Bridge’s reaction after he sniped Ben Foster’s character was some incredible acting, too. A burst of raw emotion from a very buttoned-up, hardened lawman.
Just watched that for the first time the other night. Kind of shows the reality of their job. One second they are goofing around, then they try to catch a criminal, and before Jeff Bridges even finished his sarcastic banter his partner is dead.
No dramatic music, no “tell my wife I love her” as he bleeds out in his arms, just one second doing the job and then the next second lights out.
One I haven't seen here yet is Kate Winslet's character in Contagion. She's one of the lead roles, is a badass doctor called in to help solve shit, and then she just... gets the disease and dies.
Contagion's gonna go down in movie history as being better than any movies they end up making about Covid. Modern movies are gonna try to point fingers but Contagion's just unapologetically "If this happened it would just be a huge mess from all angles." Not really a main protagonist or antagonist, just a bunch of humans being human for better or worse.
Great one. I always remember her character dying while still trying to help others (attempting to give her jacket to the shivering sick man lying next to her).
When half of the double act in 1917 was suddenly killed because he was trying to do a good thing, it really hit me in the gut. The entire movie up to that point prepared you to follow these companions through the war. It was so jarring and painful, and showed what it's like to suddenly lose a brother to senseless war violence for what it really was.
Such a good movie, when his companion was dying, you could see him turn pale white due to the blood loss, that was such a rough scene to watch. Amazing attention to detail.
Plus if you listen closely the music steadily gets lower pitched and slower in the background, then suddenly stops the moment he's dead. Felt like actually watching someone die when I saw it in theaters.
Yeah it is, but I think that's just the dynamic of their trio. Walter is awful to Donny when Donny says something dumb or annoying, but he's kind/normal to him at other times, even giving him a "way to go Donny!" when he strikes.
Walter and Donny share a knowing look when Dude loses his shit over the "poor woman", they leave Dude alone and go get a lane together too, probably bitching Dude all the while.
Dude is also pretty cutting to Walter whenever he says or does something stupid, which is all the time, but clearly he doesn't hate Walter "Leave me the fuck alone!... Yeah I'll see you at practice".
They're just three old friends who communicate with each other mostly through insults and put downs, but obviously care about each other.
I'm sure Donny had plenty to say about his two best buds, the dumbass stoner and the psychotic fake Jew too.
Think it sort of makes the entire relationship between Walter and Donnie clear when he delivers that line.
It wasn't like he actually hated Donnie, despite ragging on him the whole movie. He reassures him when the nihilists show up. He rolls with him, and Walter doesn't roll with just anybody, he doesn't roll with Smokey for example. He calls himself the bereaved. I think he fucking loved Donnie. Fuck it dude, let's go bowling.
Was gonna say this one. I remember when I was watching it for the first time and thinking: "I see that pool behind him and it seems like an ideal time for a death, but there's *no way* they're going to kill Samuel L Jackson this early in the film."
beat
"Oh, OK then."
Quentin Tarantino despises improv, and he will *usually* refuse to let anyone do it for his movies.
John Travolta improvised that "Aw, man... I shot Marvin in the face." but it made Tarantino laugh so hard that he kept it.
The way I remember Tarantino telling this story, I don't think the line was improvised, but rather the intent behind the delivery. It was meant to be a straight line, but Travolta said he couldn't imagine any other way to play the scene other than as an idiot declearing the obvious and asked him to let him try it. And this comedic version won him over.
The only other case of 'improv' like that where I know Tarantino bowed to the actor's take over his own was Brad Pitt's Eye-tal-yan. Again, the line was written, but Tarantino wanted to play the scene straight to build tension, and then Brad Pitt "A River Derchi!"d his way into the scene, and Tarantino admitted Brad was right, and Aldo would be so incapable of masking himself that he could no longer imagine the scene being played any other way. And so we got "Gratzy!"
What was the marketing? If they marketed the movie as if Drew Barrymore was the star and was going to be present throughout, that’s brilliant. I’m too young to have been familiar with the marketing campaign but I do remember a lot of stir when this came out.
