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Plot twists you totally called. *SPOILERS*

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TheWorthyEdge said:
Watched Fightclub for the first time tonight with my brother.

*SPOILERS*

The plot twist in this movie is revered as one of the biggest and craziest twists ever. I called that
Tyler was actually a Figment of his own imagination who he wanted to be, right when it started and B.Pitt came into play. Also, that suicide was fucking sick as hell...so gruesome.

Any movies that were told to have HUGE plot twists that you called immediately?
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BTW OP your brother is lying, the movie has been out for 16 years

There is like one hint at the start of the movie that Tyler isn't real, and that's the "Hey we have the same briefcase", and even that without context means nothing. If you don't know the twist, the first 1/3rd of the movie plays out completely normal and the interactions between Tyler and the Narrator don't seem suspect.

So go slap your brother for being a jerk.

EDIT: Oh wait, you're the one that spoiled the movie.

You jerk
:p
 
supernormal said:
For some reason this movie didn't work on me. It's probably one of the only movies I called out right from the beginning, to the point that I thought the movie wanted you to know it was obvious, and I felt so disappointed at the end because "there was no twist."
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Yeah I hear ya. Thats pretty much what my friend said too, but I mean with the way it went down at the end and the whole
looping time paradox shit, with them all being the same person
I have a hard time believing anyone could have called that. My biggest complaint was just how abruptly it ended.
 
The Dark Knight Rises.

That what's her face was Talia. The triangle on the back during the sex scene called that. The actual betrayal plot twist was called far earlier. As soon as she popped up, I got suspicious vibes from her. After that, the triangle on the back cemented it. Pissed me off that Bruce didn't pick up on that.
 
The Prestige:
was thinking to myself the first time Fallon comes on screen, "why does he look so much like Borden with a very fake mustache?"
 
NotTheGuyYouKill said:
Nah, I called the twist early on too:

When they were talking about "Murphy's Ghost" and stuff, I quickly figured out that it was gonna be Cooper from the future doing some timey wimey shenanigans.

Actually the thing that surprised the hell out of me was Matt Damon
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Same, but I actually called the MD thing. The Murder She Wrote rule and all.


And, Titanic, why do they bring up how large and safe it is like 20 times? And then Rose asks about the lifeboats.
 
BKatastrophe said:
The Dark Knight Rises.

That what's her face was Talia. The triangle on the back during the sex scene called that. The actual betrayal plot twist was called far earlier. As soon as she popped up, I got suspicious vibes from her. After that, the triangle on the back cemented it. Pissed me off that Bruce didn't pick up on that.
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lol yeah that whole twist was ruined on me thanks to some asshole online posting a set photo
of her dressed up in her Talia gear looking like a boss
 
Lan Dong Mik said:
My buddy said he predicted Predestination about 30 mins in. I had to call bullshit lol. That movie had one of the more insane twists I've seen in recent memory.
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I could see predicting some of it.
If you're familiar with what a predestination paradox is, that's a huge clue right there in the title. Ethan Hawke's noticeable snicker at the other character calling him a "son of a bitch" was another big clue. As others have said, after watching enough movies you kind of go in expecting certain tropes or at least looking for some sort of "twist". Still, I'm right there with you in being skeptical that he predicted the ENTIRE twist.
Still a great movie, though.


BKatastrophe said:
Yup. Called it as soon as
the professor
stepped on screen. Was like
"That motherfucker is the antagonist, no doubt."
As SOON AS
he
stepped on screen.
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(continuing Big Hero 6 spoilers)
It didn't help that they got James Cromwell as the voice actor. When you have a big name actor with a very distinct voice in a role, you know he's not going to get killed off in the first few minutes
 
Lan Dong Mik said:
lol yeah that whole twist was ruined on me thanks to some asshole online posting a set photo
of her dressed up in her Talia gear looking like a boss
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Oh really? Fuck man. That sucks. To be honest, it wasn't that great a twist. I picked up on it because of prior knowledge of the comics. Everything involving
her in that movie is just kinda bad. Really shoved in and it doesn't feel like it belongs there.
 
