@@superlive98 i do to think it's the tone of "the departed" that feels more unexpexted than "infernal affairs". But the ending of "infernal affairs" had a more philosophical approach than "the departed. I really do dig "the departed" as entertainment but honestly it isn't scorcese "back in form" for me. To me he never lost his "form". He's more than gangster movies.
that sheer brutality of it is worth a mention...I dont even know if the implication is ever anything less than Weller becoming robocop. For the uninitiated though who dont know the two are one in the same its no doubt horrifying.
It got even worse when I learned as an adult that they actually chained the horse to a platform which was then lowered into the water, and that the poor animal must have been absolutely terrified.
The Bambi's mother sequence is so well written that everyone feels like they saw Bambi's mother die, without actually having seen it. That's how to tell a story.
"you arent gonna fucking kill me are you? please dont kill me." Leo "i am killing you." leo gets killed 2 seconds later somthing about how it played out felt special to me
It was the same as the Chinese version Infernal Affairs so I saw it coming if I hadn't seen the Chinese version it would have shocked me, Infernal Affairs did shock me though.
The Sam Jackson one in Deep Blue Sea was the best. It was like if Bill Pullman had gotten killed during his big speech in Independence Day. It was so out of left field and it's the one moment of the film I even remember.
Roddy Piper dying at the very end of They Live caught me by a surprise because I was a kid back then and didn't know it was possible for a hero to die in a movie.
To be fair - Craven did the exact same thing with the original Nightmare on Elm Street. It's set up as if Tina will be the lead, then she is killed off and Nancy takes over.
Wes Craven, no. It was Drew Barrymore's idea according to some trivia stuff. She had to drop off for some other schedule, she gave an idea of her dying in the beginning, Wes Craven liked the idea, so that's what we got.
The only deaths (funny actually) that caught me off guard were in The Other Guys when Dwayne and Samual jumped off the building to their deaths. And I was like "what da fuck?!?" Kind of like a Biff Tanner moment when Marty jumps off his building LOL> 😂😂
Thomas getting shot in "The Patriot" is still shocking to me. Gabriel also dies later in the film, but you can kind of see that coming. Watching a young boy get shot by a British officer is just heart-wrenching, and it really makes the villain's death pay off in the end.
That movie had quite a few shocking deaths:( I did really feel awful for Thomas though. I’m so glad the father didn’t die at the end, that would have been too much to bear lol
The ending scene in The Mist (2007) when Thomas Jane has to kill his family and friends for fear of not suffering gruesome deaths at the hands of the monsters and the mist. I totally didn't see that coming. In Wrong Turn 2, I think, there was this girl who was supposed to have been the heroine. Gets an axe in the face. Somewhat unexpectedly. The same happens in Red State. After the guy who was supposed to have been the hero finally escapes the house, gets shot by a police officer. Edit: Yes, the Final Destination series is a complete fest of expected deaths in unexpected ways. That goes double for The Cabin In The Woods, but that's intentional satire.
Funny thing is, in the real ending of The Mist - after killing his entire family to protect them the sounds he hears are actually the military coming to help fight the aliens/monsters. He did it all for naught - makes it even more heart wrenching.
Killing Bryan Cranston that early was as effective to improve a monster movie as ignoring Godzilla and giving the humans all attention and adding a romantic subplot. Wait...
my favorite was the Steven Segall death in Executive Decision. The story goes that Segall insists his character *survives* falling of that airlock between the two planes with no parachute....... Worse, there are theories that Segall was supposed to have a bigger role and instead got killed off because he's a big egotistical jerk.
There’s actually a great story floating around out there they tried to pitch- he is a total douche so it didn’t fly. His “death” is planned- he is picked up by a clandestine submarine , it becomes a franchise where you get the Jack Ryan pencil pusher archetype buddy cops the operative who is supposed to be dead.
This was fantastic, I remember as a kid looking at him get swiped away as the airlock fails and being like "uhhh... how's... he going to come back" HE FUCKING DOESN'T KIDDO
John Travolta getting shot in "Pulp Fiction", mainly due to how sudden it is, as well as the film's nonlinear narrative showing him still alive at the end. Like, you know that he's gonna get shot by Bruce Willis later, but it ends earlier in the timeline when he's alive and well.
Dude that was an epic death scene especially after Willis kills him and sees him dead and bloody in the bathtub. When the alarm goes off after he kills him my mother actually thought that was the alarm in our house that went off and I said "No I'm watching Pulp Fiction." Then she said "Oh okay."
I came here to post this. Saw this movie in the theater with my friends and when he just flew away we all were like, what the f.....then started laughing.
I came to the comments to say exactly this. Surely in the top 5 surprising movie deaths. I mean, Seagal is a bit of a... kook these days, but at the time he was up there with Van Damme as a star. Not quite Stallone or Schwartzenegger, but not far off.
