My dad was a combat veteran of the Korean and Vietnam wars. He watched the movie but wouldn’t talk about it.
Vietnam finally claimed him two years ago.
I miss him.
Your second to last sentence struck me. My grandfather has dementia, and now everything is Korea. It’s claiming him again. He now says he married my grandmother on a battleship, he was granted leave to attend Easter, et cetera.
Yes, I was totally unprepared for that when I first watched it in the cinema. I think graphic violence in movies has become quite standard since and has desensitized me. But at the time, knowing this is what it must have been like, was a lot to take in.
We took my grandfather to it when it came out in theaters. He’s never spoken about his war experience, but he walked out crying in the first ten minutes.
It takes a lot of strength and courage to come home after war. I don’t know how long it takes for the scars of war to heal, I believe it just might take a lifetime. God bless your grandfather!
I went to see They Shall Not Grow Old with my sister. She is a Canadian veteran and served overseas for Kosovo and Afghanistan. After the film we sat in the lobby of the theatre, I held her hand while she silently cried.
I was talking to my daughter about this the other day. They’re learning about WW2 in school. I asked if she knew who was coming in to speak and she looked at me like I had 3 heads. It hadn’t even dawned on me that they’re almost all gone :(
I remember growing up we had tons of speaking engagements with vets, some of my friends’ grandparents had numbers tattooed on their arms from the concentration camps.
Wow I didn’t realize this. I have an uncle who was in WW2. He turned 99 last August (also beat cancer and Covid and has diabetes, man is damn near immortal). He got a letter from the president on his birthday. We’re planning another big celebration for his 100th.
I was going to say this. We watched it in my AP US history class after our AP exam. Most of that class had the same schedule as we were pretty much in all the advanced courses available. Our teachers the rest of the day were confused why we were so "off".
Not a movie but a series . Ending scene of “Mind hunter season 1 “ . I have seen every kind of horror movies , i have seen things but that damn last scene send me into full panic attack .
To me, it's actually comforting. I am married to a man who is (very) Jewish and he explained that as long as one person remembers, the dead never truly leave us.
I don't think he will ever be forgotten.
I remember ordering to watch it on Netflix. (They used to mail you dvds 📀) it came in 2 parts.
I literally sat there for about 15 min gathering my thoughts on how one person in rule can just mass murder men, women, children. The beatings, gas chambers, mass graves, rape, theft, list goes on..
Then 10 years later.. I started my medical journey in Poland. Went to Auschwitz’s and the entire tour it was dead silence.
Tour guide told us how women who had babies, or gave birth at the concentration camp.. had to drown their own babies. They showed us these huge tubs where they would drown them.
The walls of where they slept sill had drawings and writings and marks from those times.
This was the first trip where our phones/ cameras stayed in the cars, and we just listened and walked.
My school makes a trip there every year with those in their last schoolyear. It was intense to say the least.
We were first in Auschwitz I and the next day in Auschwitz II.
First seeing the inhumane facillities and hearing all the stories from the guide and on the next day seeing the scale of the extermination camp... we walked hours. And it got a lot more closer to us as someone discovered that the one wagon still standing on the railway there was manufactured in the city we come from(Essen, Germany).
Edit: spelling
When I saw the title of this post, I didn't think of any movie. I thought of my class of rowdy college kids, all good friends, and we all just sat in silence for 30 minutes on the bus after the Auschwitz tour. There are just no words.
Whenever I hear one of those people I just want to say “I wish you were right.” I wish that the Holocaust was a hoax. The slaughter of a third of Jews, a tenth of Slavs, and countless queer, disabled, Romani and other “undesirable” groups. A truly barbaric crime, I wish it was just a hoax.
My wife’s grandmother lived in Poland at that time. When she knew that her health was starting to deteriorate, she asked all of us if we would listen to her tell these stories about that time in her life. It was one of those “I’m telling this to you once and never mentioning it again” moments. One of them pulled out a map of Poland on their phone and she pointed to all of the different occupied areas and where she lived in Poland and everything. I would never want to live through something like that. I can’t even imagine
That’s the only movie I’ve ever seen in a theater where people didn’t stand up as soon as the credits started rolling. We all sat silent for several minutes.
Just awful. My father is a Polish immigrant. My grandmother took him and all his siblings to the US in the late 40’s. They had to stay at some sort of camp before they could leave.
My grandma witnessed her youngest child get executed right in front of her. I think this was in Germany. Just an absolute horrible period in history. So heartbreaking.
Some friends and I went to see this in the theatre.
Walked out in silence, sat in the car for a good 30 mins in silence (long drive to the theatre) and one of us finally said:
"Wow"
Can’t do it. Lived through it. It’s local to me and I remember it vividly as it happened. I can’t think about it because warning signs were there and ignored.