Dr.Parity said:
BTW OP your brother is lying, the movie has been out for 16 years

There is like one hint at the start of the movie that Tyler isn't real, and that's the "Hey we have the same briefcase", and even that without context means nothing. If you don't know the twist, the first 1/3rd of the movie plays out completely normal and the interactions between Tyler and the Narrator don't seem suspect.

So go slap your brother for being a jerk.

EDIT: Oh wait, you're the one that spoiled the movie.

You jerk
:p
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The first time you see Tyler (outside of the prologue) is way more of a hint than the "we have the same suitcase" line, the Narrator outright says "If you wake up at a different time in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?" Right as the camera focuses DIRECTLY on Tyler Durden passing the narrator in an airport terminal....Kinda completely serves it to you on a platter if you're even vaguely familiar with standard movie tropes.
 
Lan Dong Mik said:
Yeah I hear ya. Thats pretty much what my friend said too, but I mean with the way it went down at the end and the whole
looping time paradox shit, with them all being the same person
I have a hard time believing anyone could have called that. My biggest complaint was just how abruptly it ended.
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Well I've seen many movies with twist like this. Also the fact that the ads for it say "OMG Biggest Twist Ever" makes you very analytic of everything you see. So right at the beginning when
they're giving the guy a new face it I automatically put the dots together that he was gonna meet himself at some point "but the audience wouldn't know because they would look different." Right when that suspect man looking girl walks in bar that was it for me.
I was surprised in the moment and thought it was clever, but the fact that at the end they reveal the connection made me feel like they were saving this super obvious thing for an ending twist, which was disappointing.
 
ffejeromdiks said:
The first time you see Tyler (outside of the prologue) is way more of a hint than the "we have the same suitcase" line, the Narrator outright says "If you wake up at a different time in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?" Right as the camera focuses DIRECTLY on Tyler Durden passing the narrator in an airport terminal....Kinda completely serves it to you on a platter if you're even vaguely familiar with standard movie tropes.
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IIRC that was one of the first/few mainstream movies to have a twist like that. Of course now you wouldn't be able to pull it off as effectively because it's almost a cliché twist, but back then it was pretty big.

I could totally be wrong about this idk.


Dr.Parity said:
Fight Club Spoilers with indirect Shutter Island and Interstellar spoilers

I completely disagree.

If you go into the movie knowing nothing about what's about to transpire then connecting vague dialogue from a narcoleptic man meeting a dude who sells soap to "oh that dude is clearly his alter-ego" is a pretty bold fucking step to say the least.

Identifying tropes is easy in a movie that clearly defines it's genre. Watching Fight Club for the first time is hardly like watching Interstellar or Shutter Island. Those movies can easily be guessed because the tropes are common place with those stories. Fight Club on the other hand has an unreliable narrator which only becomes apparent around halfway through the movie to those paying really, really close attention to details.

It's easy to look back on a story and say "well duh, look at that scene" with something like Fight Club, which considering how long the movie has been out now I'm guessing that peoples first viewings have been long forgotten and have been completely mis-remembered due to constant interpretations and simply how long the movie has been out for.
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I agree with this.
I figured out when the protagonist starts beating himself up in the office, but no way as early as when they meet.
 
Scream 4

Sydney's cousin Jill who's been billed as the next-gen survivor and was even attacked by Ghostface turns out to be the one who orchestrated the killings. Instead of Sydney passing the baton to Jill, she shoots her instead.

