What is the best twist ending ever?
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Stratego — 12 years ago(June 27, 2013 09:54 AM)
Well number 6 certainly did. It was the way Keaton spoke about him not being able to feel his legs, the way he recognized Sze and the way that he kind of accepted the fact that it was him.
Aha, I thought you were referring to some conversation Keaton had with Verbal instead of the "mystery man" from the beginning. But you did say it was "something you had to think about after it happened".
Now I'm more of a modern movies kind of guy because of my generation so it's obvious this plot and twist has had many adoptions in other films.
This may explain why it wasn't that "obvious" to the people who watched the movie back then and were shocked at the twist?
If you will, you can say I didn't know the twist 10 minutes in but I knew all the necessary details to put it together the moment it revealed itself so to speak.
Well, putting it together when the twist is revealed is not that strange. I assume you put it together BEFORE the revelation?
But did the fact that you knew the twist so soon honestly ruin the ending for you? Ofcourse it's a shame if you know what the twist will be, but it can be enjoyed for other reasons. -
kevinthkevin — 12 years ago(June 28, 2013 12:40 AM)
oh it didn't ruin anything, just the hype I had for the fact that I thought I'd be fooled of my original thought was a bit too much. I was convinced that since I thought Verbal was Kayze he wouldn't be. Other than that not being so I loved this movie and it's most definitely one of my favorites for being really quite clever.
I said it was something I had to think about because in my mind I was thinking "that is the face of being surprised and then relieved", it was like one of those: HA you fooled me, good one! The only one I could think of being able to do that was Verbal, and the whole legs thing of course -
Stratego — 12 years ago(June 28, 2013 04:29 AM)
I said it was something I had to think about because in my mind I was thinking "that is the face of being surprised and then relieved", it was like one of those: HA you fooled me, good one! The only one I could think of being able to do that was Verbal, and the whole legs thing of course
Okay, I get what you're saying.
I have no doubt there were people back then who figured out the twist before it was revealed. These days, it's probably even easier to see through these kinds of twists. I do agree that the points you mentioned are hints that could be noticed, I think there are probably a few more. -
thope92 — 11 years ago(July 07, 2014 12:25 AM)
So basically you took a shot in the dark, followed it throughout, and shouldn't be that impressed with yourself? It's easy to take guesses almost 20 years after the film was made, as we had the unfortunate pre-exposure of being told it's a "twist film". It was obvious Keyser Soze had to be one of the five criminals. Seeing as Verbal and Keaton were the last two left and what followed, did it come as any surprise to you who Soze was?
I found the real twist to be that Verbal BS'd his way through everything by using the board to fool Kujan. -
cewephobia_romeo — 12 years ago(October 02, 2013 10:16 PM)
I suspected him since the very first scene of him interrogated by the cops. I don't have any particular reason, but then I switched to Keaton in the middle of the movie, Keaton's girl friend near the end, and finally, Kevin Spacey again. It's an easy guess at first, but then it makes me think "no, it can't be him." and I switched the suspect..that is what kind of movie this is, it's messing around with your guess. Even if you if it's the right one.
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kenneth_1857 — 12 years ago(February 08, 2014 09:07 AM)
Making guesses at the likely suspects is common. If you had heard nothing about the movie in advance, you did not guess who he was based on the intro scenes.
He did know people from the line-up, he knew Keaton. If he convinced Keaton because they wouldn't let him in otherwise, or because he knew he would need Keaton later, I don't know.
The lighter was seen in the opening scene, but it wasn't shown again until less than 5 minutes before the end.
He never spoke of himself as the devil to Kujan. He spoke of Keyser Sze as the devil and so did the other survivor.
You might have been right about a wild guess, it happens, but saying it was obvious is just plain dumb. -
ppllkk — 12 years ago(June 28, 2013 09:17 AM)
Diabolique (1955)
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carnifex2005 — 12 years ago(August 06, 2013 12:57 AM)
While the movies above were good twists, the best twist ending ever for me was the end of Lost episode 4 when you find out that at the very end that
Locke was a paraplegic before the plane crash and that is why he seemed happy while everyone was suitably in anguish on the island in the previous 4 episodes. Here it is
I did not see that coming at all. Great use of camera angles when showing Locke's story before the twist.
