Moment in a film that made you gasp

[Deckerd]

Can you remember an event in a movie that actually made you gasp?

My most memorable moment, I think, was in The Pianist when the eponymous hero, nearly dead from malnutrition, plays Chopin's Ballade in G minor for the German officer who finds him hiding.

 

[scottydog]

^That was indeed a great moment! I think I gasped, too.

Another one was 30 years ago when I first saw Alien in the theaters. When the creature burst out of the guy's chest, the entire audience screamed!

Another moment was the end of The Sixth Sense, when I realized that Bruce Willis had been dead all along.

 

[FPAlpha]

Wash being suddenly impaled

 

[Gil T.Azell]

^That was indeed a great moment! I think I gasped, too.

Another one was 30 years ago when I first saw Alien in the theaters. When the creature burst out of the guy's chest, the entire audience screamed!

Another moment was the end of The Sixth Sense, when I realized that Bruce Willis had been dead all along.

^1) When the 'face-hugger' came out of the egg.

2) At the end of that I kind of went Wow, don't know why I didn't clue in as no one else seemed to see him in the move??

Another was when Brody said "We're gonna need a bigger boat"

 

[barnaclelapse]

Just about every single moment when I first saw "The Shining" at age five.

 

[Goliath]

I don't think I've ever actually physically gasped at a movie, but I remember coming close when I saw the climax of Se7en.

 

[God Magnus]

Wash being suddenly impaled

I'll go with that one. My gasp was then followed by a huge, loud "WTF?!".

 

[Too Much Fun]

Me (and the whole theatre) gasped when Martin Sheen flew off the side of the building in "The Departed". Those are the moments that make going to the movies most fun.

 

[Mistral]

I think when Kevin Spacey stops limping as he walks down the street in The Usual Suspects. And the adrenalin needle in Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction. My first view of the Imperial StarDestroyer in Star Wars, certainly. Walsh getting impaled-agreed.

 

[T'Baio]

"No...I am your father!"

 

[Goliath]

"No...I am your father!"

Would you believe someone spoiled that before I could see it?

The little fucker blurted it out right in front of my whole sixth-grade class.

 

[Brikar99]

"No...I am your father!"

Would you believe someone spoiled that before I could see it?

The little fucker blurted it out right in front of my whole sixth-grade class.

Did he get what was coming to him at recess?

 

[JonathonWally]

Not counting nudity...


The curb scene in American History X

 

[Goliath]

"No...I am your father!"

Would you believe someone spoiled that before I could see it?

The little fucker blurted it out right in front of my whole sixth-grade class.

Did he get what was coming to him at recess?

Well, he lived to advance to grade seven, so--no.

 

[Brikar99]

Would you believe someone spoiled that before I could see it?

The little fucker blurted it out right in front of my whole sixth-grade class.

Did he get what was coming to him at recess?

Well, he lived to advance to grade seven, so--no.

Not even a wedgie?!

 

[Ethros]

Serenity... Wash


And twice more later on when first Kaylee is shot in the neck, and later Simon gets it in the stomach. As after Wash I thought they were goners too



And when Sam Jackson showed up at the very end of Iron Man as Nick Fury. So cool

 

[gh4chiefs]

Well this isn't probably what you're going for, but during the South Park movie in which Mr. Garrison uttered words to the effect of "Hey I don't trust anything that bleeds for 5 days and doesn't die," the friend I was with, along with other audience members, primarily female I might add, all let out very audible gasps.

 

[Mr Light]

That first death in the car in The Descent.

 

[auntiehill]

When Christian Bale took his shirt off and stood sideways in front of the mirror in "The Machinist."

How he didn't actually die from that, I'll never know.

 

[The Evil Dead]

Something that happens to Julianne Moore's character in Children of Men made me gasp.