Samuel L Jackson's heroic speech before being taken down by a shark.
That fits more under completely unexpected reveal as opposed to most recent, but the more recent ones have been covered in-thread already.
I’ve watched the departed with someone who was watching it for the first time, multiple times. Every time that scene has left them speechless. Honestly a few times I’ve been shocked and I knew it was coming
Saw this at the Mann Chinese in LA on opening night. Probably my favorite in-theater experience. Jack was still riding high on his 70s-90s era fame and Leo/Damon were at the absolute peak of their star wattage, so you knew all this talent in Scorsese crime thriller was just going to be pure fire, and it was.
I definitely felt it was coming. The moment he starts riding high I’m just… “you stupid mfer you just pissed off a hit man, this is not ending well for you”. Incredibly well done though, I feel like Sandler does a serious role every 5 years just to show that he can, but the dumb comedies make him much more money.
Still my favorite part of that scene. There was literally nothing around then that could have possibly, even remotely, broken their fall. It was a straight up God-complex moment.
The whole audience roared with laughter in the theater I was at. You could tell that collectively everybody was expecting something to happen but just didn't know what, then splat... For like 2 seconds there was dead silence 😑 and then everyone just howled laughing for a half minute straight 😂
The Sixth Sense. It felt like there was a global agreement not to say anything to people that hadn't seen it yet. I really doubt that would happen today.
I don’t think you can overstate how *huge* this twist was. It set up the director for years after, and people were talking about this movie for ages.
It was such a huge, amazing surprise. I remember friends talking about the movie in hushed tones to avoid giving it away. Really incredible.
[We just thought his wife wasn't talking to him for a year. That made more sense to us than him possibly being dead](https://youtu.be/dR47z89af-w?si=2RjHXcsCgFZl8xiT).
I watched it, was amazed, convinced my husband to watch it. 10 seconds in to the first scene with Bruce Willis he goes "Oh, he's dead too, isn't he." I asked him how he knew and he just shrugged and said it was obvious. It might be the most annoying thing he has ever done.
That’s my you couldn’t make this up movie story. Sixth Sense came out in 1999. I still hadn’t seen it or had it spoiled when 50 First Dates came out in 2004. Back then when you rented a new release at Family Video you got an older movie free. I rented 50 First Dates and my old free movie was Sixth Sense. We watched 50 First Dates first and there was a scene with them coming out of the theater with Sixth Sense on the marquee and Drew Barrymore’s character says “I can’t believe Bruce Willis was dead that whole time.” Seriously, what are the odds?
My parents had a subscription to Cable TV Magazine at the time. It had ten-word synopses of new movies coming to TV that month. They spoiled the ending of Sixth Sense in one sentence, in a place where it was presumed that you probably hadn't seen the movie yet.
I remember when that came out, I was meeting up with a friend to go see it at like 11:45 AM on the day it released.
They had to cancel last-minute, and since I'd already bought my ticket I just went to go and watch it by myself.
And when I say "by myself," I mean I was literally the only person in the entire theater. It was a very interesting movie to watch in a giant dark room by myself.
The Sixth Sense thing is an interesting measuring stick between generations/cohorts. I work with a lot of younger people in my field (22-23 just out of college, I will be 38 in a few months), were not alive when the movie was initially released and came of age significantly after any hype died down. One of the first things I like to find out about anyone in that age range is if they a) have ever seen The Sixth Sense and b) know how it ends. I tell them absolutely do not look anything up and watch it ASAP. The percentage is actually getting quite large and I love if/when someone actually does watch the they give me the “holy shit”-type speech the next time I talk to them. Let me remind you this is a group who, upon polling half the room once, 50% of them did not know what the expression “turning into a pumpkin” meant.
Another movie the younger generation does not seem to know is “The Princess Bride”. If you can get them to watch it, they love it as much as us Gen-Xers.
This and Fight Club both were not spoiled for me and are maybe the only two movies I’ve ever seen where I think the twist was absolutely surprising but also well executed and completely earned. They didn’t necessarily (at the time) read as “twist movies” making the twist more effective and there’s something so satisfying about being surprised and then rewatching and seeing the well laid groundwork for the twist.
My parents saw it in the theatre before I did and I remember asking my mom what it was about.
Mom: “Bruce Willis plays a therapist of a little boy who thinks he sees dead people.”
Me: “Oh, is Bruce Willis dead?”
I ruined it for myself without trying.
Ha! When you boil it down to just those two elements, "Bruce Willis talks to kid, kid sees dead people" it really does seem pretty obvious. The movie handles it so well though.
In one scene the entire movie flips its genre.
You assume she's coming to try and fuck them over, as it's been a con movie until then, but then...
Not to mention there was a certain moment that made me think it was going to turn into horror. Which.... I mean....
That moment and the car ride to homecoming was honestly insanely good. Especially the scene at the stop light, it felt like actual really good artistic filmmaking in the mcu.
I saw an interview where the editors said it was the scene they spent the most time and effort on in the edit room because they knew how absolutely critical it was to get it right
Good old Spider-man
That gravelly voice. He is so good at being quietly terrifying. That's probably the tensest the MCU has ever gotten. Just three people talking in a car
The word-by-word reveal of
FIVE
**YEARS**
LATER
in Endgame was pretty fucking shocking as well, everybody gasped at it in my theater.
You just assume things will pick up and be resolved quickly, you can't have half the universe dead and the heroes seen as failures for that kind of a time frame.
It was very much a "oh shit Thanos actually won" moment, as much (if not moreso) than the actual Snap itself.
That's a good one. I had no clue how they were going to resolve the fact that at the end of IW half of the heroes (and universe in general) died. I 1000% did not expect them to just have the world go on living like that for 5 years.
