Great "Holy Crap" Moments in Movies

[The Widowed]

I think it was back in the old OGaming forums where I concocted a similar thread about great "Holy crap" moments in comic books (ie. Ozymandias' world-famous "35 minutes ago" speech or the Saint of Killers having a showdown with God). It's about time we got together and recalled our favorite "Holy crap" moments from the movies too, isn't it?

We all know and love the "Holy crap" moment. It's that moment when some great cinematic turn, twist, revelation or masterstroke catches us offguard or astonishes us in its enormity. It's usually a moment of great impact and it frequently manifests as a situation suddenly goes from good to bad...or from bad to worse. And the more masterfully executed the "Holy crap" moment and the events leading up to it, the more satisfying it is. :thumbup:

Okay, you talked me into it. I'll toss out the first bone here. You don't have to copy my style, of course. I'm just fancy like that. ;)


1) Anna looks into the grand mirror in the ballroom. (Van Helsing)
Count Dracula decides that it's time for a little socializing with his most comely mortal enemy, Anna Valerious. So Anna meets Dracula at a grand masquerade ball that's teeming with what must be hundreds of dancers and aristocratic sorts, and the two start to share a waltz together. Sure, Dracula's a little bit charming but unmistakably sinister as he chatters on about this and that, and sure, Dracula wants to wipe out the Valerious bloodline and Anna just happens to be the last of that bloodline...but surely Dracula wouldn't dare make his move and drain her to a lifeless husk or whatnot in this big huge ballroom full of people who might not exactly be pleased to find a vampire in their midst, would he?

Then Dracula and his smooth dancing give Anna a twirl and a dip, and she gets a good long glance at the huge mirror looking over the entire ballroom. And Anna--and the audience--suddenly get a most distinct insight into exactly how dire her situation really is.

Admit it. The first time you saw this part, you were reveling in the "Holy crap, he set her up big time" realization too. :)


2) Atreyu finds the illustrated timeline of his journey. (The Neverending Story)
After sharing a bleak moment with Rockbiter, Atreyu must continue fleeing the Nothing if he is to save Fantasia. He makes his way into a ruin within the ravaged, desolate city at the end of his trail, and on the ruin's walls he finds a timeline, a series of painted images depicting the many events of his quest. The Childlike Emperess giving the Auryn to Carion, Carion giving the Auryn to Atreyu, Atreyu losing his trusty steed Artax in the Swamp of Sadness, and so on. And after the pictures leading up to his arrival in the ruined city he turns to the last painting, which oddly enough turns out to be an event which hasn't yet happened in his quest: A painting of the snarling face of the monstrous wolf who pursued Atreyu through the Swamp of Sadness, glaring at him through a hole in the ruin wall.

We're given just a split-second to register what we've seen. And then, right that moment, Atreyu hears a loud snarl behind him....

Admit it. You jumped too.

And then? The showdown between Atreyu and G'mork, arguably the most suspenseful and compelling confrontation in the entire movie. :thumbup:


3) Bastian realizes that he too is part of the Neverending Story. (The Neverending Story)
The Nothing finally eats Fantasia alive, and the entire world of Fantasia is reduced to what is pretty much an asteroid belt. But even though their entire planet has been destroyed, Atreyu and Falkor haven't yet given up hope. They find the Ivory Tower where the Childlike Emperess lives, figuring that if there's any hope at all left for their world, it's through her.

Of course, bear in mind that the entire story of Fantasia and Atreyu and the Emperess and Rockbiter and the Southern Oracle and G'mork...that's all just a story in an old book that Bastian's reading in his bedroom, right? Isn't it? :think:

"My horse died, I nearly drowned, and I just barely got away from the Nothing. For what? To find out what you already knew?"
"It was the only way to get in touch with an Earthling."
"But I didn't get in touch with an Earthling!"
"Yes, you did. He has suffered with you. He went through everything you went through. And now, he has come here with you. He's very close. Listening to every word that we say."

This is more of a slow-burning "Holy crap" moment as Bastian--and we the audience--realize that the Emperess is talking about Bastian. From the pages of a book. Wouldn't that kind of freak you out--even just a little--if the story you were reading suddenly started talking about you sitting there, reading the story, maybe even addressing you by name or describing things like where you got the book in the first place?

It gets better, of course. Bastian's disbelief with what he's reading brings the Nothing right to the Emperess' doorstep. She needs Bastian to give her a name before the Nothing eats her and everything with her. The next thing you know, Bastian (still reading the book) is arguing aloud with the pleading Emperess (still confined within the story he's reading). Bastian's concept of a safe, cozy reality has pretty much left the building by this point. So he finally relents, runs to the window and screams "Moonchild!" as the entire world goes to hell.

And then the darkness parts and Bastian meets the Emperess face to face. Thus the "Holy crap" moment achieves a satisfying resolution.

