucky Fried Movie (Combination of "That was awesome and Holy shit, that's funny".)
"Are you aware of this state's penal codes?" scene from the same move (This was that was a horrible, horrible pun variant.)
The Final scene from the aforemetnioned film: (That was a "They actually used to show that in actual movie theaters?" "holy shit"
Al;l the battle scenes from Saving Private Ryan
Frank Cannon
(7,570 posts)It just doesn't get any more fucked up than that.
mythology
(9,527 posts)The song "Every Sperm is Sacred".
But only in a good way.
For a gross out holy shit, the torture scenes in the movie Strangeland were unusual for it's time. It was the first movie to be labeled rated R for torture scenes. I'm still disturbed at the thought of an ampallang piercing, even if I've heard of piercings that are even less appealing sounding in recent years
Bolo Boffin
(23,796 posts)I could barely look at the screen.
Kennah
(14,256 posts)"And the fact that you've got 'Replica' written down the side of your guns, and the fact that I've got 'Desert Eagle point five O' written down the side of mine, should precipitate your balls into shrinking, along with your presence. Now ... Fuck off!"
JesterCS
(1,827 posts)From The Ashes
(2,629 posts)called 'Special Bulletin'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Bulletin
The last 20 minutes or so just scared the daylights out of me.