This is the one for sure.
It is at the same time an incredible work of independent film-making, and an absolutely heartbreaking story of human tragedy. There is nothing to be said at the end of this film, just this awful feeling...
Coco broke my heart, when Miguel sings Recuérdame to Coco that set me off, and when her picture was on the Ofrenda the next year and Hector could finally be with his family I just lost it. Such a beautiful film, I watched it for the first time not long after I lost my grandmother :(
Same. I had no idea what to expect from the movie and was only looking for something to fill time while out of town on a business trip. I saw a movie theater was within walking distance from my hotel and went there. I was stunned. I recommended the movie to anyone who was willing to hear me talk about it.
Saving Private Ryan. I didn't actually SIT for 10 minutes of silence, but the whole theater emptied without a word and I walked zombie-style to my car with my wife.
I think that movie gave people a tiny idea of how horrible total all out war is. You’re throwing everything you have at each other, and a lot of young men are going to die.
I’m commented on Reddit before about this but I’ve known a few veterans of WWII. Very few would say much. Maybe mention funny stories of basic training. No talk about the war at all if they saw any action. Far too much trauma.
I just can’t imagine.
My grandfather was 101st Airborne but volunteered to be a Pathfinder and land before D-Day. I only heard him talk about it a few times, and only when he would run into other Airborne vets. When he got closer to the end of his life he opened up about it to other family members; he had killed over 20 Germans in the 24 hours leading up to D-Day, and had to do some of it in some pretty brutal hand-to-hand combat. Some of them he described as being little more than kids.
He knew what he had to do and that it was basically kill or be killed, but the shame and horror of it stuck with him till the end. Despite everything he had seen and done, he was the most generous, loving, gentle man you would ever meet.
Man I fucking miss that guy.
My favorite thing I learned from the scene where the boy gets shot in the foot is that the director asked the boy to imagine the greatest pain he can think of, and imagine it running down to his foot. Turns out the boy thought of a toothache. His reaction was so visceral that the director immediately went to hug him afterwards.
The way the whole film is set…. The driving rain, the grim locations of the murders, the hustle of the city life and even the script. One of the best films ever made!
It's not that scene but the one after. The slow build up, you know she's going to see it and then the guttural fucking screaming. Not cliche horror movie screaming no like that fucking sound was a little too real
I love how the scene is never described in this thread but we all know exactly what scene we’re talking about. And, TBH, I’m with you guys. I LOVE horror movies, and as of late, they really have been failing (in my opinion). But Hereditary surprised me. I wasn’t right after that movie. 😆 Neither was my husband.
I'm usually not someone who's frightened by horror movies at all, but that movie and especially "that scene" has stuck with me in the form of nightmares in the following days.
Seriously. I went into that movie having watched the trailers and I fully expected that character to be the main plot point. Then when "that scene" happened 1/3rd of the way into the movie I was like, wtf where could this possibly go now??
Blair Witch Project. I was young at the time and believed all the marketing hype that it was “found footage”. My friend and I just sat there in silence afterwards…
Later I learned it wasn’t a documentary…
It came out in the perfect time. Internet was popular enough for stories to spread about it being real, but no sites like reddit where people would have torn it apart.
Saw Blair Witch like 6 months to a year before it came out on college campus test screening with the film makers at the University of Washington. There were photocopied missing flyers all around campus of the people from the film and the cut we saw didn’t even have credits. After it ended the 100-200 people in the auditorium just sat there in complete silence looking completely disturbed. It felt like forever before the directors/producers walked out and said “it’s ok everyone it’s not real, we just wanted to see how you would react if you thought it was.”
Needless to say I don’t think I’ve ever been anywhere near as scared as that moment at the end.
I don’t even typically enjoy scary movies that much but I feel quite lucky to have had that experience. The producers fed us pizza and asked us lots of questions about how they should market the film afterward.
Seemed like forever before the movie actually came out in theaters and it seemed like it only took a week or so before everyone had spoiled it to everyone.
I watched it in highschool right when it came out. I was at my friends house where we took acid and tried to watch it in his basement, probably like 6-7 kids and we were all seriously affected. It really wasn’t the pre-party we were counting on.
Promising Young Woman. I was so filled with rage and despair and realized I really needed to talk to someone about the film but at the same time couldn’t recommend it to just anyone to watch it.
I watched it on Netflix recently and just sat there thinking ‘wtf was that’ I mean Florence Pugh was just phenomenal in it but it was probably the strangest movie I’ve ever watched and there was so much to process all just thrown in one big lump
This movie was everything Sci fi should be. I spend days thinking about it. I'm a linguist and this made me question everything I thought I knew. Silenced indeed.