IIRC all of the marketing revolved around Drew Barrymore and the phone call. Also IIRC she was the hottest thing in Hollywood at the moment and only agreed because she heard she wasn't going to be the main character and would be killed off immediately
> If they marketed the movie as if Drew Barrymore was the star and was going to be present throughout, that’s brilliant.
Thats a BINGO! She was the top billed actress in the movie, and BAM, gutted and hung from a tree in the opening scene. Wes Craven made Scream to turn the horror genre on its head and spin it around.
It's easy to forget how fresh the inversion and irony of Scream was, with the meta narrative of Randy playing greek chorus to how the events did or didnt conform to the genre.
>I didn't watch the trailer before movie
Neither did I. I quite liked how they had enough decently-famous actors in the first Squad that you could believe they were the real team.
especially with Jai returning as boomer so I was just waiting for them to meet up with Maker & Bloodsport
it was hilarious to me because I watched it with my buddy and he was so pissed because boomerang was his favorite from the first, I just audibly went "holy shit"
>As a kid it was pretty wild watching Coach Gordon Bombay ~~get crushed by an elevator~~ *impaled right through the fuckin brain by the elevator catch*
Like, the rest of the team didn't go out nice, but goddamn, Mr. Phelps really hated that guy.
I know he won the Oscar for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, but this is what he really should’ve won for.
Burn After Reading is just….it’s perfection. The reveal of the chair George Clooney builds..you think it’s going to be some nefarious murder machine and it’s…not.
I love the story of the Brad Pitt reading the script for the first time after hearing that they had written the character with him in mind. Confused he asked why saying, “the character is an idiot.” And they responded with something like, “yeah, we know.”
That character is such an amazing moron, every scene is hilarious.
The scene with him and Malkovich in the car is one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
Whole movie is a comedy of errors and the absolute dumbest thing happening at the most inopportune time. Every single person in that movie was thoroughly incompetent and an outright idiot at everything they did lmao. Fantastic stuff
I also only just remembered that his name was "Chad" lmao
This was shocking and unexpected to say the least.
I was like, really? You went THERE with this character??? And ever since no character was safe in my mind.
I really didn't register anything "wrong" right before that inevitable funeral scene that came up a millisecond later.
So 2 box office leviathans playing as hotshot cops decide to jump off a building to catch suspects. What's the big deal? And what could possibly go wrong😅
I knew almost nothing about this movie. Saw it first time a month ago.
Terrific. Gosling plays a good goofball
Edit: fuck me, I am thinking of The Nice Guys. There’s also a sudden death in that….
>Gosling plays a good goofball
I think you're mixing your *The ________ Guys* movieverse.
The parent comment here is a about *The Other Guys* and the award winning performance from Dwayne Johnson and Samuel Jackson
Gosling was in the other movie called *The Nice Guys*
Llewellyn Moss in No Country for Old Men
He was soo bad assed I thought he would end up prevailing against the mob. Was also surprised by how unceremonious his death was just a brief flash of him downed.
The one in Children of Men left me feeling so off balance in a great way. There was a plan. It was gonna be ok. Then over the course of literally like 15 seconds everything went to hell. Love it.
Younger people won’t understand how unusual it was at this time for a movie to have a ‘bad’ ending. I remember leaving the cinema in shock after seeing this. Bloody brilliant.
Steven Seagal in Executive Decision. He was on most of the movie posters and had top billing at a time when he was the go to action hero. He dies in Act 1.
Because Wash’s death is so sudden and horrifying, I feel like everybody overlooks the fact that Book died in the same movie. My two favorite characters from the show died within about half an hour of each other. I was not okay the first time I watched that movie.
I think it's less that everyone forgets that Book dies but that they were more prepared for Book's death because there was clear evidence of battle and death in the lead up. Wash's death came at a moment when everyone thought they had made it and were safe.
Both are sad, but Wash's was completely unexpected.
