# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f07891/32.png) [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Plastic_Ninja)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/61 "2012-09-06T15:06:27Z")
> [@Jragon](#): > > Fullmetal Alchemist and its (semi-)remake Brotherhood. Night of the Chimera’s Cry/An Alchemist’s Anguish. The latter, by the way, is [free on Hulu](http://www.hulu.com/watch/168219). (snip) This is exactly what I came into the thread to say. That’s the watershed moment in the series, I think: either you walk away from that episode shocked and horrified and unable to watch more, or you walk away from that episode shocked and horrified and determined to watch the rest. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/62 "2012-09-06T15:24:24Z")
Not a great movie by a long shot, but still- I was SHOCKED when I saw _ **Executive Decision** _, because… An action movie is NOT supposed to kill off Steven Seagal so early in the action! ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/63 "2012-09-06T15:46:59Z")
I was floored by the end of _Brazil_. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/64 "2012-09-06T15:56:33Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > I was floored by the end of _Brazil_. I was floored when I learned that the studio attempted to cut the ending of _Brazil_. 😃 > **[Brazil (disambiguation)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_(film))** > > Brazil is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. > Brazil or Brasil may also refer to: > [@](#): > > US distribution was handled by Universal. Universal executives thought the ending tested poorly, and Universal chairman Sid Sheinberg insisted on dramatically re-editing the film to give it a happy ending, a decision that Gilliam resisted vigorously.[22] As with the cult science fiction film Blade Runner (1982), which had been released three years earlier, a version of Brazil was created by the movie studio with a more consumer-friendly ending. After a lengthy delay with no sign of the film being released, Gilliam took out a full-page ad in the trade magazine Variety urging Sheinberg to release Brazil in its intended version. Eventually, after Gilliam conducted private screenings (without the studio’s approval), Brazil was awarded the Los Angeles Film Critics Association award for “Best Picture”, which prompted Universal to finally agree to release a modified 132-minute version supervised by Gilliam, in 1985. Allegedly, in some places, this cut version was released! > [@](#): > > Sheinberg’s edit, the 94-minute so-called “Love Conquers All” version, was shown on syndicated television and was first made available for sale to consumers as a separate disc in the Criterion laserdisc box set, and subsequent DVD three-disc set in 1999 ---
**Author:** ![hamwater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/0ea827/32.png) [@hamwater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hamwater)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/65 "2012-09-06T16:29:14Z")
I barely made it through “Meet Joe Black”. That movie was the longest three days of my life. That being said, in the beginning of the movie when he walks out into the street shocked the shit out of me. I literally jumped out of my seat. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/66 "2012-09-06T18:00:32Z")
Yes, and as for my comment that Bill Paxton went for it and the studio backed him up: God **was** , in fact, ordering Matthew McConaghy to kill those people. God wants him to murder the shit out of demonic people who walk the Earth. ---
**Author:** ![Scougs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scougs/32/3158_2.png) [@Scougs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scougs)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/67 "2012-09-06T18:32:29Z")
Arlington Road. I had food poisoning in a hotel in Peru. I was laid up in bed and this movie came on. I knew nothing about it. My jaw hit the floor at the end. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/68 "2012-09-06T18:37:34Z")
Taking Lives- The first five minutes ends with a shocker, then a time jump of decades. The first time I saw it was on TV with no clue, I sat up and said no fucking way! at the shocker. The rest of the movie with Angelina Jolie pails in comparison to those minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/69 "2012-09-06T19:08:03Z")
_Audition_, the very first scene where you find out something is horribly horribly wrong: when the large sack hurls itself against the wall That was much more disturbing to me than all the torture and body horror that followed. ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/70 "2012-09-06T19:54:04Z")
I am very glad that I went into _The Sixth Sense_ knowing “it’s a ghost story” and nothing else, and into _The Crying Game_ knowing “it’s about the IRA” and nothing else. In both cases, I was shocked as hell, and got so much entertainment from being fooled and then having that realization. A very different kind of shock: watching the first scene between Chloe Moretz and Nicolas Cage in _Kickass_. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Why](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/96bed5/32.png) [@Doctor\_Why](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Why)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/71 "2012-09-06T22:07:03Z")
