These 10 Movie Moments Were Paused For A Reason!
Aug 20, 2025
Would YOU press pause?
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The one thing watching films on an iPad at 2 a.m. has over movie theaters is that you can rewind
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fast forward, and most importantly, pause. We're counting down the top 10 most paused movie moments
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ever. As voted on by you, the viewer, The Wolf of Wall Street tells the story of a New York City
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stockbroker in the 90s who cons his way into a fortune by pumping and dumping stocks. While most
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directors might have to convince their leading ladies to show a little skin in their movie
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Margot Robbie actually insisted on going nude. Director Martin Scorsese offered Margot the
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option to wear a bathrobe, but she decided that her character would use her body as a weapon
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In the scene, Margot enters the room wearing only lacy black stockings and high heels. This
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created a much more powerful and memorable scene. American Pie centers around a group of friends who
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make a pact to lose their virginity before graduating high school. It launched a resurgence
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of teen sex comedies. One of the most memorable moments in the movie
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features Shannon Elizabeth. She plays the role of a foreign exchange student
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named Nadia, who undresses to a live webcam audience even though she thinks she's alone
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She discovers a stash of porn and touches herself to it. This moment gets broadcast to everyone
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watching the live webcam feed, including, strangely enough, the band Blink-182. Total Recall is one of the best science fiction movies
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of the early 90s. It tells the story of a construction worker who finds himself embroiled in an espionage plot on Mars and can determine if the experiences are real or memory implants While most fans of the movie won recognize
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Lysha Naff's name, they'll likely remember her famous scene. Lysha plays a Martian hooker named Mary
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who has three breasts. Her character propositions Arnold Schwarzenegger's character and unbuttons her blouse to reveal her three breasts
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Lysha gave an interview in 2015 where she said they originally wanted to give her four breasts
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but she looked too much like a cow. Boogie Nights stars Mark Wahlberg as Eddie Adams
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a dishwasher who becomes a popular porn star. Given the movie's story, it's nearly a given that there's going to be some nudity
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But the movie's most paused moment isn't a bit of female nudity, but male nudity instead
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In one scene, Eddie reaches into his pants and pulls out his moneymaker
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in front of the entire film crew. Luckily, or unluckily for Mark Wahlberg, he was wearing a prosthetic penis
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During an appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers, Mark revealed that the only prop he has ever kept from a movie shoot was his character's fake penis
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Wild Things is a crime thriller movie which sees a high school counselor accused of rape by two
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female students. Despite the serious nature of the movie, it's known for its many twists
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beautiful women, and pausable scenes. In one scene, Denise Richards and Nev Campbell's characters
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begin to fight in a pool, but by the end of the scene, the two girls are kissing each other
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with Denise being topless It also featured a threesome scene between the characters of Denise Nev and Matt Dillon This helped the film gain notoriety as the scenes were more explicit than what was seen in other Hollywood movies at the time
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The Cabin in the Woods sees five friends going on a vacation to a remote cabin
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where they're attacked by backwoods zombies and much worse. It turns out, a shady organization is manipulating what's happening to the group of friends
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Halfway through the movie, two scientists are seen in front of a big whiteboard
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which lists a literal murderer's row of things that could potentially kill the five friends
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Among the more basic creatures are mutants, werewolves, and sexy witches. The more fantastical include a snowman, a unicorn, and a merman
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It also pays nod to other movie franchises listing Kevin from Sin City and Deadites from Army of Darkness
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Cruel Intentions is an adaptation of the French novel Dangerous Liaisons, set in the modern year of 1999
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It follows wealthy rival high school teenagers in New York City who use seduction to control others
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Sarah Michelle Gellar plays the role of the conniving Catherine. She advises Selma Blair's character Cecile to be as promiscuous as possible in order to learn what others like
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This leads to Catherine teaching Cecile how to kiss in what can only be described as a juicy kissing scene
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The kiss was a memorable one as Sarah and Selma recreated it at the 2000 MTV Movie Awards and at Selma's 48th birthday in 2020
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Titanic tells the story of an unsinkable ship that turns out to be very sinkable and that class divide doesn matter as long as you look like Leonardo DiCaprio Leo plays a poor sketch artist named Jack who draws Kate Winslet high society character
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Rose. She becomes a fan of his work and asks him to draw her in what is likely the most paused
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scene of the movie. Rose is nude and is wearing the engagement present her fiancé gave her
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the heart of the ocean. While that scene is steamy enough on its own, the following scene
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sees Jack and Rose having sex inside an automobile in the cargo home. 1982 saw the release of the now
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classic coming-of-age film Fast Times at Ridgemont High. It chronicles a year in the lives of
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sophomores Stacey Hamilton and Mark Ratner, played by Jennifer Jason Leigh and Brian Backer
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respectively. In one of the most highly paused scenes of the 80s, Stacey's brother Brad is
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fantasizing about Stacey's best friend Linda, played by Phoebe Cates. In his fantasy, Linda
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exits the pool and slowly removes her swimsuit. Back in reality, Linda has actually left the pool
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and enters the bathroom where Brad is touching himself, thinking about her. Basic Instinct is an
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erotic thriller movie from 1992. It follows police detective Nick Curran, played by Michael Douglas
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who enters an intense relationship with the prime suspect in a murder case, Catherine Trammell
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played by Sharon Stone. Early on in the movie, during a police interrogation, Catherine uncrosses
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and then crosses her legs again. This led to the most paused movie moment ever
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Catherine exposes herself to the police and reveals that she isn't wearing anything under her dress
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After a brief pause, she asks, It's nice