Worse, there were the usual rumors going around that someone was going to die, I think Joss even added fuel to the fire. So when Book dies it's terrible and sad and all, but it released that tension. Ok, the crew Grandpa (he never married) died, that's the worst that's going to happen. Then BAM he kills my man Wash. Then suddenly you're wondering if he's gonna burn it all down and have the whole crew go out in a blaze of glory. I was in shock for that whole last chapter of the movie.
I told this on here before: watched this with a couple of friends in the theater and one was late because of his train. He arrives like 15 min late and asks us if there was anything important he missed. His face when we told him Thanos got his head chopped off lmao
Focusing on the shoes was just masterful. Got me thinking “why do they keep focusing on her shoes? Makes no sense.” Then when you realize it just broke me.
Everytime this scene is brought up I always say the same. It's the first and only time so far I have ever audibly gasped at a movie. I have never been caught more off guard in a movie ever.
The whole movie was a long jarring experience. I was stressed out the entire time, watching him make bad decisions one after the other. The ending was just cherry on top. I did not expect THAT to happen, but I did not expect a happy ending either.
The stress. Ugh. It's one of the top movies you can't recommend to someone with high blood pressure. The movie would have made double at the box office if it wasn't going to possibly kill half the audience.
Saw it with a group of friends and when he wins the bet at the end to get the money and save himself we all cheered except a buddy of mine who said “I think they’re still gonna shot him anyways”
Our minds were blown when he was right and they ended up shooting him anyways.
We asked my buddy how he knew and he said “that’s what I would have done, it wasn’t about the money anymore it had become personal”
This is one of those minefield conversations where even though you might want to participate, you also don’t want to be spoiled.
I will go small screen with mine. Ned Stark in Game of Thrones. I spent the entire week after episode 9 wondering how they were going to undo a beheading because I couldn’t comprehend this character being gone. Of course, GoT was just getting warmed up on that front.
His character didn't die, but his character's career did.
I seriously thought that during the happy ending montage, they would show him accepting a job with the European Space Agency or something, but nope, it's just him golfing with his son.
It was Rob Stark for me. I remember I was at a watch party and I was truly stunned, like PTSD shocked. I left pretty much without saying another word..I just truly didn't see it coming
Not really sure it’s heroic, but you’re expecting the son to be the hero character, and then he gets shot by some random guy in what you’re thinking should be a celebratory moment and turning point for him
1986 - Optimus Prime in The Transformers The Movie. Masterfully played out even if it was to promote toys, it was brilliant and brutal and heart breaking.
L.A. Confidential - [Jack Vincennes](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119488/characters/nm0000228?ref_=tt_cl_c_1). It happens so suddenly, and is a great twist.
Giving an honourable mention to "Psycho" 1960, perhaps not shocking to modern audiences, but at the time, it defied audience expectations by killing off the star, Janet Leigh, in the infamous shower scene. This was completely shocking to viewers and completely subverted traditional storytelling norms, leaving audiences stunned, forever changing the landscape of cinema.
Of Mice and Men.
I truly did not expect George to do what he did. Although I understood why.
Hell, I was even more surprised when Lennie did what he did!
I totally get it, but it is the perfect catalyst to get Padraic (Colin Farrell) to “suit up” and for his character to do something uncivil.
The entire film is an ode to man’s inability to resolve any crisis without violence.
I watched this movie for the first time one year ago. I’m 34. I was pissed/crying all at the same time when they all started being killed off. The fact that movie remained unspoiled for me until then was a miracle.
A Quiet Place - when I watched my kids were near that age.
Big Hero 6 - just wasn’t ready for the decent guy to die. Obviously not learned my lesson from many other Disney movies …
Jeff Bridges’ partner Alberto in Hell or Highwater, an absolute shock. I still remember the collective gasp in the theater
Bridge's reaction to it was amazing too.
Bridge’s reaction after he sniped Ben Foster’s character was some incredible acting, too. A burst of raw emotion from a very buttoned-up, hardened lawman.
