History BLAM / Film

* The flaming train scene in ''Film/WarOfTheWorlds2005'' is probably one of the most famous modern examples of this trope. As our heroes and a crowd of people are walking through town, they are stopped by a railroad crossing activating. When the train comes through, it is on fire. It leaves the crossing, then the gates go up and our heroes continue on their way, and the whole matter is never mentioned again.

* In ''Film/{{Adam}}'', there's one bit where the eponymous protagonist asks his love interest flat-out if she was sexually excited by being around wildlife, which comes out of nowhere and is never brought up again. Adam sort of explains it, as he was told by his psychiatrist to speak his emotions out loud more often, and because he was feeling aroused at the time (for whatever reason), he asked her if she felt the same way, thinking it wouldn't be quite so awkward if they both felt the same thing. Needless to say, it didn't quite work out that way. As for it never being brought up again, that was probably a moment they both just wanted to put behind them and forget.

* The flaming train scene in ''Film/WarOfTheWorlds2005'' is probably one of the most infamous modern examples of this trope. As our heroes and a crowd of people are walking through town they are stopped by a railroad crossing activating. When the train comes through, it is on fire. It leaves the crossing, then the gates go up and our heroes continue on their way, and nobody ever brings it up again. In his review, Creator/RogerEbert called the scene "unforgettable", mainly because of how out-of-nowhere it is.

* The infamous animated Titanic movie, ''WesternAnimation/TitanicTheLegendGoesOn'', has a few of these but the most notable is "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxHNztg0X3s IT'S PARTY TIME]]!" And considering that it's set on the Titanic in 1912, the infamous rapping dog sequence's bizarreness goes [[ExaggeratedTrope Up to Eleven]].

* In ''Film/Shazam2019'', Billy/Shazam and the kids from his foster family are stuck at the Rock of Eternity and try to find the exit to go back home. They find a bunch of interdimensional doors; behind the first one they find... a few crocodile men playing poker. The scene is also made to look like those kitschy "dogs playing poker" paintings. As soon as one of those crocodile men is lunging towards them, they slam the door on its face and the whole brief scene is never mentioned again.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/HortonHearsAWho'' movie there was an over the top [[ArtShift anime sequence]]. And also the cast singing REO Speedwagon's "Can't Fight This Feeling" after Horton saves the speck of Whoville from getting killed.

** In ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'', there's a moment where the door closes on C-3PO, and he turns to the camera and says, "[[DeadpanSnarker How typical]]." This is the only moment in any Star Wars film to[[BreakingTheFourthWall break the fourth wall]] and blatantly acknowledge the audience--something rarely seen in movies outside of whimsical comedies.

** The sequel ''Film/TopGunMaverick'' has a callback to the infamouse volleyball scene in the form of a shirtless football game on the beach. The in universe explanation is that Maverick is using it as a team building exercise. The real life reason, as admitted by Tom Cruise, is that the filmmakers simply wanted to give the actors a chance to show off their bodies.

* That car with eyes in her headlights from ''{{WesternAnimation/Cars 2}}''. WordOfGod says this is something they decided not to do to differ themselves from other shows featuring anthropomorphic cars. That scene was a nod to how bad an idea it would have been.

* The part in the American film version of ''Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' where flyswatters come out of the sand to smack the protagonists. Though since this is the Vogons' home planet and the flyswatters hit you whenever you have an idea, it does nicely explain the Vogons' personalities of refusing to ever take any initiative without a ton of paperwork.

* ''Film/SuperMarioBros'' has a sequence in a nightclub where female villain Lena drinks a cocktail with a worm in it, ultimately swallowing the worm... as it ''pleads for mercy before letting out a dying scream''. It comes from nowhere, is surprisingly creepy, and never gets mentioned again.

* Though ''Film/{{Xanadu|1980}}'' has many weird spots, they usually have some bearing on the plot. But then there's one scene where Sonny and Kira turn into cartoon characters (animated by Creator/DonBluth, no less,) and then chase each other for no real reason. WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick didn't agree: she said that the movie had no cohesion, and many scenes were more often than not never mentioned again, so a mere BLAM won't work here: it would be more correct to call ''Film/{{Xanadu|1980}}'' a Big-Lipped Alligator Movie. However, this particular scene stands out above the rest of the movie in terms of ridiculousness. Somehow, the writers managed to create a Big-Lipped Alligator Moment ''within'' a Big-Lipped Alligator Movie. And they are probably the only ones to have ever achieved that.

