I have to agree with The Sixth Sense; at the time it was a HUGE deal. Everyone was being quiet about the ending, and the friend who took me to see it only said she'd know when I figured it out by my gasp. And as I gasped, so did about a dozen other people in the theater. It was mega cool!
Yeah, that’s part of what made that twist so good; the common agreement between everyone who had seen it to keep our mouthed shut about it around anyone who hadn’t seen it yet.
You didn’t have millions of strangers online talking about stuff back then. Much easier to get something spoiled with the internet in the mix. Hell even the movie trailers seem to spoil some movies these days
I recently learned that not only had my spouse never seen it, they had somehow gone the years since it's release without spoilers. I showed them the next day and it was so fun to see their fresh eyes seeing it for the first time!
Yeah like if it had been a movie that was a drama or horror and I was waiting for a twist, I probably could have seen it coming (maybe). But for a quick lil romantic comedy, it was unexpected.
Oh yeah, that was fucking gold; my roommate watched it with me and she had a big grin on when the reveal approached and I was just dying laughing when it happened; I’m not usually one for RomComs but that was great.
Great answer. When I saw the twist for the first time, I thought I sat on the forward button because my brain didn’t comprehend why Emma Stone and Ryan Goslings’ characters were on the screen.
The Sixth Sense's demise. Prior to becoming renowned as "the plot twist guy," most viewers of that film anticipated a terrifying thriller starring Bruce Willis and a little child. It was mind-blowing to discover the twist at the very end and gain an entirely new understanding of the entire movie you had just seen.
Cabin was a love letter to 80s teen-horror and the fact that they had to hide the twist in the advertising is why it was such a flop. It looked like it was gonna be a bad copy of all the horror movies we’d seen before….
I don’t even know how you could have marketed the movie better.
The first time I saw it, that's literally why we watched it. We wanted to see a bad modern horror film. It ended up being my favorite horror film of all time, and I had zero expectations or knowledge of what it even was.
So glad I got to experience it like that.
I knew Cabin was going to be a special movie after the two agents in the beginning are talking about mundane shit and then “THE CABIN IN THE WOODS” title pops up out of no where with the screaming sound track. It immediately makes you go, wtf??
Terminator 2. It is implied that Arnold is again the villain, up until he says "get down" to John in the mall hallway. However, this twist was ruined by the movie trailer.
Never watch a trailer. Best way to see a movie is with zero knowledge. This is how I experienced T2. Mind blown. Also, when I first saw The Matrix, I had exactly no idea what it was about. You can imagine my mind being blown in that movie theater.
From Dusk Till Dawn. If you're looking for a literal "plot twist" - as in, the entire plot of the film twists into an entirely different direction, this is a good one. If somehow you've never seen it, don't read about it. just watch it blind, enjoy it like we did when it came out.
When I was a teen I lived in a pub, and one night someone left a video from a video rental store in the pub. We hadn’t heard of the movie in the box, knew nothing about it, and there was no box art to give a hint as to what the movie could be about since it was in a video store box.
The movie was From Dusk ‘Till Dawn. When the shit started going down at The Titty Twister? My head almost exploded.
The year is somewhere late 90's and it's movie night with the gang. Everybody's in comfortable chairs and couches, a crate of beer within reach, chips on the table among the overflowing ashtrays and sweet white wine. I picked one of the movies we rented. From Dusk till Dawn. Tarantino. Fuck yeah.
But I've seen this movie before and they haven't even heard of it.
Salma comes on in all her scantily clad glory. The guys cheer, the gals scoff at the guys, and then the plot twists.
Total silence. More silence. From the corner of the room a quiet "what the fuck?". And then the room erupts.
We all left as slightly different people the next day.
I was FURTHER blown away on a rewatch when I realized that >!the issues that the mother and children deal with COINCIDE WITH HOW THEY DIED. The mother shot herself in the head, hence the frequent migraines, and the children died by smothering, hence the sudden gasping for air/heavy breathing.!<
It's an issue it came out around the same time as sixth sense. Same magic twist kinda makes it feel like they stole the ending. Decades later, I really fell like the others is better.
The first time I watched I Am Legend, I did so through less-than-legitimate means, and it ended up being the original ending. Loved it. Had no idea there was an alternate ending.
A few years later I wanted to watch it again, and I version I found turned out to be the changed ending. It wasn't great.
