like i feel like there are a lot of them like the whole YOU WERE BAD GUY ALL ALONG shit but now i can't think of any
― You know, Caps... Jimmy Hats, Gloves, McRibs, Slee (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:10 (fifteen years ago)
shutter island was actually a peninsula
― ('_') (omar little), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:11 (fifteen years ago)
um every M Night Shyamalyan movie ever
― Dr. Lol Evans (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:11 (fifteen years ago)
A Perfect Getaway
― a cankle of rads (Gukbe), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:12 (fifteen years ago)
the long goodbye? not usual suspects level deus ex machina but some nice reversals.
― no time for the prussian death cult (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:12 (fifteen years ago)
scary movie
― k¸ (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:14 (fifteen years ago)
Wild Things
― Dr. Lol Evans (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:14 (fifteen years ago)
THE WICKER MAN (original version ofc)
― Davek (davek_00), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:15 (fifteen years ago)
Shattered
― Arvo Pärty (Paul in Santa Cruz), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:15 (fifteen years ago)
usual suspectsglengarry glen ross
― k¸ (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:16 (fifteen years ago)
haute tension
― just sayin, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:18 (fifteen years ago)
Psycho
― Dr. Lol Evans (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:20 (fifteen years ago)
Jacob's LadderDon't Look Now Oh God No
― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:21 (fifteen years ago)
Identity
Spoiler: it's ridiculous
― ledge, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:22 (fifteen years ago)
Les diaboliques
― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:22 (fifteen years ago)
Memento, pretty much
War - Statham and Jet Li. Also ridiculous.
The Machinist
Scream
― Brad C., Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:23 (fifteen years ago)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:24 (fifteen years ago)
Can't remember if Kiss Me Deadly is a twist or just nuts.
― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:25 (fifteen years ago)
maltese falcon reverses this i think kinda
― k¸ (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:25 (fifteen years ago)
angel heart
― ('_') (omar little), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:26 (fifteen years ago)
LA Confidential (maybe not right at the end)
― ledge, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:28 (fifteen years ago)
oh god I just read the plot synopsis for The Machinist, that's terrible
― STOP DREAMING ABOUT HORSES, THIS IS REAL LIFE (HI DERE), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:28 (fifteen years ago)
Laura
― Brad C., Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:28 (fifteen years ago)
oh god there was some movie on hbo this weekend that was exactly this but idk the title! let me see --
― tangelo amour (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:30 (fifteen years ago)
It's not great.
― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:30 (fifteen years ago)
primal fear
― k¸ (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:31 (fifteen years ago)
the score, i think?
basical ed norton has it in his contract th his character has to completely change or double cross at some stage
― k¸ (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:32 (fifteen years ago)
most absurd example of this i can think of is that movie Identity w John Cusack
No Way Out (w kevin costner)
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:33 (fifteen years ago)
Best ever = The Game
― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:33 (fifteen years ago)
ugh the game sucked!
― k¸ (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:34 (fifteen years ago)
GTFO
― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:34 (fifteen years ago)
the art of war
RONIN BITCHES
― The sulky expression from the hilarious "Aubrey Plaza" persona (history mayne), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:35 (fifteen years ago)
the uninvited was the one I saw
god it was really horrible -- emily browning thinks elizabeth banks is a murderess dating her dad! but then, u know --
― tangelo amour (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:35 (fifteen years ago)
Some shit about some presidential shooting in an Iraqalike country with Sigourney Weaver in it I think that was way less clever than it thought it was.
― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:37 (fifteen years ago)
that one Kenneth Branagh movie where he and his wife are dead and serious Robin Williams is serious
― Dr. Lol Evans (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:37 (fifteen years ago)
― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, September 7, 2010 9:37 PM (35 seconds ago) Bookmark
vantage point?
suuuucked
― The sulky expression from the hilarious "Aubrey Plaza" persona (history mayne), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:38 (fifteen years ago)
once you realize Identity is total nonsense and insane, it actually becomes a really fun movie (IMO)
― STOP DREAMING ABOUT HORSES, THIS IS REAL LIFE (HI DERE), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:40 (fifteen years ago)
LOL for some reason this is one of my mom's all-time favorite movies. I still have never watched it, just having it described to me by her was enough.
