No shit! I found that movie to be extremely fascinating....amazing (and odd) dude!
Most tension filled movie scenes of all-time?
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The Mellish death is the worst.James Cann getting machine gunned in the first Godfather. Saving Private Ryan where the German kills the Jewish soldier in hand to hand combat. Richard Harris getting strung up by his boobies in A Man Called Horse. The entire movie named "The Exorcist".
Was going to say the same thing. A lot of The Departed is stressful (for me), love the movie. I probably wouldn't hold up well under cover or at the world series of poker. Too many tells.
Thumbs up for the "Trio" standoff in The Good, The Bad and the Ugly. When reading the thread title, that scene is what immediately came to mind. Everything you watched up to that point culminated in that moment, and the music captured the building tension expertly.
Arlington Road - leading up to the explosion scene where Timothy Robbins tricked Jeff Bridges
Seven - Brad Pitt opening the box....still has me freaked out
Seven - Brad Pitt opening the box....still has me freaked out
Sorcerer (1977), with Roy Scheider. Transporting very high explosives across rural South America:
"Manchurian Candidate" when Angela Lansbury tells her son, Raymond, who's in a hypnotic state, how and why he will carry out "the plan".
Don't want to give away much for those who haven't seen it. If you haven't, a great movie you should see. I only saw in full for the first time a few years ago. Classic!!
Don't want to give away much for those who haven't seen it. If you haven't, a great movie you should see. I only saw in full for the first time a few years ago. Classic!!
One of the songs in that soundtrack is incredible. So funky. (Spoiler alert) It's when the sports store owner finally bangs Debbie. I've tried to figure out the riff and steal it but it's just too funky.
Doc Holliday and Johnny Ringo duel in the creek , Tombstone.
Respectfully disagree. Fantastic movie that I watch all the way through every time it's on. That said, Ringo had no chance vs Doc.
There’s a really tensive scene in this movie. The entire thing is unsettling.
Pick just about any scene from Crimson Tide. The battle scenes, Washington vs. Hackman, the mutiny, etc. Tension-filled movie.
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I'd add the cafe scene with Shoshanna in Inglorious Basterds too...Tarantino really ramps it up too with the music...
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I love bent schit, but I never watched it again. Once is plenty.
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The most intense scene is the entire Adam Sandler movie Uncut Gems...the Melish scene in SPR is very intense and impactful as well.
The Towering Inferno kept you on the edge of your seat thru most of the movie. Midnight Express with Billy Hayes trying to smuggle drugs out of Turkey and getting caught. His prison escape was classic killing the Warden and it was based on a true story.
Another classic was Charles Bronson and Henry Fonda having a gun fight draw near the end of the spaghetti western ' Once Upon A Time In The West '
Another classic was Charles Bronson and Henry Fonda having a gun fight draw near the end of the spaghetti western ' Once Upon A Time In The West '
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Das Boot had some white knuckle scenes, nothing like being in a tin can under pressure....
I’ve never looked at my watch to see how much more discomfort was remaining. Just an insanely tense movie the whole way through
I have never seen this movie, don't know why, i'm a WWII buff, so it's on my to watch list now. I hope it's worth it.
Some great ones above, and while this certainly isn’t the most tense scene ever, I can tell you that I never jumped out of my seat more than I did with the “Large Marge” scene in Peewee’s Big Adventure.
After I came back to earth, I got caught in this jag of about 5-minutes of out of control, hysterical laughter. It’s a good thing I didn’t have to pee or I’m absolutely certain that I would’ve let go during all that.
After I came back to earth, I got caught in this jag of about 5-minutes of out of control, hysterical laughter. It’s a good thing I didn’t have to pee or I’m absolutely certain that I would’ve let go during all that.
Oh, and I was a junior at PSU at the time. Pretty sure I saw it at the State Theater.
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Welllllllll..... It’s an ‘alternative history’ version but very entertaining. It’s in German, French, Italian, and English. Lots of great character scenes.
A fav:
Will Munny : I was lucky in the order, but I've always been lucky when it comes to killin' folks.
4 bad guys and 4 shots fired. However, the guy on the far right is shot twice and the two bad guys on the left both die with one shot.
