Dracula 2000. Dracula is Judas. It explained the holy water and crosses [he betrayed Jesus and can't stand Benbrook reminded of his betrayal], the sensitivity to light [judas hung himself at nightfall], can't be around silver [70 pieces of silver] and the need to always drink blood [he missed the last supper where he would have had Jesus's blood, so he constantly craved blood of the "pure"]. I loved the twist and made the movie worth it.
Judas didn’t miss the last supper, he was very much present: Matthew 26:21-25 21 and as they were eating, he said, Verily I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me. 22 And they were exceeding sorrowful, and began to say unto him every one, Is it I, Lord? 23 And he answered and said, He that dipped his hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray me. 24 The Son of man goeth, even as it is written of him: but woe unto that man through whom the Son of man is betrayed! good were it for that man if he had not been born. 25 And Judas, who betrayed him, answered and said, Is it I, Rabbi? He saith unto him, Thou hast said.
I actually like Saw 2. I'm not afraid to say it. The traps are cool, the ending is cool, it put the cop who framed tons of people in his place. I enjoyed it.
When you realize that the saw franchise is more a revenge genre/anti hero than horror franchise (Exception saw 7! Only good thing was the end twist. The killer was a mindless blood lust idiot and did not give his victims any chance to survive! He made a mockery of jigsaw name and deserves what they got!)
I like Saw 2 as well. It’s one of my favorites from the series! The traps are cool and bringing Amanda back as the apprentice was a surprise to me. I also like Saw 3. Saw V was terrible though lol
@@bonafiedangeredpenguin5387 There is no way Jigsaw is an anti-hero. The worst part about the Saw franchise was 1) That the kept acting like he wasn't just a psychotic murderer and 2) That Jigsaw was somehow omniscient.
JSmellerM Depends on what you mean with twist. I mean, they considered something that was is all the ads and built up through the whole movie (Twilight) a twist.
william timonen if you are talking about twilight the real twist was probably that it was just in that one dude's head but they explained why they thought the battle was a twist
Dead Silence is one of the horror movies I enjoy a lot. The plot twist was fucking amazing, plus it had loads of tense moments, which kept you on your toes pretty much the whole movie. Unlike a lot of other horror movies.
Enders Game has had the most impactful plot twist of any movie I've ever watched. I hadn't read the book so I was absolutely mortified when I found out it was all real and not a simulation.
+Andy Valenzuela - I know, right? She was pretty much a wax doll in the whole damn series! Then I saw her in Clouds of Sils Maria and my jaw hit the floor!
+Pat Somers For a long time I thought it was the worst of the terminator movies, then I watched it again recently and though I get where dude is coming from with the cheesy humor and the underwhelming action I think a part of that is because both of those things are done so well in T2, and also because they earmarked a lot of the budget for that whole blowing up the world thing since CGI was still relatively expensive at the time and it had been long enough since T2 that the studio weren't quite sure what they were going to be able to make back.
Yeah, on the original Friday the 13th, I saw it when I was 12, with my best friend who was 2 years younger. We rented it on VHS along with a couple other movies for a sleepover because all the older kids said it was a "great scary movie". And no, nobody spoiled any of the plot for us. We just knew it was the 1st in the series of 3 (at the time) & it told how Jason came to be a psycho killer that couldn't be stopped. My friend spent most of the movie clinging to my arm scared while I kept thinking "When is it gonna get scary? Just a typical horror movie." Then by halfway through I was thinking "Obviously the nice lady is actually the dead kid's mom. She blames teen obsession with sex for the cause of her son's death by negligence. She's the one pretending to be normal but killing teens that she deems irresponsible, nothing supernatural here." Yet my friend was shocked at the "twist". I never understood how so many people said they were shocked. Had they somehow never seen another horror movie before that one? It's a standard plot that horror movies continue the storytelling tradition of adults telling teens not to sneak around to have sex or they will have severe consequences, like maybe die horribly.
