The Ten Most Paused Movie Moments

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When I was a wee lad, I had a VHS copy of Gene Wilder’s Woman in Red, which contained a scene that involved Kelly LeBrock jumping out of bed and quickly wrapping in a towel. However, if you knew how to master the pause button, you could catch the briefest glimpse of Kelly LeBrock’s pink triangle before God covered it in that towel. Asshole.

I wore out the pause button on my remote watching that. Goddamn VCRs; I could never capture it fully without those VCR lines invading the screen.

Kids these days, unfortunately, don’t have Kelly LeBrock’s lady parts to ogle. They’re stuck with Jennifer Lopez’s ass, which sadly takes the second spot in this list of the ten most paused movie moments. The fellas over at Slashfilm dug this up from The Geek Files at Coventry which picked it up for the original source LOVEFiLM. LOVEFiLM is a British-based movie site, and they checked the record of 1.6 million subscribers to discover what the ten most paused movie scenes are. It’s kind of sad, actually, particularly the Jessica Rabbit scene and catching a glimpse of Nicole Kidman’s ass in Eyes Wide Shut. There was a lot going on in Eyes Wide Shut, it’s hard to think that Nicole Kidman’s ass was the one moment anyone would want to see most in that film.

The Top Ten Most-Paused Movie Moments

1. Sharon Stone Crossing her Legs - Basic Instinct (1992) - 31 %

2. Jennifer Lopez Naked Rear - The Back-Up Plan (2010) - 16%

3. Stormtrooper Bangs his Head - Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) - 15%

4. Jamie Lee Curtis Flash - Trading Places (1983) - 8%

5. Jessica Rabbit Goes Commando - Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) - 6%

6. Brad Pitt Flashes his Butt - Fight Club (1999) - 5%

7. Captain America’s Shield Appears on Desk - Iron Man 2 (2010) - 4%

8. Dust Spells Out ‘S.F.X’ - The Lion King (1994) - 3%

9. Pacman Cameo - Tron (1982) -2%

10. Nicole Kidman Rear-End Flash - Eyes Wide Shut (1999) - 1%

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Posted by: jthomas666 at March 2, 2011 11:40 AM

Eva Mendes glimpse from the living room -- Training Day

Posted by: D-Day at March 2, 2011 11:41 AM

Meat Loaf's trousers falling down shoulda been the Fight Club entry, surely. Pfwoarr.

Posted by: zeke the pig at March 2, 2011 11:44 AM

I was SO SURE Phoebe Cates in Fast Times would be number one.

My college friends and I used to pause the scene in Memento when Guy Pierce would get out of the shower.

Posted by: Julie at March 2, 2011 11:53 AM

Pheobe's boobies in Fast Times

Posted by: rabbi at March 2, 2011 11:53 AM

Bilbo Baggins doing the Barbara Bush in Lord of the Rings.

Posted by: sars at March 2, 2011 11:57 AM

I gotta third the Phoebe Cates boobs.

Posted by: Gordon at March 2, 2011 11:57 AM

Yeah, Jennifer Lopez's ass is extremely sad. Sorry, that shit was gold and still looks pretty great no matter how much she sucks.

Posted by: daria at March 2, 2011 11:58 AM

Maybe because she's topless for a few seconds and it's better to rewind? Not that I've done that. Except I'm lying and I have. I appreciate great breasts when I see them.

Posted by: Julie at March 2, 2011 11:58 AM

I remember going to a sleep over in the 7th grade and watching Now and Then. The floozy that hosted us paused it when Devon Sawa squats quickly wearing nothing but a towel and pointed at a blurry flesh colored speck and said "That is Devon Sawa's penis, you guys. You guys, that is Devon Sawa's PENIS."

Posted by: Natalia at March 2, 2011 12:01 PM

Surprised that Kevin Bacon's bacon in Wild Things doesn't make the list. Because it's impressive, is what I'm saying. Not that *I* would ever abuse my remote in such a way.

*coughyesiwouldcough*

Posted by: Chickaboom at March 2, 2011 12:06 PM

In what universe has Sharon Stone ever been more sexier than Jennifer Lopez without having to show her twat?

