10 Mediocre Movies Made Awesome By Their Twists
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The ending to the mist is an absolute gut punch. The whole "if I'd waited a few more minutes" angle is actually horrific
Exactly @dietotaku she’s the one in truck at end the son survived the book
You guys have managed to make 26 videos about movie twists using the same 10 movies. I can't even be mad, the balls it takes to slightly rearrange the title and put out the same video is admirable.
26?
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Swear it's like 3 or 4 a year the same video with a different presenter
😂
Heh heh
My favorite twist is you guys not in any way offering up new twists, just retitled lists.
No one ever mentions the movie Shattered (1991) starring Tom Berenger. Tom plays a man who's in a car accident and is severely injured including having amnesia. His wife makes sure the top doctors brought in to aid in his recovery. Then a private detective comes along who was supposedly hired by Berenger to follow his wife. It's then discovered she did have an affair and she might have killed him. The twist... (SPOILER BELOW)
Upon finding the body Berenger and the detective turn it over to find the dead man has Berenger's face! What really happened: The wife killed her husband and panicked. She called the boyfriend over who helped her hide the body. Driving her back home, the boyfriend says it's over. Furiously she causes the car accident. She then have plastic surgeons unknowingly reconstruct the boyfriend to look like the husband.
I'm too Shattered to read the Spoilers but I'll check the movie out 😂
Your description is not perfect. really good movie though.
boy, i remember this movie from the VCR days...and then forgot all about it (except when the song Knights in White Satin comes on). but it's exactly how you said it--the plot twist makes it worth the entire time spent watching it. Reminds me a tiny bit of "Freejack", another movie folks forget about
Take a shot for every whatculture list the involves the Mist
I'd be dead from alcohol poisoning
Hrmm... I don't feel that most horror fans consider The Mist to be mediocre or a disappointing Stephen King adaptation. The new ending elevated it, but it was pretty solid before that. Questionable CGI aside.
"The Mist" has the greatest, most heartbreaking ending of any movie, ever. Absolutely love it!
I consider it crap because of that stupid shock ending. It could have worked if the characters were weak cowardly people but instead they are built up as fighters throughout the movie then suddenly turn into a bunch of self deleting chickens when they hear some rumblings.
Predestination should have made this list. - it’s a good movie, but it’s twists make it a great one
My favorite twist in the Book of Eli is when they put the Bible on the shelves with the other Important Books. Before that it seems like proselytizing, but ends feeling more that preservation of knowledge is all important.
I have not seen the movie yet, so. That depends on what other more important books was next to it or on the same shelf. If they where set with the Charles Darwin book, or.. Well, that leads to a very deep rabbit hole of what book would be so important to preserve for knowledge.
@@majorprofit There were bookcases upon bookcases of books that they had printed up to preserve, with an empty space that had been saved for the King James Bible. I don't recall many titles (there were other holy books like The Torah and The Qur'an), but I'm sure you can imagine what they were, any pieces of literature etc that documents the history and varied culture of humanity.
Like Harry Potter
The KJV Bible doesn't contain any knowledge and should not be on any shelf with actually important books
@@StinkyWizleteets Lemme guess... "God isn't real blah blah blah it's a fairy tale blah blah blah..." Right? I don't believe in any god either, but if you saw the movie, you'd see that in the library on Alcatraz, there was an empty space left for The King James Bible right between The Qur'an and The Torah (in a section no doubt of other bibles). Speaking of fairy tales, the library would have contained a copy of The Brothers Grimm amongst other countries and cultures fairy tales. A copy of Shakespeare's works and Mark Twain. Wait, those aren't knowledge!
Obviously the point of the library , which contains books on philosophy, psychology, history, art, religion and "holy books", evolution, mathematics, science, astrology, works of fiction and nonfiction etc etc is to save and showcase the "knowledge" of the human race.
1990s Jacob’s Ladder had one of the biggest twist endings!
But it is also a great movie and so shouldn't be on this list.
@@audiodead7302 Fair enough!
That guy in The Sixth Sense, That was Bruce Willis the Whole Time!
Damn why did you have to come for poor Bruce Willis like that 😂😂😂
Several of these movies are not mediocre!