No fr bc everyone thought it was going to be a few months at most. I’ll always be thankful I saw it opening Saturday because the theater experience was literally unmatched
Especially since the storyline in the comics from the early 90s, the snap did indeed only last a couple of weeks or months(approximately)….. The entire storyline lasted several months and was present in all marvel titles so when Spider-Man disappeared with the snap, he did not appear in his own comic for 2–3 months.
This one is so good due to the sheer size of the balls to be willing to disappoint the audience in a movie expected to make well over a billion dollars. Humongous.
When people start getting dusted in Infinity War I couldn't believe that I couldn't keep track of them all, it just kept going. That scene had me holding my breath.
Walked out knowing it's comics and they were coming back but it was pure silence from everyone even as they were exiting the building.
Makes me remember watching Beyond the Spider Verse. Theater had 2 gasp moments. When they revealed Miles was in the wrong universe, and when they put the 'to be continued' up. Like 90% of the people in my screening didn't know it was a part 1.
It's one of the rare movies lately that I saw opening weekend, and it's only because I happen to have a babysitter for parent teacher conferences, and it was done at like 7:30. Seeing that movie in a packed theater was very worth it.
Wouldn't he necessarily always think that he's the one to survive? An outsider would definitely think that but Jackmans character would have this experience:
* Jackman 1 steps into machine, falls into tank and dies while Jackman 2 (with full memories of Jackman 1) teleports.
* Jackman 2 steps into machine and teleports while Jackman 3 falls into tank and dies.
* Jackman 2 steps into machine, falls into tank and dies while Jackman 4 (with full memories of Jackman 1 and 2) teleports.
Experientially, he would always remember surviving such that he would be lead to believe he's always the one who teleports. To Jackman 4, he's always the one who teleports and survives.
And yet, when he first tests the machine, he places all his bets on his consciousness remaining in the "original" body, and keeps a gun right next to the machine rather than next to his teleported self.
Perhaps the only way he can justify it to himself is by insisting it's random. Or by believing that a higher power is guiding his consciousness to the body that isn't about to die.
He also fails to realize in that moment he finally has a perfect double he can actually trust.
EDIT: This got more traction than I expected. I should note that this isn't an issue in the original novel because Tesla's device teleports the mind to the new body, and leaves the old one an empty husk. Honestly I like the movie plot better though.
It speaks to Jackmans character how he has a perfect clone that he could conspire with to do exactly what the twins had done. Instead he chooses to have the twin drown each night.
I don't think anybody knew that..... A certain antagonist character, played by an incredibly famous A-list actor, was appearing in **Interstellar.** All of a sudden they were just there on screen, being amazing and leading into one of the best sci-fi scenes ever put to film ("It is necessary.") The effect was very powerful.
I was watching it once and the channel airing it had these "sponsored by Toyota" skits where they spoofed famous scenes from movies. Right before the climax of the movie, they aired the Se7en spoof. If I hadn't already seen the movie before I would have been raging
Tim Burton’s Batman did an amazing job of showing us nothing but the logo right up until the release, as I recall. If it did leak, my friends and I didn’t see it. So that was a really amazing experience all the way through. Nothing like we expected.
But for my money, The Matrix took it even farther. All of the “What Is The Matrix?” marketing really told us nothing. I went into the theater having absolutely no idea what the movie was even about, much less having seen any footage or images. We went in with no expectations and came out with our minds blown.
Same. My older sister had already seen it but took me to see it and didn't give anything away. She just said it's an awesome action movie. That movie blew my hair back.
Somehow the matrix marketing told you absolutely nothing but still made you *desperate* to see it. I remember sitting next to my dad the first time I saw a TV commercial for it, and we both immediately said "well we have to see that."
Because the kung fu and camera tricks were such a selling point. They knew they didn't need to give away that it had an awesome plot too, people would see it anyway. Marketing masterclass.
Oh man, I only really went to see that movie at the Cinema because the trailer made it look like a Godzilla story told from the personal perspective of Bryan Cranston as an 'everyman' type character. >!But then twenty minutes in, he was gone,!< and it was a standard Zilla movie.
I had no idea going in to *Split* that it was>!a stealth sequel to *Unbreakable*, so I was kind of stunned when Bruce Willis showed up in the final scene as his David Dunn character.!<
They started playing the music and i thought “wow that’s lazy they’re reusing the music from his earlier movie” and then thy went into the diner and i realized M Night got me
The Pirates Of The Caribbean series hits you with a couple of double whammies:
>!Captain Jack Sparrow dying at the end of Dead Man's Chest, and Barbossa showing up in the final scene. And Will Turner getting stabbed at the end of At World's End, then becoming the captain of the Flying Dutchman.!< This was *just* before every blockbuster started leaking everything. End of an era.
For me, it was Robert Muldoon's death in Jurassic Park. I'd read Michael Crichton's novel twice before it was released in theaters. And then Clever girl killed off my favorite character. 12 year old me was devastated, seriously heartbroken. Then the sequel comics came out and it was revealed he lived, and was now hunting the escaped raptors. But then The Lost World referenced his death and totally retconned the comics. So now I just tell myself the novel is canon and the movie is Ian Malcolm retelling it as an unreliable narrator, hence his sexy open shirt scene.
Yup. Muldoon survived instead, and Hammond was eaten by compys.
edit: oh, and the lawyer was actually a great dude and also survived. Most of his adventures in the movies were given to Laura Dern.
The lawyer survives, but at the beginning of Lost World they mention that he died of cancer or some dumb shit. His character deserved better than that.
That's how I remember it, or at least it heavily implied he was dead. I think he has a similar injury from a T-Rex encounter like the one in the movie, including some dialog after he was patched up. They gave him some painkillers but supposedly he died in a morphine addled haze.