And by the end of the movie, Bastian's back on Earth chasing school bullies through the streets with a puppy-faced luck dragon.

I love shattered realities. Don't you? :D


Now you go.

[RedSwitchblade]

In the end of Battle Royale when the teacher survived 32 bullet wounds to answer his phone, yell at his daughter, then throw it and shoot it from across the room with a single bullet.

[WingedAvenger]

I'll copy your style, Wids, cause I like it. ;)

1) "Tell me what's in the f****n' box!" (Se7en)
Still one of the greatest twist endings ever filmed. They never show it, but the revelation of the box's contents nearly had me out of my seat in amazement. Chances are you've seen this, so there's little need for further explanation.


2) Gregiore gets his ninja on. (Les Pacte Des Loups)
18th century France is probably the last place anyone would expect to find kick-ass kung fu fighting, so the setting is a pretty open palate. For much of the movie's first half, nearly all of the hand-to-hand action is done by Mani, Gregiore's faithful American Indian sidekick. They call him a shaman, but what he really does is lay waste to French street fighters like only an original American can.

That is until Mani bites the dust while chasing the Beast through its lair. Finding the body discarded in a ditch, the multiskilled Gregiore performs an autopsy and discovers Mani had been shot by a silver bullet. Enraged that his friend had been slain by human hands, Gregoire, who had been a passively witty and charming fellow before, dons a sleek black suit with black facepaint and returns to the lair to exact some revenge, ninja-style.

It was a coolly surprising moment for me because I had come to accept Gregiore as the talker and Mani as the fighter, but they turned my expectations around, big time. The climactic fight scene at the end of the film does not disappoint either.


3) Cleric John defends the dog. (Equilibrium)
It was the first gun sequence in the movie in which we actually get to see gunkata in use (the opening scene with John in the pitch black room doesn't count). Grammaton Cleric First Class John Preston has smuggled an innocent puppy away from the city to protect it from being slaughtered (wouldn't you?). Unfortunately for him, the totalitarian police arrive to inspect his car.

When an inspector demands to see what's in the trunk, Preston is forced to do him in. Well, that doesn't sit so well with the motorcycle-helmeted guards waiting by the armored bus. As they close in, Preston sees only one way out.

He runs toward them and vaults off a parked motorcycle, doing a backflip in the air while moving forward. He lands square in the center of the group and proceeds to annihilate every one of them with explosive bursts of dancing carnage swinging in every direction. I was expecting some gunplay, but I was never expecting that. I think it was one of the few times I actually screamed out loud in the theater, "Holy crap!" Which makes it fitting for this thread. :)

More later as I think of them.

[Sir Serpa]

3) Cleric John defends the dog. (Equilibrium)
It was the first gun sequence in the movie in which we actually get to see gunkata in use (the opening scene with John in the pitch black room doesn't count). Grammaton Cleric First Class John Preston has smuggled an innocent puppy away from the city to protect it from being slaughtered (wouldn't you?). Unfortunately for him, the totalitarian police arrive to inspect his car.

When an inspector demands to see what's in the trunk, Preston is forced to do him in. Well, that doesn't sit so well with the motorcycle-helmeted guards waiting by the armored bus. As they close in, Preston sees only one way out.

He runs toward them and vaults off a parked motorcycle, doing a backflip in the air while moving forward. He lands square in the center of the group and proceeds to annihilate every one of them with explosive bursts of dancing carnage swinging in every direction. I was expecting some gunplay, but I was never expecting that. I think it was one of the few times I actually screamed out loud in the theater, "Holy crap!" Which makes it fitting for this thread. :)

More later as I think of them.

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[WingedAvenger]

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Yeah, that one. :shinner:

[Sword]

The end of Fight Club.

If english had been my first language, I'd be saying "holy crap!"

[Nite]

The ending of "The Departed".

The ending of "The bridge to Tarabithia" (go see it. Its better than it looks :D).

EDIT: I forgot to add the ending to "Sixth Sense" as well :P

[Chain Lightning]

The ending of "The Departed".


Yeah seriously. Just got this in my Netflix last week and the ending was just like "Whoa'

I'll have to think of some of my 'holy crap' moments. Only one that comes to mind right now is:

Ripley finds the queen Alien ( Aliens)
When she comes around that corner holding Newt, they both are at their most vulnerable because she knows she's deep in the heart of them. Then she looks up and sees that huge beast laying those eggs. You know you just had to go "Oh Crap, this is so not good."
Still in my top five movies, EVAH.

[Dynamo-Man]

"No, Luke. I am your father."

Best movie shock EVAR!

[Sir Serpa]

All of 300.

[Meltman]

The plane crash in Die Hard 2.

This is the American Soul.

[Graphite]

Independence Day,
Black Screen: July 3th
Next Image: Statue of Liberty on its Side, NYC in rubble.
Holy Sh1t!

