Scenes that heavily affected you

[Vodstok]

Name scenes which, long after the movie was done, left a lasting impression on you, good or bad. here are a few to start out with:

Just about any scene with inbreds in Deliverance. The Banjo boy gives me the willies, and i wont even get into Ned Beatty's "Squeal like a pig" scene. People can laugh about it after the fact all they want, but i have never seen anyone even crack a smile at that while watching the movie, it is brutal.

The end of Sleepaway camp scared the shit out of me the first time i saw it. The rest of the movie was basically a "campy", kinda crappy little horror flick, then the end fucking blinsides you like a train in the fog. It was completely unexpected and damn effective.

There was a part in Airforce One where Gary7 Oldman shoots one of the female hostages. It was one o fthose things where you really hoped he didnt kill her, and the woman playing the part looked Terrified, then blam. i just stared at the screen in disbelief, they usually dont have the balls to kill someone in a movie like that without establishing that they are corrupt to some degree, but if i remember correctly, she wqas just a nice lady who worked for the president.

[AUSTIN316426808]

Requiem for a Dream- the entire film is harsh imo but the last 6 or 7 minutes just fucks your head up. I wouldn't say it's unexpected because through the whole film you know that eventually everything is going to come crashing down but the way they did it was just fucking ROUGH.


Passion of the Christ- various parts through out the film fucked my head up. I remember still thinking about it several days after watching it.


Million Dollar Baby- The first two hours are uplifting, inspirational, there's a little humor thrown in and then Clint just decided to pick up a sledge hammer and wack everybody right in the face. The last 40 minutes are rough.


Empire of the Sun- There were some sad parts but the reason I'm listing it is because it's just a powerful movie overall.

Friday Night Lights- One of the characters is damn near a copy of me, I fucked my leg up and couldn't play anymore and I lost a championship game on the last play(when I say ''I lost a championship game'' I literally mean it was my fault) so it was like reliving all of it.

[urgeok]

empire of the son - for sure .. especially the salute scene ..


schindlers list ... most of it - but especially the end - after the movie when the survivors put the rocks on his tombstone .. you suddenly realize it was about real people - embellished or not.



2 scenes that were powerful (but didnt exactly affect me other than to go - 'wow' :

1) Year of the Dragon - John Lone (who almost stole the movie from Rourke) is running at Rourke on the train tracks at the end ... going 'WHAT - What do you want !!!'

the most empassioned performance i've seen by a chinese actor.. i find these people culturally reserved and desperately afraid to give up control(which requires trust) - but this was a huge exception..excellent scene - excellent actor.

2) by the same token - Angel Heart - the scene where Rourkes character realizes who he is - powerful stuff

[Vodstok]

A rather odd part of Blackhawk down affected me quite a bit. Some of the Americans are outside a hummer shooting at people on rooftops, and a Somali pops over the side, fires a single shot with an ak-47. it hits one of the Americans dead-center in the chest and BAM, he's dead. A little later, the same thing happens to the roof gunner on Tom Sizemore's hummer, one shot, right in the throat, instantly dead.

Kind of drove home that in those kids of conflicts, you can be dead in under a second, and not even see it coming. Kind of steals all sense of security.

[urgeok]

Originally posted by Vodstok
A rather odd part of Blackhawk down affected me quite a bit. Some of the Americans are outside a hummer shooting at people on rooftops, and a Somali pops over the side, fires a single shot with an ak-47. it hits one of the Americans dead-center in the chest and BAM, he's dead. A little later, the same thing happens to the roof gunner on Tom Sizemore's hummer, one shot, right in the throat, instantly dead.

Kind of drove home that in those kids of conflicts, you can be dead in under a second, and not even see it coming. Kind of steals all sense of security.

thats the way i felt when i first saw platoon ...
the panic of being in a firefight - tracers flying around you - you cant tell friend from foe ...

it was a long time before war films actually portrayed war as the fucked up mess it really is, and not just a showcase for heros..

[AmarylandPsycho]

Children of the Corn: Isaac says, " He wants you too Malachi." That part gave me nightmares for weeks

Poltergeist II: When the old man is walking up to the door singing " The Lord is in His temple, The Lord is in His house."

Scared the crap outta me just a really creepy actor who did a great job.


Heres one from the X files that stuck with me for a while. The epsiode with the imbred mountain people who had a mom with no legs and would club people to death. I remember a scene where a women is hiding under the bed and she sees the imbreds walking around infront of the bed then they flip the bed over and beat her. <shudder> crazy

[ShankS]

We Were Soldiers...

when Joe Galloway aka Barry Pepper is photographing, when napalm lands too near the Yanks, one guy gets burnt legs, and Galloway's shouted at to help carry the burnt, but still alive soldier to safety... he slings back his camera, bends down to grasp the injured guys legs, and the surface skin from both calfs comes clean away in his hands....horrific scene.

[Vodstok]

Originally posted by AmarylandPsycho
Children of the Corn: Isaac says, " He wants you too Malachi." That part gave me nightmares for weeks

Poltergeist II: When the old man is walking up to the door singing " The Lord is in His temple, The Lord is in His house."

Scared the crap outta me just a really creepy actor who did a great job.


Heres one from the X files that stuck with me for a while. The epsiode with the imbred mountain people who had a mom with no legs and would club people to death. I remember a scene where a women is hiding under the bed and she sees the imbreds walking around infront of the bed then they flip the bed over and beat her. <shudder> crazy

I havent seen potergeist 2 yet, butr you are dead on on the other 2.

That x-files episode was "Home", with the Peacock family (the inbreds)


That scene forever chnaged how i view Johnny Mathis music. I think "Chances are" was playing in the background, meanwhile 3 inbred boys are going lowland gorilla on some poor woman with baseball bats...


The end of American History X always leaves me feeling cold. It goes a long way to de-glorify shooting someone to death. It is completely heart wtrenching.

Thats not to mention Vinyard getting raped in the shower, and killing the guy on the curb. That whole movie is almost completely laugh-free. Oh, and i forgot the skinhead raid on the grocery store.... No matter how many times i see it, i am always afraid for the casheer. That is the kind of thing that could traumatize someone for life.

[newb]

Deer Hunter.....the russian roulette scenes.

[Vodstok]

Didi-mau! Didi-mau!!


I never saw it, but i am familiar with the scene.


The frog (i think) went through the same thing in "Meet the Feebles"


Renton's detox in Trainspotting is pretty painful to watch, no matter how many times i see it.


One of the worst for me is in the Abyss when Ed Harris is trying to revive his wife after she drowned..... There is almost no part in any movie that hits me harder than that.