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post #51 of 100
7/16/08 at 11:13pm
David Byrne strides onto an empty stage carrying a guitar and a boombox in Stop Making Sense.

Sting steps out of that crazy-ass steam shower clad only in a ridiculous sci-fi speedo in Dune.

The long zoom out from Alex's eye to reveal the Droogs and the Korova Milk Bar in A Clockwork Orange.
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post #52 of 100
7/17/08 at 12:38am
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The Emperor. We'd seen this gigantic hologram in Empire. Vader practically wields his name as a weapon at the beginning of Jedi. This absolutely epic rendition of the Imperial March plays as every TIE Fighter on the Death Star flies formation for his arrival, every trooper is assembled on the deck, Vader fucking kneels in preparation for his arrival, the ramp descends, this eerie music plays ... and this small creepy old man limps down the ramp. Totally against expectations, and it works.
I'll also add the reveal of the back of Vader's head (establishing he's human to set up the cliffhanger) in Empire, and of course the iconic "ship flying overhead followed by much fucking huger ship flying overhead" that opens A New Hope and the pan down to the chaotic Battle of Coruscant in ROTS.

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In addition to the previous mentions, I'll add the reveal of the brontosaurus in Jurassic Park: Sam Neil and Laura Dern stumble out of the Jeep, music swells up and there they are... the most mind-blowingly photorealistic dinosaurs ever set to film. Chill-worthy.
I was 14 when I saw this in the theater, and I indeed had chills. In fact I was misty-eyed at how beautifully shot that scene was.

I love the final shot of From Dusk Till Dawn, with the matte painting of the temple and countless wrecked trucks strewn about.
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post #53 of 100
7/17/08 at 5:30am
Finally seeing who's under the red cloak in Don't Look Now.
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post #54 of 100
7/17/08 at 5:33am
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Finally seeing who's under the red cloak in Don't Look Now.
Good one.
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post #55 of 100
7/17/08 at 5:41am
Some of you seriously need to watch some older movies. There's no beating the first reveal of Rita Hayworth in Gilda. If you are a heterosexual male, or have any appreciation for the female form whatsoever, there's no topping this. Ever.

"Are you decent?"
"Who, me?"

Damn.

I'm fully with Dickson, however, in singling out the first full shot of the shark in Jaws. Breathtaking every time.

I will give a nod to one recent movie: Catherine Zeta-Jones' entrance in The Mask of Zorro. A friend I saw it with literally went slack-jawed.
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post #56 of 100
7/17/08 at 6:20am
One of my absolute favorites:

You've gone through a long, mentally and emotionally draining road of The Devil's Rejects. The movie has calmed down, the "heroes" have escaped doom and they are cruising, bloodied and broken down the highway. Perfectly, Freebird's opening organ provides a uniquely country atmosphere of the "good, old-time religion" mixed with a foreboding sense of impending conclusion. Suddenly and inexplicably, Otis stops the car in the middle of the highway- looking forward with pained eyes, the "oh fuck" dripping from his face. Cut to:

A massive, thick roadblock of well-armed, vengeance-seeking cops.
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post #57 of 100
7/17/08 at 9:35am
The Statue of Liberty half buried in the sand at the end of Planet of the Apes.
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post #58 of 100
7/17/08 at 9:39am
"Damn you, Lisa! Damn you all to hell!"

Great call though.

Another one: L.A. Confidential: "Rolo Tomasi" - The way Spacey conveys it and acts pretty much the best dying-scene in cinema history is one for the ages.
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post #59 of 100
7/17/08 at 10:53am
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I will give a nod to one recent movie: Catherine Zeta-Jones' entrance in The Mask of Zorro. A friend I saw it with literally went slack-jawed.
She is so breath-taking, that I wouldn't be surprised if I gasped whenever she entered a scene during my 1st viewing of INTOLERABLE CRUELTY. One of the reasons I totally buy the fender bender in DESPERADO when Salma crosses the street. I'm pretty easily mesmerized. Damn my Y chromosome!

EDIT: I'm also a sucker for the well-timed monster reveal. Whether it's the slow atmospheric build up of KONG, or the shocker that is the xenomorph chestburster during a meal in ALIEN.
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post #60 of 100
7/17/08 at 12:09pm
The Jurassic Park one is excellent, because it not only works perfectly in the context of the film (thats' fucking dinosaurs!), but because the experience was, at the time, mirrored perfectly in our own reaction to the first effective use of CGI. It's Spielberg saying 'Hey, look what I can do now!' You could hear every jaw in that theater drop in 93.

