# Scenes you'd like to see in a movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 15, 2006, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-youd-like-to-see-in-a-movie/340125 "2006-01-15T21:28:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/51bf81/32.png) [@TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-youd-like-to-see-in-a-movie/340125/61 "2006-01-19T07:11:20Z")
Ever since I was a kid, I always thought it would be **amazingly creepy** if a movie did something like this; a bunch of kids are doing “bloody mary” at a sleepover or something, but nothing happens (as usual). At some other point in the film - preferably a few scenes later, and a day or two later in film time - the same mirror is shown in the background of the scene, or even just as a character walks past, with a dark figure in it. It wouldn’t be overt, called attention to, or even be a part of the movie’s plot in any way, but would just be something stuck in the background like the “ghost” in _Three Men and a Baby_ - something that viewers might pick up on on repeated viewings. Bonus points if the film isn’t a horror movie at all, but a romantic comedy or family drama. ---
**Author:** ![gonzoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@gonzoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzoron)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-youd-like-to-see-in-a-movie/340125/62 "2006-01-19T10:16:10Z")
I want to see a brilliantly choreographed kung-fu style fight scene… on ice skates. Probably crazy dangerous to film, but that never stopped Jackie Chan anyway. Must include at least one good skate-blade-to-jaw kick. ---
**Author:** ![Mordib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@Mordib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mordib)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-youd-like-to-see-in-a-movie/340125/63 "2006-01-19T10:52:50Z")
a few years ago i foolishly dreamt I could write a script for an action movie. I never ever got past the first scene… but still, i really feel a movie needs an opening scene like this - > [@](#): > > film opens directly into scene. lights flicker revealing a green tiled room, no visible windows, blood stains everywhere. The camera slowly pans showing bodies strewn everywhere, gunshot wounds, severed limbs, all very gruesome stuff. Camera settles close up to a ski masked martial arts looking dude with bloodied kataa. He’s breathing heavily, sweating hard, clearly exhausted and very nervous… listening. > > after a few seconds of tension we hear shouting getting closer. camera switches between swordman and door as the angry voices get closer. swordman darts off camera, camara cuts to door which is smashed open, enter 6 men, smartly dressed, automatic weapons. upon seeing the carnage a few start to look nervous, the central three remain unphazing as they calmly look around. suddenly we hear a swoosh, brief flash of swordsman appearing from off camera left, slashing the neck of the first crony as he passes spinning around stabbing the second in the stomach. Brief pause before the remaining cronies turn their guns and start firing. But the swordmans already moving forwards towards the next cronies, takes a bullett in the sholder but hardly even pauses, wipes out 2 more cronies. another brief pause. > > swordsman start to move again, spins 180 about to launch forward but stops, finding a barrel pressed against his forhead by the central crony. A grin comes accross the face of the cononie. a grin comes accross the face of the swordsman. crony looses grin and looks down to where the swordsmans arm has slowly been moving. a bomb has been revealed on the swordmans belt, 3 seconds left on a rather cheesy bomb timer. both men freeze as the countdown completes. cgi explosion consuming and ripping apart the two men in the first few miliseconds the explosion filling the room then cutting away to the outside of the building as it is consumed in the explosion. > > exposion forms start of opening credits… ---
**Author:** ![LonesomePolecat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a88e57/32.png) [@LonesomePolecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LonesomePolecat)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-youd-like-to-see-in-a-movie/340125/64 "2006-01-19T13:17:04Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Then why don’t soldiers wear ear protectors in combat? You know who spends more money on tinnitus research than anyone else? The U.S. military. Seems that all that stuff they’ve got which goes _boom!_ creates hearing problems for a lot of their personnel. ---
**Author:** ![athelas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@athelas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/athelas)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-youd-like-to-see-in-a-movie/340125/65 "2006-01-20T13:23:29Z")
> [@](#): > > I’d like to see a rape-case plot where the guy keeps insisting, “But she’s lying! It was consensual! She came on to me!” And it turns out he’s telling the truth. Not quite on this level of gravity, but E-Ring did an episode where Colonel McNulty was accused of sexual harrassment, and it turns out that accusation was groundless, and that the accuser was pressured to accuse him by her boss. Actually, one of the best things about that show is how it’s not afraid to turn PC conventions on its head - in another episode Christian extremists take over a mosque. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-youd-like-to-see-in-a-movie/340125/66 "2006-01-20T15:10:06Z")
> [@athelas](#): > > Actually, one of the best things about that show is how it’s not afraid to turn PC conventions on its head - in another episode Christian extremists take over a mosque. Actually, that would seem to be VERY PC. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-youd-like-to-see-in-a-movie/340125/67 "2006-01-20T16:26:06Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Until now! 🙂[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478988/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478988/) > > He also had an off-camera appearance in _Dagon_. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264508/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264508/) (Actually, it’s not entirely clear if the god in question is Dagon or Cthulhu.) Well, waddaya know. Did this go direct to DVD maybe? I wonder why my geek friends didn’t make this common knowledge? Gonna have to swat them with their slide rulers. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-youd-like-to-see-in-a-movie/340125/68 "2006-01-20T20:57:16Z")
A scene where someone logs onto the Dope. 😉 Or…a fight scene where the little martial arts guy has to fight the huge henchman after his first defeat and a long training montage…and the big guy just wipes the floor with him. The little guy gets up and says “There’s no bloody way I can beat him.” ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-youd-like-to-see-in-a-movie/340125/69 "2006-01-20T21:10:22Z")
This one is specific to **Futurama** , if indeed they make new episodes of it: Through some contrived situation, Leela is wearing a very revealing top that not only shows off her generous bust but pushes it up and out considerably. Then, as they’re escaping in the Planet Express starship from wherever they are, Leela is at the pilot’s controls and yells out “Thrusters at maximum!”. To which Fry responds, “Yeh, I can see that!”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scenes-youd-like-to-see-in-a-movie/340125.md?page=3)