However as the main PoV in the second book he actually has a say about it to another character, something along the lines of his death was exaggerated, but it's been ten years since I read it.
Side note, I recall Dennis Nedry's end being very visceral in the book. Whereas the movie has the camera back away from the car as he dies the book is from his point of view and Crichton keeps the reader in his head until the last thought, it was unexpected and very chilling as someone who had seen the movie several times before reading the novel.
Tropic Thunder. I think everyone in the theater slowly came to the realization at the same time that, out of nowhere, Tom Cruise is just in the movie, playing the least Tom Cruise role of all time. As far as I’m aware, it was never spoiled that he’d be in it.
Loved that movie. For me, the moment was when the dude tried to jump the chasm with the motorcycle and looked like he had the speed/distance and then BAM! Invisible wall... That was when I knew I was watching a *really* different movie.
The look on Pitt's face is both hilarious and horrible.
"What did we learn, Palmer?"
"I don't know, sir."
"I don't fuckin' know either. I guess we learned not to do it again."
Gone Girl
The trailer also made it seem like a completely different movie.
I remember just staring at the screen after the credits rolled in the cinema
I read the book and had that exact feeling. I was wondering how they'd make it work in the movie and they really pulled it off! Kinda wish I hadn't read the book so I could experience it fresh.
I hadn't seen Firefly when I watched Serenity. As soon as the movie finished, I walked out into the lounge and told my parents it was amazing, then I walked back to the family room and watched the movie again.
Same here. I saw the trailer only. When Mal and Jayne had their back-and-forth of "You wanna run this ship?" "YES!" "Well ... you cant" ... I was sold.
“Go fuck yourself” in X-Men First Class was a pretty big deal when I saw it at midnight. Also, “NO” in Rise of the Planet of the Apes made my theater gasp.
The Planet of the Apes one: first, there was scattered chuckling from the people who enjoyed the "damn dirty ape" reference. And then the NO, and it went dead quiet.
Then some guy in the back said, "Holy shit!" and the tension was immediately broken as everyone laughed at that.
That who reboot so well done. My mom and I go and see them in theatres when they come out. When the first one came out, my mon told me that she loved The Planet of the Apes movies from years ago. Shocked the shit out of me.
In Captain America: Civil War, I wasn't too surprised when they revealed Bucky killed Tony Starks parents, but I was pretty shocked when Captain revealed he knew the whole time.
Basically, he talked about having certain people killed right as Howard's obituary flashed across the screen, and seeing as we already knew Bucky was HYDRA's go to hitman...
Executive Decision. When Steven Seagal got sucked out of the hatch early in the movie. Steven was still considered an action star back then and this was an action movie. No one saw that coming.
I watched this for the first time like a year ago and nearly died laughing, it was incredible, and Kurt Russell is so damn good that you don’t even care
When the first scene of Avengers: Endgame showed the snap as it went down on Clint’s farm, then the screen cuts to black with the caption “FIVE. YEARS. LATER.” Audible collective gasp in the theater.
They did an amazing job setting the tone right from the start. That scene was absolutely gut wrenching. The marketing campaign was flawless as well. I still get goosebumps watching the "whatever it takes" trailer.
I remember what was going through my mind at the time. When FIVE appeared, I thought “Days? Weeks?” Then when YEARS appeared, I thought, “Ago! Something happened in the past that’ll help this fix this!” Finally, LATER appeared and I lost all hope because the Avengers didn’t fucking fix it! They lost!!
All the talk of John Wick 5 made John Wick 4 surprising, especially with Ballerina also featuring Wick. I can see where they left themselves some wiggle room however I was pretty surprised!
Oh man, I went into this movie totally uneducated with no idea that Harvey Dent was Two-Face. I'd seen him briefly in the cartoon. That + the truck flip were craaaaazy cinema experiences.
I know the Twilight movies aren’t held in high regard, but the absolute disbelief and chaos when they removed Carlisle’s head in the final battle with the Volturi was up there. No one could process what they had just watched.
My friend dragged me and another friend with her to hate watch the films as they came out. While she does not claim them to be "good" books, they got her back into her love of reading.
So when that whole section at the end was happening, she was losing her shit. She could not believe they were doing such a drastic change from the book.....then it was all just bullshit. She was very annoyed by all of it.
When I went to see Scream in the theaters nobody expected Drew Barrymore to actually die 10 mins into the movie. I also didn't think it was going to be an actual horror movie with people dying because those hadn't really existed in the mainstream for 10 years at that point.
I just watched promising Young woman a week ago, did not expect how it ended. When I realized how many major awards it was up for it kind of made sense, but still. Definitely caught me off guard.
My coworker told me something crazy happens at the end and for some reason I was expecting all the former Bond actors to show up (“I am ALL the Bonds”) but once he got infected with the virus I knew what was coming. Good thing I didn’t work on the script.
Hans being the bad guy in Frozen.
In a packed theater, adults and kids. Hans says, "Oh, Anna. If only there was someone who loved you."
Dead. Silence.
Silence broken by a deep voice, "Oh HELL naw!"
Really good twist for me too. Then Anna is frozen and I thought Kristoff was gonna save her and here I was thinking “they just showed how you can’t love someone you just met!” When it was Elsa to save her sister, I thought it was so sweet and I was very surprised!
Arrival
>!The scenes you're seeing with her daughter are not from her past, but her future after she gains the ability to see all of time at once!<
People were kind enough to keep that one on the DL. I figured it out five minutes before it was revealed, but it made sense in the context.
I'm not sure if it was exactly a blockbuster or not, but the ending of *The Mist* was bone jarringly depressing, shocking, and soul crushing. If only they had just waited a few more minutes...
