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So, most horror/dramatic/suspense movie have a twist at the end where a person didn't expect that to happen, etc. Well, what is the worst twist you've ever seen in a movie?

For me it would have to be The Village twist. Not only was the idea of sending a blind girl into the forest stupid (the logic being was that the monster in the wood would have sympathy because she was blind) but to actually reveal that the entire village was a scientific study done in the 1960's? :headbang:

Now it's your turn, tell us about the worse movie twist.

That one about the plane and the child. Not only was it a crap movie, the 'twist' at the end made me want to kick my TV in and slash my wrists with broken bits of screen.

Was anyone really surprised by The Crying Game?

I mean ... we all saw Stargate ... we knew it was a guy.

War of the Worlds...the Aliens want to take over the Planet, Get all the battle preparations, but don't bother to test if the can SURVIVE ON THE PLANET!! :mad:

and

Signs...The aliens biggest weakness is water...now that's just stupid...:mad:

:headbang: :headbang: :headbang:

The Empire Fights back... where Darth Vader told Luke he was his real father!


Ok.. seriously... worst twist I've seen in a movie was repeated a million times and used to death where the killer is the father. lover, mother, or best freind of the main character.

Signs...The aliens biggest weakness is water...now that's just stupid...:mad:


Yeah .... but Joaquin Phoenix in a tinfoil hat is just precious.

That one about the plane and the child. Not only was it a crap movie, the 'twist' at the end made me want to kick my TV in and slash my wrists with broken bits of screen.

:eek: what was it?

:eek: what was it?
Erm I think it was called 'flightplan' or something. Bloody awful film.

War of the Worlds...the Aliens want to take over the Planet, Get all the battle preparations, but don't bother to test if the can SURVIVE ON THE PLANET!! :mad:

but wait they came back some year later

Sounds like flightplan to me

Erm I think it was called 'flightplan' or something. Bloody awful film.

What was the twist?

What was the twist?
IIRC the child was simply not on the plane in the first place.

none of the stuff inside Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory existed. He just dusted LSD on the winning tickets.

Not really a specific twist, or even a movie twist, but in, like, every soap opera where they reveal that a character is *GASP* and impostor! or *GASP* the illegitimate child of so-and-so.
It's really be done to death. Quite often it's already been done to death WITHIN THE SAME SHOW.
So don't watch the damned things if you like good storytelling, really.

Not really a specific twist, or even a movie twist, but in, like, every soap opera where they reveal that a character is *GASP* and impostor! or *GASP* the illegitimate child of so-and-so.


*gasp* Calculon! I thought you were ...

Egyptian?

IIRC the child was simply not on the plane in the first place.

Huh?

Kyle has found the unconscious Julia and moved her to a hiding place farther back in the airplane. As Carson is approaching the area where he left Julia, he exclaims that it had been easy to take her and bring her into the avionics bay via a service elevator without any of the passengers noticing. Carson arrives at the front of the plane and discovers Julia gone. He turns to resume his hunt, and Kyle detonates the explosives, killing Carson instantly and seriously damaging the front end of the plane.

Kyle, carrying Julia, manages to exit via a cargo door, and the FBI, flight passengers, and crew members all look at Kyle in amazement as she carries her daughter out onto the tarmac. The next morning Kyle receives apologies from the captain. A minivan arrives to pick up Kyle and Julia, and they drive off.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flightplan

Hmm. I really must have been amazingly stoned when watching that to not remember the whole of the ending whatsoever.

Nice.

It still sucked, mind.

For me it would have to be The Village twist. Not only was the idea of sending a blind girl into the forest stupid (the logic being was that the monster in the wood would have sympathy because she was blind) but to actually reveal that the entire village was a scientific study done in the 1960's? :headbang:
You really should watch your movies more closely. There was no creature. The Elders had invented it to scare the others into never venturing away from the village. The one that attacked Ivy was the retarded guy who had attacked her fiance earlier.
The reason they let Ivy go was because they could trust her not to tell anyone what the outside was like (for one thing she was blind so her descriptions would be pretty limited).
Also it wasn't a study done in the 60's. It was an attempt to remove themselves from modern day society in the 70's and live like they would have 100 years earlier. When Ivy got out, it was modern day (ie 2004, the year of the film's release).

Other than that, I agree with you that it was a load of old wank.
espesh the bit where she's runs through the forest waving a stick. She's blind for chrissakes! waving a stick higglety-pigglety does not mean all the tree roots and rocks scurry out of you way.

I like Egbert's description:
"The Village is a colossal miscalculation, a movie based on a premise that cannot support it, a premise so transparent it would be laughable were the movie not so deadly solemn... To call the ending an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes. It's a crummy secret, about one step up the ladder of narrative originality from It Was All a Dream. It's so witless, in fact, that when we do discover the secret, we want to rewind the film so we don't know the secret anymore."

