Best twist in a movie

ohandels

Usual suspects
Identity
Fight Club

Any others?

Mr E

Saw
Seven
Sixth Sense
Unbreakable

I started a thread on this a year ago... I'll see if I can find it.

Frank Grimes

Don't know if you'd call it a twist, but I definitely did not see the ending of "Dead or Alive" coming!

Mr E

http://pie.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=78813
http://pie.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=99764

nachos

oldboy
saw
ringu

RuggieBear

Titanic....who knew it would sink!!!? :rolleyes:

But i reckon the Crying Game should be in anyones lists or perhaps Arlington Road....or Usual Suspects

mayordenis

donnie darko maybe

herobear

into the mirror, best ending ever!

User45701

AVP

at the end iof the movie every1 expceted a alien to pop out of the preditor but no it was a alien preditor hybrid i cant wait to see the 2nd movie that thing will destroy!

radiospan

Memento has a good ending.

ObeyGiant

Vertigo should win by virtue of the fact that the "twist" is revealed halfway through the film, yet the film remains entertaining throughout.

mwnger

Got to be Planet of the Apes - back in the days when twists weren't fashionable! And Psycho as well, for that matter.

I also enjoyed the twist at the end of Angel Heart. Very underratted film IMO.

Fysh

Usual Suspects...yep.
Fight Club...yep.
Saw??? No way. Contrived doesn't even begin to describe it.
Memento...yep.

Others :

Ringu
Halloween 4's ending was pleasantly surprising too, given the bog-standardness of the rest of the film (and, arguably, the entire series after the first one)

Karl Hungus

Definetly Memento

KdjaCL

Shattered the original twisty ending movie (well 1st i seen)

kdjac

Karl Hungus

Fysh wrote:

Halloween 4's ending was pleasantly surprising too, given the bog-standardness of the rest of the film (and, arguably, the entire series after the first one)

You know, now that I think of it... Halloween 4 did indeed have a pretty good twist. Wouldn't mind seeing the film again at some stage.

Playboy

Angel Heart

jill_valentine

Um... Identity? Didn't everybody see the twist coming from the opening credits?

rabbitinlights

Seven - The bad guy "wins"

Angel heart - seen it for the first time during the week - how have i not seen that before?

Sixth sense - Great idea

Fight Club - Amazing ending for a great film!

Planets of the apes - The Statue scene.

Usual Suspects - The walking scene.

avatar

Let's be honest people, no twist will ever compare with these words 'I am your father.'

There's just no comparison. Best movie twist EVER.

fitz

Was just about to post that...the first time you see Empire and Vader makes his revelation, well...no-one saw that coming...

plastic membrane

KdjaC wrote:

Shattered the original twisty ending movie (well 1st i seen)

No-one ever remembers that one. Fair play...

besty

Usual Suspects
The Village

JCDenton

"CONfidence"

Pretty similar to the usual suspects but twisty all the same!

pingoo

A Tale of Two Sisters is deadly as it combines different genres at the same time, I scene in particular is really jumpy and it's not every day that I get scared during a movie

NoNamesLeft

The Village
The Game

Rossonero

The Village
Layer Cake
Unbreakable
6th Sense

ravenhead

The butterfly effect!!! Good film!

Playboy

The village? ... i could see that twist coming when i saw the trailer

mewso

Every single surprise in Sleuth is a masterstroke. Old flick with only 2 cast members - Lawrence Olivier & Michael Caine for the spotty kids out there.

Joeface

......The last Seduction


kinda have to lie down after it

mycroft

Playboy wrote:

Angel Heart

Um hello my name is Lou Cypher????

I mean c'mon...... Talk about "Hello my name Mr Snurb"

It's almost as bad as an Charlie Sheen straight to video awful invasion of the body snatchers rip off where the lead alien is called Senator Neila.

Actually come to think of it the 70s invasion of the body snatchers movie with Donald Sutherland has got a mean twist in the tail.

mewso

The earth is being invaded by body snatchers?

ObeyGiant

mycroft wrote:

Um hello my name is Lou Cypher????

I mean c'mon...... Talk about "Hello my name Mr Snurb"

But.. that's not the twist.

As a matter of fact, the actual twist relies on everyone having figured out that De Niro is the devil.

mycroft

Har Har

months pass and our intrepid heroine Brooke Adams has been living in the wild as more and more people are taken over, meanwhile Donald Sutherland has been living among the aliens posing as one, Adams starving and freezing ventures out from the undergrowth and beckons Sutherland over, he turns and utters one of those ear shattering piercing alien screams, and Adams realises she is the last human being alive, and she starts to scream, it hold on Sutherland screaming for f*cking ever, it's really really really unnerving

mycroft

ObeyGiant wrote:

But.. that's not the twist.

As a matter of fact, the actual twist relies on everyone having figured out that De Niro is the devil.

Yeah but it's bloody obvious it's telegraphed in Micky Rourke's character everything from his name, his mysterious background, it's like having Verbal Kent performing card tricks for Agent Kujan

The Clown Man

Memento was a great twist - one of my favs.

