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Whats the greatest movie "surprise" youv'e seen, something that happened that you never saw coming?

For me it has to be the revelation moment in Fight Club when he realises he and Tyler Durden are the same person. Any others?

The Usual Suspects, Is a good one too

Bazalonia;12515181']The Usual Suspects, Is a good one too

Do you remember the poster for that film? It was a mock up of the id parade with the 5 main characters on it. When it came out there was poster up at my train station, and when I got off the train someone had defaced the poster with a big arrow pointing to kevin Spacey and the legend "it was him". The bastard.

The usual suspects

When Verbal walks away, and you see that he's made up everything from what he's seen around the office. Who knows what's true and what's not??

Whats the greatest movie "surprise" youv'e seen, something that happened that you never saw coming?

For me it has to be the revelation moment in Fight Club when he realises he and Tyler Durden are the same person. Any others?

When Vesper is revealed as a spy in Casino Royale.

Memento was good. As was the illusionist.

I'm rarely, if ever, surprised by plot twists in a movie. I either:

A: Pick up on them before they even occur. I also saw the Spanish Inquisition coming a mile away.

B: I spend way too much time on the internet, so I run into plenty of fuckwits who go "LOOK AT ME! I KNOW WHAT HAPPENS I *****! AS IT TURNS OUT ***** ***** ******!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ZOMGHAXLOL!!!"

Remember kids, I'm just using caps to lampoon and make a point. Never use all caps in real life. No matter what anyone tells you, Caps Lock is never cruise control for cool.

The sixth sense

Yeah, yeah. He's dead. But it was a good twist :)

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I don't have a good one, but there is a bad one I have. In I, Robot, everyone should've known that the head robot was leading the robots to revolt.

Memento was good. As was the illusionist.

I thought memento was kind of overated actually.

Memento was good. As was the illusionist.

I loved Memento.

I was indifferent towards the illusionist, and frankly, how could you not see the ending to that one a mile away? The Prestige was far better, not only for the battle of wits between the two protagonists, but the difference in how they perform their 'greatest trick'. The simplicity of Christian Bale's method surprised me.

Yesterday my favorite radio show spoiled the end of twin peaks. I missed it on TV and have waited years to find out who killed Laura Palmer.

Now I'm pissed.

Years!!!!:mad:

The ending of "The Prestige."

Pan's Labyrinth.

[spoiler]Yeah, she's nuts. Some people don't get this, but it's true.[/spoiler.]

Memento was good. As was the illusionist.

yea i liked the illusionist too

the ending was mind-bottling lol...Will Ferrel is funny

Backdraft. *nods*

The Others. 12 Monkeys also ended surprisingly.

I never catch on to anything (clichéd storylines or the whole fucking plot of Braveheart, sure, but intentional surprise endings? Not so much.) so I thought The Sixth Sense was pretty cool, as was The Usual Suspects. I'm sure there are others but I can't remember right now.


For me it has to be the revelation moment in Fight Club when he realises he and Tyler Durden are the same person. My then boyfriend spoilered that one for me because he assumed I had seen the movie. I hadn't and of course promptly lost all incentive to ever do so now that the whole point was given away. I actively tried to forget that I knew the end until I finally saw it years later. I shouldn't have bothered, it sucked anyway. :p

Do you remember the poster for that film? It was a mock up of the id parade with the 5 main characters on it. When it came out there was poster up at my train station, and when I got off the train someone had defaced the poster with a big arrow pointing to kevin Spacey and the legend "it was him". The bastard.Awesome. :p

the 6th sense

i also like the moment in the original jackal movie where the man comes back from vacation and we realize that they only caught the jackal by luck.

the revelation of fight club was cool but watching him beat himself up in flashbacks was completely stupid.

I forgot to mention Primal Fear. Excellent. I think it was Eddie Norton's first.

Nobody seems to have heard of it, but Arlington Road was excellent.

And one of my all-time favorites: Chinatown.

I forgot to mention Primal Fear. Excellent. I think it was Eddie Norton's first.Oooohhh,yeah, that was ages ago but I loved it.

The end of Blades of Glory. The very end :P

Oh, and Being John Malkovich. Also a shocker.

