Same here.
It’s similar to how people often claim they saw the Keyser Soze twist coming early on in Usual Suspects… yes, there are clues, but people treat it like it was “soooo obvious.”
Me, too. No one I knew at the time saw the twist coming before they saw the movie. As I recall it, they set up a lot of situations where you just assumed the psychiatrist would have interacted with somebody other than the kid just by seeing him there, so it takes something to notice that he never actually talks to anyone but the kid. It was very well done that way.
Of course, when I saw The Others which has a similar twist, I got it pretty early on.
Ditto and ditto. The Sixth Sense actually is a good movie and I didn’t catch on until the final few minutes. Your spoilered film is also an entertaining film, but that one I suspected what was going on very early - really the hints are much, much stronger from at least the halfway point, if not earlier.
Yeah, I saw it coming too, but not until quite near the end. And even then I wasn’t sure.
My mom did. 30 minutes into the movie she whispered to me, “He’s Dead”
I sat pissed the rest of the time because I really wanted to enjoy the movie without trying to figure it out right away.
"Aww, Hell nah! We on the planet thatz… Aftah Arf!"
CUT TO BLACK
directed by M. Night Shyamalan.
Theater: BOOOOOO!
Of course the animals chasing them were in… the pursuit of snackyness!
The twist for me was finding out that MNS was the director. If it was revealed in the opening credits, I missed it. Seems a little odd that none of the commercial trailers I saw mentioned that, I seem to remember his name being flaunted about quite a bit in the promotional materials for his other films. (I’m not saying it was kept secret per se, just wasn’t shoved in our faces).
The twist is that they find they are on Melmack and the creatures there have evolved to eat something other than cats.
Well, at this point he’s box office poison.
I saw a pretty thorough write-up somewhere, Reddit maybe, that made a really strong case for this movie basically being about Scientology.
Regarding The Sixth Sense. Even Mrs. FtG knew what was happening and she isn’t the most careful observer. And she’s hardly the only person I know who got it.
What is most baffling, even if you were talking, looking at your cell phone, etc. thru the early part of the movie, what is going thru your mind during the big reveal in the hospital? The kid makes several key points: He sees dead people and …
“Walking around like regular people. They don’t see each other. They only see what they want to see. They don’t know they’re dead.”
Now why was that last part added? Is it just filler to eat up time in the movie? Not likely. It was put in there for a reason.
Let’s see, who’s walking around like regular people? There’s the kid, the mom, Willis and his wife as the major players. The kid does see dead people, that rules him out. The mom and the wife are interacting with several other people. That just leaves Willis. Who quite noticeably hasn’t had a conversation with anyone but the dead-seeing kid since he was shot.
Why throw in the “They don’t see each other.”? Clearly to explain why Willis doesn’t see the dead people the kid sees. Etc.
This is incredibly obvious if you are at all paying attention during the movie.
If you didn’t get it by this point at the latest, you may have been in the theater, but you weren’t watching the movie.
A agree that the twist was strongly telegraphed if you were looking for it. I suspect even if one was just told “there’s a twist ending”, one would find it with little difficulty. It’s not like “dead guy who doesn’t know he’s dead” was a new concept (although “dead guy who doesn’t know he’s dead as the main point-of-view character” might have been).
But as it happens, at the time, MNS was not known as “the guy who puts a twist ending on every fucking thing”, most movies did not have twist endings, and I’m not ashamed to say that I wasn’t looking for it, and didn’t find it.
They reveal that it’s plants pretty much a third of the way through the movie. And even before then, it was pretty much implied that it had some sort of natural cause. So not a twist.
The twist ending to The Happening is SPOILER: that the plants suddenly start to be nice to us again after giving us a “warning”, ie, the lamest twist ending ever to anything.
So you’re just going to ignore that like 80-90% of the movie-going public missed it?
Man, I would have loved to have been a stats guy doing a study of people who watched The Sixth Sense during its theatrical run. The number of people then who admitted to figuring it out versus now would be fascinating.
Or…
[QUOTE=Spike on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”]
If every vampire who said he was at the crucifixion was actually there, it would have been like Woodstock. I was actually at Woodstock. That was a weird gig. I fed off a flower person, and I spent the next six hours watching my hand move.
[/QUOTE]
Exactly. It’s obvious in retrospect, but when they were in the theater, probably not one person in 10 who says they got the twist right away really did.
As an aside I try to NOT look for twists, because the aha moment is so much fun. Then you go back and watch again with a whole new perspective. Of course most of the time the twists suck but every once in awhile you get a good one.
And damn it, I hate when people TELL you a movie has a twist. Don’t tell ME THAT !
First off, I’m not going to be one of these people that claim that they weren’t fooled by The Sixth Sense… It reminds me of how the number of people that claim they were at Martin Luther King’s march on Washington far outnumbers the actual number of people that were there. I was surprised by the twist, and loved it.
I remember that the Nicole Kidman movie, The Others, came out not long after The Sixth Sense and though it has a similar twist, people weren’t nearly as surprised by it because they were already en guarde for that kind of ending.