[Grae Knight]

When they had to put down Ole Yeller. :cry: :cry:

[The Widowed]

1) "Tell me what's in the f****n' box!" (Se7en)
Still one of the greatest twist endings ever filmed. They never show it, but the revelation of the box's contents nearly had me out of my seat in amazement. Chances are you've seen this, so there's little need for further explanation.
"If you kill him, he wins!" :look:

That was a great scene. The real gut-puncher was when Somerset looks inside the box, takes a moment to register and immediately starts telling Mills to put his weapon on the ground. You just know something bad's about to happen right then.

The end of Fight Club.

If english had been my first language, I'd be saying "holy crap!"
The self-inflicted gunshot wound, you mean? :D

Ripley finds the queen Alien ( Aliens)
When she comes around that corner holding Newt, they both are at their most vulnerable because she knows she's deep in the heart of them. Then she looks up and sees that huge beast laying those eggs. You know you just had to go "Oh Crap, this is so not good."
Oooh, and Ripley and the xenomorph queen have a stunned staredown which seems to last forever, and then Ripley howls and out comes the flamethrower.... :D

Aliens rocked harder than a dump truck. And, as you've reminded me, that wasn't the only big "Holy crap" moment in the movie either. ;)

Still in my top five movies, EVAH.
If only they had let Cameron direct the entire Alien series, eh? :cool:

"No, Luke. I am your father."

Best movie shock EVAR!
Often imitated, never duplicated. :)

Luke's reaction makes the moment even better. "No. That's not true. That's impossible!" Mark Hamill really should have made Hollywood's A-List after that scene. :D

In RotJ, I kind of wish Obi-Wan had told Luke "Yeah, I lied about your father, I didn't think you could handle the truth" instead of turning it into a metaphor. But it was still a decent follow-up to that big heaping revelation, wasn't it?


Okay, two more logs for the fire.


Ripley confronts the xenomorph queen. (Aliens)
"Get away from her, you bitch!"

The ship has been compromised, Bishop's been torn in half by the xenomorph queen, the queen has Newt cornered beneath the floor grates, Newt screams, a cargo bay door slowly opens and in stomps the cavalry: Ripley, strapped inside the exoskeleton of a massive powerloader.

Suffice it to say that after all the shooty-shooty action throughout the rest of the movie, the last thing we (or at least I) expected to see was a hand-to-hand battle between human and xenomorph. But the moment you see her inside the powerloader, along comes that "Ohhh, now it's ON!" feeling. :D


Willie Lopez dies. (Ghost)
Sam has finally learned the art of How a Ghost Can Smack the Crap Outta People and Things, and he's really laying into Willie: Knocking him down, smashing him with cabinet doors and whatever else he can get his spectral hands on. Hey, Willie's the one who murdered him; You can expect payback to be a bitch, especially if it's the post-mortem kind.

Like most people, Willie has never been duffed up by a ghost before...Sam's beating the tar out of Willie, Willie can't even see Sam or touch him...so naturally he panics something huge. Willie comes barging out of the apartment at Mach 1, howling like a madman and slamming into people and trash cans, not even minding where he's going; He just wants to get the hell away from Sam. So Willie blindly charges right into the street and boom! Taxi cab.

Willie gets knocked down by the impact and he lies there on the pavement for a good long moment. He slowly picks himself up off the street, noticing that there's some kind of commotion going on nearby. He staggers over to the taxi cab surrounded by stunned onlookers, and Willie and the audience get a very clear indicator of what just happened (and what Willie has become) as he sees his own corpse spread across the taxi's hood. A well-timed striking chord drives the moment home.

Sam, of course, was right behind Willie all along. And now all of a sudden Willie can see and hear Sam perfectly well.

"You're dead, Willie."

Willie gets just a moment to recognize Sam, that "Hey, aren't you the guy I murdered?" kind of recognition. Can't really describe it better than that.

Now by this point we've already seen a few ghosts pop out of the recently deceased--including Sam--and they're always greeted by a pillar of light with glowing orbs drifting around, waiting to take the poor bereft soul to Heaven or somesuch. But there's no pillar of light for Willie. He's one of the bad guys. So instead we hear some infernal growling or wailing, and then the shadows start to move, take humanoid form and converge on him....

...oh, like you don't remember seeing the shadow fiends for the first time.

Hell of a scene, wasn't it? :D

[Malibu Sally]

In RotJ, I kind of wish Obi-Wan had told Luke "Yeah, I lied about your father, I didn't think you could handle the truth" instead of turning it into a metaphor. But it was still a decent follow-up to that big heaping revelation, wasn't it?
One of my favorite scenes in ANH was when Luke asks Ben, "How did my father die?" The next shot is a closeup of Ben's face. I love the hesitant look that flashes just before he speaks. But that is not an "Oh Crap" moment.


Oh crap moment? When Chaz Palminteri realizes that the most important bits of what Kevin Spacey has told him is a lie in "The Usual Suspects".