On the movie Happy Gilmore when Chubbs Peterson( Carl Weathers) dies when he fell out the window after seeing that Happy cut off the head of the alligator that bit his hand off lol
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I loved how George Romero once responded to the question of killing Duane Jones at the end. They simply said to him " no comfort what so ever huh?" And George replied " there's always the refreshment stand" lol cold
Wash from Serenity was a shocker. It was sudden, unceremonious, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it was added at the last second due to Alan Tudyk wanting out ala Johnny from MK: Annihilation
Megatron: "really Dinobot, a stick? Against a transmetal? I think not. Really, what are you going to do? Dinobot slamming the stick into a sharp rock making a hammer: "Improvise" **proceeds to beat the living shit out of Transmetal Megatron**
The one that that threw me off was Robert Muldoon Jurassic Park. This guy knew what the Raptors were all about, yet he gets out flanked. I always thought that was a cheap shot.
Samuel L Jackson's freaked me out more as a kid. Or... maybe he's fine and just wandering around the island without an arm. ....why couldn't that have been the plot of Jurassic World?
@@repaleonhalo9754 How is that obvious. You never heard the old saying "One shot, One Kill."? Had he anticipated what Grant theorized to have been possible from the get go, he'd only need 3. One for each Raptor.
I feel like the entire ending sequence of Escape from New York could fit here for sure. That absolutely stunned me with how suddenly it all happens! I think movie deaths as a motive are good, but I think it's kind of overused to make an underdeveloped female character die just to motivate a male character. I think there are more creative motives that don't require a "violence towards the damsel in distress" approach. With Escape from NY in mind, Kurt Russell's most famous roles (EFNY, Big Trouble, and The Thing), we see very self-centered motives that honestly work super well, as well as pure survival. Maybe it's more difficult to work with simpler motives, but I think sticking with basics is a great way to build something more meaningful.
That was one of those movies as a id that hits ya in the balls with a brick of emotion, and a total WTF?!?! I thought we where getting a fill good period piece like the Sand Lot, or something.
All he needed was damn hornet spray! Why the fuck did he not ask an adult for help? Hes like 6? I wasnt even allowed to run around like that till I was like 12.
"When I hear the mother screaming it makes me sick" Shit, just *thinking* about the scene gave me goosebumps. Hereditary was great in communicating dread and *real* horror
Keith David in They Live caught me off guard. Se7en "What's in the box!" DiCaprio in The Departed. The main antagonist in the 1990 Night of the Living Dead (not the zombies), he deserved it after what he done, but I was equally surprised he was still alive before he got shot
@@Ravathiel TBF thought, the ending of T2 felt like It was all over, like literally the end of a war. But sadly a soldier never rests - or SHOULD for the sake of your mind and health but with Care, you can't ever be naive even after the end of a war -
Makes you wonder if the crazy religious lady was right. Or more likely, there's no rhyme or reason to the universe and the protagonist is just a victim of circumstance. I guess the moral of the story is life has no meaning and it's full of suffering. That, or don't give up hope and keep on surviving. Why not both.
@@kingdavid7516 It's very obviously the latter... no one seems to realize that it was set up in the movie as having been the military's fault and that it's the military rolling through and fixing it at the end... The crazy religious lady wasn't right.
I loved that part (Jurassic World). It was a vicious and horrifying death scene in a movie that otherwise I felt was lacking in genuine horror or suspense.
I didn’t expect that either, given that it suddenly propelled the film into alternate timeline territory, but I can’t say it wasn’t hilarious. The fact that they keep shooting his body after it hits the ground and it kind of moves across the floor with the impact always kills me
Oh boy, I was 11 yrs old, snuck in the movie Alien... When Kane chest blew up, and the alien growled and slithered off, that haunted me my whole life... Horror fan forever!!!! This is my ultimate unexpected death!!!!
Billy Costigan Jr in the elevator from The Departed. That honked me off. Also Kurt Russell's character in The Hateful Eight along with Dr.Schultz and Vince Vega in other Tarrantino flicks
Yep. I used to piss of a work friend who still is a Steven Seagal fan. I say to him. My favourite Steven Seagal film is (he got really interested what I had to say) Executive Decision. He got really annoyed 😂
The movie saving private Ryan, I always watched movies with Vin Diesel and never saw him die until I watched this. And the saddest was the death of Miller, was one of the few things that made me cry almost out loud.
If you knew about the real-life story of Patch Adams than that death scene would feel more cheep since his friend was a guy and was murdered at a diffrent point in his life
In the past comedy movies and episodes of comedy TV shows could have a serious story and serious and emotional scenes and did not need to be funny all the time like most western comedy stuff nowadays. Comedy animes are still that way.
Will Smith: I Am Legend. And now I must protect your life by blowing myself up with this grenade and destroying a handful of zombo-vampires. Woman: Uhh, it's a grenade. You could just thro-- Will Smith: Too late I'm sad! I guess you'll have to rent the DVD to see me again! YhaHhH. AhH that's hot! I'm burning! YhAaH.
