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hired goon
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Posted - 2005.06.14 21:37:00 -
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I'd like to know what your favourite plot twist is, be it book, film or game. I've come across some good ones in my time, but I wonder if there are any I'm missing. Like for instance, the "I see dead people" film I forgot the name of. I didn't watch it because it seemed pretty pants to me, but then I heard the twist and thought maybe I should have.
May I ask, that anyone who feels they need to talk about the actual twist in spoiling-detail when they describe it - please make the offending text red, so people can skip it if they wish.
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jbob2000
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Posted - 2005.06.14 22:18:00 -
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There was a movie where the timeline was reversed, so you saw the whole story backwards, but it worked out in the end. Amazing movie with a crazy plot twist (i wont give it away), but i forget the name...
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Amataras
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Posted - 2005.06.14 22:19:00 -
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"No Luke, *I* am your father." 
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Weeman
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Posted - 2005.06.14 22:20:00 -
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The sixth sense and lola rennt i think are the 2 films you are searching for
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Benedictus Setaro
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Posted - 2005.06.14 22:42:00 -
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Jbob means Memento I think.
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Omber Zombie
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Posted - 2005.06.14 23:18:00 -
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memento was great, but no real plot twists invovled, just a good way to tell the story of someone who has no short term memory.
Have to agree om Vader being Luke's father, no-one saw that coming.
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Galk
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Posted - 2005.06.14 23:21:00 -
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Allways sticks in the mind.
First time i watched the shawshank redemption, it's all right before your eyes.
Maybe not everybody was as blind as me, but i enjoyed it non the less
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Nikolai Nuvolari
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Posted - 2005.06.15 01:06:00 -
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 Originally by: Galk
Allways sticks in the mind.
First time i watched the shawshank redemption, it's all right before your eyes.
Maybe not everybody was as blind as me, but i enjoyed it non the less
I love that movie so much, every time I see it while flipping through the TV channels, I'm compelled to stop and watch it. Don't know why.
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Star Commander
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Posted - 2005.06.15 03:50:00 -
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An all time classic plot twist ending wos "The Usual Suspects" ending, when you realise that Verbal Kint/Keyser Soze wos telling/making the story up all along, and casting off his foot calipers at the end, and getting into the car as the agent realises the truth, then chases after him, truly classic stuff
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Graelyn
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Posted - 2005.06.15 06:16:00 -
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Edited by: Graelyn on 15/06/2005 06:17:34
Edited by: Graelyn on 15/06/2005 06:16:54
Try THIS on for size.
(Grr, editing, this link dn't work.)
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Hakera
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Posted - 2005.06.15 06:46:00 -
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usual suspects, sixth sense
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Asharee Intrefer
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Posted - 2005.06.15 06:50:00 -
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Originally by: Galk
Allways sticks in the mind.
First time i watched the shawshank redemption, it's all right before your eyes.
Maybe not everybody was as blind as me, but i enjoyed it non the less
I was about to reply with that earlier, but got interrupted. I think I had the same experience: first about two hours of things just moving along, a sort of portrait of prison life with nothing too unlikely happening, and then the last twenty minutes to reveal the "hidden" plans.
A more recent example was Oldboy (South Korean, take a look at it before the Hollywood remake comes). I liked Million Dollar Baby too, even though academy award winning dramas usually fall outside my taste.
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FireFoxx80
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Posted - 2005.06.15 07:24:00 -
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OldBoy is good, very dark.
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Rodj Blake
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Posted - 2005.06.15 11:29:00 -
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Edited by: Rodj Blake on 15/06/2005 11:30:15
The Crying Game had a horrific plot twist.
From Dusk til Dawn and Fight Club also have good twists.
Bookwise, Iain M.Banks' Use of Weapons does the whole Staberinde / Chairmaker thing very nicely.
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Yith Solarius
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Posted - 2005.06.15 13:16:00 -
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The sixth sense and the village both had twists that made me go "oooooo  " but i think the best plot twist is the end of "The Usual Suspects"
Bit at the end where he's walking away, the limp straightens out and you just go  omg omfg damn  ...  ...
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Shadris
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Posted - 2005.06.15 14:24:00 -
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I'd have to say The Others with Nicole Kidman. The twist right at the end is quite excellent.
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R31D
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Posted - 2005.06.15 16:00:00 -
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Knights of the Old Republic. When you discover your past (I won't say more)
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Weebear
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Posted - 2005.06.15 16:16:00 -
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Edited by: Weebear on 15/06/2005 16:17:34
Originally by: Rodj Blake
From Dusk til Dawn and Fight Club also have good twists.
From Dusk Till Dawn is a great plot twist, can still remember thinking "errrr WTF" when I seen it for the first time.
Quite liked the twist in Primal Fear. Didn't like the 6th Sense one much, as it forces you to go back and watch the film a second time.
EDIT: Forgot about Donnie Darko.....
There was one I watched on Sky the other night, but can't remember the name of. Involved people all ending up at a motel in the middle of no where, all having the same birthday, all getting killed, and some guy in the real world having multiple personalities!
