Top 10 Movie Twists of All Time
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Fight clubs twist is sooooo obvious when you rewatch it but that is part of what makes it so brilliant
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Shutter island? No? Bruv
Location / Time Trick - Planet of the Apes
It perfectly rides the line between completely unexpected and yet inevitable that tends to be the recipe for great spoilers.
Thank you for the Honorable Mention for No Way Out. 1st movie I saw with a twist. I was 12. 🤯 😃
All a Part of the Plan - The Sting
Just when we think we're ahead of the plot - fully informed and up on every aspect of the machinations - we realize that we, too, are being duped.
Memento
Unexpectedly Bad / Guilty - Murder on the Orient Express
Initially it seems that there is nothing connecting any of the suspects, it emerges that the one thing they have in common is that they ALL have a reasonable motive.
top 10 movie twists
Unexpectedly Good - Charade
After being accused of being the murderer, then shooting and killing the REAL murderer - Cary Grant goes with Audrey Hepburn to the CIA to turn over the stolen wealth.
Usual suspects has to be one of the greatest twists ever. It’s also only dropped in the last 2 minutes and completely changes everything.
It Was All a Dream - Wizard of Oz
Not only is Dorothy subconsciously working out her conflicts in a symbolic way - exactly as dreams tend to do - she ends up learning an important lesson about home by the end that makes her waking up meaningful to the part of the story that happened before her dream began.
I really like your list, but Enemy should be on there somehow.
All In Their Head - Fight Club
It manages to slip an entire character by us without us noticing, and the reveal? A wonderful hallucinogenic moment of reality crashing down around the Narrator in a moment of pure cinema.
The ending of Inception. Not a mention in this list. Oh well.
Not Dead - The Third Man
The entire plot flips on its head, and the victim becomes the perpetrator.
You’ve forgotten The Outfit, starring Mark Rylance.
Other - F for Fake
One hour in, Orson's story turns from documentary to fiction, engaging in a sort of meta-commentary on the act of forgery.
Planet of the Apes - The fact that the apes spoke English would give me a clue that I was on Earth!
Mistaken Identity - Empire Strikes Back
As far as twists go, Vader being Luke’s father is about as big as they come.
Nobody did it better than Nolan with Usual Suspects. On top of the twist ending, is finding out you have an unreliable narrator to boot.
Then you go back through the entire story and try to piece it all together, and it's FUN! And a genuine Mindblower.
X Is Actually Y! - Psycho
When it's revealed that mildmannered Sam actually dresses up as his dead mother so that he can kill protagonists weirdly early in the movie just to fuck with our heads? Well that just about takes the cake.
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About Oz, in the book Oz was a real pkace, not a dream.
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I read murder on the orient express in high school. I was so amazed I reread it immediately. Jump ahead 25 years, my daughter and I are watching the movie. She guessed the solution before the opening credits were over.
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"Murder on the Orient Express" was a cop out ending. ALL the movies you mentioned previous had better endings.
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This is childish. I love a good twist but the fact you disregarded The Prestige and The Usual Suspects and The Sixth Sense shows you're serving an originalist ideology and not the actual best trust twists for an audience. Surprised you actually Included Fight Club - guess you couldn't find a film from the 50s to replace it with 👀
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Very good list , congrats! Psycho is my favorite "dark" movie and I must tell you that every scene from Sting is a...sting!
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I LOVED the pandorum twist - Dark City , Charade, Sixth Sense, Old Boy - just so many awesome twists on this list.
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There’s this little film called The Usual Suspects. Not everyone knows about it, but it does have a reasonably okish twist.
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A very good list,. Psycho had to be #1 with the biggest WTF ever. The one that doesn't fit is Fight Club. It's a cheap throw in that doesn't make sense. So Fight Club started because Norton was beating himself up in the parking lot. No, that just doesn't work. I agree with the many other comments that The Sixth Sense should have been one of the picks.
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I must be the only one who saw a different ending to The Sting. The ending I saw had Lonigan going back to the betting parlor to collect the winnings he had to leave behind when he fled only to find an empty space. Only then did he realize he'd been conned. Did anyone else see that ending? I keep hoping to run into Redford on the street here in NYC so I could ask him about that ending.