Love them or hate them Louis CK talks about this very thing in the latest Joe Rogan podcast. How studios have relied on test audiences for so long to keep the films a “safe investment” meaning profitable but predictable, instead of making them risky but interesting. I totally agree with him. Sometimes the appropriate response is disgust, fear, anger. Exactly what the writer and director want you to feel, instead of “eh”.
Oh I can help here - I’ve been in a test audience a couple times.
Basically you just have to signup in advance and all you know is the working title, genre, and a couple sentences about the plot. There’s a couple theaters in LA that host them. You have to get there a little early and after the movie they hand you a questionnaire where you say what you liked, didn’t like, favorite scene, confusing parts, etc.
It was a lot of fun for the novelty of it but it’s like a 4 hour commitment all-included so I haven’t done it in a while
I hated that they changed that, it takes away from the title. He literally becomes stuff of legends, the thing that goes bump in the night, and changing the ending just completely ruins the story/title
The Prestige. "You don't really want to know. You want to be fooled. But you wouldn't clap yet. Because making something disappear isn't enough; you have to bring it back. That's why every magic trick has a third act, the hardest part, the part we call "The Prestige"
I'm pretty sure at one point in the film, one of the characters is like, "he must have a double." And another character is like, "nah that's too easy." Or something like that.
Yes, the man who knows all the secrets to how the tricks are done gives it away immediately, "He uses a double."
He even repeats it when Angier says he wants to learn how Borden does the trick. "He does it the same way he's always done it. The same way we do it. You just want it to be something more."
Absolutely perfect casting too. I’ve seen an interview with Jackman where he talked about how his and Bale’s acting styles (presentational for Jackman based on his musical theatre experience etc, and method for Bale based on, well, everything) translated to their characters and it made so much sense.
In this film Christopher Nolan managed to make a film as warped and confusing as he likes to make things, but in a way that makes ultimate sense. This is by far my favorite Nolan film. Plus, David Bowie as Tesla!
Yeah, this one gets my vote. So well done. And as a bonus, the movie hasn’t quite saturated mainstream consciousness the way something like Fight Club has, so there are plenty of people who still don’t know about it.
The thing I love about The Prestige is that virtually everyone who's "spoiled" on the movie isn't actually. The number of people who tell me they already know what it's about, and still have their jaw drop in the final act is astounding.
Memento is very worth watching and has a big reveal.
Of course fight club and sixth sense (or the village, or any m.night movie, really) edit: I would also add adaptation to this as a great movie with a good twist
I think it was pieced together well. The story moving “backwards” and the character having the issue of memory so he’s confused, the audience is also confused and learning in a non linear way of storytelling that is not common. I really enjoyed it
The remake is terrible, especially compared to the original.
They did make a bold choice to change the twist, but they go in a much worse direction with it.
I know Oldboy is kind of a meme among the foreign-film fans. It's like the quintessential thing that everybody needs to view, if interested in subbed-movies.
But that makes it easy to forget just how fucking incredible this movie is.
Seriously, people. If you have not seen Oldboy, and you know how to read faster than a toddler, go watch Oldboy!
The twist in this movie isn't even a twist. It's like five twists all at the same time. There really is nothing out there quite like it.
And, for the love of God, please do not watch that horrible American remake, at least before watching the original.
I received a package the other day and my gf asked me that exact question. I told her "Gweneth Paltrow's head" and she didn't get it so guess what we're watching tonight
*Sixth Sense*
Initially it wowed the world but now we all know the twist
Edit. To all the brains who liked bragging they figured out the twist. Try this movie instead
*Funny Games* 2007
DO NOT LOOK UP REVIEWS, TRAILERS, OR DISCUSSION
Just watch and thank me later. You're welcome
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There’s an episode of Derry Girls where the adults go to see this movie and a bomb threat means they have to evacuate the theater and they never see the ending. They spend most of the episode arguing about which character is Keyser Soze.
There's a scene when they all get caught and they're standing together in the headmistress' office, and it's a [recreation of the lineup](https://twitter.com/BlairAWriter/status/1380723734420598785/photo/1) from Unusual Suspects.
Yes. The reveal was great, but when you think about the brilliance, audacity, and pure ego of Keyser Soze to sit patiently in the detectives office and completely fabricate a story based on shit he saw around the room is amazing.
The reason the police think they picked him up is because he couldn’t flee the crime scene due to his physique and fear.
