Best Movie Twists *SPOILERS*

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bevo_daddy

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In light of Shyamalamadingdong's new movie 'The Happening'. What movies had the best twist/WTF moment at the ending.

I'll start off with Soylent Green
Why? Cuz it's PEOPLE!
 
"Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father."

"He told me enough. He told me you killed him."

"No. I am your father."

"That's not true. That's impossible!"

"Search your feelings; you know it to be true!"

"NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! Nooooooooo!!!!!"
 
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Many of you haven't seen "Seconds."

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I saw it when it was released in the sixties and its twist remains vivid to me.

So I'll recommend it.

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And the original of "The Wicker Man" is another older flick that I'll recommend.

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Don't confuse it with the lackluster Nicholas Cage remake.

Here's the review I posted when i finally saw the original after hearing abour it for decades:



This is the 1973 British movie with Edward Woodward from "Breaker Morant" and TV's "The Equalizer," Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento and Britt Ekland.

This movie isn't for everyone, but I'd heard of this cult classic for years and always wanted to see it.

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I liked it a whole lot for it's modernized Shakespearean vibe and thoughtful use of the thriller genre.

This is a thinking viewer's "horror" movie without gobs of gore, for those who appreciate an increasingly suspenseful storyline with a real twist at the end.

Think of the original "Village of the Damned," either version of "The Fly" and some of Alfred Hitchcock's scarier stuff.

Or the excellent "The Body Snatcher" starring both Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi or either version of "The Cat People" or even that moody Clint Eastwood and Genevieve Bujold flick, "Tightrope."

All these are scary movies where what is as yet unrevealed is emphasized over the all too obvious.

Fine acting all around, especially from Woodward and Lee, and some fine bare boobage and buttage from the nubile Miss Ekland, who also was Mrs. Peter Sellers.

Excellent story by Anthony Shaffer, who also penned "Frenzy" for Hitchcock, wrote "Sleuth" for the stage and screen and did the screenplays for two Agatha Christie books made into movie mysteries, "Murder on the Orient Express" and "Death on the Nile."

Here he does a fully realized "Twilight Zone" type take on present day druids.

The dialog when Woodward and Lee argue the points of difference between believing in only one God or the old gods is delicious.

Some beautiful cinematography of the Scottish islands is a nice plus in this maddeningly mysterious investigative tale of the pagan and occult, which starts out strange and gets stranger, in what I found a very entertaining way.

Lots of top talent was involved in this, I think, unappreciated dramatic, off the track a tick, slick, cinematic effort.

I thought it was a really good psychological thriller and recommend it to those movie fans not easily turned off or offended by the offbeat and who are also adventurous and patient enough to be satisfied with an mystic movie mindf*ck, rather than a predictable, boorish bloodbath.

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Actually, only allowed one answer, I know, so I wish to change mine to Oldboy. DID NOT see that coming!! Freaking sweet movie.
 
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If memory serves, Charlton Heston is in space. He ends up crash landing on - what he thinks - is a foreign planet. It ends up being a planet in which monkeys are in charge and humans are the slaves/ lab rats, etc.. The whole movie is his character and a few humans that he meets trying to escape the monkeys. At the very end, he's on a beach. He ends up finding the Statue of Liberty partially submerged in the sand. So, basically, he wasn't on a foreign planet; he was on Earth -- in the future.

Typing this takes a lot away from the shock of the ending. I'd recommend seeing it.
 
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