Best "Never Saw It Coming" Ending To A Movie!

[Dick Dance]

Recently in Hollywood, movies are trying to leave you absolutlely shocked when you leave the theatre. Name your top 5.

1. Arlington Road
2. The Sixth Sense
3. Se7en
4. The Usual Suspects
5. Memento

Notable Mention:
Unbreakable, Planet Of The Apes (1968), Planet Of The Apes (2001), Reservoir Dogs, Fight Club, The Game, Hannibal

(Notice all of David Fincher's movies are up here. Hopefully Panic Room won't disappoint)

[ColinM]

1) The Sixth Sense
2) Arlington Road
3) Se7en
4) Fight Club
5) Vanilla Sky

There are some movies that would be great surpring endings, but they are so classic and so well-known that by the time we get to them, they aren't surprises anymore. I'm referring to such movies as The Empire Strikes Back and Planet of the Apes. Ah well...

(Jeepers Creepers is a good one, too...)

[bluntman86]

my top 5...

1. the royal tenenbaums (a perfect ending!)
2. unbreakable
3. the sixth sense
4. scream
5. vanilla sky(i didn't see ANYTHING coming)

[Kavan]

5. The Game
4.The Planet of the Apes
3. Fight Club
2. Vanilla Sky
1. Arlington Road

[The Rob]

The Game.

[Cyclonus]

FIGHT CLUB

I had no idea that would even happen!

[seenic]

Saw it coming but still will remember the climax forever - Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie in "Don't Look Now" - check it out.

[Jaylee]

My Favs;

THE SIXTH SENSE
SE7EN
ARLINGTON ROAD
THE OTHERS
FIGHT CLUB
THE USUAL SUSPECTS

~Jaylee

[Lynn]

The Sixth Sense. I didn't see it in theaters and luckily no one spoiled the ending for me like they did with the Others. I hate that!

[cheech]

The Wicker Man
The Conversation
Usual Suspects
The Game
12 Monkeys

[Stripes]

A movie called "Shattered", after you watch it you will understand. It came out I believe around 95. Should be in action or suspense section. Check it

Out

[James Logan]

THE SIXTH SENSE and UNBREAKABLE. Shyamalan is real good at what he does.

[Deckard]

10 Pearler endings that are surprising and mindblowing:

Alan J Pakula's THE PARRALAX VIEW
Sidney J Furie's IPCRESS FILE
John Frankenheimer's SECONDS and MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE
Adrian Lynne's JACOBS LADDER
Alan Parker's ANGEL HEART
John Carpenter's INTO THE MOUTH OF MADNESS
Alex Proyas' DARK CITY
Franklin J Schaffner's PLANET OF THE APES
Mike Hodge's GET CARTER


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[tbey]

5. Bordello of Blood
4. Suicide Kings
3. Blowout (Travolta)
2. Parallax View
1. Primal Fear

[Carl]

The Shawshank Redemption
Se7en
Memento

[Flagg]

Sixth Sense
Se7en
Sleepaway Camp-Don't laugh the ending is F**ked up
Unbreakable
Along came a spider

[pineapple]

The Usual Suspects
The Sixth Sense
Unbreakable
Se7en
Fight Club
The Game

[neco82]

Mission To Mars - BECAUSE IT SUCKED! I suffered through this stinker for practically nothing!

Other shock endings:

- The Usual Suspects
- Fallen
- The Game (It blew chunks, too)
- Cube

[Raw Chili]

The Usual Suspects
The Game
Fight Club
Unbreakable
Memento

[mr_gamecube]

Hannibal, shocked me! also Jeepers Creepers

[CheekyShepherd]

Thanks for not giving away the endings guys!

Nobody mentioned No Way Out.

My top ten are:-

1. No Way Out
2. The usual Suspects
3. Unbreakable
4. Fight Club
5. Memento
6. Twelve Monkeys
7. Contact
8. Planet Of The Apes (original)
9. The Sixth Sense
10. The Player

[meccajay]

French Film(original)...

~Kidnapper say's to kidnap victim's husband:

"If you want to see your wife again, I'll take you to where she is right now...But ONLY If you go with me right now...unconcious"

Husband of victim: Ok.

Kidnapper proceeds to knock-out Husb with cloraform(sp?) in a hanky.

Cut to scene in total darkness...

Husband wakes up in a COFFIN buried deep in the ground which he cannot escape!! Film ends as husband is screaming inside the coffin!!!!


