Matrix: Revolutions (fight scene between Neo and Smith)

Kill Bill I (Beatrix's coma scene)

The Last Samurai (wooden sword fight scene)

Cast Away!!!

The Passion of the Christ...good lord (no pun intended)

Master and Commander

War of the Worlds - minus the thunder

These three films have almost identical storms at sea that cause the main characters to fall in the ocean and are major plot points:
Thief of Bagdad (1940): The storm is conjured up by the evil Jaffar.
Sadko (1954): Sadko sacrifices himself to the King of the Sea to save his sailing mates.
Helen of Troy (1954): Trojan prince Paris falls in the sea from the mast of his ship and is rescued when he washes up on a beach where Helen is spending vacation time away from Sparta.

Thank goodness I wasn't the only one who noticed this. The lightning and thunder delay in most films annoy the heck out of me. It's as if lightning strikes were occuring only fifteen feet away from the scene! I think the best display of lightning and thunder delay was in Poltergeist.

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Perhaps not. Southern California has one of the lowest incidences of thunderstorms in the country.

As someone who lives in "real" thunderstorm territory I find myself automatically counting off the delay between the bolt and the thunder to see how far away they are. When I am out walking or on a bicycle it is a serious safety issue.

How about films where the thunder and lightning are directly related to creating an atmosphere of eeriness and the supernatural (besides the ones already mentioned)?

Didn't Ghost Story have a pretty good sex scene during a storm?

What Women Want had a good old storm in it...