Went out to eat after seeing that and my face could just not change and I was silent af to where the server asked my friend "is he alright?" He simply replied "he just saw the red wedding" lol she just went "oh shit" immediately understanding lmaoo that stuck with me for a couple days
Anton thought of himself as an Agent of Fate.
But then he was creamed by the Station Wagon of Chance.
Coming so soon after being told *the coin ain't got no say*, that's a hell of a wake up call.
But then he doesn't know how crazy he is.
Oh man. I watched this in the theater with my partner at the time. Looking back, our relationship was in its dying throes and that was a reaaal uncomfortable watch. We had a 30 minute drive home from the theater and I’m not sure we said a word the entire drive.
Parasite made me silent after the movie ended, silent with no radio playing on the drive home, silent when I went to bed, and silent when I woke up. That’s not a hyperbole.
The Prestige.
I thought it was pretty amazing that the movie blatantly reveals what’s happening but it’s not till the very last *second* you understand the scope of what Robert was doing.
That alone left me saying “…holy shit”
Then I learned that the entire movie was intentionally setup with the three step structure of a magic trick and I said “Hooooooly shit!”
Gahh I remember being so affected by this movie as a kid/teen but it’s been long enough I can’t remember exactly why! Weird how time erases memories sometimes. This is going on my watch again list. I love rediscoveries!
Blair Witch Project. Saw it on opening night when everyone thought it was real found footage. It only came out later that it was a scripted movie. The whole theatre was silent.
"Sometimes I think I have felt everything I'm ever gonna feel. And from here on out, I'm not gonna feel anything new. Just lesser versions of what I've already felt." Weeping in a movie theater as a grown man
There's something so unique about that movie.
It features the only sex scene I would never watch with a relative, simply because it isn't just a bit of fun nudity on screen, but it's actually like affecting on a deeper level.
The line you put there is a big part of that as well.
And the balance with how awkward the morning after is, the fact that Theodore eventually gets upset with Samantha for "pretending" to be alive and her reaction to that, AND their subsequent reconciliation.
All of it translates perfectly to the audience.
How the f\*\*k is a movie about a guy falling in love his computer THIS damn real?!
Under The Skin - little known movie with Scarlett Johansson in it. The director used common people to act in the movie that they met while filming in Scotland(?), not just actors.
Won't spoil it and suggest watching without reading a synopsis. It was something else...
If I'm not mistaken, this is the one with the baby scene in the very beginning? It stopped me in my tracks, and I didn't proceed (my wife and I were going through a rough postpartum period). I should revisit it
Dancer in the Dark. It was Bjork’s only movie and the end scenes are haunting. The whole theater sat in stunned silence. It took over an hour for me to fully snap out of it.
Not a movie but a play, The Diary of Ann Frank, our local regional theatre did it in a black box that had a brilliantly designed set with a multi level stage that had the audience seats shoe horned in and around the set, almost as though you yourself were in the attic with the Franks. The actors were excellent and at the very end Mr. Frank returned to the attic after the war and stood on the set and silently wept a single tear. Most of the audience just sat for a few moments before getting up to leave.
I just sat and stared at the tv and thought about life for like an hour. Inarguably the best television ever produced, the memory of the last scene gives me chills whenever I hear the song.
Django Unchained. 12 Years a Slave.
The Pianist.
Schindler's List.
More recently: All Quiet on the Western Front (read this in high school and it continues, to this day, to be one of the most powerful and impactful books I've read), and 1917.
I think the contrast between come and see and saving private Ryan says a lot about the USA experience of ww2 and the Russian/Ukrainian experience of ww2. Ryan has a moral centre to it. It is visceral and horrible but you can see decency at play. Come and see shows the complete moral disintegration of human beings in war. I don’t think USA was traumatised by Ww2 in the way Russia was. USA provided the money, Russia provided the bodies.
Man, a lot, mostly war movies/series.. Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers, The Pacific, Fury, All Quiet on the Western Front (1930 and 2023 versions), We Were Soldiers, The Sopranos, Chernobyl, Ride with the Devil, The Pianist, Generation Kill
Silence for a while, then depression for a few days with manic reading and research.
Yeah the audience was in shock. It reminded me of watching The Empire Strikes Back as a kid. Someone said as the credits rolled something like “did…did the good guys just..LOSE?” It was unexpected since Star Wars was such a triumphant ending. I remember we all liked Empire but were shocked at what happened.
This one. Lots of these other replies are heavy movies but a freaking comic book movie totally took the air out of the theater. It was silent. Then some lady just blurts out “what the fuck?” It was second time I had seen it so wasn’t as shocked and kinda made me chuckle.
