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Jaw dropping moments and twists in films and TV shows

  • 12-09-2013 6:02pm
    #1
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭


    Those moments that stay with you long after you leave the cinema or switch off the TV

    In Seven, the great David Fincher film, when
    the van comes around the corner. The entire room was in silence, then the head on the box scene happened
    and our jaws hit the floor.

    In Dexter, at the end of season
    4. Amazing, very dark and unpredictable.
    In Lost at the end of season 3.
    "we have to go back Kate". Flashbacks are now flashforwards. A genius twist by the writers.

    The Usual Suspects. Everyone knows this one by now surely?
    The ending does however make the majority of the flashback scenes redundant

    Matchstick Men.
    A very under-rated film with a great twist.
    Conman Nicolas Cage’s long-lost daughter is actually a con-artist who teamed up with his partner in crime to rob him out of his fortune


    What are your favourite Jaw dropping moments and twists in films and TV shows?




    Please use spoiler tags in every example


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 954 ✭✭✭lahalane


    That episode of the news when
    the twin towers fell.
    Did NOT see that coming.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 790 ✭✭✭Sciprio


    The end of the movie "Departed"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,366 ✭✭✭✭Kylo Ren


    In 'Anal Cops 12' when we found out the President was a sex robot sent back through time.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,793 ✭✭✭Red Kev


    THIS:








    I was totally gobsmacked.......

















    .....then I just p1ssed myself laughing.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    When Jaws got blown to bits at the end of the movie I reckon his jaw dropped all over the place.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    That bit in Jaw Carriers 3 when John drops the jaw he's carrying when he's running away from the cops after the party.

    That was great.

    Probably the best jaw dropping moment of the whole series.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,398 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    The red wedding.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,493 ✭✭✭DazMarz


    Darth Vader: Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father...

    Luke Skywalker: He told me enough! He told me you killed him!

    Vader: No...
    I am your father...

    Skywalker: No... no... that's not true... that's IMPOSSIBLE!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,070 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Watching Emmerdale atm for the first time in years. My jaw dropped when I seen what a ride Debbie Dingle has become


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,425 ✭✭✭Festy


    The ending in the movie "Saw"


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    That bit in last nights episode of breaking bad when Walt killed hank!








    *may not be true


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Festy wrote: »
    The ending in the movie "Saw"

    Jaw-droppingly sh*t you mean, right?

    There was no reason
    for the dude to be lying on the ground all the time. He could have just bugged the place. It was stoooopid!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,753 ✭✭✭Vito Corleone


    +1 on "Matchstick Men", one of my favourite films. Everybody watch it.

    "Oldboy" deserves a mention, didn't see that twist coming.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,515 ✭✭✭zcorpian88


    The ending of the tv show "Harpers Island" wasn't expecting that!

    Whoever never watched it, watch it!


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    That bit in Sherlock, 1st series, 3rd film, when Watson comes around the corner and says, "Evening".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    When the butler actually did it!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    That bit in Sherlock, 1st series, 3rd film, when Watson comes around the corner and says, "Evening".

    Please spoiler any twists. Especially with must view shows like the excellent Sherlock


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    The killing of
    Sean Bean
    's character in Game Of Thrones made me do this -> :eek:

    A fantastic twist to anyone who hadnt read the books


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Super-Rush


    When Kel admitted he'd put the screw in the tuna.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,689 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    Couldn't believe it when at the end of James Cameron's 'Titanic' when:
    The Ship Sinks.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,573 ✭✭✭pajor


    I was mind f*cked by Sucker Punch.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    When Bart Simpson got a B in his Maths test.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I saw this in a movie about a bus that had to SPEED around a city, keeping its SPEED over fifty, and if its SPEED dropped, it would explode. I think it was called, "The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down."


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,518 ✭✭✭stefan idiot jones


    When Bobby Ewing didn't die. It was all just a terrible dream.


    The whole fu@kin' series ?


    What was jaw dropping is that those brain washed sherman tanks bought it like they bought the lone shooter in '63, and Marilyn's overdose, and Chappaquiddick.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    In Lost when
    Ben talked Locke out of committing suicide, only to murder him shortly afterwards
    .

    In 24 when
    Jack Bauer shot Ryan Chappelle in the head
    .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,257 ✭✭✭Love2love


    Seen this film where the dude turned out to be dead!! :eek: :eek: :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,109 ✭✭✭RikkFlair


    Season 1 finale end scene in Fringe when
    Olivia realises she has moved to a parallel universe and is standing in the Twin Towers which were never actually destroyed in 2001.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    That episode of Father Ted where
    Ted said "the money was just resting in my account", Mrs Doyle said "would you have a cup of tea? go on, go on, go on" and Father Jack shouted "DRINK! FECK! ARSE! GIRLS!"
    . Shocking stuff.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,070 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Love2love wrote: »
    Seen this film where the dude turned out to be dead!! :eek: :eek: :eek:

    Weekend at Bernie's? :pac:


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    The gruesome killing of
    Joe Pesci'
    s character in Casino


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    The Seinfeld episode in which
    Susan died from licking the envelopes. It wasn't a shocking death and she wasn't a great character. However Georges reaction changed how Seinfeld was seen. Whereas it had been 'a show about nothing' where the characters acted petty and complained about trivial things, it now seemed to be about characters with serious personality disorders who didn't care if someone got hurt or even died because of their actions. I know it's a comedy and not to be taken seriously, but it was hard to relate to the characters after that
    .