+Cabochon1360 Liked the movie, but hated the twist. Up till then it really was a head trip. What happens when a child starts wanting the things an adult does, but can't have them? Little ways it happens all the time, but this case. Way down the rabbit hole as she went psycho. Just to toss the ideal and make it a dwarf in disguise? Totally ruined the head trip. Back to our safe place where everything is always what we think it is. :P
+ControvT ^^ What is an orphan activist? Do you mean just people who support the ideal of adopting orphans? Is that an activist category now? I don't think supporting doing something makes one an activist. We would have to stat labeling people coffee activist, tea activists, or myself an energy drink activist. : D
Cabochon1360 My biggest problem with Orphan wasn't the pacing, but the ' evil kid' movie cliche's: inept counselors, and naively stupid husbands- those two were the worst in this film. I liked the more adult back story about the couple and the girl. The sexual dialogue and content, kinda shocked me in theaters, but the twist at the end was jaw - dropping for me and it worked pretty well.)
Um He's saying that the character of Eli is blind which he is it clearly says so in the synopsis of the film on IMDB: www.imdb.com/title/tt1037705/synopsis?ref_=ttpl_sa_2 and the films Wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Eli#Plot
Also, John Connors drifting existence without the war (or inner hate of machines), and Claire Danes spirit. Best parts of terminator 3 didn't had anything to do with any terminators at all, lol.
What about batman vs super man, that whole film was a bore until they find out that both of them had a mum called Martha....oh wait no that was stupid and lame....
That part made me think of step brothers. Superman: Save Martha Batman: why did you say that name?!?! Lois: it's his mother's name! Super man: did we just become best friends? Batman: Yep! Super man: Do you want to go do karate in the garage? Batman: Yep! Lol when I watch BVS that was exactly what came to mind at that part. 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂
You forgot 'The Mist'. An otherwise bland horror movie with no real plot. UNTIL! The final act. The father of a child , his wife and two old people run out of fuel trying to escape the city and think that the best way to go, is to shoot themselves. Their are 5 people in the car, but only four bullets. The dad kills everyone but himself, leaves the car and starts shouting at the mist. However, earlier on in the film, the son said that "the canadian army will help us". The dad thinks nothing of it and tries different ways to survive and ultimately desides to try and escape in a car with two elders and his wife at the end. When the dad stops shouting he finds something horrible. The canadian army actually did come to save them. The dad had just killed his son and his wife for nothing. The movie ends with him screaming as the canadian army moves through the city killing all the monsters. It made me cry and I don't cry easily.
+The Wanderer Not just the army coming but this mist starts to fade and we see the mother who everyone assumes was long dead, alive and well (with her kids i believe). i fucking love the movie ending because its so sad and horrible its the sort of things that often people are afraid to do in film even in horror . I do agree that the ending makes it memorable but wouldn't call it a twist(unless you read the book) or the movie a "bland horror movie with no real plot." The movies plot is simplistic(or rather minimal) but it is there and works.Lets go to the store,Oh shit inter dimensional mist what should we do? It builds from there with characters building up to be as big of threats as the creatures(and ultimate being bigger) . Whether someone finds it bland i guess is more of an opinion. i like horror movies where people are isolated and the threat isnt just the monster or killer but the other people as well. Over all like the book its not overly amazing but i feel Frank like he often does nailed the adaption with the lil Stephen king things like the Dark tower poster ,"My life for you" and most of all that great ending that were we realize if they had just stayed calm and waited everything would have been fine(not the wife but still). On slightly related note it suppose to be getting a show adaption so lets hope its better than the under the dome one also Dark tower is getting a movie.
+NagualElias That ending was horrible & unnecessary. I'm amazed Stephen King agreed to it, especially since he wrote in his introduction to the Bachman books that he was still callow enough to believe in unhappy endings with his first novels.
there's also the fact that during the film the crazed woman says that God requires a sacrifice, meaning his child but then is subsequently killed. Then, at the end of the movie as soon as the child is shot the mist starts to clear...
The Boy would be awesome on this list where it turns out the creepy ghost of the boy was not actually a ghost but the boy all grown up, living in the walls.
Shamir George Just watched that and yeah, did not see that coming. Normally I get pissed at the Scooby Doo "man in s mask" twist, but this time was an exception.
BardicLiving ~ I agree. when it's something supernatural it's not as bad bc it's isn't real, depending on what sorta supernatural things you believe in. But when it turns out that something is real, like a real human being all along, it's totes creepier bc that means it's in the real realm of possibility. spooky shit yo
In the end, that imaginary fight scene averts all the real fighting and saves the lives of everyone involved. It was incredibly well done even though it didn't save the film or the franchise from being shit.