***The American version of this French film has Keifer Sutherland escaping the coffin to save his wife which ruined the film.***

[Raena]

Great endings:

The Shawshank Redemption

Fight Club

In The Company of Men

Duel

Unbreakable

Memento


Endings that weren't surprising for me:

The Sixth Sense (good movie though), The Usual Suspects, Seven (one of my favorites), Gossip (doesn't even belong here, but oh well)

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[Kami]

1. Lord of the Rings (I purposely avoided the books and when it ended I said a bit too loud, "WHAT?!")
2. Fight Club
3. Vanilla Sky
4. Memento
5. The Usual Suspects

[Strider]

10.The Game
9.Arlington Road
8.Unbreakable
7.Planet of the Apes(original)
6.Session 9
5.Memento
4.Primal Fear
3.The Others
2.Se7en

And the ending that shocked me the most is.....

1.The Sixth Sense

Strider

[Kami]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Strider:
1.The Sixth Sense
Strider</font>

This got ruined for me big time, which is why it's not on my list. I was in a chat room and some guy that wasn't impressed said, "so blah blah is a blah blah, who cares" sigh...

[ColinM]

I am so glad I saw The Sixth Sense early, before I even knew there was a surprise ending. The ending was an experience.

[Strider]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by ColinM:
I am so glad I saw The Sixth Sense early, before I even knew there was a surprise ending. The ending was an experience.</font>

I went into this film not knowing anything about it, and without seeing a trailer, and without reading a review for it. I'm glad I didn't though. I enjoyed the movie more.

Strider

[Big Screen Fan]

I don't think anyone has mentioned Jack Nicholson's

The Pledge.

I was pretty surprised.

[Tausif]

1)Fight Club
2)Planet Of The Apes
3)The Sixth Sense
4)The Game
5)Unbreakable

[Eelco]

1) The Sixt Sense.
2) Fight Club.
3) One Night at McCools.
4) Cube.
5) Seven (I more or less saw it coming at the end of the movie, but I still find it one of the most horrible ending to a movie there is).
6) Arlington Road.
7) Planet of the Apes (original movie, the remake's ending is bullshit).
8) The Empire Strikes Back (when I saw it for the first time and didn't know anything about it, Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker's father, oh my God!).
9) Invasion of the Bodysnatchers with Donald Sutherland.
10) Unbreakable.
etc.

[Trevor Hollis]

Usual Suspects

[Jasonite]

1. Planet of the Apes, no question. Totally blindsided me, and it was incredibly powerful.

2. Usual Suspects. This was the first movie I ever bought on DVD.

3. Sixth Sense. Incredible ending, what a movie.

4. Swimming with Sharks. The ending to this surprised the hell out of me! Another great performance by Kevin Spacey too, gotta love it.

5. Fight Club. Didn't see this coming, but the surprise didn't blow me away like the others.

J

[Fergus]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by meccajay:
French Film(original)...

~Kidnapper say's to kidnap victim's husband:

"If you want to see your wife again, I'll take you to where she is right now...But ONLY If you go with me right now...unconcious"

Husband of victim: Ok.

Kidnapper proceeds to knock-out Husb with cloraform(sp?) in a hanky.

Cut to scene in total darkness...

Husband wakes up in a COFFIN buried deep in the ground which he cannot escape!! Film ends as husband is screaming inside the coffin!!!!


***The American version of this French film has Keifer Sutherland escaping the coffin to save his wife which ruined the film.***</font>

Isn't this The Vanishing, although I only saw the American Version, and it pisses me off that the ending to the original ends like that. What a downer.

[Fergus]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by seenic:
Saw it coming but still will remember the climax forever - Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie in "Don't Look Now" - check it out.</font>

Great movie. It shocked me too, very atmospheric, and also, when it was actually happening--the climax, I thought it was a dream, the movie needs to be seen at least twice to be appreciated.

[Quebec-Joel]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by meccajay:
French Film(original)...

~Kidnapper say's to kidnap victim's husband:

"If you want to see your wife again, I'll take you to where she is right now...But ONLY If you go with me right now...unconcious"

Husband of victim: Ok.

Kidnapper proceeds to knock-out Husb with cloraform(sp?) in a hanky.

Cut to scene in total darkness...

Husband wakes up in a COFFIN buried deep in the ground which he cannot escape!! Film ends as husband is screaming inside the coffin!!!!


***The American version of this French film has Keifer Sutherland escaping the coffin to save his wife which ruined the film.***</font>

Yes, the remake is horrible. Just wanted to say that this is not a french movie. It's from Holland. "L'homme qui voulait savoir" witch we can translate to "The Man who wanted to know". The american version is "The Vanishing" and it is really lame how they fucked up the whole movie.


