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Title: Surprise Movies endings that you can only watch once.
Post by: GGKoul on January 21, 2005, 02:24:09 pm
Just trying to get a list of movies that you can only watch once because of the surprise twist ending.

Example:

The Usual Suspects
The Game
The Crying Game


Also, PLEASE don't reveal the ending.

Thanks!!!
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Post by: ChadTower on January 21, 2005, 02:36:55 pm
The Sixth Sense
Unbreakable

Pretty much any M Night Whatevermalan movie.
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Post by: JoyMonkey on January 21, 2005, 02:43:24 pm
some more...

Fight Club
12 Monkeys
Seven

(all three of these have Brad Pitt in them. curious...)
Title: Re: Surprise Movies endings that you can only watch once.
Post by: Grasshopper on January 21, 2005, 02:49:02 pm
The Others [actually the twist is evident sometime before the end]

Vanilla Sky/Open Your Eyes [again you sort of guess what's going on before the very end]

Title: Re: Surprise Movies endings that you can only watch once.
Post by: mr.Curmudgeon on January 21, 2005, 03:09:18 pm


Doesn't *knowing* that there is a suprise ending sorta' ruin the fact that there actually *is* a suprise ending?


mrC
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Post by: Dartful Dodger on January 21, 2005, 03:12:37 pm
Most of those movies fun to watch after you know the ending.

I could only watch Signs once, but not because of the ending.
Title: Re: Surprise Movies endings that you can only watch once.
Post by: Hoagie_one on January 21, 2005, 03:43:09 pm
Memento
Title: Re: Surprise Movies endings that you can only watch once.
Post by: GGKoul on January 21, 2005, 04:05:54 pm


Doesn't *knowing* that there is a suprise ending sorta' ruin the fact that there actually *is* a suprise ending?


mrC

The fun is trying to guess what the ending is.  Usual Suspects, there was no way to guess that endings.... same could be said about The Game or Sixth Sense.
Title: Re: Surprise Movies endings that you can only watch once.
Post by: Dartful Dodger on January 21, 2005, 04:34:36 pm
I thought of a good movie I can't watch again because I know the suprise ending:

Old Yeller
Title: Re: Surprise Movies endings that you can only watch once.
Post by: Gunstar Hero on January 21, 2005, 04:50:53 pm
The Empire Strikes Back.

Okay, just kidding.  :P
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Post by: GGKoul on January 21, 2005, 04:54:17 pm
The Empire Strikes Back.

Okay, just kidding.
Title: Re: Surprise Movies endings that you can only watch once.
Post by: markb on January 21, 2005, 06:06:39 pm
The Empire Strikes Back.

Okay, just kidding.  :P

Luke, I am your Father!

I've never seen that film! I thought you said no spoilers? :'(
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Post by: DrewKaree on January 21, 2005, 06:26:12 pm
Drop Dead Fred
Office Space

Okay, not really, but I like both of those, so I thought I'd make you wonder if you should see them too.

Now:

     Kiss The Girls
     Double Jeapordy
Title: Re: Surprise Movies endings that you can only watch once.
Post by: lucindrea on January 21, 2005, 06:35:43 pm


jacobes ladder ( ok most people will wotk it out in the middle of the movie )
Donnie Darko
Title: Re: Surprise Movies endings that you can only watch once.
Post by: Hoagie_one on January 21, 2005, 06:52:18 pm


jacobes ladder ( ok most people will wotk it out in the middle of the movie )

I had no idea till the end
Title: Re: Surprise Movies endings that you can only watch once.
Post by: Gunstar Hero on January 21, 2005, 06:53:04 pm
The Empire Strikes Back.

Okay, just kidding. :P

Luke, I am your Father!

I've never seen that film! I thought you said no spoilers? :'(

What spoiler? That Yoda is Luke's father?  ;)
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Post by: Sephroth57 on January 21, 2005, 07:04:26 pm
The Empire Strikes Back.

Okay, just kidding.
Title: Re: Surprise Movies endings that you can only watch once.
Post by: DrewKaree on January 21, 2005, 08:54:55 pm

...if there was someone geeky enough to be on this board, and they havent seen the original trilogy...


Then you're just a geek-pretender trying to fit in amongst us, but we've sussed you out....begone lest ChadTower hears of this and brings his boot......the BIG ONE!
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Post by: jbox on January 22, 2005, 12:19:34 am
AKA topic - "What movies are based on Twilight Zone episodes".  ;D However I personally don't count Vanilla Sky, as I could get any random script and just add that ending and go AH HA!

Memento is an awesome movie, although for some stupid reason the track markers for just the first three scenes on the DVD(R4) are in the *middle* of the scenes rather than on the ends. So you can watch it "backwards" right up until you get near the "end".

New ones:

- The Village
- A Beautiful Mind
- Enigma
- Screamers
- Dark City
- Planet of the Apes (as with Star Wars, how could you *not* know)
- The Lord Of The Rings has two particular twists. Sharky's identity would have been the third had it not been cut.

