# "Shocking" Twist Endings **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 15, 2003, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-twist-endings/181927 "2003-06-15T00:24:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-twist-endings/181927/21 "2003-06-17T17:36:03Z")
An idiot DJ\* spoiled _The Crying Game_’s big secret for me, but as did **SuperLori** , I found the presentation somewhat shocking, not in the sense of not being able to finish my popcorn, but in the sense that it was something I hadn’t seen on the big screen before. I was also identifying with the “hero” by that point, so I could feel shocked on his behalf. By the way, by all rights who and what the film’s protagonist was and did in the film should have been shocking in itself, but the only thing anybody wanted to talk about was The woman had a penis.I think how smart or how gullible you are only partly determines whether or not you see the twist coming. Some people take great pleasure in figuring things out for themselves while others prefer to be surprised by the dramatic revelation. Some people aren’t even that concerned about the plot and would rather enjoy the action, or the characters, or some other aspect. \*KROQ’s Kevin. Or was it Bean? I never could figure out which one was talking. ---
**Author:** ![X\_Slayer\_ALE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/bbe5ce/32.png) [@X\_Slayer\_ALE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/X_Slayer_ALE)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-twist-endings/181927/22 "2003-06-17T18:08:49Z")
No one watched “The Ring”…??? ---
**Author:** ![PoorYorick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@PoorYorick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoorYorick)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-twist-endings/181927/23 "2003-06-17T18:37:43Z")
OK, OK, everyone’s talking about [i/]The Crying Game\* . . . so I just have to say: My graduate training was in Physical/Forensic Anthropology, and (I guess the following is a spoiler) so I got pretty good at looking at someone, transgendered or not, and figuring out, “Hell, that’s a guy, look at the gonial angle on that sucker,” or whatever. But let me tell you, the “girl” with a penis? She had me completely fooled! I mean, I’d _still_ kiss her. ---
**Author:** ![meow\_meow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@meow\_meow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meow_meow)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-twist-endings/181927/24 "2003-06-17T19:04:52Z")
Wild Things (1998), in its twistiness, really surprised me. ---
**Author:** ![Polairis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@Polairis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polairis)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-twist-endings/181927/25 "2003-06-17T19:43:07Z")
[tongue-in-cheek] I can’t believe that no one has even mentioned that classic film starring one of our most beloved method actors of all time… _Ace Ventura: Pet Detective_ that twist sure took _me_ by surprise! [/tongue-in-cheek] ---
**Author:** ![amy\_shamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c4cdca/32.png) [@amy\_shamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amy_shamon)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-twist-endings/181927/26 "2003-06-17T19:44:03Z")
i have to say, as lame as it was, The Last Broadcast shocked me a bit. Also, the twists in Scream 3, and although I don’t understand it fully, American Psycho. Also, unless I know there’s going to be a twist I do not look for one, so, because I didnt know, Fight Club had one, that kinda had me. ---
**Author:** ![amy\_shamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c4cdca/32.png) [@amy\_shamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amy_shamon)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-twist-endings/181927/27 "2003-06-17T19:46:41Z")
i have to say, as lame as it was, The Last Broadcast shocked me a bit. Also, the twists in Scream 3, and although I don’t understand it fully, American Psycho. Also, unless I know there’s going to be a twist I do not look for one, so, because I didnt know Fight Club had one, that kinda had me. ---
**Author:** ![Sinungaling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Sinungaling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sinungaling)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-twist-endings/181927/28 "2003-06-17T19:53:38Z")
**TWDuke** , good point, hardly anyone mentions the IRA terrorist or the imprisoned British soldier or all the rest of the stuff in the movie. It’s all about the, you know. And I watched The Ring too (please no assertions of Ringu’s superiority, I’m tired of hearing it from people I talk to). It scared me more than surprised me. I saw it on DVD, in the middle of the night, by myself, with the lights properly turned down for dramatic effect. I’d forgotten what it was like to be afraid of the dark, but I sure as hell remembered that night. ---
**Author:** ![McDeath\_the\_Mad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a3d4f5/32.png) [@McDeath\_the\_Mad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/McDeath_the_Mad)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-twist-endings/181927/29 "2003-06-17T20:12:00Z")
I liked the Twists in “Wild Things” as well. I really liked the flash-back clips during the closing credits that “linked” all the twists together. Would the ending in “Se7en” be classified as a twist, or a shock? MtM ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-twist-endings/181927/30 "2003-06-17T20:40:28Z")
**Chinatown** , anyone? ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-twist-endings/181927/31 "2003-06-17T20:55:14Z")
How about **Psycho**? ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Bongo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a9adbd/32.png) [@Winston\_Bongo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Bongo)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-twist-endings/181927/32 "2003-06-17T22:37:05Z")
**The Usual Suspects** is a much better movie if you go into it, as I did, knowing absolutely nothing about it. All I knew was that it was a crime caper type film featuring a lot of actors I liked. I had no idea there even WAS a twist ending, so I wasn’t trying to solve the mystery along the way. Had someone said to me, “You’ll never BELIEVE who the bad guy turns out to be!” I’m sure I would have figured it out pretty quick. As for **Seven** , I’d call that a shock ending rather than a twist. Of course, it’s not really “shocking” in the sense of “unexpected” – I figured it out way ahead (haha!). It’s more shocking in the sense of “Oh no, I can’t believe the sick bastards are going to end it like this!” I’m probably pretty sick myself for even liking that movie. :rolleyes: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shocking-twist-endings/181927.md?page=1)