Another fun one is The Perfect Storm when the boat's going up the huge wave and you're like, "they're gonna make it, they're gonna make it!" Then, the wave's like: "I'm gonna ruin this whole fisherman's career".
I was a little younger when it released, but lots of people were surprised by Drew Barrymore in Scream. at the time of "Screams" release, she was arguably the biggest name in the movie; and they even went as far as to feature her on the movie's poster just to catch people off guard.
When I was a kid my mom put on this movie I think it was called "Ring of Bright Water", and it seemed like a children's movie about a man that finds an otter and it becomes like a pet, it was mostly cheerful but then at the very end this guy with an ax pops out of nowhere and chops off the otters head; I freaked out at the time and we didn't want it anymore so we gave the tape away to our neighbors lol
We had to watch that movie in school, 3/4 grade...I think my teacher was just a sadistic sob. The Red Pony; Where the Red fern grows...**** you for my messed-up childhood Mr. Thomas!!!
@@spacedinosaur8733 I grew up in the 1970's and 80's. All the books you had to read in school were of that type. We were being raised to psychologically cope with existing in a dystopian Mad Max future.
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one of the most memorable movie deaths for me, is Little Foot's Mother in the land before time
James, they killed John Connor to end the Patriarchy.
Can nerd review hot wheels turbo racing and hot wheels beat that?
I can't believe you missed the opportunity to get killed out of nowhere mid sentence at the end of the video.
I was expecting that too 😂
If you expected it it wouldn’t have been unexpected.
subverting audience expectations is a bitch sometimes isn't it?
That was unexpected.
🤣🤣🤣
The elevator scene near the end of The Departed sure surprised me.
I saw that in the theater and there were gasps and one woman cried out! I was shocked as well
Like James said he could have kept going, but that one makes my top 3. I hadn't seen Infernal Affairs yet.
The same thing happened in the original Hong Kong version, so I was not the least bit surprised.
@@superlive98 i do to think it's the tone of "the departed" that feels more unexpexted than "infernal affairs". But the ending of "infernal affairs" had a more philosophical approach than "the departed. I really do dig "the departed" as entertainment but honestly it isn't scorcese "back in form" for me. To me he never lost his "form". He's more than gangster movies.
Exactly!!
Robocop. When Peter Weller gets murdered at the start it's so horrific it actually caught me off guard.
that sheer brutality of it is worth a mention...I dont even know if the implication is ever anything less than Weller becoming robocop. For the uninitiated though who dont know the two are one in the same its no doubt horrifying.
I didn't even realize that there was an uncut version of that death scene until a year or so ago. It's REALLY graphic.
Came here to post exactly this
The narrator in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
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Don't forget the animator who died of a heart attack.
That was a very fortuitous death for our heroes, Amit
@@Sugarman96 One of the best parts of the movie for sure
Ah Monty Python! So nice....
John Travolta's character getting killed off by Bruce Willis in Pulp Fiction was unexpected.
That's a good one. Surprised the shit out of me.
I thought Marvin's death was the most unexpected.
Atreyu's horse Artax in The Neverending Story. It was one of the most traumatizing scenes as a kid.
No, don't remind me 😟
Does that count? He gets better.
Two Socks in Dances with Wolfs 1990
It got even worse when I learned as an adult that they actually chained the horse to a platform which was then lowered into the water, and that the poor animal must have been absolutely terrified.
If that didn't make a person cry as a kid, I don't want to know that person.
The Bambi's mother sequence is so well written that everyone feels like they saw Bambi's mother die, without actually having seen it. That's how to tell a story.
Very true! They sure don't make em like that anymore
Bryan Cranston's death in Godzilla really did sting. I feel he was the only one putting real effort into his role.
Hey, Ken Watanabe was a great character too!
And then the son takes over....but knows or cares nothing about his father's work. Great.
Too bad his son had no personality whatsoever
the toho novies are better humanwise imho.
It'd have had more impact if it weren't so closely followed by MUTO doing ballet all over the city
Leonardo DiCaprio in "The Departed" - probably, my #1
"you arent gonna fucking kill me are you? please dont kill me."
Leo "i am killing you."
leo gets killed 2 seconds later
somthing about how it played out felt special to me
Who's character was it that got shot in the elevator at the end.
This is the one I thought of when I saw the title. I had to go back and watch the scene again immediately. I couldn’t believe what had just happened
It was the same as the Chinese version Infernal Affairs so I saw it coming if I hadn't seen the Chinese version it would have shocked me, Infernal Affairs did shock me though.
My mouth literally dropped from that. I specifically remember sitting in my living room and noticing that my mouth was hanging open a minute after lol
The Sam Jackson one in Deep Blue Sea was the best. It was like if Bill Pullman had gotten killed during his big speech in Independence Day. It was so out of left field and it's the one moment of the film I even remember.
For me too, perfectly timed.
And it teach me one thing about shark films, if there's water, there's shark lol
I can't say the same about the CGI xD
Well he did confess to murdering 2 people before the shark got him
Bill Pulman died in the sequel
Macaulay Culkin's character in "My Girl" was extremely unexpected. That's a one time watch movie for me.
