10 Biggest WTF Moments From This Year's Summer Films

The jaw-dropping moments that left audiences asking 'what the f**k!?'

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Marvel Studios

In a filmmaking world in which the marketing has become increasingly invasive and spoiler-heavy, there's nothing quite like a good old-fashioned WTF moment.

So many films play out in the most generic way possible, with hardly a single thing that wasn't either spoiled by the trailers or made blindingly obvious to audiences earlier in the film. Movies like Skyscraper or Life of the Party play out pretty much exactly as you'd expect them to after viewing one trailer.

Genuine shock is hard to come by these days, which is why its all the more important to honor those films that truly do deliver jaw-dropping moments that are either so out-of-left-field, so well done, or so truly terrible that they leave a genuine impact.

As the summer movie season of 2018 officially winds down and leaves us with little more than painfully predictable drivel to work with for the next few months, let's take a look back at its biggest such instances. From films that had us asking 'how the f**k did they do that?' to ones that had us asking 'why the f**k would they do that?', these are the biggest WTF moments of the summer.

10. Avengers: Infinity War - The Snap

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Marvel Studios

Even now, a mere four months removed from Avengers: Infinity War's theatrical release, it's easy to forget just what a visceral impact the ending had on first-time viewers.

Since then, time has passed and allowed a sense of ease to wash over audiences. Announcements have been made about future projects involving currently-deceased characters, like Spider-Man: Far From Home, and theorists have been hard at work cooking up dozens of different comic-accurate ways the dead could return.

But sitting there opening night, watching half of the Marvel universe and some of the most beloved characters of the last decade turn to dust had an unrelenting ferocity to it. While Marvel had certainly laid out several clues pointing towards this ending before release, such as Gamora referencing the snap in the last trailer, few believed Marvel would actually follow through. Even if Thanos did get to do the snap, good money was on the movie cutting to black and leaving it as a dangling cliffhanger.

But nope. Instead, Marvel went all-in, and gave audiences a three-minute sequence that felt much longer. The Russo's brave choice to forgo any kind of score during this sequence and to pair those dying up with those who it would impact the most (Bucky and Steve, Groot and Rocket, Spider-Man and Iron Man) made for a devastating ending.

 
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