Fight Club no doubt, i did not beleive it. It took me so much by surprise i had no idea i was shocked. Shocked!
“I think we’re gonna need a bigger boat.”
You know the scene. When I saw it, three weeks after the movie opened, the theater was still packed, and we just screamed all together.
Thanks. My pleasure.
I’ve never seen Carrie all the way thru. Please tell me about this hand.
Oldboy. Scissors (not the ones stuck in Daesu’s back at the end of the fight sequence).
See for yourself:
I was lucky enough to NOT know how it ended, or even much about it, so it was shock after shock when I finally saw…The Road Warrior.
That flick just doesn’t follow any rules…
Not exactly on topic, but related:
My daughter was in high school when Apollo 13 came out. She went to see it with some friends. Afterward she asked me, “Why did they change the ending?” I asked what she meant.
“Well, in real life they died, didn’t they?”
I really did NOT see the ending of Saw coming, at all. When it turned out that the “dead” body in the center of the room was actually Jigsaw, I thought it was one of the most clever and unexpected movie moments ever. Because even though he’s lying there on the floor from the very beginning of the movie, the drama between the other characters takes over so much that you completely just forget about that body lying there and don’t even think to wonder how exactly it got there and why.
The first time we ever saw the character Jason on film was…surprising.
Not a movie, but a video game (although it might be the most cinematic video game ever, and the cutscenes alone are more entertaining than most blockbuster action movies) - Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater.
When you find out at the end, after Eva fucks Snake in his cabin and then leaves him lying in bed alone the next day with a reel-to-reel tape player containing her recorded message, that Eva was actually working for neither the Americans nor the Russians, but for People’s Republic of China! That one totally came out of left field.
Word.
And the hand in Carrie.
A lot of the other twists mentioned were satisfying and cool, but not really shocking. I’m still all sad about Wash.
Different Strokes and all, I guess. I thought the ending was unbelievable and stupid. I can’t believe that he lay there through all that was going on and they never saw a motion – not an involuntary twitch, or a cough, or even a breath. Moreover, it was stupid of his to leave a live round in the gun, because they could have shot him. You can say that this fits in with the guy’s psychology, but I just rack it up as another unbelievable element in the story.
I read your post and thought, “I see what he did there…” but then Mad Maxx posted in agreement, and now I am not sure you were kidding. So I will ask…You were just kidding, right? I always thought the director had purposefully set the scene up for us to anticipate it happening, as sort of an in joke for folks that get a kick out of Samuel’s speeches.
Well, thank you!
I actually have never seen any of the SAW movies because the few details I have heard of them seem to cross my fake-gore limit (and that’s accomplishing something.)
Yes, an excellent and often-overlooked mystery.
But it’s James Mason (he was a matinee idol in earlier years, you know).
Roddy
And *Saw 2 with the whole time shift element. I don’t remember the details, just something about whatever live video feed the detective was using to find his kid, was really all pre-recorded. I really didn’t expect that, and it frustrated the crap out of me.
Then there was the scene from one of the Scary Movie type movies, where Dr Phil cut the WRONG FOOT off.
Three words:
Final Destination
bus
On a side issue, someone brought up the meaning of the ending of that recently, and I came to a different conclusion.
First time around I thought the woman on the plane seemed to be stopping the virus spreading, but in reality, the outbreak had already happened, he had opened the vial in the airport at security… So they had failed.
Then realised that the scenario was this: they’d been putting many people back in time iteratively to track the disease and pretty much this time they’d found it. And while Willis dying and them failing this time, it was likely they’d stop it next time around…
Audition. Feet. Still gives me the shivers.
Wolf Creek. Head on a stick. Same.
**Leon (also known as The Professional) ** “Thiiiss iss for… Mathilda…”
The Prestige While the identities of many of the players were unsure, it was the line of tanks at the end which really brought home exactly what had been going on… That, and the first “No! Wait”