Still deathly afraid of bees to this day.
“He can’t see without his glasses!” 😭😭😭😭
Wasn't expecting much from that movie since I haven't heard much about but I was stunned by how good it was
@@TravisAlanHall I just said the same thing I didn't read yours it's funny that it affected so many people the same way
You nailed it. I was thinking the same movie.
Roddy Piper dying at the very end of They Live caught me by a surprise because I was a kid back then and didn't know it was possible for a hero to die in a movie.
what about poor Keith David?!
@@edwarddore7617 The damsel in distress shot him in the head.
no, I meant how sudden, unexpected, and sad it was the way Keith's character died
he was also one of the heroes
Drew Barrymore in Scream...you think a well know actress would be the “end girl” but Wes craven had other ideas to throw the audience off
To be fair - Craven did the exact same thing with the original Nightmare on Elm Street. It's set up as if Tina will be the lead, then she is killed off and Nancy takes over.
@@BobbyBriscoeBeats True, but Barrymore was on the poster, whereas Tina wasn't for Elm Street's (I think).
That opening scene, man
It has to draw inspiration from Pyscho though right?
Wes Craven, no. It was Drew Barrymore's idea according to some trivia stuff. She had to drop off for some other schedule, she gave an idea of her dying in the beginning, Wes Craven liked the idea, so that's what we got.
The followup to this video: Expected Deaths - The Filmography of Sean Bean.
Percy Jackson movie, he’s Zeus the exception
Also add Al Leong
And Michael Biehn
I would have expected him to die in Ronin but they let him off.
Whenever he survives is more shocking.
The only deaths (funny actually) that caught me off guard were in The Other Guys when Dwayne and Samual jumped off the building to their deaths. And I was like "what da fuck?!?"
Kind of like a Biff Tanner moment when Marty jumps off his building LOL> 😂😂
CanadaBud23 aim for the bushes
Biff Tannen
@@Lamtitude
And Samuel
The "hero" in feast was funny as well.
This is the one I thought of also, caught me off guard and had me rolling for a long time.
The Departed, Leo's character is killed literally out of nowhere!
I was going to comment the same thing. Definitely the most unexpected death in my books.
The end of the entire movie is just a bunch of unexpected deaths. It's amazing. Mark Wahlberg is oddly the best character in the movie though.
Marvin - Pulp Fiction back of the car
Weren't they talking about hamburgers?
Also one of the funniest scenes ever.
"Just take it to a friendly place."
Agree with this ... I was looking at it it like "what just happened?"
Fun fact: speed bumps claim more lives than they save.
Actually, I'm surprised that one isn't on this list. Same with Vince Vega's death. That would have been a two-fer.
Thomas getting shot in "The Patriot" is still shocking to me. Gabriel also dies later in the film, but you can kind of see that coming. Watching a young boy get shot by a British officer is just heart-wrenching, and it really makes the villain's death pay off in the end.
The torching of the church, and thereby killing the love interest, her parents, and the villagers was pretty surprising.
That movie had quite a few shocking deaths:( I did really feel awful for Thomas though. I’m so glad the father didn’t die at the end, that would have been too much to bear lol
Leo DiCaprio in the departed. Shocked me. Also Justin long’s death in jeepers creepers scarred me.
Artax the horse from Neverending story. The horse lets himself sink and drown in mud because he’s overwhelmed with sadness. WHY ARTAX!?!
Haunts me to this day
Nooo don't remind me this.
He comes back to life in the end.
Oh you had to put this back into my head! I can literally see it as clear as day right now. 😢
He was tired of being used as transport. Who cares, make him into never ending glue now.
The ending scene in The Mist (2007) when Thomas Jane has to kill his family and friends for fear of not suffering gruesome deaths at the hands of the monsters and the mist. I totally didn't see that coming.
In Wrong Turn 2, I think, there was this girl who was supposed to have been the heroine. Gets an axe in the face. Somewhat unexpectedly.
The same happens in Red State. After the guy who was supposed to have been the hero finally escapes the house, gets shot by a police officer.
Edit: Yes, the Final Destination series is a complete fest of expected deaths in unexpected ways. That goes double for The Cabin In The Woods, but that's intentional satire.
Funny thing is, in the real ending of The Mist - after killing his entire family to protect them the sounds he hears are actually the military coming to help fight the aliens/monsters. He did it all for naught - makes it even more heart wrenching.
@@ia5662 That ending made me sick
The Rock and Samuel L Jackson in the other guys, when they died right at the beginning.
Adrian being dead at the beginning of Rocky Balboa
Aim for the bushes 🤜 🤛
THERE GOES MY HERO
"We aim for the bushes" hahahaha!!!!
That shit was hilarious!
RIP Adrian
Nancy dying in A Nightmare of Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors was a big surprise. Honestly, so was the death of her dad in that movie.
