Die Hard 3 actually had a bit of a double twist there. We learn he's Hans' brother, and we assume that this terrorist plot is to get revenge....but in the end, Simon didn't really care about his brother that much, and just wanted people to concentrate on that while he ran his own secret heist.
Glad to see "The Game" getting some love. I always thought that movie was incredible, but it seemed to fly under the radar for most people I've mentioned it to.
I loved it till the reveal at the end. It’s just a bit too convenient. I think Fincher even admitted they just didn’t know how to wrap it up convincingly
@ Yeah, the first time I saw it, I think I liked it because it was just so unpredictable. On subsequent viewings, it's definitely a weak spot in the plotline. But it's still not terrible. I think the good acting from cast kind of helps sell it.
So true. I always remember that shot with his wife talking on the phone and she hangs up and Joan Cusack is right behind her, like three inches away. Horrifying. The movie was slightly off-base in predicting that our biggest challenge going forward would Oklahoma City-type bombings instead of radical Islamic terrorism, but it's still a really well-made movie. Jeff Bridges went from The Big Lebowski in 1998 to Arlington Road in 1999. Talk about range.
I feel like Frailty did get a decent amount of critical praise and discussion about how good the twist was. It's a brilliant story twist, well told and the acting is off the charts good - but I'm not sure it fits this framing as a movie twist that didn't get talked about.
The 'twist' in 'Take Shelter' is arguably not a twist, but shows that his family can now see things from his point of view; that is to say through his mental illness. They love him and empathise with him so much that they are able to see the world the way he sees it, when he sees it. It's a bittersweet ending, but a fitting one.
I never understood why people didnt rave over the plot twists of The Descent and Butterfly Effect. Then years later i saw them on TV and the endings were completely different. I came to realize the versions i had watched were "Directors Cuts"
For #9 I didn’t even recognise the title of the movie, or the promise he’d made. But I instantly recognised the twist that Jack Nicholson’s character experienced. There are likely quite a few real-life serial killer investigations where the trail goes cold after the death of the killer. But to get so agonisingly close, yet have the goal fall so out of reach, after pouring in so much effort, can only lead to madness.
For me, the best plot twist was 10 Cloverfield Lane. Howard may have been crazy. He was a kidnapper, future rapist, and murderer. BUT!!! He was actually right! There was an actual alien invasion happening outside. 🤷♂Who knew?!
The "3: 10 to Yuma" remake was really well done. Great scene at the end when the train pulls off and Russell Crowe whistles, and his horse starts running next to the train.
The twist of Ghostwatch was that it was advertised as a live show. It wasn't it was all prerecorded. A lot of people at the time believed it to be real when it was aired
@ChrisPage68 Well, I don't know everyone personally, but over 10000 people phoned up the BBC because they were taken in by it. There's a lot of gullible people out there
@ChrisPage68 No doubt some of the 30 000 people who complained to the BBC during and after the show. People were invited to call the show and report their own ghost stories, the phone lines were overwhelmed so many got engaged tones - which only added to the fear and concerns.
Shhh, don’t tell the illiterate. Ironically that’s also probably his most overrated story if you dig through his weirdness. It’s not his best or worst but definitely overrated in his catalog.
I found The Game's twist to be a little too clairvoyant for its own good. They would've had to know he would've done a LOT of things ahead of time, where he'd be, who he'd talk to, even the exact location and method of an attempted suicide. All of his friends must have been psychic.
When the one character tells Michael Douglas something like, "If you hadn't have jumped, I was supposed to throw you off the building." I figured it meant they had multiple contingency plans for every scenario. I'm not saying your criticism isn't valid but the movie did make some attempt to address that issue.
It is ridiculously easy to get people to do what you want them to do with very subtle manipulation. And it is even easier if they have the kind of ego that makes them think they can't be manipulated. They more or less gambled (although almost certainly an educated gamble) that he would follow the script. The only thing that was truly unbelievable was the timeframe they were able to accomplish it, but a movie is only so long.