Your POV
@@akunwanneprosper7016 wrong, they're just stating the obvious. It's funny when people use the pov/opinion, cause it doesn't doesn't agree with yours 😂
@@akunwanneprosper7016 True, but this video is their opinion as well. And we are allowed to give our perspective. I question whether they've critically observed these films.
The emotional gut punch of Ender's Game wasn't the elimination of the aliens, but that he unknowingly sent thousands of troops to their death with the crazy sacrifice moves he was making.
According to the book, it was both.
The Sleepaway Camp twist should always be in any list of great twists. Whether if you knew Angela was the killer or not, you didnt suspect her to actually be Peter, the actual Angela's (the one who really died) brother.
The Mist's twist will forever be f'ed up. Especially when the David (played by Thomas Jane) sees the woman (played by Mellisa McBride) who he denied help to go save her son, holding her son safely in her arms. And she's giving David that LOOK.
I know it's not on the list, but i would add the real twist of the sixth sense. That happens about halfway through the movie when it's reavealed that the kid is not crazy, but he sees ghosts. The trailers completely ruined this twist in the marketing of the movie! It's not revealed to be a ghost story until he says "I see dead people"
I liked Dream Catcher, terrible movie but the reoccurring friendship cut scenes lead up to the twist. The bathroom scene still terrifies me.
To me, the best part of The Book of Eli was the fact that he had it memorized word for word, chapter and verse, and therefore, prevailed.
The Others?
I think The Sixth Sense belongs in this list. A rewatch of the movie shows it’s really pretty slow paced and just kinda ok. It’s the twist that makes people misremember it as being better than it actually was.
Ender's Game was just a terrible movie front to back. They strayed way to far from the book. Bonso wasn't a twerp. He was older and much bigger than Ender. Ender wasn't an arrogant little brat. He just wanted to be left alone. He was full of self doubt. He fought the way he did to end the fight in question, and every other fight to come with a particular adversary. Those are just a few transgressions the screenwriters made. There are many more.
I need a video about how Repo Men got made considering the existence of Repo! The Genetic Opera
Loved “The Girl Next Door” and the twist at the end is what cliches it into a great movie.
That Extinction movie plot had me thinking of Nier Automata....
At the time Ellie? You weren't even born in 1983 when Sleepaway Camp was released! 😂
Loved "Book of Eli"
Can someone give me the film list without the twist itself so I can add them to my watchlist? Thank you ☺
If you go to the description of the video, they have the chapters of the video and the name of each movie is the name of the chapter
I was so disappointed with Enders game. I wasnt the biggest fan of the book, something about the way it was written almost felt like it was patronizing the reader, but the movie suffered the same way the total recall remake did, most of the people dont seem to be acting but rather just reading the lines.
Imposter would have been a good fit in here, rather than regurgitating the SAME movies over and over again, but with a slightly different title.
Great selection
Hard enough to believe that 100M Bibles would up and disappear, but a braille Bible is huge, requiring 2 meters of shelf space.
You'd have to be blind not to notice the difference.
Frailty. "How did you know?" "You were on my list"
Crying Game had a hell of a twist. Should have included it but maybe not. It's worth the watch without spoiling it. Oldboy the original had a horrific twist. What he finds out is sickening and horrible.
Other movies with a twist worth mentioning: Gone Girl - Ben Affleck character gets blamed for something but the twist is interesting and unique.
Unbreakable
The Arrival
Million Dollar Baby - what happened to her is horrific and shocking.
Bump that. Book of Eli was great even without the ending. Full cap on that one
Love the twists in saw. Those movies are awesome
The Maze Runner books are phenomenal books, and the movie adaptation of the first book wasn’t bad. But the second movie was an absolute dumpster fire. They got so much of the story it’s “based on” wrong that it made me and so many others genuinely angry. It’s no shock that the 3rd movie of the trilogy went straight to DVD.
How Dare You call The Mist mediocre, it’s the 3rd best Steven King adaption (behind only Shawshank and Green mile) and a damn fine movie on it own.
Yeah my mind switched off when she said "... but Friday the 13th is not a mediocre movie" riiiight.
Their opinions/ratings/critiques mean nothing because they flip flop with every other video.