I forgot about this, but just thinking about it gave me flashbacks!
broke my heart.
My mother cried..
John Travolta getting gunned down when he exits the bathroom in Pulp Fiction caught me off guard.
Part 2: unexpected survivals. ;)
That list will be filled with Sean Bean.
Part 3: unfortunate survivals
The clown in billy madison!
Idelacio kenny in the walking dead season 2
Not a movie, but Wedge and Biggs in the FF7 Remake.
The X-Force gang in Deadpool 2 after jumping out of the plane! WTF dude lol
Killing Bryan Cranston that early was as effective to improve a monster movie as ignoring Godzilla and giving the humans all attention and adding a romantic subplot.
Wait...
You act like all the other Godzilla films before it didn't also focus on the humans heavily over the big guy.
my favorite was the Steven Segall death in Executive Decision. The story goes that Segall insists his character *survives* falling of that airlock between the two planes with no parachute....... Worse, there are theories that Segall was supposed to have a bigger role and instead got killed off because he's a big egotistical jerk.
Was looking for this, this is by far the most surprising deaths of all time for me.
I just posted this too. I thought it was going to be another Seagal hero movie like Under Siege.
There’s actually a great story floating around out there they tried to pitch- he is a total douche so it didn’t fly.
His “death” is planned- he is picked up by a clandestine submarine , it becomes a franchise where you get the Jack Ryan pencil pusher archetype buddy cops the operative who is supposed to be dead.
This was fantastic, I remember as a kid looking at him get swiped away as the airlock fails and being like "uhhh... how's... he going to come back"
HE FUCKING DOESN'T KIDDO
I’m glad we’re all still mad at the Godzilla movie for killing Bryan Cranston.
IM more angry at the movie for killing the godzilla franchise.
i'm sure toho will deliver again someday.
Wash’s death in Serenity. The shock of it and the fact the film rushes away so you don’t even have time to process it.
I was checking the comments to find this. One of the most unexpected deaths I've ever seen in a movie.
@@Chishannicon that was BS.
It felt so shoehorned in.
He gets Whedon’d harder than anyone
I liked Creepshow 2 "The Raft" when the final guy looks back with a cheer of triumph as outswimming the tar. Then...
Just watched that again, good times
That bowling pin sound when dudes leg breaks getting pulled through the raft kills me🤣🤣🤣🤣
am i the only one who remembers darry’s death in jeepers creepers and how utterly surprised i was when it happened
@@burrito4614 came here to post this as well. Awesome reveal as well. Even the music choice was spot on.
I remember that lol
Wilson from Castaway, the most emotional inanimate object death in cinema.
I wouldn't say it was unexpected. Can you imagine trying to get through customs with that thing?
Wait, Wilson dies? He just floated away, right? RIGHT?
John Travolta getting shot in "Pulp Fiction", mainly due to how sudden it is, as well as the film's nonlinear narrative showing him still alive at the end. Like, you know that he's gonna get shot by Bruce Willis later, but it ends earlier in the timeline when he's alive and well.
Dude that was an epic death scene especially after Willis kills him and sees him dead and bloody in the bathtub. When the alarm goes off after he kills him my mother actually thought that was the alarm in our house that went off and I said "No I'm watching Pulp Fiction." Then she said "Oh okay."
There's another sudden death in that one too. When they accidentally kill that dude they're holding
That was hilarious
Executive Decision: Steven Segall dies before he can even on the plane.
Poor bastard never had a chance
was certain this would get a mention. :)
Agree with this...somehow made the movie better!
My theater literally started clapping when that happened, lol.
I came here to post this. Saw this movie in the theater with my friends and when he just flew away we all were like, what the f.....then started laughing.
"Once you know these deaths, you can never unknow them." You have far greater faith in my memory than it deserves.
When Steve Coogan stepped on that landmine in Tropic Thunder was pretty unexpected.
i laughed my ass off that scene
Steven Seagal in Executive Decision. That one threw me off, I didn’t see that one coming.
The reason I watch the movie because Steven Seagal
That's the example in my head when I saw the video title. I still like that movie, but that death really surprised me in the theatre.
Just wrote about that. +1
I came to the comments to say exactly this. Surely in the top 5 surprising movie deaths. I mean, Seagal is a bit of a... kook these days, but at the time he was up there with Van Damme as a star. Not quite Stallone or Schwartzenegger, but not far off.
Maybe they were not paying Seagal enough money so he dropped out early.
Mac’s death in My Girl still gets me till this day. Never saw that coming.
I know quite a few were shocked that Drew Barrymore got killed right at the beginning of Scream.
That was actually a tribute itself to psycho. The way they touted Drew Barrymore being in the film then killing her off right away
I was expecting to find this one in video.
On the movie Happy Gilmore when Chubbs Peterson( Carl Weathers) dies when he fell out the window after seeing that Happy cut off the head of the alligator that bit his hand off lol
From dusk till dawn. The whole last act killing almost everyone. And you know, vampires.
