i didn’t get it until the movie. most of my friends didn’t either. i guess some cynical folks upon hearing “i see dead people” would try to guess the twist and HYPOTHESIZE that bruce willis was dead, but it definitely wasn’t obvious.
Naw, I didn’t figure that out until quite late in the film.
Other than the star admitting it after the fact, the “secret” in Pale Rider can be disputed. He could just be a man shot down and left for dead.
I suspected that, but dismissed it because of the lack of sense. Is the site you referenced “official,” or fan wank?
Put me down as not realizing the thing about Sixth Sense until the end.
Really? I certainly didn’t notice that. Bill worked for Boss Matsumoto?
I didn’t get it until the end, either. They played it really, really well, especially the scene in the restaurant on their anniversary.
I didn’t notice until someone pointed out to me that the two plots to kill the Nazi leadership in Inglourious Basterds happened independently of each other. Now that I think back on it it’s like, “Oh yeah. They were, weren’t they? That was right there in my face for the whole movie and I missed it.”
James M. Barrie’s stage directions require that Hook and Mr. Darling be played by the same actor. Movies have usually stuck with that (they pretty much have to, since the play is under copyright and will not be public domain). Hook avoided it by not showing Mr. Darling (he was presumably dead).
Debateable, at least outside the UK:
I didn’t figure it out until the end. Your buddy sounds like he’s full of it. 
I’m pretty sure this is false.
Another Kill Bill related one.
I didn’t realise that it was based on Lady Snowblood. Despite having seen Lady Snowblood at least twice before I saw Kill Bill.
The Willis character had an obviously fatal wound in the opening scene; his wife ignores him at dinner; etc. It should have been pretty obvious. (Not to mention that the only one who ever acknowledges Willis tells us he can “see dead people who don’t know they’re dead.”)
But I didn’t figure it out either. :smack:
Great movie!
I remember the Kill Bill debate about the identity of O-Ren’s fathers killer and the most compelling piece of evidence for the theory was that the sword used by the killer is the same one you see Bill holding when he’s calling Ellie Driver at the hospital.
I don’t necessarily buy it, but it does add a certain roundness to the story.
If this was in the '60s, it may have been the original TV broadcast, with Mary Martin playing Peter, and Cyril Richard playing Wendy’s father/Captain Hook.
I’m only 20. The thing I’m talking about was on VHS.
There was an old Raisinettes commercial just before the movie started.
So it might have been from the '60s, but I’m certainly not. 
I’d have to see video clips or pictures.
There was so much talk about Sixth Sense having a surprise ending that it should have been pretty obvious what it was, but I didn’t catch on either. I try not to overthink movies while watching them though; IMO it’s better to be surprised by a well-constructed plot.
Anyway this doesn’t apply to the OP because it was the filmmaker’s attempt to surprise you – if you’d seen the movie twice and STILL hadn’t caught on, that would be :smack:worthy.
I Youtube’d it and you were right, good call.
Wow, this is bringing back some memories. I watched this thing every evening for months straight when I was a tiny tot.
I’m amazed they made a VHS of it.
I watched Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo not knowing that it was the basis for the spaghetti western Dollars trilogy (Fistful of Dollars, Few Dollars More, Good, Bad, Ugly). Finding out immediately after the fact was a real shock.
Even beyond that, westerns and samurai films are more or less analogous.
I figure that 90 percent of the people who said they figured it out early on are full of shit.
True, but you don’t actually see him die in that scene and when he shows up again a few minutes later you just assume he made it through all right (also knowing that Bruce Willis is the star and that they probably spent a boatload of money on him, you assume “there’s no way they’d bump him off this early”).
I saw the movie not long after it came out, before word had really gotten around that there was a twist, so I went in thinking it was just your standard supernatural thriller. That’s what made it so great, and that’s why none of M. Night Shyamalan’s have been able to equal it - because you know going in that there’s going to be some sort of twist at the end and you spend the whole film trying to figure it out. In “The Sixth Sense” (if you saw it early on anyway before all the buzz) it was so unexpected that it almost literally took the wind out of you.
Come over here and sit by me. The person I saw it with assured me he figured it out in Willis’ first scene. I however, was totally surprised and am not ashamed to admit it.
Similar to The Sixth Sense, I had no idea that the family was already dead in The Others. It should’ve been painfully obvious since it was released shortly after The Sixth Sense came out, and many movies made within 2-5 years tend to mimic each other. For example, in the 80s, there was Sixteen Candles, Breakfast Club, etc.; then late 80s/early 90s (I think), there was The Butcher’s Wife, Date with an Angel, etc. Yes, I’m a bit dense. And yes, wine was involved.
I didn’t catch that one either. But in our defense they did throw in some odd quirks to the characters to throw you off i.e. children allergic to daylight.