But technically the guy getting the vision could have used that to change the outcome in the battle I guess? Or delay the battle anyway and just say they'll withdraw to strike at a later date.
"Terminator 2 is godlike" - my point exactly! Best Terminator by far including the recent attempts, although the last one seems to at least get back to the right path a bit
Nothing will ever come close to T2, that's for sure, but I actually really dug Genisys (despite the stupid name). Lots of cool, T2-esque throwbacks and moments. Plus Emilia Clarke.
The ending to T3 absolutely saved it from being fairly mediocre to a fairly good film. I realize most people dislike it a lot more than I do, but if you going into it expecting a popcorn B-movie its not bad. Add the twist at the end and its actually quite good.
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Twilight one being so true, I remember going to this movie for my little sister's birthday, treating her to a movie and snacks as a present. But the movie was boring as hell, and I could literally see all the other guys in the theater also nearly dozing off of just being completely uninterested, until this scene started and they all snapped right awake, while all girls faces just froze in absolute horror. It was beautiful... Best few minutes of the entire thing.
Everyone pans it, but you have to think of the bar that had been set by the two movies that came before it. Not great, sure, but still a decently competent action movie. Did not see that end coming, that's for sure.
In a lot of ways, I prefer it over T2. Yeah, classic action flick, but it had Edward Furlong, and he is a blight on the screen. No charisma, a shrieking voice, and just generally annoying.
You missed a bunch of movies! For example, every single Adam Sandler movie was absolute shit until that one part where they decide to roll the credits.
The T3 twist maybe good as a standalone thing for that particular movie, but the movie itself shouldn't have existed. It negates everything that was established in T2. They worked for the whole movie to change the future and then T3 happens and says "fuck you, this is a PG-13 franchise now and we need the world to end in order to sell tickets".
I disagree. Although T2 is a great action movie, it's plot made no sense. I hate temporal-causality, and I hate the idea that the machines only existed because people found their remains from the future which only existed in the past because they were built by the people that found their remains which came from the future but wouldn't have existed otherwise, wut?. Also, how would John Conner have been born with Judgment Day and time travel? T3 had every right to exist. When the Terminator says, "you did not stop Judgment Day, you only postponed it," that made sense. It dealt with the massive, _massive_ plot-holes dealt in T2, and it makes the entire saga come full-circle. I think it's underrated for that reason alone. I also think Salvation is underrated. Yeah, it's got plot-holes too, but it's still pretty good in a lot of way. Genysis I didn't even bother watching.
It makes sense if you accept the theory that Skynet more than likely inadvertently sent its machines to the past in one or more alternate realities, and not to the past timeline of its own current reality, which explains Skynet's lack of understanding of why it kept failing to complete its mission to destroy John Connor. In fact, one has to take into account a couple of things. One, if not for the machines' intervention, Sarah would have gone on that planned date of hers with John's original birth father, and would have eventually ended up becoming pregnant with John anyway. Two, in regards to certain deleted/extended scenes from "T2", some events (e.g., John Connor's birth) were apparently always fated to happen, regardless of what reality they occurred in or how they happened, while others would not necessarily have happened at all.
Corinth Maxwell That had occurred to me as well, but multi-verse theory is never established in the Terminator series. I guess I just like Nick Stahl as John Conner. I don't know why they couldn't get him to reprise the role in Salvation.
I want to say "The Game"....but it wasn't a "terrible" movie, just long.... but it had the greatest ending of any movie I've ever seen (just above "The Sixth Sense").... IF you haven't seen it, watch it! Starts out slow (hang in there), picks up speed, and then the ending is epic. Michael Douglas and Sean Penn......
Blergh. I'm gonna have to totally disagree. The movie was okay, but since it gave everyone arbitrary powers to commit impossible acts of deception, there turned out to be no reason to play detective and figure out whether , or what, was real and what was a game. And then it ends with the silliest deus ex machina I've ever seen. That ending is five kinds of impossible, and any chance I had to suspend my disbelief up until that time was dumped in the bin and pissed all over. But since you didn't have the same reaction, perhaps I'm the asshole skeptic who can't simply go with a movie premise and enjoy himself. Any RU-vidrs on my side...?