The son's death got to me yo :(
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I loved how George Romero once responded to the question of killing Duane Jones at the end. They simply said to him " no comfort what so ever huh?" And George replied " there's always the refreshment stand" lol cold
That ending was messed up, I figured the main character would of lived.
That was one of the only movie scenes that ever really shook me.
I like that response
10 Cloverfield Lane absolutely startled the hell out of me when Emmett gets shot. Comes out of nowhere
Wash from Serenity was a shocker.
It was sudden, unceremonious, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it was added at the last second due to Alan Tudyk wanting out ala Johnny from MK: Annihilation
Dinobot's last stand and defeat in Beast Wars had me shook as a kid.
OMG so many feels on that one.
That scene was almost as sad as Optimus Prime's death in the 86 movie.
The transformers movie destroyed me as a kid
Megatron: "really Dinobot, a stick? Against a transmetal? I think not. Really, what are you going to do?
Dinobot slamming the stick into a sharp rock making a hammer: "Improvise" **proceeds to beat the living shit out of Transmetal Megatron**
Sadder than Optimus Primes death IMO, Dinobot is my favorite transformer ever! He basically saved humanity!
Uncut Gems - Howard (Adam Sandler)
The Departed - Billy (Leonardo DiCaprio)
Se7en - Tracy (Gwyneth Paltrow)
When Liberty died in Star Wars it was truly shocking.
It made me hate thunderous applause even more. Hoooly hell.
Who?
Who is liberty
Least known "Star Wars caharacter"...Liberty
@@benderbendingrodriguez420 thats not how r/whoosh works dude
The Other Guys
"Aim for the bushes!"
Poor Samuel L.
Any Tarantino movie has unexpected character deaths, especially in Pulp Fiction.
Leo in the Departed. You heard gasps from the audience in the theatre. I remember thinking: “wait... huh?”
I was going to mention this one too. The only way his death would be expected is if you had already seen Infernal Affairs.
The one that that threw me off was Robert Muldoon Jurassic Park. This guy knew what the Raptors were all about, yet he gets out flanked. I always thought that was a cheap shot.
Made a tad more cheap when you realise his character survived in the original book.
Or samuel l jackson, who you dont even see dying
Samuel L Jackson's freaked me out more as a kid. Or... maybe he's fine and just wandering around the island without an arm. ....why couldn't that have been the plot of Jurassic World?
Was obvious to me when he only grabbed 3 shotgun shells
@@repaleonhalo9754 How is that obvious. You never heard the old saying "One shot, One Kill."? Had he anticipated what Grant theorized to have been possible from the get go, he'd only need 3. One for each Raptor.
I feel like the entire ending sequence of Escape from New York could fit here for sure. That absolutely stunned me with how suddenly it all happens!
I think movie deaths as a motive are good, but I think it's kind of overused to make an underdeveloped female character die just to motivate a male character. I think there are more creative motives that don't require a "violence towards the damsel in distress" approach.
With Escape from NY in mind, Kurt Russell's most famous roles (EFNY, Big Trouble, and The Thing), we see very self-centered motives that honestly work super well, as well as pure survival. Maybe it's more difficult to work with simpler motives, but I think sticking with basics is a great way to build something more meaningful.
I'm a little surprised James didn't mention Newt and Hicks from Alien 3.
That one was a cheap and shitty death too. Really pissed me off watching Alien 3 right after Aliens lol
@@drunkswithguns4124 No. No death is "cheap" or "shitty"
@@Assassin199410 a lot of deaths are cheap and shitty. Hell look at the new last of us game. Every death in that game is cheap and shitty.
@@Assassin199410 I would argue that all deaths are shitty lol
They were killed off outside of the movie events. It's almost same but different.
Pulp fiction: Vincent is killed half way through the movie by butch
Good one !
This counts as unexpected, but you also see lot of Vincent after so it doesn't feel the same. Also shoutout to the Vincent bathroom motif
@@TheChilaxicle The movie is told in all off the different characters POV's
TheChilaxicle ye
But still no one expected him to get lit up everyone thought that Vincent would escape or something but o hell no
The movie death that caught me off guard was Steven Seagal in Executive Decision.
The only time it's happened
The guy taking out his trash in Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2.
@Mr. Faith LOL!!!
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It's because of that movie, that I'm always extra cautious when I take out my garbage.
The entire time I watched this I expected James to get eaten suddenly. I was so prepping myself for the jump scare that I disappointed myself, haha.
Here you see the power of imagination. Sometimes way better than a cgi monster popping up.
Lol, same.
would be a nice one for a mr bucket cameo
board james was pretty fucked up lol
Tom Skeritt in Alien. At the time of making Alien, he would have been the bigger star. In the credits his name is the top bill even.
Everyone thought he was the protagonist of the movie. It was brilliant storytelling.
Macaulay Culkin in My Girl. Saw that film when I was young and never saw that coming. It hit deep man..
