[Preed, Stith and Korso are trying to free Akima from a slave prison. Preed and Stith are disguised as slave traders, Korso as a slave, trying to get past the guard.]
GUARD: You’re lying! He’s not a slave and you’re not traders. Look at the way he stands. He doesn’t carry himself like a slave. Probably ex-military. And Akrennians always threaten before asking a favor, it’s tradition. And your robes are made out of bedspreads!
PREED: Just out of curiosity, did we have a plan ‘B’?
[Stith roars and leaps, tumult ensues]
PREED: Hm! An intelligent guard! Didn’t see that one coming!
What are your fave didn’t-see-that-coming moments?
Battle Royale. At the very end, the veteran, who had hitherto been helping the main hero and heroine, turns on them and shoots them so that he can win the game. I actually kind of expected that. The “gotcha” was when it turns out they were just faking it for the benefit of the paramilitary folks listening to them through their necklaces, and the veteran guy knew how to disable the microphones. Lots of good gotchas in that movie. Another was when the guy with the bullet proof vest didn’t play dead long enough and got his vest impaled by a katana instead. Awesome!
Sorry I don’t know the character names. I don’t speak Japanese.
About three of the “attacks” in the remake of “the Hitcher,” in particular, the one where they’ve just lost their vehicle and they’re in a field of some sort, and a truck comes flying down right in front of (almost on top of?) them. If I’m remember the scene correctly, it was a guy the hitcher had offed.
I’ll give you the actual car crash, but there was no car crash in Joe Black. There was man gets hit by a car. Which let’s be frank, how could anyone not see coming? Any time a character stands in the street and faces the camera, they always get hit, usually by a bus. Heck, it even happens in real life (see icecream truck vid). BTW, am I the only one for whom that scene was instead of shocking, hilarious? The way he bounced several times, especially.
I’ll give you the actual car crash, but there was no car crash in Joe Black. There was man gets hit by a car. Which let’s be frank, how could anyone not see coming? Any time a character stands in the street and faces the camera, they always get hit, usually by a bus. Heck, it even happens in real life (see icecream truck vid). BTW, am I the only one for whom that scene was instead of shocking, hilarious? The way he bounced several times, especially.
In retrospect, imo the City of Angels car crash (when she got hit on her bike) was the worst-ever movie crash. Of course it was magnified by the fact that I was 14 years old and totally in love with the movie at that point. I haven’t rewatched it from an adult perspective though, I have a feeling I’d find it cheesy and my good memories of it would be ruined.
Then don’t watch. It is the only actual example of a true truck ending*, and thus utterly ridiculous. Whatever good will the film had built up to that point was pulverized.
In the first aired episode of Firefly, when
Mal kicks the bad guy out the airlock
I also love the Buffy episode where Willow turns down the offer to join the demon’s minions and, instead of trying to force her (like every bad guy ever portrayed), he shrugs and tells her to summon him if she changes her mind.
Didn’t see that coming? I was a little surprised by who actually did it but saw the inevitable coming way ahead of time as I would have assumed most people would. I’ve seen it a few times so maybe I was more surprised the first time and am not remembering.
From the Sopranos I was more surprised whenRalphie suddenly beat his stripper girlfriend to death in the Bing parking lot and VERY surprised when Janice shot Ritchie Aprile.
Going with the Sopranos, the scene where we see Vito dancing in a gay bar. There had been some buildup about Vito being gay, but the way the scene unfolded it was a shock to actually see him shakin’ it in a leather cap and vest.