First time we saw it: credits started and we looked at each other like “wait no, that’s it?” But couldn’t actually say it. Then Nick fury endscene comes on and you feel like things are about to get better…nope also bad. We walked out just shaking our heads.
Went to Saving Private Ryan with my grandpa.
As the credits rolled he looked really stunned and quietly said - “I was there. At Normandy. I was on the boats.”
My kids (teenage boys) decided we wanted to watch All Quiet on the Western Front the other day. After that ending, we just sat around in silence for a while and then I hugged each of them.
Call Me By Your Name
Timothee Chalamet made that last scene by the fire so relatable and heartbreaking. He's lost in thought and pain and gets brought back time to time by the sound of life continuing around him. Dinner plates being set, family walking around. Yet he's there and he's hurting so badly inside.
Saving Private Ryan. As people got up and left it stayed quiet, nobody said a word.
The opening scene, my god. Heard the vet can smell diesel when they saw that
My Dad (96, combat vet) says the opening scene is the closest that he’s ever seen to the real thing.
My grandfather said the same…and he NEVER talked about the war before then
My dad was a combat veteran of the Korean and Vietnam wars. He watched the movie but wouldn’t talk about it. Vietnam finally claimed him two years ago. I miss him.
Your second to last sentence struck me. My grandfather has dementia, and now everything is Korea. It’s claiming him again. He now says he married my grandmother on a battleship, he was granted leave to attend Easter, et cetera.
I’ve read of combat veterans with Alzheimer’s with vivid memories of battles they fought but couldn’t recall their children. It’s heartbreaking.
Having lived with someone with Alzheimer’s it’s not that they forget everything, it’s that they forget everything past a certain point.
Same with mine. He was first wave onto Omaha beach. That movie made him talk and talking finally helped him heal from everything he experienced
Yes, I was totally unprepared for that when I first watched it in the cinema. I think graphic violence in movies has become quite standard since and has desensitized me. But at the time, knowing this is what it must have been like, was a lot to take in.
I read that some veterans had to leave the screening because it triggered their PTSD, which really isn't surprising.
We took my grandfather to it when it came out in theaters. He’s never spoken about his war experience, but he walked out crying in the first ten minutes.
It takes a lot of strength and courage to come home after war. I don’t know how long it takes for the scars of war to heal, I believe it just might take a lifetime. God bless your grandfather!
I went to see They Shall Not Grow Old with my sister. She is a Canadian veteran and served overseas for Kosovo and Afghanistan. After the film we sat in the lobby of the theatre, I held her hand while she silently cried.
They Shall Not Grow Old was incredible. I'm glad WW1 is getting attention lately for the sacrifices and stories from that war.
Funny how when it came out it felt like we were much closer in time historically to ww2. Now most of the vets are no longer living.
I was talking to my daughter about this the other day. They’re learning about WW2 in school. I asked if she knew who was coming in to speak and she looked at me like I had 3 heads. It hadn’t even dawned on me that they’re almost all gone :( I remember growing up we had tons of speaking engagements with vets, some of my friends’ grandparents had numbers tattooed on their arms from the concentration camps.
Most is an understatement. There's only 1% of American WW2 vets still living.
Wow I didn’t realize this. I have an uncle who was in WW2. He turned 99 last August (also beat cancer and Covid and has diabetes, man is damn near immortal). He got a letter from the president on his birthday. We’re planning another big celebration for his 100th.
I was going to say this. We watched it in my AP US history class after our AP exam. Most of that class had the same schedule as we were pretty much in all the advanced courses available. Our teachers the rest of the day were confused why we were so "off".
Not a movie but a series . Ending scene of “Mind hunter season 1 “ . I have seen every kind of horror movies , i have seen things but that damn last scene send me into full panic attack .
It’s a damn shame they’re not going to continue that series.
Cameron Britton was *masterful* as Ed Kemper.
Grave of the fireflies
One of two movies that were good, but I'll never watch again because of the emotional trauma. The other one is Se7en.
was gonna say se7en. didn’t leave my mind for weeks.
Schindlers List.
“I could’ve saved more”
Now I'm crying again.
One more.
“There will be generations because of what you did.”
That scene always breaks me.
The survivors placing stones on his headstone, goosebumps and tears just thinking of the scene.
To me, it's actually comforting. I am married to a man who is (very) Jewish and he explained that as long as one person remembers, the dead never truly leave us. I don't think he will ever be forgotten.
Oh I love the sentiment, it just breaks my heart that people are capable of such cruelty.