Ghostwatch terrified me as a kid who thought it was real at the time! Looking back on it now though it really is a amazing piece of tv and so well done
Such a boring & underwhelming film. It was so obvious from the start they thought they could get away with the first part if they confirmed it in the last.
I am surprised that The Villain is not on this list staring Kirk Douglas, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. The ending was totally unexpected. it is also a great movie, and funny
3:10 to Yuma was also remade (in my opinion) as the 2006 John Cusack/Morgan Freeman film "The Contract." Although, based on the Elmore Leonard novel, this storyline is just a larger version of a short story and the name of this story escapes me. The story is about a school keeper in an African nation during a civil war. The teacher closes the school for the winter due to weather and the ongoing strife. A soldier (I think a general) comes upon the school in desperation escaping a battle and the teacher takes him into custody for the night caring for him but keeping him as a prisoner. In the morning the teacher allows the general to leave on his own recognizance to walk to a nearby prison camp. The general complies on his own volition but other soldiers see this occur and respond by burning the school down. Can anybody find the title of this original short story?
They filmed Take Shelter in my hometown. I had no idea and was watching it when I started seeing things that looked very familiar. I was living in Hollywood and was used to seeing places I recognize in movies but not from the tiny village I grew up in Ohio.
Die Hard 3 had a different twist: That Simon did not really care. But since it was actually not a Die Hard script originally but got changed, this makes sense.
We need a list of movies with the best plot twists that are only found in the Directors Cuts! Movies like the Butterfly Effect and The Descent have director's cut endings that are WAY WAY better than the theatrical ones.
Ghost Watch was brilliant, but looking back at as an adult the regular people are obviously played by actors who must have become quite recognisable later as their careers grew.
The thing about Take Shelter, if I remember right, you actually see what happens to them after the ending, just not in order. Check out what his wife is wearing, in his dream, and then pay attention to the ending. When she let's herself get rained upon, the events as we've seen them already, will unfold.
Identity! Yes! Had that maybe-unique 1-2 effect at the end. 😎 1. the truth about the sixteen people at the hotel and their connection 2. the whodunit aspect
Everyone watched ghost watch. Everyone. Except me 😫. I got to school the next day and everyone was talking how amazing it was. Baring in mind I love and have always loved ghost stories, horror films etc. I only got to watch it a couple of years ago and I’m 47! 😩😩😩
You can only lose the game. Knowing about the game condemns you to losing the game. Enjoy the blissful ignorance when you, for a time, forget about the game before you are reminded, again, that you have lost the game.
While I appreciate the lists on this channel as always, it's getting frustrating hearing about a movie that gets my interest, only to find that none of the streaming services carry it -- or, if they do, that it requires either a rental fee or subscribing to ANOTHER service in addition.
just saying it would be smarter to you know NOT put the twist before the movie name!?! just put the movie name and then people can skip the movies they dont want spoiled where as with this you literally spoil the twist before you even tell us the movie name
@@Laugh1ngboy It’s funny you say that because “Die Hard With a Vengeance” was originally an original script (“Simon Says”) that was then shoehorned into a Die Hard movie!
I remember watching die hard two and being disappointed it was gruber's brother. Like, you guys couldn't think of something else? Just basically did the same villain?
Suspense and tensions in "The Batman"?! The best detective in the world cause a road carnage to catch the Penguin only to release him when he correctly conjugate the clue in espagnol that led them in the pursuits in the first place. Tension! SUSPENCE!!! High school homeworks!
The better twist in Die Hard With a Vengeance is that Simon doesn't actually give a crap about his brother's death. Like, at all.
Ya for sure.
I thought this was the twist myself since the whole thing with John was just smoke and mirrors anyway.
@@tripled8611 Right?
That is the real twist of the film
Not entirely true. He even says something along the lines of not liking your brother doesn’t mean you are ok with some stupid cop killing him.