Se7en.

"Put the gun down!"

"What's in the box!?"

Se7en.

"Put the gun down!"

"What's in the box!?"

I just saw that movie. It's one of the creepiest movies I've ever watched.

I just saw that movie. It's one of the creepiest movies I've ever watched.

I didn't see that ending coming at all. The suspense building up to it was awesome though.

I guess for me it was the ending of Titanic. I kept waiting for the ship to be saved by some sort of Star Trek technobabble solution, or giant helicopters. But no. Those bastards kept me guessing right up until the ending credits.

I'm rarely, if ever, surprised by plot twists in a movie. I either:

A: Pick up on them before they even occur. I also saw the Spanish Inquisition coming a mile away.
B: I spend way too much time on the internet, so I run into plenty of fuckwits who go "LOOK AT ME! I KNOW WHAT HAPPENS I *****! AS IT TURNS OUT ***** ***** ******!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ZOMGHAXLOL!!!"

Remember kids, I'm just using caps to lampoon and make a point. Never use all caps in real life. No matter what anyone tells you, Caps Lock is never cruise control for cool.

Nope. No one expects the Spanish Inquisition.

definitely the 6th sense.
I went along thinking it was going to be a really cool, creepy movie with a surprise, 'you'll-never-guess-this!' twist ending.
Man, was I in for a shock!

It was one of the lamest, most boring, tritest, dog's-balls-obvious movies I've been to in a long while.

Only beaten in recent times by that other M.Night.Shalayaman (sp) overindulgent disaster masquerading as art-house intelligent cinema, 'The Village'.

Se7en.

"Put the gun down!"

"What's in the box!?"

Gotta love Gweneth Paltrow's topless scene :nods:

As a kinda of counternote to surprise endings, I declined to see Passion of the Christ. "Meh. I know how it ends."

The remake of Animal Farm, where the 'good' farmers come back in the end and take over the farm and set things to 'rights'.

I did not see that coming. (And it's just sort of tacked on there).

Jacob's Ladder.

One of the very few movie endings to have caught me even a little bit by surprise.

eXistenZ. That film still fucks with my head.

Jacob's Ladder.

One of the very few movie endings to have caught me even a little bit by surprise.

I kept wondering what was bugging me about that movie, like it seemed like it was supposed to be now but the cop cars and all the other cars where from the 70s so it didn't seem that far removed from when he came back, and just about the time I had identified that the setting didn't seem right it was revealed. Rarely is the revelation that well timed.

The one that really floored me was The Bicycle Thief, mostly because you don't spend the movie thinking there is a trick. Unless you just read those two sentences.

Sorry...

The guard in Antitrust.

District 13 - not near the end, it gets a bit predictable there, but near the start.

When the hero's sister has been kidnapped and he just goes in there and rescues her. You're expecting the whole film to be about his battle to get his sister back (which would be dull), but he manages it immediately - only to be fucked over by the cops. Really quite good.

Also, whoever it was who said Twelve Monkeys was right. Amazing film, great ending.

The Prestige is good, but it's quite easy to predict. There's enough clues in the film for the ending not to be a surprise.

Twelve Monkeys definitely (and one of my favoeite films to boot).

Not a movie, but meh.
In Code Geass when Euphie goes psycho and orders the massacre of all the Japanese people, I was pretty damn suprised.

Gotta love Gweneth Paltrow's topless scene :nods:

Unfortunately Brad Pitt has larger breast then Gweneth! :cool:

I also saw the Spanish Inquisition coming a mile away.

Nobody expects the spanish inquisition!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:D ;)

edit: damn it Curious Inquiry you beat me to it. o well teaches me to read the whole thread before replying. :rolleyes:

Unfortunately Brad Pitt has larger breast then Gweneth! :cool:

I meant her topless scene at the end of the film ;)

I so should not have read this thread...

And Twelve Monkeys is excellent. "We did it!" I'm going to start spraying that everywhere, just to fuck with the future.

I meant her topless scene at the end of the film ;)

lol it's so wrong, but it feels so right.

lol it's so wrong, but it feels so right.

That's what she said.