Movies which surprised you.

[Hannibal King]

Shattered. Funny, a friend saw it before me and was surprised and bet I wouldn't see the ending coming but I figured it halfway through the movie because of the verbal and visual clues before the 'surprise' scene occured.

Yeah didn't see Sixth Sense coming, nor Unbreakable. The appearance of the Alien at the end in Signs made me go "Holy %$@#!"

 

[Knightfall]

Another vote for...

The Sixth Sense
The Others (just creepy)

More recently...

Crash
Four Brothers
Serenity

 

[TheAuldGrump]

Sixth Sense.

And in a completely different way Pirates of the Caribean - twice! First by not sucking, then by turning out to be really good!

The Auld Grump

 

[trancejeremy]

The ending of "Infernal Affairs". While I suspect something like that was going to happen, it was so incredibly sudden, it caught me off guard.

The ending of the House on Haunted Hill (or whatever it's called, the one with the guy from Pirates of the Carribean dressed up to look like James Woods). I was amazed (and pleased) that Taye Diggs survived the movie. Because while it's a cliche, it's one of those cliches that seems to be true. Except in that movie. Which was nice.

 

[Testament]

The Sixth Sense. One of the greatest twists ever.
Event Horizon. Not just another sci-fi film, and it succeeded in scaring me senseless.
The Others.
The Usual Suspects

 

[iwatt]

From Dusk till Dawn.

I was at the mall with a friend and decided o see a movie. We looked at what was playing and asw that there was a Tarantino (with Salma Hayek as well ) flick, so we just wlaked in. hadn't seen any trailers and didn't even look to closely at the movie poster.

I just flipped out when the movie changed from what I though would be a cool road movie into a vampire slaying extravaganza. Made me glad I'd avoided any mention of that movie before.

 

[Dragonmarked DM]

The ending of Star Wars Episode III, I never saw Anikan turning to the dark side ,...........er...um.... okay, my real vote is for the movie Fallen with Denzal Washington when we we find out who the narrator has really been throughtout the movie.

 

[Maggan]

Sixth Sense is one of my favourite movies ever. I figured out the twist before I saw the movie, because everyone was saying "it's such a twist, you won't believe it!" so I said "what, is this the twist?" and hey presto, rob stronginthearm is your uncle!

But, the same twist in Jacobs' Ladder totally knocked me off my feet! A really surprising end to a truly creepy movie.

Also, imagine my surprise when I saw The Matrix! I didn't know anything about the movie, and had missed the hype, and was totally bowled over.

A friend of mine once said "The Usual Suspects is a great movie! I couldn't believe that the .... was the BBEG!". And I hadn't seen the movie yet.

Also No way out with Kevin Costner. Holy crabapple! That's one mean twist of the tale!

/M

 

[Klaus]

I had totally forgot No Way Out and The Others!

Those two blew me away!

 

[Gantros]

Seven. Every time you thought it couldn't get more disturbing, it found a new way to shock you, and the ending was the worst shock of all.