Tense scenes that still get you

[Immortalfire]

You know, those scenes in movies that still keep us on the edge, waiting to see what's gonna happen...even though we know what's gonna happen. It's just effective filmmaking, I guess.

Apollo 13...everyone is waiting to see if the ship made it through re-entry

Back To The Future...Marty racing toward the clock tower

Spider-Man 2....Spidey trying to stop the train

 

[StorminNorman]

Children of Men: The scene in the car, Theo trying to get back to the girl and baby.

 

[Asteroid-Man]

Darth Vader's last scene with Darth Vader and the funeral pyre.

Climax of TDK (with Gordon's family and Two-Face)

Final scene from Devdas

Mufasa's death in the Lion King

Xavier's death in X:TLS

 

[MiniBond]

the final sequence of Seven.....

 

[Doctor Jones]

^ Oh, hell yes.

"What's in the box?!"

 

[MiniBond]

I still remember the first time I saw it....



Another one really effective....

the opening of 28 weeks later !

 

[ttotheusher]

The blood test scene in The Thing. I know who's infected, and yet it still gets me guessing.

 

[Batspider77]

The End of E.T. makes me still Emotional.

 

[Dave McFly]

You know, those scenes in movies that still keep us on the edge, waiting to see what's gonna happen...even though we know what's gonna happen. It's just effective filmmaking, I guess.

Apollo 13...everyone is waiting to see if the ship made it through re-entry

Back To The Future...Marty racing toward the clock tower

Spider-Man 2....Spidey trying to stop the train

that and the Train sequence in part III are my favorite "white knuckle" film moments.

 

[dawnster15]

The ending of Pan's Labyrinth still always gets me.

Same with the end of The Dark Knight, they do a very goo job of making you feel like Harvey's really about to commit the unthinkable.

 

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Tense scenes that still get you

I don't know if you guys would find this scene tense but.. I just *love* the scene when you see Slade ready to commit suicide with his gun in Scent of a Woman. The line What life? I got no life! gets me every time.

 

[Abaddon]

Unbreakable - The scene where the kid tries to shoot his dad(Bruce Willis) to prove he has superpowers.

 

[Superark]

The ending of Seven is definitely one tense scene (What would you do in Brad Pitt's position)

Reservoir Dogs (Everyone's guns pointed at each other, and Harvey Keitel with the gun to Tim Roth's head)

Superman Returns (Plane rescue was awesome)

Halloween (Pretty much the whole movie. Carpenter is a master at getting you to sit on the edge of your seat)

The Godfather II (Fredo sitting in that boat and seeing what happens when you go against the family)

King Kong (Jackson's remake of Kong climbing the Empire State Building)

Pulp Fiction (Jules quoting Ezekiel 25:17)

Gangs of New York (Bill the Butcher finding out who Amsterdam really is)

Braveheart (Waiting to hear if William Wallace screams mercy or not)

The Dark Knight (Batman/Joker Interogation scene)

 

[OsGom]

the final sequence of Seven.....

^^^That did kick so much ass!

How about Clarice fumbling around in the dark with Buffalo Bill bearing down on her!

 

[[A]]

How about Clarice fumbling around in the dark with Buffalo Bill bearing down on her!

Nice one.

 

[OsGom]

How about, "You can't handle the Truth!!" Col. Jessep screaming at Lt. Kaffey in the finale of A Few Good Men. That entire sequence between the two was just intense.

The entire last half of Alien.

The last half of Crimson Tide.

 

[OsGom]

The blood test scene in The Thing. I know who's infected, and yet it still gets me guessing.

^^^^ This is an excellent scene as well!

 

[Watson]

Resevoir Dogs and the ear. EWWWWWW[/girlysqueamishness]

 

[Visceral]

The last half of the Matrix

The first scene in MI3 and the finale in the first one

The Departed....all of it.

"I'm funny...how?" from goodfellas

The T-1000 chases the car on foot.

TDK interrogation scene was pretty good

Though I hate the movie No country for Old men was tense for most of the film.

Air Force One, when they finally have the President hostage.

Taken when his daughter is, yup, taken.

Minority Report when he finds the guy who killed his son.

Saving Private Ryan when the medic dies

Heat....um the heist of course

A Few Good Men....did you order the code red?

Falling Down. This movie is like kicking yourself in the balls.

 

[xwolverine2]

dr lector and clarice talking in silence of the lambs...

that scene is music to the eyes

 

[Metamorpho1977]

You know, those scenes in movies that still keep us on the edge, waiting to see what's gonna happen...even though we know what's gonna happen. It's just effective filmmaking, I guess.



Back To The Future...Marty racing toward the clock tower

I liked the scene where George McFly punches Biff. I want to stand up and cheer every time I see it.

 

[Ziggyman]

Signs - Basement/inhaler scene...Gets me every time...And you hardly see anything!

 

[Sexecutioner]

Minority Report - the ending

 

[CashforStash]

The end of Titanic

 

[Lobo]

Zodiac when Downey was in the dudes basement sends chills up my spine every time I see it.