Your Most Intense Movie/TV Scene [CAN HAS SPOILERS]

[Shift]

Dunno if this will be popular but just crossed my mind and thought it might be interesting.

For me 24 has always won the crown, even out of all the films I have seen. The best would be either season 3 at the end where Jack threatens to put Stephen Saunder's daughter into the hotel that was flooded with a virus earlier on.

Or the best for me ever, would have to season 4, when after just breaking in and kidnapping a suspect taking refuge in the Chinese Embassy single-handed only for him to be shot in the process. Then to cart the suspect into medical at CTU where the doctors are already working on Paul Rhaines, ex-husband of Audrey (in a relationship with Jack but who had recently taken a liking to Paul again) and the guy who is only in the state he is in, because he pushed Jack out of the way earlier and took two bullets for him. Just for Jack to pull a gun to the doctors head and force him to save the suspects life, only for Paul to die and Audrey to shout at Jack and start hitting him well shouting, 'HE SAVED YOUR LIFE YOU SON OF A BITCH! I HATE YOU!' and for it to end.

I found myself sitting right on the edge of my chair with my mouth open so wide it could have been as if I was eating the worlds largest sandwitch. Ok your turn ^^

 

[Lucid]

24 definitely had tons of intense moments.

Lost had a few, the 1st episode springs to mind actually.
Chaos everywhere. Screaming. Jet engine spinning. etc etc.

 

[Kadayi]

I'm not too sure what your after exactly, but off the top of my head in Season 2 of LOST when Michael shoots Ana Lucia and Libby was pretty nuts, in a '**** me I did not see that coming' way.

As for Films the scene in One flew over the cuckoos nest, when Mcmurphy confronts/tries to kill Nurse Ratched after Billy commits suicide.

Saving private Ryan the beach landing/final battle. Now the whole manner in which it was filmed has been absorbed into the collective consciousness, but at the time it was painfully and emotionally visceral to watch.

 

[Ennui]

I think the most intense movie I've ever seen overall is Sunshine, and the most intense part of that is when they jump through space, although the whole movie is intense as hell (every death is gnarly as shit).

 

[Polaris]

Movies:

The Fugitive
Kimble's jump off the dam at gunpoint.

Apocalypse Now
Kilgore's "I love the smell of napalm in the morning..."

Star Wars V: Empire Strikes Back
I'm your father!

Minority Report
Everybody runs. Movie full of amazing scenes.

Don't remeber more right now...

TV:

24 Season 1
Ending with dead Jack's wife.

X-Files
Deep Throat's execution.

The Pretender
Young Jarod and Parker are tested with in The Centre.

Lost Season 3 Finale
Benjamin waiting on the hill for survivors of 815. Most badass guy ever.

 

[Lucid]

Ah yeah, Saving Private Ryan.

Also, in Platoon... the village raid. I holy shitted a few times.

Pulp Fiction, when Uma Thurman ODs on heroine. Cringed at the adrenaline shot. D:

APOCALYPSE ****ING NOW... Do Lung Bridge scene, the music... the scenery... everything, makes my spine shiver every god damn time I watch it... and the scene afterwards where they're purple hazing.

 

[Iron Kat]

Speed 2 - the bit near the end with the ship ploughing through the buildings on the coast. I 'holy shit'ed throughout the whole sequence!

 

[kineaesth]

I Am Legend.

Not the best movie, but throught the entire f*cking movie, which I saw on an IMAX screen, I was freaking out so hard. Even when it was slow, my heart would still be tripping balls. God it was terrible.

 

[Leto]

Kinetic> Yeah that movie was intense.

One scene in particular: When Will is in the tunnels and he has the flashlight, how he puts his hand over the flashlight at first, then when he lifts it, the zombie/vampire/whatever things are huddled in a circle. When he put his hand back on the flashlight I was half-expecting him to lift it again, to have the zombie/vampire/whatever things right in front of him :O

 

[knut]

Lucius saving Pullo in Rome, season 1, when he's thrown to the gladiators arena. Real heart warming stuff. Very touching.

 

[Doppelgofer]

APOCALYPSE ****ING NOW... Do Lung Bridge scene, the music... the scenery... everything, makes my spine shiver every god damn time I watch it... and the scene afterwards where they're purple hazing.

agreeeeed to this. strange intense scenes in 2 of david lynch's films, lost highway and mulholland drive

in lost highway, the first time bill pullman meets robert blake at the party. bizarrely unsettling and intense

in mulholland drive, the scene with the cop telling his partner about a dream he had the night before and the build up

 

[elkaebee]

I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore.

 

[Adrik_Senturu]

in mulholland drive, the scene with the cop telling his partner about a dream he had the night before and the build up

Was about to post this. Holy shit is it intense. The actual pay-off kind of sucks but god damn if I wasnt on the edge of my seat the entire scene

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pdd9VBSoag

 

[CyberPitz]

Prison Break kept me on the edge of my seat a lot.

