What is the best twist ending ever?
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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. -
aji_gps — 12 years ago(September 27, 2013 05:17 AM)
twists are being so overrated. It has become like "come on friends let's guess the ending of this story"
I think good twists come from writers who didn't even mean to make it a twisted-plot film. I like Saw, The Illusionist, I like the end of The Prestige but it's getting far too overrated.
The usual suspect's ending was predictable but the pin board scene wasn't. Vertigo was awesome. -
djs-p52 — 12 years ago(October 10, 2013 07:22 PM)
Psycho is probably the greatest. The Sixth Sense had a great one too I am told because when I saw it I already knew the twist so I don't know how surprising it would be. Usual Suspects would be there too.
Gentleman, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room. -
pgFiSheYe — 12 years ago(October 27, 2013 10:17 PM)
As geek as this may sound and I don't consider myself either a geek or a Star Wars geek fan, I believe the best twist ending belongs to Empire strikes back.
Putting things in perspective, nobody, absolutely nobody could have possible imagine that Vader was Luke's father. Moreover, the movie ends with Luke sort of running away from him, and we all knew at the time, a third and final installment was needed. So what was he going to do in that third and final film? Kill his father? Add to that, that we had to wait three years to find that out.
That is why I believe Empire has the best twist of all time. Psycho would come in as second.