Posted by: Pookie at March 2, 2011 12:08 PM

I understand the love for the FTARH pool scene, but I think Betsy Russell's topless horseback riding scene is Private School was infinitely more glorious, if we're comparing Phoebe Cates movies.

Posted by: sars at March 2, 2011 12:10 PM

Bilbo Baggins doing the Barbara Bush in Lord of the Rings.

....What?

Posted by: figgy at March 2, 2011 12:12 PM

Bound - Jennifer Tilly/Gina Gershon sex scene
Mallrats - Joey Lauren Adams topless in the dressing room right before Silent Bob's head crashes through the door.
Titanic - painting the portrait

Posted by: TylerDFC at March 2, 2011 12:13 PM

I pause that scene in Troy where Eric Bana is putting on his armor. Holy Godtopus in Movie Heaven.

Posted by: figgy at March 2, 2011 12:13 PM

Anyone ever seen Tigerland? There's a scene where a naked Colin Farrell pauses in a doorway, looks left, looks right, exits left. The camera just lingers on his perfect ass. My best friend and I paused and rewound more than a few times.

Posted by: Mel C. at March 2, 2011 12:16 PM

Correction: that would be DRAWING the portrait. For some reason painting sounded better in my head. Possibly because my day is horrible and my brain is trying to find ways to escape before I make it do more maths and analysis.

Posted by: TylerDFC at March 2, 2011 12:16 PM

Bilbo Baggins doing the Barbara Bush in Lord of the Rings.

....What?

http://www.glogster.com/media/4/25/32/20/25322024.jpg

Posted by: sars at March 2, 2011 12:16 PM

Thank you for clearing that up sars. For a few terrifying moments I thought that Ian Holms' gray brier patch was revealed in LOTR and that I would have to Google it. Because I'm a sicko who has no boundaries and is apparently curious about elderbits.

Posted by: Julie at March 2, 2011 12:21 PM

Leo Di Caprio's penis in 'Total Eclipse' anyone?

Posted by: tities at March 2, 2011 12:25 PM

Natalia, we ALL went to that slumber party. When the good girls fell asleep, we figured out how far we could stick bananas down our throat, then we cleaned up the sick.

Posted by: Patty O'Green at March 2, 2011 12:33 PM

Julie, nothing wrong with elderbits, especially Shakespearean elderbits. I am completely lying.

I'll have to add the Three Men and A Baby ghost to this list. He's totally staring at the camera and ignoring Ted Danson's hair.

http://www.threemenandababy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/ghost-boy.jpg

Posted by: sars at March 2, 2011 12:36 PM

Uhm... hello! Almost everything in 9 1/2 weeks? anyone?
I mean... how can THAT not make the cut?

Posted by: ada at March 2, 2011 12:42 PM

HAAAAAAA! OK, that made me choke on some water. Nicely played, sars.

Posted by: figgy at March 2, 2011 12:45 PM

Patty is right, every girl in their late 20's/ early 30's has gone to that sleepover. "OOOOH the guy from Casper's DONG!"

Posted by: Julie at March 2, 2011 12:48 PM

HA! That is awesome.

Posted by: Julie at March 2, 2011 12:49 PM

I have an entire drinking game based around #3.

Posted by: (Not So) Blonde Savant at March 2, 2011 12:56 PM

sars: I'm dying at "Barbara Bush."

Posted by: the new transported man at March 2, 2011 1:04 PM

My most paused scene in my youth was the brief tit flash in Die Hard when the lady gets yanked off the table. Next would likely be Total Recall with the 3 boob lady. Then Sea of Love...like...almost the whole movie.

What I love most about this list is right up there at the top, between all this nudity, is a Stormtrooper hitting his head in Star Wars.

Go Nerd Power!

Posted by: DeistBrawler at March 2, 2011 1:32 PM

I have never paused a tape more than the Phoeba Cates topless scene in Fast Times. Cliché as it is, I absolutely wore the tape out when I was 14 until I had to buy another. And that's not the only thing I wore out...heh...

Here's another many might have known (or cared) about, but...E.G. (Pee Wee's Big Adventure) Daily's topless scene from Valley Girl. My God...I could even slow-mo it at the precise moment she went to re-hook her front-opening bra and her breast would jiggle just a bit. Oh...good...lord. I'm amazed I left the house at all back then.