That was one of those movies as a id that hits ya in the balls with a brick of emotion, and a total WTF?!?! I thought we where getting a fill good period piece like the Sand Lot, or something.
And he can't see without his glasses, where are his glasses?!
@@TdizzleM I'm still scared of bees.
All he needed was damn hornet spray! Why the fuck did he not ask an adult for help? Hes like 6? I wasnt even allowed to run around like that till I was like 12.
Just about to put that also leslie drowning in the bridge to terabithia also sad
"Characters work best when they're pissed off." Now, how would you know that?
"When I hear the mother screaming it makes me sick"
Shit, just *thinking* about the scene gave me goosebumps.
Hereditary was great in communicating dread and *real* horror
Leon in Leon: The Professional. Completely justified in the story, but I was not expecting it when it happened.
It was pretty expected since he is a mentor character. Those always die
"This is from Mathilda"
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Easy Rider, were two endings that I remember being shocked at the deaths when I watched them.
no one died in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
@@119Agent ? What do you mean? Remember the last scene? How can you forget that?
@@wyliesalimeno9602 He's also forgetting Billy's death.
Easy Rider was a bummer from beginning to end. Not knocking the movie, I'm certain that was on purpose.
When Bruce Willis died at the beginning of "The Sixth Sense."
Wait.
Oh man, now you ruined it for everyone!
Smh
Keith David in They Live caught me off guard.
Se7en "What's in the box!"
DiCaprio in The Departed.
The main antagonist in the 1990 Night of the Living Dead (not the zombies), he deserved it after what he done, but I was equally surprised he was still alive before he got shot
Finally someone said the departed. Wasn't there an actual public outcry to that?
This is the best comment I've seen so far! Finally someone who actually watched film's before the year 2000!
The death of Cinemassacre Rental Reviews was pretty unexpected, hard hitting, and undesirable for me... 😂
Me too!!! 😭
Where the dolph lundgren heman review they promised us?
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Ryan Reynolds in "LIFE" comes to mind.
Wasn't expecting him to die.
Wilson from Castaway.
WILSON!
I'M SORRY WILSON 😞☹️😔
@CSmiley It's Forest talking to Jenny's grave that gets me every time. Good ol Tom Hanks, what an actor
Terminator Dark Fate showed us that John Connor would have been safer had Sarah died of leukemia.
How's so...
Your avatar disturbs me, squider or spirrel, lol
Terminator Woke Fate*
@@Ravathiel TBF thought, the ending of T2 felt like It was all over, like literally the end of a war. But sadly a soldier never rests - or SHOULD for the sake of your mind and health but with Care, you can't ever be naive even after the end of a war -
Rocco's death in The Boondock Saints always gets me. He is such a lovable character in that movie
The ending of The Mist; excellent movie with an amazing shock final scene 😂
Makes you wonder if the crazy religious lady was right. Or more likely, there's no rhyme or reason to the universe and the protagonist is just a victim of circumstance. I guess the moral of the story is life has no meaning and it's full of suffering. That, or don't give up hope and keep on surviving. Why not both.
That movie made me feel depressed for days
@@SAMI83 that movie had me laughing for days!
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It's very obviously the latter... no one seems to realize that it was set up in the movie as having been the military's fault and that it's the military rolling through and fixing it at the end...
The crazy religious lady wasn't right.
Patches O'Houlihan in Dodgeball. That kinda came outta nowhere.
That one hit me right in the gut. I could dodge a wrench, I could dodge a ball, but I couldn't dodge the sadness losing Patches cause me. :(
Artax’s death in Neverending Story messed with me as a kid.
The nanny in Jurassic Park world still serves as the most unnecessary death I've seen in a film in years.
She didn't deserve to go like that. Evil vilians are supposed to die like that.
I don't remember a nanny dying in Jurassic Park
@@RallyLancer95 It happens in Jurassic World. They're talking about the lady who gets eaten by the mosasaur.
I loved that part (Jurassic World). It was a vicious and horrifying death scene in a movie that otherwise I felt was lacking in genuine horror or suspense.
You mean Jurassic World. And thats a shitty movie anyway.
The mother from the land before time broke me when I was a kid
Mother!!? Mother!??! Oh boy I hated that. The shadows on the rock wall. I always looked away
8 year old me wept like a baby in the movie theater when I saw that
TBH, I didn't expected the Hitler's death in inglorious bastards
The ending of once upon a time in hollywood was even more unexpected to me
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I didn’t expect that either, given that it suddenly propelled the film into alternate timeline territory, but I can’t say it wasn’t hilarious. The fact that they keep shooting his body after it hits the ground and it kind of moves across the floor with the impact always kills me
Dark fate was so bad that its blasphemy didnt really effect me, it was like watching some high budget fan fiction.
James Cameron co-signed it so not really fan-fic
@@Davidweedlove He co-signed Genesys too...
Oh boy, I was 11 yrs old, snuck in the movie Alien... When Kane chest blew up, and the alien growled and slithered off, that haunted me my whole life... Horror fan forever!!!! This is my ultimate unexpected death!!!!