IIRC the child was simply not on the plane in the first place.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flightplan#Story

Eh..

Ring of Darkness has so many terrible twists at the end that I'm not even sure the writer was sure where he was going with the story.
However, the revelation that a boy band composed entirely of zombies/vampires had been able to hide their existence for 50-someodd years by changing names and lead singers every decade or so was one of the most amusing.

The twist at the end of Pet Semetary (where the guy brings his dead wife back), was just stupid. What sort of learning curve was that dumb ass operating on?

The tacked on ending of Disturbing Behavior (villain survives) was awful, not just because it was pointless and clichéd, but because it was part of a general butchering of the movie. DB could have been a good horror film, but then some jaskass producer took a hatchet to it.

*gasp* Calculon! I thought you were ...

Egyptian?

I actually saw a soap opera the other day in the dentist's office where one of the characters had amnesia. Whether it was explosive amnesia, though, I'm not sure. :p

The twist at the end of Dead Silence has almost nothing to do with the plot at all... it was as if at the end of spiderman 3 you just found out Parker had a pet dog named Venom...

FYI the twist was that the man's father was dead and his new wife was really the old lady or somthing.

The plot twist at the end of 'Dead Again'.
The murdered woman is reincarnated as a guy and the guy reincarnated as the woman.
By then, after 80+ minutes of ham-acting and boring flashbacks, you won't particularly care.

Contact. What a fucking ripoff.

Fight Club

Call me an idiot (and you probably will) but I didn't get it right up to the reveal moment.

I'll second the following:

Flightplan
Anything Shayamalan, esp. The Village
War of the Worlds remakes

and I'll add:

Club Dread.

Because I *always* suspected the Fun Police. :p

Contact. What a fucking ripoff.

Eh?

Not that I'm a fan of the movie, but what did it rip off? :confused:

*gasp* Calculon! I thought you were ...

Egyptian?

I've certainly seen my share of movies that made me wish for a case of explosive amnesia.

You know what one was lame, the one with the kid who sees dead people. I don't remember the name of it right now, and if I think too hard I'll lose my buzz. But that was a lame twist.

You know what one was lame, the one with the kid who sees dead people. I don't remember the name of it right now, and if I think too hard I'll lose my buzz. But that was a lame twist.

Sixth Sense, and yes it was utter shite

Eh?

Not that I'm a fan of the movie, but what did it rip off? :confused:

Whole movie they hype you up to see some aliens and then when you do... its her dad. Not clever, not deep, just irritating.

Sixth Sense, and yes it was utter shite

I blame at least some of that on whoever convinced Bruce Willis he could act. :p

Whole movie they hype you up to see some aliens and then when you do... its her dad. Not clever, not deep, just irritating.

Oh... you mean *that* kind of rip-off. :p My mistake.

I thought you meant rip-off as in plagiarism. ;)

I blame at least some of that on whoever convinced Bruce Willis he could act. :p

Well he can wear a vest, shoot and crack one liners, but actually act? Noooo

Well he can wear a vest, shoot and crack one liners, but actually act? Noooo
really? I think he's a pretty good actor. Much better than ppl take him for and much better than most in Hollywood (eg. Russell 'I try so hard to look like I'm not acting' Crowe).

really? I think he's a pretty good actor. Much better than ppl take him for and much better than most in Hollywood (eg. Russell 'I try so hard to look like I'm not acting' Crowe).

He has managed to typecast himsaelf as the tough uy, give him a meaty role and he can't do it. Unfortunately for him everyone sees him as John McClain

really? I think he's a pretty good actor. Much better than ppl take him for and much better than most in Hollywood (eg. Russell 'I try so hard to look like I'm not acting' Crowe).

He's not horrible. He just can't carry a movie himself. I think that's the thing.

He has managed to typecast himsaelf as the tough uy, give him a meaty role and he can't do it. Unfortunately for him everyone sees him as John McClain
He was good in 'Sixth Sense', and 'Twelve Monkeys'. Can hardly call him tough in either of those roles. Likewise his minor role in '4 rooms'.
And his acting in Die Hard is way above the usual expected from such movies (ie Steven Seagull, Arnie, Van Damme).

He was good in 'Sixth Sense', and 'Twelve Monkeys'. Can hardly call him tough in either of those roles. Likewise his minor role in '4 rooms'.
And his acting in Die Hard is way above the usual expected from such movies (ie Steven Seagull, Arnie, Van Damme).

Twelve Monkeys I will give you.

And we can also quote that film (along with Se7en) as where we discovered Brad pitt can actually act a little and not just look good.

Ooh, I've got one. The Forgotten (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0356618/). The movie itself wasn't great to begin with, but when you get to the twist, you're throwing popcorn at the screen.

