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What movie scenes made you say "Holy Shit!"? (Original Post) ohiosmith Jul 2012 OP
Total Eclipse "Tell me if you love me" scene Tuesday Afternoon Jul 2012 #1
Holy Shit! ohiosmith Jul 2012 #2
yeah, pretty much what I said, too -- Tuesday Afternoon Jul 2012 #3
What the? Xyzse Jul 2012 #80
More Info for you -- Tuesday Afternoon Jul 2012 #83
WTF?!!!! Xyzse Jul 2012 #100
The scene in Back to the Future when Biff skids his car into the manure truck. yellowcanine Jul 2012 #4
Holy Shit! ohiosmith Jul 2012 #5
Most disturbing mass death scene in an action film ever ProudToBeBlueInRhody Jul 2012 #6
Right! Holy Shit! ohiosmith Jul 2012 #7
Too bad Fred Thompson almost ruined it with his facials (n/m) ProudToBeBlueInRhody Jul 2012 #8
I saw it not long ago, and I don't remember any facials... harmonicon Jul 2012 #65
First time I saw it... Archae Jul 2012 #9
Holy Shit! ohiosmith Jul 2012 #13
As that star destroyer kept going & going NewJeffCT Jul 2012 #17
Eva Green in The Dreamers. baldguy Jul 2012 #10
Yep! Holy Shit! ohiosmith Jul 2012 #16
No freaking kidding.... cliffordu Jul 2012 #54
Oh My Xyzse Jul 2012 #82
The long single shot sequences in "Children of Men" hunter Jul 2012 #11
Holy Shit! ohiosmith Jul 2012 #21
This! LeftOfSelf-Centered Jul 2012 #77
The bank robbery/shoot out scene in Heat NightWatcher Jul 2012 #12
Did you put that Lego one there on purpose? Archae Jul 2012 #18
When they destroyed the first Machine in Contact kentauros Jul 2012 #14
I was going to post that! begin_within Jul 2012 #19
However, kentauros Jul 2012 #24
I'll have to go back and listen to that. begin_within Jul 2012 #28
Yes, the opening was impressive. kentauros Jul 2012 #35
Thanks! begin_within Jul 2012 #64
Me too -- holy shit, man. Bertha Venation Jul 2012 #48
"Luke, I am your faaaaather" riderinthestorm Jul 2012 #15
Holy Shit! ohiosmith Jul 2012 #25
Deep Blue Sea. "First we're going to seal off this ho______" alphafemale Jul 2012 #20
Awesome! Holy Shit! ohiosmith Jul 2012 #27
I'm tired of these motherfucking sharks in this motherfucking research station n/t RZM Jul 2012 #81
Scene where the bad guy is revealed in "Apartment Zero". What a shocker. applegrove Jul 2012 #22
Who is Keyser Soze? FloridaJudy Jul 2012 #23
That was the first thing I thought of. nolabear Jul 2012 #29
Yup. FloridaJudy Jul 2012 #56
That Pink Flamingos scene. I won't even look for a clip. nt valerief Jul 2012 #26
Holy Shit! ohiosmith Jul 2012 #32
Gandalf fighting the Balrog YankeyMCC Jul 2012 #99
Pulp Fiction, the giant adrenaline needle stabbed through the Uma Thurman's chest kwassa Jul 2012 #30
Holy Shit! Is right! ohiosmith Jul 2012 #33
that's what happens to my checking account on payday fizzgig Jul 2012 #38
"Billy Jack" kicking the bullies asses n/t riverwalker Jul 2012 #31
I'm gonna take this foot...... Holy Shit! ohiosmith Jul 2012 #34
Here's a character that sez "Jesus Christ!" kentauros Jul 2012 #36
