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PeruvianSkies
10-18-2006, 07:33 PM
Here is a list of 5 of my all-time favorite plot twists from any film...

There are in no particular order and I can think of many more, but these strike me the most at the moment.


MEMENTO (2000

http://www.sentieriselvaggi.it/foto/Luglio/sez_35/memento.jpg

VERTIGO (1958)

http://movieimage6.tripod.com/vertigo/vertigo-wall01.jpg

LAURA (1944)

http://thisdistractedglobe.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/07/Laura2.jpeg

DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944)

http://home.comcast.net/~mossrobert/html/works/images/double_indemnity_still.jpg

THE NAKED KISS (1964)

http://www.cinematographers.nl/GreatDoPh/Films/NakedKiss.jpg
Dusty Chalk
10-18-2006, 08:45 PM
I'm not opening this thread again, just in case I see a movie listed that I want to see. But here's mine:

The Crying Game
Psycho
Dead Man's Curve
every M. Night Shyamalan movie
The Others
Worf101
10-19-2006, 09:45 AM
In no particular order...

"The Third Man"
"The Sixth Sense"
"Psycho"
"Twilight Zone Episode" - "The Howling Man"
"The Usual Suspects".
"Inside Man"

Da Worfster
topspeed
10-19-2006, 11:55 AM
The obvious ones (not ranked):

Sixth Sense
The Usual Suspects
Citizen Kane (is Rosebud a twist?)
Crying Game
Angel Heart
Fight Club (twist or not, this still sucked)
Se7en
Smokey
10-19-2006, 12:41 PM
I like the way you inlude pictures in your post http://www.ethanwiner.com/Smileys/Thumbs%20Up.gif

The one I seen lately, Body Double had a twisted plot.

http://www.hboasia.com/images/posters/378x195/body_double.jpg
PeruvianSkies
10-19-2006, 08:17 PM
Some really great ones! Thanks for the submissions. I would have to say that I had a few runners up including FIGHT CLUB, SEVEN, THE THIRD MAN, CITIZEN KANE (yes Rosebud would count), and just about any Hitchcock film!
kexodusc
10-20-2006, 04:06 AM
Dunno how anyone can leave out "From Dusk Till Dawn". Err, might not be the cinematic masterpiece of Kane or even the effective rehash of a tired litterary cliche as seen in the 6th Sense, but damn - Vampires?
bobsticks
10-20-2006, 05:09 AM
Lot of top-notch examples given so far. I'd say that the storytelling in Identity was well done, carefully waiting until deep in the movie before making the final conclusions transparent...

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ForeverAutumn
10-20-2006, 06:37 AM
Dead Again
Arlington Road
GMichael
10-20-2006, 06:47 AM
or can I throw in the Twilight Zone? Pick an episode.
Worf101
10-20-2006, 06:51 AM
or can I throw in the Twilight Zone? Pick an episode.

READ MY POST YOU KNUCKLEHEAD!!!!

LOL, lucky thing for you my hirsute friend, that I LIKE bears....

Da Worfster
GMichael
10-20-2006, 07:38 AM
READ MY POST YOU KNUCKLEHEAD!!!!

LOL, lucky thing for you my hirsute friend, that I LIKE bears....

Da Worfster

Sorry 'bout that Sir Worf. I did read your post. But my short term memory is a little.... uh,.................


what was I saying?
topspeed
10-20-2006, 10:45 AM
Lot of top-notch examples given so far. I'd say that the storytelling in Identity was well done, carefully waiting until deep in the movie before making the final conclusions transparent...

2181
Good One! Forgot about Identity.
SlumpBuster
10-21-2006, 07:47 AM
Number one plot twist? That's easy:

FEVER PITCH!!!

The Red Sox win the World Series?!?!