You forgot Stand By Me!
Book of Eli... He isn't blind, he can just read braille
No, he's definitely blind
@@carriesmigla-didier8900 He absolutely reacts to multiple visual prompts, like the shaking hands of the cannibals (and sees the graves of their victims behind their house while looking out the window). He may be going blind during the course of the movie, but he's certainly not completely blind.
Book of Eli is dope tho, hated the Repo Men twist
Does anyone know the frame that flashes during at 10:24?
*Bag of salted crisps* 😂
I have to remember that one
I love the movie Identity with John Cusack, but it is so hard to recommend it without giving away the twist.
Bruh, why did Bruce Willis have to catch that stray? You realize he's dying right? Classless.
The book of Eli is bullshit. That's the worst portrayal of a "super natural blind person" in movies ever. The movie was very good. I just feel it was left way too vague that he was blind the whole time. you don't have to be blind to read braille.
Yeah I don't buy the whole He's blind thing. I think that's just people trying to add something to make the movie seem better or deeper than it actually was.
Of course you don't have to be blind to read braille. Who ever said you did? But apparently, Gary Oldman's character and a few others in the film couldn't...just like a whole helluva lot of people in real life who can see.
It's ridiculous to think that anyone would think that ya gotta be blind to read braille. Jeez.
@@timothyivey5497 that's the point. People keep saying Eli was blind but nothing in the movie really supports it.
Agreed. There is no way Eli was blind throughout the whole movie. Being blind has nothing to do with the ability to read braille.
I would argue that he went blind at the end of the movie after finally reaching the end of his long journey.
@edwardbickford8277 I would agree with that. I'm pretty sure I heard this shortly after the movie came out. That he was blind. I didn't believe it because it was so vague, and I'm pretty sure there are scenes in the movie where he uses eye contact. I didn't believe it. Like, doesn't he even shoot someone? Like dead? I can see the parts where he's wildly shooting as an indication, but that is still vague.
The movie ending of The Mist is completely different than the novella.
The mist is good
I thought the "I'm not the good guy" twist in Samaritan was pretty cool. It made the movie so much better for me.
Eli wasn't bling though. Just knew how to read brail.
@whatculture can you go back to adding chapters to your videos labeling the movies/shows to avoid spoilers. Or at least don't put the "twist" in with the title card.
Credits are wrong for the Trek section. It's CBS Media Ventures 👍
Repo Men; stolen from an old Monty Python sketch.
("Can I have your liver?")
Yo had me happy at Extinctions and Life 💥💥💥
Whoa! The Mist was brilliant, with "monsters" in and out of the grocery store.
I was actually really angry about that Repo Men twist. Considering how horrific events of the third act are, that was meant to be a paradise to trap the protagonist? Plus, the bizarre doing surgery on each other as an analogue for sex, and *that* was his "happily ever after"???
Is no one going to mention the flash at the intro of the last entry?
I wouldn't really call The Mist a mediocre movie.
The Friday the 13th franchise is one of the greatest horror movie franchises ever but in my humble opinion I believe sleep away camp is better than the first Friday the 13th.
Book of Eli was good. Actually, anything with Mila in it is good.😂
No. The Mist is an awesome movie despite the incredible ending
The Mist is a goddamn masterpiece.
The Visit wasn’t a twist though. Everybody knew they weren’t the real parents the day the first trailer came out.
As a fan of the Ender's game books, i am irrationally angry at seeing that movie here, as though the twist was a choice by the filmmakers and not a predetermined plot point from the source material.
Written by Ash… I wonder when
Ender didn't beat the aliens with relative ease. Unfortunately, the Ender books are too much in the characters' heads to make a good movie. It's all about feelings, strategies, reading other people/manipulating other people, and compassion. None of it really translates well into movie form. When the kids get back from their bug war though, they all get kidnapped by the world governments to run their battle strategies against each other, and in one of the later books Bean (the best character) has to find a way to cure his gigantism before his kids turn into freaks of nature. (This guy outgrew a specially-made cargo hold on a rather large spaceship- it is not normal gigantism). Bean is messed up because some scientist played with the genes of a bunch of babies. Something happens and at 2 (2!) Bean climbs out of the pen and hides in the house surviving for a bit, before finally going to live on the streets, where he becomes part of a group of other homeless kids. Then him and Achilles (the eventual arch-nemesis) get taken in by the coolest nun (Sister Carlotta) and Achilles turns evil. Chaos ensues. Achilles can't stand for anyone to see him weak, so he's always killed off anyone who did. All the characters in all the books are made up to look like the smartest people ever, and that can get a little old, but it's really a phenomenal series of books. They're written by Orson Scott Card
How dare you call Book of Eli mediocre. :P
Why is Mila Kunis in the thumbnail?