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How about
The Maltese Falcon (1941);
The Crying Game (1992);
The Sixth Sense (1999); or,
Laura (1944)
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The ending of "The Wizard Of Oz" (1939), where it's revealed that Dorothy's (Judy Garland's) visit to the Land of Oz was only a dream, isn't exactly a plot twist, because the audience is led to suspect that it's a dream, because of the way Dorothy flops on the bed after being stuck on the head by a piece of a window that was destroyed by a tornado. Then, there's a close-up of Dorothy's head as she lies unconscious on the bed, and the picture becomes distorted and out of focus in a way that suggests that she's going into a dream.
Ironically, in the original novel (the full title of which is "The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz," and which was published in 1900) by L. Frank Baum, Dorothy's adventures in Oz actually happened. It WASN'T a dream. This was made clear, not just in the first "Oz" story, but in its many sequels that Mr. Baum wrote over the years. It was also made clear in the few movie and TV sequels, such as "Journey Back To Oz," an animated film that was made in 1964, but for some reason, wasn't released to the public until (are you ready for this?) 1974! (A few bits of trivia: the voice of Dorothy was actually that of Liza Minnelli, the daughter of Judy Garland; Margaret Hamilton, who played the Wicked Witch of the West in the 1939 film, was the voice of Dorothy's Auntie Em; the Scarecrow's voice was done by Mickey Rooney, who was a close friend of Judy Garland, and appeared in several movies with her; Ethel Merman was the voice of a witch called Momby, who turns out to be the sister of the Wicked Witch of the West, who was killed off both in the 1939 film and the original novel)
Another sequel was "Return To Oz" (1985), in which Dorothy (Fairuza Balk) is sent to a creepy sanitarium by her aunt and uncle, who believe her stories about the Land of Oz are merely childish fantasies. There, poor Dorothy undergoes brutal electric shock wave treatments to "cure" her of her alleged delusions, but she escapes and somehow finds herself back in Oz, only to find evil rulers now control the whole land. They've even destroyed the Yellow Brick Road!
This film received mostly mediocre reviews (critic Leonard Maltin called it "distressingly downbeat" in his book "Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide: The Modern Era"), and very few people remember it.
In an animated television special from the 1980s (I think) entitled "Thanksgiving In The Land Of Oz" (later retitled "Dorothy In The Land Of Oz," supposedly so it wouldn't necessarily have to be broadcast during the Thanksgiving season), Dorothy is sad because Auntie Em and Uncle Henry are about to lose their farm due to a bank foreclosure, and now, she'll have to go live with relatives whom she hardly knows, while her aunt and uncle have to go to an old folks home. Meanwhile, Auntie Em is preparing a Thanksgiving dinner that could double as a farewell feast.
After meeting her old friend, the Wizard of Oz (who, if we remember, was never a real wizard at all), Dorothy accidentally grabs on to a giant balloon that belongs to the wizard, and travels back to the land of Oz, where she meets three new friends, a talking pumpkin named Jack Pumpkinhead (also a character in "Journey Back To Oz"), a hungry tiger, and a wind-up mechanical man called TikTok (who was also in "Return To Oz"). She also meets a new enemy, an evil wizard called Tyrone, the Terrible Toy Tinkerer, who plans to use a magic powder to bring toys to life, so he can use them to conquer Oz. Fortunately, Dorothy and friends outwit the villain, and are hailed as heroes by Queen Ozma and by her old friends, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion. The queen tells Dorothy that she can stay in Oz if she wants to, but she tells the queen that she'd rather be with her aunt and uncle back in Kansas, whom she'll probably never see again since they're losing the farm and have to go to the old folks home, while she has to go live with her relatives, even though she doesn't really want to. Queen Ozma fixes that problem by using her magic to make the aunt, uncle, and their farmhouse fly all the way from Kansas to Oz (this actually occurred in one of the "Oz" books, but I'm not sure which one), where they find out that their niece's stories about Oz were true after all, so they invite all of Dorothy's Oz friends to have a Thanksgiving dinner with them (fortunately, Auntie Em made enough food for everyone, including the Wizard Of Oz, who "went along for the ride" by hiding in the farmhouse chimney). Dorothy tells her aunt and uncle that it's great to be home, even though their real home is in Kansas, but she reminds them of the old saying, "Home is where the heart is."
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@billring99Tbh I think the best twist in a movie was The original SAW ending.
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It had a pretty well constructed twist but I don’t see it even mentioned here. Is it because Kevin Spacey was on it or because you don’t know the film?