Movies which surprised you.

[Joker]

The problem I'm facing when deciding which movies surprised me is that I can't exactly remember if the first time I saw them I was surpised.

I'm looking at my DVD collection right now and I'm wondering: Did the end of Screamers surprise me or did I already have an idea of what was going to happen? I'm pretty sure Old Boy blew the Holy Mother of Buddha out of me but maybe if I think back I picked up some clues.

Anyway, something I know I was surprised by was the speech Charlie Chaplin gave at the end of the Great Dictator. It was a speech about peace and "can't we all just get along?" and such things but he did it with such sincerity, for lack of a better word, that I didn't feel at all uncomfortable listening to it. I usually wince at such speeches by certain "people" but this was just done well.

 

[Viking Bastard]

I just finished watching The Emperor's Club, starring Kevin Kline, on TV.

I have not been so surprised by a movie for a very long time. For the first third of the
movie it was pretty much like any other Brilliant Teacher Discovers Brilliant Student
movie. Then it gets kinda sidetracked, but I was sure it would get back to it's cliche
roots and it seemed that it was going to. I wasn't displeased. I enjoyed it for what I
thought it was.

Then BLAM!

No siree. Good flick.

 

[The Serge]

Se7en. Didn't see the end coming, but it was one of the best in cinema.

The Pledge. Another one that I didn't see coming. Although it was a good ending, I really hated it. A lot.

 

[Aaron L]

Unbreakable.

 

[Barendd Nobeard]

Rebecca. What a twist--two of them, in fact.

"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again...."


And believe it or not, an episode of "Happy Days" runined Psycho for me.

 

[Kesh]

I had Sixth Sense figured out before I ever saw the movie. Ticked off my friends when I guessed the ending.

Unbreakable, though, blindsided me. I saw where it was going in the beginning, then thought to myself "Nah, he's not going to do that." So, I convinced myself it wasn't going there... and it did!

I was surprised by Se7en because it actually ended in a satisfying way for me. The big reveal at the end wouldn't have been as good if the character in question had reacted any other way than he did.

One most folks probably haven't seen is Perfect Blue, an anime thriller. The whole movie just kept twisting and twisting, right up to the end. A very, very good movie for those who like to be kept guessing. I like to call it, "the movie Hitchcock would have made, if he had done animation."

 

[Taelorn76]

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.

Wow I hadn't thought of that movie in a while. Heck I think Fallen may beat out Sixth Sense as the best twist. I didn't it coming at all in Fallen, where as in Sixth Sense I think it hit me a few minutes before the actual reveal.

 

[SWAT]

I'll add votes for Sixth Sense, Fight Club, and The Game.

I remember being really surprised by one or more somethings in Memento, but I forget what. And finally there's Magnolia. Biggest "What the hell?!" moment ever.

 

[Eridanis]

Two more votes for SEVEN and FALLEN. I'm not a fan of that genre, but boy those were good movies.

To add a new title: STAR TREK 2. To see

Spoiler

Spock die

at the end of that movie knocked the socks off a heck of a lot of people in 1982!

 

[Elf Witch]

I fully expected Samuel L Jackson to get eaten when he did in Deep Blue Sea, actually.

Saffron Burrowes's death, on the other hand, caught me off guard.

Assault on Precinct 13 also surprised me when, after she miraculously survives a car crash, the love interest of the main character gets shot in the face out of hand by the bad guys.

Her death did not surprise me at all. It followed typical movie formula that the mad scientist gets killed by their creation.

I cracked up when Samuel Jackson bought it. There he is giving that great inspirational speech and all I could think was you are to close to the moon pool. And I was right.