# Which show or movie really shocked you? Spoilers, obviously. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 4, 2012, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601 "2012-09-04T00:52:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Omega\_Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2012, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/1 "2012-09-04T00:52:34Z")
## **Being Human - UK** - - - ## – - - - - Boxing it since the episode is relatively new. I couldn’t believe Annie killed Eve. I was completely confident there would be a twist, because protagonists don’t let babies die. I never would have guessed that the writers would so far as to have Annie murder the baby, even if it was for the good of the world. ---
**Author:** ![lisiate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@lisiate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisiate)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2012, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/2 "2012-09-04T01:31:48Z")
Two movie examples: _In the Company of Men_ for the casual destruction of the deaf woman’s emotions. _Once Were Warriors_ for the brutal domestic violence. Both were more ‘realistic’ than gory and both left me feeling almost physically ill. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2012, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/3 "2012-09-04T01:34:57Z")
> [@lisiate](#): > > Two movie examples: > > _In the Company of Men_ for the casual destruction of the deaf woman’s emotions. I loved that movie. So few people are aware of it! ---
**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:** [September 4, 2012, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/4 "2012-09-04T01:49:11Z")
_Memento_. The first time, anyway. Almost every scene of _Pulp Fiction_. The anime scene in _Kill Bill_. _Election_ _Orgazmo_ _American Beauty_ _The Usual Suspects_ _Donnie Darko_ _Gattaca_ when you find out the cop is his brother ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2012, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/5 "2012-09-04T01:51:38Z")
> [@lisiate](#): > > _In the Company of Men_ for the casual destruction of the deaf woman’s emotions. What I found most interesting about the story was that Howard (the guy played by Matt Malloy) ended up being emotionally destroyed, while Christine (the deaf woman) ended up more-or-less OK at the end. Chad (the guy played by Aaron Eckhardt) wasn’t really a misogynist - he was a sadistic sociopath who exploited the weaknesses of two people in order to hurt both of them. ---
**Author:** ![lisiate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@lisiate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisiate)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2012, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/6 "2012-09-04T01:58:13Z")
That’s probably a more accurate summary of the end result, although I’d say Christine is also damaged. Chad’s certainly a monster though. ---
**Author:** ![Rollo\_Tomasi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/58956e/32.png) [@Rollo\_Tomasi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rollo_Tomasi)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2012, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/7 "2012-09-04T02:04:40Z")
I have to mention the source of my name, **L.A. Confidential** : when James Cromwell shoots Kevin Spacey Truly one of the most unexpected things I’ve seen in a movie. ---
**Author:** ![Hottius\_Maximus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3ab097/32.png) [@Hottius\_Maximus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hottius_Maximus)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2012, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/8 "2012-09-04T02:54:33Z")
I thought “Dead And Buried” was very good. There’s even one scene where I had to turn away. However the ending caught me completely off guard; sadly that ending has been ripped off shamelessly in several popular films since then. “Life Is Beautiful” at the end shocked me; very good twist, while “Crimes And Misdemeanors” didn’t shock me I must admit that I didn’t see the ending coming. ---
**Author:** ![tellyworth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@tellyworth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tellyworth)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2012, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/9 "2012-09-04T03:01:07Z")
Se7en. Saw it in a packed cinema with friends. We didn’t know much about it beforehand. At the end the whole audience shuffled out in silence. ---
**Author:** ![Melaleuca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Melaleuca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melaleuca)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2012, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/10 "2012-09-04T03:05:07Z")
Remember **Little House on the Prairie**? Homespun, Saturday-night morality tales, suitable for all the family. So what do I remember most? A house fire, with a woman and baby trapped upstairs, and in her panic the woman is using the baby’s head to try to break open a window. ---
**Author:** ![Noggy\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/97f17d/32.png) [@Noggy\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noggy_Monster)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2012, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/11 "2012-09-04T03:16:06Z")
The Sixth Sense. I know…lame and obvious. I should have seen it coming but I honestly did not. Got chills up my spine that reminded me why I love mysteries. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2012, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/12 "2012-09-04T08:04:10Z")
Quintet - The first thirty minutes introduce a fairly typical post apocalyptic premise, I thought I knew exactly how the movie was going to go from then to the end. Then a literal bomb flies through a window.:eek: HOLY SHIT! Did they just do that? ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2012, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/13 "2012-09-04T08:11:35Z")
A character’s suicide on\* Battlestar Galactica\*. ---
**Author:** ![toofs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4491bb/32.png) [@toofs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toofs)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/14 "2012-09-05T14:25:44Z")
_City of God_ was a glimpse into my worst nightmare. _Kids_. All kinds of fucked up. ---
**Author:** ![Greekfreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@Greekfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greekfreak)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/15 "2012-09-05T14:31:38Z")
> [@lisiate](#): > > Two movie examples: > > _In the Company of Men_ for the casual destruction of the deaf woman’s emotions. > > _Once Were Warriors_ for the brutal domestic violence. > > Both were more ‘realistic’ than gory and both left me feeling almost physically ill. Both fantastic films. I, too was shocked at the former. That was a kind of subtle evil never seen in films before or since. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/16 "2012-09-05T14:33:05Z")
> [@toofs](#): > > _City of God_ was a glimpse into my worst nightmare. I thought the movie was suprisingly realistic, except for casually Lil Zee was able to kill dozens of wealthy and powerful peeps with no real response. No, not a chance, you can kill ghetto dwellers to your hearts content but mug a rich person and they mobilize the military. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/17 "2012-09-05T14:58:19Z")
I agree wholeheartedly about _In the Company of Men_. It’s one of those movies that I love and that I have no intention of ever watching again. I was pretty shocked at how violent \*Drive \*is. I didn’t know much about it and it’s generally not the genre I watch but my sweet, eighty year old stepmother highly recommended it:eek: I’m almost wondering if she has it confused with something with a similar title. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/18 "2012-09-05T15:12:20Z")
For me, its _Schindler’s List_. Even knowing what it is about before seeing the movie doesn’t lessen the cold, non-empathetic emptiness of the Nazi treatment of the camp inmates. I haven’t ever made it all the way through the movie its so horrifying to me. ---
**Author:** ![Evin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/59ef9b/32.png) [@Evin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evin)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/19 "2012-09-05T16:43:21Z")
_Come and See_. Hellish and uncompromising, with a Mozart score. Revelations {6:7} And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see. {6:8} And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth. ---
**Author:** ![Alias](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@Alias](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alias)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2012, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/20 "2012-09-05T16:44:16Z")
The twists and turns at the end of The Prestige, but mainly the reveal that Hugh Jackman’s character has been duplicating and drowning himself multiple times for the sake of a magic trick. That movie floored me. I was not prepared for the reveals, the details, or the foreshadowing. The opening shot of the movie with the top hats on the ground and the later implications of this surreal shot have stuck with me for years. Wow. I’ve been waiting for another movie to wow me like that one. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601.md?page=2)