I thought the opening and closing of the movie still provided great twists, but I just had an inkling because of casting.
Emma Roberts looks evil already and I assumed Hayden Panettiere (who had a bigger name top billing at the time) who played the best friend would be the real one to carry the torch.
 
ffejeromdiks said:
The first time you see Tyler (outside of the prologue) is way more of a hint than the "we have the same suitcase" line, the Narrator outright says "If you wake up at a different time in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?" Right as the camera focuses DIRECTLY on Tyler Durden passing the narrator in an airport terminal....Kinda completely serves it to you on a platter if you're even vaguely familiar movie tropes.
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Fight Club Spoilers with indirect Shutter Island and Interstellar spoilers

I completely disagree.

If you go into the movie knowing nothing about what's about to transpire then connecting vague dialogue from a narcoleptic man meeting a dude who sells soap to "oh that dude is clearly his alter-ego" is a pretty bold fucking step to say the least.

Identifying tropes is easy in a movie that clearly defines it's genre. Watching Fight Club for the first time is hardly like watching Interstellar or Shutter Island. Those movies can easily be guessed because the tropes are common place with those stories. Fight Club on the other hand has an unreliable narrator which only becomes apparent around halfway through the movie to those paying really, really close attention to details.

It's easy to look back on a story and say "well duh, look at that scene" with something like Fight Club, which considering how long the movie has been out now I'm guessing that peoples first viewings have been long forgotten and have been completely mis-remembered due to constant interpretations and simply how long the movie has been out for.
 
In the first 2 minutes of Inception, I called
the girl being an emulation of a woman he loved that was stuck in his mind, and that they were already dreaming right there... and when they woke up, they were still in a dream.
 
Yay I can finally gloat about figuring out The Sixth Sense twist.

The specific scene that gave it away to me was when Bruce Willis was "talking" with the mom of the kid, the scene starts with both staring at each other silently in a living room, and then the kid entering the house, at that point I realized that Willis had not actually interacted with anyone on camera besides the first scenes, and with the kid of course, so the rest was obvious.
 
BKatastrophe said:
The Dark Knight Rises.

That what's her face was Talia. The triangle on the back during the sex scene called that. The actual betrayal plot twist was called far earlier. As soon as she popped up, I got suspicious vibes from her. After that, the triangle on the back cemented it. Pissed me off that Bruce didn't pick up on that.
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Post-coital fireplace time with her


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And you think Bats should be thinking about that. Shame. He may be a bat, but he's still a man!
 
Dr.Parity said:
Fight Club Spoilers with indirect Shutter Island and Interstellar spoilers

I completely disagree.

If you go into the movie knowing nothing about what's about to transpire then connecting vague dialogue from a narcoleptic man meeting a dude who sells soap to "oh that dude is clearly his alter-ego" is a pretty bold fucking step to say the least.

Identifying tropes is easy in a movie that clearly defines it's genre. Watching Fight Club for the first time is hardly like watching Interstellar or Shutter Island. Those movies can easily be guessed because the tropes are common place with those stories. Fight Club on the other hand has an unreliable narrator which only becomes apparent around halfway through the movie to those paying really, really close attention to details.

It's easy to look back on a story and say "well duh, look at that scene" with something like Fight Club, which considering how long the movie has been out now I'm guessing that peoples first viewings have been long forgotten and have been completely mis-remembered due to constant interpretations and simply how long the movie has been out for.
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I'm not claiming I saw it coming or anything, I didn't notice until later viewings, but if I was seeing it for the first time in 2015 after seeing so many movies riff off the same formula, I could totally start picking up on it right off the bat.

Not to mention that the movie has an unavoidable reputation of having "a twist"in the first place, so newer viewers are probably already trying to figure it out and that's being generous that they don't already have a pretty vague idea from the numerous pop culture references.
 
With the Prestige, I guessed that
Fallon was a clone of Borden, after a scene with Fallon in the foreground. I noticed he kinda looked like Christian Bale in American Hustle, and boom.
 