For my top 10, I would go for
1- Fight Club
2- The Shawshank Redemption (best happy-ending ever, nuf said)
3- Don't Look Now(but well, I knew it before I saw it http://www.joblo.com/ubb/frown.gif)
4- Memento
5- The Usual Suspect (I love the greatest trick of the devil hehe)
6- The Game
7- Jacobs Ladder
8- Sleepaway Camp (more people should see this movie)
9- Se7en
10- Twelve Monkeys

I forget a few here, like Dark City, Unbreakable, The Others, etc.
6-

[A.J. Hakari]

You guys already mentioned most of the endings I'd choose, but color me insane...I didn't see the twist in COLLATERAL DAMAGE coming.

[Avid_Fan]

In no order. . .

Fight Club
Identity
The Sixth Sense
The Others
Otnemem

[The Poonchy]

In no order

Fight Club (technically not the end, but close enough)
SE7EN
The Usual Suspects
Identity
The Sixth Sense
Unbreakable
Arlington Road
Vanilla Sky (I was not expecting anything)
Planet of the Apes

Boogie Nights (never saw that penis coming!)

[Sublime]

Arlington Road...the best ending to any movie ever.

[ilovemovies]

Originally posted by Adam J. Hakari
You guys already mentioned most of the endings I'd choose, but color me insane...I didn't see the twist in COLLATERAL DAMAGE coming.


I didn't see it coming either. It was a very cool twist :cool:


1. The Sixth Sense
2. Arlington Road
3. Identity
4. Se7en
5. The Usual Suspects
6. Primal Fear - pretty similar to The Usual Suspects actually
7. Fallen - a very cool twist
8. Bandits A very cool twist at the end that I certainly didn't see coming
9. Confidence Again this was has a very cool twist involving Andy Garcia's character
10. The Game


Personally, I kinda saw the ending coming to Unbreakable. But it was still cool. Fight Club and The Others deserve honorable mention as well. And I can't say I saw the ending coming to Along Came a Spider, but I can't say I cared much either.
Honorable mention:

[Hannibal21]

Psycho
The Manchurian Candidate
Jacob's Ladder
Rebecca

[Golden Ghost]

Like I said in another thread, Mystic Meg couldn't have predicted the ending from Bonnie and Clyde in her crystal ball.

[Dimension]

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[Fraenkl]

Usual Suspects
The Sixth Sense
Memento
Primal Fear
The Cube
Fight Club
The Game

And Godfather 2...



--------spoiler : Godfather 2----------




I never thought he would give the order to kill his own brother.





--------end spoiler : Godfather 2----------

[jeo4]

THE OTHERS has a good twist at the end. I'm not a Nicole Kidman fan at all, but this film was great.

ARLINGTON ROAD was excellent, too.

FIGHT CLUB had a terrific ending. One of the best ever.

[mrdeeds]

5. The Others
4. 12 Monkeys
3. The Ring
2. The Sixth Sense
1. Arlington Road!!!!!

[Haddonfield]

21 Grams although.....

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The real end of this movie came about halfway though. After the pieces were put together....damn!

[Haddonfield]

Originally posted by meccajay
French Film(original)...

~Kidnapper say's to kidnap victim's husband:

"If you want to see your wife again, I'll take you to where she is right now...But ONLY If you go with me right now...unconcious"

Husband of victim: Ok.

Kidnapper proceeds to knock-out Husb with cloraform(sp?) in a hanky.

Cut to scene in total darkness...

Husband wakes up in a COFFIN buried deep in the ground which he cannot escape!! Film ends as husband is screaming inside the coffin!!!!

I have to say that, thats some of the scariest shite right there. Imagine that huh? That may have just ruined my day. Scary! :eek: :)

[Raoul Duke]

Se7en

Identity (okay, not really the end, more like the big twist. You know what I'm talking about)

The Sixth Sense

Memento

Primal Fear

American History X

Arlington Rd.

Unbreakable

[Standoobie]

Usual Suspects, hands down. Am I the only one who saw the ending coming for the Sixth Sense?

[Ed Wood]

1-Brazil
2-The Game
3-Fight Club
4-Memento
5-Se7en

[Kucha]

The Others
Gothika

[bigred760]

In no particular order:

Memento, Usual Suspects, The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, & Arlington Road

[paul]

Am I the only one that actually guessed the endings to Vanilla Sky and Se7en, and was actually right?

[kirkman316]

The Usual Suspects
The Sixth Sense
Unbreakable
Memento

and

The Good Son wasn't cinematic brilliance, but it had a pretty shocking ending.