Posted by: Case at March 2, 2011 1:38 PM

I always pause "A Room With A View" on the bathing scene with the nekkid men running around the pond.

And Sars and Julie made me laugh out loud. Thank you!

Posted by: BWeaves at March 2, 2011 1:47 PM

*adds Tigerland to queue*

Posted by: Sara H at March 2, 2011 1:53 PM

Halle Berry in Swordfish?
She has a longer topless stripper scene in the terrible Last Boyscout, but the former was more newsworthy, and the only redeeming part of the Hugh-Jackfest.

Posted by: Barbaric Yawp at March 2, 2011 1:58 PM

I have stopped at none of these but number 8, because we were told it spelled "sex".

Actually, I still thought that. Rather disappointing to learn otherwise.

Posted by: Sara Tonin at March 2, 2011 2:00 PM

Ellen Barkin hiking her skirt and mounting Laurence Fisburne in "Bad Company." Ellen went commando for the scene, terrible movie but that scene was smoking hot!

Posted by: TheBlackMenace at March 2, 2011 2:03 PM

Best shot of Brad Pitt when he was hot and not Angie bitch boy? Legends of the Fall. On the boat, when he loses it after the war. YES INDEEDY. Much better than Fight Club's view.

Chickaboom, I forgot about that.

Posted by: Melody at March 2, 2011 2:07 PM

Back when Orlando Bloom was still relevant, there was a deleted scene from Black Hawk Down where he's laying on a bed(admittedly while paralysed for life but DONT CALL ME A PERVERT) totally topless. And sweaty.

HIS ABS LOOKED LIKE COBBLE STONES.

Also, we used to slow mo and frame by frame re-watch the scene in Final Destination were the bitchy girl gets hit by the bus. YOU CAN SEE HER HIP BONE FLY OFF!!

Posted by: Nadine at March 2, 2011 2:27 PM

How did 'Fast Times At Ridgemont High' not make this list?

Posted by: Aislinn at March 2, 2011 2:30 PM

Jenifer Jason Leigh fully naked in the shower in 'Single White Female'; but only in the pan and scanned version - it's cropped out with the correct aspect ratio.

Also, there's an INSANELY gorgeous naked redhead girl in 'Prospero's Books' that drive me insane as a man of but few summers and made me glad that laserdiscs didn't get damaged from repeated pausing like VHS or Beta did.

Posted by: greg at March 2, 2011 2:33 PM

Here's one that doesn't even need pausing. The final freeze frame in Teen Wolf, amongst the crowd behind the celebrating J Fox a school kid extra unzips his fly and gets it out.

Posted by: Alex at March 2, 2011 2:57 PM

1) William Hurt/Kathleen Turner after he breaks in the glass door in "Body Heat." Jesus....I was in college, and we had to rent the VCR the size of a mini-van as well as the movie (and leave a $100 deposit) and EVERY DAMNED WEEKEND we would rent this and watch that over....and over.....and over.....

2) Brad Pitt in "Troy" anyone?

3) Codpiece sex in "Excalibur."

4) Cillian Murphy's dong in "28 Days Later."

Posted by: dammitjanet at March 2, 2011 3:27 PM

They forgot Graham Chapman's dangly parts in The Life of Brian, where he opens the window to be surprised by the crowd of zealots outside.

I think his may have been the first doodle I ever laid eyes on that wasn't in a creepy, church-provided manual about how great it is to not have sex. There are few better examples of preventive education than to go be asked by an octogenarian instructor where I might find the Cowper's gland, and point to it on the chart, or to have my hand swatted away during the lesson on childbirth when I pretended the umbilical cord was a lasso, and I was roundin' up some pelvis "dogies". She told me to sit down.

Pelvi are serious business, apparently.

Posted by: StoatCat at March 2, 2011 3:44 PM

OH OH OH and don't forget the alleged penis tower in The Little Mermaid. Supposedly Triton's palace featured a prominent Phallic Tower. (Sounds like a great name for an office building, possibly a Trump property).