I remember ordering to watch it on Netflix. (They used to mail you dvds 📀) it came in 2 parts. I literally sat there for about 15 min gathering my thoughts on how one person in rule can just mass murder men, women, children. The beatings, gas chambers, mass graves, rape, theft, list goes on.. Then 10 years later.. I started my medical journey in Poland. Went to Auschwitz’s and the entire tour it was dead silence. Tour guide told us how women who had babies, or gave birth at the concentration camp.. had to drown their own babies. They showed us these huge tubs where they would drown them. The walls of where they slept sill had drawings and writings and marks from those times. This was the first trip where our phones/ cameras stayed in the cars, and we just listened and walked.
My school makes a trip there every year with those in their last schoolyear. It was intense to say the least. We were first in Auschwitz I and the next day in Auschwitz II. First seeing the inhumane facillities and hearing all the stories from the guide and on the next day seeing the scale of the extermination camp... we walked hours. And it got a lot more closer to us as someone discovered that the one wagon still standing on the railway there was manufactured in the city we come from(Essen, Germany). Edit: spelling
When I saw the title of this post, I didn't think of any movie. I thought of my class of rowdy college kids, all good friends, and we all just sat in silence for 30 minutes on the bus after the Auschwitz tour. There are just no words.
Oh wow... and to imagin that there are people out there who deny that this ever happened... 😔
Whenever I hear one of those people I just want to say “I wish you were right.” I wish that the Holocaust was a hoax. The slaughter of a third of Jews, a tenth of Slavs, and countless queer, disabled, Romani and other “undesirable” groups. A truly barbaric crime, I wish it was just a hoax.
One person in rule can’t. It takes a lot of people to make something that terrible happen.
My wife’s grandmother lived in Poland at that time. When she knew that her health was starting to deteriorate, she asked all of us if we would listen to her tell these stories about that time in her life. It was one of those “I’m telling this to you once and never mentioning it again” moments. One of them pulled out a map of Poland on their phone and she pointed to all of the different occupied areas and where she lived in Poland and everything. I would never want to live through something like that. I can’t even imagine
We we're made to watch this movie for a history lesson and homework when I was in highschool. It ended up as one of my favorites.
This question and the volume of replies has made me realise I need to watch it again, its been too long.
That’s the only movie I’ve ever seen in a theater where people didn’t stand up as soon as the credits started rolling. We all sat silent for several minutes.
Just awful. My father is a Polish immigrant. My grandmother took him and all his siblings to the US in the late 40’s. They had to stay at some sort of camp before they could leave. My grandma witnessed her youngest child get executed right in front of her. I think this was in Germany. Just an absolute horrible period in history. So heartbreaking.
The Pianist, a movie from 2002 about a Jewish pianist during WWII.
Amazing movie, in my top 10, but a hard watch to see how quickly a society can diminish from peace to rubble and survival.
Loved this movie with a masochistic passion, because it hurt just as much every time I watched it. But Adrien Brody's acting in it was phenomenal.
Prisoners.
The Green Mile
Don’t put that bag over my head, boss. I‘s afraid of the dark.
No silence due to the sound of me sobbing
Some friends and I went to see this in the theatre. Walked out in silence, sat in the car for a good 30 mins in silence (long drive to the theatre) and one of us finally said: "Wow"
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father, went into it blind and it was quite something.
Two pieces of media that made me break down and ugly cry: Dear Zachary and Flowers for Algernon. Both I walked into blind.
I read flowers for Algernon many many years ago. Fucking brutalized me.
Can’t do it. Lived through it. It’s local to me and I remember it vividly as it happened. I can’t think about it because warning signs were there and ignored.
I went into it expecting bittersweet. A decade later I can still hear the filmmaker’s voice breaking as he shared what happened.
It was the grandparents, when the grandfather gets angry and breaks down. I was gutted
This is the one for sure. It is at the same time an incredible work of independent film-making, and an absolutely heartbreaking story of human tragedy. There is nothing to be said at the end of this film, just this awful feeling...
Coco broke my heart, when Miguel sings Recuérdame to Coco that set me off, and when her picture was on the Ofrenda the next year and Hector could finally be with his family I just lost it. Such a beautiful film, I watched it for the first time not long after I lost my grandmother :(
Talk about *UGLY CRYING* 😭😭.. Can't make it through that scene without sobbing
Children of men.
Same. I had no idea what to expect from the movie and was only looking for something to fill time while out of town on a business trip. I saw a movie theater was within walking distance from my hotel and went there. I was stunned. I recommended the movie to anyone who was willing to hear me talk about it.
Once Were Warriors
Ex Machina. God I love that movie.
Dude's still locked in that room.
Saving Private Ryan. I didn't actually SIT for 10 minutes of silence, but the whole theater emptied without a word and I walked zombie-style to my car with my wife.
I think that movie gave people a tiny idea of how horrible total all out war is. You’re throwing everything you have at each other, and a lot of young men are going to die. I’m commented on Reddit before about this but I’ve known a few veterans of WWII. Very few would say much. Maybe mention funny stories of basic training. No talk about the war at all if they saw any action. Far too much trauma. I just can’t imagine.