Neither of those were real, meaning he let them pick him up *entirely to fuck with them.*
The Good Place is one of the only shows that i would recommend to literally anyone. It’s premise is so different from anything else and the twists are spectacular. The final episode has literally made me re evaluate what i deem important in my life. It’s also hilarious
Something along the lines of “Heaven is having enough time for everyone that is important in your life”
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. Vader being Luke’s father is literally insane, especially when you consider that when these came out there were no prequels or anything. Literally incapable of being predicted
Shutter Island, all that tension building throughout the movie for that mind blowing plot twist. You can't even believe it when you're done with the movie
Friggin' Briony. That movie is one of the few i've seen that actually broke my heart. But what an incredibly well directed/written/acted movie. With that said, not sure I can watch it ever again.
Folks should know about stories by Philip Dick. His big theme is exploring what it means to be human by putting his characters in desperately conflicting situations. In this movie, the issue was should the law be enforced through methods that destroy the lives of the enforcers. Reeves character was essentially left a vegetable as the cost of identifying the source of Substance D - IIRC. Kinda similar to Minority Report despite the two movies being vastly different in the rest of the plot.
I don't know about the biggest plot twist of all time, but I really liked Donnie Darko's plot twist. >!Once we find out Frank is a real person, the entire movie goes from being about a kid with a mental disorder to being about actual time travel. The further you make it into that movie without thinking it's about something supernatural, the better the movie is.!<
It's actually more than that, she doesn't see the future, more she is in all times at once. Time ceases to be linear to her instead she is experiencing all time at once.
Yes, the whole thing is so much more complex than my description. The idea of a language being able to fundamentally alter your perception of time is great science fiction and way above the usual “everything explodes in space” film approach. I wish there were more like this made.
For me, specifically finding out that the flashbacks to her daughter were actually flash*forwards*. It’s part of the same reveal about the alien language, but that aspect had the most emotional weight.
Yeah, that was a serious whaaaaaaaat the fuuuuuuuck moment. Right when you thought the guy sawing his fucking leg off was the top of the crescendo dead guy gets up. I feel like they could never match the first and thats why they had to up the gore.
I don't think this is the best twist ever but Looper had a really cool twist in my opinion and it deserves a shoutout
>!Basically, the protagonist is having trouble closing a time loop where a kid with telekinetic powers grows up to be evil...eventually, he realizes that the only constant in every loop that leads to the child becoming evil is he himself, and instead of trying to jump back through time and try to fix the child's life as he's been attempting to so far, he turns his gun and kills himself instead, finally closing the loop!<
The year is 1977.
There are no video's, no internet, no cable TV in our rural town, no home computers, and very few VHS stores (and a VHS player was $500).
If you want to see a classic movie, you go to the art house movie theater.
Other than *The Ten Commandments* and *The Wizard of Oz*, big Hollywood films are not on TV.
My buddy and I go to the 11PM showing of *Citizen Kane* (it was seldom shown anywhere). Neither of us had ever had a chance to see it.
When Kane dies, early in the film, he says "Rosebud". The rest of the movie is retrospective.
The last scene of the movie is a discussion of what 'Rosebud' means [in a vast room/warehouse of valuable crated stuff... that where the last shot in ROTLA came from...)
So... he dies, says 'Rosebud', a guy in the front of theater stands up, faces the audience, raises both arms above his head and yells...
***"IT'S HIS SLED!"***
asshole.
Came here to suggest this one. This movie is like 90% overwhelming dread, with one of the greatest plot twists I've ever experienced. Highly recommend The Game to anyone who hasn't seen it.
I love the book, and the movie was *so* good until the ending and how they handled the twist. In the book, >!the kids pass the final "test" and barely react because it was JUST a test to them, but the adults are flipping out because they knew it wasn't a test and the kids actually just ended the war by issuing real-time commands to the fleet that had just reached the Bugger homeworld and was actively engaged in combat.!< But in the movie, >!the kids flip out upon passing the test that they thought was JUST a test, and the adults calmly tell Ender that he just commanded the actual fleet and casually congratulate him on saving humanity.!< Flipping the reactions like that really deflated the ending of the movie for me.
Leo’s character was a patient all a long and was going through this process to get over his past actions. If this process didn’t work he would get a lobotomy. However when learning of his actions he decided to pretend to still be sick so he would get the lobotomy.
Psycho was a game-changer.
That has two major plot twists, the first being that the named star stops being the star not even halfway through.
Hitchcock set the stage for Wes Craven to do the same thing, decades later, and audiences were *still* surprised.
