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What's a moment in a movie that just hit you out of nowhere?

posted 5 years ago by AlejandroMaximus (1)
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As most of us all know, in the Sherlock Holmes movies with Robert Downey Jr, he had that thing he'd do where just before a fight everything went slow-motion and he'd narrate his plan for the fight before suddenly we'd see everything fastpace through in real time.

I was just reminiscing about how in A Game Of Shadows, we finally have the proper confrontation between Holmes and Moriarty on the balcony. When it becomes obvious a fight is about to happen, the slow-mo begins and Holmes starts his estimation of what will follow. The camera then pans to Moriarty's face and a slow grin spreads as you hear Moriarty's voice intrude on the narration "Come now Holmes...surely you don't think you're the only one who can play this game?". https://tweakbox.mobi/ https://getappvalley.com/ https://vlc.onl

When I saw this movie at a midnight showing, everyone went absolutely apeshit at that moment. I still get shivers thinking of it.

[–] vegfemnat (10) 5 years ago

Here from r/movies?

[–] ShogunofYonkers (77384) 5 years ago

Without spoiling anything there are at least 2 scenes in the 2018 horror movie Hereditary that come out of nowhere and are very disturbing

It's a very good horror movie if you like them

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Yes, the ending of Hereditary really "hit" me. The movie to that point had been somewhat subtle and slow paced. And then it just becomes totally unhinged. I liked it a lot.

[–] Moonglum9 (11272) 5 years ago

You must mean Bug Head and Saw Away. That movie was almost too far out there even for me!

[–] Stratego (30502) 5 years ago

Besides obvious ones like the twists in The Usual Suspects and The Sixth Sense, I remember the audience and myself really reacting to Anne Heche suddenly popping up at the car in I Know What You Did Last Summer and the shooting scene near the end in Enemy of the State.

[–] Quasimodo (16388) 5 years ago

The Da Vinci Code (2006). Early on in the film there is a head on collision scene. It was done very suddenly with no warning and as I have experienced a head on collision myself it had quite a visceral effect on me.

[–] Moonglum9 (11272) 5 years ago

Was it like this?

https://giphy.com/gifs/southparkgifs-3o6Zt1Ub1pZcfF0cM0

[–] actionkamen (23176) 5 years ago

Is this a reddit bot again?

[–] FredBurroughs (21450) 5 years ago

Either that or someone so desperate for attention that they're creating a new account every time they want to repost a thread from there.

[–] Who (5146) 5 years ago

When the mom died in Muriel’s Wedding. Saddest character in all film, that mother.