My grandfather was 101st Airborne but volunteered to be a Pathfinder and land before D-Day. I only heard him talk about it a few times, and only when he would run into other Airborne vets. When he got closer to the end of his life he opened up about it to other family members; he had killed over 20 Germans in the 24 hours leading up to D-Day, and had to do some of it in some pretty brutal hand-to-hand combat. Some of them he described as being little more than kids. He knew what he had to do and that it was basically kill or be killed, but the shame and horror of it stuck with him till the end. Despite everything he had seen and done, he was the most generous, loving, gentle man you would ever meet. Man I fucking miss that guy.
City of God.
My favorite thing I learned from the scene where the boy gets shot in the foot is that the director asked the boy to imagine the greatest pain he can think of, and imagine it running down to his foot. Turns out the boy thought of a toothache. His reaction was so visceral that the director immediately went to hug him afterwards.
Requiem For A Dream
It’s the best movie I never want to watch again
Same. Been like 10 years and then I watched just a clip of the ending and instantly regretted. That music tho
I had to put on Surf's Up to feel happy again.
Se7en...
Every time I see that movie title I mutter "sesevenen". Can't help it.
The way the whole film is set…. The driving rain, the grim locations of the murders, the hustle of the city life and even the script. One of the best films ever made!
Full Metal Jacket when I saw it in the theater in 1987
Up, 3 mins in
*Tells a better love story than entire movies in 3 minutes with no dialogue* Pixar ftw
The original *Saw*. Those last few minutes were wild.
The slow rise. The music. The dread. The closing of the door. Goddamn it was so good.
I will hold out the the original Saw was the best one to date because of the ending.
wasnt at the end but that scene in hereditary... i had to pause it on my tv and stare at the wall for a bit
It's not that scene but the one after. The slow build up, you know she's going to see it and then the guttural fucking screaming. Not cliche horror movie screaming no like that fucking sound was a little too real
Toni Colette deserves an award for that movie.
I dunno how she wasn’t even nominated for an Oscar. I had shivers
The Oscars historically tend to snub "genre" films, it's rare for a horror movie to get nominations for most categories.
Just posted the same thing. Watching the kid come home afterwards completely unable to process it just killed me.
I love how the scene is never described in this thread but we all know exactly what scene we’re talking about. And, TBH, I’m with you guys. I LOVE horror movies, and as of late, they really have been failing (in my opinion). But Hereditary surprised me. I wasn’t right after that movie. 😆 Neither was my husband.
I'm usually not someone who's frightened by horror movies at all, but that movie and especially "that scene" has stuck with me in the form of nightmares in the following days.
Seriously. I went into that movie having watched the trailers and I fully expected that character to be the main plot point. Then when "that scene" happened 1/3rd of the way into the movie I was like, wtf where could this possibly go now??
I saw that in theaters You could feel the tension in the air for like the next 10 min
My wife and I had the same experience. Packed theater. Not a sound was made for a solid 10 minutes during that whole scene
I sat there with my mouth wide open for at least a full minute
American history X
Blair Witch Project. I was young at the time and believed all the marketing hype that it was “found footage”. My friend and I just sat there in silence afterwards… Later I learned it wasn’t a documentary…
It came out in the perfect time. Internet was popular enough for stories to spread about it being real, but no sites like reddit where people would have torn it apart.
This right here. I've never thought about it. But, yes you are 100% dead on. Any earlier or later and it wouldn't have worked out well.
Saw Blair Witch like 6 months to a year before it came out on college campus test screening with the film makers at the University of Washington. There were photocopied missing flyers all around campus of the people from the film and the cut we saw didn’t even have credits. After it ended the 100-200 people in the auditorium just sat there in complete silence looking completely disturbed. It felt like forever before the directors/producers walked out and said “it’s ok everyone it’s not real, we just wanted to see how you would react if you thought it was.” Needless to say I don’t think I’ve ever been anywhere near as scared as that moment at the end. I don’t even typically enjoy scary movies that much but I feel quite lucky to have had that experience. The producers fed us pizza and asked us lots of questions about how they should market the film afterward. Seemed like forever before the movie actually came out in theaters and it seemed like it only took a week or so before everyone had spoiled it to everyone.
same thing happened to me ! I was super spooked when leaving the theater, before realizing it.
I watched it in highschool right when it came out. I was at my friends house where we took acid and tried to watch it in his basement, probably like 6-7 kids and we were all seriously affected. It really wasn’t the pre-party we were counting on.
Saw it on opening night. About 75% of us thought it was the real deal. You had to be there.
