# 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:** 14\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2012, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/101 "2012-09-07T19:09:21Z")
> [@Larry\_Borgia](#): > > _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. Though the torture and body horror were still pretty disturbing. “Deeper deeper deeper deeper,” in that cheery sing-song voice … yeesh. ---
**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 8, 2012, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/102 "2012-09-08T03:12:09Z")
> [@Mr.Excellent](#): > > Though the torture and body horror were still pretty disturbing. “Deeper deeper deeper deeper,” in that cheery sing-song voice … yeesh. Yeah, after that movie I figured “Well, I’ve seen a torture horror movie, now I never have to see one again.” And I haven’t. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2012, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/103 "2012-09-08T03:32:30Z")
The time when Mr Roper overheard a conversation with Jack and Chrissy and jumped to the wrong conclusion.😃 Seriously, I was shocked when Henry Blake died in his last episode on M_A_S\*H. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2012, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/104 "2012-09-08T10:40:03Z")
> [@Lunar\_Saltlick](#): > > Lame how? Oh, Assumpta! That had to be one of the most unexpected downers in all entertainment history. I still can’t believe it. For those unfamiliar with the show, it would have been like Pam dying in _The Office_ and Jim leaves the show an episode later. > > Amazingly, BKA continued on for three more seasons, but my heart just wasn’t in it. We crave seeing good things happen to good people, and when we get slapped in the face with the exact opposite – and no possibility ever of a reversal – well, I don’t need that on Sunday evening telly. Glad it’s not just me! I don’t usually watch sunday evening dramas, but the chemistry between the two leads was excellent and they’re both much better actors than that sort of show usually has. And yeah, it’s like if Jim and pam finally got together after years, he quit his job to be with her and they risked everyone’s disapproval, but they were so in love… and then they killed her within two minutes and he was left alone, jobless, homeless and friendless. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![StuffLikeThatThere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@StuffLikeThatThere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StuffLikeThatThere)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2012, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/105 "2012-09-08T11:29:13Z")
I saw “The Sixth Sense” on DVD and had no clue. As soon as it was over, I watched the director’s stuff explaining all the clues, cued up the movie, and watched it again. I was fascinated. Later, I made both my husband and my sister watch it (different times) and watched them to see when the penny dropped. It was a lot of fun to watch their faces. My sister got it exactly when I did, when it was so glaring you couldn’t miss it anymore, and my husband beat us both, but only by a few seconds. I found “The Believer” pretty shocking, but in a completely different way. Another movie that I’m glad I watched, but I never care to see again. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2012, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/106 "2012-09-08T17:33:32Z")
I’ll throw in a minor one – in the series _Shameless_, a comedy about an alcoholic slacker/scammer father and his family, the guy’s 10 year old son talks back to him, and he steps up to his child and headbuts him. I haven’t watch the show since. Also, it’s pretty fucking depressing that out of 87 movies or series listed so far, only 26 are available on Netflix streaming. I find that a lot – I read or hear of something interesting, look it up, and very rarely find it available. FYI, should anyone care, these are the movies/series that are available (and most of which I’ve already seen :(): 24 Audition Battlestar Galactica Being Human Blackhawk Down Breaking Bad Brotherhood China Town Donnie Brasco Donnie Darko Drive Election From Dusk Til Dawn Kickass Life Is Beautiful Lost Meet Joe Black Memento Planet of the Apes Serenity The Crying Game The House Of Yes The Piano Teacher The Red Violin The Vanishing Them ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2012, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/107 "2012-09-08T18:43:27Z")
_Sixth Sense_. Despite that the clues “should have been obvious,” like almost everyone else I was surprised at the end. (I’d had a prejudice against Willis, because _Die Hard_ isn’t “my type” of movie, but looked again after _Sixth Sense_ and found I really liked Willis movies after all! Even _Die Hard_ is much better than most of its genre.) ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2012, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/108 "2012-09-09T08:46:21Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > 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. Totally seconded. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2012, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/109 "2012-09-09T10:48:45Z")
> [@Beastly\_Rotter](#): > > _Pan’s Labyrinth_. Terrific movie, but the unrelenting brutality just left me drained and numb by the end. And I still think Del Toro was wrong, it _was_ all in her head as a means of coping with the horror around her. Yeah, he definitely didn’t know what he was talking about there. > [@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). > > Now don’t get me wrong, it’s not particularly twisty, if you’re paying attention you’ve figured it out a quarter way through the episode. Well, at least you figure out what he did and what he’s going to TRY, not that he’s going to succeed. Creepy-ass episode in an excellent series. He later has to put the beast down, doesn’t he? And FWIW, I didn’t see it coming at all. > [@SweetLucy](#): > > “Shutter Island.” :eek: I feel like this is one of the more underrated movies out there. I really enjoyed it the first time, but upon multiple watchings you realize it’s quite brilliant. There are so many subtle details you miss the first time around. My contribution is Oldboy, a fucked up ultraviolent Korean film about a guy who is taken and imprisoned for like 20 years with no explanation, thrown back into the street in a suitcasej with again, no explanation. The whole movie you’re on the edge of your seat wondering whether he’s going to find and exact revenge on whoever did this, with the aid of his beautiful new girlfriend who he lovingly screws out of her virginity. And then at the end - you do NOT see this coming - turns out the girlfriend is the daughter he never got to raise, and part of the revenge scheme against him was to have them fall in love with each other. So he cuts out his own tongue and laments in horror in a sequence that contains some disturbingly good acting, and at the end, father and daughter brainwash themselves into carrying on their romantic relationship. _vomits_ ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2012, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/110 "2012-09-09T11:34:49Z")
> [@Beastly\_Rotter](#): > > _Pan’s Labyrinth_. Terrific movie, but the unrelenting brutality just left me drained and numb by the end. And I still think Del Toro was wrong, it _was_ all in her head as a means of coping with the horror around her. > [@olivesmarch4th](#): > > Yeah, he definitely didn’t know what he was talking about there. It’s both real \*and \*in her head. You can argue for both, and you’re allowed your own favorite answer (I have mine, too). It’s left ambiguous for a reason, and the story would have been infinitely much weaker if it came down definitely on one side or another. In cases like this, though, you’ll often find the writer / director of a work saying that they personally favor some particular interpretation. They are of course entitled to their opinion as much as the reader or viewer is, but I honestly wish they’d shut up, because people tend to take their word for it instead of thinking for themselves, even when dealing with works that try to \*make \*them think for themselves (this goes for, say, \*Inception \*or _American Psycho_ as well). ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2012, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/111 "2012-09-09T19:56:41Z")
In the Longest Day, the scene where the American Paras are dropped in the wrong location ie. the town square in St Mere Eglise (probably not spelled right), and the Germans are firing up at them while they can’t do bugger all about it. It literally makes me feel sick to my stomach. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2012, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/112 "2012-09-09T20:31:26Z")
The Sixth Sense. I never saw it coming. Seriously. ---
**Author:** ![Alias](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@Alias](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alias)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2012, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/113 "2012-09-09T21:14:03Z")
> [@Cartooniverse](#): > > The Sixth Sense. I never saw it coming. Seriously. Me neither. I saw it right after it came out, so it hadn’t been spoiled a million times yet. I hadn’t even considered the possibity that he was dead. I felt it was a masterwork. M. Night Shyamalan wasn’t a characature when that movie came out- just an ambitious young director. Brilliant movie, really. And yes, shocking. ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2012, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601/114 "2012-09-10T21:31:55Z")
Must confess I didn’t either ! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-show-or-movie-really-shocked-you-spoilers-obviously/633601.md?page=5)