One of my favorites in Frequency, at the very end. Turns out Dad's alive!
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post #61 of 100
7/17/08 at 12:37pm
"Mr. Blu---Mr. Blutarsky."

Pause caused by Dean Wormer looking up and seeing that Bluto has two pencils stuck in his nose.

Never fails to make me laugh.
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post #62 of 100
7/17/08 at 2:26pm
I agree with Chris Miller and Jan: Usual Suspects and L.A. Confidential for me. Though I should add into the mix The Sixth Sense. M. Night Shyamalan weaved a wild blanket, and, although I'm sure many viewers were right on top of it, I was wrapped by intrigue until, ugh, I see!
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post #63 of 100
7/17/08 at 3:24pm
When Ozymandias tells Night Owl and Rorschach:

'Do it?' Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago.

Oh wait, Watchmen isn't out yet and we don't know how it will actually end? Fuck it, because that will be the best ever. If it happens.
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post #64 of 100
7/17/08 at 3:40pm
Rita Hayworth in ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS

Ripley riding to the rescue in a cargo-loader :"Get away from her, you BITCHHHH!!!!"

The pull back showing all the wounded and dying in GONE WITH THE WIND
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post #65 of 100
7/17/08 at 6:42pm
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Rita Hayworth in ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS

The pull back showing all the wounded and dying in GONE WITH THE WIND
Yes, yes, doing good...

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Ripley riding to the rescue in a cargo-loader :"Get away from her, you BITCHHHH!!!!"
Ew, god no. You had a good run going there, too.
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post #66 of 100
7/17/08 at 8:45pm
The easiest one, probably so obvious that it took this long to think of it - Judy Garland opening the door to her house and the movie goes from black and white to color, and the camera widens up across the whole technicolor vista of Munchkinland.
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post #67 of 100
7/17/08 at 8:53pm
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The easiest one, probably so obvious that it took this long to think of it - Judy Garland opening the door to her house and the movie goes from black and white to color, and the camera widens up across the whole technicolor vista of Munchkinland.
Touchdown!

I'll add the introduction of The Duke (kicking over the spittoon & glaring at Deano with a look of disgust) in RIO BRAVO.

James Caan in THE GODFATHER and Beatty & Dunaway in BONNIE & CLYDE looking down the barrel of a gun /facing sudden death
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post #68 of 100
7/17/08 at 8:57pm
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Yes, yes, doing good...



Ew, god no. You had a good run going there, too.
Hey, come on! That ALIENS example is an iconic 80's moment. The continuation of an action tradition --the surprise heroic rescue--going back to Erroll Flynn and beyond.
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post #69 of 100
7/17/08 at 9:38pm
But with an excruciatingly terrible line of dialogue.
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post #70 of 100
7/17/08 at 11:13pm
The final scene of The Quiet Earth.
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post #71 of 100
7/17/08 at 11:47pm
There are tons, but these come immediately to mind:

Mr. Blonde's entrance in Reservoir Dogs
Barton Fink waking up to Audrey
The wood chipper in Fargo
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post #72 of 100
7/17/08 at 11:49pm
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The final scene of The Quiet Earth.
I'll be over in the corner slapping my forehead and saying "D'oh".
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post #73 of 100
7/18/08 at 12:09pm
Too many TWILIGHT ZONE ep twists to mention, but "Eye of the Beholder" is classic.

I also got a kick outta finding out that wacky Roger Rabbit was married to the "human" sexbomb, Jessica, of all species of toons.
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post #74 of 100
7/18/08 at 3:31pm
The Genesis Cave.
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post #75 of 100
7/18/08 at 8:58pm
The Elephant Man does a neat trick with revealing Merrick's deformity. We get teasing glimpses of him (like the silhouette when Treves shows him off to the other doctors), building the suspense much like he were some Universal monster. When we finally see him, it's when a nurse just blithely walks into his room, looks up and sees him calmly sitting in his bed, and loses her shit.
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post #76 of 100
7/18/08 at 9:34pm
I've always loved the reveal of the visitor's spacecraft under the ice in Hawks' The Thing from Another World. The geiger counter building, how the scientists mill about try to find the edges, how Dimitri Tiomkin's score crescendos and then drops out, and especially the pause of recognition and disbelief as they look from one to another until newspaperman Scotty breaks the spell.