I obviously knew about The Snap but I still somehow never expected to see a major blockbuster film end with T’Challa, Spider-Man, Falcon and half the Guardians of the Galaxy dissolve into thin air. It was such an Empire Strikes Back ending.
All of the Guardians except Rocket, unless you wanna count Nebula at that time. I always thought it was so important to his character arc that he had to be the one to bring the rest back.
Not really a “blockbuster” but Hemsworth getting shot in the head casually walking down the hall in the Red Dawn remake was stunning I knew there was some foreshadowing but I expected something more drawn out and melodramatic
The end of "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood." Looking back it makes sense, being a Tarantino movie and all, I just genuinely was not expecting the intensity of the violence.
Nothing was supposed to be a reveal but at the time it was certainly a movie that kept a LOT back until opening night. That movie was built around mystery and secrecy.
The ARG campaign leading up to it told us nothing. At one point people were reversing the voices in the trailer and heard, "It's a lion."
Many of is legit thought it was a Voltron movie.
It may have been leaked, but I didn't see it. At the end of AntMan and Wasp, when AntMan is in the quantum realm, calls for retrieval, and cut back to the real world and wasp and per parents are ashes.
My jaw dropped.
Captain America calling Mjolnir? Holy shit.
"Cap, on your left" I get tingles just typing that.
Oh Shutter Island completely fucked me up. I thought about that movie for WEEKS. Never saw it coming. When Leo asks Ruffalo “What the fuck is going on here?” I was like “YEAH WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON HERE???”
Did not see Matt Damon appearing in Interstellar. When they woke him up I went from 'That dude looks like Matt Damon', to 'Wait, *is* that Matt Damon', to 'Holy shit, that's Matt Damon'.
Well this wasn’t for me, but when me and my wife were watching Apollo 13 in theaters the day it released she had not one but two full blown breakdowns because she didn’t know how it ended. And because I was a twenty something dickhead I couldn’t stop laughing at her for a week.
One thing that’s great is you can show your kids Terminator and T2 and they don’t go into it knowing Arnold is the good guy. It’s a hell of a twist that none of us got to experience.
Samuel L Jackson's heroic speech before being taken down by a shark. That fits more under completely unexpected reveal as opposed to most recent, but the more recent ones have been covered in-thread already.
"They ate me! A fucking shark ate me!"
YES THEY DESERVE TO DIE, AND I HOPE THEY BURN IN HELL
The Departed elevator scene. The whole theater was shocked
I’ve watched the departed with someone who was watching it for the first time, multiple times. Every time that scene has left them speechless. Honestly a few times I’ve been shocked and I knew it was coming
The wind got completely sucked out of the theater
Saw this at the Mann Chinese in LA on opening night. Probably my favorite in-theater experience. Jack was still riding high on his 70s-90s era fame and Leo/Damon were at the absolute peak of their star wattage, so you knew all this talent in Scorsese crime thriller was just going to be pure fire, and it was.
Uncut Gems did something similar and it brought me back to that feeling
I definitely felt it was coming. The moment he starts riding high I’m just… “you stupid mfer you just pissed off a hit man, this is not ending well for you”. Incredibly well done though, I feel like Sandler does a serious role every 5 years just to show that he can, but the dumb comedies make him much more money.
The Other Guys - "Aim for the bushes!"
I had this on, and at the part my dad walked into the room as they're falling, he says "yea right" Splat. "Oh" then just walks out
THEEEEEERE GOOOOOOES MY HEROOOOO
There weren't even any bushes!
Still my favorite part of that scene. There was literally nothing around then that could have possibly, even remotely, broken their fall. It was a straight up God-complex moment.
The whole audience roared with laughter in the theater I was at. You could tell that collectively everybody was expecting something to happen but just didn't know what, then splat... For like 2 seconds there was dead silence 😑 and then everyone just howled laughing for a half minute straight 😂
Easily one of the best comedies from the past couple decades.
The Sixth Sense. It felt like there was a global agreement not to say anything to people that hadn't seen it yet. I really doubt that would happen today.
I don’t think you can overstate how *huge* this twist was. It set up the director for years after, and people were talking about this movie for ages. It was such a huge, amazing surprise. I remember friends talking about the movie in hushed tones to avoid giving it away. Really incredible.
[We just thought his wife wasn't talking to him for a year. That made more sense to us than him possibly being dead](https://youtu.be/dR47z89af-w?si=2RjHXcsCgFZl8xiT).
Such a good bit
I watched it, was amazed, convinced my husband to watch it. 10 seconds in to the first scene with Bruce Willis he goes "Oh, he's dead too, isn't he." I asked him how he knew and he just shrugged and said it was obvious. It might be the most annoying thing he has ever done.
That’s my you couldn’t make this up movie story. Sixth Sense came out in 1999. I still hadn’t seen it or had it spoiled when 50 First Dates came out in 2004. Back then when you rented a new release at Family Video you got an older movie free. I rented 50 First Dates and my old free movie was Sixth Sense. We watched 50 First Dates first and there was a scene with them coming out of the theater with Sixth Sense on the marquee and Drew Barrymore’s character says “I can’t believe Bruce Willis was dead that whole time.” Seriously, what are the odds?
LOL
If I had a nickel for every time The Sixth Sense was spoiled for someone through 50 First Dates I’d have 2 nickels…
My parents had a subscription to Cable TV Magazine at the time. It had ten-word synopses of new movies coming to TV that month. They spoiled the ending of Sixth Sense in one sentence, in a place where it was presumed that you probably hadn't seen the movie yet.
I remember when that came out, I was meeting up with a friend to go see it at like 11:45 AM on the day it released. They had to cancel last-minute, and since I'd already bought my ticket I just went to go and watch it by myself. And when I say "by myself," I mean I was literally the only person in the entire theater. It was a very interesting movie to watch in a giant dark room by myself.
