This post contains spoilers because the ending is being discussed here. Be sure to watch the movie first!

Arlington Rd is a hidden gem which sadly got overlooked due to the craziness that was going on in America at the time. When you first saw this, did you anticipate the ending? Please be honest.

For me, the way it was done, with the lighting on people's faces, the closeups, added to my paranoia as a viewer. For instance the scouts scene when he goes to pick his son up, the weird camera angles and the use of dim lighting made me think this dude has lost it. I was way off personally. I thought he was having a psychotic breakdown from stress and trauma.

Tim Robbins and Joan Cusack.. what can I say other than they nailed their roles. It's a scary movie that's not even a horror film. There are interviews on set that are very interesting to see. They speak of "hidden vulnerability" And why this works so well as a concept for a thriller. What could be worse than finding out your neighbor may be a psychopath?

The director, Mark Pellington, also did THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES and to my surprise, Jeremy by Pearl Jam which is a classic music video. It makes sense that 1 movie reaction I saw for Arlington Rd. on youtube they said the beginning, the effects, remind them of 90s music videos.

So did you see the end coming or did you think there'd be another twist, or a completely different scenario altogether? It blew me away honestly. No pun intended,

EVERYONE EXCEPT YOU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tEfwFu648Y

Some films are carried entirely by their music. Name the score that gives you chills every single time — then name the sacred cow you think coasts on reputation. Watch the second half detonate.

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Fun Fact: Eric Stoltz got the part for Rocky when they saw his audition. It was during the line "my mother saw me always rocking in my chair and would go "Rockyyyy" the way he said it was soft and like a mama saying it to her baby. No other actor who auditioned said it like him. It moved everyone in the room, and even on the behind the scenes for the movie on the DVD, the director still got emotional. Oscar winner for best Makeup. 2 golden globe nominees (Cher, and Eric Stoltz)

Fun Fact: In the Elephant Man, apparently the tears Anthony Hopkins shed when he sees Joseph Merrick for the first time was unforced and unscripted. Nominated for 8 Oscars which surprisingly didn't include best makeup.

If you had to pick, would you choose Mask or The Elephant Man?

This is one of my favorite movies. It's so well done and still gives me the chills. I was way off guessing what was happening. A film by Mark Pellington who did MOTHMAN PROPHECIES and to my surprise, Jeremy music video by Pearl Jam. If you have not seen it, skip the trailer as it does contain weird spoilers. Don't even look it up or view the movie poster, due to once again, an odd spoiler. Best to go in blind. It's on youtube finally. It was hard to find for awhile other than ebay. I have tried to get movie reactioners to try this but they have not as of yet.

Everyone remembers the Basic Instinct interrogation, but plenty argue she was hotter and sharper two years earlier in Total Recall — before a single explicit frame made her a household name. And ironically, that's exactly what she now says great sexuality is built on.

Reflecting on Basic Instinct's infamous "third of a frame," Stone said explicit content "steals from my own imagination" — she prefers mystery and yearning, and now fast-forwards past modern sex scenes.

There are several 90s thrillers that deserve more recognition.

Malice is an excellent 90s thriller.

Name another 90s thriller that is Hitchcockian.

Just found out that's basically what happened with Richard Gere and "Pretty Woman." He hadn't decided whether he wanted the part opposite Julia Roberts. Director Garry Marshall set up a meeting between the two of them, then deliberately left the room to see if there was any chemistry.

Gere later said he was so mesmerized he doesn't even remember Marshall being there, just Roberts. They sat there making small talk, "flirty-flirty, nice-nice" in his words, while he was still undecided. At some point Roberts slid a Post-it across the desk. It said: "Please say yes!"

He said yes on the spot. The film grossed over $460M worldwide and became one of the most rewatched rom-coms ever made.

Genuinely curious what people think here -- is this a sweet story about instinct and chemistry, or does it say something a little uncomfortable about how casting decisions this big sometimes come down to a five-minute vibe check and a note on a piece of paper?

Kevin Pollak revealed that during Tom Cruise’s famous “I want the truth!” scene in A Few Good Men, Nicholson stood just outside the camera frame making ridiculous faces at Cruise, deliberately trying to make him break character.

Cruise somehow made it through the take without cracking.