[iggy880]

How about in Dogma when they're in that bar and Silent Bob gives the golf club a swing. I was like "Holy *****"...thats about all I can remember to add right now sadly.

[The Widowed]

How about in Dogma when they're in that bar and Silent Bob gives the golf club a swing. I was like "Holy *****"...thats about all I can remember to add right now sadly.
Yeah, it's one of those moments where you're expecting it but you're not expecting it specifically. So it catches you off guard anyway.

"But I'm a ****ing demon!" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BDmJTGa1OM)

[MajorMarvel]

"Who do you think I am?"
"Your Tyler Durden"

I Loved that. Didnt read the book before I saw the movie

[Noble]

The ending of "The bridge to Tarabithia" (go see it. Its better than it looks :D).



That movie made me cry. I really liked the girl who was the boy's friend...I wish she had been my friend.

As for my Holy Crap Moment, the one that jumps into my mind is when the Ents started coming out of the woods in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. I love the Ents. And another one might be in Return of the King when the giant Elephant's (their name escapes me at the moment) come out and mess up the Riders of Rohan.

[Rael]

And another one might be in Return of the King when the giant Elephant's (their name escapes me at the moment) come out and mess up the Riders of Rohan.

Sam calls them Oliphants in the books and movie, he's heard of legends of them, and had always wanted to see one.

As for my 'oh crap" moment was the ending of Unbreakable. Call me a sap, but I wasn't expecting that.

[Xielos]

In K-PAX when Kevin Spacey walks out of the therapy room, turns around and says: "Oh, now that you've found Robert, take good care of him." That was pretty awesome.

In Stepford Wives when whats-her-face knocks Christopher Walken's head off with the candle-stick. It all suddenly becomes clear. Or more confusing.

[Vendel]

When the Titanic sank...omg. I mean who knew.

[Sword]

The self-inflicted gunshot wound, you mean? :D


No-no (allthough that was a bit of a "holy ****!" moment as well :D). But after that, when the music starts ;) I just wanted to bow down in the theatre and worship :D

[UnSub]

1) Anna looks into the grand mirror in the ballroom. (Van Helsing)

...

Admit it. The first time you saw this part, you were reveling in the "Holy crap, he set her up big time" realization too.

Actually, I was already angry at the film and could see no reflections in the mirrors that were in the ballroom a good time before they did the big reveal. I thought someone had screwed up the camera work or something.

[UnSub]

"Ong Bak" - "It's... it's ... MAD DOG!"
So our hero has already kicked the snot out of an Australian freestyle fighter and a crazy legs Japanese fighter to the enjoyment of the crowd watching this pit fight, then some smirking guy steps up and the announcers loses his composure due to the fear he has that Mad Dog is going to fight.

Seriously, given the escalation in the fights to that point, it was just awesome to see someone who terrified those who knew him step up. And the fight doesn't disappoint. More martial arts films should beat people up with fridges.

I can go on and on about all the fight scenes in "Ong Bak", but this one is great.

"Kung Fu Hustle" - The Landlords vs the Beast

Another awesome fight sequence. The "I didn't know the Lion's Roar could be amplified!" bit was great, as was the Beast just pummelling Sing into the ground. I loved the fact it was three old kung fu masters fighting each other - trying to kill each other, sure, but respecting each other while they did it.

"The Incredibles" - One Plane, Two Missiles, Your Kids Are On Board

This is one of the greatest superhero movie scenes ever. Elasti-Girl set off in her private plane to find her husband who she thinks is cheating on her. Her kids stowaway on board, which is her first problem, but then the villain fires missiles at her plane. The movie just ramps up the panic of that moment, with everyone screaming, Elasti-Girl trying to get her daughter to use her forcefield powers until it's just too late and Elasti-Girl wraps her kids up in her body and protects them from the explosion.

In that moment it's just a mother protecting her kids. And seriously, has there ever been a better female superhero on the big screen than Elasti-Girl?

[The Widowed]

Actually, I was already angry at the film and could see no reflections in the mirrors that were in the ballroom a good time before they did the big reveal. I thought someone had screwed up the camera work or something.
Nope. Vampires don't cast reflections. (Unless they're non-Clan-Lasombra World of Darkness vampires and such.) :P

Ooh, did I mention this super-cool turnabout moment?


Friar Tuck confronts the Bishop of Hereford. (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves)

"Gold. You've sold your soul to Satan, Your Grace."

What really makes this scene work is the long, long set-up: All throughout the preceding chunk of the movie, we've only seen Friar Tuck as a gluttonous, drunken pacifist who seems to exist purely for comic relief...not a very pious-acting sort and hardly the archetype we imagine when we hear the words "man of God", right?