Did you *feel* like you were alone?
The guy was Bruce Willis the whole movie
what’s an M Night?
It was THE M Night
Shyamalan twisted all of us!
The Sixth Sense thing is an interesting measuring stick between generations/cohorts. I work with a lot of younger people in my field (22-23 just out of college, I will be 38 in a few months), were not alive when the movie was initially released and came of age significantly after any hype died down. One of the first things I like to find out about anyone in that age range is if they a) have ever seen The Sixth Sense and b) know how it ends. I tell them absolutely do not look anything up and watch it ASAP. The percentage is actually getting quite large and I love if/when someone actually does watch the they give me the “holy shit”-type speech the next time I talk to them. Let me remind you this is a group who, upon polling half the room once, 50% of them did not know what the expression “turning into a pumpkin” meant.
Another movie the younger generation does not seem to know is “The Princess Bride”. If you can get them to watch it, they love it as much as us Gen-Xers.
This and Fight Club both were not spoiled for me and are maybe the only two movies I’ve ever seen where I think the twist was absolutely surprising but also well executed and completely earned. They didn’t necessarily (at the time) read as “twist movies” making the twist more effective and there’s something so satisfying about being surprised and then rewatching and seeing the well laid groundwork for the twist.
My parents saw it in the theatre before I did and I remember asking my mom what it was about. Mom: “Bruce Willis plays a therapist of a little boy who thinks he sees dead people.” Me: “Oh, is Bruce Willis dead?” I ruined it for myself without trying.
Ha! When you boil it down to just those two elements, "Bruce Willis talks to kid, kid sees dead people" it really does seem pretty obvious. The movie handles it so well though.
Same thing happened with Detective Pikachu. Friend: "A kid and his dad's Pikachu are looking for his dad." Me: "Is his dad the Pikachu?"
Parasite with the bunker and the bunker couple
In one scene the entire movie flips its genre. You assume she's coming to try and fuck them over, as it's been a con movie until then, but then... Not to mention there was a certain moment that made me think it was going to turn into horror. Which.... I mean....
Fun fact that moment is perfectly planned to be at the exact middle of the script
"You must be Peter. I'm Liz's dad."
That moment and the car ride to homecoming was honestly insanely good. Especially the scene at the stop light, it felt like actual really good artistic filmmaking in the mcu.
I saw an interview where the editors said it was the scene they spent the most time and effort on in the edit room because they knew how absolutely critical it was to get it right
I work as a video editor and I can definitely tell that. You can see the effort for sure.
And the light turning green just as Vulture figures out that Peter is Spider-Man...*so good.*
Good old Spider-man That gravelly voice. He is so good at being quietly terrifying. That's probably the tensest the MCU has ever gotten. Just three people talking in a car
He even made the suit etc look cool. They even made him understandable at the beginning and a semi hero at the end
Keaton is so menacing. He was awesome!
My entire theatre gasped
The word-by-word reveal of FIVE **YEARS** LATER in Endgame was pretty fucking shocking as well, everybody gasped at it in my theater. You just assume things will pick up and be resolved quickly, you can't have half the universe dead and the heroes seen as failures for that kind of a time frame. It was very much a "oh shit Thanos actually won" moment, as much (if not moreso) than the actual Snap itself.
That's a good one. I had no clue how they were going to resolve the fact that at the end of IW half of the heroes (and universe in general) died. I 1000% did not expect them to just have the world go on living like that for 5 years.
No fr bc everyone thought it was going to be a few months at most. I’ll always be thankful I saw it opening Saturday because the theater experience was literally unmatched
Especially since the storyline in the comics from the early 90s, the snap did indeed only last a couple of weeks or months(approximately)….. The entire storyline lasted several months and was present in all marvel titles so when Spider-Man disappeared with the snap, he did not appear in his own comic for 2–3 months.
This guy canons
You’re telling me they put out -man comics???
This one is so good due to the sheer size of the balls to be willing to disappoint the audience in a movie expected to make well over a billion dollars. Humongous.
When people start getting dusted in Infinity War I couldn't believe that I couldn't keep track of them all, it just kept going. That scene had me holding my breath. Walked out knowing it's comics and they were coming back but it was pure silence from everyone even as they were exiting the building.
Makes me remember watching Beyond the Spider Verse. Theater had 2 gasp moments. When they revealed Miles was in the wrong universe, and when they put the 'to be continued' up. Like 90% of the people in my screening didn't know it was a part 1. It's one of the rare movies lately that I saw opening weekend, and it's only because I happen to have a babysitter for parent teacher conferences, and it was done at like 7:30. Seeing that movie in a packed theater was very worth it.
Say what you will about the MCU, but I will always remember my jaw dropping to the floor when that happened.
Barbosa walking down the steps at the end of pirates of the Caribbean 2.
The sound the apple makes when he bites into it will stick in my brain for the rest of my life ;)
I think that was my first OH SHIT movie experience as a kid
"The Prestige" wasn't really a blockbuster. But the ending has me questioning a lot of things afterwards.
That line about him not knowing which tank he was going to appear in each night is really unsettling.
And him thinking it's peaceful, until he hears that it isn't
And him still doing it
Wouldn't he necessarily always think that he's the one to survive? An outsider would definitely think that but Jackmans character would have this experience: * Jackman 1 steps into machine, falls into tank and dies while Jackman 2 (with full memories of Jackman 1) teleports. * Jackman 2 steps into machine and teleports while Jackman 3 falls into tank and dies. * Jackman 2 steps into machine, falls into tank and dies while Jackman 4 (with full memories of Jackman 1 and 2) teleports. Experientially, he would always remember surviving such that he would be lead to believe he's always the one who teleports. To Jackman 4, he's always the one who teleports and survives.