Holy Shit! ohiosmith Jul 2012 #50
aw man, i shot marvin in the face fizzgig Jul 2012 #37
HOLY SHIT! ohiosmith Jul 2012 #57
Alien, Commander Dallas, Shaft Scene Kennah Jul 2012 #39
Love it! Holy Shit! ohiosmith Jul 2012 #58
Graphic violence WARNING!!! davsand Jul 2012 #40
Ain't it the truth! Holy Shit! ohiosmith Jul 2012 #66
Gunfight at the end of "True Romance" Kennah Jul 2012 #41
Damn! Holy Shit! ohiosmith Jul 2012 #69
This thread's had some great 'holy shit' moments and of course Alien was packed with em. AllenVanAllen Jul 2012 #42
Holy Shit! Indeed! ohiosmith Jul 2012 #71
The Departed *spoiler" smoochpooch Jul 2012 #43
Great movie and scene! ohiosmith Jul 2012 #75
Clark Griswold getting shotgunned at that bar in Dodge City Blue_Tires Jul 2012 #44
Holy Shit! ohiosmith Jul 2012 #88
The unedited sex scene from Team America:World Police Joe Shlabotnik Jul 2012 #45
holy shit! ohiosmith Jul 2012 #90
The chipper scene in Fargo. HappyMe Jul 2012 #46
Holy Shit! ohiosmith Jul 2012 #92
Meg Ryan's restaurant orgasm HopeHoops Jul 2012 #47
The scene in American History X where RiffRandell Jul 2012 #49
Yes, that was pretty hard to take Lydia Leftcoast Jul 2012 #63
Holy shit!!! Initech Jul 2012 #51
The crash scene in "Castaway" geardaddy Jul 2012 #52
When George Peppard tells Michael Sarrazin "You volunteered". Scuba Jul 2012 #53
When the titanic sank. Dr. Strange Jul 2012 #55
Thelma and Louise when Louise robs the convenience store. HopeHoops Jul 2012 #59
the last scene in Boogie Nights wyldwolf Jul 2012 #60
"Angels and Insects" -- Hell Hath No Fury Jul 2012 #61
The Chompers kentauros Jul 2012 #62
This scene was badly written!!! WolverineDG Jul 2012 #70
"Whoever wrote this episode should DIE!!!" kentauros Jul 2012 #72
The whole movie is quote-able!! WolverineDG Jul 2012 #76
Announcer: Give him a hand. He's British! kentauros Jul 2012 #94
Oh That's Not Right! sharp_stick Jul 2012 #79
What a great story! kentauros Jul 2012 #93
The "The boss wants a little present for his girlfriend" scene from THE VALACHI PAPERS Ken Burch Jul 2012 #67
The beginning of " The Naked Prey " GreatCaesarsGhost Jul 2012 #68
Omaha Beach landing at the beginning of "Saving Private Ryan" Kennah Jul 2012 #73
The battle scene in "A Midnight Clear". I cried. Kennah Jul 2012 #74
Sharon Stone and the cigarette KamaAina Jul 2012 #78
Dreamcatcher my2sense Jul 2012 #84
I'll have you know that monster is affectionately called a Shit Weasle alphafemale Jul 2012 #85
What an appropriate my2sense Jul 2012 #86
Let's see... TheMightyFavog Jul 2012 #87
The ending of Stephen King's The Mist Frank Cannon Jul 2012 #89
In Monty Python and the Meaning of Life mythology Jul 2012 #91
Kay's confession to Michael in The Godfather Part II. Bolo Boffin Jul 2012 #95
Snatch, the scene with Bullet Tooth, Vinny, Sol, and Tyrone Kennah Jul 2012 #96
Matrix, when neo takes the pill, and wakes up in the "real" world JesterCS Jul 2012 #97
A 'mockumentary' from 1983 From The Ashes Jul 2012 #98