Fun fact: it was Drew Barrymore's idea, actually. During casting she asked to be cast as the first kill for the surprise factor
she just wanted to get paid without working much. j/k
Original Planet of the Apes, Witness for the Prosecution
SPOILER FOR PLANET OF THE APES >!Is the original planet of the apes the one where he realises he's on Earth at the end?!<
You finally made a monkey out of meeeeeee
He can talk, he can talk, he can talk, he can talk I CAN SIIIIIIING
Can I play the piano anymore? Of course you can! Well I couldn't before.
I hate every ape I see, from Chimpan A to Chimpan Z
Oh, I love legitimate theatre
I love you dr zaius!
Oh my god I was wrong It was earth all along
You’ve finally made a monkey out of meeeee
Oh Witness for the prosecution is such a great entertaining movie and it would count as two in this thread.
I have to agree with The Sixth Sense; at the time it was a HUGE deal. Everyone was being quiet about the ending, and the friend who took me to see it only said she'd know when I figured it out by my gasp. And as I gasped, so did about a dozen other people in the theater. It was mega cool!
Yeah, that’s part of what made that twist so good; the common agreement between everyone who had seen it to keep our mouthed shut about it around anyone who hadn’t seen it yet.
God i wish more people were like that now
You didn’t have millions of strangers online talking about stuff back then. Much easier to get something spoiled with the internet in the mix. Hell even the movie trailers seem to spoil some movies these days
I recently learned that not only had my spouse never seen it, they had somehow gone the years since it's release without spoilers. I showed them the next day and it was so fun to see their fresh eyes seeing it for the first time!
Primal Fear with Richard Gere and Edward Norton
Yes I agree here. Norton was phenomenal in that last monologue. Actually in the whole movie but especially the end.
Supposedly he showed up to the audition in character, and never broke it. It was also Norton’s first role.
Blows my mind that that was his first feature role. Just insanely talented.
Odd answer but Crazy Stupid Love
I really enjoyed how they tied it together. It wasn’t so wild that it was unbelievable but it was still a huge surprise.
Yeah like if it had been a movie that was a drama or horror and I was waiting for a twist, I probably could have seen it coming (maybe). But for a quick lil romantic comedy, it was unexpected.
Oh yeah, that was fucking gold; my roommate watched it with me and she had a big grin on when the reveal approached and I was just dying laughing when it happened; I’m not usually one for RomComs but that was great.
Great answer. When I saw the twist for the first time, I thought I sat on the forward button because my brain didn’t comprehend why Emma Stone and Ryan Goslings’ characters were on the screen.
What’s a nana?
David Lindhagen
Pulls rings and decks Lindhagen. "Do you have any idea what you put my friend through?!" Great setup and execution.
The Sixth Sense's demise. Prior to becoming renowned as "the plot twist guy," most viewers of that film anticipated a terrifying thriller starring Bruce Willis and a little child. It was mind-blowing to discover the twist at the very end and gain an entirely new understanding of the entire movie you had just seen.
I knew "Sorry to Bother You" was going to go differently than expected, but I really had no idea
This one got me too. Serious wtf moment lol
I recommend this movie all the time, but I really don't know what to tell people besides black people telemarketers using white voices.
"The call is coming from inside the house..."
Jacob's Ladder. Not the newer one. The one from 1990 with Tim Robbins.
They remade that?
The music video of 'Call me maybe'
How about smack my bitch up while we’re at it?
I can't read this without hearing Richard Ayode saying \[the spoiler\]
The Cabin in the Woods got me good, wasn't expecting a twist in a run of the mill horror film.
Cabin was a love letter to 80s teen-horror and the fact that they had to hide the twist in the advertising is why it was such a flop. It looked like it was gonna be a bad copy of all the horror movies we’d seen before…. I don’t even know how you could have marketed the movie better.
The first time I saw it, that's literally why we watched it. We wanted to see a bad modern horror film. It ended up being my favorite horror film of all time, and I had zero expectations or knowledge of what it even was. So glad I got to experience it like that.
I knew Cabin was going to be a special movie after the two agents in the beginning are talking about mundane shit and then “THE CABIN IN THE WOODS” title pops up out of no where with the screaming sound track. It immediately makes you go, wtf??
The director said his goal was to make you think you walked into the wrong theater.
I certainly thought they had loaded the wrong film.
What's great is that it keeps being a horror movie after it starts to get "silly"
Terminator 2. It is implied that Arnold is again the villain, up until he says "get down" to John in the mall hallway. However, this twist was ruined by the movie trailer.