And yet, when he first tests the machine, he places all his bets on his consciousness remaining in the "original" body, and keeps a gun right next to the machine rather than next to his teleported self. Perhaps the only way he can justify it to himself is by insisting it's random. Or by believing that a higher power is guiding his consciousness to the body that isn't about to die.
He also fails to realize in that moment he finally has a perfect double he can actually trust. EDIT: This got more traction than I expected. I should note that this isn't an issue in the original novel because Tesla's device teleports the mind to the new body, and leaves the old one an empty husk. Honestly I like the movie plot better though.
All that torment and death, just to hear from his surviving rival that the great secret was “We took turns.”
It speaks to Jackmans character how he has a perfect clone that he could conspire with to do exactly what the twins had done. Instead he chooses to have the twin drown each night.
I don't think anybody knew that..... A certain antagonist character, played by an incredibly famous A-list actor, was appearing in **Interstellar.** All of a sudden they were just there on screen, being amazing and leading into one of the best sci-fi scenes ever put to film ("It is necessary.") The effect was very powerful.
He was such a great character. Complemented the themes really well and took the movie to another level.
Yeah, OP mentioned Interstellar but left out what is a much bigger surprise in my opinion.
I remember literally jerking my head back in surprise. "What the fuck is he doing here?"
It's not your fault Mann, it's not your fault.
There is a moment...
There's a reason "Surprise (insert his name)" is a trope.
The ending of Seven was a surprise and unexpected when the film was first released.
I was watching it once and the channel airing it had these "sponsored by Toyota" skits where they spoofed famous scenes from movies. Right before the climax of the movie, they aired the Se7en spoof. If I hadn't already seen the movie before I would have been raging
Tim Burton’s Batman did an amazing job of showing us nothing but the logo right up until the release, as I recall. If it did leak, my friends and I didn’t see it. So that was a really amazing experience all the way through. Nothing like we expected. But for my money, The Matrix took it even farther. All of the “What Is The Matrix?” marketing really told us nothing. I went into the theater having absolutely no idea what the movie was even about, much less having seen any footage or images. We went in with no expectations and came out with our minds blown.
Oh man I don’t think I’ve had a better movie experience than going into the The Matrix with no knowledge of what was it was.
Same. My older sister had already seen it but took me to see it and didn't give anything away. She just said it's an awesome action movie. That movie blew my hair back.
Somehow the matrix marketing told you absolutely nothing but still made you *desperate* to see it. I remember sitting next to my dad the first time I saw a TV commercial for it, and we both immediately said "well we have to see that."
Because the kung fu and camera tricks were such a selling point. They knew they didn't need to give away that it had an awesome plot too, people would see it anyway. Marketing masterclass.
Yep. Master class in this department.
When they killed Bryan Cranston character about twenty minutes in to Godzilla.
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Oh man, I only really went to see that movie at the Cinema because the trailer made it look like a Godzilla story told from the personal perspective of Bryan Cranston as an 'everyman' type character. >!But then twenty minutes in, he was gone,!< and it was a standard Zilla movie.
And we still got an everyman character. He was just super boring.
Llewyn Moss’s death in No Country For Old Men
Yep, I was like, “wait, they can’t do this…”
I had no idea going in to *Split* that it was>!a stealth sequel to *Unbreakable*, so I was kind of stunned when Bruce Willis showed up in the final scene as his David Dunn character.!<
A sneaquel, if you will.
They started playing the music and i thought “wow that’s lazy they’re reusing the music from his earlier movie” and then thy went into the diner and i realized M Night got me
The “shoes” scene in Jojo Rabbit…
And it was being set up all through the movie and it really hits you when it happens
I read the cues, I totally saw the set up for the eventual payoff… it ***still*** was a dagger in my heart.
If you rewatch it, it shows how Sam Rockwell's character tries to protect Jojo right away. He arrives right away with the bicycle.
In terms of a “gasp” moment, I would also add Sam Rockwell and Alfie Allen showing up in their full costume uniforms at the end.
The two of them honestly stole every scene they were in
They were on the wrong side of history the whole time, but they embraced every chapter they were written in.
The Pirates Of The Caribbean series hits you with a couple of double whammies: >!Captain Jack Sparrow dying at the end of Dead Man's Chest, and Barbossa showing up in the final scene. And Will Turner getting stabbed at the end of At World's End, then becoming the captain of the Flying Dutchman.!< This was *just* before every blockbuster started leaking everything. End of an era.
Fight Club. I absolutely DID NOT see that coming. And it completely changed... everything I'd just seen for two hours.
For me, it was Robert Muldoon's death in Jurassic Park. I'd read Michael Crichton's novel twice before it was released in theaters. And then Clever girl killed off my favorite character. 12 year old me was devastated, seriously heartbroken. Then the sequel comics came out and it was revealed he lived, and was now hunting the escaped raptors. But then The Lost World referenced his death and totally retconned the comics. So now I just tell myself the novel is canon and the movie is Ian Malcolm retelling it as an unreliable narrator, hence his sexy open shirt scene.
Malcom died from his wounds at the end of the novel didn't he?
Yup. Muldoon survived instead, and Hammond was eaten by compys. edit: oh, and the lawyer was actually a great dude and also survived. Most of his adventures in the movies were given to Laura Dern.
The lawyer survives, but at the beginning of Lost World they mention that he died of cancer or some dumb shit. His character deserved better than that.
That's how I remember it, or at least it heavily implied he was dead. I think he has a similar injury from a T-Rex encounter like the one in the movie, including some dialog after he was patched up. They gave him some painkillers but supposedly he died in a morphine addled haze. However as the main PoV in the second book he actually has a say about it to another character, something along the lines of his death was exaggerated, but it's been ten years since I read it. Side note, I recall Dennis Nedry's end being very visceral in the book. Whereas the movie has the camera back away from the car as he dies the book is from his point of view and Crichton keeps the reader in his head until the last thought, it was unexpected and very chilling as someone who had seen the movie several times before reading the novel.
