15 Most Paused Sci-Fi Movie Moments

15. Back To The Future - Lightning Strikes

Back to the Future is one of the most iconic sci-fi movies of all time, and an entire generation of movie lovers have grown up on the reverse-Oedipal time travelling caper since its 1985 release.

When Marty uses Doc Brown's time travelling DeLorean and finds himself stuck in 1955, he finds his old friend (now thirty years younger), to help him get back to the future. While dodging events that threaten to erase his very existence, Marty must wait for a storm to produce enough electricity to power the time machine. Luckily, he knows exactly when lightning will strike.

After rigging up a fairly rudimentary means of delivering the power to the machine, Marty prepares to drive the DeLorean into a wire at precisely the right moment.

While technically this entry could refer to the moment that Christopher Lloyd first harnesses the power of nature, it's more likely that you paused at the exact moment that the DeLorean hit the wire and disappeared into the future (or the present, which is now the past).

If you never did this one, you're probably about to.