Tuesday Afternoon

(56,912 posts)
83. More Info for you --
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 05:23 PM
Jul 2012

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/

NewJeffCT

(56,828 posts)
17. As that star destroyer kept going & going
Mon Jul 9, 2012, 08:33 PM
Jul 2012

across the screen, it was really a "holy shit" moment for me - at 10 1/2

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
12. The bank robbery/shoot out scene in Heat
Mon Jul 9, 2012, 07:40 PM
Jul 2012

The sound fx and reactions to the gunfire were very authentic. It was great in theaters and kicks ass on my home system.

 

begin_within

(21,551 posts)
19. I was going to post that!
Mon Jul 9, 2012, 08:44 PM
Jul 2012

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)
24. However,
Mon Jul 9, 2012, 09:44 PM
Jul 2012

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)
28. I'll have to go back and listen to that.
Mon Jul 9, 2012, 10:27 PM
Jul 2012

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)
35. Yes, the opening was impressive.
Tue Jul 10, 2012, 12:33 AM
Jul 2012

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

 

riderinthestorm

(23,272 posts)
15. "Luke, I am your faaaaather"
Mon Jul 9, 2012, 08:11 PM
Jul 2012

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



FloridaJudy

(9,465 posts)
23. Who is Keyser Soze?
Mon Jul 9, 2012, 09:40 PM
Jul 2012

The last two minutes of "The Usual Suspects" (major spoiler warning: do not watch this if you haven't yet seen the movie)

FloridaJudy

(9,465 posts)
56. Yup.
Tue Jul 10, 2012, 04:29 PM
Jul 2012

Two "friends" ruined "The Crying Game" and "The Sixth Sense" for me, but I did not see that one coming!

kentauros

(29,414 posts)
36. Here's a character that sez "Jesus Christ!"
Tue Jul 10, 2012, 12:40 AM
Jul 2012

not to long before a "Holy Shit!" moment, one that garners the same kind of reaction from the characters, too:



davsand

(13,421 posts)
40. Graphic violence WARNING!!!
Tue Jul 10, 2012, 01:13 AM
Jul 2012




When I saw the film in the theater there was a collective gasp at the end.


Laura

AllenVanAllen

(3,134 posts)
42. This thread's had some great 'holy shit' moments and of course Alien was packed with em.
Tue Jul 10, 2012, 01:38 AM
Jul 2012



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....

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
44. Clark Griswold getting shotgunned at that bar in Dodge City
Tue Jul 10, 2012, 02:28 AM
Jul 2012

In National Lampoon's Vacation...

But the moment you blurt out "HOLY-" He pops back up

RiffRandell

(5,909 posts)
49. The scene in American History X where
Tue Jul 10, 2012, 09:57 AM
Jul 2012

Ed Norton has the guy put his open mouth on the curb and slams his boot on the back of his head.

Dr. Strange

(25,919 posts)
55. When the titanic sank.
Tue Jul 10, 2012, 03:03 PM
Jul 2012

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.

 

Hell Hath No Fury

(16,327 posts)
61. "Angels and Insects" --
Tue Jul 10, 2012, 06:42 PM
Jul 2012

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)
72. "Whoever wrote this episode should DIE!!!"
Tue Jul 10, 2012, 11:08 PM
Jul 2012

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)
76. The whole movie is quote-able!!
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 01:19 PM
Jul 2012

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)
94. Announcer: Give him a hand. He's British!
Thu Jul 12, 2012, 01:14 AM
Jul 2012
Gwen DeMarco: Alex, where are you going?
Sir Alexander Dane: To see if there's a pub!

sharp_stick

(14,400 posts)
79. Oh That's Not Right!
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 04:55 PM
Jul 2012

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)
93. What a great story!
Thu Jul 12, 2012, 01:11 AM
Jul 2012

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)
67. The "The boss wants a little present for his girlfriend" scene from THE VALACHI PAPERS
Tue Jul 10, 2012, 08:50 PM
Jul 2012

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).

Kennah

(14,256 posts)
74. The battle scene in "A Midnight Clear". I cried.
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 01:58 AM
Jul 2012

It is a little known 1992 anti-war WWII flick. Whole thing is on YouTube. All 11 parts. Here is part 1.

my2sense

(2,645 posts)
84. Dreamcatcher
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 05:33 PM
Jul 2012

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)
85. I'll have you know that monster is affectionately called a Shit Weasle
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 08:16 PM
Jul 2012

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)
86. What an appropriate
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 09:01 PM
Jul 2012

name. I cringe just thinking of the scene. I'm sure the book was much more graphic.....LOL

TheMightyFavog

(13,770 posts)
87. Let's see...
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 09:59 PM
Jul 2012

The rape scene in the Swedish version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (This was a disgusted "holy shit.&quot
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.&quot
The slaughtrering of the bull at the end of Apocalypse Now (this was a "What the fuck? Was that real?" "holy shit&quot
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&quot
Al;l the battle scenes from Saving Private Ryan

 

mythology

(9,527 posts)
91. In Monty Python and the Meaning of Life
Wed Jul 11, 2012, 11:32 PM
Jul 2012

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

Kennah

(14,256 posts)
96. Snatch, the scene with Bullet Tooth, Vinny, Sol, and Tyrone
Thu Jul 12, 2012, 03:00 AM
Jul 2012

"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!"

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