There's a Scene-It board game in this, I know it. Cock Or No Cock? is a fun family DVD game where you are presented with stills from family films and you get to decide whether a given object was intentionally phallic or merely a coincidence. The game will unfortunately be pulled off of shelves because its pieces present such dangerous choking hazards.

For the family game night you'll never forget, even after therapy.

Posted by: StoatCat at March 2, 2011 3:52 PM

The kiss in Gosford Park.

Posted by: Maryscott O'Connor at March 2, 2011 4:39 PM

Not a movie, but there's a scene from an early Friends episode where Chanandler Bong walks in on a young, sexy Jennifer Anniston walking around nude in her apartment before she quickly grabs a throw blanket to cover up. I'm convinced there's a nipple there but you'd need hi-def to see it.

Cates in Fast Times not being on the list is unacceptable, but I'm kind of surprised the dancing Twi'lek dancer in Jabba's Palace from Return of the Jedi isn't on here either. Her boob clearly pops out when Jabba's dragging her to the trap door.

And no love for the Commando hotel room scene?

Lastly, whose job was it in Avatar to delete all the nipples? I think I would have done that job for free...

Posted by: EJ at March 2, 2011 5:25 PM

If it makes you feel any better, Nadine, Todd Blackburn is absolutely NOT paralyzed in any way shape or form. I met him in Indiana in 2008 and he was in excellent spirit and shape.

Posted by: lubeg at March 2, 2011 5:27 PM

Kentucky Fried Move, "Catholic High School Girls in Trouble." The shower bit.

Posted by: Rufus at March 2, 2011 5:58 PM

I don't think it's sad that WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT is on the list. I think most people pause it not for titilation (sp?) but to see if the animators really got away with something.

I pause early Betty Boop cartoons frequently ... uh, never mind.

Posted by: Pat C. at March 2, 2011 6:08 PM

StoatCat: You reminded me how there used to be a couple of seconds in The Little Mermaid during the wedding at the end where you can totally see that the priest has an erection.

I haven't watched the movie in YEARS, but I remember watching it with a friend, we paused it and just wouldn't stop laughing.

Posted by: figgy at March 2, 2011 7:02 PM

Ditto Cates.

And ... "Animal House" pillow fight/window diddling? Anyone? Anyone?

Hmph.

"Bound - Jennifer Tilly/Gina Gershon sex scene"

Posted by: TylerDFC at March 2, 2011 12:13 PM
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I got a VHS copy of that one from the library and the scene was worn to distortion.

Posted by: , at March 3, 2011 12:06 AM

I take it nobody but me ever watched the movie Gia? Holy shit was that DVD worn out...

Posted by: Alex S at March 3, 2011 12:53 AM

Pics...?!

Posted by: Sarah J-Town at March 3, 2011 4:54 AM

This may belong in the other post, but in the first Thundercats episode Cheetara goes topless. It's weird, though, because I thought cats had, like, 12 nipples.

Posted by: Barbaric Yawp at March 3, 2011 7:28 AM

The sex scene between Christian Slater and Valentina Vargas in The Name of the Rose. It's weird, cuz they're both totally naked, and as he's positioning himself on top of her, you see his penis dangle down, and you briefly see her sort of... position a sponge or some sort of protective barrier between their naughty bits. For the actual sex, the camera sort of looks down between them, so there's a lot of pubic hair and undulating. I dunno. When I saw the movie at age 13, it was my first realization about the mechanics of sex. It was equal parts EWWW! and FASCINATING!

Also, I since I was only focusing on Slater's groin area, I'm not sure why I didn't figure out the gay thing until 12 years later.

It's still a fairly explicit sex scene today.

Posted by: Jasper at March 3, 2011 10:17 AM

There was this slave type guy in "Rome" that had a dong down to the floor. My husband paused it for me.

It was in the marriage vows.

Posted by: jan at March 3, 2011 10:26 AM

jan, I belive the quote was, "A large penis is always welcome."

While it wasn't him (DAMN) that made me think mmmmmm.....Titus Pullo........

Posted by: dammitjanet at March 3, 2011 11:21 AM

jan, I believe the quote was, "A large P&nis is always welcome."

wow.......I miss that show....

Posted by: dammitjanet at March 3, 2011 11:22 AM

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