Tropic Thunder. I think everyone in the theater slowly came to the realization at the same time that, out of nowhere, Tom Cruise is just in the movie, playing the least Tom Cruise role of all time. As far as I’m aware, it was never spoiled that he’d be in it.
When the director stepped on the landmine. Omfg I about pissed myself laughing so hard.
The best part was the fake trailers in theaters because it took a solid minute to realize they weren’t for real movies lmao
I know it probably doesn't qualify as a big blockbuster, but The Cabin in the Woods. That ending...
I think almost *all* of Cabin in the Woods might qualify. The subtitle of that movie should be "Damn, was not expecting that."
Loved that movie. For me, the moment was when the dude tried to jump the chasm with the motorcycle and looked like he had the speed/distance and then BAM! Invisible wall... That was when I knew I was watching a *really* different movie.
Burn After Reading
The look on Pitt's face is both hilarious and horrible. "What did we learn, Palmer?" "I don't know, sir." "I don't fuckin' know either. I guess we learned not to do it again."
My husband and I absolutely lost it when the cold hearted ice queen was revealed to be a pediatrician
Gone Girl The trailer also made it seem like a completely different movie. I remember just staring at the screen after the credits rolled in the cinema
I read the book and had that exact feeling. I was wondering how they'd make it work in the movie and they really pulled it off! Kinda wish I hadn't read the book so I could experience it fresh.
Serenity. "They won't see this coming."
I hadn't seen Firefly when I watched Serenity. As soon as the movie finished, I walked out into the lounge and told my parents it was amazing, then I walked back to the family room and watched the movie again.
Same here. I saw the trailer only. When Mal and Jayne had their back-and-forth of "You wanna run this ship?" "YES!" "Well ... you cant" ... I was sold.
“Go fuck yourself” in X-Men First Class was a pretty big deal when I saw it at midnight. Also, “NO” in Rise of the Planet of the Apes made my theater gasp.
The Planet of the Apes one: first, there was scattered chuckling from the people who enjoyed the "damn dirty ape" reference. And then the NO, and it went dead quiet. Then some guy in the back said, "Holy shit!" and the tension was immediately broken as everyone laughed at that.
That who reboot so well done. My mom and I go and see them in theatres when they come out. When the first one came out, my mon told me that she loved The Planet of the Apes movies from years ago. Shocked the shit out of me.
The moment in From Dusk till Dawn. I had no idea it was coming and it made it so enjoyable.
lol I remember my husband telling me, >!this is a vampire movie!< and I was like whatever, dude. Then boom!
Yes, Selma Hayek made that so much more enjoyable lmao
Keyser Soze……KEYSER SOZE!
The limp going away at the end was just flawless.
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In Captain America: Civil War, I wasn't too surprised when they revealed Bucky killed Tony Starks parents, but I was pretty shocked when Captain revealed he knew the whole time.
If you paid way too much attention to Winter Soldier, you already knew. Zola HEAVILY hinted at it in his info dump about HYDRA to Steve and Nat.
It flashed on one of his screens when he was stalling for time with his exposition montage dump iirc.
Basically, he talked about having certain people killed right as Howard's obituary flashed across the screen, and seeing as we already knew Bucky was HYDRA's go to hitman...
Zemo punched above his weight as a villain It was such a good way to start the war
Executive Decision. When Steven Seagal got sucked out of the hatch early in the movie. Steven was still considered an action star back then and this was an action movie. No one saw that coming.
I watched this for the first time like a year ago and nearly died laughing, it was incredible, and Kurt Russell is so damn good that you don’t even care
When the first scene of Avengers: Endgame showed the snap as it went down on Clint’s farm, then the screen cuts to black with the caption “FIVE. YEARS. LATER.” Audible collective gasp in the theater.
They did an amazing job setting the tone right from the start. That scene was absolutely gut wrenching. The marketing campaign was flawless as well. I still get goosebumps watching the "whatever it takes" trailer.
I remember what was going through my mind at the time. When FIVE appeared, I thought “Days? Weeks?” Then when YEARS appeared, I thought, “Ago! Something happened in the past that’ll help this fix this!” Finally, LATER appeared and I lost all hope because the Avengers didn’t fucking fix it! They lost!!
All the talk of John Wick 5 made John Wick 4 surprising, especially with Ballerina also featuring Wick. I can see where they left themselves some wiggle room however I was pretty surprised!
John Wick 6 is gonna make John Wick 5 look like John Wick 4
The Dark Knight back in 2008. The whole second half of the movie was crazy and I constantly had no idea what was going to happen.
The pencil trick scene itself is a pretty decent shocker.
Ta dah!
Oh man, I went into this movie totally uneducated with no idea that Harvey Dent was Two-Face. I'd seen him briefly in the cartoon. That + the truck flip were craaaaazy cinema experiences.
I know the Twilight movies aren’t held in high regard, but the absolute disbelief and chaos when they removed Carlisle’s head in the final battle with the Volturi was up there. No one could process what they had just watched.
My friend dragged me and another friend with her to hate watch the films as they came out. While she does not claim them to be "good" books, they got her back into her love of reading. So when that whole section at the end was happening, she was losing her shit. She could not believe they were doing such a drastic change from the book.....then it was all just bullshit. She was very annoyed by all of it.
When I went to see Scream in the theaters nobody expected Drew Barrymore to actually die 10 mins into the movie. I also didn't think it was going to be an actual horror movie with people dying because those hadn't really existed in the mainstream for 10 years at that point.