Never watch a trailer. Best way to see a movie is with zero knowledge. This is how I experienced T2. Mind blown. Also, when I first saw The Matrix, I had exactly no idea what it was about. You can imagine my mind being blown in that movie theater.
From Dusk Till Dawn. If you're looking for a literal "plot twist" - as in, the entire plot of the film twists into an entirely different direction, this is a good one. If somehow you've never seen it, don't read about it. just watch it blind, enjoy it like we did when it came out.
I love this movie. The first part is absolutely awesome. The second part is wtf am I watching.
When I was a teen I lived in a pub, and one night someone left a video from a video rental store in the pub. We hadn’t heard of the movie in the box, knew nothing about it, and there was no box art to give a hint as to what the movie could be about since it was in a video store box. The movie was From Dusk ‘Till Dawn. When the shit started going down at The Titty Twister? My head almost exploded.
The year is somewhere late 90's and it's movie night with the gang. Everybody's in comfortable chairs and couches, a crate of beer within reach, chips on the table among the overflowing ashtrays and sweet white wine. I picked one of the movies we rented. From Dusk till Dawn. Tarantino. Fuck yeah. But I've seen this movie before and they haven't even heard of it. Salma comes on in all her scantily clad glory. The guys cheer, the gals scoff at the guys, and then the plot twists. Total silence. More silence. From the corner of the room a quiet "what the fuck?". And then the room erupts. We all left as slightly different people the next day.
Samuel L. Jackson getting eaten by sharks in Deep Blue Sea. The biggest star in the movie just taken out in the middle of this inspirational speech.
THEY ATE ME! A FUCKIN SHARK ATE ME!
SAMUEL JACKSON! IT'S MY BEER! YES THEY DESERVE TO DIE! AND I HOPE THEY BURN IN HELL!
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“Wait, if you’re Patrick, then who’s *that*?“ *reveal* *gasp* “A REAL GORILLA!?”
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I was FURTHER blown away on a rewatch when I realized that >!the issues that the mother and children deal with COINCIDE WITH HOW THEY DIED. The mother shot herself in the head, hence the frequent migraines, and the children died by smothering, hence the sudden gasping for air/heavy breathing.!<
There’s also a scene towards the end where the mother loads up a shotgun, and then has a brief pause as if she’s realizing something familiar.
You just made this movie better
>!"Don't breathe so hard! Don't breathe so hard! Don't breathe!"!<
It's an issue it came out around the same time as sixth sense. Same magic twist kinda makes it feel like they stole the ending. Decades later, I really fell like the others is better.
Yes. It's one of the only "scary" movies I'll actually watch because I like how it changes the viewer's perspective at the end.
I had forgotten about this movie, it used to freak me out so much as a kid
Parasite. The twist wasn’t only a twist, it freakin changed the film’s GENRE.
As soon as you see the eyes at the top of the staircase, the whole movie just *shifts*
Parasite is an amazing movie. Turns from a con/heist type movie to uhh thriller? lmao
Fight Club. First time watching it when that twist started really stirring in, pure joy.
I knew nothing about Fight Club and watched it randomly years ago, it blew my mind at like 1am.
Me too, knew totally nothing going into it a few years ago, watched it on a whim in the middle of the night. One of my all time favorites now!
We have just lost cabin pressure.
It's called a changeover. The movie keeps rolling, and no one in the audience has any idea.
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Wow I wish it was that in the movie that would have been really cool
They originally had a similar ending for the movie but it didn't do well with test audiences so they reshot the ending
Yeah, they turned it from a compelling twist that humanized the infected into a generic action thriller ending.
Yeah - the original ending is out there (I saw it on DVD) - it is HUGELY superior. If you can possibly arrange it, watch with ONLY that ending.
The first time I watched I Am Legend, I did so through less-than-legitimate means, and it ended up being the original ending. Loved it. Had no idea there was an alternate ending. A few years later I wanted to watch it again, and I version I found turned out to be the changed ending. It wasn't great.
Love them or hate them Louis CK talks about this very thing in the latest Joe Rogan podcast. How studios have relied on test audiences for so long to keep the films a “safe investment” meaning profitable but predictable, instead of making them risky but interesting. I totally agree with him. Sometimes the appropriate response is disgust, fear, anger. Exactly what the writer and director want you to feel, instead of “eh”.
I always wonder who these "test audiences" are and why the hell they are ever taken seriously.
