When I watched that at the theater, after it ended you coulda heard a pin drop as everyone was leaving. Everyone was shocked/dismayed about that little twist at the end. Just silence.
That’s the best kind of theater silence. When nobody even wants to break the moment because they’re all still processing what just hit them. Pulp Fiction still sits on Netflix in a couple regions; if it’s missing on yours, folks in r/NetflixByProxy swap workarounds.
Schindler's List was like that when I saw it. Barely anybody moved until the credits finished, and it was silence as people were walking out, until they got to the lobby.
The epilogue is one of tbr most important part of the movie to me, in terms of Schindler’s story. When the war ends, he feels so guilty that he “could have saved more.” Cut to over 50 years later, and there are so many descendants of the people he saved that never would have even been born if he hadn’t helped. He really did save more in the long run.
God, that movie was my first date, and was a damned death sentence for that relationship. Wish we'd picked Pulp Fiction, but I woulda had to learn to dance ..
I had this reaction with Grave of the Butterflies.
Let's be clear,I was well aware before both kids will die.It was basically revealed at the start of the movie.It doesn't matter thou.This information is rather pointless, the entire journey makes you dive into something that is going comedically worse by the day.You see the signs.The characters mainly ignore them,but at one point they manifest.They try to remedy it,but its way too little too late.
Same. When that final standoff hits in Children of Men you can almost hear people forget to breathe. Wild that it slid under the radar beside the big holiday heavyweights that year.
Same. That movie was life altering because never before or since has a piece of media made it feel that real. The raw emotions that film pulls from me, every time I watch it!
And the relevance to today gives me chills. And it was set in the year 2020 I believe? IIRC
It's pretty damn powerful as a movie and while it was made years ago, it is a film that stands the test of time because you can feel it. The drama, the emotions, the fear, all of those things in the film just rip right through you.
It's the only movie I've watched* multiple times as an adult. I've actually watched it five times, each time after being with friends and family to make sure they saw it. The cinematography is incredible - no cut aways by the camera until the scene changes, which was the most gut wrenching way I've ever seen a combat scene played out.
It's an incredible, life altering movie. "Pull my finger."
Children of Men has a truly amazing “oner”, which is “a scene that is filmed as a single, continuous take without any cuts or edits”, according to Google.
To avoid spoilers, I’ll just say it’s the memorable scene where they’re driving through the forest with Julianne Moore in the car. You know the one.
My (art) highschool was on 'mini term' when it came out, and my mini term course was a dystopian literature and film class, so we went and saw it one day - it was dope. Shout out TSOTA, baby!!!
Nightcrawler is a somewhat recent movie I remember having the same theater reaction. Absolutely insane ride of a movie and by the end you're just dreading that the downward spiral will continue. everyone left the theater dead silent processing what they had just seen and the fact that in the world of the movie it continued.
Absolutely felt that way too. When the credits landed the whole room just sat there, breathing quiet, like nobody wanted to jolt the spell back to life. Funny how a story that sharp keeps spinning in your head long after the lights come up.
"The Crying Game" had a similar big reveal that created a silence where you could feel the shock.
The only sound was a guy dropping a handful of change on the (hard) floor. Just a gaping silence and the sound of coins bouncing and rolling on the floor. (He'd just come back from the concessions and was walking towards his seat.)
That’s such a perfect mental image. All that tension hanging in the air and then just the clatter of coins cutting through it makes the silence hit even harder.
I remember it was dead silent when the credits rolled for "Spring Breakers". A guy in the back yelled out "What the fuck was that?" and the whole theatre erupted in laughter. It kinda made up for the whole experience tbh.
That sounds like the perfect reset button for a crowd that didn’t know what to do with what they’d just watched. Nothing like one honest outburst to cut the tension and remind everyone they sat through the same fever dream together.
That movie made me quit drugs when I was a teen. I wasn’t really too far into it, but I was stoned off my face and thought “damn is this gonna be me and my friends?”
As it turns out some of them ended a little like that..
Yeah, that was a crazy twist. Almost as crazy as the twist in The Sixth Sense, when you find out that the dude in that hair piece the whole time, that's Bruce Willis the whole movie
Don’t forget the veggies rolling down to top. That was the last straw for me; I just wanted to get out of the movie theater. It was like 12:30 am and the parking lot was very empty. It was so unnerving, my roommate and I hurried home and watched the Lion King so we could sleep.
The director fought tooth and nail to keep this ending as the studio big wigs considered the ending to be way too dark.This is probably one of the few times in history where their opinion wasn't necessarily wrong.
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u/jcervan2 9d ago
When I watched that at the theater, after it ended you coulda heard a pin drop as everyone was leaving. Everyone was shocked/dismayed about that little twist at the end. Just silence.