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Jun 16
2008
01:53 PM ET
Your favorite twist ending (and the ones we missed)
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Arlington Road. It didn’t do great at the box office (being about terrorism probably doesn’t help), but the ending is a jaw dropper.
Maybe “The Crying Game” (and “A Beautiful Mind) isn’t on here because perhaps they were looking for twists that happened at the very end of the movie…just a thought.
Dang, I was just about to nominate “Arlington Road,” a twist ending that sticks with you for days.
I also thought the reveal at the end of “Inside Man” was incredibly clever and one of the rare twists that makes you love the characters so much more.
Well, this might be a little stretch, but the end of Willy Wonka surprised me, probably because I didn’t read the book. I was totally surprised that Slugworth was working for Wonka. And “Primal Fear” is a good addition.
The Battlestar Galactica Mini-series when at the very end it is revealed that Boomer is a Cylon.
Primal Fear had a great twist and a great performance by Edward Norton.
Also, Hide and Seek with Dakota Fanning and Robert DeNiro had a pretty creepy and unexpected ending.
Leaving The Crying Game off is understandable since it wasn’t the “ending” when the TWIST took place.
As far as recent movies, THE MIST. That ending left me messed up for days.
My favorite twisty movie is definitely Memento. I gauge the quality of the twists but how many “Oh, Sh!ts!” I utter and Memento had plenty of them. I give it 10 out 10 “Oh, Sh!ts!”.
Frailty.
The Setup: Fenton Meiks (Matthew McConaughey) shows up at an FBI office late one night and tells an agent (Powers Boothe) that the identity of a serial killer is his brother, Adam. His tale flashbacks to their childhood. Their widowed dad (Bill Paxton) wakes his two boys in the middle of the night to tell them he has just had a visitation from an angel who told him there are many demons on earth and that God’s purpose for them is to destroy the demons. Dad becomes increasingly obsessed with his mission which culminates in his repeated abduction of complete strangers, who he brings back to his barn and kills with an axe. When he enlists his sons’ participation, younger son, Adam, believes and supports dad, but older son, Fenton, becomes alarmed and frightened by his dad’s fanaticism and tries to find a way to stop the madness.
The Twist: No one or nothing is what is seems to be.
The Sting. I, like Lt. Snyder, never saw it coming.
I have to give a nomination to the Jason Statham/Jet Li opus ‘War’. It’s not a particularly good movie as a whole, but it does have a really good twist ending that makes it worth watching.
Primal Fear (how is that not on this list?)
Also definitely would support The Machinist and Arlington Road.
Every movie I watch with my husband gets ruined by his prediction of the out come. We were watching IFC and came across the movie Criminal-a remake of 13 Queens, he had NO idea that the movie would end the way it did
It was a great movie!
I’m so pleasantly surprised by all of the Unbreakable nominations. I thought I was the only one who liked that movie. The Illusionist was a good one; I knew that there probably would be a twist, but I couldn’t figure out how. Arlington Road left me with my jaw on the floor. And although I don’t care much for Nick Cage, I liked the twist in Matchstick Men. It’s always fun when a comedy can end with a twist.