Not exactly a "plot twist" but I apparently pretty accurately described the entire plot of "The Fault in Our Stars" without knowing anything about the book or the movie and just seeing the poster in our theater:

I remember passing this by with my girlfriend. And basically I said something along the lines of:

'It shows the girls and the boy lying in a field but she has a nasal cannula in place. Which means she's sick. And since most writers are unoriginal, I'm gonna say... cancer. Anyways, she's terribly depressed and has this whole "why me" complex, but then she meets Boy who has a care-free spontaneous spirit and shows her meaning in life. I'm gonna guess they meet at the hospital or something (by the by, I was told later that I got this detail wrong as they meet at a support group) and that he's sick too, but not really that sick, and is probably either recuperating from treatment or in remission. As she goes through ups and downs with her treatments, she tries to live her life with Boy and they fall in teenage love. Unfortunately, the boy ends up getting acutely sick and dies, but not after teaching her how to live her life to the fullest.'

I still haven't seen the movie or read the book, but apparently that's fairly accurate. I was told they make out in Anne Frank's attic or some bullshit like that which unfortunately my crystal ball couldn't see something that contrived.
 
When I used to watch NCIS, I was always able to spot the killer at the very start of the episode.

Also; In The Witcher 2 I instantly knew the
Monk was an assassin
.
What kind of holy man wears studded leather gloves?
 
IAmtheFMan said:
Not exactly a "plot twist" but I apparently pretty accurately described the entire plot of "The Fault in Our Stars" without knowing anything about the book or the movie and just seeing the poster in our theater:

I remember passing this by with my girlfriend. And basically I said something along the lines of:

'It shows the girls and the boy lying in a field but she has a nasal cannula in place. Which means she's sick. And since most writers are unoriginal, I'm gonna say... cancer. Anyways, she's terribly depressed and has this whole "why me" complex, but then she meets Boy who has a care-free spontaneous spirit and shows her meaning in life. I'm gonna guess they meet at the hospital or something (by the by, I was told later that I got this detail wrong as they meet at a support group) and that he's sick too, but not really that sick, and is probably either recuperating from treatment or in remission. As she goes through ups and downs with her treatments, she tries to live her life with Boy and they fall in teenage love. Unfortunately, the boy ends up getting acutely sick and dies, but not after teaching her how to live her life to the fullest.'

I still haven't seen the movie or read the book, but apparently that's fairly accurate. I was told they make out in Anne Frank's attic or some bullshit like that which unfortunately my crystal ball couldn't see something that contrived.
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What are the lottery numbers
 
Dexter Season 1
I predicted that it was Rudy about 20 seconds before it was revealed as him.
 
Oldboy

The very first scene when the main dude starts talking to the grown up version of his daughter, I thought "that's his daughter...omg I bet he's gonna fuck his daughter!" Yuuuup, poor bastard.
 
The Sixth Sense. Called it out loud about 1/3 through the movie by mistake. I could almost feel people staring angrily at me for the rest of the movie.
 
Now You See Me. About half way through, probably around the big bridge scene, I called the Investigator being the guy.

It was either her or the female French cop, and she was too obvious.
 
Cormano said:
shutter island

Andrew Laeddis =Edward Daniels
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Shutter Island double screwed me. The twist was made so obvious that I assumed it couldn't be right halfway through the film and my mind went in other directions. When the twist was revealed, I was shocked all over again, lol. I loved it.
 
I try my best not to predict what will happen later on in a movie when I'm watching. Kind of ruins the experience for me if I end up being right.
 
Knights of the Old Republic. There wasn't an "aha" moment. Thought they framed it so that you were suppose to know
who the hero was
at the beginning. Didn't realize it was suppose to be a mystery until the reveal.

Futurama: Bender's Big Score.
Recognized Lars' voice immediately. Took a few seconds to fit everything together.


Dark Knight Rises was one that I absolutely should have guessed but didn't.
Remembered thinking that she will either be evil or dead by the end as soon as I saw her. Further, I was a bit annoyed through the movie when I thought that they were making Bane the son rather than bringing Talia over. However, I never put the pieces together.
 