* In ''Film/{{UHF}}'' Weird Al's character, George is seen watching an old rerun of "The Beverly Hillbillies" as he dozes off at his desk, which leads to an odd dream sequence with Weird Al's parody of Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing" simply titled "Beverly Hillbillies," complete with a computer generated music video. While there are several other dream and musical sequences in this movie, this scene is the most out of nowhere. It also adds nothing to the plot and afterward, George awakens and the scene is never mentioned again. Thanks to its mass syndication on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UHF_television_broadcasting UHF channels]] in the 1980s, "The Beverly Hillbillies" was commonplace on just the sort of TV station George is managing. So its a way of introducing actual contemporary UHF television station content into "UHF".

* Averted in the original ''Film/TheItalianJob1969'', which had a surreal scene cut featuring the thieves and the cops chasing them interrupting their frantic car chase to do some choreographed ballet on ice with their cars to The Blue Danube. This is completely out of sorts with the rest of the film and was apparently filmed without the director's knowledge and he promptly cut it when he found out what had been done.

* Just about everything about the film ''Krakatoa: East of Java'' is mind-blowingly awful. [[note]]Including the title; Krakatoa is ''northwest'' of Java. As a bonus, the word Krakatoa was actually a misspelling in the original transmission to England; it's actually Krakatau[[/note]] The thing that sets it over the top is when two characters pause in the middle of the disaster-movie build-up to have a single romantic musical number.

* ''Film/TheLairOfTheWhiteWorm'', like most Creator/KenRussell movies, has a lot of inexplicable moments. One of the main characters often has hallucinations of nuns engaging in an orgy and a scene in which Hugh Grant chops an old vampire woman in half.
** The bisecting of the old vampire woman is actually explicable... The woman is the mother of Hugh Grant's character's love interest, who has been missing for months at this point.

* Pretty much every Creator/MarxBrothers film contains these. For no reason whatsoever, most of the movies have a 10-15 minute scene in which we watch Chico play the piano with his one finger routine and Harpo move incredibly out of character to play a lovely melody on a harp.
** These were positive examples, seeing as they were beautiful and a major part of Harpo and Chico's characters, precisely ''because'' they're so OOC. The ''other'' musical numbers and romantic subplots on the other hand... but even those are explained by the fact that the studios felt that no- one would watch a movie that didn't have romance.

** The dialogue, at the very least, hardly ever makes sense in Marx Brothers movies. Most of the actions - especially Harpo's - don't make much sense either, but that's part of their charm.

* The [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Bugs Bunny]] dream sequence in ''My Dream is Yours''.

** After North meets his first set of potential adoptive parents from Texas, near the end of his visit the parents randomly break out in a big musical number sung to the tune of the ''{{Series/Bonanza}}'' theme song with backup singers and dancers accompanying them; other than that one scene this is not a musical[[note]]and Bonanza itself was set in Nevada[[/note]].

* ''Permanent Midnight'' had an in-universe example; Jerry Stahl (Creator/BenStiller) is pitching an idea for an episode of a sitcom (while [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs hyped up on cocaine]]) in which the main character blasts into a musical number with a pool that opens out of the set and afterward no one mentions it. He is immediately fired afterward.

* In ''Film/RedSonja'' movie, BigBad Queen Gedrin summons her wizard to identify the strangers entering her land. The wizard does his mojo on some sort of mystic scrying pool... to reveal five seconds of [[SexSells a naked dancing woman]], which fades out to Sonja and her party. No one on-screen reacts to the naked woman, not even in a "Dude, seriously?" manner. Since Gedrin is a blatant lesbian, it may have been some kind of sexual magical loading screen that she has there just for kicks (don't you hate it when you forget to clear the cache and history in your scrying pools?) but still, it isn't brought up again. WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic suggests that the wizard just left it turned to the porno channel.

** ''Film/RoboCop3'': When Robocop reboots, he sees an image of his wife morphing into his partner Anne Lewis, then into Dr Lazarus. The significance of this is never explained upon.