Well, apparently he does have a righteous bone in his body after all, and it takes a corrupt bishop who took the Sheriff's gold to stage an ill-founded sham of a marriage with Maid Marian to bring it out. Apparently the bishop has a penchant for executing people witch-hunter style too. So in those moments we quickly learn where Friar Tuck stands in regards to Heaven and Hell as Tuck overloads the bishop with boxes and bags stuffed with gold coins, a pretty fitting castigation for the bishop's greed (which turns out to be a Deadly Sin in every sense of the word).

"And here's thirty pieces of silver...to pay the Devil on your way to Hell!"

Ten points for the Judas Iscariot reference. :D

Tell me I'm not the only one who remembers how stunning this scene was.

[Knightward]

It was a fun scene.

The scene in A History of Violence when the diner is being held up was another great shocker. Granted, everyone walked into that movie expecting Viggo Mortensen to be capable of busting heads, but the speed and brutality of it catch you by surprise! And if that doesn't get you, the fact that all his acts of violence are not only so fatally efficient, but he is completely emotionless as he does it. No anger, no fear, no doubt, just something that needs to be done which he flies through without even trying.

[The Widowed]

Hey, you.

You're needed in the My Pet Dungeon threads. Go. :p

And did Poison make Owain look like a complete bag of stress or what? :D

[Dynamo-Man]

Tell me I'm not the only one who remembers how stunning this scene was.
You're not. I loved that scene. And I thought Sean Connery as King Richard was another good "Oh crap!" moment in that movie. :)

[iggy880]

Ooh, new one.

The scene in National Treasure in the giant spiral staircase vault area leading down to the treasure, as they're walking and the whole thing collapses. Probably the most excitement, and while it was foreshadowed a bit it was comletely "Holy Crap" man.

[Half Life]

For me the biggest moment in any movie that made me say "OH ****!" was more of a shock thing than a surprising twist, but the Curbstomp in American History X is just so freaking "oh ****".


As for unseen twists id say the end of Equilibrium. Christian Bale is being told that everything is a trap and that the BBEG is taking him out completely without incident. So bale says "No, not without incident" then proceededs to absolutely destroy the room. OOOoooohhhh, was such a cool line from one of my favorite movies.

Or in the Crow, at the end when he was laying there dying and the BBEG was ready to finish the job. So Eric Draven grabs the guy by the head and gives him 30 hours of pain, all at one time. I can only imagine what that would feel like....OUCH!! pretty sure that would kill anybody.

[WingedAvenger]

The good guys blow up the bad guy's security gazebo. (Bad Boys 2)
Bad Boys 2 is a pretty testosterone-heavy movie as it is, but a crowning point of this comes at the start of the third act. The cops that followed Lowrey and Burnett to Cuba have dug secret tunnels underneath the palacial grounds of villain Johnny Tapia. As part of their plan, the first move is to take out a security room outside of the mansion.

When the go command is given, they emerge from a foxhole, level a rocket launcher at the room, and blow it to smithereens. It was truly a cheering moment thanks to the surprise of it all. My friend and I actually high-fived after seeing that for the first time.

[Knightward]

Seriously Wids, when isn't Owain a bag of stress?

As for more great oh crap moments: Any number of scenes in Sin City. Hartigan's partner shooting him in the back, Marv escaping the cops, what's at the farm, what Marv does to Kevin, who Benecio Del Toro's character really is, etc.

[Nite]

Talledega Nights: When Ricky Bobby (Will Ferrell) kisses Sascha Baron Cohen.

Saw it and was like: "Oh crap!" :lol:

[Meltman]

The Reporter's death in Hot Fuzz.

[Elemento]

Not really too familiar with the recent newer films you guys have watched. I could point out some moments in past films.
In Ten Commandments when Pharoah Ramses (Yul Brynner) finds out that Moses is not his brother but a Hebrew. Look on his face says holy crap. That had to be the turning point where everything went in the opposite direction of the story.

Still love the holy crap moments in The Abominable Dr. Phibes and its sequel death scenes especially the telephone icepick device, the in-car sandblaster and the scorpion scene.

I can think of other films I loved but not the moments.

[The Widowed]

Seriously Wids, when isn't Owain a bag of stress?

As for more great oh crap moments: Any number of scenes in Sin City. Hartigan's partner shooting him in the back, Marv escaping the cops, what's at the farm, what Marv does to Kevin, who Benecio Del Toro's character really is, etc.
"I'll be right out." CRASH!!! :singdance

My reigning "Holy crap" moment has to be Hartigan's death, with the reiteration of the words "Old man dies. Young girl lives. Fair trade." I honestly didn't see that coming, after he'd endured all that world of crap and had come so far with saving her life and killing Yellow Bastard (and tearing off Yellow Bastard's external genitalia in the process) and all. I was hoping he'd take the fight straight to Yellow Bastard's Dad. But I guess the approach he did take works too. Goddamn. :think:

Marv alone was worth the movie's price of admission; Tack on Hartigan and the movie's a steal. And I still have a pause for thought everytime I think of Kevin not even making a sound as the dog quite literally ate him alive. Pretty good movie overall, much better than the comic book (in my humble opinion). :)

[Jade_Dragon]

Definately the biggest shocker for me was in Shattered, when Tom Berenger comes face to face with the dead body of the man he was suspecting was having an affair with his wife. Despite his amnesia, and the mysterious things going on around him, including his wife treating him very strangely, he begins to suspect that he's involved in a murder. With the help of a private detective (Bob Hoskins, who I think is great in the role) he manages to track down clues and follow his own fragments of memory to an old ship. He even suspects that he's the killer, that he killed the man, and dumped his body in the ship's flooded hold.