I was 4 or 5 when i watched Alien. Great frightful experience for that age
Also how you thought that Tom Skerritt was going to be the hero of that film, and then he gets killed by a big hug.
@@nosoul28 the whole movie was scary AF... Lol
The Other Guys when Sam Jackson and The Rock fell to their deaths. I laughed so hard saying WTF just happened
aim for the bushes?
There goes my hero!!!!!
That seriously cracked me up!
James, I love how you advertise for your sponsors. Literally no other UA-camr I can think of puts in half the work you do. Bravo, man!
Agreed. The only other Tuber I can think of with the effort and I actually enjoy listening to their pitch is Whang!
Billy Costigan Jr in the elevator from The Departed. That honked me off. Also Kurt Russell's character in The Hateful Eight along with Dr.Schultz and Vince Vega in other Tarrantino flicks
Steven Seagal in Executive decision. I still know that movie as "The one where Steven Seagal dies"
That was the one I came in here to say
@@derrickguynn3032 Me too, might not seem like much now but it was the height of his career.
Yep. I used to piss of a work friend who still is a Steven Seagal fan. I say to him. My favourite Steven Seagal film is (he got really interested what I had to say) Executive Decision. He got really annoyed 😂
Yo is that the one where he gets blown out the airplane?
And Pistol whipped movie too... . Because , you know 😏😏😏
When he mentioned Samuel L Jackson in Deep Blue Sea I was thinking Dave Chappelle 🤣😂😅😂. James Rolfe did not disappoint......SALUTE
"They ate me! A fuckin shark ate me!"
You wanna talk Star Trek? Killing Data is something I never could've imagined
The movie saving private Ryan, I always watched movies with Vin Diesel and never saw him die until I watched this. And the saddest was the death of Miller, was one of the few things that made me cry almost out loud.
That "DUN!" when he falls on the piano. Fucking great cinematography.
I saw SPR in the theatre, and the lady next to me was WEEPING when Miller went
Chris Hemsworth in Cabin in the Woods caught me off guard. I laughed so much
James never stop doing what you love man. Your promo spots are somehow always just as good as the actual videos
Patch Adams. When his wife or girlfriend gets murdered. They billed the movie as a comedy. It was nothing like that.
If you knew about the real-life story of Patch Adams than that death scene would feel more cheep since his friend was a guy and was murdered at a diffrent point in his life
In the past comedy movies and episodes of comedy TV shows could have a serious story and serious and emotional scenes and did not need to be funny all the time like most western comedy stuff nowadays.
Comedy animes are still that way.
Last Boy Scout, “touch me again and I’ll kill you” even though he said and warned him, I didn’t see it coming.
The most traumatic for me was Littlefoots mom in The Land Before Time. I still can't watch it.
Will Smith: I Am Legend. And now I must protect your life by blowing myself up with this grenade and destroying a handful of zombo-vampires.
Woman: Uhh, it's a grenade. You could just thro--
Will Smith: Too late I'm sad! I guess you'll have to rent the DVD to see me again! YhaHhH. AhH that's hot! I'm burning! YhAaH.
Lol
The alternative ending was good too btw
The book was nice
Another fun one is The Perfect Storm when the boat's going up the huge wave and you're like, "they're gonna make it, they're gonna make it!" Then, the wave's like: "I'm gonna ruin this whole fisherman's career".
To be fair that movie is based on an actual event. That whole crew died in that storm.
I was a little younger when it released, but lots of people were surprised by Drew Barrymore in Scream. at the time of "Screams" release, she was arguably the biggest name in the movie; and they even went as far as to feature her on the movie's poster just to catch people off guard.
Night of the living dead death really pissed me off. He survived the whole night just to get shot.
The movie SUPER starring Rain Wilson had a death in the final act that took me by surprise.
When I was a kid my mom put on this movie I think it was called "Ring of Bright Water", and it seemed like a children's movie about a man that finds an otter and it becomes like a pet, it was mostly cheerful but then at the very end this guy with an ax pops out of nowhere and chops off the otters head; I freaked out at the time and we didn't want it anymore so we gave the tape away to our neighbors lol
okay it turns out it was a shovel and not an ax, that was just how I remembered it because the man was so violent
I saw that movie when I was 12 or so. I always wondered why the writer didn't just kill that farmer.
I mean, I would have.
We had to watch that movie in school, 3/4 grade...I think my teacher was just a sadistic sob. The Red Pony; Where the Red fern grows...**** you for my messed-up childhood Mr. Thomas!!!
That's friggin messed up! o.O Jeez
@@spacedinosaur8733 I grew up in the 1970's and 80's. All the books you had to read in school were of that type. We were being raised to psychologically cope with existing in a dystopian Mad Max future.
Most Shocking to me: Red Dawn when Patrick Swayze character gets killed without a buildup.
He dies? I didn’t get that
The end of Arlington Road has always stuck with me when it comes to unexpected death.