Die Hard 3 actually had a bit of a double twist there. We learn he's Hans' brother, and we assume that this terrorist plot is to get revenge....but in the end, Simon didn't really care about his brother that much, and just wanted people to concentrate on that while he ran his own secret heist.
a twisted macguffin
Which was his brothers’s MO as well. For a movie that wasn’t written as a die hard sequel it is the perfect sequel
I don't even consider the fact that he's Hans' brother to be that much of a twist. It's revealed fairly early in the movie.
Glad to see "The Game" getting some love. I always thought that movie was incredible, but it seemed to fly under the radar for most people I've mentioned it to.
@@kareningram6093 Love that movie.
I loved it till the reveal at the end. It’s just a bit too convenient. I think Fincher even admitted they just didn’t know how to wrap it up convincingly
@ Yeah, the first time I saw it, I think I liked it because it was just so unpredictable. On subsequent viewings, it's definitely a weak spot in the plotline. But it's still not terrible. I think the good acting from cast kind of helps sell it.
I was a kid when i watched it with my dad and we were both bored out of our minds and then comoletely unimpressed withbl the ending
Identity is an all time fave!
@Zetiacg Love that movie. The twist...not about the killer, but about what is really going on..that surprised me and I enjoyed that a lot.
Arlington Road with Jeff bridges and Tim Robbin has a twist that took me completely by surprise. I’m not sure why no one ever talks about it
So true. I always remember that shot with his wife talking on the phone and she hangs up and Joan Cusack is right behind her, like three inches away. Horrifying. The movie was slightly off-base in predicting that our biggest challenge going forward would Oklahoma City-type bombings instead of radical Islamic terrorism, but it's still a really well-made movie. Jeff Bridges went from The Big Lebowski in 1998 to Arlington Road in 1999. Talk about range.
Yes! This is a very enjoyable thriller film, and it had me on the edge of my seat. Definitely recommend watching
Man “Frailty” didn’t make the list? The twist to that movie was fantastic.
100%!!! As for one I would remove/replace, Identity was good all the way up to the twist. I just didn't buy the little kid angle after the reveal.
I feel like Frailty did get a decent amount of critical praise and discussion about how good the twist was. It's a brilliant story twist, well told and the acting is off the charts good - but I'm not sure it fits this framing as a movie twist that didn't get talked about.
Oh ya that's a good one.
The 'twist' in 'Take Shelter' is arguably not a twist, but shows that his family can now see things from his point of view; that is to say through his mental illness. They love him and empathise with him so much that they are able to see the world the way he sees it, when he sees it. It's a bittersweet ending, but a fitting one.
3:10 to Yuma is possibly one of the best Westerns ever made.
This is one of the more creative lists you've come up in a long while
Identity is one of my favorite underrated thrillers. It has the coldest final line ever.
my favorite scene (other than the water test) is when the villain says "don't leave that there because some kid could get ahold of it"
"I'm a soldier, not a monster."
What movie is that?
Die hard 3
@@Ze5891 . Oh yes. Now i rember. Even villans have Standard's 😉
The perfect getaway has one of the greatest twists no one talks about
Arlington road. Massively underrated ending
Yes!!! This one is so good and heartbreaking!!
I never understood why people didnt rave over the plot twists of The Descent and Butterfly Effect. Then years later i saw them on TV and the endings were completely different. I came to realize the versions i had watched were "Directors Cuts"
Two movies I think of that don’t get enough love and had great twists are “high tension” and “frailty”
Frailty was creepy too.
For #9 I didn’t even recognise the title of the movie, or the promise he’d made.
But I instantly recognised the twist that Jack Nicholson’s character experienced.
There are likely quite a few real-life serial killer investigations where the trail goes cold after the death of the killer.
But to get so agonisingly close, yet have the goal fall so out of reach, after pouring in so much effort, can only lead to madness.
This list is epic and im now searching for said movies to watch them😊😊
For me, the best plot twist was 10 Cloverfield Lane. Howard may have been crazy. He was a kidnapper, future rapist, and murderer. BUT!!! He was actually right! There was an actual alien invasion happening outside. 🤷♂Who knew?!
