need yr help: movies that have twist endings like shutter island and fight club etc

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

shutter island was actually a peninsula

um every M Night Shyamalyan movie ever

A Perfect Getaway

the long goodbye? not usual suspects level deus ex machina but some nice reversals.

scary movie

Wild Things

THE WICKER MAN (original version ofc)

Shattered

usual suspects
glengarry glen ross

haute tension

Psycho

Jacob's Ladder
Don't Look Now Oh God No

Identity

Spoiler: it's ridiculous

Les diaboliques

Memento, pretty much

War - Statham and Jet Li. Also ridiculous.

The Machinist

Scream

Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Can't remember if Kiss Me Deadly is a twist or just nuts.

maltese falcon reverses this i think kinda

angel heart

LA Confidential (maybe not right at the end)

oh god I just read the plot synopsis for The Machinist, that's terrible

Laura

oh god there was some movie on hbo this weekend that was exactly this but idk the title! let me see --

oh god I just read the plot synopsis for The Machinist, that's terrible

It's not great.

primal fear

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

most absurd example of this i can think of is that movie Identity w John Cusack

No Way Out (w kevin costner)

Best ever = The Game

ugh the game sucked!

GTFO

the art of war

RONIN BITCHES

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 --

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.

that one Kenneth Branagh movie where he and his wife are dead and serious Robin Williams is serious

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, September 7, 2010 9:37 PM (35 seconds ago) Bookmark

vantage point?

suuuucked

once you realize Identity is total nonsense and insane, it actually becomes a really fun movie (IMO)

oh god I just read the plot synopsis for The Machinist, that's terrible

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.

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

Yeah Vantage Point more like Bollocks Point amirite?

That film where Nicole Kidman is dead.

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

once you realize Identity is total nonsense and insane, it actually becomes a really fun movie (IMO)

yeah, and while i'm losing face i'm as well to rep for unbreakable too

there are also ghosts in it, idk xposts

dolores claybourne (sp)

watched this as a favour. can't remember jack.

The Others is the Nicole Kidman one

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.

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

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.

ah yes lol i see

goonies re monsters being dudes

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.

http://www.feoamante.com/Movies/A/Asylum72MP.jpg

whoops

spike lee's 'inside man' iirc

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?".

can someone put SPOILERS in the title pls

goole, The Usual Suspects?

oh duh of course

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".

seconded Identity being "ridiculous", anybody who has taken one year of psychology was no doubt offended by the idiocy of it.

the twist that is

i ook one year of computer science and tbh the matrix just isn't a workable premise. i was offended

dude that was sci-fi, this was a psychological thriller that decided to cop out to something retarded and nonsensical!

i'm not married to the zing tbh

righteous kill

total recall

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.

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

I liked arlington road!

i couldn't watch arlington road w/o yelling out dude lines from lebowski

had that with 'jagged edge'

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!

arlington rd does not fit in here imo

dude got framed!

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

spoiler, literally

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"/

oh that one where denzel writes the bible. utter shite ending, sweet movie til then too

Man we were talking about Book of Eli in the pub last night. Don't remember what the fuck got said.

sweet til ending covers it tbh

i didn't think it was all that. and the ending certainly wasn't soemthing to carry the film.

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!

i liked 'book of eli'. i think it's a p big twist, but at the same time, not.

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

xpost i thought the twist was gonna be something like the world wasn't blowed up and they were just in Alabama or something

soylent green
13 monkeys

excuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse me if they've been posted already

i hear sometime in the future this function called CTRL+F will be invented, until then.......

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.

yeah, but then i wouldn't be able to increase my post count. you must realize that this is important to me.

Planet of the Apes!

artificial intelligence, but only by stupidity (not a pun)

April Fool's Day

mmmm yea that was a good one

Oldboy, Seven, The Prestige

^ all good shouts

Atonement

Does The Adventures of Edward Norton the Austrian Peasant Magician count even tho the "twist" is clunking obvious shite?

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".

― 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?"