Moment in a film that made you gasp
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He finally opened the door I believe, the handle was nolonger red.?
I keep meaning to see Children of Men , I'll wait a bit for Inception.
When the Joker performed his "magic trick" in The Dark Knight, it was more of a whoa that was fucking cool! This guy is really Psycho
Eh, I figured once I came in here all bets were off on what I'd be spoiled with.
Yep, that did it for me, too.
And the ending of CARRIE left me shaking all the way out to the parking lot . . ..
I didn't personally gasp at this since I'd already read the books, but when I went to see Return of the King on opening night, there was a quite loud collective gasp that came when Frodo claimed the Ring...I've never seen a movie theater audience that glued to the screen as the one I was in during that sequence...
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I hadn't considered that; my apologies. I just wanted to make clear the association between my post and others that'd been made in the thread. Outside of that context I wouldn't have mentioned it, in that I'm sure I've had similar reactions on many occasions that I can't recall in retrospect.
Course now y'all have gone and quoted it.
I hadn't considered that; my apologies. I just wanted to make clear the association between my post and others that'd been made in the thread. Outside of that context I wouldn't have mentioned it, in that I'm sure I've had similar reactions on many occasions that I can't recall in retrospect.
Course now y'all have gone and quoted it.
To be fair, I think "Spoiler Alert" is sort of implied in the very nature of the thread.
We're talking about shocking, surprising moments after all . . . .
I hadn't considered that; my apologies. I just wanted to make clear the association between my post and others that'd been made in the thread. Outside of that context I wouldn't have mentioned it, in that I'm sure I've had similar reactions on many occasions that I can't recall in retrospect.
Course now y'all have gone and quoted it.
To be fair, I think "Spoiler Alert" is sort of implied in the very nature of the thread.
We're talking about shocking, surprising moments after all . . . .
Yeah, but people were deliberately being vague with that example, and Rii's attempt at similar vagueness didn't necessarily work...
I only really noticed it because it was otherwise an attempt to avoid spoiling people.
Agreed. That was the 1st and practically only thing I thought of when I saw the title.
I also concur with Samuel L. Jackson's death in Deep Blue Sea.
I'm not sure if it's "gasp" so much as "jump" but I would like the mention the scene in The Lost World: Jurassic Park that gets me every time. When the two women are trying to dig their way out of the building, just when they've finished digging the hole and are about to slip through it, a raptor sticks its head in from the other side.
the severed head that pops out of the boat in Jaws
the body hitting the mayor's window in Dark Knight.
when Wikus bashed Christiopher in the head after he tells him he'd have to wait 3 years in District 9. Well not so much a "shock " gasp, more like utter disbelief and then thinking "what?! wtf is he doing?!?"
the body hitting the mayor's window in Dark Knight.
when Wikus bashed Christiopher in the head after he tells him he'd have to wait 3 years in District 9. Well not so much a "shock " gasp, more like utter disbelief and then thinking "what?! wtf is he doing?!?"
^Oh yes, those first two got me.
Also Wash, as everyone else said.
Memento has several gasp-worthy moments.
And for those who loved the big Minas Tirith reveal in RotK, I'll point out that one of my proudest moments was leaning over to my friends and murmuring, "It's only a model!"
Also Wash, as everyone else said.
Memento has several gasp-worthy moments.
And for those who loved the big Minas Tirith reveal in RotK, I'll point out that one of my proudest moments was leaning over to my friends and murmuring, "It's only a model!"
Totally different kind of gasps:
When Jessica Rabbit first appeared in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?", I swear I heard the entire audience gasp. Seriously. A huge collective gasp that totally cracked me up at the time.
At the end of the The Circle of Life number in "The Lion King," and there's a "boom," the screen goes black with "The Lion King?" I was at the El Capitan in Hollywood for that--where they used to do a little stage show before the films. The audience gasped and literally was fully satisfied with the movie. I think if it ended there and the lights had come on ("That's all, folks"), they would've figured they'd had their money's worth.
When Jessica Rabbit first appeared in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?", I swear I heard the entire audience gasp. Seriously. A huge collective gasp that totally cracked me up at the time.
At the end of the The Circle of Life number in "The Lion King," and there's a "boom," the screen goes black with "The Lion King?" I was at the El Capitan in Hollywood for that--where they used to do a little stage show before the films. The audience gasped and literally was fully satisfied with the movie. I think if it ended there and the lights had come on ("That's all, folks"), they would've figured they'd had their money's worth.
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