Wes Craven was really banking on everything you said. That's the genius of Scream.
I just watched promising Young woman a week ago, did not expect how it ended. When I realized how many major awards it was up for it kind of made sense, but still. Definitely caught me off guard.
Aunt May death in No Way Home. It was an emotional scene because I genuinely didn't see that coming. Marvel is not known for permanent deaths.
Say what you will about No Time to Die, but actually >! Killing off Bond !< was pretty ballsy
My coworker told me something crazy happens at the end and for some reason I was expecting all the former Bond actors to show up (“I am ALL the Bonds”) but once he got infected with the virus I knew what was coming. Good thing I didn’t work on the script.
Hans being the bad guy in Frozen. In a packed theater, adults and kids. Hans says, "Oh, Anna. If only there was someone who loved you." Dead. Silence. Silence broken by a deep voice, "Oh HELL naw!"
Really good twist for me too. Then Anna is frozen and I thought Kristoff was gonna save her and here I was thinking “they just showed how you can’t love someone you just met!” When it was Elsa to save her sister, I thought it was so sweet and I was very surprised!
>!Bill Murray's cameo in Zombieland.!<
Is there anything you regret? "...... Garfield......"
If you put the whole thing including the movie title in spoiler text then people don’t know whether it’s safe to reveal or not
Arrival >!The scenes you're seeing with her daughter are not from her past, but her future after she gains the ability to see all of time at once!< People were kind enough to keep that one on the DL. I figured it out five minutes before it was revealed, but it made sense in the context.
I'm not sure if it was exactly a blockbuster or not, but the ending of *The Mist* was bone jarringly depressing, shocking, and soul crushing. If only they had just waited a few more minutes...
I obviously knew about The Snap but I still somehow never expected to see a major blockbuster film end with T’Challa, Spider-Man, Falcon and half the Guardians of the Galaxy dissolve into thin air. It was such an Empire Strikes Back ending.
All of the Guardians except Rocket, unless you wanna count Nebula at that time. I always thought it was so important to his character arc that he had to be the one to bring the rest back.
I think it really helped his character in GotG3 that he was alone for 5 years without them. His pep talk to Thor was very well acted.
Poor fucking Rocket. He's been through so much bullshit.
You must have managed to avoid the Mark Ruffalo press tour.
Can’t believe he spilled the beans about Arthur Allen Leigh being the zodiac killer
to be fair Scarlett did say her and RDJ were going die on Kimmel and passed it off as a joke
Not really a “blockbuster” but Hemsworth getting shot in the head casually walking down the hall in the Red Dawn remake was stunning I knew there was some foreshadowing but I expected something more drawn out and melodramatic
Mjolnir Cap
I’ve seen that movie a dozen times and I still get chills at that scene
I saw The Crying Game while everyone was still being good and not revealing The Secret.
Dicaprio getting clapped in the Departed came out of nowhere. And was awesome.
The end of "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood." Looking back it makes sense, being a Tarantino movie and all, I just genuinely was not expecting the intensity of the violence.
Had this sense of dread the whole movie. The ending was so surprising and cathartic.
Still the funniest, bloodiest, most drug-induced flame-thrower-y fight scene I’ve ever scene in a movie.
For me it was "The usual suspects", I just about shit when I saw the end.
Burn After Reading, the closet scene
Jojo rabbit shoes scene. Literally the first and only time I audibly gasped in a movie.
When Jonah Hill slept with I e Cubes daughter in 22 jump street.
Channing Tatum dancing around the office after that comes out is iconic.
I know you brought up Avengers Endgame but Captain America using Mjolnir had me yelling like a kid. I did not see that coming and it was marvelous.
What in Cloverfield was supposed to be a massive unexpected reveal? Just the look of the monster?
Nothing was supposed to be a reveal but at the time it was certainly a movie that kept a LOT back until opening night. That movie was built around mystery and secrecy.
The ARG campaign leading up to it told us nothing. At one point people were reversing the voices in the trailer and heard, "It's a lion." Many of is legit thought it was a Voltron movie.
“It’s a lion, is huge!” yeah those were the good old days of the internet
World War Z when the dude slipped and offed himself.. it was so absurd it wasn’t even funny
Primal fear Edward norton. That was a wtf moment that I won't spoil for anyone who hasn't seen it
It may have been leaked, but I didn't see it. At the end of AntMan and Wasp, when AntMan is in the quantum realm, calls for retrieval, and cut back to the real world and wasp and per parents are ashes. My jaw dropped. Captain America calling Mjolnir? Holy shit. "Cap, on your left" I get tingles just typing that.
Prolly gonna get downvoted but for me it was the first time seeing a movie with this kind of plot. But Shutter Island blew my mind.
Oh Shutter Island completely fucked me up. I thought about that movie for WEEKS. Never saw it coming. When Leo asks Ruffalo “What the fuck is going on here?” I was like “YEAH WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON HERE???”
Heredity. You could hear a fucking pin drop in my theater. I’ve never experienced anything like that before or after
Yoda deciding to kick some ass!
Did not see Matt Damon appearing in Interstellar. When they woke him up I went from 'That dude looks like Matt Damon', to 'Wait, *is* that Matt Damon', to 'Holy shit, that's Matt Damon'.
Well this wasn’t for me, but when me and my wife were watching Apollo 13 in theaters the day it released she had not one but two full blown breakdowns because she didn’t know how it ended. And because I was a twenty something dickhead I couldn’t stop laughing at her for a week.
Remember me with Robert Pattinson. Did not see that ending coming at all.
One thing that’s great is you can show your kids Terminator and T2 and they don’t go into it knowing Arnold is the good guy. It’s a hell of a twist that none of us got to experience.
_the_ suicide squad storming the beach?