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St-KriS
16 Jun 2003, 18:24
What are some of the most intense scenes you've ever seen in a movie? I would have to say for me they are...
The entire movie of Requiem For A Dream!
The first 30 minutes of Saving Private Ryan and when the little dude is crying in the belltower during an attack.
The scene in Fight Club where Tyler is showing the narattor/Jack how to make soap and he purposely burns him.
Yours?
CarterS
16 Jun 2003, 18:37
Off the top of my head- Chopper, where Chopper is having his ears cut off.
Full Metal Jacket, when Pile (is that his name?) shoots the drill instructor.
Haven't seen Hannibal but I hear there is a scene where slices the top off a guys head and eats his brain.
Black Hawk Down where the guy is getting surgery. Any war movie worth its salt will have a couple of fairly intense scenes in it i figure.
St-KriS
16 Jun 2003, 18:56
Originally posted by CarterS
Haven't seen Hannibal but I hear there is a scene where slices the top off a guys head and eats his brain.
:eek: Yes indeed.
Scapled him, took a bit out, cooked it up and ate it right infront of him. Nasty stuff.
gPhonque
16 Jun 2003, 20:23
Absolutely without a doubt a scene (or the whole film really) in an Austrian film called "Funny Games."
To explain it would ruin it for anybody who hasn't seen it, and that's probably all of you.
So go and find it and watch it!
It's a fantastic film.
Nothing gory.
Just an intense movie like no other.
For me I would say:
(like St-Kris said) The first 30 minutes of SPR!
The Attack on the Allies in the Ardennes Forest in BoB!
When they Find the Jewish "prison" in BoB!
I'm sure they are others But i'll damned if I can think of them! :)
I have two emotionally intense ones.
We're the young Japanese pilot is killed when he is about to cut the mango in half in Empire of the Sun.
The end of Gallipoli
Originally posted by CarterS
Haven't seen Hannibal but I hear there is a scene where slices the top off a guys head and eats his brain.
That's not intense, that's just downright hilarious.
Mobbenfuhrer
16 Jun 2003, 22:40
A very early scene in the otherwise crap "Anatomie" where a guy wakes up in a hospital bed and looks over to slowly have revealed to him that all the flesh of his forearm has been removed.
Another 'have to see it to know what I mean' type example.
Leaping Lindner
17 Jun 2003, 00:25
Originally posted by Slax
...........The end of Gallipoli.........
Oh yes! That is heart wrenching. I've seen this movie a few times now. When it was repeated on the ABC recently my wife and I watched it and I had to leave the room before the end as I knew what was coming and couldn't watch it again. My wife(who hadn't seen it) stayed and watched and ended up in tears.
The d-day landing of Saving Private Ryan is without doubt one if not the most intense and best scenes in movie history.
Again from Saving Private Ryan, the scene where the german soldier slides the knife into the guy's chest.
Once again Saving Private Ryan, The scene where they storm the german radar array and the medic is shot, You can actually see the blood pumping out of his chest!
A movie I saw a while back called something like Deep Blue Sky about a Polish WWII fighter squadran that gets attached to a British fighter division, It has 20 times more action and realistic flying than Pearl Harbour and too many moments to list.
From when I was a kid (about 5) I remember this, One of the Neverending Story movies had a scene where a boy falls into a hole with some kind of wolf inside it that procedes to try and eat him, Scared the crap out of me though it's probably nothing like I remember. Also from The Neverending Story the scene where the boy's horse is sinking into the quicksand, Again emotional moment for a kiddie.
All I can think of right now though I know there's alot more.
Rusty Brookes
17 Jun 2003, 09:11
Final scene in the Wicker Man where Sergeant Howie learns the true meaning of sacrifice.
