I recently watched the French hack and slash flick "High Tension" which had a pretty good twist that I wasn't expecting. I dug it.
But twist ending flick is as good as the originator "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari". The next best movie as far as twists goes, "Mulholland Drive" by David Lynch. Excellent.
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Sorry to get off topic, but i had to comment on this. First of all, if that show was good, it wouldn't have been cancelled. Second, a movie? You gotta be kidding me. Also, i don't think anyone's gonna have a problem getting tru calling dvds.
Thirdly, If you love the show, A movie version of it is the last thing you need. Even the best TV shows make lousy movies due to the difference in Television vs. Feature Film storytelling. Even the movie versions of truly great television shows like the X-Files and Twin Peaks have been at best mediocre and still pale in comparison to their television couterparts. There are a few exceptions (like The Fugitive), but somehow I don't see the Tru Calling movie being one of them.
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Planet of the Apes (1968) starring Charleston Heston contains probably one of the most startling and shocking twisted endings in movie history. The set up from the beginning is dazzling and the mystery right up to the end of the movie at the time (the late sixties) the movie was release came right out of nowhere because the primitive level of scientific sophistication of the American public was just getting started with the Apollo moon space program and the same year that the movie-going public was so fortunate to have classic sci-fi film 2001: A Space Odyssey released. It was a very awesome year.
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mark f "Forum Moderator" Jedi Posted 04 November 2005 11:56 PM These were mentioned elsewhere.
If you referring to my mentioning of Planet of the Apes then "what?"
If so, what do you mean "these were mentioned elsewhere." In reviewing this whole thread, that is for the purpose of discussion which I did provide a bit of dicussion on this movie an already mentioned movie three times. I don't know if your comment adds much to the discussion. I mean the following movies were also discussed on this board:
* Sixth Sense - ten times. * Fight Club - seven times. * Usual Suspects - five times. * Witness for the Prosecution - four times. * Mulholland Drive - four times.
Five other movies were mentioned three times. Eight other movies were mentioned twice. And Twenty-seven movies were mentioned only once.
So?
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The irony of "The Sixth Sense" is that it is the therapist himself that fails to see his own denial. However, what is quite on target here is that it is most often the person themselves that fail to see themselves, regardless of their own training. The twist is so right on target for most people in counseling that it isn't really that farfetched, dead or alive, to deny something that we ourselves are so fearful of acknowledging. The reason, in part, that this movie was so successful is that it does hit home the notion that we, everyone of us, do are some point deny something about ourselves and that is something that is really hard to acknowledge, but what makes this movie connect so well with many people. It may be the people who have the most problems with this movie are the ones who have something to fear or hide (but this is meant in an understanding fashion because it is scary and fearful inside sometimes).
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I feel like I'm the only schmo in the world who didn't see it coming in "The Village". I liked that movie.
Sometimes it's nice to miss anticipating the ending like I did. By being a schmo, you had the delicious experience of the twist. It's great isn't it?! Perhaps I should congratulate you for your schmo-ness - in that way you experienced this movie in a way that most of us unfortnate people could not.
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Sorry to get off topic, but i had to comment on this. First of all, if that show was good, it wouldn't have been cancelled. Second, a movie? You gotta be kidding me. Also, i don't think anyone's gonna have a problem getting tru calling dvds.
Thirdly, If you love the show, A movie version of it is the last thing you need. Even the best TV shows make lousy movies due to the difference in Television vs. Feature Film storytelling. Even the movie versions of truly great television shows like the X-Files and Twin Peaks have been at best mediocre and still pale in comparison to their television couterparts. There are a few exceptions (like The Fugitive), but somehow I don't see the Tru Calling movie being one of them.
Fourthly, if you were going to plump for a television spinoff movie with Eliza Dushku featured in it, why pick that show?
There are so many, but here are some of the best that come to mind right now.
Derailed The Others Identity The Sixth Sense The Village
I can't think of any others, but those definitely had twists. Derailed's twist was more shocking, while in the other movies the twist was still a huge surprise, but not as shocking since you knew (at least with Shyamalan's films) that there would be some twists. The Others was a horror type film, so a twist was to be expected. Identity was a shocker, but no more than Derailed simply because it was a creepy thriller and I think everyone expected something like that at the end. It was obviously leading somewhere right from the beginning. Derailed kind of snuck up on you and completely threw you for a loop. I don't know why that movie isn't doing all that well; I it's guess because of the damn critics. It really is great, and if you haven't seen it but love fast paced thrillers, get out there and see it and you won't be disappointed.
Originally posted by cpa13: I recently watched the French hack and slash flick "High Tension" which had a pretty good twist that I wasn't expecting. I dug it.
That was by far the absolute worst movie I've ever seen. First of all, the dialogue was dubbed, and poorly. The violence was predictable and had nothing new or interesting to offer. Plus, it was a rip off of a great book and the movie based on that book. Dean Koontz wrote Intensity and that was actually scary. High Tension was a cheesy copycat that failed to do anything. I left after the first 10 or 15 hours and got out of there as fast as I could. I didn't care to see anymore things stolen from a book that I loved and then taselessly and with no horror whatsoever be played out upon the screen. It was utterly ridiculous and I don't know how it got made. It makes Gigli look like Scarface.
Matchstick Men (2003), I finally saw this movie on DVD earlie this year. This movie found itself on my top favorite 100 movies for its comedic, dramatic, thriller genre balance and the excellent build up to the ending that hit me very hard. Not the easiest movie to see by the time its over for everyone, but really a well performed, powerful movie.
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Though the movie was quite long I love the twist at the end of the story of the movie " Planet of the Apes". In fact that was the longest movie I've watched that I didn't fell asleep. It's just that the movie was really well crafted.
Though the movie was quite long I love the twist at the end of the story of the movie " Planet of the Apes". In fact that was the longest movie I've watched that I didn't fell asleep. It's just that the movie was really well crafted.
Because there were two movies produced involving similar plots, one in 1968 and one in 2001, it's helpful to know which version you are referring to.
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I hope the original is under discussion because it's obviously better on every level, but it IS SHORTER: 112 min. to the remake's 119. I just got my double disc DVD of the original in the mail today.
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One of the earliest classic twist endings is the French film Diabolique, about the wife and mistress of a French school teacher conspiring to kill him. The film was remade into a crappy Hollywood version in the 1990s with Sharon Stone and Chazz Palmintieri.
Good call. This would have been my choice. I never did see the Hollywood/Palmintieri/Stone remake.