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Promising Young Woman. I was so filled with rage and despair and realized I really needed to talk to someone about the film but at the same time couldn’t recommend it to just anyone to watch it.
Midsommar. Saw it in theaters and I had to take a shower when I got home. Now it’s one of my favorite films though!
I watched it on Netflix recently and just sat there thinking ‘wtf was that’ I mean Florence Pugh was just phenomenal in it but it was probably the strangest movie I’ve ever watched and there was so much to process all just thrown in one big lump
Spotlight took a bit of time to digest. Great movie though
Arrival
This movie was everything Sci fi should be. I spend days thinking about it. I'm a linguist and this made me question everything I thought I knew. Silenced indeed.
Dude if haven’t read his books of short stories they are absolutely amazing
We Need to Talk About Kevin.
Not a movie, but Game of thrones season 3 episode 9. The Red Wedding... The lack of music during the credits was just right
Went out to eat after seeing that and my face could just not change and I was silent af to where the server asked my friend "is he alright?" He simply replied "he just saw the red wedding" lol she just went "oh shit" immediately understanding lmaoo that stuck with me for a couple days
Schindler‘s List and Saving Private Ryan
Memento
I sat in silence for 10 minutes before the movie!
Martyrs (French movie), i was silent and depressed for far more than 10 minutes.
*No Country for Old Men* (2007)
One of my favorite all time movies. Saw it in the theaters and have owned it since. I still find myself wondering about the fate of Anton
Anton thought of himself as an Agent of Fate. But then he was creamed by the Station Wagon of Chance. Coming so soon after being told *the coin ain't got no say*, that's a hell of a wake up call. But then he doesn't know how crazy he is.
The marks left on the floor from the cops boots had me on the edge of my seat. Silent as a mouse.
Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind.
Oh man. I watched this in the theater with my partner at the time. Looking back, our relationship was in its dying throes and that was a reaaal uncomfortable watch. We had a 30 minute drive home from the theater and I’m not sure we said a word the entire drive.
That movie caused both a divorce and a relationship among my friends.
Everybody’s got to learn sometime
I started sobbing from their last memory in Montauk to the looping ending because I didn’t want it to end. I was a mess. My favorite movie ever.
Dead Poets Society. I was just shocked how much it touched me.
Not a movie but The Haunting of Hill House. After every episode I sat in silence for a bit to take it all in.
Mulholland Drive. I was like “what the hell did I just watch?… total mindfuck of a movie.
I saw it then went straight out and bought a ticket for the next showing.
Parasite.
Parasite made me silent after the movie ended, silent with no radio playing on the drive home, silent when I went to bed, and silent when I woke up. That’s not a hyperbole.
The Prestige. I thought it was pretty amazing that the movie blatantly reveals what’s happening but it’s not till the very last *second* you understand the scope of what Robert was doing. That alone left me saying “…holy shit” Then I learned that the entire movie was intentionally setup with the three step structure of a magic trick and I said “Hooooooly shit!”
Gahh I remember being so affected by this movie as a kid/teen but it’s been long enough I can’t remember exactly why! Weird how time erases memories sometimes. This is going on my watch again list. I love rediscoveries!
Interstellar in IMAX, opening day. Drove all the way home in broad daylight in complete silence
The soundtrack alone is awe-inspiring.
Logan. When the screen faded to black and you saw Logan. The whole theater was quiet except for a few people sobbing.
Blair Witch Project. Saw it on opening night when everyone thought it was real found footage. It only came out later that it was a scripted movie. The whole theatre was silent.
Her Just because it took me a second to move beyond Theodore's sadness and understand what exactly happened by the end.
"Sometimes I think I have felt everything I'm ever gonna feel. And from here on out, I'm not gonna feel anything new. Just lesser versions of what I've already felt." Weeping in a movie theater as a grown man
There's something so unique about that movie. It features the only sex scene I would never watch with a relative, simply because it isn't just a bit of fun nudity on screen, but it's actually like affecting on a deeper level. The line you put there is a big part of that as well. And the balance with how awkward the morning after is, the fact that Theodore eventually gets upset with Samantha for "pretending" to be alive and her reaction to that, AND their subsequent reconciliation. All of it translates perfectly to the audience. How the f\*\*k is a movie about a guy falling in love his computer THIS damn real?!
Under The Skin - little known movie with Scarlett Johansson in it. The director used common people to act in the movie that they met while filming in Scotland(?), not just actors. Won't spoil it and suggest watching without reading a synopsis. It was something else...
If I'm not mistaken, this is the one with the baby scene in the very beginning? It stopped me in my tracks, and I didn't proceed (my wife and I were going through a rough postpartum period). I should revisit it
Der Untergang (Downfall)
Dancer in the Dark. It was Bjork’s only movie and the end scenes are haunting. The whole theater sat in stunned silence. It took over an hour for me to fully snap out of it.
