Most mindblowing plot twists ever

[Anachronism]

I completely agree, most original surprising book I've ever read, I still get shocked by the ending when I re-read it. It's definitely in my all time top ten books. Try reading other ones by him like 'Against a dark background' or 'the player of games' or 'state of the art' all have pretty awesome twists (though not quite as good as use of weapons)

also the wasp factory made me fucking brick myself, had too reread it for it to all make sense, the plot twist came a little late

Always good to meet other Banks fans. I thought The Player of Games was good, but I still think Consider Phlebas was better, even if the story was more predictable. My favourite's still Use of Weapons, though. Which one's your favourite?

 

[ohellynot]

Well, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni/ Hihigurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai.
You need to watch all of it so it makes sense.
But you don't really expect it to be that way, when you do find out what was happening.
I don't want to type what happens, I'd rather get people interested by posting something cryptic, so they go and get addicted to the anime.

Wait, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai, I was only aware of the 1st one

 

[Chairehead]

I completely agree, most original surprising book I've ever read, I still get shocked by the ending when I re-read it. It's definitely in my all time top ten books. Try reading other ones by him like 'Against a dark background' or 'the player of games' or 'state of the art' all have pretty awesome twists (though not quite as good as use of weapons)

also the wasp factory made me fucking brick myself, had too reread it for it to all make sense, the plot twist came a little late

Always good to meet other Banks fans. I thought The Player of Games was good, but I still think Consider Phlebas was better, even if the story was more predictable. My favourite's still Use of Weapons, though. Which one's your favourite?

am currently in the process of reading consider phlebas, so dont ruin it for me, but so far its looking interesting. very baroque quality to both, despite being set in space :S

 

[Anachronism]

am currently in the process of reading consider phlebas, so dont ruin it for me, but so far its looking interesting. very baroque quality to both, despite being set in space :S

It's his best apart from Use of Weapons, in my opinion. It starts off a little slow, but it gets absolutely fantastic later on. How much of it have you read?

 

[Palindromemordnilap_v1legacy]

The cake being a lie. Man, I never saw that coming. And when we actually saw cake at the end, man that damn near exploded my head

 

[FaceFaceFace]

Final Fantasy 10.

Spoiler

Sin is Jecht

Seymour is evil

The Final Aeon will kill Yuna


Tidus is just a dream of the Fayth

Auron is dead

Fucking awesome game.

You couldn't see Seymour being evil? Really?
I agree with the other twists though. Great game, great plot.

 

[Rancid0ffspring]

Mulholland drive. That film was pretty messed up! Good twist if you understood what was going on... which I did not. Friend had to explain it to me

 

[CrashBang]

First time I watched Sixth Sense.

Never saw it coming.

Fight Club of course.

Would you Kindly ......

Yup.Yup.Yup!!!

 

[Leppyman]

Assassin's creed 1 was a complete mindfuck for me...

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

I only watched the 1st season. And that still made no fucking sense. Will EVERYTHING be explained in the 2nd?

Indeed, it reveals all that is going on, and why it is happening.
I prefer it to the first, to be honest. It is definitely worth watching, even if only to make sense of the first season.

Wait, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai, I was only aware of the 1st one

Indeed, it is the 'Resolution' season, and as I said above, most worth watching.
There is also a 5 episode 'season' called Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei, the 'Gratitude' season. Part of it is good, but it was just made in gratitude to all the fans of the franchise. It has some 'fan-service' on the first episode, but a couple of the episodes are more in the true higurashi fashion.

 

[Wilfy]

More or less every season of 24 and Lost, Fight Club and the episode "My Screw Up" from season 3 of Scrubs.

 

[FaceFaceFace]

Rather than repeat most of the awesome twists mentioned here already I'll just say how shocked I am that no one's mentioned Braid yet. After that game was over I just stared at the screen in disbelief for like 5 minutes.

I still don't understand why Braid's ending was so effective; there was no discernible plot that made sense to anyone who doesn't have 10 hours to analyze all that writing, and yet seeing that scene play backwards and realizing you were the bad guy... even without a plot around it that twist was amazing.

 

[BENZOOKA]

I watched oldboy a couple of weeks ago. Man...that film wouldn't have gotten made here. But I recommend it if you like having your mind blown.

Oldboy is one for certain. When talking about series, Dexter is worth of mentioning.

 

[Chairehead]

am currently in the process of reading consider phlebas, so dont ruin it for me, but so far its looking interesting. very baroque quality to both, despite being set in space :S

It's his best apart from Use of Weapons, in my opinion. It starts off a little slow, but it gets absolutely fantastic later on. How much of it have you read?

up to the point where they attak a temple place, i went on festive holiday recently for an obvious reason and forgot it, which was a bad move

 

[Magnalian]

The ending to the the film Of Mice and Men. Jesus, that was sad...

You do realize that pretty much every major event in that book was foreshadowing what would happen right? There was no other way it could have ended. "I should've killed my own dog myself..."

I love that book, but it wasn't surprising.

I still have yet to read to book, but I didn't really notice the foreshadowing in the film...

 

[Ph33nix]

assassin's creed always gets the mindfuck award

 

[JohanGasMask]

the first Saw movie