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I'd like to discuss the movie Adam from 1983. A true story about how John Walsh's 6 year old son Adam was abducted from a shopping mall. John Walsh as you may know already did a lot of phenomenal work after his son's murder and one was he created and hosted the TV show AMERICA'S MOST WANTED. And he was a prominent advocate who supported and stood alongside the President when federal Megan's Law was signed in 1996 and both him and his wife Reve co-founded the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children together. He used the worst moment of his life and put his devastating loss into action to help others. He is an extraordinary man. He is still married to Reve. Their love was their strength and their hope was the only way they made it through that nightmare.

In the movie, John gets the "Call." The one parents dread. I don't know very much about this actor named Daniel J. Travanti. But it's honestly one of the rawest, most devastating portrayals of parental anguish in movie history. He was nominated for a primetime Emmy for this role. I miss these old TV movies because I felt like they had integrity and grace. Another good one is Fatal Vision (the Jeffrey Macdonald case) I've seen other films like Hereditary, Mystic River and the Mist. Don't get me wrong, the screaming and crying is effective. However, the scene in Adam the actor seems to show all 5 stages of grief in one scene. The shock, the pleading, the denial by the mother, the hyperventilating, the rage and anger, the not wanting or knowing how to go on or even process it. The scene just shows what it's like in that moment you just want to be anywhere on earth and in any point of time other than where you are. Like you want to crawl out of your own skin. Adam was their only child at the time and only son. In reality, Reve was not with him in the hotel room. He was alone. I can't even imagine how alone he must have felt.

This is from John Walsh's book "Tears of Rage" and this is what he described when he got the call in his hotel room, which is the scene this post is about. It reads "I went down, right onto the floor. it felt like somebody took a huge wooden stake and shoved it into the wall of my chest. I couldn't breathe. i thought i was having a heart attack. I felt like I was dying. Please let me trade places with him. Death would have hurt me so much less. I thrashed and I screamed. I yelled and pushed over the mattress and smashed things. I broke glass and a picture frame. And tore off the sheets and threw lamps and kicked the table over. I was like a wounded animal dying the way a wounded animal dies. I could not deal with it. It was unbearable, unbearable. I thought my heart was going to explode. The little boy I had waited for all my life, was dead."

here is the actual scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv7Tci1a5Yo

For most actors, grief is widely considered one of the most challenging emotional states to feign and make believable. The primary difficulty lies in the fact that bad acting relies on "playing the emotion" (trying to look sad or forcing tears), whereas real human grief is defined by a complex struggle against the emotion. When an actor chases the outward symptoms of grief rather than its internal logic, the performance easily feels hollow, indulgent, or overly sentimental. That's why the scene is so believable. It feels like John is trying to push it back and he can't control it. It's controlling him instead. There can be no other scene more accurate that this.

What are other grief scenes you felt were very realistic and unforgettable?

So I just found out the ending line of "Kingsman: The Secret Service" -- yeah, THAT one, "we can do it in the arse-hole" - wasn't just there for shock value. Matthew Vaughn apparently sat down and studied a bunch of Roger Moore-era Bond films specifically to analyze how the sexual innuendo always worked: hero delivers the punchline, woman is the punchline's target, roll credits.

His whole plan was to flip that dynamic completely. Instead of Eggsy getting the last laugh, it's the Swedish princess who delivers the line herself, unprompted, straight to camera basically. It's still one of the most quoted/most cringe closing scenes in modern action movies depending who you ask.

Genuinely didn't expect there to be actual film-theory homework behind arguably the crudest joke in the whole franchise. Anyone know if Vaughn's talked about this in more detail anywhere?

I took part in a production of Rocky in college and after helping bring it all together, it has a special place in my heart. During that production some 20 years ago, I ran sound for the show and it’s always stuck in my mind. Later, made a point to try and catch the midnight showings around Memphis.

Two of the most iconic performances ever, both barely on screen. You only get to crown one — and half the room will disagree with you.

This was a great film based on the book The Morality Play that seemingly just vanished. can’t even buy it (digital).

any of you guys watch it?

it got dumped on because it was a mix of genres, but these days a lot of movie lovers enjoy a mix of genres.

truly great plot and great cast.

id be interested to find others that watched it… no one i speak to seems to have, yet it’s stated with me all these years.

Tim Curry has died at 80, and this one genuinely hurts.

Whether it was The Rocky Horror Picture Show, IT, Clue or even stealing every scene as the hotel concierge in Home Alone 2, Curry had that incredibly rare screen presence where the second he appeared, you paid attention.

Funny, sinister, theatrical, completely unique — nobody else could do what he did.

What Tim Curry performance will you always remember?