The end of "The Vanishing" (The original Dutch version, not the crappy American remake) when the young man realises what the happened to the young woman, and is happening to him, and the realisation that the guy will get away with it.
manutd/dogs
17 Jun 2003, 12:03
two bits in American Beauty: 1. where he gets shot in the head. 2. the footage of the plastic bag and the brilliant dialoguethat accompanies it. there's so much damn emotion in that scene.
also bits of american history x, which has brilliant cinematography throughout, with black and white, slo-mo used to perfection to create horror-filled scenes, like a slowly-travelling nightmare that you can't wake up from quickly enough.
also, the bit in titanic where a poor family is stuck way under the ship in their tiny room while the rich people amble into the half-filled lifeboats. The family know they're ****ed. The mum is tucking the kids in for the night, pretending everthing's ok. Knowing they're all going to drown. That stuff wrenches you...
go team
17 Jun 2003, 15:10
dancer in the dark
Captain Sensible
17 Jun 2003, 15:19
An Australian film called 'The Boys' is all pretty intense.
Most of 'reqiuem for a dream'
Marlon Brando and Rod Steiger's "I could have been a contender" scene in 'On the waterfront'
Mobbenfuhrer
17 Jun 2003, 15:33
Yeah the final moments of The Boys is extremely rough.
The going-to-knees scene in Clive Barker's Lord Of Illusions is rough.
How about when Ash goes down into the basement in The Evil Dead?
Oh, and a very large part of Blair Witch Project.
And, on a different tack, but still very intense, the young girl during her speech in the recent Whale Rider.
Oh hang on hang on I got it. Most intense scene ... Blood Simple, out near the car on the backroads with the shovel.
Noddy Holder
17 Jun 2003, 19:42
The end of 'Seven' where the wife's head is in the box.
For different reasons to all of these, but if you're under the influence of the right things, the opening scene of Lord of the Rings 2 is intense maaaan! :o :D
The scene in Bad Boy Bubby where his Mum wants a bit of lovin and rides him is... um.. ah... i guess "instense" is one word for it!! :(
Mobbenfuhrer
17 Jun 2003, 19:47
How about Miracle Mile when the chopper is sinking?
Katthawk
17 Jun 2003, 19:53
Originally posted by DonFan
The end of 'Seven' where the wife's head is in the box.
Oh yeah! I had trouble sleeping after seeing that. The whole movie was intense. The scene with the stripped body in the bed was pretty horrific too.
GoalSneak
17 Jun 2003, 20:16
The end of 'The Ring' where the dead girl climbs out of the TV.
TheBloods
17 Jun 2003, 20:53
also, the bit in titanic where a poor family is stuck way under the ship in their tiny room while the rich people amble into the half-filled lifeboats. The family know they're ****ed. The mum is tucking the kids in for the night, pretending everthing's ok. Knowing they're all going to drown. That stuff wrenches you...
Yep, and also the old couple together on the bed. This is amazingly moving and intense.
Stacks in Saving Private Ryan - opening beach scene, end scene when the guy is in the cemetary and asking his wife if he's been a good man.
Near the end of Schindler's List - when they give him the gold ring.
Misery - when she breaks his aknles with the sledgehammer so he can't leave.
I always find parts of Chariots of Fire intense from an emotional sense. Like when Liddell has won his run.
Psycho - shower scene, bit where detective is walking upstairs and is attacked on the way up
Fatal Attraction - when Glenn Close appears in the mirror in the bathroom
Platoon - Willem Dafoe runs out of the forest chased by dozens of VC (with adagio playing in the background)
Aliens - when the marines are searching amongst the cocoons where they can't use their weapons and the aliens are gradually awakening...
Bone Collector - Angelina goes into the slaughterhouse and finds the body eaten by the rats
Braveheart - sheer intensity of battle scenes
Patriot - when the cannonball takes off the guy's head
A Few Good Men - "I want the truth" - "You can't handle the truth!"
Empire Strikes Back - Luke faces Darth in the cave and later finds out he's his father
swansrock4eva
17 Jun 2003, 22:46
Originally posted by NMWBloods
Yep, and also the old couple together on the bed. This is amazingly moving and intense.
Got me every time i saw the movie! Actually, just always the thoughts about those poor people dying had me in tears. And the scene where the string quartet is on the deck playing the hymn - just the music wrenches me every time.
Fatal Attraction - when Glenn Close appears in the mirror in the bathroom
Scared the **** outta me - had to watch it for yr 12 english and every time i jumped outta my skin! Worst bit was that we had to watch that part of the film about 10 times and even though I KNEW what was coming, it still got me!
