The Best Twist Endings

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14 Feb 2012, 10:29 pm

Do you like twist endings?
If so, what in your opinion, are the best twist endings you have seen?

Just make a list without avoiding spoilers.
Let's begin with mine.

Fight Club
The Sixth Sense
Primal Fear
The Usual Suspects
The Prestige
The Others
Memento
Psycho
Planet of the Apes {the original, not the remake}
American Psycho
Donnie Darko
Mulholland Drive
12 Monkeys
The Empire Strikes Back

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14 Feb 2012, 11:26 pm

La Jetée (as well as its remake, 12 Monkeys) has my favorite twist ending. Clever, shocking, and sad as hell.

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15 Feb 2012, 1:23 am

Inception?

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15 Feb 2012, 10:01 am

My personal favs are:
The Usual Suspects
Primal Fear
The Empire Strikes Back (f*** the prequel trilogy for ruining this one)
The Prestige
Memento
Planet Of The Apes
Psycho
Fight Club
Soylent Green
The Sixth Sense

Regarding Inception, I don't know if it was so much a twist ending as it was an ambiguous one. But that's just my opinion.

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15 Feb 2012, 11:01 am

I like some that have already been listed, so here are some that haven't:

Se7en
Fish Tank
Crazy, Stupid, Love.
Moon (though, main twist is in middle)
Unbreakable
The Faculty
A Tale of Two Sisters

I've never cared for The Usual Suspects. While the twist is quite good, I thought the rest of the movie was average, and that it really banked on the revelation at the end.

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15 Feb 2012, 4:14 pm

Frailty
Total Recall

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15 Feb 2012, 4:37 pm

GreyGirl wrote:

Frailty
Total Recall

Ohhh, Frailty is a good one...can't believe I forgot it!

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15 Feb 2012, 6:36 pm

fragileclover wrote:

Crazy, Stupid, Love.

I agree with you. That twist ending was a big WTH and
to a degree, reminded me of Oldboy, which in turn,
reminded me of The Empire Strikes Back, but in reverse. :wink:

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16 Feb 2012, 9:52 am

I have to second (third?) the motion on Crazy Stupid Love. I missed it in theaters, but I rented the DVD simply based upon its positive reviews and I like a bunch of the actors in it. The plot wasn't anything too special, but the twist completely caught me off guard. It was a brilliant twist, I just wish they did more with the film to make it captivating pre-twist. It wasn't until after the twist (which is lest than half an hour until the end of the film) in which I was hooked.

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16 Feb 2012, 10:27 am

Following (1998)

Christopher Nolan's 'student film' before Memento, great twist! :wink:

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16 Feb 2012, 10:48 am

Sixth Sense
Memento
The Others
Fight Club
Shutter Island
The Prestige

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16 Feb 2012, 11:59 am

Se7en
Memento
Shutter Island
The Prestige
Switchblade Romance (Haute Tension in the States)

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16 Feb 2012, 12:45 pm

The Village and The Sixth Sense, I guess.
Though Shymalan's work has been terrible of late.

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16 Feb 2012, 1:37 pm

ValentineWiggin wrote:

The Village and The Sixth Sense, I guess.
Though Shymalan's work has been terrible of late.

That's because MNS thinks of himself as the "new" Steven Spielberg. :thumbdown:

Am I the only one here who admits to wanting to see MNS' next movie
due June 2013; where he is not going to get writer's credit?

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16 Feb 2012, 2:48 pm

Alternative wrote:

Following (1998)

Christopher Nolan's 'student film' before Memento, great twist! :wink:

Isn't that the movie where Christopher Nolan cast his uncle in a role and did the same in Memento? :wink:

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16 Feb 2012, 2:58 pm

ValentineWiggin wrote:

The Village and The Sixth Sense, I guess.
Though Shymalan's work has been terrible of late.

The Sixth Sense, yes, but I'd worked out The Village within the first 20 mins. I was really disappointed when I was right.

I also like:
The Others
Memento
The Usual Suspects
The Prestige

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