― (¬_¬) (Nicole), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:40 (fifteen years ago)
the uninvited --> lol surprise, u crazy & u slaughtered elizabeth banks with a kitchen knife, except u thought your sister did it, but she's dead and u spent the whole movie in a delusional state thinking she was alive and oh btw ur responsible for killing her & ur moms too lol
ps david strathairn is her dad
― tangelo amour (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:41 (fifteen years ago)
Yeah Vantage Point more like Bollocks Point amirite?
That film where Nicole Kidman is dead.
― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:41 (fifteen years ago)
So I Married an Axe Murderer - best Mike Myers flick by miles.
Sea of Oh No You Didn't
Colour of Night - oh gosh how unexpected
― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:42 (fifteen years ago)
yeah, and while i'm losing face i'm as well to rep for unbreakable too
― k¸ (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:43 (fifteen years ago)
there are also ghosts in it, idk xposts
― tangelo amour (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:43 (fifteen years ago)
dolores claybourne (sp)
watched this as a favour. can't remember jack.
― The sulky expression from the hilarious "Aubrey Plaza" persona (history mayne), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:44 (fifteen years ago)
The Others is the Nicole Kidman one
― STOP DREAMING ABOUT HORSES, THIS IS REAL LIFE (HI DERE), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:44 (fifteen years ago)
i was gonna say 'the big easy' cos omg his BEST FRIENDS turn out to be the bad guys, but that's not really a 'twist' so much as a standard mystery. i mean, there's twists and then twists.
― goole, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:44 (fifteen years ago)
Basic. The worst film I've ever seen ever. Ever.
Vantage Point was set in Spain, was it not?
Kenneth Branagh one is called Dead again.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:44 (fifteen years ago)
i remember dead again being aight
― goole, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:45 (fifteen years ago)
I was jokingly going to say The Bounty Hunter
― STOP DREAMING ABOUT HORSES, THIS IS REAL LIFE (HI DERE), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:46 (fifteen years ago)
Thought Vantage Point was meant to be North Africa or Middle East but stand to be corrected. It's still pish.
― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:46 (fifteen years ago)
It's Spain. It's also terrible.
― STOP DREAMING ABOUT HORSES, THIS IS REAL LIFE (HI DERE), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:47 (fifteen years ago)
oh god THE WORST twist film i have EVER seen was called 'surveillance' and it was by david lynch's... daughter? the dame who did 'boxing helena'
― The sulky expression from the hilarious "Aubrey Plaza" persona (history mayne), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:48 (fifteen years ago)
the notebook
― tangelo amour (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:50 (fifteen years ago)
Basic is INCREDIBLE! A rollercoaster ride! Lol twist after lol twist!
― ledge, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:50 (fifteen years ago)
Twist after twist, most of which DIDN'T EVEN HAPPEN!
― ailsa, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:51 (fifteen years ago)
that one with dakota fanning and robert de niro
― just1n3, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:55 (fifteen years ago)
life of david gale
― tangelo amour (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:56 (fifteen years ago)
isn't the nicole kidman one Malice?
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:57 (fifteen years ago)
the conversation
les diaboliques
wild things
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:59 (fifteen years ago)
spike lee's 'inside man' iirc
― The sulky expression from the hilarious "Aubrey Plaza" persona (history mayne), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 21:01 (fifteen years ago)
The one where she and her kids are terrorized by random noises in their house?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Others_%282001_film%29
― STOP DREAMING ABOUT HORSES, THIS IS REAL LIFE (HI DERE), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 21:02 (fifteen years ago)
Nah I meant The Others I was just doing the art of pretend not-Googling.
― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 21:03 (fifteen years ago)
lol
iirc nicole fake dies in malice in a diabolique-esque twist
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 21:06 (fifteen years ago)
The Parallax View and its tribute act Arlington Road
― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 21:08 (fifteen years ago)
she pretty much seems to die in that one on the boat iirc... but again people are always fake-dying in movies
― The sulky expression from the hilarious "Aubrey Plaza" persona (history mayne), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 21:08 (fifteen years ago)
trying to think of movies where the horrible monsters turn out to be good guys misjudged by superficial humans
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 21:08 (fifteen years ago)
'avatar'
― The sulky expression from the hilarious "Aubrey Plaza" persona (history mayne), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 21:10 (fifteen years ago)
Monsters vs Aliens
― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 21:10 (fifteen years ago)
in answer to Ward, not the thread premise
what was the o.g. movie for this whole OMG TWIST thing hollywood did for a while? sixth sense was the big supernatural twist but there's something else i'm forgetting
― goole, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 21:12 (fifteen years ago)
i have a terrible memory but what's that hitchcock film, vertigo maybe, the one with kim novak. where it's the due who's the psycho, not the lady.
― just1n3, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 21:14 (fifteen years ago)
ah yes lol i see
― goole, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 21:16 (fifteen years ago)
goonies re monsters being dudes
― k¸ (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 21:16 (fifteen years ago)
All old horror movie story compilations, mostly produced by Amicus, where the dudes telling the stories turn out to be dead at the end.
http://www.feoamante.com/Movies/A/Asylum72MP.jpg
Slightly different twist there but that's a pretty sweet movie.
― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 21:19 (fifteen years ago)
whoops
― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 21:20 (fifteen years ago)
Not much of a "twist" there (at least not of the 6th Sense/Fight Club variety), just a clever solution to "how are they gonna get away with this?".
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 21:20 (fifteen years ago)
can someone put SPOILERS in the title pls
― k¸ (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 21:20 (fifteen years ago)
goole, The Usual Suspects?
― ailsa, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 21:21 (fifteen years ago)
oh duh of course
― goole, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 21:28 (fifteen years ago)
Charlie Kaufman: The only idea more overused than serial killers is multiple personality. On top of that, you explore the notion that cop and criminal are really two aspects of the same person. See every cop movie ever made for other examples of this.Donald Kaufman: Mom called it "psychologically taut".
Donald Kaufman: Mom called it "psychologically taut".
― tangelo amour (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 21:29 (fifteen years ago)
seconded Identity being "ridiculous", anybody who has taken one year of psychology was no doubt offended by the idiocy of it.
― funky brewster (San Te), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 21:29 (fifteen years ago)
the twist that is
― funky brewster (San Te), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 21:30 (fifteen years ago)
i ook one year of computer science and tbh the matrix just isn't a workable premise. i was offended
― k¸ (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 21:32 (fifteen years ago)
dude that was sci-fi, this was a psychological thriller that decided to cop out to something retarded and nonsensical!
― funky brewster (San Te), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 21:33 (fifteen years ago)
i'm not married to the zing tbh
― k¸ (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 21:33 (fifteen years ago)
righteous kill
― goole, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 21:34 (fifteen years ago)
total recall
― k¸ (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 21:36 (fifteen years ago)
I think this kinda of a twist is so common that movies like Arlington Road rely on the audience expecting it, so they can make their twist be that the protagonist didn't imagine it all, and all that suspect stuff was actually real.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 21:36 (fifteen years ago)
i predict at the end of Devil the twist is that all of the movies he's made were merely a kid playing on his computer
― funky brewster (San Te), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 21:36 (fifteen years ago)
I liked arlington road!
i couldn't watch arlington road w/o yelling out dude lines from lebowski
― goole, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 21:37 (fifteen years ago)
had that with 'jagged edge'
― The sulky expression from the hilarious "Aubrey Plaza" persona (history mayne), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 21:38 (fifteen years ago)
i liked that Arlington road actually showed the final shot in the fucking trailer....so that when you were watching, you were like "ahh musta been red herring trailer, or just a deleted scene", then a moment before the reveal you figure out that the scene is a split second away and understand where it fits in!
