Ohmigod, you guys! Can you believe that [redacted] and [redacted] got killed off in that big movie in theaters this week? Spoiler Alert: This week’s Roundtable is about other character deaths we did not see coming.
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Needless to say, we’re giving away some big plot twists here. If you haven’t seen some of these movies (or one TV show), you might want to scan through the highlighted titles before reading too closely.<\/p>\n
For those who have seen the original 2002 Hong Kong film ‘Infernal Affairs’, there may not have been any surprises in Martin Scorsese’s 2006 adaptation, ‘The Departed<\/a>‘. Going into it blind, however, the final act of the film came as a total shocker to me.<\/p>\n I ate up everything about ‘The Departed’. It was the first Scorsese film that really resonated with me. As I watched it in the theater for the first time, I soaked it in. The cast, script, plot, editing and music harmoniously worked together to make a flawless product. The farther I got into the film, the more tense I became. Few movies have made me want to see justice served more than this one, so when deep undercover cop Billy Costigan (Leonardo DiCaprio) finally nabs the crime lord’s mole, Colin Sullivan (Matt Damon), an audible “Yeah!” probably escaped my mouth. But shock filled me the second the elevator doors opened and DiCaprio’s brains were splattered on the wall behind him.<\/p>\n What an amazing twist! It’s rare to see one of a movie’s lead actors knocked off in the end, paving way for the bad guy to win. Another twist changes everything again, but what a shocker when the screwed-over good guy dies so quickly, bluntly and without a chance.<\/p>\n Immediately, my first instinct for this topic was the Red Wedding in Season 3 of ‘Game of Thrones<\/a>‘. Nothing has ever made me scream at my television set like I did that night. This was the same year I finally purchased a monthly subscription to HBO Now specifically for the show. My normal habit is waiting for the Blu-ray release of a season, but by that point, I was completely absorbed with the world of Westeros and its politics. Like many, I was definitely House Stark by the end of Season 2, so entering the third season, I was flying the Stark banner high. Everything was going great for the family with little sprinkles of hope throughout, but then suddenly, out of nowhere, a wedding performed for establishing peace \u2013 and a smart war strategy \u2013 rapidly shifts to disaster and one of the most emotionally draining episodes of not only the series but arguably of all television! I was left in such shock, it actually took me several hours to process the whole thing and finally accept that absolutely no one is safe on this show.<\/p>\nM. Enois Duarte<\/span><\/h3>\n
Adam Tyner (DVDTalk<\/a>)<\/span><\/h3>\n