I was completely caught off guard by the twist in **The Incredibles**. I was shocked in a different way by **Blackhawk Down**. I’d never seen a movie with a body count that high before, and felt numb leaving the theater. ---
**Author:** ![SweetLucy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@SweetLucy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SweetLucy)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/72 "2012-09-07T02:33:55Z")
“Shutter Island.” :eek: ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/73 "2012-09-07T03:00:33Z")
> [@Alias](#): > > 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. I got an even bigger shock the second time around watching it when I realized that Michael Caine was right about pretty much everything. The audience (i.e. us) wants to be fooled, Bale was using a double, Jackman’s trick was real and dangerous. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/74 "2012-09-07T04:24:13Z")
> [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](#): > > (snip) > > This is exactly what I came into the thread to say. That’s the watershed moment in the series, I think: either you walk away from that episode shocked and horrified and unable to watch more, or you walk away from that episode shocked and horrified and determined to watch the rest. Whenever the series comes on TV or I’m watching through it, when I see the episode come up I get this peculiar feeling that’s a combination of dread and excitement. I **love** that episode, but it always makes me a bit depressed and/or sickened. ---
**Author:** ![sisu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@sisu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sisu)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/75 "2012-09-07T04:51:22Z")
> [@Malthus](#): > > Both _Schindlers List_ and the D-Day landings in _Saving Private Ryan_ contain scenes that were partly inspired by _Come and See_. Which, to my mind at least, far outdoes them both in the shocking department. > > It is also, famously, a damn hard movie to watch - it makes _Schindlers List_ look like a Disney film. Man that is a tough movie to watch, will not watch it again but glad I did the first time. The Crying Game :smack: ---
**Author:** ![JoelUpchurch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f05b48/32.png) [@JoelUpchurch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoelUpchurch)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/76 "2012-09-07T05:09:49Z")
> [@lisiate](#): > > Two movie examples: > _Once Were Warriors_ for the brutal domestic violence. > > Both were more ‘realistic’ than gory and both left me feeling almost physically ill. I actually started a thread about this. Best Movie I Never Want to Watch Again. My roommate was actually worse. He grew up in American Samoa instead of New Zealand, but he said everything in the movie happened to someone he knew. ---
**Author:** ![Mole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mole)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/77 "2012-09-07T05:24:55Z")
**The Vanishing** (1988). Probably my first film experience without the traditional happy Hollywood ending. ---
**Author:** ![mbetter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/53a042/32.png) [@mbetter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbetter)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/78 "2012-09-07T05:57:55Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Not a great movie by a long shot, but still- I was SHOCKED when I saw _ **Executive Decision** _, because… > > An action movie is NOT supposed to kill off Steven Seagal so early in the action! Even more so for **The Deep Blue Sea** and Samuel Jackson ---
**Author:** ![Courk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/91b2a8/32.png) [@Courk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Courk)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/79 "2012-09-07T06:03:42Z")
> [@Alias](#): > > 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. The Prestige still floors me just thinking about it. I saw it only for the fact Christopher Nolan made it, since I had by then realized he was a good bet. I was not expecting Jackman’s character to commit suicide. He doesn’t die multiple times; each duplicate dies once – the night after it was “born” – and it keeps going in this cycle. Sure it’s a limited run, but wasn’t it something like 75 shows? He chose every night to go out there and die for this trick. What if this time the duplication didn’t work? What if it went wrong? Was it worth that? I guess it wouldn’t really matter, he would never find out it didn’t work, he’s drowning in a coffin beneath the stage. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/80 "2012-09-07T06:14:55Z")
> [@Doctor\_Why](#): > > I was completely caught off guard by the twist in **The Incredibles**. …there’s a twist in _The Incredibles_? > [@SciFiSam](#): > > A lame one, but in Ballykissangel a charcter died just when everything was going right for her and there was no warning that she was going to die. It genuinely shocked and upset me that this Sunday evening TV drama that I’d been half-shamefully watching should end on such a downer. There’s a similar plot development in the gentle UK drama _Two Thousand Acres of Sky_ that genuinely surprised me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601.md?page=5)