Eric Goldlust Onoes! Spoilers! It's all ruined! But seriously. XD There's more than a few holes that can be poked into the movie so it wasn't brilliant or anything. I think most of David Fincher's movies are like that. But for back in the day when not every other movie was trying to make plot twists, it was definitely different. It's aged well for something made almost 20 years ago. It's not gonna win any best movie awards, but compared to most of the stuff that comes out these days, it can compete. Or maybe that's just nostalgia goggles for one of my first suspense movies when I was itty bitty.
I remember seeing Terminator 3 in theaters. I actually really enjoyed the movie. But what I remember most of all was the theater was PACKED and we all laughed and cheered throughout the film. But when the bombs fell and John Conner gave his voice over to end the movie... the theater went dead silent. When the credits rolled there were no cheers, no laughs, no boos, no one even talking to each other. Pure silence as we strolled out of the theater. It was the most amazing thing I've ever witnessed.
The British movie "Exam" wasn't a terrible movie but it had a nice twist that tied things up nicely. At the beginning they are told that they have to answer one question, the only question but no details are provided about the question. In the end it is revealed that when they were asked if they had any questions, that was the question.
Personally I reject the notion that a twist can ever save or ruin a movie. Yes, it can make it better or worse, but if the first hundred minutes or so aren't good, it's still a bad film. And the reverse is true. Sunshine's a good example, I'm perfectly willing to admit that the ending has flaws (although I liked it more than most seem to), but it's still a good film.
You have to consider the point of an ending, which is to provide catharsis for the build-up set by the previous scenes. A shitty ending invalidates the purpose of everything that comes before it. I don't think a movie can be _saved_ by a surprisingly smart ending, but it can certainly be ruined by a particularly bad one.
the other movies on this list? whatever. but Terminator 3 is good because they blew up the world? brilliant right? no, it isn't they only did that to be able to make more movies. all T3 is is to re-write the ending of T2. you know? the ending where they already stopped Judgement Day? the whole plot of that film? the reason that movie was called 'Judgement Day'? the whole message of T2 (and the original btw) was that you have your destiny in your own hands, that the future isn't fixed. then T3 comes along and says ''nope, it's fixed because we need more monah'' T3 is just a big middle finger to the first two films.
Terminator 3 had to end with an apocalypse otherwise the first two movies make no sense. In order for the terminators to be sent back in the first two movies there has to be an apocalypse and a war between the machines and humans. I was angry at the ending of Terminator 2 because I knew there had to be a judgement day for it to make sense to even send back the terminators in the first place. I knew they couldn't stop judgements day.
+Kingdxm / Exactly why time travel movies are kinda bullshit. Unless you specifically set up Multiverse theory as how shit works, going back in the past would solve nothing because if you prevented the thing that made you want to go back into the past, you would have never gone back into the past in the first place thus ensuring that it happens which ensures that you go back into the past and once again fail to prevent it. Hell, SKYNET should have been intelligent enough to figure that out and never bothered sending a Terminator back to deal with Sarah in the first place.
RaithSienar. but Skynet did send a Terminator back in time and so it must have known that in the universe the story takes place in history can be altered. many people seem to think that time travel stories can only work in one way: you go back kill your grandfather and you don't exist anymore, so your grandfather was never killed. aka the grandfather paradox. people expect cause and effect to work no matter what happens. but that sucks out all the drama out of allot of time travel fiction. however, storytelling isn't limited to just one way to tell a story. Terminator 1 and 2 (and not T3 or T5. they broke the series time travel rules) use the bootstrap paradox. this is a far more flexible and more interesting way of story telling. this paradox allows the time traveler to go back in time, kill their grandfather and still survive. the bootstrap paradox allows for time anomalies to exist. this allows John Connor to live even when he never send his dad back in time when Skynet's creation was prevented. let me give an example: say time travel exist in say the 26th century. and a time traveler uses it to travel all over time. meets famous people. was there for allot of historical events. then the traveler comes up with an idea: he wants to meet the person who invented time travel. so he goes back to say, the 23rd century. and he takes the blueprints of the original time machine with him for the inventor to sign. he rings the doorbell and explains to the inventor how much the inventor is admired for time travel in his future. however, the inventor has no idea what the traveler is talking about. but looks over the blueprints. the inventor then asks ''can I keep these? you know. just as a reminder of our meeting'' the traveler thinks nothing of it, after all, this was the person who invented the thing in the first place. how's that going to mess up time? the inventor signs something else and the traveler leaves. the inventor will now build the time machine. and history records everything as the traveler saw it. it's this concept that James Cameron used for Terminator 1 and 2. if Skynet didn't send the first Terminator back then Skynet wouldn't have been invented in the first place. that act alone shows how flexible time is in the Terminator universe (well, the first two films)
they had to do something to keep thje boyfriends from killing their girlfriends for dragging them through 5 movies, building up to a ending that is just talking....least give them a glimpse of awesomeness heh.