I agree with the long spoiler text above that if OP didn't know there was a twist in Fight Club, they wouldn't have guessed it. Most of these probably fall under that category.

Generally, I like to be very mentally passive when watching movies, so I'm not always guessing twists or what's going to happen next in the plot. Makes it much more enjoyable, imo.

Then again, in Avengers: Age of Ultron, HUGE SPOILERS
the setup for Hawkeye dying at some point is so over the top, with the introduction of the family and that shot of him sighing before going to help the kid near the end, that you know they're NOT going to do it. That QS died, however, was something I didn't think would happen. The extremely meta line he says after that is kind of cute.
 
timetokill said:
Battlestar Galactica.

I called it that it was "ancient history" before modern day
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I always thought you were meant to assume that from the start. The original series flat out stated it opening credits that
"life on Earth began out there..."

I guessed what was going on in The Sixth Sense as Bruce Willis was bleeding out on the bed. Every piece of promotional material had promised a twisting twist so twisty that your mind will be twisted out of your skull. I spent the rest of the movie thinking 'if I'm right then this film is hilarious.
 
mac said:
Shutter Island. He's on a boat with chains? And then he looks right at his hands after looking at the chains. Pathetic.
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Chains? What?
 
BKatastrophe said:
Yup. Called it as soon as
the professor
stepped on screen. Was like
"That motherfucker is the antagonist, no doubt."
As SOON AS
he
stepped on screen.
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The was exactly the same thing for me with that film, and with Olympus Has Fallen. Within like the first 60 seconds of that I was like
"yep, that other SS agent that just poked his head down the stairs will go rogue"
. That's cookie cutter Hollywood action films for you though I guess.
 
In AoU:

Called it that they were setting up Hawkeye's backstory just to come close to killing him, but with a last minute bait and switch. I didn't know who would die, though.
 
IAmtheFMan said:
Not exactly a "plot twist" but I apparently pretty accurately described the entire plot of "The Fault in Our Stars" without knowing anything about the book or the movie and just seeing the poster in our theater:

I remember passing this by with my girlfriend. And basically I said something along the lines of:

'It shows the girls and the boy lying in a field but she has a nasal cannula in place. Which means she's sick. And since most writers are unoriginal, I'm gonna say... cancer. Anyways, she's terribly depressed and has this whole "why me" complex, but then she meets Boy who has a care-free spontaneous spirit and shows her meaning in life. I'm gonna guess they meet at the hospital or something (by the by, I was told later that I got this detail wrong as they meet at a support group) and that he's sick too, but not really that sick, and is probably either recuperating from treatment or in remission. As she goes through ups and downs with her treatments, she tries to live her life with Boy and they fall in teenage love. Unfortunately, the boy ends up getting acutely sick and dies, but not after teaching her how to live her life to the fullest.'

I still haven't seen the movie or read the book, but apparently that's fairly accurate. I was told they make out in Anne Frank's attic or some bullshit like that which unfortunately my crystal ball couldn't see something that contrived.
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Pretty much my exact prediction as well. Never saw the movie or read the book. It looked incredibly predictable from the trailer.
 
In Avengers: Age of Ultron
before the film started I was certain that Quicksilver would die, since he's probably the least important character in it and to avoid confusion with X-Men DOFP Quicksilver.
 
Delta Assault said:
Interstellar.

As soon as they get to the "ghost" in Murphy's bedroom in the first five minutes of the film, I thought to myself "Well, that's not normal at all... that's probably just her dad from the future. Or the past. Or somewhere." And uh... yeah, hey... I turned out to be right.
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Yep, anyway it was either obvious or a plot hole
that it was a human communicating with them, and probably from the future. Who else would use morse code and geographic coordinates to communicate ? Since the movie was about wormholes and stuff, the relative time thing was expected.
(Interstellar)
 
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