But if you want a real twist "The Cassandra Crossing" has to be the best:

The whole film is about a plague that breaks out on a long haul train. The plague spreads and most of the film up is about the passengers finally getting the plague quarantined. They are put on an old line to keep them away from populated areas and they are told where to stop. As they approach their stop they have to cross an old bridge called the cassandra crossing. Everyone is happy and you are in the middle of the happy ending and thinking "jez that was a great film" and picking up your popcorn bags when they realise they are being driven to their deaths over the old bridge. The bridge collapses and there is about 10 minutes of shots of carriages going off the bridge - horrific stuff - but the main characters manage to save their carriage. You still have your empty popcorn bags in your hand when the movies ends 10 minutes later wondering "what the hell?!" Absolutely brill.

Capt'n Midnight

mycroft wrote:

It's almost as bad as an Charlie Sheen straight to video awful invasion of the body snatchers rip off where the lead alien is called Senator Neila.

Actually come to think of it the 70s invasion of the body snatchers movie with Donald Sutherland has got a mean twist in the tail.

I actually liked that rip off - it was a lot better than the other one with Donald later on with the cane, real made for TV cop out ending.

Liked the bit in the 70's version where the restrauant owner was telling him the object was a caper

begbie

Memento
Seven
Fight Club

Brock

i like the twist in vanilla sky or abre los ojos depends which one u seen first where the entire film is made up of clues which add up in the end great movies althogh abre los ojos is better
but still great twist
Brock

mycroft

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

I actually liked that rip off - it was a lot better than the other one with Donald later on with the cane, real made for TV cop out ending.

Liked the bit in the 70's version where the restrauant owner was telling him the object was a caper

It's not a rip off it's a re make, and very intelligent one too. The original was a metaphor of the Mc Carthy witchunts in the 50s (the ideal of conforming etc) the 70s ver took the themes of the original and reworked as a metaphor for post watergate america, the paranoia and fear and suspicious. It's one of the great 70s paranoia movies, like Coppola's the conversation.

And yeah i hate the Abel Ferrara remake from the 90s but I loath all his films.

moggie

ha

twists

I'll give youse a twist

The Italien Job

the original, no ****ty remakes here folks!

the music (self preservation society) is going in the background
the boys are home and free
theres bottles of beer open
and the bus driver is laughing

then......

or how about Get Carter
eh? not the stalone one, the Micky Caine one - from well back in the day

legend

Keyzer

I thought the twist in Rocky and Bulwinkle was class....

samo

bored of a monday afternoon and saw this so will give my (humble) opinion!

1) usual suspects (knocked me for 6 that one)
2) Kill Bill 2 with the exploding heart thing - excellent and up to that point thought she would snuff it!
3) sixth sense



as for the twist ending that still puzzles me has to be the Village - didnt like the way that ended at all but good film apart from that

samo

oh yeah and am going to have to try fight club again, because gave up on it half way through but now sounds like I missed out!

treefingers

samo wrote:

oh yeah and am going to have to try fight club again, because gave up on it half way through but now sounds like I missed out!

how could you not like it?! one of the greatest films ever!

mycroft

moggie wrote:

ha

twists

I'll give youse a twist

The Italien Job

the original, no ****ty remakes here folks!

the music (self preservation society) is going in the background
the boys are home and free
theres bottles of beer open
and the bus driver is laughing

How's that a twist? It doesn't turn the story in any way it's just a shock ending.

Sleepy

Usual Suspects
Seven
Arlington Road
The Game
Shawshank Redemption
Empire Strikes Back

George White

The Clown Man wrote: »

Memento was a great twist - one of my favs.

But if you want a real twist "The Cassandra Crossing" has to be the best:

The whole film is about a plague that breaks out on a long haul train. The plague spreads and most of the film up is about the passengers finally getting the plague quarantined. They are put on an old line to keep them away from populated areas and they are told where to stop. As they approach their stop they have to cross an old bridge called the cassandra crossing. Everyone is happy and you are in the middle of the happy ending and thinking "jez that was a great film" and picking up your popcorn bags when they realise they are being driven to their deaths over the old bridge. The bridge collapses and there is about 10 minutes of shots of carriages going off the bridge - horrific stuff - but the main characters manage to save their carriage. You still have your empty popcorn bags in your hand when the movies ends 10 minutes later wondering "what the hell?!" Absolutely brill.

The Cassandra Crossing's a great film, the sort of film RTE should have as the Big Big Movie. And it has two Irishmen, Harris and Sheen, well mostly Harris. Plus he shows that top neurosurgical virus-beating 'adventure scientists' come from Limerick!

Littlehorny

Thought the ending to American History X was good, where it looks like its going to be happy ending and then, ah i wont spoil it!

retroactive

Without a doubt - PRIMAL FEAR - Worth three hours of watching Richard Gere's inaccurate portrayal as a lawyer just for the last moments of the movie. Easily my favourite ending. Launched Ed Norton's career.

Steven King's 'The Mist'

Layer Cake

London Boulevard - or another Colin Farrell movie.. He gets stabbed in the end.