Honourable mentions (small but cool twists):
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show
- The Princess Bride
- Ocean's 11
- Blade Runner
- the Angel episode where Conner is born.
- and of course, "To Serve Man"...
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Post by: Daniel270 on January 22, 2005, 01:20:24 am
I'm totally surprised no one mentioned "Wild Things"
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Post by: Samstag on January 22, 2005, 04:07:19 am
Soylent Green!
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Post by: markb on January 22, 2005, 05:08:50 am
The Empire Strikes Back.

Okay, just kidding.  :P

Luke, I am your Father!

I've never seen that film! I thought you said no spoilers? :'(

i seriously hope youre joking, hehe.

if there was someone geeky enough to be on this board, and they havent seen the original trilogy, well then youre not a geek and you should leave till you watch them


Geekdom is retained, I was only kidding!  ;D

In fact when episode I was released I was due to start work in America so I flew over a day early to make sure I had time to see it as it hadn't been released in the UK yet.

Is that Geeky enough?
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Post by: Hoagie_one on January 22, 2005, 08:40:14 am
- Blade Runner


Only if your smart enough to realize, some dont even get it.
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Post by: danny_galaga on January 22, 2005, 09:48:27 am
citizen kane
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Post by: shmokes on January 22, 2005, 11:35:55 am
Thank god and Jesus that Peter Jackson had the presence of mind to cut Sharky out of the movies.  SOOOO after-school special.  That part of the book is retarded and totally anticlimactic.
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Post by: Harry Potter on January 22, 2005, 11:57:35 am
Baywatch the movie
Floyd10: The musical - The Movie

SPOILER: It's a trick. Don't watch it. The twist is they make you waste time watching it.
Title: Re: Surprise Movies endings that you can only watch once.
Post by: Grasshopper on January 22, 2005, 12:08:38 pm
- Blade Runner


Only if your smart enough to realize, some dont even get it.

Depends whether you watch the original (which has an awful ending apparently imposed by the studio) or the director's cut.
Title: Re: Surprise Movies endings that you can only watch once.
Post by: abrannan on January 23, 2005, 10:52:49 am
Usual Suspects, there was no way to guess that endings....

Really?  I knew it within 15 minutes of starting the movie. 

Other movies for the list:

The Forgotten
Never talk to strangers

Breakdown (For a different reason)
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Post by: walls83 on January 23, 2005, 11:35:35 am
Identity
Memento
Title: Re: Surprise Movies endings that you can only watch once.
Post by: GGKoul on January 24, 2005, 11:16:54 am
Usual Suspects, there was no way to guess that endings....

Really?
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Post by: HaRuMaN on January 24, 2005, 11:27:25 am
I'm suprised nobody mentioned Frailty.  Awesome movie.

How about Reservoir Dogs?
Title: Re: Surprise Movies endings that you can only watch once.
Post by: HaRuMaN on January 24, 2005, 11:29:03 am
Usual Suspects, there was no way to guess that endings....

Really?  I knew it within 15 minutes of starting the movie. 

You seriously knew the ending of Usual Suspects 15mins into the movie?  You knew who Keyser S
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Post by: jcroach on January 24, 2005, 11:36:40 am
"Primal Fear" with Richard Gere and the premeire of Edward Norton
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Post by: Gunstar Hero on January 24, 2005, 11:40:21 am
Pulp Fiction.

Because who the crap knows where the end really is?  ;)
Title: Re: Surprise Movies endings that you can only watch once.
Post by: Dartful Dodger on January 24, 2005, 12:28:58 pm
Usual Suspects, there was no way to guess that endings....

Really?
Title: Re: Surprise Movies endings that you can only watch once.
Post by: abrannan on January 24, 2005, 12:36:37 pm
Usual Suspects, there was no way to guess that endings....

Really?  I knew it within 15 minutes of starting the movie. 

You seriously knew the ending of Usual Suspects 15mins into the movie?  You knew who Keyser S
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Post by: mr.Curmudgeon on January 24, 2005, 01:06:18 pm
I'm not full of crap, but I did grow up with kidney problems.

Correlation??? What in the movie stood out to you?

I'm curious because my brother had Kidney problems his whole life, just received a transplant a couple of years ago, and I wonder if he'd pick up on it.
Title: Re: Surprise Movies endings that you can only watch once.
Post by: abrannan on January 24, 2005, 01:18:04 pm
I'm not full of crap, but I did grow up with kidney problems.

Correlation??? What in the movie stood out to you?

I'm curious because my brother had Kidney problems his whole life, just received a transplant a couple of years ago, and I wonder if he'd pick up on it.

PM'd to avoid putting more spoilers in this thread than I already have.
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Post by: jbox on January 24, 2005, 08:58:57 pm
TUS: You didn't have to be sick in any way to guess the ending of that movie.  :( The very  *first* scene eliminates the person who is supposed to be the main candidate. >:( That's hardly 'suspense' in my book. The rest of the movie plays out like a Kubrik-esque after school special.
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Post by: Magnet_Eye on January 24, 2005, 09:19:34 pm
Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey

 :P
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Post by: iwillfearnoevil on January 25, 2005, 02:40:16 pm
throw momma from the train?
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Post by: Luxury on January 25, 2005, 04:02:45 pm
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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Post by: Gamecab on January 26, 2005, 09:07:05 pm
Magnet Eye's Avitar!! That always has a great ending. ;D
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Post by: solfood on January 26, 2005, 11:17:03 pm
no way out