But as he pulls the body out of the water, and looks it in the face, he (and you) gets a shocking twist that changes everything about what you believed was going on. Bob's there to put in a little expostion, but it's not really necessary. I pride myself on being able to see twist endings coming but this one TOTALLY crept up on me. I don't know that I said "Holy Crap", but I at least stood there and stared, open mouthed.

The second one is the end of "Rock and Rule", when Mok summons the demon. It's got to be one of the best depictions of a demon in cinema, it's not really a solid thing, just an amorphous, flaming mass of images and disturbing shapes. I don't know that there were any actual pictures in it, but I got the distinct feeling it was formed out of depictions of evil. Omar has run up to free Angel, who was being forced to sing the notes to summon the demon by a collar around her throat. He leaps at the demon, trying to protect Angel from it, and it slams him down in one blow, apparently killing him, as Angel looks on in horror.

As the demon moves on to Mok's henchmen, who've also decided to attack the beast, Angel kneels next to Omar's body. Then she stands up, and with fury in her eyes, rips the collar from around her neck, and flings it aside. I'd seen the scene in previews, but I didn't understand until that moment what it was about.

"If I can sing it up..." she says, "I can sing it back."

That's the moment that I remember from the scene, just that defiance and anger in her face, and her grief over Omar, too. And she starts to sing, a love song that she had performed earlier in the movie, which she had gotten into a fight with Omar about. Mok begins laughing, he's already confirmed that "No one" can dismiss the demon. The monster turns on her, and Angel backs away slightly, still singing, but with fear on her face.

And then, just before the demon reaches her, Omar steps up behind her and adds his voice to hers. The monster reels away from them, obviously driven back by the song. Mok won't believe it, he tries to play the tune again himself but the demon is being driven back into the portal. "But no one can!" he yells, just as he realizes that it is not one voice that is driving the demon away, but two.

Before he can stop them, Mok's henchman, whose brother Zip was killed earlier by the demon, grabs him, and yelling "YOU KILLED MY BROTHER!" throws him into the portal. Mok and the demon disappear into Hell, as he continues to yell, "But no one can! No one can!"

And finally, it's not a movie, but it's a "Holy Crap" moment. It's the moment in Full Metal Alchemist, the episode "Night of the Chimera's Cry". Edward has been trying to uncover the truth of Tucker's Chimera, which had the ability to talk like a human. Tucker has small child, a little girl, that Ed and Al get very close to. His wife is also missing, he claims that she left him because he was a failure, before his first Chimera experiment succeeded, but the other Alchemists tell him she'd dead.

Ed already suspects what he's going to find, but he carries on pursuing the clues anyway. Tucker, meanwhile, is being pressured more and more to create another Chimera. Finally, Ed confronts him, but he has already created another Chimera, this one looking much like their dog. Ed attacks Tucker, but Al doesn't understand at first, and Ed has to explain it to him.

"He used his wife, Al! His own wife!"

"And... this one..."

"His daughter!"

Ed starts to beat Tucker senseless, but the dog growls at him and grabs his hand. He then tries to separate her back into the girl and the dog again, but he stops out of fear of what it would do to her if he failed. She later escapes when Ed helps free her from the Alchemists, and she runs away, at which time she runs into Scar.

Saying that "You are an abomination against nature... and you are in so much pain", Scar causes her to explode, freeing her from her combined state, but killing her in the process. Ed comes along the scene, and as he squints at the remains in the darkened alley, you see the gamut of emotions cross his face; confusion, denial, fear, rage, and finally deep, anguished grief.

I literally had to get up and turn the TV off at that point, I couldn't even watch the credits. Up until that point, the show had hinted at the evil that was possible in "playing God", but they'd managed to keep it hidden in an environment that was bright and cheerful. In that moment, they just brought it up and put it in your face.

[Rottweiler]

Meatloaf was JB's dad. (Tenacious D: The Pick of Destiny)

[The Widowed]

*wonders where Rottweiler is now* :p

Ooh, how could anyone forget this one? :D

Alex recognizes the two policemen who come to help him. (A Clockwork Orange)

So Alex De Large used to be the leader of a small yet violent, destructive and menacing band of thugs whom we all know as the Droogs. Things started off well enough between Alex and his droogies, but eventually a rift started to develop...Georgie tried to usurp leadership of the droogs (with Dim backing him up and Pete just going along with it), Alex put them back in their place by kicking the asses of Georgie and Dim, and finally Dim brained Alex with a milk bottle and the droogies left him for the police, who naturally arrested him. He got 14 years in prison for killing an older lady with a ceramic phallus statuette, he was subsequently volunteered for a radical new form of psychotherapy and, after a successful rehabilitation, Alex has returned to society as a new man.

