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May 27, 2005

Maybe 'adventure' is the wrong word

Well, folks. It's time for the weekly edition of The Adventures of Acinom. But, it looks like everyone's favorite intern wasn't that adventurous this week. Maybe we should change the name of the segment to The Semi-Exciting Musings of a Lazy Intern.

Um...well nothing fun happened this week aside from my purchase of Airwolf: Season One and Transformer's: Season Three, Part II DVDs. So this week I'm gonna talk about my Top Ten HOLY SHIT Moments in Movies. Enjoy.

I had a movie conversation with my boss and we were talking about what he calls the greatest movie fake-outs. I prefer to see them as the greatest movie HOLY SHIT moments—you know the movie moments where you turn to the person you are watching the movie with and all you can think of to say is HOLY SHIT because you can't believe what just happened. So here is my Top 10 list, which I open to everyone else and ask that you submit some of your own HS moments.
DISCLAIMER: Understand that this is not a Top 10 greatest movies or
anything. These are simply moments that thoroughly shocked or
surprised me while watching. Also I was born in the first Reagan year so understand that there are 75 years of movies I probably missed. Anyways here goes:

10. Top Gun: Goose (Anthony Edwards) dies after ejecting from an F-14 due to a spinout. Some of you might say, "Of course, Goose was going to die. He was the funny side-kick in a military movie." Well I say, "SHUT UP and DAMN YOU FOR JUDGING ME!" I was five years old when this came out and was literally crying when Goose died.
9. The Godfather: Horse's Head in a Bed. Sounds like the
name of a song. I was as scared as the dude in the movie when I saw
that.
8. Seven: Detectives and SWAT find a tortured emaciated body
of a criminal tied to a bed. When a SWAT officer goes in for a close
up, the body takes a breath and begins to panic scaring the SHIT out
of everyone in the theater.

7. Pulp Fiction: Two for one: When the pistol accidentally
fires and blows away the kid in the back seat and then again when
Travolta stabs the syringe into Uma Thurman's breast plate (which
forever turned my away from ANY type of injection).
6. Sixth Sense: When Bruce Willis discovers that he died
almost a year ago. Now for all you smart A-Holes who KNEW ALL ALONG
that Brucie was dead I want you to know that I know that I HATE YOU.
For me, this moment in the movie was a complete mind-#$@! and made me
an instant M. Night fan.
5. Something About Mary: I still can't believe that
this scene happened. Watching Ben Stiller do his err…thing and then
seeing Cameron Diaz find his um… stuff continues to weird me out to
this very day.
4. American Pie: Apple Scene. Which, by the way, contributes to the international confusion over American culture. That we celebrated the porking of an apple pie is the reason (well, aside from Paris Hilton) the rest of the world hates us.
2. (Tied) Seven: Final Scene with discovery of Ms. Paltrow's
murder is one of the biggest "Oh my god" endings ever.
2. (Tied) The Usual Suspects: Final Scene where Kaiser Soze's identity is revealed. Amazing ending.
1. The Empire Strikes Back: Darth Vader reveals to Luke that
he is Luke's father. I know what you are thinking? How is that
surprising or shocking? Well you gotta look at it from before the
advent of VHS, DVD's, and the "prequel" phenomena. I know that for my generation (1980's and beyond) the Star Wars series was part of our growth—Star Wars Lunch Boxes, Play-dough Ewoks, and Han Solo action figures. I can't even tell you the first time I ever saw the
movies—it was like church. You can't remember the first time you went but you knew what it was about. In other words, my generation grew up knowing that Vader was Luke's father. Now think what it must have been like to see that movie for the first time only having seen the original Star Wars.
"Luke, I am your father."
You're telling me that anybody could have predicted that Vader was
Luke's father? That would have kicked my ass had I seen that without
already having known it. That would have made me say... HOLY
SHIT!

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