Bone Collector - Angelina goes into the slaughterhouse and finds the body eaten by the rats
That was a pretty intense movie all over! The steaming and the bit where the bad guy's (can't remember his name!) hand gets squashed in the bed at the end (ew!) were probably the worst tho imo
I also found Dead Poets' Society very intense, especially in the lead up to the suicide - the first time i saw it, i didn't know it was coming but just the background music (if you could actually call it music... it was more just a continuous sound that jags at you).
Also the scene from The Beach where the guys get attacked by the sharks, and the follow up on the poor guy that lived - that was horrible. And where the new tourists get shot by the dope farmer guys... :(
Originally posted by go team
dancer in the dark
yes.. a film that truly ****s you up....
very distressing...
Just remembered two more.
The Green Mile, the scene where the big guy gets fried and a few other scenes.
The Blair Witch Project, the ending with the guy standing in the corner left me confused and a little freaked out for a good hour. The scene where they find all those stick things in the trees and then later on the piles of rocks and the torn shirt with the bits inside and lastly the scene where they are in the tent and something is supposed to be running around outside.
On a side note and a little off topic, if you watch Blair Witch and pay attention in the ending as she's walking up the staircase it looks like there is bloody hand prints of children all over the walls, awhile after I'd watched this movie with some mates we all went for a bush walk just because it seemed like a freaky thing to do. There is a big concrete water tower we were standing in and all over the floor our footprints had made what looked alot like baby foot prints. We all managed to freak out my mates girlfriend to the point she hit someone then ran off :)
happy_in_hell
18 Jun 2003, 12:03
House on Haunted Hill - only time I have been 'scream' scared in a movie.
Plastic bag scene from American Beauty - a fantastic piece of cinematography (no music, just the footage)
One Hour Photo - geez Robin Williams is good.
Band of Brothers - the whole movie was fantastic with the foxhole scenes being particularly intense (did not know where or when the mortars will come.
Romi and Michelle's High School Reunion - just surviving watching
the film was intense:D
Dirty Deeds - see above. Crap, crap film (disgusted that Bryan Brown agreed to do it)
All that i can remember at the mo.
raboyle
18 Jun 2003, 18:15
Deep Blue Sea
Samuel Jackson cops it sweet when one of the sharks snatch him from the side of the pool, then you watch from outside the station as he gets chomped in half by two sharks at once. :eek:
Armageddon
Ben Affleck takes the Independence armadillo on a wild zero-g ride on--and off--the asteroid surface with one Russian cosmonaut dangling from behind on a harness.
Alien
Who can forget that scene? The birth of the most terrifying creature in sci-fi history!
Face/Off
Watching the face switch could make one chuck. If you freeze the picture (good on DVD ;) ) during the surgery, you can see the bloody underside of the skin. :p
The Core
Only caught this one today. Watch as lightning from superstorms destroy the Colliseum!
TheBloods
18 Jun 2003, 20:51
The Green Mile, the scene where the big guy gets fried and a few other scenes.
Ah - good one - some major intense scenes.
the maggot scenes in Australian Rules
The green mile,
just before and when he is getting electricuted.
prety much everyone who watched that one had a tear in there eye.
Asgardian
21 Jun 2003, 02:15
I'll try to come up with a few different ones
Miller's Crossing -- absorbing movie, many moments of intense reaction. When Eddie Dane has missed his chance of killing Verna. The hitmen stuff up the hit on Leo. The Dane, Tom, Frankie and Tic-Tac searching through the forest and we hear "hankie time". And finally when Bernie Bernbaum is on his knees, begging to Tom Reagan, "look into your heart, please, look into your heart" and Tom merely replies "what heart?"
The Godfather naturally the horses head scene.
To Kill A Mockingbird The courtroom scene between Atticus Finch & Mayella.
Glory The final battle set-up and action.
Apocalypse Now Many scenes, especially if you have seen the Redux version on DVD.
