Shock endings to movies.

[gallden]

What are the most shocking movie endings that you've seen (saw?) which one do I use.

Mine I think is Arlington Rd.

[ChaosLex]

The Usual Suspects, FTW!

[SteveA]

No Way Out
The Sixth Sense
The Planet of the Apes (original)

[BaltimoreTerp]

No Way Out

Was it how Kevin Costner keeps getting work?

[ChrisP]

The one about the people in the woods. It's not "The Village People", but it's something like that.

[orioles119]

The one about the people in the woods. It's not "The Village People", but it's something like that.
The Village? Come on... you didn't see that coming a mile away?

[The Wedge]

Was it how Kevin Costner keeps getting work?

You know, I hate that bit in Family Guy because 1) No Way Out is a good movie, and Costner was just fine in it, 2) it was made at the beginning of his career anyway. I know it had to fit in with the "I haven't been this confused since I saw No Way Out" line, but couldn't they have picked a more recent movie?

[The Wedge]

The Village? Come on... you didn't see that coming a mile away?

Especially when the writer/director has made his coin on twist endings (what a twist!) and was probably tapped for too much too soon. The well had started to run dry by The Village.

[Harford Bird]

Psycho (1960)
The Sixth Sense
The Others
Spoorloos

[ChrisP]

The Village? Come on... you didn't see that coming a mile away?


:( Nope...

[Danielos38]

Definitely the Sixth Sense. I had absolutely no idea that that was coming.

[Pedro Cerrano]

Se7en had a pretty shocking ending.

[Winning_Season]

The first movie that came to my head was The Departed, when Matt Damon goes back to his apartment and it looks like he is gonna make out scott free, and the Mark Whalberg is standin there with plastic bags over is feet, and just blows Matt Damons brains out. Incredible.

[bgfield]

Definitely the Sixth Sense. I had absolutely no idea that that was coming.

Same. Shyamalan should have stopped making movies there, though.

[cindyluvsbrady]

:( Nope...

Neither did I
The Sixth Sense
Gone Baby Gone
Im sure I will think of more!!

[Leitch]

I'm sure at some point in history it was shocking that Darth Vader was Luke Skywalker's father.

[Objectivity]

Dead Again
Shock to the System

I'm trying to name ones that haven't been mentioned yet.

[Leitch]

Soylent Green had a pretty shocking ending

[Fist Bump]

Titanic - I didn't see that ending coming, really when Rose threw the diamond necklace overboard I was shocked! ;)

[Mu'ayyidSaafir]

Soylent Green had a pretty shocking ending

You know, I saw the trailer for that on YouTube. I don't know if they just didn't know how to make trailers back then, or if people were not as wise to twist endings, but it gives away the ending pretty blatantly. I mean, it shows part of the scene at the end, in the factory with the conveyor belts. It also comes right out and talks about the death of a major character that doesn't occur until pretty near the end.

The movie that comes to mind for this thread is Chinatown. Technically not a twist "ending" because the twist is revealed with 20-30 minutes still to go, but I absolutely did not see it coming. At all. (By the way, the DVD has the original trailer, which also gives away important plot twists. What gives with '70s trailers, seriously?)

[ChaosLex]

I'm sure at some point in history it was shocking that Darth Vader was Luke Skywalker's father.

The same can probably be said for the ending of Psycho.

[Icterus galbula]

The Wicker Man - 1973 version and 2006 version do it the same way, but I definitely was shocked by the ending. Very unhollywood.

[scOtt]

Se7en had a pretty shocking ending.
That was a good one. Dropped my jaw when I first saw it.


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