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.
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 MAS*H.
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. 
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.
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
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.)
Totally seconded.
Yeah, he definitely didn’t know what he was talking about there.
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.
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
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).
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.
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.
Must confess I didn’t either !