* The failed big screen adaptation of ''Film/Spawn1997'' has a scene with the Violator in his clown form [[NauseaFuel wearing a cheerleading costume]] doing a dance number which comes out of nowhere, serves no purpose and which the protagonist doesn't even see happening. The devil himself ends the moment by dragging the clown back to hell to tell him to quit fucking around.

* In ''Film/StarTrekGenerations'' Data, who, until this film, was completely emotionless, randomly starts singing and using his console as a musical instrument while scanning for life forms. [[FunnyBackgroundEvent Everyone there stops and stares at him then goes back to whatever they were doing, (Riker seems to be thinking 'WTF?' the whole time)]]. In true fashion, no one says anything afterwards. There's also the 'Mr Tricorder' scene where he starts mimicking Picard with a Tricorder and seriously weirding Geordi out. Well, the point is ''supposed'' to be that Data, who's just had an emotion chip installed, is being overwhelmed by the unfamiliar emotions and behaving slightly erratically. Although his ways of expressing it are slightly random.

* A lesser-known live-action Disney film called ''Film/SummerMagic'' has one. "The Ugly Bug Ball" starts off with Peter finding a caterpillar, then Osh breaks into this song, which is followed by the two of them singing the song together while watching a variety of bugs playing around. The whole segment has no bearing to the plot of the film whatsoever and is never referred to again afterward, so it bore absolutely no purpose other than to hear a catchy song written by the Sherman Brothers.

* ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}}'' has one with Ray dreaming about being fellated by a beautiful female ghost who turns invisible as she unbuttons his trousers. The scene comes out of nowhere during a montage of the protagonists' success, it makes no sense whatsoever and is never mentioned afterward. It was part of a DeletedScene that they found funny enough to re-insert into the movie; the context being that Ray was investigating a haunting at an old military fort and he fell asleep there. [[Music/SuperGhostbusters Looks like now he is no longer busting ghosts, but is now doing]] [[spoiler: [[Music/SuperGhostbusters 😂 ....porno 👻🍆😜👌]]]].
* ''Film/GlenOrGlenda'':

* At one point in the somewhat obscure Canadian film ''Christmas In Wonderland'', the child protagonists encounter a red door in the basement of a mall allegedly leading to the "North Pole". When one of them opens it, [[SpecialEffectFailure terribly fake and badly done CGI]] ChristmasElves can be seen behind it, which look like they were taken straight from an extremely low-budget animation film. This is the only scene in the entire film that's completely CG, it only lasts for a few seconds and the elves are never brought up again, nor do they bear any relevance to the plot.

* ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}}'' has one with Ray dreaming about being fellated by a beautiful female ghost who turns invisible as she unbuttons his trousers. The scene comes out of nowhere during a montage of the protagonists' success, it makes no sense whatsoever and is never mentioned afterward. It was part of a DeletedScene that they found funny enough to re-insert into the movie; the context being that Ray was investigating a haunting at an old military fort and he fell asleep there. Looks like he is no longer busting ghosts, but is now doing [[spoiler: [[Music/SuperGhostbusters 😂 ....porno 👻🍆😜👌]]]].

* ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}}'' has one with Ray dreaming about being fellated by a beautiful female ghost who turns invisible as she unbuttons his trousers. The scene comes out of nowhere during a montage of the protagonists' success, it makes no sense whatsoever and is never mentioned afterward. It was part of a DeletedScene that they found funny enough to re-insert into the movie; the context being that Ray was investigating a haunting at an old military fort and he fell asleep there.

** ''Film/TheMuppets'' includes an impromptu hip-hop dance number from Chris Cooper's brooding character, Tex Richman, that is promptly never mentioned again. The scene with Mary singing and dancing alone in a diner feels pretty random and irrelevant as well. The former is lampshaded directly afterwards. In this case, though, it's sort of a BLAM-by-deleted scene. A verse in the middle of the hip-hop number originally had Richman suddenly switch to an Operetta tone ([=BLAM=]ish in and of itself) and explain the reason he hates the Muppets is because during their performance at a childhood birthday party, he discovered he was unable to laugh. Including that scene would have explained the character's strangest habit ("maniacal laaaaaaugh...") as well as the actual conclusion to the plot.

