Movies What's the biggest 'Wow moment' that happened to you while watching a movie?

First time I watched The Great Silence ending.

Watching the Godfather for the first time when I was in high school.

First time I watched Good bad ugly I saw it another 3 or 4 times that week.
 
Takes Two To Tango said:
Oh yeah I'd like to add The Passion of the Christ.

Never seen so many men openly weeping for this film. Never seen it before or since.
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I got into a heated argument with the ladies in front of me being all like I can't believe how much he suffered and I was like did you not read the book first ? What do you think a scourge and getting nailed to a wooden t looks like.
 
Some that come to mind:
  • Seeing the Brontosauruses in Jurassic Park.

  • Seeing the bullet time scene with Trinity in the opening of The Matrix.

  • When Regan (Linda Hamilton's character) begins stabbing herself in the vagina with the cross in The Exorcist. It shocked me in a way I had never been shocked before, or since.

  • The movie Kids. I'm pretty desensitized to all the shock films, now, after all these years, although Martyrs managed to get me because I went in blind, and thought I was watching a French indie arthouse drama, but if there was anything that competed with the above, it was this film. DOOM Generation got a lot of buzz from my peers around the same time, but I didn't care about its characters, so I just wasn't as emotionally invested & gut-wrenched as I was by Kids. I was sheltered from such a world, and I grew up in a time when sheltering was still possible. I don't think another film made me feel quite that sick about the human race until I watched the obscure (but highly acclaimed) Japanese film Nobody Knows. Torture porn isn't what upsets me, isn't what haunts me. That gives you a target, something to fight. It's humans just being terrible people without any malicious intent that demoralizes me.

  • However, I still remember being shown the movie A Long Walk Home in school. In the mountain of films about the history of white racism in the USA, the scene in the diner where a man is stopped barely in time from putting out his cigarette in the eye of Whoopi Goldberg just because she wouldn't get up and leave stays with me. I understood why we still haven't healed.

  • Watching the 7-minute trailer they showed for The Lion King in theaters with all of the animals trekking to witness the birth of Simba.

  • Witnessing Peter Jackson finally realize the power of an epic fantasy pan-out I'd dreamt of seeing my whole life when he zooms out as the flaming king Denethor throws himself off the great cliff of Gondor. For that matter, pretty much every panoramic shot of New Zealand in that trilogy. It was awe-inspiring. For some reason, I love shots that immediately give us a grander perspective from a distance showing scale. These used to be rare when I was a boy, now they're trite, most likely because drones & CGI made them so economical. A runner-up, I suppose, the one I remember loving most before that, came about a decade earlier when Lady de Winter throws herself off the cliffs of Cornwall in the 1993 version of The Three Musketeers.

  • The early scene on the beach in Saving Private Ryan.

  • Probably doesn't hold up to what you see today, especially since so much stuff isn't real, but I remember the skiing in Aspen Extreme had everyone's jaws on the floor. Hollywood can't compete with the daredevils who take GoPros to jump off the peak of a mountain in squirrel suit, these days, though, so why even try.
 
Madmick said:
Some that come to mind:
  • Seeing the Brontosauruses in Jurassic Park.

  • Seeing the bullet time scene with Trinity in the opening of The Matrix.

  • When Regan (Linda Hamilton's character) begins stabbing herself in the vagina with the cross in The Exorcist. It shocked me in a way I had never been shocked before, or since.

  • The movie Kids. I'm pretty desensitized to all the shock films, now, after all these years, although Martyrs managed to get me because I went in blind, and thought I was watching a French indie arthouse drama, but if there was anything that competed with the above, it was this film. DOOM Generation got a lot of buzz from my peers around the same time, but I didn't care about its characters, so I just wasn't as emotionally invested & gut-wrenched as I was by Kids. I was sheltered from such a world, and I grew up in a time when sheltering was still possible. I don't think another film made me feel quite that sick about the human race until I watched the obscure (but highly acclaimed) Japanese film Nobody Knows. Torture porn isn't what upsets me, isn't what haunts me. That gives you a target, an enemy, something to fight. It's humans just being terrible people without any malicious intent that demoralizes me.

  • However, I still remember being shown the movie A Long Walk Home in school. In the mountain of films about the history of white racism in the USA, the scene in the diner where a man is stopped barely in time from putting out his cigarette in the eye of Whoopi Goldberg just because she wouldn't get up and leave a diner stays with me. Not even Roots conveyed to me though filmmaking why we still haven't healed.

  • Watching the 7-minute trailer they showed for The Lion King in theaters with all of the animal trekking to witness the birth of Simba.

  • Witnessing Peter Jackson finally realize the power of an epic fantasy pan-out I'd dreamt of seeing my whole life when he zooms out as the flaming king Denethor throws himself off the great cliff of Gondor. For that matter, pretty much every panoramic shot of New Zealand in that trilogy. It was awe-inspiring. For some reason, I love shots that immediately give us a grander perspective from a distance showing scale. These used to be rare when I was a boy, now they're trite, most likely because drones & CGI made them so economical. A runner-up, I suppose, the one I remember loving most before that, came about a decade earlier when Lady de Winter throws herself off the cliffs of Cornwall in the 1993 version of The Three Musketeers.

  • The early scene on the beach in Saving Private Ryan.

  • Probably doesn't hold up to what you see today, especially since so much stuff isn't real, but I remember the skiing in Aspen Extreme had everyone's jaws on the floor. Hollywood can't compete with the daredevils who take GoPros to jump off the peak of a mountain in squirrel suit, these days, though, so why even try.
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You mentioning Kids reminded me of Kent Park...talk about a fucked up movie, made Kids look tame by comparison....or was it Ken Park...I just remember feeling dirty watching it.
 
