The 18 Most OMG Movie Scenes Of 2014
There was that thing at the end of Guardians of the Galaxy, that scene with Neil Patrick Harris in Gone Girl, and many more, which are ranked by level of shock below. Obviously, ALL OF THE SPOILERS are ahead!
Warning: The following contains MAJOR SPOILERS for several movies from 2014. Read at your own risk!
15. Boyhood

Mason discovers his mom in the garage
As we watch Mason (Ellar Coltrane) grow older before our eyes in writer-director Richard Linklater's cinematic exploration of what it means to grow up, things start out seeming more or less like a typical childhood. Mason's parents had long since divorced, but his mother (Patricia Arquette) was going back to school, and had found a new husband (Marco Perella) who could provide a bigger, better home for Mason and his sister Samantha (Lorelei Linklater). Sure he could be a little controlling, but nothing could quite prepare Mason, or us, for the day he came home to discover his mother sobbing on the floor of the garage, his stepfather standing over her, saying she had just had an "accident." It was, pardon the expression, like a slap in the face — exactly how this kind of explosion of violence would have felt to a young boy so wrapped up in his own life that he couldn't see this coming, and wouldn't know what to make of it.
9. The One I Love

When they all meet in the dining room
In truth, this movie is really one giant OMG scene, because its very premise is presented as an unfolding series of surprising twists. Ethan (Mark Duplass) and Sophie (Elisabeth Moss) are a couple in crisis, and so their new therapist (Ted Danson) suggests they take a weekend at a getaway residence a couple hours out of town. It's a gorgeous, remote property with a pool, and, it turns out, a magical guest house where Ethan discovers a second, more permissive Sophie, and Sophie discovers a second, more agreeable Ethan. These mysterious copies of their spouses also can't leave the guest house, and Ethan and Sophie spend the film trading off exploring their time with their respective alter-spouses.
The twist that launches the film's final act, however, is a doozy: Just as Ethan's suspicions about Sophie falling for his copy are reaching a crisis point, they both enter the main house and find both their copies there, sitting at the dining room table, waiting for them. The old rules fly out the window, and the movie spins in even stranger directions.
6. Nightcrawler

The worst first date ever
Lou Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal) crosses some major moral boundaries in Nightcrawler in his unyielding drive to carve out a successful career as a freelance videographer for local nightly news. But the scene that first has audiences gasping in shocked laughter is the comparatively low-key dinner date between Lou and Nina (Rene Russo), the producer who has been buying his footage. As Nina stares warily at Lou from her margarita, Lou lays out, with chilling precision, all the reasons why his ratings-grabbing footage means she needs to become his lover, trapping Nina by reminding her of her age and precarious employment circumstances. "Friends don't pressure friends to sleep with them," she finally hisses in resignation. "Nina," Lou counters with a crocodile grin, "a friend is a gift you give yourself."
3. The Homesman

Mary Bee's sad fate
The first two-thirds of The Homesman remain squarely focused on Mary Bee Cuddy (Hilary Swank), a 19th century frontierswoman living alone in the Nebraska territory who volunteers to transport three mentally insane women back east across the plains. To help her, she more or less dragoons a drifter named George Briggs (Tommy Lee Jones) to accompany her wagon and assist her with the women. The journey proves to be much harsher than Mary Bee had ever anticipated, and one night, out of total desperation, she propositions George — first for marriage, which he rejects, and then for sex, which he accepts. The next day, George wakes up to find that Mary Bee has hanged herself. I repeat: The lead character dies with roughly 45 minutes left in the movie!