Movies which surprised you.

[Arnwyn]

Off the top of my head:

- Citizen Kane
- The Matrix (went first day, and expected a "hacker" movie... totally blew my mind)
- Serenity
- Twelve Monkeys
- Sixth Sense
- Empire Strikes Back
- The Usual Suspects

 

[Testament]

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.

Damn, how could I forget Fallen?

"Let me tell you about the time I almost died..."

 

[DreadPirateMurphy]

I walked into Silence of the Lambs completely ignorant. I had no idea what it was about, other than it was supposed to be good. I also am generally not a fan of horror films... Not only was the content a shock, but the fact that it was a great film also threw me for a loop.

Also, more votes for Serenity and the Sixth Sense.

 

[Conaill]

Another "ditto" for Sixth Sense.

My second prize goes to a movie I fel is quite underrated: Angel Heart. Mickey Rourke plays a private eye in Louisiana, hired by a very creepy Robert De Niro to track down a singer called Johnny Favorite. Turns out dear Johnny made a contract with the devil and tried to weasel his way out of it. I'm usually really good at seeing plot twists coming an hour or more ahead of time, but the twist at the end of this one did catch my by surprise.

Ooh, another one. Almost forgot, even though it's my favorite movie. Guess I've seen it so often that I forgot about the surprise I felt the first time I saw this one:

Brazil

Probably *the* best Terry Gilliam movie. Has a great bittersweet twist all the way at the end (well, definitely way more bitter than sweet). Unfortunately, the idiots at Universal studios decided to cut off the twist for the US television release, ending in the "Love Conquers All" happy ending. Aargh!!

If you think Brazil has a happy ending and/or didn't make sense in the end, please do yourself a favor and go rent the original version!

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

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.

Seven is a good example of a suprising movie for me - it's not that I at least partially predicted the end (though that was close to the end already), but from the beginning of the movie, I didn't expect anything else than a standard "serial killer search" plot (I just expected a good execution of the concept...)

 

[Plane Sailing]

I've just remembered another movie which had a neat surprise the first time I saw it.

Terminator.

No, really! When it got blown up in the tanker, and you saw stuff burning and falling apart etc, it really seemed like the classic end of the movie. Then it. got. up. again. Tres creepy.

 

[Harmon]

Serenity was the last one that took my breath away.

I have a hard time not figuring out that big surprise at the end (Sixth Sense, everyone always say that one got them, but I thought it was obvious).

Usual Suspects was kinda cool, though a few minutes before I was thinking- "He can't be the villian, what did he plan this years ago? Nah." Course, I was wrong.

 

[Joker]

American History X. That last scene was perfectly edited.

 

[Harmon]

American History X. That last scene was perfectly edited.

Great movie! I have only seen it once, but I loved the element of change in the characters. The ending kinda sucked, but in the long run it makes more difference to the growth of those that survived.

 

[Aust Diamondew]

American History X. That last scene was perfectly edited.

End always makes me wondering what the protagonist ends up doing afterward. Something to think about.