The Cruel Sea A wonderful film, with many intense moments
300 Spartans The final execution of the remaining Spartans, (yes I know, many liberties re facts were used in this film)
Zulu Another fine film
Vampire Lovers I don't know how, but I got to see this near sex movie about lesbian vampires when I was about 11. Scared the hell out of me, but I couldn't take my eyes off the screen.
TheBloods
21 Jun 2003, 10:00
Great selections. Agree with all of those except for Apocalypse Now (which I think is massively overrated) and Vampire Lovers (damn I have to see that! ;) ).
go team
21 Jun 2003, 11:32
the start of titanic... when you realise you still have three hours of the film left to sit through
Mobbenfuhrer
21 Jun 2003, 13:20
Opening scene of Ghost Ship! Shame the film couldn't keep it up.
gPhonque
21 Jun 2003, 15:27
Obviously, none of you have seen Funny Games.
Asgardian
22 Jun 2003, 01:14
Originally posted by NMWBloods
Great selections. Agree with all of those except for Apocalypse Now (which I think is massively overrated)
Just a question, have you seen the DVD Redux version of Apocalypse Now?
In my ever so humble opinion, I feel this version fleshes out the movie. The story of the Playboy Bunnies girls is very much such an example.
Vampire Lovers (damn I have to see that! ;) ).
It's pretty much a cult film these days, have a look (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0066518)
BUT, if you wanna check out a superior film, have a look at Las Vampiras (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0066380)
TheBloods
22 Jun 2003, 10:40
Just a question, have you seen the DVD Redux version of Apocalypse Now?
In my ever so humble opinion, I feel this version fleshes out the movie. The story of the Playboy Bunnies girls is very much such an example.
Just watched it a couple of weeks ago. Thought it was too self-indulgent and slow.
Asgardian
22 Jun 2003, 12:58
mmmmm, okay, different tastes in movies.
Personally, many of my favourite war movies are circa 1940's through to 1960's, eg --
The Cruel Sea
They Were Expendable
Destination Tokyo
Run Silent, Run Deep
The Enemy Below
We Dive at Dawn
In Which We Serve
Operation Pacific
Bataan
Back to Bataan
Sands of Iwo Jima
The Fighting Seabees
Stalag 17
The Great Escape
Von Ryan's Express
PT 109
To Have and Have Not
Sahara
To Hell and Back
The Longest Day
Battle of the Bulge
Where Eagles Dare
Ships With Wings
Midway (except the crappy melodrama)
Paths of Glory
Sgt. York
GI Joe
Edge of Darkness
Merrill's Marauders
Darby's Rangers
Objective Burma
Flying Leathernecks
49th Parallel
Flying Tigers
The Dam Busters
The Colditz Story
Bridge Over the River Kwai
Plus plenty more
The modern ones I enjoy are :--
Saving Private Ryan
Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence
Schindler's List
Full Metal Jacket
Apocalypse Now
Plus others
TheBloods
22 Jun 2003, 18:04
Interesting, I like pretty much all of them except Apocalypse Now.
Specifically, these are sensational (relatively speaking of course):
Stalag 17
The Great Escape
The Longest Day
Battle of the Bulge
Where Eagles Dare
The Dam Busters
The Colditz Story
Bridge Over the River Kwai
Saving Private Ryan
Schindler's List
Full Metal Jacket
Originally posted by Mobbenfuhrer
Opening scene of Ghost Ship! Shame the film couldn't keep it up.
yea,
it was a pretty good movie but that first scene was so discusting, like i like a good gorey movie as the next guy but that was just toooooo graphic.
Uncle Steve
23 Jun 2003, 17:17
The Last Temptation of Christ - where Jesus is taken down from the cross by his guardian angel and taken to the life he desired...
The Hunger - the entire opening sequence, where the vampires pick up a couple from a Goth nightclub, take them home, screw them, then kill them.
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and her Lover - the whole frickin' movie!
The Baby of Macon - the sequence towards the end where Julia Ormond screams for fully 10 minutes as her character is basically gang-raped to death. Not for the faint-hearted.
Carrie - Carrie going berserk at the prom, and the final nightmare sequence.
The Crow - Brandon Lee going apeshyt with some machine guns while My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult play a gig downstairs.