― funky brewster (San Te), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 21:39 (fifteen years ago)
arlington rd does not fit in here imo
dude got framed!
― tangelo amour (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 21:40 (fifteen years ago)
yea, instead I'll nominate Dark Knight for the part where Batman pulled down his pants and revealed himself to be pre-op transexual was COMPLETELY unexpected
― funky brewster (San Te), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 21:41 (fifteen years ago)
spoiler, literally
― k¸ (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 21:42 (fifteen years ago)
Come on, Arlington Road is totally a "lol they made you a patsy" twist which is totally copped from Parallax View. They're both good movies, the latter a lot more so, but it's def supposed to be a "twist"/
― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 21:48 (fifteen years ago)
oh that one where denzel writes the bible. utter shite ending, sweet movie til then too
― k¸ (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 21:50 (fifteen years ago)
Man we were talking about Book of Eli in the pub last night. Don't remember what the fuck got said.
― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 21:51 (fifteen years ago)
sweet til ending covers it tbh
― k¸ (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 21:52 (fifteen years ago)
i didn't think it was all that. and the ending certainly wasn't soemthing to carry the film.
― funky brewster (San Te), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 21:56 (fifteen years ago)
NV, it's a plot twist yea, but it proceeds directly from the plot of the movie -- there's no sneaky DO-YOU-SEE type plot revision / reveal of heretofore-concealed crucial plot points necessary to make the ending work!
― tangelo amour (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 22:03 (fifteen years ago)
i liked 'book of eli'. i think it's a p big twist, but at the same time, not.
― The sulky expression from the hilarious "Aubrey Plaza" persona (history mayne), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 22:04 (fifteen years ago)
xpost
nah that's true but a lot of twists aren't about "IT WAS THIS BRAND NEW CHARACTER ALL ALONG, SURPRISE", a lot of the films on here don't twist that way
― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 22:05 (fifteen years ago)
xpost i thought the twist was gonna be something like the world wasn't blowed up and they were just in Alabama or something
― funky brewster (San Te), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 22:05 (fifteen years ago)
soylent green13 monkeys
excuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse me if they've been posted already
― lieutenant jimmy john (kelpolaris), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 23:13 (fifteen years ago)
i hear sometime in the future this function called CTRL+F will be invented, until then.......
― funky brewster (San Te), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 23:16 (fifteen years ago)
is "the murder of roger ackroyd" the progenitor of the YOU WERE BAD GUY ALL ALONG story? dunno how the movie versions, "alibi" etc, handle the subjective pov/unreliable narrator blah.
― joe, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 23:24 (fifteen years ago)
yeah, but then i wouldn't be able to increase my post count. you must realize that this is important to me.
― lieutenant jimmy john (kelpolaris), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 23:26 (fifteen years ago)
Planet of the Apes!
― seandalai, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 23:26 (fifteen years ago)
artificial intelligence, but only by stupidity (not a pun)
― lieutenant jimmy john (kelpolaris), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 23:31 (fifteen years ago)
April Fool's Day
― David Allah Coal (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 00:20 (fifteen years ago)
mmmm yea that was a good one
― funky brewster (San Te), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 00:21 (fifteen years ago)
Oldboy, Seven, The Prestige
― sofatruck, Wednesday, 8 September 2010 00:44 (fifteen years ago)
^ all good shouts
― k¸ (darraghmac), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 00:47 (fifteen years ago)
Atonement
― Arvo Pärty (Paul in Santa Cruz), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 01:15 (fifteen years ago)
Does The Adventures of Edward Norton the Austrian Peasant Magician count even tho the "twist" is clunking obvious shite?
― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 10:02 (fifteen years ago)
Charlie Kaufman: The only idea more overused than serial killers is multiple personality. On top of that, you explore the notion that cop and criminal are really two aspects of the same person. See every cop movie ever made for other examples of this.
― tangelo amour (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, September 7, 2010 9:29 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
when I saw Identity, I was like "did Charlie Kaufman's twin brother write this?"
― latebloomer, Wednesday, 8 September 2010 10:10 (fifteen years ago)