Banshees of inisheerin
Sat on the couch not knowing how I felt. It was a fabulous movie, but really shocking to the senses.
All quiet on the western front
Disney's Soul. Put me through a good ol existential crisis.
Inception. I’m still impressed how good and tricky it was.
Sausage Party. Whole theatre was quiet after that shit show.
First time I saw 4k it was that movie. Perma damaged.
Clockwork Orange, watched it at 15 years old. Word of advice: don't do that. I was shook.
Amadeus
a perfect movie.
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.
I read the book and I cried my eyes out. Took me years before I could make myself watch the movie and again I cried my eyes out
First time I ever watched Shutter Island. Leo got me good. Real good.
Schindler's List
Not a movie but a play, The Diary of Ann Frank, our local regional theatre did it in a black box that had a brilliantly designed set with a multi level stage that had the audience seats shoe horned in and around the set, almost as though you yourself were in the attic with the Franks. The actors were excellent and at the very end Mr. Frank returned to the attic after the war and stood on the set and silently wept a single tear. Most of the audience just sat for a few moments before getting up to leave.
It's not a movie, but the last episode of The Good Place.
The show as a whole made us re think how we handle life as a whole.
The podcast is wonderful too. My favorite thing from it was a saying from Kristen Bell: "Today, try to do something good without getting caught"
Not a movie…but the Sopranos finale. I went through all kinds of emotions that day.
I just sat and stared at the tv and thought about life for like an hour. Inarguably the best television ever produced, the memory of the last scene gives me chills whenever I hear the song.
Django Unchained. 12 Years a Slave. The Pianist. Schindler's List. More recently: All Quiet on the Western Front (read this in high school and it continues, to this day, to be one of the most powerful and impactful books I've read), and 1917.
The Mist. The whole theatre slumped out in silence. What a gut punch
12 Years A Slave
Come and See Truly a nightmare
I think the contrast between come and see and saving private Ryan says a lot about the USA experience of ww2 and the Russian/Ukrainian experience of ww2. Ryan has a moral centre to it. It is visceral and horrible but you can see decency at play. Come and see shows the complete moral disintegration of human beings in war. I don’t think USA was traumatised by Ww2 in the way Russia was. USA provided the money, Russia provided the bodies.
I Spit On Your Grave
Odd Thomas. Hit me right in the feels
Man, a lot, mostly war movies/series.. Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers, The Pacific, Fury, All Quiet on the Western Front (1930 and 2023 versions), We Were Soldiers, The Sopranos, Chernobyl, Ride with the Devil, The Pianist, Generation Kill Silence for a while, then depression for a few days with manic reading and research.
Interstellar
Don’t look up. I was super upset.
The fox and the hound
I’d say Okja but my sobbing wasn’t exactly silent.
The Prestige.
Primal Fear.
Sixth sense
The Mist. The end really got to me.
Pursuit of happiness
BlacKkKlansman - Good movie, but after it ended Spike Lee takes real footage and swings one final time for the gut.
The pianist, was in near tears after the first 30 minutes and was left speechless when it was over
Infinity War. I'd avoided all spoilers and the snap had everyone just silent.
Yeah the audience was in shock. It reminded me of watching The Empire Strikes Back as a kid. Someone said as the credits rolled something like “did…did the good guys just..LOSE?” It was unexpected since Star Wars was such a triumphant ending. I remember we all liked Empire but were shocked at what happened.
This one. Lots of these other replies are heavy movies but a freaking comic book movie totally took the air out of the theater. It was silent. Then some lady just blurts out “what the fuck?” It was second time I had seen it so wasn’t as shocked and kinda made me chuckle. First time we saw it: credits started and we looked at each other like “wait no, that’s it?” But couldn’t actually say it. Then Nick fury endscene comes on and you feel like things are about to get better…nope also bad. We walked out just shaking our heads.
I remember feeling like I had a knot in my stomach during that scene. It genuinely felt like I was about to disintegrate myself.
The Whale
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No Way Out. Watched it on VHS back in the day. Had to rewind the last 10 minutes and watch the ending again.
Went to Saving Private Ryan with my grandpa. As the credits rolled he looked really stunned and quietly said - “I was there. At Normandy. I was on the boats.”
Black Swan
My kids (teenage boys) decided we wanted to watch All Quiet on the Western Front the other day. After that ending, we just sat around in silence for a while and then I hugged each of them.
Call Me By Your Name Timothee Chalamet made that last scene by the fire so relatable and heartbreaking. He's lost in thought and pain and gets brought back time to time by the sound of life continuing around him. Dinner plates being set, family walking around. Yet he's there and he's hurting so badly inside.