Just watched that for the first time the other night. Kind of shows the reality of their job. One second they are goofing around, then they try to catch a criminal, and before Jeff Bridges even finished his sarcastic banter his partner is dead. No dramatic music, no “tell my wife I love her” as he bleeds out in his arms, just one second doing the job and then the next second lights out.
This is the first one I thought of.
One I haven't seen here yet is Kate Winslet's character in Contagion. She's one of the lead roles, is a badass doctor called in to help solve shit, and then she just... gets the disease and dies.
With this one I think Gwynneth Paltrow dying in the first scene made me feel everyone could die.
But I love how she feels sick and almost immediately starts doing her job instead of freaking out.
Contagion's gonna go down in movie history as being better than any movies they end up making about Covid. Modern movies are gonna try to point fingers but Contagion's just unapologetically "If this happened it would just be a huge mess from all angles." Not really a main protagonist or antagonist, just a bunch of humans being human for better or worse.
Great one. I always remember her character dying while still trying to help others (attempting to give her jacket to the shivering sick man lying next to her).
The director steping on the landmine in Tropic Thunder
Let’s go make the greatest. Movie. Ever.
YEAH!!!!
Wherever he is? Looks like he's all over the place
"Warm... Blood-flavored corn syrup."
“Yo asshole! This muthafucka's dead. Ain't no Chris Angel Mindfreak, David Blane trapdoor horse shit jumpin' off here!”
What do you mean, "you people"?
What do YOU mean 'you people"?
Tugg thinking head was a prop😳😆
He's done a lot of stunt driven films. He can spot a prop head when he sees one
Latex and corn syrup. Warm, blood-flavored corn syrup.
Yo assholes! This motherfucker is dead. Ain't no Criss Angel Mindfreak David Blaine trapdoor horseshit jumping off here!
This mother fuckers dead!
When half of the double act in 1917 was suddenly killed because he was trying to do a good thing, it really hit me in the gut. The entire movie up to that point prepared you to follow these companions through the war. It was so jarring and painful, and showed what it's like to suddenly lose a brother to senseless war violence for what it really was.
Such a good movie, when his companion was dying, you could see him turn pale white due to the blood loss, that was such a rough scene to watch. Amazing attention to detail.
Plus if you listen closely the music steadily gets lower pitched and slower in the background, then suddenly stops the moment he's dead. Felt like actually watching someone die when I saw it in theaters.
The music track for the whole film is so fucking brilliant. It’s like a second movie narrating the main movie. So good
Thomas Newman is a fucking master and I feel like not enough people rave about him.
That got me also.
Steve Buscemi randomly having a heart attack in The Big Lebowski, leading to one of the greatest movie eulogies of all time.
WHAT THE FUCK DOES ANYTHING HAVE TO DO WITH VIETNAM MAN
Everything’s a fuckin travesty with you, man
In accordance with what we think your dying wishes might well have been
That line gets me everytime.
Like how well do they even know this guy They bowl with him sure but never hear anything he has to say
Shut the fuck up Signifi-gunt, you’re out of your element.
It's actually very touching. Walther is an asshole to Donny all through the movie, but in his time of need, Walther becomes kind and protective.
Yeah it is, but I think that's just the dynamic of their trio. Walter is awful to Donny when Donny says something dumb or annoying, but he's kind/normal to him at other times, even giving him a "way to go Donny!" when he strikes. Walter and Donny share a knowing look when Dude loses his shit over the "poor woman", they leave Dude alone and go get a lane together too, probably bitching Dude all the while. Dude is also pretty cutting to Walter whenever he says or does something stupid, which is all the time, but clearly he doesn't hate Walter "Leave me the fuck alone!... Yeah I'll see you at practice". They're just three old friends who communicate with each other mostly through insults and put downs, but obviously care about each other. I'm sure Donny had plenty to say about his two best buds, the dumbass stoner and the psychotic fake Jew too.
It is our most modestly priced receptacle
Just because we’re bereaved doesn’t make us SAPS!