--->'''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic:''' Ah, I get what's going on. This must be that deleted song from ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' I've heard about: "Be Our Hostage".

--->'''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic:''' Who owns this pants factory, [[Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory Willy Wonka]]?

* The [[WackyWaysideTribe Dancing Fire Gang]] from ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'', though there is a ''very'' small reference to them earlier in the film and another in the finale. They still make no major impact on the plot. There's also a scene involving an old man arguing with his talking hat. Both instances feature the main character simply stumbling into some unhelpful creatures and then leaving.

* ''Film/BladeRunner'': Some see the infamous "Unicorn Dream" sequence (a two-second-long clip of a running unicorn spliced into an otherwise normal scene) as a BLAM. However, it MIGHT be referenced later in the director's cut [[spoiler:when the main character finds that "someone" has left a tiny origami unicorn in his apartment, which COULD be an indication that this "someone" knew about his dream. Which in turn implies...]] causing others to see this as a "[[ReCut Han Shot First]]" moment.
** This may have been a shout-out to the book ''Literature/DoAndroidsDreamOfElectricSheep'' which the film is very loosely based on [[spoiler:as each character had an assigned animal, Deckard's 'animal' is a unicorn]] To anyone else not familiar with the books it certainly seems extremely misplaced.

* In ''Film/TeenWitch'', there are several scenes of a group of teenagers who start rapping for no reason. At one point, the main character's best friend [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inV-sJ2aL5E raps off against them]]. Also, the "I like boys!" number. These scenes have no influence on the plot and don't even reference each other within them. They have, however, become a good source of MemeticMutation.

* Paulie's robot in ''Film/RockyIV'', ESPECIALLY when it interrupts the serious conversation Apollo is having with Rocky about the Russian challenge. Apollo's "the hell's going on here?" expression says it all.
** Speaking of Apollo, the giant Music/JamesBrown production number "Living In America" he partakes in before his fatal fight with Drago. Even the rest of the main characters in the scene look bewildered by this, especially Drago.

* ''Franchise/TheMatrix'':
** The infamous Zion rave from ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'' - with Neo and Trinity's sex scene spliced in for an extra dose of incomprehensibility. It was [[AllThereInTheManual supposedly]] meant to emphasize the blurring of the lines between man and machine. (See also: the blood flowing over the code on the hovercraft terminal, the Merovingian gettin' it on with a human, half the movie's dialogue, and all that other stuff which... didn't involve a solid five minutes of completely random people dancing and [[FanService naked Keanu Reeves]])
** The Train Room (And the Train Man) from ''Film/TheMatrixRevolutions'' - a scene which, while having enough plot ties to make it not ''completely'' irrelevant, is nonetheless completely forgotten once Neo has been rescued. The strange train station is never seen or referenced again in the film. The Train Man shows up again very briefly as part of the dozen-plus-way standoff at gunpoint later on in the night club, but that's it.
*** Also; Neo's telekinetic (assumed) powers, which were what caused him to arrive in the Train Room to begin with, no longer cause him any problems when used at the end of the film.

* In the Cher film ''Film/{{Mermaids}}'' Mrs. Flax's youngest daughter stumbles through the hallway with a pumpkin on her head, banging into things and eventually falling to the kitchen floor saying that she's a monster shark. It's adorable, and a BLAM.

* The indie romantic comedy ''Gigantic'' (not to be confused with the identically-named Music/TheyMightBeGiants film) has a recurring BLAM throughout it. At random points in the plot the male lead is attacked by a strange homeless man, with no explanation given. This has no bearing on the rest of the plot, and he does not admit it to anyone else, thinking up excuses for his visible injuries. In the last encounter he is able to kill the attacker... and then the body mysteriously vanishes. There is never any explanation given for it, and the incidents are never mentioned again in the film.

* The bizarre, synchronized dance scene with Kyoko and Nathan in ''Film/ExMachina''. Nathan is shown to be a somewhat eccentric billionaire, but that was over the top even for him. It had no bearing on the plot, and was never mentioned again. Unless you see it as subtle foreshadowing that [[spoiler:Kyoko is a robot]].