Does that mean you found the rest of the film pretty terrible? Cause I thought it was at least half-way decent. This list is about movies which are otherwise near god-awful.
+XCyclonusX While in the book (actually a short story), it ends with the main characters still going around with the car, and he is writing a diary in which he says something like "I don't know how this will end"... And that's it
Kajed8963 I wouldn't really say its a bad movie either. Its a typical Stephen King movie. And I usually find Stephen King movies very predictable and a little boring. His stuff is more suited to television IMO. But the Mists ending is one of the bravest endings I've ever seen in a movie. It literally leaves you sitting on the edge of your seat with your mouth wide open.
Who the hell doesn't like The Book of Eli? And Orphan is a very well directed genre movie with an unbelievable performance by the 12-year old Isabelle Fuhrman. I don't know what you're talking about.
"I saw R rated films at a young age and I turned out ok ". That Sleepaway Camp ending FUCKED ME UP as a kid! I felt like Horace in Monster Squad. I had successfully blocked it out until JUST now! Thanks What Culture.
You have The Book Of Eli portrayed incorrectly. The character Eli was a blind man when they apocalypse occurred; Actually as a result of said Apocalypse prior to this story taking place. A few side notes: That's why he was able to read brail & that is why his eyes become milky and dead only when he arrives to deliver the Bible to safety. Prior to that his eyes looked normal. Once the Earth was down to it's last bible and man was at their worst, God gave Eli his sight back in order bring the last known bible back to safety in order to get it printed again. I thought he was blind the whole movie too initially; But sadly because I'm a cinephile, I spent way to much time combing through the film & the writers statements. Maybe include an annotation or don't do anything at all. Just thought Id share that with you and or anybody else who takes the time to read this. Cheers.
i read it. but did you really need to comb through all that? i watched the movie once and took that away from it. wasn't even paying much attention to it.
Williambarela This video touched on many ideas that led to their conclusion. I had to also touch on many examples and or points to make the actual conclusion apparent. That's all. I appreciate the fact you understood the movie from the jump. A lot of people didn't however. Thank you very much for the response. Cheers ;)
But there are a couple things that dont quite add up then : how he constantly things like : you smell that? ( like when they heading to the ocean), or "you hear that?" . Not once does he make a remark that involves seeing something. This was done very purposely. Just like in the first fighting scene where he first looks back to the tunnel prior to the fight, and then moments before retreats back into it, where all the sounds are so much clearer. And how about the town shootout, he only and ever shoots at people the moment they fire at him, because that way he knows where they are standing. For the same reason he doesnt shoot at the bald guy (reddick or something) because he doesnt shoot at eli, so eli doesnt even know he is standing there. Especially with the town shootout scene in mind, i believe eli was blind his entire journey
Meat to please you I understand where you're coming from. There are many things done in this movie to detract away from it's reality. If you read the directors interview about the movie he explains what it's actually about. The apocalypse took Eli's sight & gave him a mission. Once Eli accepted this mission he gave his eye sight back in order to complete it. You can see his eyes change from normal to milky white at the very end. Demonstrating that his eyes are functional up until the very end. Once his mission is complete he goes back the way he was; But again, don't take my word for it. Look up the directors interview and he'll go into more detail that might satisfy your curiosity. Thanks for the response. Cheers.