Two that come to mind are the opening scene in Saving Private Ryan, I saw it on opening night in a theater with a massive screen that was so big that it felt like the action was all around you and the surround sound was state of the art for that time so being completely lost in the brutal intense chaos of that scene with the sounds of bullets whizzing around you was mind blowing, I still remember everyone in the theater walking out in complete silence after it was over, it was such a powerful film

Another one was the ending of Infinity War, when the first few super heroes started turning to dust and blowing away in the air, it was like frickin' holy shit WOW!, I cant believe theyre killing them off!

But then they kept disappearing and disappearing and it became obvious that they werent gonna kill off this many characters all at once so I knew they'd all be coming back which lessened the impact a bit but it was still a really great ending for an amazing film


That was all ruined by End Game...
 
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There was a space shuttle documentary filmed in IMAX format I saw as a kid in the 80s which totally blew me away. This was real IMAX film and not the digital crap we have today, people were legit getting motion sickness from how real the scenes looked, it really made you feel like you were floating in space when they showed the views of Earth from the shuttle.
 
Wow moments as in the movie itself or wow in the theatre ?

I I guess I’ll just do both .

Getting a ticket to go see a screening of The Mist in NYC and laughing the entire time trying to keep quiet ( I think I had a few in me at the time ) I knew ppl were getting agitated and when the movie was over 2 rows directly behind me was Stephen King himself as ie saw many ppl flocking to him and I heard someone mention after party he looked like he wanted to kill me . Lol

( I actually followed his ppl and limousines but I lost them bc I was on foot and gave up after 30 minutes but I just happened to find the place he was at randomly walking home I lived in mid town but they wouldn’t let me in I tried playing it off . Lol )


In a movie itself ? A wow moment would be I guess Time Bandits when the supreme being first appeared on screen saying return the map it will bring you great danger as an 8 year old .

 
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Madmick said:
Some that come to mind:
  • Seeing the Brontosauruses in Jurassic Park.

  • Seeing the bullet time scene with Trinity in the opening of The Matrix.

  • When Regan (Linda Hamilton's character) begins stabbing herself in the vagina with the cross in The Exorcist. It shocked me in a way I had never been shocked before, or since.

  • The movie Kids. I'm pretty desensitized to all the shock films, now, after all these years, although Martyrs managed to get me because I went in blind, and thought I was watching a French indie arthouse drama, but if there was anything that competed with the above, it was this film. DOOM Generation got a lot of buzz from my peers around the same time, but I didn't care about its characters, so I just wasn't as emotionally invested & gut-wrenched as I was by Kids. I was sheltered from such a world, and I grew up in a time when sheltering was still possible. I don't think another film made me feel quite that sick about the human race until I watched the obscure (but highly acclaimed) Japanese film Nobody Knows. Torture porn isn't what upsets me, isn't what haunts me. That gives you a target, something to fight. It's humans just being terrible people without any malicious intent that demoralizes me.

  • However, I still remember being shown the movie A Long Walk Home in school. In the mountain of films about the history of white racism in the USA, the scene in the diner where a man is stopped barely in time from putting out his cigarette in the eye of Whoopi Goldberg just because she wouldn't get up and leave stays with me. I understood why we still haven't healed.

  • Watching the 7-minute trailer they showed for The Lion King in theaters with all of the animal trekking to witness the birth of Simba.

  • Witnessing Peter Jackson finally realize the power of an epic fantasy pan-out I'd dreamt of seeing my whole life when he zooms out as the flaming king Denethor throws himself off the great cliff of Gondor. For that matter, pretty much every panoramic shot of New Zealand in that trilogy. It was awe-inspiring. For some reason, I love shots that immediately give us a grander perspective from a distance showing scale. These used to be rare when I was a boy, now they're trite, most likely because drones & CGI made them so economical. A runner-up, I suppose, the one I remember loving most before that, came about a decade earlier when Lady de Winter throws herself off the cliffs of Cornwall in the 1993 version of The Three Musketeers.

  • The early scene on the beach in Saving Private Ryan.

  • Probably doesn't hold up to what you see today, especially since so much stuff isn't real, but I remember the skiing in Aspen Extreme had everyone's jaws on the floor. Hollywood can't compete with the daredevils who take GoPros to jump off the peak of a mountain in squirrel suit, these days, though, so why even try.
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Thank you for sharing that, good read.
 
Deaths Head said:
Wow moments as in the movie itself or wow in the theatre ?

I I guess I’ll just do both .

Getting a ticket to go see a screening of The Mist in NYC and laughing the entire time trying to keep quiet ( I think I had a few in me at the time ) I knew ppl were getting agitated and when the movie was over 2 rows directly behind me was Stephen King himself as ie saw many ppl flocking to him and I heard someone mention after party he looked like he wanted to kill me . Lol

( I actually followed his ppl and limousines but I lost them bc I was on foot and gave up after 30 minutes but I just happened to find the place he was at randomly walking home I lived in mid town but they wouldn’t let me in I tried playing it off . Lol )


In a movie itself ? A wow moment would be I guess Time Bandits when the supreme being first appeared on screen saying return the map it will bring you great danger as an 8 year old .

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Time bandits is maybe my favorite movie from when I was a kid. The scene that got me was the final scene, still can't believe his parents got killed and thats how it ends. What a perfect ending
 
Saw Gladiator right after my honeymoon in Italy back in 00. Waa tripped aeing auch a great movie and you were just there visiting all the sights etc.
 
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