Of course, Alex racked up quite a few victims during his heyday, and they do come back to haunt him. He is soon accosted by a homeless old man who recognizes Alex as the former droog leader (after Alex and the droogies attacked the old man at some point in history). Alex promptly gets mobbed by the old man and his pack of homeless people, he's taking a wicked beating from them and suddenly two policemen show up, disperse the mob and rescue Alex.

"Oh, cool," I figured. "Alex is safe now."

No such luck. Alex and the one policeman make eye contact, and Alex immediately recognizes the cop as his former droogie Dim...and, of course, Dim recognizes Alex too. "Now what's going on here...Well well well! Well, well, well, well, well! If it isn't our little friend Alex!" The other cop...well, I forget exactly who he is, but I think he's Billy Boy, the once rival gang leader who received a thorough trouncing by Alex and the droogs. And at the moment of recognition the Clockwork Orange theme starts to play, driving the "Oh crap" moment home quite nicely.

Both Dim and Billy Boy(?) have a score to settle with Alex, so they load Alex into the police van and cart him out to the middle of nowhere as Alex is basically pleading with them, saying how he's reformed and how the past should be left in the past. And, of course, the two cops won't have any of it. "Oh, and you can't call me Dim no more! The name's Officer Colby now." So they end up dragging Alex out into the woods and holding his head under in a tub full of water as Dim's ringing the tub like a gong.

Bastards. :p

EDIT: Look what I found. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnZQ_EZFmYc) :D

Hey, wait a minute...Billy Boy, my ass. Isn't that Georgie too? Real horrorshow there. :D

[Solario]

It's Dim and Georgie I think. And yeah that's a great moment. You can actually hear the two officers change their intonation and way of speaking as they fall back into their old personas.

[DartZader]

1) Wash is a leaf on the wind. (Serenity)
After making past the alliance blockade, avoiding the Reavers, doing a flat spin and then glide landing in something that shouldn't fly without power, and crashing into a hangar/pillar/just about everything else, Wash is then impaled on a giant metal spike. Oh. My. God.

[The Widowed]

It's Dim and Georgie I think. And yeah that's a great moment. You can actually hear the two officers change their intonation and way of speaking as they fall back into their old personas.
Yeah, you're right. They start off all authoritative and professional (more or less), but they're back to their old thuggish selves by the time they reach the woods. :D

Suddenly I want to throw together a droog costume for Halloween this year. But the hard part promises to be making that massive codpiece. Bonus points if I can make it big enough to be convincing and evocative yet light enough that it won't crunch my jimmy bits everytime I stand up. I wonder how those original codpieces were made. :p

1) Wash is a leaf on the wind. (Serenity)
After making past the alliance blockade, avoiding the Reavers, doing a flat spin and then glide landing in something that shouldn't fly without power, and crashing into a hangar/pillar/just about everything else, Wash is then impaled on a giant metal spike. Oh. My. God.
I really need to sit all the way through that movie one of these days. I was watching it at the local hobby shop, but I've always gotten my share of glee and walked off to browse comic books after River Tam watches the Fruity Oaty Bar commercial and knocks the hell out of everyone in the tavern. :D

[Solario]

Yeah, you're right. They start off all authoritative and professional (more or less), but they're back to their old thuggish selves by the time they reach the woods. :D

Suddenly I want to throw together a droog costume for Halloween this year. But the hard part promises to be making that massive codpiece. Bonus points if I can make it big enough to be convincing and evocative yet light enough that it won't crunch my jimmy bits everytime I stand up. I wonder how those original codpieces were made. :p

I can't begin to describe how much I want a decent costume of that ever since Got pointed out that I looked like Alex in the picture thread. And yeah, I love that sequence. They're clearly still bullies, but they're a different sort of bullies until they see Alex and revert back to their old selves for a little while.

[The Widowed]

You know, where has Got been lately? He always has some pretty fun posts in these forums. :think:

And if he's a big guy, he gets to be Dim. How does that sound? :D

[RedSwitchblade]

I recently had three "HOLY ****" moments when I watched the Bourne Supremacy.

1) When Bourne's love gets sniped by accident.

I mean, I kind of expected it to come, but not at the time that it did, and when it did, I paused the movie and stood up for a second holding my head, because it was quite possibly the perfect time for it, when the conversation was intense and about to reach a head when *BAM* Karl Urban missed Bourne and takes his girlfriend (and driver of the car).

2) So there's the Puppet Master!