Cube. Seven people get stuck in this Cube thing full of deadly traps. While trying to survive and find a way out, they try and figure out why they were there.

"There is no conspiracy. Nobody is in charge. It's a headless blunder operating under the illusion of a master plan."

That explains it.

Ooh, I've got one. The Forgotten (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0356618/). The movie itself wasn't great to begin with, but when you get to the twist, you're throwing popcorn at the screen.
Not seen the movie, but just read through the IMDB forum board on it, and you read the thread, 'Ooops… did I just give away “the twist”?'. 1/2 way down someone says what happens in the Director's cut ending. Sounds way better than the general release version.

Cube. Seven people get stuck in this Cube thing full of deadly traps. While trying to survive and find a way out, they try and figure out why they were there.

"There is no conspiracy. Nobody is in charge. It's a headless blunder operating under the illusion of a master plan."

That explains it.


The point of Cube isn't the conspiracy, or the reason why they're stuck in that terrible machine. It is, at it's simplest, a character study. It's a look at how people react to a subversive horror and how they band together to fight it and subsequently are driven apart. There is no "twist" to the movie.

The point of Cube isn't the conspiracy, or the reason why they're stuck in that terrible machine. It is, at it's simplest, a character study. It's a look at how people react to a subversive horror and how they band together to fight it and subsequently are driven apart. There is no "twist" to the movie.

Didn't they make a bunch of sequels? Are any of them worth watching? :p I heard they finally get out of the cube, eventually.

Didn't they make a bunch of sequels? Are any of them worth watching? :p I heard they finally get out of the cube, eventually.
A friend of mine watched them (iirc, there's a sequel and a prequel) and said they were total shite.

The Others, with Nicole Kidman.
Ohhh...how scary, a door opening then shutting then opening again. Frightened the life out of me, I can tell you.
Oh, and the surprise twist - She's the ghost and the 'ghosts' are the ones still living! omg, I never saw that coming.

Whole movie they hype you up to see some aliens and then when you do... its her dad. Not clever, not deep, just irritating.

Read the book, which is much better than the movie--though the movie was a neat little adaptation of the book--where it's shown that it's not her dad...the aliens just took the form of the person closest to the five members of the journey.

Oh, and the aliens are building a galaxy. I forget if that's mentioned in the movie, but that's just freaking awesome.

Read the book, which is much better than the movie--though the movie was a neat little adaptation of the book--where it's shown that it's not her dad...the aliens just took the form of the person closest to the five members of the journey.

Oh, and the aliens are building a galaxy. I forget if that's mentioned in the movie, but that's just freaking awesome.

Yea, but this whole build up of seeing an alien, and we get an alien who takes the form of her dad? Comon, we wanted to see the aliens actual physical characteristic!

FOr me it was the village, I simply felt like lifting upthe 400 lb 60 inch tv and throwing it out the window of my friends 20th story apartment window... and this would have been funny considering im around 120lbs soaking wet...

Sixth sense just pissed me off... Right after the little into, prologue, whatever, I said, "there's no way he survived that." of course i was right, so the entire movie just sucked from that point forward. yeah, the village was awful too, I was sort of waiting for the plot, then it ended all of a sudden. Too many things do that, you're waiting for the plot, up until that part it seems to be building but with no real climax, then suddenly, it's over! Perhaps with some little twist at the end so you'll be paid for more movies/books etc.

Yea, but this whole build up of seeing an alien, and we get an alien who takes the form of her dad? Comon, we wanted to see the aliens actual physical characteristic!

Which probably would have been incomprehensible to humans. Basically, if you want to see that, you missed the whole bloody point.

Any movie where every alien/vampire/werewolf has been destroyed due to them all congregating in the mother lair only for the final shot to be some baby alien/vampire/werewolf mewing in a clump of grass.

Those movies.

So, most horror/dramatic/suspense movie have a twist at the end where a person didn't expect that to happen, etc. Well, what is the worst twist you've ever seen in a movie?

For me it would have to be The Village twist. Not only was the idea of sending a blind girl into the forest stupid (the logic being was that the monster in the wood would have sympathy because she was blind) but to actually reveal that the entire village was a scientific study done in the 1960's? :headbang:

Now it's your turn, tell us about the worse movie twist.

I'm assuming the thread title is a Robot Chicken reference?

And I must agree, everything by M Night "What a twit!" Shyamalan has been very disappointing. Sixth Sense was so mediocre, I decided not to watch anything else he did. Then was cajoled into watching Signs...

Signs...The aliens biggest weakness is water...now that's just stupid...:mad:

:headbang: :headbang: :headbang:

Yup, stupid is putting it lightly. The planet surface is mostly water, the atmosphere has water, plants are mostly water, we're mostly water, but they can't go near a lake? And aren't they here to harvest us? W T F?