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Final Destination 5
Saw And Then There Were None Not too sure if you would class this as a twist but i never saw the ending of Night Of The Living Dead (1968) coming. |
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Saw And Then There Were None Not too sure if you would class this as a twist but i never saw the ending of Night Of The Living Dead (1968) coming. |
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Went to see Filth last night.
Didn't expect the twist in that! (In fact there were a couple of twists I didn't expect) |
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Best: No Way Out.
Slick, Hitchcockian thriller with a real kicker of an ending. Sweetest: The Lavender Hill Mob. A wry stroke of genius in this Ealing classic. Most WTF?: Being There. Did he just...? Splendid turn from Sellers ends with an amazing flourish. When I saw it , practically the whole audience maaned " No they can't stop there - how does it end?" |
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Surprised nobody's mentioned No Way Out yet. All American naval hero, Kevin Costner trying to track down a non-existant Soviet spy in the Pentagon. Never saw that coming.
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Surveillance (2008) with Bill Pulman.
Annoying twist and I didn't see it coming, |
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But the book has the huge twist. The films too, but less so going for the Hollywood endings. Without giving too much away, I've seen all four of them, can't remember exactly how the other three ended it but pretty sure all avoided the book and mirrored the Fitzgerald one. Either way, definitely a brilliant example of a twist. |
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The Sixth Sense.
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The Others did it better, That kinda came out of no-where. Usual Suspects is the ultimate though. V clever, kinda gobsmacking the first time you watch it. |
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Like others, I knew the twist in Shutter Island because I'd read the novel a few years earlier.
The twist was obvious then too. |
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Nobody has mentioned Sleuth (1972)
![]() Se7en Planet of the Apes (1968...that shock on the beach) The Others - excellent twist that was, though my mum worked it out much earlier on in the film (she sussed it out when the husband appeared out of nowhere) but said nothing. She has been reading crime thrillers for decades and is sharp as a tack about such things .Sixth Sense - again, fooled me all the way through but not mum, she's hard to trick. Shawshank Redemption Psycho. Jagged Edge |
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Cabin in the Woods?
Granted the twist wasn't right at the end, but the film took a turn from a traditional horror to a "what the ****". Was epic regardless.
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Cabin in the Woods?
Granted the twist wasn't right at the end, but the film took a turn from a traditional horror to a "what the ****". Was epic regardless. ![]() |
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Thought I'd be careful as I know some of these have been out years, the beauty of film is its never too late to discover something you might had missed
Dark Knight Shawshank Redemption Casino Pulp Fiction Transformers (1986) mainly one for the children of the 80's 28 days later, 28 weeks later I am Legend Blade Trinity
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I thought of this one too! Anyone who says they predicted what was going to happen after the first hour is talking out of their arse!
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Bridge To Terabithia
completely unexpected plot development. right up to the end I expected a resolution.
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Deep Blue See
I bet a lot of people thought Jackson would be the star of the movie |
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Doubt is such a great movie. Still baffles me.
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Usual Suspects - maybe because I was young when I watched it but the twist totally came out of no where for me.
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a lot of these aren't twists, they're just unexpected plot developments, i think there's a difference.
bruce willis being dead all along = a twist john travolta being shot in pulp fiction = not a twist sam l jackson being suddenly eaten by a shark = not a twist |
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a lot of these aren't twists, they're just unexpected plot developments, i think there's a difference.
bruce willis being dead all along = a twist john travolta being shot in pulp fiction = not a twist sam l jackson being suddenly eaten by a shark = not a twist A lot of the examples are shock, existential endings which were common in the late 60s-70s , Dirty Mary Crazy Larry, Easy Rider, Electraglide In Blue, Bonnie and Clyde, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, The Wild Bunch, Too Late The Hero. For a last minute twist that turns the previous 89 minutes of plot on its head I'd plump for The Planet Of The Apes |
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a lot of these aren't twists, they're just unexpected plot developments, i think there's a difference.
bruce willis being dead all along = a twist john travolta being shot in pulp fiction = not a twist sam l jackson being suddenly eaten by a shark = not a twist http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showt...ighlight=twist Some see the difference as a bit picky. Maybe it's a case of a good twist should perhaps be unexpected, but the unexpected isn't always a twist. |
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Said much the same in another similar thread (post #13):
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showt...ighlight=twist Some see the difference as a bit picky. Maybe it's a case of a good twist should perhaps be unexpected, but the unexpected isn't always a twist. The hero cop shooting the serial killer is not a twist. Nor is a man escaping prison. (Unless it's in The Escapist, then it is. )
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Shutter Island and The Orphan and Shattered*
I love films with twists. ![]() *Also known as Butterfly on a Wheel. |
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Old Boy [2003]
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Shattered is the first film I ever saw which had a twist
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