# Your Biggest Surprise in a Movie \[Open Spoilers\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 16, 2008, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-surprise-in-a-movie-open-spoilers/445604 "2008-04-16T16:34:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![ChrisBooth12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@ChrisBooth12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChrisBooth12)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2008, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-surprise-in-a-movie-open-spoilers/445604/41 "2008-04-16T21:11:38Z")
Fight Club no doubt, i did not beleive it. It took me so much by surprise i had no idea i was shocked. Shocked! ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2008, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-surprise-in-a-movie-open-spoilers/445604/42 "2008-04-16T21:23:54Z")
_“I think we’re gonna need a bigger boat.”_ You know the scene. When I saw it, three weeks after the movie opened, the theater was still packed, and we just screamed all together. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2008, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-surprise-in-a-movie-open-spoilers/445604/43 "2008-04-16T21:27:01Z")
> [@](#): > > You will always be my hero for introducing me to that movie years ago, Cal. Thanks. My pleasure. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2008, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-surprise-in-a-movie-open-spoilers/445604/44 "2008-04-16T21:45:43Z")
[QUOTE=pinkfreud] Yikes, that one really got me, too. When I saw _Carrie_ in a crowded theater, there was a collective gasp from the audience. I bet there wasn’t a dry seat in the house. [/QUOTE] I’ve never seen Carrie all the way thru. Please tell me about this hand. ---
**Author:** ![Paladud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Paladud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paladud)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2008, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-surprise-in-a-movie-open-spoilers/445604/45 "2008-04-16T21:54:57Z")
Oldboy. Scissors (not the ones stuck in Daesu’s back at the end of the fight sequence). ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2008, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-surprise-in-a-movie-open-spoilers/445604/46 "2008-04-16T21:58:47Z")
[QUOTE=Skald the Rhymer] I’ve never seen Carrie all the way thru. Please tell me about this hand. [/QUOTE] See for yourself: ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/_BUUwigjFMc/maxresdefault.jpg)https://www.youtube.com/embed/_BUUwigjFMc?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque ---
**Author:** ![The\_Them](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/898d66/32.png) [@The\_Them](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Them)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2008, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-surprise-in-a-movie-open-spoilers/445604/47 "2008-04-16T22:02:12Z")
I was lucky enough to NOT know how it ended, or even much about it, so it was shock after shock when I finally saw… **The Road Warrior.** That flick just doesn’t follow any _rules_… ---
**Author:** ![FatBaldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@FatBaldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FatBaldGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2008, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-surprise-in-a-movie-open-spoilers/445604/48 "2008-04-16T22:09:52Z")
Not exactly on topic, but related: My daughter was in high school when Apollo 13 came out. She went to see it with some friends. Afterward she asked me, “Why did they change the ending?” I asked what she meant. “Well, in real life they died, didn’t they?” ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2008, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-surprise-in-a-movie-open-spoilers/445604/49 "2008-04-16T22:21:56Z")
I _really_ did NOT see the ending of _Saw_ coming, at all. When it turned out that the “dead” body in the center of the room was actually Jigsaw, I thought it was one of the most clever and unexpected movie moments ever. Because even though he’s lying there on the floor from the very beginning of the movie, the drama between the other characters takes over so much that you completely just forget about that body lying there and don’t even think to wonder how exactly it got there and why. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2008, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-surprise-in-a-movie-open-spoilers/445604/50 "2008-04-16T22:33:59Z")
The first time we ever saw the character Jason on film was…surprising. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2008, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-surprise-in-a-movie-open-spoilers/445604/51 "2008-04-16T22:51:45Z")
Not a movie, but a video game (although it might be the most cinematic video game ever, and the cutscenes alone are more entertaining than most blockbuster action movies) - Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. When you find out at the end, after Eva fucks Snake in his cabin and then leaves him lying in bed alone the next day with a reel-to-reel tape player containing her recorded message, that Eva was actually working for neither the Americans nor the Russians, but for _People’s Republic of China!_ That one _totally_ came out of left field. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2008, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-surprise-in-a-movie-open-spoilers/445604/52 "2008-04-16T23:05:42Z")
[QUOTE=Tamarin] Wash. _Serenity._ [/QUOTE] Word. And the hand in Carrie. A lot of the other twists mentioned were satisfying and cool, but not really shocking. I’m still all sad about Wash. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2008, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-surprise-in-a-movie-open-spoilers/445604/53 "2008-04-16T23:06:19Z")
