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Best Film Twists Ever - webby - 04-18-2009
The UK's Times Online named their choices for Best Film Twists Ever.
"The most powerful tool in cinema is the perfect twist, those vertiginous seconds when the bottom falls out of your seat and you are no longer sure whether to trust your eyes."
The films mentioned are:
Great Expectations
The Empire Strikes Back
Rosemary's Baby
The Wicker Man
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
Fight Club
Planet of the Apes
The Sixth Sense
The Crying Game
Rebecca
Blade Runner
The Shining
The Usual Suspects
The Prestige
The Others
Jacob's Ladder
Dead Man's Shoes
Sunset Boulevard
Vertigo
Psycho
Dr. Strangelove
Kiss Me Deadly
The article itself is FULL of spoilers, so click at your own risk here.
A couple of movies that weren't big box office but that I thought had really good twists are Arlington Road starring Jeff Bridges and Fallen starring Denzel Washington.
Anybody else have a nominee or two for best film twists ever?
Best Film Twists Ever - Mick C. - 04-18-2009
How could THE CONVERSATION not be on that list?
Or the classic short French film (later shown as a Twilight Zone episode) OCCURENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE? (based on the Ambrose Bierce short story).
Best Film Twists Ever - fpw - 04-18-2009
Les Diaboliques (sp?) had the twist that's been ripped off a zillion times since. And don't forget Memento.
Best Film Twists Ever - GeraldRice - 04-19-2009
fpw Wrote:Les Diaboliques (sp?) had the twist that's been ripped off a zillion times since. And don't forget Memento.
Is that the movie with Sharon Stone and Chazz Palmienteri?
I think Shattered starring Tom Berenger deserves an honorable mention, but how about Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Ask an 11 year old kid if he saw the Judge Doom thing coming. And it gave me nightmares.
Best Film Twists Ever - Kenji - 04-19-2009
Primal Fear
Identity
Basic
Angel Heart
The Believers
Brazil
Best Film Twists Ever - fpw - 04-19-2009
GeraldRice Wrote:Is that the movie with Sharon Stone and Chazz Palmienteri?No. the 1955 French film with Simone Signoret. It's pretty awesome. You won't be surprised by the twist because it's been ripped off so many times, but you owe it to yourself to see the original.
Best Film Twists Ever - cobalt - 04-19-2009
Don't forget that movie Kenji and Scott Miller brought to our attention....The Black Book. It had so many twists and turns.
Best Film Twists Ever - Scott Miller - 04-19-2009
Kenji Wrote:Primal Fear
Identity
Basic
Angel Heart
The Believers
Brazil
Excellent choices all, Kenji.
How 'bout Soylent Green, No Way Out, Unbreakable and two that everyone should see but few have: dot the i and Nine Queens.
Best Film Twists Ever - saynomore - 04-19-2009
Murder on the Orient Express
Chinatown
The Big Sleep (Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall version)
AC
P.S. Do Whodunit's count? "Cause, ya know, dey got dat build-in saprize, nowatImean?
Best Film Twists Ever - colburn0004 - 04-19-2009
Have to hugely agree on Memento one of my favorite movies. Saw had an amazing twist ending that had my jaw drop. I didn't see it coming at all. Also even though it leaked and had all the bad buzz and not many people liked it I thought the village had a nice twist that wouldn't have been seen coming if not leaked.
There is also another movie I saw a long while ago and was about a younger man who raped and killed a women and they catch the man who does it and most the movie revolves around the psychologist talking to the murderer and he comes to believe he in a way has multiple personalities and some other things wrong with him. and In the end the man is walking away and refers to the psychotic personality and it is revealed that there was none or something like that. I know this is very confusing but I'm trying to remember a movie from at least 10 years ago and can't remember much but it was surprising. Any ideas on title?