The most recent Star Wars movie, whatever it was called - the entire 30-minute fight scene, starting in the big arena, and culminating with the muppet and his lightsaber.
Excalibur - that bit where Arthur is riding to meet Mordred in battle and the countryside returns to life as he passes through it, all to the strains of "O Fortuna" from Carl Orff's opera Carmina Burana
Mad Max II - the entire truck-chase sequence before the end.
The City of Lost Children - where the Mad Scientist dresses up as Santa Claus to try and make the children dream, but only succeeds in getting them screaming.
This is fun, I could keep going all night :D
Pieman7
23 Jun 2003, 19:26
The scene from Once Were Warriors when Jake starts bashing Beth during the first party we see.
"Cook the man some F*cking eggs!"
Pieman7
23 Jun 2003, 19:34
Also in Rocky the whole fiftenth round has me on the edge of my seat everytime I watch it as Creed and Balboa slug it out.
The start of Basic Instinct when that guy gets stabbed with the ice pick during a bit of horizontal dancing is quite intense.
oh_my_hat
23 Jun 2003, 20:48
The 'ear slicing' scene in Reservoir Dogs' without much doubt in my mind. :(
Asgardian
26 Jun 2003, 01:05
Thought I'd add a few from my childhood, I'm sure most of you have seen these movies some time or another.
Village of the Damned (1960)
Children of the Damned (1964)
those kids really spooked me, no wonder I used to pick fights with that type at school, sic....;)
The Night Stalker (1971)
The Night Strangler (1972)
Darren McGavin played the slob reporter well
Earth vs the Flying Saucers (1956)
When Worlds Collide (1951)
Them (1954)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Day of the Triffids (1963)
Flight to Mars (1951)
The Blob (1958)
Invaders From Mars (1953)
War of the Worlds (1953)
Quatermass and the Pit (1968)
Gotta love old sci-fi's
and a surprise no-one mentioned DUEL (1971), it's all tension
El Scorcho
26 Jun 2003, 01:34
I'll try and say a few that haven't been mentioned yet.
Trainspotting Two things. 1 - The worst toilet in Scotland.
2 - When he's in bed going cold turkey and the dead baby's crawling along the roof.
Cube When the Wren gets his face burned with acid. Actually the whole thing's a pretty intense exploration of relationships.
Rabbit Proof Fence When the kids are taken and again at the end when the tribe is stalking the cops.
Donnie Darko Every time that freakin' evil rabbit appears.
Threads/The Day After Both pretty intense, though Threads was way more graphic, but it's more the possibilty of living through it that makes me shudder I guess.
Clockwork Orange Personally I think this movie went for too long, but I can never forget the old geezers getting their revenge after he's had the treatment.
and finally, for fun,
Braindead Simply the most ****ed up, crazy, sick movie I've ever seen. It's an absolute classic, and the only movie that's ever made me feel like vomiting and laughing at the same time.
Syd Swan
26 Jun 2003, 09:27
I am surprised Base Moi, never got a mention. There are some pretty intense scenes in that.
fitzmantle
26 Jun 2003, 14:24
I am surprised Base Moi, never got a mention
Got banned before I got to see it. The most intense and gruesome scenes I can recall is any scene from Pretty Woman or Runaway Bride.
Originally posted by Pieman7
The scene from Once Were Warriors when Jake starts bashing Beth during the first party we see.
"Cook the man some F*cking eggs!"
'true romance' - where patricia arquette gets the crap beaten out of her by mr soprano..
Vindaloo Mat
1 Jul 2003, 21:45
the final Russian Roulette scene in The Deer Hunter
Mobbenfuhrer
2 Jul 2003, 10:36
Originally posted by Jim Boy
Carry On Camping
Very droll ;)
hans moleman
3 Jul 2003, 03:23
gee, my big stupid joke for this thread was gonna be: "hmm...4 pages but not one mention of a porno", but then someone mentioned baise-moi.
oh well :(
anyways, i agree with the rabbit-proof fence one, and for the basketball fans out there - how about in 'hoop dreams' when william gates missed those free throws, costing the team a place in the regionals.
