Movies which surprised you.

[Hannibal King]

Does anyone recall the last movie that you watched and didn't see the ending/big reveal/plot twist etc, coming?
Me, the only one I can think of, and it's a single scene not the ending, is Deep Blue Sea when the shark jumps out of the water and eats Mace Windu . Didn't see that coming.

HK

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Serenity.

I don't think I need to say anything but that, really.

 

[Dark Jezter]

Probably Terminator 3. Just when you think they're about to stop Skynet and prevent Judgement Day, it turns out that they're actually in bomb shelter, and then when the radios start coming to life reporting the nuclear attacks... it felt like an episode of the Outer Limits.

 

[wingsandsword]

Donnie Darko.

Of course, since the non-directors-cut version omits a lot of scenes the movie needs to make sense, it's hard to see the end coming (or know what it was when it happens).

But how the movie is essentially a time travel story about a teen who has to save the world by following the guidance of somebody in a bunny suit he will kill in a month's time to allow himself to die to save the world by preventing everything almost the entire events of the movie from happening in the first place. I didn't see that one coming early on when it just seemed like a slightly surreal story of a somewhat disturbed teenager.

 

[stevelabny]

Those three are all good choices. (Deep Blue Sea, Serenity, Terminator 3)

So many recent movies have been novel / comic book adaptations or remakes, so its even harder to be surprised.

 

[Frostmarrow]

Mindhunters: Christian Slater is the hero!

 

[Joker]

Mindhunters: Christian Slater is the hero!

Because he was the first to die .

 

[Skrit]

Saw - This was sort of a surprize of how it ended. I mean you thought you knew who Saw was about three different times in the movie. Sort of similar to "Ohh He's saw... Wait no it's that guy... OMG IT"S HIM!!"

12 Monkeys - You knew the ending a bit before it happened but it was still a Different ending.

 

[Klaus]

Event Horizon. I wen tin expecting an Alien-type movie, not a Lovecraftian haunted spaceship movie.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Really going to have to look up the name of the movie: it started Bob Hoskins and Robin Williams and some others, it was a period peace (WW1) about mad bombers...Robin Williams walking throught the crowd at the end gave me chills!

Josph Conrad: The Secret Agent - http://www.amctv.com/show/detail?CID=56442-1-EST

Bob Hoskins leads an outstanding ensemble cast in this story of espionage gone awry, a dramatic adaptation of the classic novel by Joseph Conrad. Verloc (Hoskins) is a nondescript Soho shopkeeper who moonlights as a double agent for both the Russian government and the London police. He lives above the shop with his loyal wife (Patricia Arquette) and her retarded brother (Christian Bale), while conducting meetings with fellow anarchists in his basement, among them the wily Ossipon (Gerard Depardieu). When the Russian embassy secretary (Eddie Izzard) suggests that Verloc bomb the Royal Observatory, Verloc contracts the services of an explosives expert (Robin Williams) and sends his life spiraling downward.