When Ward Abbott carefully listens to Danny Zorn's deduction that the plastique job on the power lines were sloppy, and Abbott murders Zorn without hesitation to keep it quiet. I didn't see it coming but I knew someone in the higher-ups had to have a hand in the pot. I just didn't know it was going to make a stop there. I was caught totally off guard.

3) Burnout-style wreckless driving

The shunting of the Mini Cooper and the Land Rover in the tunnels. Just watch it, and try to imagine yourself maintaining that much control. It was a great chase.


I also agree with the nomination of Wash's final hurrah. The entire scene was amazing.

"Target the reavers. Target anything. SOMEBODY FIRE!!"

[The Icy One]

1) Wash is a leaf on the wind. (Serenity)
After making past the alliance blockade, avoiding the Reavers, doing a flat spin and then glide landing in something that shouldn't fly without power, and crashing into a hangar/pillar/just about everything else, Wash is then impaled on a giant metal spike. Oh. My. God. Oh yea.. that one caught me off guard, I almost wanted to cry.. he was my favorite. :cry:

[Solario]

You know, where has Got been lately? He always has some pretty fun posts in these forums. :think:

And if he's a big guy, he gets to be Dim. How does that sound? :D

Hah alright. He's off to university and travels a lot which seems to take up quite a bit of his time. I see him on MSN sometimes.

[Got]

Suddenly I want to throw together a droog costume for Halloween this year. But the hard part promises to be making that massive codpiece. Bonus points if I can make it big enough to be convincing and evocative yet light enough that it won't crunch my jimmy bits everytime I stand up. I wonder how those original codpieces were made. :p
Four of us dressed as the droogs for Halloween years ago. It's a proper cricket codpiece you're looking for but good luck finding one of them anywhere outside of England. What a stupid ****ing sport.

I can't begin to describe how much I want a decent costume of that ever since Got pointed out that I looked like Alex in the picture thread.
Yes. (http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r312/Got_album/untitled.jpg)

You know, where has Got been lately? He always has some pretty fun posts in these forums. :think:

And if he's a big guy, he gets to be Dim. How does that sound? :D
I tend to galavant a lot, it should die off with the cold weather. And I'm not really all that big, nor do I have a mohawk. I have a full head of hair and carry myself with an effortless grace.


To keep with the thread, Max's novel solution to his mental health troubles at the end of Pi really had my nostrils flaring.

...so once when I was six I did. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YatFF37gSBo)

[The Widowed]

Hah alright. He's off to university and travels a lot which seems to take up quite a bit of his time. I see him on MSN sometimes.
Well, I figure he's already British (even if Scottish isn't exactly English), so he already has a leg up on both of us when it comes to doing the proper droog-ish accents and intonations. :D

Well, well, well. Well, well, well, well. Speak of the Devil and he appears. :D

Four of us dressed as the droogs for Halloween years ago. It's a proper cricket codpiece you're looking for but good luck finding one of them anywhere outside of England. What a stupid ****ing sport.
That's an actual piece of protective gear from an actual sport (stupid or not)? A veritable piece of large, bulky body armor engineered expressly for the purpose of defending a very vulnerable region of the male anatomy from the rigors of the aforementioned sport? Rigors which evidently could outmatch the durability and defense inherent to your typical hard plastic athletic cup? :o

British sports suddenly scare me very deeply. :look:

I tend to galavant a lot, it should die off with the cold weather. And I'm not really all that big, nor do I have a mohawk. I have a full head of hair and carry myself with an effortless grace.
So you're saying that you'd be more suited for the role of Pete then? :D


To keep with the thread, Max's novel solution to his mental health troubles at the end of Pi really had my nostrils flaring.
...another movie that I'll have to sit through before this lifetime's over. You guys just keep adding to the list, I swear. :p

And you know, Solario does have Alex's hair, now that you point that out....

[Xielos]

1) Wash is a leaf on the wind. (Serenity)
After making past the alliance blockade, avoiding the Reavers, doing a flat spin and then glide landing in something that shouldn't fly without power, and crashing into a hangar/pillar/just about everything else, Wash is then impaled on a giant metal spike. Oh. My. God.

I saw the movie before I watched the series :cry:

[Stalking Shadow]

The ending to Brazil

"I think he's gone away from us Jack."
"I think you're right, Mr. Helpmann."
"Hmm."

[WingedAvenger]

I saw the movie before I watched the series :cry:

Same here. I'm now slowly catching up on the series.

[The Widowed]

Four of us dressed as the droogs for Halloween years ago. It's a proper cricket codpiece you're looking for but good luck finding one of them anywhere outside of England. What a stupid ****ing sport.
Where can I order a cricket codpiece? Or four? I can't seem to find them for sale anywhere on the internet. :p

Maybe I can trade with Charon: A cricket codpiece for three 12-pack "fridge packs" of Mountain Dew. Think that would go over well? :)