(The first reveal of the visitor, appearing suddenly at the door of the greenhouse is pretty grand as well.)
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post #77 of 100
7/18/08 at 10:00pm
I don't know if this counts a reveal (I think it does), but there's a great shot in Night of the Living Dead where, after a few attacks by solitary zombies, Ben smacks one in the face in the kitchen doorway and as it backs away from the camera it reveals a half dozen or so behind it. Gives a nice sense of escalation to the growing zombie siege.
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post #78 of 100
7/18/08 at 10:05pm
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I've always loved the reveal of the visitor's spacecraft under the ice in Hawks' The Thing from Another World. The geiger counter building, how the scientists mill about try to find the edges, how Dimitri Tiomkin's score crescendos and then drops out, and especially the pause of recognition and disbelief as they look from one to another until newspaperman Scotty breaks the spell.

(The first reveal of the visitor, appearing suddenly at the door of the greenhouse is pretty grand as well.)
Nice.

I'll add the final, show-stopping reveal in Kaufman's INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS
(A moment now run into the ground by the internets)
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post #79 of 100
7/18/08 at 10:10pm
It's not an audience reveal, but Truman's boat hitting the wall is a great moment and a reveal for him.

Has anyone mentioned the ending of OLDBOY yet? Specifically one moment of it, which might not be my favourite reveal but it's definitely stayed with me.

It's a simple one, but Michael Myers' face being revealed in HALLOWEEN is a cool moment, showing that he just looks normal and everyday.
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post #80 of 100
7/18/08 at 10:32pm
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I'll add the final, show-stopping reveal in Kaufman's INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS
(A moment now run into the ground by the internets)
A moment so great that the Internet deluge of the image still hasn't ruined it for me. It still works every time I see it.
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post #81 of 100
7/19/08 at 7:05pm
A recent fave of mine which has stayed firmly encroached in my mind these past two years. After we all kinda suspect who the mole is, after we see him suddenly turning to lip-synching in that interrogation room, he just sits on a chair in front of a bloodied, battered, apparently now widower Ethan Hunt and says:

"It's... complicated".

Perfect.

And from the same series (cause I could go on and on with DePalma as well, from the killer in Dressed to Kill to Charles Martin Smith's death in The Untouchables or even "The face" in Mission to Mars), how about Jon Voight -fuckin' Jim Phelps!- bullshitting his way and Cruise figuring him out whole?
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post #82 of 100
7/21/08 at 2:31pm
I loved the very last few seconds of THE PRESTIGE when we see one of Jackman's "clones" in the tank as Caine's voiceover says, "You want to be...fooled."

Just perfect.
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post #83 of 100
8/3/08 at 9:41pm
The one-two punch of revealing the vampires in Blade to the music stopping and Blade standing in the middle of the blood-covered vampires.


Laura in the car in Brick

The Marshmallow Man going Godzilla in New York in Ghostbusters

Neil Patrick Harris suddenly showing up in Harold and Kumar go to White Castle

TWO Terminators in T2(I was too young to have seen trailers or anything, so two showing up was pretty cool to me. Robert Patrick still gave me nightmares)

The dead super-heroes in The Incredibles

The fucked up and tortured toys in Toy Story

Antonio Banderas showing up at the bar after Buscemi's story

Smart Gremlin in Gremlins 2, complete with glasses out of nowhere
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post #84 of 100
8/3/08 at 10:01pm
Wong Fei-hung arrives on the scene in the Disney/Walden version of AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS. Not a perfect movie, but its strengths greatly outweigh its weaknesses, and this moment is the definite highlight for anyone who knows their Hong Kong cinema. To hear people scattered throughout the theater shouting "OH SHIT!" at a kid's movie is priceless. From casting to music, it's a reveal that's just about as good as it could be without Jet Li being available.
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post #85 of 100
8/4/08 at 3:48pm
If I have missed this some where on the thread already I'm sorry. I think Mr. Ledger's full faced reveal on TDK deserves to be on this list.
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post #86 of 100
8/4/08 at 11:47pm
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Wong Fei-hung arrives on the scene in the Disney/Walden version of AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS. Not a perfect movie, but its strengths greatly outweigh its weaknesses, and this moment is the definite highlight for anyone who knows their Hong Kong cinema. To hear people scattered throughout the theater shouting "OH SHIT!" at a kid's movie is priceless. From casting to music, it's a reveal that's just about as good as it could be without Jet Li being available.
I had been lead to believe that this movie would be awful, but I caught it for free one day anyway. I actually rather liked it. I'm not sure why it caught such a bad rap.
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post #87 of 100
8/5/08 at 12:19am
Cause Jackie uses stunt men and CG! Duh.
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post #88 of 100
8/5/08 at 12:46am
No escape for Connery in THE UNTOUCHABLES.

