Biggest Twist You've Ever Seen in a Movie

[Zukonub]

The episode of Lost where

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Michael persuades Ana-Lucia to give him her gun. He then shoots her, and then shoots Libby who just entered the Hatch. He then walks around and enters the room of Henry Gale, and shoots himself.

As well as the

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flash forward

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How anybody can think of the ending to 2001 as a twist is beyond me. It's arresting, and incredibly surreal, but not a twist.

 

[Zombie_Fish]

Has to be Fight Club

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Jack and Tyler Duncan are the same person, Jack's real name is Tyler Duncan and Tyler was merely created by Jack's mind as a symbol of everything Jack wanted to be.

Genius in my opinion.

 

[JanatUrlich]

The Usual Suspects had an awesome ending. I quite enjoyed that movie.

Yeah I was gonna go with the Usual Suspects too

 

[Palindromemordnilap_v1legacy]

Unbreakable

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Kindly and fragile mentor figure was a deranged psychopath!

 

[chefassassin2]

Noone said it so

Jacob's Ladder

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Tim Robbins was a victim of the nerve gas and was dreaming the entire thing while dying in Nam

Oh, good call, I was trying to think of one, and this completely slipped my mind1

 

[Cuniculus]

The Happening

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It sucked ass.

 

[HentMas]

12 monkeys..

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he sees himself getting shot as an adult when a kid, wich traumatizes him[

 

[Mackinator]

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All of those are good ones.

Oh and to other posters... Im had been so termpted to read twists of games I havent finished yet and well, you ruined the twists for me!
Oh and Fight Club is a really good twist too!
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back - Probably the Classic twist of all Classics that wiill ever be Classical.
Oh and the Sixth Sense too.

The guy who thought of it first must have had everyone believe he was a genius.

Well actually, no - wasn't one of the first times of that in Dallas where a whole two years were "dreamed up" just to let another character come back? that just pissed off all the cast that joined since and everyone was like WTF just happened? I love the family guy ending after two episodes have just been a "Simulation" of Stewie taking over the world.

 

[sheic99]

"No, I am your father"

A classic!

fixed

 

[brewbeard]

So far as games go, I'd have to say one of two:

Anachronox

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Grumpos, the first character to join your party in the game, turns out to be a scout for Chaos, who is trying to destroy his adversary Order by preventing the collapse of his universe so that Order's will never exist by flooding your universe, which is between the two temporally speaking, with excess mass. Grumpos is activated at the very end of the game, tearing a portal in space/time that leads to the final boss as he makes off with the Mystech, powerful artifacts sent by Order to help combat Chaos. The game was designed for a sequel, but it will likely never see the light of day.

Fire Emblem IV

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Half-way through the game the entire cast of characters is betrayed and brutally slaughtered by their allies. You play the rest of the game as their children, whose stats, roles, and selection are all determined by the relationships developed between the characters in the first half of the game.

Anyway, for movies, I'd have to go with the Orphanage.

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The film plays out like a ghost-film, and the viewer is meant to think that the main character's son has been abducted by a ghost or somenat as she searches through him throughout the film. The ghost's role actually turns out to be far more ambiguous, as in the end the viewer slowly realizes that her son died after a series of accidents trapped him in a hidden basement where he starved until he collapsed and fell to his death from a rickety stair. The signs and weird noises that haunted the main character and her husband throughout the beginning of the film turn out to have been their son's cries for help. Driven to hallucination by the tragedy of it all, the main character commits suicide in an effort to join her son's spirit and those of her childhood friends in the house (an orphanage she had grown up in) for the rest of eternity. This on top of a side plot detailing the tragic death of one of the other orphans who'd lived there, who is meant to be the ghost responsible for her son's 'disappearance.' Needless to say, it's also the most depressing film I've ever experienced.

 

[brewbeard]

12 monkeys..

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he sees himself getting shot as an adult when a kid, wich traumatizes him[

That is a great twist, 12 Monkeys was based on a short film called La Jetee, which was made almost entirely with photo stills.

 

[razer17]

True, but overtime, it has just become an excuse for a writer to be lazy. Like in the show Life on Mars (US). I really liked that show but the ending pissed me off. I know they were cancelled and all but they could've done better than that.

this is why british shows are better. in that you always know that shes in a coma, after being shot, and its her trying to live the life to get back to her daughter, and not die.

 

[EnglishMuffin]

Just gonna throw the sixth sense in there.

 

[Embright]

The greatest twist I've ever seen is from the movie: "Cry Wolf"
I'm kind of surprised no one has said this yet.

 

[Cherry Cola]

The Usual suspects

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Kevin Spacey is Kayzer Soze

 

[quiet_samurai]

Oldboy. Probably THE most fucked up twist in any movie I have ever seen. I suggest anyone who reads this to watch it. It's an amazing movie.