# Didn't see that one coming! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 26, 2011, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-see-that-one-coming/569102 "2011-01-26T21:45:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2011, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-see-that-one-coming/569102/1 "2011-01-26T21:45:18Z")
E.g., from [_Titan A.E.:_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_A.E.) [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? ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2011, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-see-that-one-coming/569102/2 "2011-01-26T23:58:08Z")
The car crash in **Adaptation**. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-see-that-one-coming/569102/3 "2011-01-27T01:19:14Z")
_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. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-see-that-one-coming/569102/4 "2011-01-27T01:21:08Z")
[“The last thing you see will be my blade.” “All right.” :kick:]([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPRlHwwVIug](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPRlHwwVIug)) ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-see-that-one-coming/569102/5 "2011-01-27T01:23:18Z")
> [@River\_Hippie](#): > > The car crash in **Adaptation**. The car crash in **Meet Joe Black** The car crash in **Office Space** ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-see-that-one-coming/569102/6 "2011-01-27T01:24:32Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-see-that-one-coming/569102/7 "2011-01-27T08:21:35Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > The car crash in **Meet Joe Black** > The car crash in **Office Space** 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. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-see-that-one-coming/569102/8 "2011-01-27T08:26:53Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > The car crash in **Meet Joe Black** > The car crash in **Office Space** 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. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-see-that-one-coming/569102/9 "2011-01-27T21:10:56Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-see-that-one-coming/569102/10 "2011-01-27T21:23:27Z")
> [@rachelellogram](#): > > 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. \*Suddenly, everyone got run over by a truck! See ["How to Write Good.](http://www.workableweb.com/_pages/tips_how_to_write_good.htm) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-see-that-one-coming/569102/11 "2011-01-27T21:27:02Z")
Not out the airlock. into a running jet engine. The car/train intersection at the end of “Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry,” even though it was signposted from the opening credits. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-see-that-one-coming/569102/12 "2011-01-27T21:57:33Z")
Samuel L Jackson in [Deep Blue Sea](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMwmqp3GLMc). ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-see-that-one-coming/569102/13 "2011-01-27T22:53:14Z")
When Christian Bale’s character’s son turned out to be a rebel in Equilibrium. ---
**Author:** ![Slade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@Slade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slade)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-see-that-one-coming/569102/14 "2011-01-27T23:01:32Z")
The moment when they killed Christopher’s girlfriend in The Sopranos. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-see-that-one-coming/569102/15 "2011-01-27T23:25:43Z")
> [@Slade](#): > > The moment when they killed Christopher’s girlfriend in The Sopranos. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-see-that-one-coming/569102/16 "2011-01-27T23:55:51Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Not out the airlock. > > into a running jet engine. Which also happens to be the scene **Lute Skywatcher** links to in his post above. ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2011, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-see-that-one-coming/569102/17 "2011-01-27T23:58:44Z")
> [@River\_Hippie](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-see-that-one-coming/569102/18 "2011-01-28T00:24:53Z")
> [@Mach Tuck](#): > > 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. And sticking with HBO series and gay characters… Rawls sitting in the gay bar in The Wire ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-see-that-one-coming/569102/19 "2011-01-28T00:39:54Z")
In The Sopranos when: Tony kills Christopher after the car accident. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-see-that-one-coming/569102/20 "2011-01-28T00:53:00Z")
> [@Amp](#): > > In The Sopranos when: > > Tony kills Christopher after the car accident. I did **not** see that coming! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/didnt-see-that-one-coming/569102.md?page=2)