+The Epic Question I believe you but that doesn't explain Meat's objection. Why did they shoot the movie as if he was blind if he actually wasn't, but more so, do you have any evidence from the movie itself other than his eyes changing color or what the directors say, that he was actually blind. Of course the directors word is enough, but it lessens the movie if they shoot it for a twist that isn't actually the twist in my mind
I'm so happy that T3 is on the list! I was extatic when I realized that I had not seen what was coming and so lucky that I didn't try to figure out the end beforehand.
Finally someone agrees with me that the ending of Terminator 3 was awesome. It's sets everything up about how John Connor came to lead the humans. Plus it plays into the overall theme of Terminator, that you can't escape fate. I.E. if they killed Skynet then Kyle Reece couldn't have gone back to father John Connor. If John Connor wasn't born then there would have been no one to kill Skynet and it still would have destroyed mankind.
I watched it with my friends, and I was the only one who didn't see it coming. I don't regret though, I love that feeling of impression when the plot twist is revealed.
The first time I saw that scene, watching all the vehicles work together, all I could picture was all the vehicles combining together to form a giant robot, like the Stunticons into Menasor.
The biggest problem with Book Of Eli is the fact that braille takes up more space then printed text and one book would not hold the whole bible. The braille bible is about 30 books, so the real twist is that he only has a small fraction of the bible.
I like to think that he had the rest of the bible memorized. It's that one book in brailie that gave him trouble, so he carried it around. Stupid, I know. But it gave me peace of mind.
You forgot The Hunger Games series. Yeah, that had a great twist. The twist happens when you realize that you've been watching Dollar-Store Running Man the whole time, and thus never have a reason to watch any Hunger Games movie again.
Surprised Robot No, see, Battle Royale didn't have a commentary to make about the media being exploited in a bread-and-circuses way with a modern context, thus leading to the hero, after watching several of their new friends get brutally killed during the televised event, turns the tables on the oppressive regime and uses that very same media outlet as a way to rally the people to revolution. Pop quiz time: did I just describe The Running Man or the entire Hunger Games franchise?
Ikrani True, though the reason I mentioned BR is because it's the most popular comparison. Which is hilarious considering BR kinda rips off The Running Man to an extent, or it as least very similar in premise much like The Hunger Games. Also, to answer your question: you described Death Race 2000! Ok, but seriously, you described both, but The Running Man (and Death Race 2000) did it first.
Totally wrong about Ender's Game. In the book it was a total amazing surprise. My wife watched the movie and guessed it halfway. Which ruined the book with a fantastic twist. Im still pissed off about it.
darkstar100x Excet Fight Club and in my opinion Willy Wonka. Im sure theres others. Even Chuck preferred the movie over the book proving its not impossible to do a good movie based on something, just requires not looking for a trend and trying to profit
Man you are gonna feel really silly when he loses. WWE invested all their time into Reigns just to let him fall now. I myself have nothing against Reigns but rather the piss poor booking they give him. And he has the title and this is going to be his "proper" run with it.
+Quavion Deering I agree w both of you, I believe reigns will lose first then turn heel beat the holy bejeeses out of styles on his heel turn, and win a series in the next two to retain.
Glad I'm not the only one who thought Saw II's ending was brilliant. John gave the detective what seemed to be an exceedingly easy task. Sit there and listen. And if he HAD listened, he would have caught the hints being dropped. Though, I admit, I also liked some of his lines toward said detective. Like when asked what his son was doing on the monitors. "Well, it's been some time since I last checked, but if I had to guess, I'd say he's sitting there with this...look on his face..."
Honestly, I already liked FD5 before the twist. It had the best CGI of the series, the most likeable set of characters, the second best lead, and even made a major improvement on the idea introduced in 3 of a human villain. The twist just solidified it as my favorite of the series.
I love the book of eli. It's great. The fact that he was blind the whole time just adds to the awesome. I just found out some people think he wasn't blind the entire time. The more you know.
the only reason SAW pt. 1 is good is because of its ending lol you can't use the same kinds of twists sequel after sequel (never mind making sequel after freaking sequel lol)
I don't agree with Terminator 3. No one said them that they can change all if they reach the bunker. Connor took it from air and it looked stupid during all second half of the movie. Was I surprised when turned that the bunker can't help them? Hell no.
I'm actually sad cuz after t3 the point was to do it a second time and successfully save the future! Terminator genyis was supposed to be that start to end the franchise for good! Stop judgement day or something