Originally posted by Uncle Steve
The most recent Star Wars movie, whatever it was called - the entire 30-minute fight scene, starting in the big arena, and culminating with the muppet and his lightsaber.
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geez, you make it sound intense - i can see hardcore star wars fans now seething at that description :D
Monster Joe
24 Jul 2003, 20:40
Originally posted by St-KriS
What are some of the most intense scenes you've ever seen in a movie? I would have to say for me they are...
The entire movie of Requiem For A Dream!
Yours?
Couldn't agree more with Requiem for a Dream. Best movie I've seen in a long time.
Heat - the gun battle in the streets immediately following the bank robbery.
Glengarry Glenross - Alec Baldwin's (or rather, his character's) speech to the salesmen.
Bad Lieutenant - The scene in which Harvey Keitel's character pulls over two teenage girls.
Apocalypse Now - When Willard finally gets to meet Colonel Kurtz.
Jacob's Ladder - When Jacob is held down in the bathtub and ice is poured all over him.
Magpira
24 Jul 2003, 22:05
Originally posted by Syd Swan
I am surprised Base Moi, never got a mention. There are some pretty intense scenes in that.
Crikeys! I managed to see that film on a video tape...
It fully blew me away, I dunno what i was expecting to be honest but I couldn't have imagined it to be as graphically violent physically and sexually as it was.
Another film that was slightly full on for me was SALO. Anyone see that? An Italian film based on the book 'The 120 Days of Sodom'. That feces eating scene was possibly the closest I've ever come to becoming physically sick whilst watching a film....it fully haunted me!
Grendel
25 Jul 2003, 19:11
Originally posted by DEVO
The end of "The Vanishing" (The original Dutch version, not the crappy American remake) when the young man realises what the happened to the young woman, and is happening to him, and the realisation that the guy will get away with it.
Ditto.
Reqium for A Dream.
A clockwork Orange had some moments. I thought it was a comedy for most of it.
rfctigerarmy
25 Jul 2003, 21:25
Originally posted by St-KriS
What are some of the most intense scenes you've ever seen in a movie? I would have to say for me they are...
...
The first 30 minutes of Saving Private Ryan and when the little dude is crying in the belltower during an attack.
...
Yours?
Yea. The first 30 or so minutes in Saving Private Ryan is pretty intense. Fighting at Omaha beach - Hot Stuff. The setting was fantastic. I really enjoyed Saving Private Ryan. Very realistic.
I cant really think of any intense scenes.... Ill get back to ya!
NICK THE PIE MAN
25 Jul 2003, 21:28
The start of 'Gangs of New York.'
The two gangs facing eachother with knives and blades. Staring eachother down 10-15 metres apart. Just knowing the sh*t is about to hit the fan.
TheBloods
25 Jul 2003, 21:34
Originally posted by NICK THE PIE MAN
The start of 'Gangs of New York.'
The two gangs facing eachother with knives and blades. Staring eachother down 10-15 metres apart. Just knowing the sh*t is about to hit the fan.
The opening to this film is fantastic, and there are some great scenes through it. Pity the film is a bit too long and doesn't quite grab you (DDL and Neeson are great though).
USAEagle
29 Jul 2003, 02:54
Jurassic Park: The Scene where all that separates the Kids from the T-Rex is the glass of the sunroof in the Jeep.
Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan: Spock goes into the warp core to save the ship.
Godfather III: Where Corleione's daughter is shot dead in front of him.
As a kid I saw some things on HBO when it was new that I probably shouldn't have. Two films come to mind. One was "Prophecy" an enviro-horror film about animals in a forest that mutate because of mercury in the water. Scared poo out of me then but probably tame by today's standards. "THe Manitou" a film where a Native American demon-god comes to life in a woman, but the pregnancy is on her shoulder - a scene where a doctor tries to excise this small growth and the demon causes him to slice into his own wrist with the scalpel. Pretty heavy stuff for a 10-year old in the 70s. Didn't sleep for two nights after that one.
"The Others", on DVD when on your surround sound speakers you hear footsteps running around upstairs and NIcole and the kids are all in the room. Goose Pimple stuff.