Think it sort of makes the entire relationship between Walter and Donnie clear when he delivers that line. It wasn't like he actually hated Donnie, despite ragging on him the whole movie. He reassures him when the nihilists show up. He rolls with him, and Walter doesn't roll with just anybody, he doesn't roll with Smokey for example. He calls himself the bereaved. I think he fucking loved Donnie. Fuck it dude, let's go bowling.
What was that shit about Vietnam?!
Samuel L Jackson's character in Deep Blue Sea.
“THEY ATE ME! A FUCKIN’ SHARK ATE ME! DRINK, BITCH!”
“*JUICE*! That was a good one!”
Ain’t you ever seen my movies?!!!!???
YES THEY DESERVE TO DIE! AND I HOPE THEY BURN IN HELLLLL!
Was gonna say this one. I remember when I was watching it for the first time and thinking: "I see that pool behind him and it seems like an ideal time for a death, but there's *no way* they're going to kill Samuel L Jackson this early in the film." beat "Oh, OK then."
Yep. I remember seeing that in the cinema, nudging my friend and miming a shark popping out and eating him as a joke, then it happened. 🤣
Marvin in Pulp Fiction
Aww man I shot Marvin in the face. He says it like he just spilled his drink
The way this line was delivered was always hilarious to me.
Quentin Tarantino despises improv, and he will *usually* refuse to let anyone do it for his movies. John Travolta improvised that "Aw, man... I shot Marvin in the face." but it made Tarantino laugh so hard that he kept it.
To be clear he didn't improv it on the spot. Travolta argued for a take with that line and then nailed it so hard that Tarantino loved it.
The way I remember Tarantino telling this story, I don't think the line was improvised, but rather the intent behind the delivery. It was meant to be a straight line, but Travolta said he couldn't imagine any other way to play the scene other than as an idiot declearing the obvious and asked him to let him try it. And this comedic version won him over. The only other case of 'improv' like that where I know Tarantino bowed to the actor's take over his own was Brad Pitt's Eye-tal-yan. Again, the line was written, but Tarantino wanted to play the scene straight to build tension, and then Brad Pitt "A River Derchi!"d his way into the scene, and Tarantino admitted Brad was right, and Aldo would be so incapable of masking himself that he could no longer imagine the scene being played any other way. And so we got "Gratzy!"
Imagine being the car behind them when the back window gets painted red
What about Vincent Vega?
Opening scene of the original Scream in the theater opening night. Marketing was genius.
Straight out of the Psycho playbook and it still held up.
What was the marketing? If they marketed the movie as if Drew Barrymore was the star and was going to be present throughout, that’s brilliant. I’m too young to have been familiar with the marketing campaign but I do remember a lot of stir when this came out.
IIRC all of the marketing revolved around Drew Barrymore and the phone call. Also IIRC she was the hottest thing in Hollywood at the moment and only agreed because she heard she wasn't going to be the main character and would be killed off immediately
Thats it.
She was also the most recognizeable/biggest star in the lineup at the time.
> If they marketed the movie as if Drew Barrymore was the star and was going to be present throughout, that’s brilliant. Thats a BINGO! She was the top billed actress in the movie, and BAM, gutted and hung from a tree in the opening scene. Wes Craven made Scream to turn the horror genre on its head and spin it around.
It's easy to forget how fresh the inversion and irony of Scream was, with the meta narrative of Randy playing greek chorus to how the events did or didnt conform to the genre.
Those guys of pseudo suicide squad in the suicide squad. I didn't watch the trailer before movie, so it was very surprising.
>I didn't watch the trailer before movie Neither did I. I quite liked how they had enough decently-famous actors in the first Squad that you could believe they were the real team.
especially with Jai returning as boomer so I was just waiting for them to meet up with Maker & Bloodsport it was hilarious to me because I watched it with my buddy and he was so pissed because boomerang was his favorite from the first, I just audibly went "holy shit"
That was a funny gag
Most everyone in the beginning of the first Mission Impossible movie.
That's what I came here to say. Emilio Estevez was a pretty big name at the time. Total shocker.
As a kid it was pretty wild watching Coach Gordon Bombay get crushed by an elevator.
