I saw it only at the end (me and maybe 99+% of viewers.)
I figured it out during the scene where he meets his wife for dinner and she gets up and leaves without acknowledging him or speaking to him. I said to myself, “Oh, he’s not really there. He must have died when he was shot at the beginning.”
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Yeah, I remember that part but I just brushed it off. Then there was the psychiatrist who was talking to Cole and Crowe was just standing behind him, saying nothing (“What kind of child psychiatrist are you???”)
TBH, I had heard the talk about there being a “twist ending” before I saw the movie so I was kind of looking for things that might tip me off to what the twist might be. If I had known absolutely nothing about the movie before I saw it I probably wouldn’t have figured it out.
A couple days after the movie came out when everybody at school was talking about it, i.e. about two-three years before I saw it.
Yep, same.
Exactly when the movie wanted me to figure it out. I was totally manipulated successfully.
I was so pissed because my mom came home after watching it and she immediately blurted out the ending. I still went to go see it but it wasn’t the same.
My bro spoiled it for me.
Right at the end. Never saw it coming.
He was wearing the same clothes throughout, right?
I’ll quote myself from a thread years ago:
*I saw it with no knowledge of the twist and absolutely loved it. My wife and I went out for a meal after and picked it apart scene by scene. “Oh that’s why when he reached for the bill…”
A week later I was catching the train to work and a bunch of high school students were talking about it. They were being careful to not spoiler it for those that hadn’t seen it. Someone mentioned the surprise twist and one guy said, “What twist? Do you mean that Bruce Willis is dead?”
Everyone groaned and began to abuse him. He said, “It was no twist you saw him die at the start of the movie.”
I just loved the fact that he sat there and watched a completely different movie to me. Next time I saw it I watched his version. *
When I saw this thread title
When the filmmaker wanted me too. Blew me away. Totally sucked in.
I heard a DJ on the radio spoil it before I saw it. So I was watching it for the clues rather than the twist. Kinda ticked me off, since I love being surprised by a good twist ending.
Need Poll option for “knew it before I saw the movie”
In fairness, this wasn’t because of any keen insight on my part, it was because I’d been part of a Bible Study where this movie was such a good example that those of us who hadn’t seen the movie had to promise that we weren’t planning to see the movie and didn’t mind being spoiled for the sake of the discussion.
I agreed.
And then I got curious, and I think I saw the movie when it was shown on tv or something–might have borrowed it from the library . . . I don’t remember.
At any rate, I can’t judge when I would have figured it out because I knew before it started.
Same clothes with variations, so if you weren’t paying close attention, you’d miss it. (I missed it…) With or without overcoat, with or without jacket, with or without tie…
There was also something about the color red blocking him from certain places - I recall that being mentioned in a discussion of the movie, but I don’t remember the details, apart from a red doorknob.
Yeah, this is one of those “in the public consciousness” ones now, but there’s still no need to so blatantly spoil a movie in the thread title. Reported for a title change.
I didn’t realize it till the reveal.
I’ve noticed I’m a lot better at predicting plot twists in movies that aren’t very good. If I’m engrossed in a film I just kinda go along for the ride. If I’m getting bored I start thinking about the plot more as something made by a scriptwriter, and notice set-ups for plot twists (along with literary allusions, plot-holes, and other more subtle aspects of the movie that would blow by me if I was enjoying the actual film more).
Anyways, the Sixth Sense was good enough that I didn’t think about it that hard till the end.
Spoiled a few times before I saw it.