# Recommend me a movie with a huge twist... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 23, 2004, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-movie-with-a-huge-twist/225727 "2004-01-23T06:37:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2004, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-movie-with-a-huge-twist/225727/81 "2004-05-17T19:11:46Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > Now, just to continue on this theme: > > The Wizard of Oz doesn’t have a plot twist that I can think of near the end. Some nice little twists in the first half. Also waaay too many drug references for a “kids movie.” (And if you think I’m going to do a spoiler box for WoOz…) She gets knocked out. When she “wakens” everything is different, weird stuff, color, etc. It’s clearly a hallucination. Since the witch (and much later the wizard) are clearly characters from her “real life”, that also clues you in. > > Very good movie, well done, classic songs and Judy! But no twist ending. Way too many drug references? I couldn’t one for certain and another maybe. Exactly what do you mean? And I don’t agree it’s clearly a hallucination, since it’s in essence a fantasy and in fantasy, those kind of things are par for the course. I was also under the impression that the bright colors as opposed to the black and white(among other reasons) were included to provide a nice contrast to the dullness of the great plains and dorthey’s life beforehand. And there’s also the fact that in Baum’s book, the whole thing ISN’T a dream or hallucination. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2004, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-movie-with-a-huge-twist/225727/82 "2004-05-17T19:17:02Z")
> [@minor7flat5](#): > > What? Nobody mentioned **Pulp Fiction** yet? > > Now that’s a film like a roller coaster ride. You think you know what’s going to happen in the next scene and then _Bam!_ something comes in out of left field. In many places. I can’t think of any big plot twists in there. Unexpected occuraces and unconventional choronlogy, sure, but I’m having a hard time thinking of anything that throws the rest of the movie into a new perspective. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2004, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-movie-with-a-huge-twist/225727/83 "2004-05-17T19:24:30Z")
> [@Baraqiyal](#): > > \*\* > > House of Sand and Fog What was the twist in “House of Sand and Fog”? I saw it a couple weeks back and nothing sticks out. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2004, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-movie-with-a-huge-twist/225727/84 "2004-05-17T19:30:59Z")
How about Mission Impossible? ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2004, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-movie-with-a-huge-twist/225727/85 "2004-05-17T20:02:15Z")
Not mentioned yet: Arlington Road Best Laid Plans The Search for One-Eye Jimmy Swimming With Sharks Small twist: Bottle Rocket (my favorite movie) ---
**Author:** ![Dahnlor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dahnlor/32/533_2.png) [@Dahnlor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dahnlor)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2004, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-movie-with-a-huge-twist/225727/86 "2004-05-17T20:32:27Z")
**The Pledge** , starring Jack Nicholson and directed by Sean Penn. Until the “twist” happens, I absolutely HATED this movie. It was nearly two hours of cop-movie-cliche-saturated torture. However, the way it ended made the whole ordeal worthwhile. D ---
**Author:** ![Tierce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@Tierce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tierce)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-movie-with-a-huge-twist/225727/87 "2004-05-20T17:21:22Z")
_ **From Dusk Till Dawn.** _😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2004, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-movie-with-a-huge-twist/225727/88 "2004-05-21T11:05:46Z")
Oh dear. So many posts, and I don’t think ‘Witness For The Prosecution’ has been mentioned. And I have to have a wry smile when people talk of ‘old’ movies that are 30 years old. There is an ending in ‘The Big Parade’ which could be said to be surprising. But it is a silent movie. It is rather old. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-movie-with-a-huge-twist/225727.md?page=4)