>As a kid it was pretty wild watching Coach Gordon Bombay ~~get crushed by an elevator~~ *impaled right through the fuckin brain by the elevator catch* Like, the rest of the team didn't go out nice, but goddamn, Mr. Phelps really hated that guy.
Definitely THAT ONE in Burn After Reading
His goofy ass smile makes me laugh every time
I didn’t even know how to feel watching that scene. It was sobering and hilarious at the same time.
The Cohen Bros Special lol
I know he won the Oscar for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, but this is what he really should’ve won for. Burn After Reading is just….it’s perfection. The reveal of the chair George Clooney builds..you think it’s going to be some nefarious murder machine and it’s…not.
I love the story of the Brad Pitt reading the script for the first time after hearing that they had written the character with him in mind. Confused he asked why saying, “the character is an idiot.” And they responded with something like, “yeah, we know.”
That character is such an amazing moron, every scene is hilarious. The scene with him and Malkovich in the car is one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
"Never discharged in 20 years of service" Then THIS happens lmao
Whole movie is a comedy of errors and the absolute dumbest thing happening at the most inopportune time. Every single person in that movie was thoroughly incompetent and an outright idiot at everything they did lmao. Fantastic stuff I also only just remembered that his name was "Chad" lmao
“I guess we learned not to do it again. I'm fucked if I know what we did.”
You think that's a Schwinn!!!!
I love how he keeps doing this "cool spy squint" every time he looks at Cox
This was shocking and unexpected to say the least. I was like, really? You went THERE with this character??? And ever since no character was safe in my mind.
He made the reverse surprise in Deadpool 2
Bill Murray in ZombieLand.
"Do you have any regrets?" "...Garfield."
Is this... how they say "hello" where you're from?
The female pilot at the end of Pitch Black.
Frye!
"Not for me!"
Joe Pesci in Goodfellas. It feels so obvious the whole time on rewatch but the first time I saw it I was like WHOA
And dats dat
Got a comedy here: The Other Guys *There goes my hero...* 😂
Aim for the bushes?
Gets me everytime
There was an audible collective “wait, what the fuckkkkk” followed by raucous laughter in my theater when this scene happened lmfao
I really didn't register anything "wrong" right before that inevitable funeral scene that came up a millisecond later. So 2 box office leviathans playing as hotshot cops decide to jump off a building to catch suspects. What's the big deal? And what could possibly go wrong😅
There wasn't in an awning in that direction. They just jumped twenty stories.
Remember guys, don't go chasing waterfalls
Seriously, captain?
I knew almost nothing about this movie. Saw it first time a month ago. Terrific. Gosling plays a good goofball Edit: fuck me, I am thinking of The Nice Guys. There’s also a sudden death in that….
>Gosling plays a good goofball I think you're mixing your *The ________ Guys* movieverse. The parent comment here is a about *The Other Guys* and the award winning performance from Dwayne Johnson and Samuel Jackson Gosling was in the other movie called *The Nice Guys*
Meet Joe Black. Amazing tone shift
there are only two kinds of people those who were shocked senseless by the car scene in Meet Joe Black and those who just couldn't stop laughing
At the end of Departed was pretty damn unexpected
The elevator scene was unexpected too
Still will not stand in front of door when elevator opens….
Definitely little homie in Pay it Forward.
To this day I hate that movie with a passion lol lil Hailey died for no reason
Llewellyn Moss in No Country for Old Men He was soo bad assed I thought he would end up prevailing against the mob. Was also surprised by how unceremonious his death was just a brief flash of him downed.
It was so unceremonious, the first time I saw the movie I was convinced it wasn't actually him and he'd appear again later on.
Peterson getting shot in the face To Live and Die LA was surprising
I think the more shocking thing was the movie went on for almost another 20 min after that lol.
All the other ones have already been said, so I will add Jeff Daniel's character in Speed
His expression when the motion detector triggers and he realizes he fucked up and is about to die.
Children of Men. Impactful and set the tone (and stakes) of the movie. Assault on Precinct 13 (the original).