She's in Book of Eli
@@ApohMay thank you 😊
Why do I feel Ellie does all the videos
Life twist came a mile away
How
@@DannyLee-zv9gl i knew the pod going to earth had the alien
Oddly enough, if Darabont was 100% faithful to the King short story, it would have been mediocre.
The Mist...mediocre? I think not. I understand if some people don't like it but it's far from mediocre.
The Mist & Ender's Game movie wise aren't a twist to those that read the books when they came out decades before the movies. Only real twist is not keeping the movies connected to their tie-ins and/or sequels.
The mist ends differently and does not have a sequel
@@robirvine6970 The Mist is part of the Dark Tower series and all it's tie-ins.(Salem's Lot, Christine, Talisman/Red Door, ect.)
Y'all...Denzel Washington isn't blind in Book of Eli. He can just read brail.
Yeah, I don't buy that he's completely blind the whole movie. He reacts to many visual prompts. But he is blind at the end, his eyes are shown clouded over. I do believe the theory that he's going blind (which has heightened his reaction to aural prompts, or he's trained himself to to compensate for any visual impairments he has or is expecting).
Don't watch Repo Men. Watch the much better movie they ripped off, Repo: the Genetic Opera.
As it turns out the guy in the wig is Bruce willys # Charlie Kelly
Life is simple to sum up from the start there is 0 unexpected twist and the ending is absolutly uninspired by shiwing exactly a very unconvincing ending, after all the things before it's absolutly not worth to watch at least not twice
Lol ok
But THE MIST and THE VISIT were great movies
The usual suspect’s ‘incredulous’ villain? What’s does he doubt the credibility of? You really shouldn’t try using words you don’t understand.
I don't care how many times people say it Eli is not blind, you can see him looking at people he's talking to and fighting. If his eyes don't actually work then he's got Daredevil levels of ESP.
Ender was much better in the book .. than the film .. it was given away way too early
NO NO NO. Repo Men was fine, but it's twist was terrible.
You must've been watching a different version of Book of Eli.
It was not mediocre.
Life, Repo Men, and The Mist sucked BECAUSE of their twists. Actually, Life was just ok, Rep Men mediocre, and The Mist lousy already. The endings made them just stupid.
I like Enders game. The Visit was great ending
I know this is just a way for y’all to make up for that godawful video that covered movies with twists you thought you were bad…but this video is way worse. Some of these movies are good! Good grief, you guys! You need better writers and better lists because this isn’t it!
The book of Eli is a perfect example for this list. Not a bad movie but one no one would rewatch if not for the twist.
Eli wasn't necessarily blind; he could just read braille.
THE DEPARTED - except it wasn't really awesome, with its being a remake; the twist just made it a little worth watching, but after an extended running time
Like #600
Wow .Book of Elia a. Mediocre movie.🤦🏿♂️
No, Enders Game was still terrible, cant change that.
No one cares about M Night Sham movies anymore.
Ok lol
even with twist- life sucked. I liked repo men and book of Eli... and extinction was pretty nifty. and enders game is kinda mNightShamalyan without brand-recognition disappointment- just basic disappointing
if you DID'NT see the twist of "life" have you ever seen a movie??
Bro you didn’t know that was going to happen
You can also say that Jacob's Ladder (1990) is a mediocre film that has a surprising twist at the end & that this film probably started the twist ending craze long before the Sixth Sense.
for the love of all things horror, find some DIFFERENT movies to talk about
This video should be named" 10 bad movies made worse by their twists."
Ashleigh is obviously drunk, but kudos to Ellie for saying this stuff with a straight face
The Mist is FAR from mediocre.
Its terrible