Most tension filled movie scenes of all-time?
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Don't think I saw any Hitchcock mentions. For his day a master at developing tension in the movie. Maybe more for the older members to recall:
Psycho shower scene,
The Birds, attic scene with the eyes pecked out and at the end all the birds as they drove away.
Rear Window, Vertigo, etc.
Psycho shower scene,
The Birds, attic scene with the eyes pecked out and at the end all the birds as they drove away.
Rear Window, Vertigo, etc.
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I've seen that move a dozen times but I can't watch that scene. it is exacerbated by the character who is too scared to deliver ammo and, ostensibly, gets him killed. (probably would have died anyway)
Yeah, that’s the flaw in Saving Private Ryan that keeps it from being more than merely pretty good.
I agree...I also hate that Hanx tells Ryan to "earn this" in his dying breath. What a horrible, horrible burden to put on someone. Poor guy goes through life feeling that he killed a half dozen people. Now, I get it, the message is that we are all "Private Ryan" and we should earn what these people died for.
The one where Ben Affleck is drunk and crashes his motorcycle into Matt damon's forehead
The only movie in the last 10 years where I found my self literally sweating bullets, especially this sequence.
127 hours cutting off his arm with a pocket knife. Also scene after he falls where he bites off his watch and yells for his climbing partners realizing he is totally alone.
I climbed a lot in my younger days in Colorado so I wasn't squeamish about most of Free Solo, but that whole sequence immediately following the karate kick nearly had me pissing my pants.
Going deep into the vault, “Wages of Fear”.
All you have to do is read the tag line. Fantastic movie overall.
In a decrepit South American village, four men are hired to transport an urgent nitroglycerine shipment without the equipment that would make it safe.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0046268/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
All you have to do is read the tag line. Fantastic movie overall.
In a decrepit South American village, four men are hired to transport an urgent nitroglycerine shipment without the equipment that would make it safe.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0046268/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
Post_ShockTherapy_MackDaddy
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There is a super tense scene in the movie Hard Candy that, to this day, I can’t watch or even really think about without getting nauseous. If you’ve seen it, you know what I mean.
I don't know about most stressful, but Dog Day Afternoon is on TCM right now. Pretty tense.
Requiem for a Dream. Pretty much the whole damn movie. It's the best movie I never want to see again.
The scene in Interstellar where Cooper docks with the Endurance.
Likewise. Great film and I will actively ensure that I never see it again. I turned it off before the end, actually, so I have never seen it in its entirety. That poor mother...
The girlfriend ****ing up his belay pissed me off. I loved his deadpan responses to her concerns.
I’ve got to watch again for after the karate kick. I’ve seen it 3 times, but it’s been awhile.
Have you seen the Dawn Wall? That’s very good as well.
Bud Abbot and Lou Costello when they meet Frankenstein for the first times. Nothing more scary.
Free Solo is incredible. I think that Honnold free soloing El Cap is the greatest athletic feat in the history of mankind and it's not particularly close.
The Dawn Wall was great, too. For Caldwell to lose half of a key finger and simply learn to adjust and continue to be one of the greatest climbers around is remarkable.
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In movies like Godfather or Pulp Fiction I only feel the tension of expected violence. Typically the targets had it coming, and I had nothing vested in their survival.
Then you have a film like Psycho where we have been watching this woman from the beginning, only to see her butchered at her most vulnerable time.
Deer Hunter and the roulette scene gives us an explosion of violence as the American is being tortured.
The flying monkeys in Wizard of Oz scared me so badly that now sixty years later I still feel the fear.
Hitchcock had so many films where you got to know the character and you were vested in their outcome. Then it would come down to a release of a culminating event in a theater, on Mount Rushmore, or a lighthouse.
Sudden graphic death is not much more than pornography with nothing to care about.
Then you have a film like Psycho where we have been watching this woman from the beginning, only to see her butchered at her most vulnerable time.
Deer Hunter and the roulette scene gives us an explosion of violence as the American is being tortured.
The flying monkeys in Wizard of Oz scared me so badly that now sixty years later I still feel the fear.
Hitchcock had so many films where you got to know the character and you were vested in their outcome. Then it would come down to a release of a culminating event in a theater, on Mount Rushmore, or a lighthouse.
Sudden graphic death is not much more than pornography with nothing to care about.
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anon_xdc8rmuek44eq
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I just watched 'Midsommar' last night and found almost the entire movie very, very unsettling to watch. It's not bloody or violent, but it catches you off guard because everything happens in broad daylight and with people who on face do not seem sinister or evil. Man, was I wrong.
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Disagree. I thought those words were as close to perfect as any movie line ever.
The Goodfellas scene was adlibbed by Pesci, Ray Liotta real thought he was serious. Great scene.
Must of watched this 10 times in the last few days had to share. At least 6 good quotes in that scene alone.