 

[Kadayi]

in mulholland drive, the scene with the cop telling his partner about a dream he had the night before and the build up

Yeah that is a killer scene, the soundscape musical score adds a lot to it. I didn't think it was a couple of cops though, I assumed it was a guy and his therapist/friend. You know what's coming, but it still creeps you out when it happens.

There's a fair degree of intensity throughout the picture. The bit where Betty/Diane loses the plot is pretty nuts, as is her Audition scene where she completely transforms. Naomi Watts pretty much owes her career to Lynch on that one.

 

[Sulkdodds]

Do we need spoiler tags inside this thread, or just a big-ass spoiler warning on the title?

My picks would be the entire street-fight sequence from Children of Men, culminating in Theo finding the baby and bringing it downstairs as everybody just lowers their guns, and also two scenes from Heat: the two adversaries' first meeting, and their last meeting.

 

[Kadayi]

Do we need spoiler tags inside this thread, or just a big-ass spoiler warning on the title?

Title would prolly be a good idea sulks

My picks would be the entire street-fight sequence from Children of Men, culminating in Theo finding the baby and bringing it downstairs as everybody just lowers their guns, and also two scenes from Heat: the two adversaries' first meeting, and their last meeting.

CoM, forgot about that. Good call there on the long cam, the one where they get attacked in the car is excellent as well. Also HEAT I'd say the entire bank robbery scene is pretty standout. The whole notion of the robbers actually going toe to toe with the police in order to break out was pretty nuts.

Also mention of old Bob De Niro makes me think of the initial ambush/Car Chase Scene through Nice in Ronin, that was pretty nuts as well (the Paris one went overboard imo).

Back onto the more emotive scenes, in Blue Velvet where Jeffery watches Frank humiliate and abuse Dorothy, or the car scene where Frank transforms Roy Orbisons 'In Dreams' into the creepiest song ever.

More recently, the scene in No Country for old men between Anton and the garage owner. The way the tone suddenly switches is tangible.

 

[Leto]

Another one to add: the ending to Inside Man.
Wow, I didn't see that one coming (no sarcasm intended)

 

[Combine_Advisor]

Prison Break:When Linc has Gretchen and that other guy has LJ

 

[Ennui]

Do we need spoiler tags inside this thread, or just a big-ass spoiler warning on the title?

My picks would be the entire street-fight sequence from Children of Men, culminating in Theo finding the baby and bringing it downstairs as everybody just lowers their guns, and also two scenes from Heat: the two adversaries' first meeting, and their last meeting.

Truth.

The part where they walk down the stairs with the baby and all the fighting stops and everyone is just looking wondrously at the baby, and then just after they walk out the front someone fires a shot and it all explodes again... that was so insanely intense, I was struggling not to start bawling in the movie theater.

 

[hot564231]

End of season 1 of Battlestar Galactica.

 

[Krynn72]

YOU CANT HANDLE THE TRUTH!

To be honest.

 

[jimbo118]

The New York underground attack scene in Cloverfield, the death of the infected chick in the same film.

The end(beginning) of Memento, I was just like OH SHI...

Witt's death in The Thin Red Line.

 

[ríomhaire]

Scene where the dog runs into the mutant infested building and Will Smith is looking for him in I Am Legend.

Pretty much everything in Bexhill in Children of Men.

About half of No Country for Old Men.

 

[Bad^Hat]

Something from Band of Brothers, surely. Too many moments to choose.

 

[knut]

Something from Band of Brothers, surely. Too many moments to choose.

Assault on Carentan
The charge at Foy
The bombings around the woods of Foy

Those three are major stand outs to me in the series.

Also, the scene in Cloverfield where the military are advancing down the street. If you didn't see that part in the cinema with fantastic surround sound then you missed out as it was both fantastic and mind-blowing.

 

[Kula Meenur]

This film called Perfume. The scene where he puts the purfume into a hankerchief and then makes the crowd have an orgy... ...and also the scene where he is eaten alive...


...epic...


also, the last king of scotland where he is strung by his nipples... actually, the whole movie was pretty intense imo

 

[The Monkey]

Marlon Brandos speech at the end of Apocalypse Now (Redux) (the one about the polio medicine). So ****ing epic. In fact, the whole movie is epic and filled with intense and great scenes.

