1(in a pornographic film) a scene in a pornographic movie in which an actor ejaculates.

1. 1.1 A crucial or climactic moment, especially of a movie.
   and now for the money shot: the Titanic shearing in half in the middle of a freezing ocean

   the preview even shows the money shot of the spiders rampaging through the town

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   • It's because of this that I use Rear Window, especially the scene culminating in my personal 'money shot', whenever I teach introductory film theory.
   • There was no money shot at any point in this regard.
   • The final episode is the "money shot," which covers the required topic of the King of the terrible lizards, Tyrannosaurus Rex.
   • Maybe you're a unit photographer or you were in the right place at the right time and got the money shot.
   • With installation complete I though I would give a money shot, and show the cable management inside.
   • After a couple of hours, I got my "money shot" - an adult brown pelican in full profile, sitting calmly on a wood post, looking almost like a saucer with a head on it.
   • The final showdown between Keanu Reeves' Neo and Hugo Weaving's Agent Smith should have been the money shot of the whole trilogy.
   • "This is the money shot," he tells the crew.
   • Here's a huge summer movie and the director is essentially withholding the money shot.
   • When the big money shot in the movie leaves you strangely unmoved you know you have a problem.
   • The money shot is a breathtaking Southwestern rockscape amid a tangle of colorful wildflowers, a scene worthy of mention in America the Beautiful.
   • Sure, you get to see some pretty okay Matrix-style stuff - though I swear, just about every money shot in the movie is in the commercial.
   • It turns out, as the movie progresses, not to be the money shot at all.
   • Memo to museum fundraisers: there's your money shot.
   • The TV crews were doing their best, swarming around the interesting sections: the river paddling, the moonscape scree fields, and the huge rappel on Bridal Veil Falls - the race's money shot.
   • With millions of bucks on the line, photographers will stop at next to nothing to get the money shot.
   • Hence the money shot which in all films which are using spiders to shock (not just spider films) is the unknown encounter with a spider.
   • There's no better action in sports than a run at a record (with Mark McGwire's 62nd home run serving as the ultimate money shot of our generation).
   • For the movie understands that the spectacle is all about the money shot.
   • Jonah and I were tweaking the crater scene (2nd to last, an emotional money shot), and he wanted to cut away to a wide landscape shot for a bit during the caretaker's explanation of the crater.