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Old 05-13-03, 05:39 AM
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Movies with shocking endings in my opinion:

The Ring
Donnie Darko
One Hour Photo
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No Way Out has a great twist ending,
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when it's revealed that Costner is the Russian mole everyone's been looking for
even if it does reveal a few plot holes on close inspection.

Definitely the most suprising ending I have ever experienced.
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Sure .. the endings in Sixth Sense and Usual Suspects are well known.
But there's a little known gem of a movie, Lawn Dogs, which ..
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has a surreal and breath-taking twist at the end that allows the girl's friend to get away. It is all the more surprising because the sudden fantastical element wasn't hinted at all in the rest of the movie.
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People have mentioned some of the more obvious ones, but one of the ones that really “got me” was John Carpenter’s The Thing, only because I didn’t catch it until a second viewing.
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When I figured out the black guy was the alien at the very very end
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People have mentioned some of the more obvious ones, but one of the ones that really “got me” was John Carpenter’s The Thing, only because I didn’t catch it until a second viewing.
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When I figured out the black guy was the alien at the very very end
Whoa! Where is the evidence for this? I dont think that.
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yeah really, support your claim.
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Whoa! Where is the evidence for this? I dont think that.
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OK… in the final scene Kurt Russell and Keith David (thank you IMDB) are sitting and talking as they slowly freeze to death. As Kurt Russell speaks his breath comes in huge plumes, when Keith David speaks you can’t see his breath. He isn’t human. Thus the alien freezes (a condition we know it can survive) and is thawed when rescue picks up the bodies, meaning the end of the earth as we know it.
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Originally posted by DeputyDave
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OK… in the final scene Kurt Russell and Keith David (thank you IMDB) are sitting and talking as they slowly freeze to death. As Kurt Russell speaks his breath comes in huge plumes, when Keith David speaks you can’t see his breath. He isn’t human. Thus the alien freezes (a condition we know it can survive) and is thawed when rescue picks up the bodies, meaning the end of the earth as we know it.
Typical cop...
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blame THE BLACK GUY.




Actually, I've heard this idea before. It's up there with Dekkard's eyes' glowing in Bladerunner.
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Typical cop...
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blame THE BLACK GUY.




Actually, I've heard this idea before. It's up there with Dekkard's eyes' glowing in Bladerunner.
Watch the last few seconds of the movie, it is totaly obvious
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Russell's breath is so exagerated it looks like he's smoking a cigar. Considering they are sitting side by side in the scene it's obvious it was very intentional
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Originally posted by DeputyDave
Watch the last few seconds of the movie, it is totaly obvious
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Russell's breath is so exagerated it looks like he's smoking a cigar. Considering they are sitting side by side in the scene it's obvious it was very intentional

Oh, don't get me wrong DD I believe you.

It's just something that one has to catch and think about. Like Dekkard's eyes....
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Oh, don't get me wrong DD I believe you.

It's just something that one has to catch and think about. Like Dekkard's eyes....
Damnit! Bow to my genius and rugged good looks then!
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I never saw that glacier coming!!!!
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Damnit! Bow to my genius and rugged good looks then!
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Originally posted by DeputyDave
Watch the last few seconds of the movie, it is totaly obvious
Spoiler:
Russell's breath is so exagerated it looks like he's smoking a cigar. Considering they are sitting side by side in the scene it's obvious it was very intentional
FWIW, I'm pretty sure that either on the DVD commentary, in interview(s) or both, Carpenter mentioned that he's heard this theory, denied that it was intended and stated that it was simply a product of the harsh lighting and camera angles.

My pick is Don't Look Now.

Spoiler:
The figure in the red raincoat, turning to reveal itself to be the deformed and homicidal dwarf, caused me to jump out of my seat, literally. I didn't expect it to be his dead daughter, as the Sutherland character did, but the shock of what it was got me.
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Two films that gave me that "Wow they ended it that way" were Das Boot talk about irony in war and To Live and Die in LA the ending was so sudden it caught me by suprise it was a definite HolyS**t moment.
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Old 05-14-03, 01:19 AM
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Angel Heart...
Spoiler:
he was the one killing people

Gladiator...
Spoiler:
the field was his afterlife

Batman Returns...
Spoiler:
Catwoman still alive
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