 

[CptStern]

the ear scene in reservoir dogs, also the various standoffs (Keitel and cops, keitel and Roth, etc)

the bad lieutenant: intense from beginning to end

the birthday scene in Man Bites Dog, also the old lady/serial killer scene

the bathtub chainsaw scene in Scarface

Memento: the point in the film where the story comes back full circle (Joe Pantoliano scene)

goodfellas: the pen stabbing, trunk stabbing, pistol whipping of neighbour scenes

bladerunner: leon's interview, the ending scene after the demise of pris

The Big Sleep: the scene where bogart makes mob boss walk out into a barrage of gun fire from his own men: classic bogart

 

[jimbo118]

The Officer's Ward - when each soldier see their face, when the 1 guy's family come to visit him including his children who can't bear to look at him, the scene where they find him later in the bathroom dead after killing himself, the scene towards the end where the main character meets the woman he slept with before he left for the war, damn that whole film is just a sad-fest

 

[CyberPitz]

Prison Break:When Linc has Gretchen and that other guy has LJ

That part was rather epic. Another piece is when they are in Prison, when Michael is going about behind the walls, and the guard shows up...he has to push himself against the pipe to not get seen....oh boy, I was flippin' out there.

 

[stemot]

28 Weeks Later - The whole opening of the movie, when the infected break into the farm house and chase Don to the boat, ****ing immense.

The Punisher - Both the bits when his family are killed and the last 20 mins when he gets his revenge.

Rambo IV - Pretty much the whole movie.

 

[knut]

stemot just reminded me...

28 Days Later - When Jim first wakes up in the hospital right until he's taken in by the two survivors. Six or so minutes of pure silence in an eerily empty and deserted London, broken only by a car alarm which breaks the tension perfectly and never fails to make me jump. Too bad I've seen it and now what happens because otherwise that scene is perfect when you don't know whats coming, sort've like that Mulholland Drive scene.

The next scene though, the chase from the church, probably goes up there with one of the best pieces of film I've seen. I can't believe I forgot it. The way you don't actually see the infected long or clear enough scared me simply because there was no way to tell how many were chasing him or what they looked like - you just know theres a lot of them, and they're ****in' pissed. The shaky cam really does make this scene. Real heart-racing stuff.

 

[Shift]

Yeah when he just says 'Hello?' and about three faces just instantly look up at him and just stare with a weird expression, then you hear someone running down the corridor ahead. Oh man that was scary when first watching.

 

[Polaris]

First Blood ending with crying Rambo. So sad...

 

[French Ninja]

300
Day 1 battle scene (first wave hitting the shields)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNQMSpsRDsk&feature=related
Day 2 battle scene (lol rhino moment, killing scissor-hand mens)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyz4daIPlqY&feature=related

Braveheart
Bannockburn ending(When I saw it at 9 years old, I didn't know Scotland won the battle, I cried ;()
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUP2-Fo_byI

Aliens
First Encounter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9QON3dRauY&feature=related
Second Encounter (oh shi- @ 3:10)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUOj17KRzqc&feature=related

Starship Troopers
Planet P

 

[ríomhaire]

28 Weeks Later - The whole opening of the movie, when the infected break into the farm house and chase Don to the boat, ****ing immense.

I almost started laughing when they showed the infected running that was clearly being fast-forwarded.

stemot just reminded me...

28 Days Later - When Jim first wakes up in the hospital right until he's taken in by the two survivors. Six or so minutes of pure silence in an eerily empty and deserted London, broken only by a car alarm which breaks the tension perfectly and never fails to make me jump. Too bad I've seen it and now what happens because otherwise that scene is perfect when you don't know whats coming, sort've like that Mulholland Drive scene.

The next scene though, the chase from the church, probably goes up there with one of the best pieces of film I've seen. I can't believe I forgot it. The way you don't actually see the infected long or clear enough scared me simply because there was no way to tell how many were chasing him or what they looked like - you just know theres a lot of them, and they're ****in' pissed. The shaky cam really does make this scene. Real heart-racing stuff.

Oh how did I forget? Bit at the end when everything goes to hell, too. Very good film.

 

[Avoidist]

Jurassic Park. Raptors. I was about 6. Need I say more?

 

[Kula Meenur]

stemot just reminded me...

28 Days Later - When Jim first wakes up in the hospital right until he's taken in by the two survivors. Six or so minutes of pure silence in an eerily empty and deserted London, broken only by a car alarm which breaks the tension perfectly and never fails to make me jump. Too bad I've seen it and now what happens because otherwise that scene is perfect when you don't know whats coming, sort've like that Mulholland Drive scene.

The next scene though, the chase from the church, probably goes up there with one of the best pieces of film I've seen. I can't believe I forgot it. The way you don't actually see the infected long or clear enough scared me simply because there was no way to tell how many were chasing him or what they looked like - you just know theres a lot of them, and they're ****in' pissed. The shaky cam really does make this scene. Real heart-racing stuff.

QFT. Awesome flick.


Mulholland Drive was intense but not in a good way...the whole movie was one big head****!

 

[mindless_moder]

Schindler's List : pretty much any time a german officer pulls his gun out .. one scene that really had me going was when they gathered all the women into the showering area. at that point in the move i dont think i would have been able to handle seeing them get gassed.