"A twist ending you wont believe!"

[-Lithium-]

Does anyone else dislike when they advertise twist endings IN the movie trailer or TV spot?

Most of the time, the ending isn't even shocking, but even when it is, its still kind of brought down by the knowledge that you knew that a twist ending was coming...

[Deleted]

It's the Sixth Sense principle. Since it worked for one movie like eleven years ago they think it works for everything ever. Generally people just seem to hate it, but the people behind horror movies seem to be ridiculously out of touch.

[Deleted]

I don't usually care for films that rely on a twist ending to be entertaining. I can understand how it can be a great selling point for many people but the build up tends to be more important than the twist. "The Sixth Sense" is a good example of this; there's an interesting twist, certainly, but the real interesting aspect of the movie is the build up to that twist, the acting, the atmosphere created.

[G✇JI☈A]

I hate that.

When someone tells me there is a twist in something, I spend the entire movie/episode looking for clues and it ruins it.

You know what else I hate with a passion.... And it exclusively a TV thing:

'On the next episode, someone will DIE!'

You know what would of been a bigger surprise? If you did not f***ing tell me a character was going to die in the first place!

[Jiren]

I saw "Sixth Sense" twist coming a mile away because I remembered "Are you afraid of the dark"

"Sixth Sense" is original my ass.

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Mar 20, 2010 5:07:25 GMT -5 Jiren said:

I saw "Sixth Sense" twist coming a mile away because I remembered "Are you afraid of the dark"

"Sixth Sense" is original my ass.

At least he fully acknowledges that he ripped that off.

And, for that matter, it might be a good sign for Last Airbender that his last good movie was also based off a Nickelodeon show.

[Jedi-El of Tomorrow]

Mar 20, 2010 5:22:25 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

Mar 20, 2010 5:07:25 GMT -5 Jiren said:

I saw "Sixth Sense" twist coming a mile away because I remembered "Are you afraid of the dark"

"Sixth Sense" is original my ass.

At least he fully acknowledges that he ripped that off.

And, for that matter, it might be a good sign for Last Airbender that his last good movie was also based off a Nickelodeon show.

But "Unbreakable" wasn't based off of a Nickelodeon show.

I still say "Unbreakable" was his best movie.

[Bo Rida]

I agree that it ruins the twist if you know there's going to be one, I guessed the one in the village from the trailer.

[Deleted]

The litmus test for films with a twist ending is, imo, if they would work with a more conventional resolution. Psycho would work if it was just about a crazed old woman and her dominated son, as the film has such atmosphere, such a great sense of entrapment, the unease of voyeurism. Who the killer really is caps it all off, makes the plot that more engaging, serves as a great payoff. The Empire Strikes Back would've still been an epic achievement in film making if Anakin Skywalker was just killed by Darth Vader; the true fate of Anakin Skywalker turns an epic into an unforgettable film.

[YellowJacketY2J]

"It's fun to guess the twists."

[bob]

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Mar 20, 2010 7:26:27 GMT -5 YellowJacketY2J said:

"It's fun to guess the twists."

"I bet he's a woman, that bloke."

[Fundertaker]

Mar 20, 2010 4:37:50 GMT -5 G✇JI☈A said:

I hate that.

When someone tells me there is a twist in something, I spend the entire movie/episode looking for clues and it ruins it.

You know what else I hate with a passion.... And it exclusively a TV thing:

'On the next episode, someone will DIE!'

You know what would of been a bigger surprise? If you did not f***ing tell me a character was going to die in the first place!

They could go the Mazinger Z way and name the episode "Kouji Kabuto DIES in LAVA!".

And then he doesn't.

[Confused Mark Wahlberg]

Another thing they do in the movie is while they reveal the twist ending, they start having flashbacks to all the moments in the movie where they 'reveal' who the killer is. Like the audience is supposed to go "D'oh! How did I NOT see that the chicken was the killer?"

I'd be more shocked if a thriller/horror movie didn't have a twist ending at this point.

Twist endings are usually the result of crappy screenwriting.

[mysterydriver]

"Oh my god."

"What?"

"This is just a movie! No one is the killer!"

*Everyone waves to the camera*

End Movie.

[erisi236]

I never liked the "it was me all along Austin!" type of killer movies, where the person doing the killing was in fact a member of the group being slain.

[Clash, Never a Meter Maid]

They didn't advertise The Usual Suspects' twist, did they? I don't remember.

[Chainsaw]

Mar 20, 2010 11:56:55 GMT -5 mysterydriver said:

"Oh my god."

"What?"

"This is just a movie! No one is the killer!"

*Everyone waves to the camera*

End Movie.

I would love for that to happen.

[I Like Your Poetry]

They started doing that with Shutter Island like the week after it came out.

It's as if Hollywood thinks there's a crowd of people who will come out for media that has twist endings.

[Red Impact]

Twist endings work best when the movie is still good without them. When you expect a twist, it influences how you view the rest of the movie, but if you're not expecting your perception of everything that happened before to change in one moment, it's more effective.