> [@](#): > > I really did NOT see the ending of Saw coming, at all. When it turned out that the “dead” body in the center of the room was actually Jigsaw, I thought it was one of the most clever and unexpected movie moments ever. Because even though he’s lying there on the floor from the very beginning of the movie, the drama between the other characters takes over so much that you completely just forget about that body lying there and don’t even think to wonder how exactly it got there and why. > > * * * Different Strokes and all, I guess. I thought the ending was unbelievable and stupid. I can’t believe that he lay there through all that was going on and they never saw a motion – not an involuntary twitch, or a cough, or even a _breath_. Moreover, it was stupid of his to leave a live round in the gun, because they could have shot _him_. You can say that this fits in with the guy’s psychology, but I just rack it up as another unbelievable element in the story. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2008, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-surprise-in-a-movie-open-spoilers/445604/54 "2008-04-16T23:21:17Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] Sam Jackson in _Deep Blue Sea_. I sure didn’t see _that_ coming. [/QUOTE] I read your post and thought, “I see what he did there…” but then Mad Maxx posted in agreement, and now I am not sure you were kidding. So I will ask…You were just kidding, right? I always thought the director had purposefully set the scene up for us to anticipate it happening, as sort of an in joke for folks that get a kick out of Samuel’s speeches. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2008, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-surprise-in-a-movie-open-spoilers/445604/55 "2008-04-16T23:41:31Z")
[QUOTE=Argent Towers] I _really_ did NOT see the ending of _Saw_ coming, at all. When it turned out that the “dead” body in the center of the room was actually Jigsaw, I thought it was one of the most clever and unexpected movie moments ever. Because even though he’s lying there on the floor from the very beginning of the movie, the drama between the other characters takes over so much that you completely just forget about that body lying there and don’t even think to wonder how exactly it got there and why. [/QUOTE] Well, _thank_ you! 😃 I actually have never seen any of the SAW movies because the few details I have heard of them seem to cross my fake-gore limit (and that’s accomplishing something.) ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2008, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-surprise-in-a-movie-open-spoilers/445604/56 "2008-04-16T23:59:48Z")
[QUOTE=KneadToKnow] You will always be my hero for introducing me to that movie years ago, **Cal**. [/QUOTE] Yes, an excellent and often-overlooked mystery. But it’s James Mason (he was a matinee idol in earlier years, you know). Roddy ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-surprise-in-a-movie-open-spoilers/445604/57 "2008-04-17T03:57:28Z")
[QUOTE=Argent Towers] I _really_ did NOT see the ending of _Saw_ coming, at all. When it turned out that the “dead” body in the center of the room was actually Jigsaw, I thought it was one of the most clever and unexpected movie moments ever. Because even though he’s lying there on the floor from the very beginning of the movie, the drama between the other characters takes over so much that you completely just forget about that body lying there and don’t even think to wonder how exactly it got there and why. [/QUOTE] And \*_Saw 2_ with the whole time shift element. I don’t remember the details, just something about whatever live video feed the detective was using to find his kid, was really all pre-recorded. I really didn’t expect that, and it frustrated the crap out of me. Then there was the scene from one of the Scary Movie type movies, where Dr Phil cut the WRONG FOOT off. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-surprise-in-a-movie-open-spoilers/445604/58 "2008-04-17T04:24:00Z")
Three words: Final Destination bus ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-surprise-in-a-movie-open-spoilers/445604/59 "2008-04-17T09:22:22Z")
[QUOTE=Zebra] **12 Monkeys** I am easily confused when women change their hair styles. In the film Bruce Willis has these flashbacks/flashforwards to his own death and in them a woman with long reddish hair is seen. I totally freaked out when Madeline Stowe, who has been in the film with her usual long brown hair, dyes her hair red and becomes the mystery woman. [/QUOTE] On a side issue, someone brought up the meaning of the ending of that recently, and I came to a different conclusion. First time around I thought the woman on the plane seemed to be stopping the virus spreading, but in reality, the outbreak had already happened, he had opened the vial in the airport at security… So they had failed. Then realised that the scenario was this: they’d been putting many people back in time iteratively to track the disease and pretty much this time they’d found it. And while Willis dying and them failing this time, it was likely they’d stop it next time around… ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2008, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-surprise-in-a-movie-open-spoilers/445604/60 "2008-04-17T09:29:30Z")
**Audition.** Feet. Still gives me the shivers. **Wolf Creek.** Head on a stick. Same. \*\*Leon (also known as The Professional) \*\* “Thiiiss iss for… Mathilda…” **The Prestige** While the identities of many of the players were unsure, it was the line of tanks at the end which really brought home exactly what had been going on… That, and the first “No! Wait” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-surprise-in-a-movie-open-spoilers/445604.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-biggest-surprise-in-a-movie-open-spoilers/445604.md?page=4)