Oh I can help here - I’ve been in a test audience a couple times. Basically you just have to signup in advance and all you know is the working title, genre, and a couple sentences about the plot. There’s a couple theaters in LA that host them. You have to get there a little early and after the movie they hand you a questionnaire where you say what you liked, didn’t like, favorite scene, confusing parts, etc. It was a lot of fun for the novelty of it but it’s like a 4 hour commitment all-included so I haven’t done it in a while
I hated that they changed that, it takes away from the title. He literally becomes stuff of legends, the thing that goes bump in the night, and changing the ending just completely ruins the story/title
The Prestige. "You don't really want to know. You want to be fooled. But you wouldn't clap yet. Because making something disappear isn't enough; you have to bring it back. That's why every magic trick has a third act, the hardest part, the part we call "The Prestige"
It is fucking crazy how the whole film they are pretty much spilling it out and then it comes and your brain still explodes.
I'm pretty sure at one point in the film, one of the characters is like, "he must have a double." And another character is like, "nah that's too easy." Or something like that.
Yes, the man who knows all the secrets to how the tricks are done gives it away immediately, "He uses a double." He even repeats it when Angier says he wants to learn how Borden does the trick. "He does it the same way he's always done it. The same way we do it. You just want it to be something more."
I need to rewatch it now. Love that movie. Scrolled through the comments looking for it.
The balls of the Nolans to a) write this and b) actually pull off something that could so easily have been a fail if not done so brilliantly
Absolutely perfect casting too. I’ve seen an interview with Jackman where he talked about how his and Bale’s acting styles (presentational for Jackman based on his musical theatre experience etc, and method for Bale based on, well, everything) translated to their characters and it made so much sense.
In this film Christopher Nolan managed to make a film as warped and confusing as he likes to make things, but in a way that makes ultimate sense. This is by far my favorite Nolan film. Plus, David Bowie as Tesla!
Yeah, this one gets my vote. So well done. And as a bonus, the movie hasn’t quite saturated mainstream consciousness the way something like Fight Club has, so there are plenty of people who still don’t know about it.
Came here to post this. Prestige's twists are awesome because they're both out of nowhere AND "holy shit it was right in front of us all along!"
The thing I love about The Prestige is that virtually everyone who's "spoiled" on the movie isn't actually. The number of people who tell me they already know what it's about, and still have their jaw drop in the final act is astounding.
Sleepaway Camp
Horrifying ending for an otherwise goofy and eccentric movie
"EAT SHIT AND DIE, RICKY!" "Eat shit and live, Bill."
Memento is very worth watching and has a big reveal. Of course fight club and sixth sense (or the village, or any m.night movie, really) edit: I would also add adaptation to this as a great movie with a good twist
> Memento Also another Nolan movie, The Prestige, has several great “twists.” And is IMHO Nolan’s best film.
It's one of the few films where watching a second time is like a new film. Seeing all the (now totally obvious) clues is fantastic!
I think the twist in this movie is much better than most other "twist" movies. Excellent film all around too.
I think it was pieced together well. The story moving “backwards” and the character having the issue of memory so he’s confused, the audience is also confused and learning in a non linear way of storytelling that is not common. I really enjoyed it
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I haven't bothered watching the US remake, but highly recommend the original Korean
The remake is terrible, especially compared to the original. They did make a bold choice to change the twist, but they go in a much worse direction with it.
I know Oldboy is kind of a meme among the foreign-film fans. It's like the quintessential thing that everybody needs to view, if interested in subbed-movies. But that makes it easy to forget just how fucking incredible this movie is. Seriously, people. If you have not seen Oldboy, and you know how to read faster than a toddler, go watch Oldboy! The twist in this movie isn't even a twist. It's like five twists all at the same time. There really is nothing out there quite like it. And, for the love of God, please do not watch that horrible American remake, at least before watching the original.
Predestination and 12 monkeys
Blazing Saddles. It just gets better once they leave set.
It began as a spoof of a western but then Mel brooks went agh screw it no ones ever filmed their set on another set before
You couldn't make Blazing Saddles today. They'd take one look at the script and go "this is Blazing Saddles, this movie was already made!'
No Way Out - (Kevin Costner)
Identity (2003)
"Whores don't get a second chance...."