What's for dinner? In WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE?

Elias is alive! PLATOON

Bart's first appearence THE EDGE

Rat in the john OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN
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post #89 of 100
8/5/08 at 3:29am
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I had been lead to believe that this movie would be awful, but I caught it for free one day anyway. I actually rather liked it. I'm not sure why it caught such a bad rap.
It feels like an actual Jackie Chan movie. Fun cameos. Chinese people speak to each other in Chinese instead of goofy broken English. For entire scenes at a time. Jackie and Karen Mok beat the crap out of each other at the end. Karen Mok. In tight leather with a sexy Englishy accent. In a Disney/Walden movie. There should be more PG rated kids movies like this. Its total failure mystifies me.

Better than INDY 4. Easily.


Also: Meeting Yuen Wah's deeply insane Vietnamese general in Sammo Hung's EASTERN CONDORS.
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post #90 of 100
8/5/08 at 4:28am
My friends were making fun of From Dusk Till Dawn, remarking about how cheesy it was, until the reveal of all of the dozen-or-so baddies transformed into bat-monsters. They didn't expect that at all, so they all kinda suddenly went silent for a few minutes. I savored it.
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post #91 of 100
8/5/08 at 4:58am
in rambo first blood

when the cops are wandering the hillside lookin for Rambo, and one stops for a moment, then suddenly rambo opens his eyes and takes the guy down

pure awsomeness
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post #92 of 100
8/5/08 at 5:31pm
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I had been lead to believe that this movie would be awful, but I caught it for free one day anyway. I actually rather liked it. I'm not sure why it caught such a bad rap.
I felt this movie started off really bad and overly slapstick but got better as it went on and turned out to be a enjoyable family friendly popcorn movie.
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post #93 of 100
8/5/08 at 7:58pm
"Aliens", Ripley encounters the Alien Queen is still one of my favorites.
I also have to go with the reveal of the secret behind the magic tricks in "The Prestige"...Id watch a David Bowie starring movie about Nikola tesla in a heartbeat.
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post #94 of 100
8/5/08 at 8:41pm
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I also have to go with the reveal of the secret behind the magic tricks in "The Prestige"...
Definitely the scraping of the bird out of the collapsed cage...brought a smile to my lips.
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post #95 of 100
8/5/08 at 9:42pm
2nd the whole Joker reveal in TDK. Wasn't more say the reveal but his impression just in his opening scene. To say it was magical, would be going for a joke, but presence that just kept escalating from pencil to bombs.

To add another TDK one was Two Face's reveal. Its just a few cuts, and then it just showed, and you were just struck. Probably just due to the awesome scene when he looks at the coin that proceeded it.
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post #96 of 100
8/6/08 at 5:29pm
Tom Hanks staring at the lake through the window and then the gunshots in Road to Perdition. Broke my heart.
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post #97 of 100
8/6/08 at 5:44pm
'Raising Cain': Lolita Davidovich at the end of the movie. She's talking, blissfully unaware. She leans over and there's John Lithgow in full on drag. The whole theater let out a gasp for a second before bursting into laughter.

As an aside, this was a movie that my date really wanted to see for some reason...she apologized for it profusely afterwards
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post #98 of 100
8/6/08 at 8:32pm
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'Raising Cain': Lolita Davidovich at the end of the movie. She's talking, blissfully unaware. She leans over and there's John Lithgow in full on drag. The whole theater let out a gasp for a second before bursting into laughter.

As an aside, this was a movie that my date really wanted to see for some reason...she apologized for it profusely afterwards
I love Raising Cain unapologetically, but that shot is a full-on swipe from Argento's Tenebrae.

Lithgow is on fire in that movie. Must have been a blast to film.
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post #99 of 100
8/6/08 at 8:44pm
One of the biggest mind blowing reveals to me as a kid was the man behind the curtain in The Wizard Of Oz.
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post #100 of 100
8/6/08 at 8:46pm
The very end of Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, where we see that Ryu's girlfriend wasn't full of shit when she made her threat earlier in the film.
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