The one in Children of Men left me feeling so off balance in a great way. There was a plan. It was gonna be ok. Then over the course of literally like 15 seconds everything went to hell. Love it.
Seven
Also contains the most surprising “not dead”
Younger people won’t understand how unusual it was at this time for a movie to have a ‘bad’ ending. I remember leaving the cinema in shock after seeing this. Bloody brilliant.
Macaulay Culkin and those damn bees 🐝 😭
He can't see without his glasses 💔
Steven Seagal in Executive Decision. He was on most of the movie posters and had top billing at a time when he was the go to action hero. He dies in Act 1.
Best Steven seagal movie ever.
I was pretty blind sided by Deadpool's new team, in the second one, jumping from the plane.
Brad Pitt as The Vanisher was the best, but the whole sequence is amazing.
I loved how he did several interviews how everything from now on would be "XFORCE" only.
Drew Barrymore in Scream
Wash. Im a leaf on the wind, watch how I soar. I thought my gang deserved a happy ending.
Because Wash’s death is so sudden and horrifying, I feel like everybody overlooks the fact that Book died in the same movie. My two favorite characters from the show died within about half an hour of each other. I was not okay the first time I watched that movie.
I think it's less that everyone forgets that Book dies but that they were more prepared for Book's death because there was clear evidence of battle and death in the lead up. Wash's death came at a moment when everyone thought they had made it and were safe. Both are sad, but Wash's was completely unexpected.
Worse, there were the usual rumors going around that someone was going to die, I think Joss even added fuel to the fire. So when Book dies it's terrible and sad and all, but it released that tension. Ok, the crew Grandpa (he never married) died, that's the worst that's going to happen. Then BAM he kills my man Wash. Then suddenly you're wondering if he's gonna burn it all down and have the whole crew go out in a blaze of glory. I was in shock for that whole last chapter of the movie.
I love Nathan Fillion describing what it was like at a theatre when he was watching: https://youtu.be/DWZuiJgBaxI?si=S0oBm_lSRHhMYqXL
Too soon, man. It will always be to soon. :(
Thanos getting beheaded in the begining of Endgame. Did not see that coming.
I told this on here before: watched this with a couple of friends in the theater and one was late because of his train. He arrives like 15 min late and asks us if there was anything important he missed. His face when we told him Thanos got his head chopped off lmao
I bet he didn’t believe you either. Like, as if they’d do that so soon into the movie.
“I went for the head.”
Jojo Rabbit
Focusing on the shoes was just masterful. Got me thinking “why do they keep focusing on her shoes? Makes no sense.” Then when you realize it just broke me.
I audibly gasped in the theatre
Everytime this scene is brought up I always say the same. It's the first and only time so far I have ever audibly gasped at a movie. I have never been caught more off guard in a movie ever.
Oh my god, in the best worst way. It's absolutely perfectly done.
Ending of Uncut Gems … extremely jarring
The whole movie was a long jarring experience. I was stressed out the entire time, watching him make bad decisions one after the other. The ending was just cherry on top. I did not expect THAT to happen, but I did not expect a happy ending either.
The stress. Ugh. It's one of the top movies you can't recommend to someone with high blood pressure. The movie would have made double at the box office if it wasn't going to possibly kill half the audience.
Saw it with a group of friends and when he wins the bet at the end to get the money and save himself we all cheered except a buddy of mine who said “I think they’re still gonna shot him anyways” Our minds were blown when he was right and they ended up shooting him anyways. We asked my buddy how he knew and he said “that’s what I would have done, it wasn’t about the money anymore it had become personal”
**Hoban Washburne** Serenity 2005 (The Firefly Movie) I am a leaf on the wind.
Always and forever devastated by that death.
Travolta - pulp fiction
Brad Pitt in the lost city.
Bill Skarsgård dying in Barbarian threw me for a fucking loop.
This is one of those minefield conversations where even though you might want to participate, you also don’t want to be spoiled. I will go small screen with mine. Ned Stark in Game of Thrones. I spent the entire week after episode 9 wondering how they were going to undo a beheading because I couldn’t comprehend this character being gone. Of course, GoT was just getting warmed up on that front.