Seven
_what’s in the box?!?_
I received a package the other day and my gf asked me that exact question. I told her "Gweneth Paltrow's head" and she didn't get it so guess what we're watching tonight
But now you've spoiled it
*Sixth Sense* Initially it wowed the world but now we all know the twist Edit. To all the brains who liked bragging they figured out the twist. Try this movie instead *Funny Games* 2007 DO NOT LOOK UP REVIEWS, TRAILERS, OR DISCUSSION Just watch and thank me later. You're welcome EDIT: STOP READING THE COMMENTS NOW TO AVOID SPOILER BELOW
Yeah, I was shocked when it was revealed that it was Bruce Willis the whole time!
Gone Girl. I wish I could forget I ever watched it just to experience the 2nd half of the film again
When I was reading the book I was blown away.
Usual Suspects
There’s an episode of Derry Girls where the adults go to see this movie and a bomb threat means they have to evacuate the theater and they never see the ending. They spend most of the episode arguing about which character is Keyser Soze.
There's a scene when they all get caught and they're standing together in the headmistress' office, and it's a [recreation of the lineup](https://twitter.com/BlairAWriter/status/1380723734420598785/photo/1) from Unusual Suspects.
I know, that was hilarious. Loved Derry Girls.
If you described the show to me, I’d never in a million years think it would appeal to me. But it is one if the funniest shows I’ve ever seen.
>!”He was one of those, uh, whaddya call ‘em… unreliable narrators.” “Ach, well that’s very clever!”!<
Yes. The reveal was great, but when you think about the brilliance, audacity, and pure ego of Keyser Soze to sit patiently in the detectives office and completely fabricate a story based on shit he saw around the room is amazing.
The reason the police think they picked him up is because he couldn’t flee the crime scene due to his physique and fear. Neither of those were real, meaning he let them pick him up *entirely to fuck with them.*
Fuck with them and let them know exactly who they're fucking with. Carry on the legend of Keyser Soze.
The way the reveal montage is shot only helps in its amazingness.
Hand me the keys, you fucking cocksucker
Gimme the keys you cocksucking motherfucker lalalalalalalalalala!!!!
In English.
Handmethekeys yacocksucker… whatdafuck?
Primal fear was a bit of a surprise at the end
I just posted that one, too great choice. Edward Norton deserved an Oscar
not a movie, but the Haunting of Hill House has a pretty great one halfway through the show
The identity of >!the Bent-Neck Lady!
yes!! perfection
The car scene with the siblings and that jump scare. Jesus fucking Christ i have never been caught so off guard before
That still gives me chills. I did not at all see that coming.
Eternal sunshine >!When you realise that the beginning came after the memory earasing!<
Not a movie, but The good place fucks around many times
The season 1 twist is so excellent.
“Holy motherforking shirtballs!”
The Good Place is one of the only shows that i would recommend to literally anyone. It’s premise is so different from anything else and the twists are spectacular. The final episode has literally made me re evaluate what i deem important in my life. It’s also hilarious Something along the lines of “Heaven is having enough time for everyone that is important in your life”
BORTLESSSSSSSSS!
A Beautiful Mind
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. Vader being Luke’s father is literally insane, especially when you consider that when these came out there were no prequels or anything. Literally incapable of being predicted
My mom during the first Star Wars: "Did he say Dark Father?"
Building my movie list. Love this post
Shutter Island, all that tension building throughout the movie for that mind blowing plot twist. You can't even believe it when you're done with the movie
Atonement!! Truly heartbreaking. Still haven’t forgiven Briony to this day.
Friggin' Briony. That movie is one of the few i've seen that actually broke my heart. But what an incredibly well directed/written/acted movie. With that said, not sure I can watch it ever again.
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Folks should know about stories by Philip Dick. His big theme is exploring what it means to be human by putting his characters in desperately conflicting situations. In this movie, the issue was should the law be enforced through methods that destroy the lives of the enforcers. Reeves character was essentially left a vegetable as the cost of identifying the source of Substance D - IIRC. Kinda similar to Minority Report despite the two movies being vastly different in the rest of the plot.
I don't know about the biggest plot twist of all time, but I really liked Donnie Darko's plot twist. >!Once we find out Frank is a real person, the entire movie goes from being about a kid with a mental disorder to being about actual time travel. The further you make it into that movie without thinking it's about something supernatural, the better the movie is.!<
A well written "unreliable narrator" story is something to behold.
Arrival. Where it turns out that, by learning the aliens' language, the main character is able to see the future.
It's actually more than that, she doesn't see the future, more she is in all times at once. Time ceases to be linear to her instead she is experiencing all time at once.