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21 Fraggle Rock


    Film being my passion, I've seen quite a few in my time.

    Oldboy is the biggest WTF moment I've ever witnessed.

    A new version is coming out soon directed by Spike Jones. While I like Spike's stuff, or some of it, I'm actually a little angry that he's done it.

    Why not leave works of art alone?


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,880 ✭✭✭razorgil


    the end of "layer cake", cool.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,122 ✭✭✭BeerWolf


    I don't know about you, but... and this 'might' be going OT, but in the game "BioShock" - Great Storyline... and the pinnacle part near the end with regards to Andrew Ryan and the revealations just before then...

    DAYUM!!!

    One of the best pieces of story scripting in a game.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 882 ✭✭✭darragh16


    In Titanic when the ship crashed and sank ... never seen that Iceberg coming to be honest.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,557 ✭✭✭KeithM89


    In 24 when
    Jack Bauer shot Ryan Chappelle in the head
    .

    That was a deadly scene, also when
    Jack had to cut Chases hand off with the fire axe.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,312 ✭✭✭Paramite Pie


    Oldboy is the biggest WTF moment I've ever witnessed.

    I had my suspicions mid way through the movie (because i knew there was a twist but not the nature of it) but then the rest of movie made me think otherwise.. till the end when it's revealed. And then he still ........ with his ........ ugh!! WTF doesn't cut it.

    As for the octopus scene, I was in Korea and tried that myself (but with a small octopus. Still lost. He lived for another day.) It's a tradition to eat live octopus apparently.:pac:
    In 24 when
    Jack Bauer shot Ryan Chappelle in the head
    .

    24 was really good back in the day but this made me jump off me chair! I honestly thought they'd never do it!! It was all just part of a plan or something... but... my god...

    The opening of season 5 where
    Palmer is assassinated
    was a major shock, although there wasn't much of a build up.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,148 ✭✭✭MickFleetwood


    The narrator being Tyler Durden in Fight Club was brilliant.

    Obviously, The Usual Suspects twist was incredible as well. I love re-watching the movie and spotting all the little clues/hints scattered around pointing toward Verbal being the mysterious criminal.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,390 ✭✭✭Bowlardo


    Festy wrote: »
    The ending in the movie "Saw"

    The ending of " the ring" too.

    The end of six foot under was probably the greatest thing I have ever seen from a movie or a series . the song just fits perfectly


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,019 ✭✭✭uch


    When Darth Vader cut off Luke's Hand in the Empire Strikes Back,,, shock Horror

    21/25



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,443 ✭✭✭Bipolar Joe


    Film being my passion, I've seen quite a few in my time.

    Oldboy is the biggest WTF moment I've ever witnessed.

    A new version is coming out soon directed by Spike Jones. While I like Spike's stuff, or some of it, I'm actually a little angry that he's done it.

    Why not leave works of art alone?

    It's not Spike Jones, or even Spike Jonze, it's Spike Lee.

    The end of New World when
    Ja-seong kills everyone who knows he's a cop so he can be the head of the syndicate.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,822 ✭✭✭Mickey H


    Boston Legal Season 5, final episode when
    the Chinese firm buys out Crane, Poole & Schmidt.
    Didn't see that coming.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,228 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    Some of the deaths in Goodfellas are jaw dropping,also same genre Phil Leotardo popping out in The Sopranos was an awesome twist.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,899 ✭✭✭✭BBDBB


    In Bargain Hunt when the Reds spent all their money on a Victorian lamp stand while the Blues spread their money across a piece of Ditchfield glass, a brass spittoon and a small vase of unknown origin. The tension was unbearable right up until the end

    The Blues won


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,845 ✭✭✭timthumbni


    Has to be The Crying Game near the end when I discovered the big secret that the film was sh"te. ;-)


  • Registered Users Posts: 337 ✭✭Jacks Smirking Revenge


    Walt
    poisoning Brock
    in Season 4 of Breaking bad.

    Mind blowing


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,038 ✭✭✭IrishGrimReaper


    Game Of Thrones, second last episode of the recent season I think.
    When they killed Rob Stark and his mother, and stabbed Rob's wife who was with child
    Can't believe no one's said that one yet.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,682 ✭✭✭Markcheese


    DazMarz wrote: »
    Darth Vader: Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father...

    Luke Skywalker: He told me enough! He told me you killed him!

    Vader: No...
    I am your father...

    Skywalker: No... no... that's not true...
    that's IMPOSSIBLE!!!
    Jeez you don't get out much even my 3 year old know "Luke ccchhh I am your father ccchh"( but he IS a starwars Lego nut)

    Slava ukraini 🇺🇦



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,682 ✭✭✭Markcheese


    I saw this in a movie about a bus that had to SPEED around a city, keeping its SPEED over fifty, and if its SPEED dropped, it would explode. I think it was called, "The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down."

    Something wrong with yr caps lock there bud..... I think yr getting yr movies confused with yr father ted !!! Was there a bloke with a tache ,and a tool box in it ?? Def f ted .....

    Slava ukraini 🇺🇦



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,493 ✭✭✭DazMarz


    Markcheese wrote: »
    Jeez you don't get out much even my 3 year old know "Luke ccchhh I am your father ccchh"( but he IS a starwars Lego nut)

    I know, but just to be sure... I can't think of anyone who doesn't know it by now. But you just never know... :o


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