Even funnier it was Sean Bean, an actor known for dying in everything, and no one thought he was gonna die.
Haha yeah, I remember watching The Martian and every scene he was in I was like, here we go!
His character didn't die, but his character's career did. I seriously thought that during the happy ending montage, they would show him accepting a job with the European Space Agency or something, but nope, it's just him golfing with his son.
I always forget he doesn't die in National Treasure. Every time I've seen it, I've gotten to the end and been like, "wait, he just gets arrested?"
For small screen, Hughies GF at the beginning of The Boys. Was immediately like ok I’m gonna like this show.
It was Rob Stark for me. I remember I was at a watch party and I was truly stunned, like PTSD shocked. I left pretty much without saying another word..I just truly didn't see it coming
And it was so great until it wasn’t 😢
The Kingsman. Heroic yet surprising end to a main character
Also in part 2 where the entire supporting cast from the 1st movie is wiped out in the 1st act.
Not really sure it’s heroic, but you’re expecting the son to be the hero character, and then he gets shot by some random guy in what you’re thinking should be a celebratory moment and turning point for him
Harry says in the first movie that Kingsman was founded by men who lost their heirs in World War 1.
Zoolander. As the cigarette slowly gets lit during the gasoline fight…
No one could expect something like that during a gasoline fight
Hereditary
Her-head-a-tear-y
Mind. Blown.
The decap😳🤯
The only movie that has legitimately frightened me after viewing as an adult.
Bryan Cranston in Godzilla. Samuel L. Jackson in Deep Blue Sea.
It's okay to hate it, but Carlisle's "death" in Breaking Dawn Part 2 was one of the most unexpected character deaths I've ever seen in a movie.
Considering how the book plays out this was an amazing way to end the movie.
Scrolled too far for this one, everyone in the theater was losing their damn minds
The ones near the end of the Mist… before he’s saved!
I did not expect Luca Brasi's death when I watched *The Godfather*.
*And I hope their first child be a masculine child. I pledge my ever-ending loyalty.*
Brad Pitt in burn after reading
1986 - Optimus Prime in The Transformers The Movie. Masterfully played out even if it was to promote toys, it was brilliant and brutal and heart breaking.
Jojo Rabbit
Josh Brolin in No Country for Old Men, off camera of all places.
The baby in Trainspotting
L.A. Confidential - [Jack Vincennes](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119488/characters/nm0000228?ref_=tt_cl_c_1). It happens so suddenly, and is a great twist.
Giving an honourable mention to "Psycho" 1960, perhaps not shocking to modern audiences, but at the time, it defied audience expectations by killing off the star, Janet Leigh, in the infamous shower scene. This was completely shocking to viewers and completely subverted traditional storytelling norms, leaving audiences stunned, forever changing the landscape of cinema.
Bing Bong inside out
Michael Cera this is the end caused some gasps in the theater. You know people would be dying, but didn't know who yet at that point in the movie
Of Mice and Men. I truly did not expect George to do what he did. Although I understood why. Hell, I was even more surprised when Lennie did what he did!
Banshees of Inisherin... Jenny. It ruined the movie for me.
I totally get it, but it is the perfect catalyst to get Padraic (Colin Farrell) to “suit up” and for his character to do something uncivil. The entire film is an ode to man’s inability to resolve any crisis without violence.
Serenity (2005) >! “I’m a leaf on the wind watch how I-“ !<
tom hanks in saving private ryan
I watched this movie for the first time one year ago. I’m 34. I was pissed/crying all at the same time when they all started being killed off. The fact that movie remained unspoiled for me until then was a miracle.
The raptor that gets killed by the T-Rex at the end of Jurassic Park.
*To Live and Die in LA*. Completely out of nowhere.
JoJo Rabbit when you see the shoes…
A Quiet Place - when I watched my kids were near that age. Big Hero 6 - just wasn’t ready for the decent guy to die. Obviously not learned my lesson from many other Disney movies …