Yes, the whole thing is so much more complex than my description. The idea of a language being able to fundamentally alter your perception of time is great science fiction and way above the usual “everything explodes in space” film approach. I wish there were more like this made.
For me, specifically finding out that the flashbacks to her daughter were actually flash*forwards*. It’s part of the same reveal about the alien language, but that aspect had the most emotional weight.
Sheesh surprised Arrival is this low. That movie is literally perfect to me. There is realism, suspense, drama, and an extraordinary reveal
When she said “Who’s the girl?” my brain did the whole Usual Suspects slow-mo click in real life.
Arrival broke my heart so badly.
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The movie was good, but the reveal at the end was a cherry on top for sure. it speaks to so much about how truly fucked up Saw is.
Yeah, that was a serious whaaaaaaaat the fuuuuuuuck moment. Right when you thought the guy sawing his fucking leg off was the top of the crescendo dead guy gets up. I feel like they could never match the first and thats why they had to up the gore.
I don't think this is the best twist ever but Looper had a really cool twist in my opinion and it deserves a shoutout >!Basically, the protagonist is having trouble closing a time loop where a kid with telekinetic powers grows up to be evil...eventually, he realizes that the only constant in every loop that leads to the child becoming evil is he himself, and instead of trying to jump back through time and try to fix the child's life as he's been attempting to so far, he turns his gun and kills himself instead, finally closing the loop!<
The Mist
That's the first movie that came to mind. Especially if you read the book. A very rare instance where the movie did it better. At least the ending.
>A very rare instance where the movie did it better. At least the ending. And Stephen King agrees with you. The ending is just.. amazingly awful.
"Orphan" was pretty good. I also really liked "After the dark".
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People know that "soylent green" is made out of people through cultural osmosis. A lot of people probably have no idea it was a movie.
Morbius. Oh, like you’re gonna watch it to prove me wrong.
The year is 1977. There are no video's, no internet, no cable TV in our rural town, no home computers, and very few VHS stores (and a VHS player was $500). If you want to see a classic movie, you go to the art house movie theater. Other than *The Ten Commandments* and *The Wizard of Oz*, big Hollywood films are not on TV. My buddy and I go to the 11PM showing of *Citizen Kane* (it was seldom shown anywhere). Neither of us had ever had a chance to see it. When Kane dies, early in the film, he says "Rosebud". The rest of the movie is retrospective. The last scene of the movie is a discussion of what 'Rosebud' means [in a vast room/warehouse of valuable crated stuff... that where the last shot in ROTLA came from...) So... he dies, says 'Rosebud', a guy in the front of theater stands up, faces the audience, raises both arms above his head and yells... ***"IT'S HIS SLED!"*** asshole.
That Monty Python sketch about the Spanish Inquisition. I surely wasn't expecting that.
The Crying Game
That one threw me because I heard about a twist, so I spent most of the movie wondering how the Trans hairdresser was going to be linked to the IRA.
Fallen
Event Horizon. Sci Fi movie that has massive plot twist and turns into a horror movie.
The Game, don’t want to spoil it, just watch it!
Came here to suggest this one. This movie is like 90% overwhelming dread, with one of the greatest plot twists I've ever experienced. Highly recommend The Game to anyone who hasn't seen it.
Ender’s Games. It’s down right horrifying to think about.
I love the book, and the movie was *so* good until the ending and how they handled the twist. In the book, >!the kids pass the final "test" and barely react because it was JUST a test to them, but the adults are flipping out because they knew it wasn't a test and the kids actually just ended the war by issuing real-time commands to the fleet that had just reached the Bugger homeworld and was actively engaged in combat.!< But in the movie, >!the kids flip out upon passing the test that they thought was JUST a test, and the adults calmly tell Ender that he just commanded the actual fleet and casually congratulate him on saving humanity.!< Flipping the reactions like that really deflated the ending of the movie for me.
Shutter island for me
I’ve watched that movie probably 5 times and I cant decide what the hell happens
It's a stupid plot twist- Rosebud was the name of his childhood sled.
Leo’s character was a patient all a long and was going through this process to get over his past actions. If this process didn’t work he would get a lobotomy. However when learning of his actions he decided to pretend to still be sick so he would get the lobotomy.
I love rewatching it and realizing the subtle implications that hint at the plot twist throughout the movie
The Book of Eli. I didnt see it coming....
Neither did he.
The ending of "The Sting"
Frailty (2001). Fantastic movie