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fairimear
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Posted - 2005.06.15 16:25:00 -
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omg sixth sense was beyond words.
i predicted it after seeing teh trailer.
NOW babylon 5.
Through out you get told about the legendary figure who came from no where to lead a race to victory over evil
thousands of years before.
Then later the discovery of his disendats in another race stops a war.
Then the evil that was defeated before returns and u find out yet more that give's you a entirly diffrent look at it.
And you end up relising the first time the evil was defeated was also the second time.
Truely great story and one to watch every episode of.
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Tragar
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Posted - 2005.06.15 16:39:00 -
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Donnie Darko and the 6th sense :)
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Finix Jaeger
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Posted - 2005.06.15 16:43:00 -
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Old Boy has a very good/dark plot twist at the end. And that fight scene is amazing, being done in one long take.
Irreversible is also very interesting, with the story being told backwards. It is a very brutal movie but it does get its point through.
Donnie Darko is also very good.
Looks like I have a thing for dark and brutal movies 
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Tar Ecthelion
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Posted - 2005.06.15 16:48:00 -
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Fight Club has a wicked twist in it, and Matrix kinda made me go oooohh, thats cool  ( hadn't seen any reviews or anything before i saw it so was totaly in the dark about the film ).
Also " No, I am your father" ... still one of the classic cinema lines of all time. 
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Dark Shikari
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Posted - 2005.06.15 16:58:00 -
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Memento. Those who saw it know the plot twist at the very end (or time wise, the beginning). I won't post it here for obvious spoiler reasons.
Some other ones I like include the plot twist at the end of Fullmetal Alchemist, where basically everything you thought in the entire series is turned on its head. Those who saw the last 5 episodes know exactly what I mean. Yet again, posting it here would be an insane spoiler, so I won't do it.
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Dark Shikari
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Posted - 2005.06.15 17:00:00 -
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Edited by: Dark Shikari on 15/06/2005 17:01:17
Memento. Those who saw it know the plot twist at the very end (or time wise, the beginning). This is, IMO, the best plot twist I've ever seen in a film, or anything.
Some other ones I like include the plot twist at the end of Fullmetal Alchemist, where basically everything you thought in the entire series is turned on its head. Those who saw the last 5 episodes know exactly what I mean. The other side of the Alchemist's Gate turns out to be our world in 1921, the Homonculus are being controlled by Dante and Edward's father (I Am Your Father (TM)), and such. And that there is no such thing as equivalent trade, and all the energy for alchemy comes from the deaths of those in our world.
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OffBeaT
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Posted - 2005.06.15 17:27:00 -
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for me, it was right here in eve, when short bus went with stain leaving soul cartel at the last minit.
knowone saw it comming.
OffBeaT has been a loner ever since.
some characters do have a real history in this game.
if you look back too see it.
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Weebear
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Posted - 2005.06.15 18:52:00 -
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Originally by: Joshua Calvert
Originally by: Weebear
Edited by: Weebear on 15/06/2005 16:17:34
There was one I watched on Sky the other night, but can't remember the name of. Involved people all ending up at a motel in the middle of no where, all having the same birthday, all getting killed, and some guy in the real world having multiple personalities!
Identity?
Thats the one.
Going to add Mullholland Drive, not so much a twist as a b****cks I just lost what is going on completly and need to watch again from the start.
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Finix Jaeger
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Posted - 2005.06.15 20:02:00 -
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If you think "Mullholland drive" was confusing then you really should watch "Lost Highway".
I had to see "Mullholland Drive" two times to understand it (in my defence I was drunk the first time), I've seen "Lost Highway" about 5-6 times and there are so many plot twists that I get a headache everytime I think about it.
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hired goon
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Posted - 2005.06.15 20:30:00 -
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I have to say, the Usual Suspects twist wasn't really all that. My favourites are Knights of the Old Republic, and Fight Club.
Also I quite liked the one in Equilibrium, When Father explains his whole plan to Preston, and you realize the whole thing was planned from the start, and how clever it was. Maybe the old addage 'evil will always win ... because good is dumb' is correct! If only Preston wasn't so handy with a gun, eh :)
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Trey Azagthoth
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Posted - 2005.06.15 20:46:00 -
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Please download a song called "Dance With the Devil". Its a rap song, but its a very eye opening story. If you listen to the actual words of the song, its very intense. Basically, its about a guy who wants to get in a street gang, and the ppl in gang tell him to do "something" to a woman...(u get the idea). Through the song, they find a woman walking the streets, they beat her up and take her to a roof... piece the rest of it together, afterwards, the guys tell the kid to kill the woman, he pulls back the shirt thats over her face, and it's the kid's mother... He jumps off of the roof and kills himself on the spot. Its avery eye opening story.
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Plim
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Posted - 2005.06.15 21:37:00 -
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The Village had the best twist, because they made it so obvious from the trailer that you don't even have to watch the film...
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