The "3: 10 to Yuma" remake was really well done. Great scene at the end when the train pulls off and Russell Crowe whistles, and his horse starts running next to the train.
The twist of Ghostwatch was that it was advertised as a live show. It wasn't it was all prerecorded. A lot of people at the time believed it to be real when it was aired
Exactly - fooling a lot of viewers into believing what they were seeing.
Who believed it was real?
Shades of Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds!
@ChrisPage68 Well, I don't know everyone personally, but over 10000 people phoned up the BBC because they were taken in by it. There's a lot of gullible people out there
@ChrisPage68 No doubt some of the 30 000 people who complained to the BBC during and after the show. People were invited to call the show and report their own ghost stories, the phone lines were overwhelmed so many got engaged tones - which only added to the fear and concerns.
Take shelter was great! I told my parents about the movie and suggested them to watch it and they loved the twist at the end!
The end of Jacob's ladder is straight out of "Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge", a short story by Ambrose Bierce.
Shhh, don’t tell the illiterate. Ironically that’s also probably his most overrated story if you dig through his weirdness. It’s not his best or worst but definitely overrated in his catalog.
"It was all a dream," is such a cliché these days.
Identity was such an underrated movie and a great twist
Didn't we see this exact same list just a few days ago???
Exactly what I was just thinking. But maybe with a different name?
What a twist!
They told it in description
'Take Shelter' is an absolute masterpiece.
I found The Game's twist to be a little too clairvoyant for its own good. They would've had to know he would've done a LOT of things ahead of time, where he'd be, who he'd talk to, even the exact location and method of an attempted suicide. All of his friends must have been psychic.
Not to mention the notion that driving someone to suicide is good for their mental health?
When the one character tells Michael Douglas something like, "If you hadn't have jumped, I was supposed to throw you off the building." I figured it meant they had multiple contingency plans for every scenario. I'm not saying your criticism isn't valid but the movie did make some attempt to address that issue.
@@ArcherSuh4721the fact they would’ve known what building, and which side of the building he’d leap from is pretty wild though lol
It is ridiculously easy to get people to do what you want them to do with very subtle manipulation. And it is even easier if they have the kind of ego that makes them think they can't be manipulated. They more or less gambled (although almost certainly an educated gamble) that he would follow the script. The only thing that was truly unbelievable was the timeframe they were able to accomplish it, but a movie is only so long.
I remember that ghost watch. It was mental. We were so dumb back then. I wonder what we'll do in 30 years looking back on today
Back then? People are just as dumb today, probably dumber actually.
Ghostwatch scared the crap outta me as a kid
I wanted my dad to call the police 🤣
3:10 to Yuma is brilliant! Elmore Leonard produced a wonderful catalog of fantastic characters and plots.
Ghostwatch terrified me as a kid who thought it was real at the time! Looking back on it now though it really is a amazing piece of tv and so well done
Sean Penn needs to direct more movies. Every one of his movies are excellent. ( That I've seen)
I loved how Samantha was just like "Okay." At the end.
0:45 as one of those traumatised children I can confirm the twist was amazing and has scarred me for life
Frailty is another!
Frailty is a masterpiece!
Totally agree!
So good. It doesn't get enough love imo
Such a boring & underwhelming film. It was so obvious from the start they thought they could get away with the first part if they confirmed it in the last.
Identity is such an under rated thriller.
I love The Game! And Jacob’s Ladder got me. Identity’s good too, but I solved it right before the reveal.
Die Hard: With a Vengeance is “the best of the bunch”. Please.
It’s the second best by a huge margin, but does not surpass the original.
Nah, 3 is the superior film. Go back and watch 1 now. Campy, but still great
@ I just watched it over Christmas. Brilliant.
We will have to agree to favour different entries.
BTW I do love 3 also.
It’s the most fun to watch and rewatch. That doesn’t make it better than the first 2.
Fun fact: The Pledge is an adaptation of a novella by swiss author Friedrich Dürrenmatt. Highly recommended author.
I liked the twist in Secret Window with Depp
I always thought Jacob was in Purgatory during the movie.
I consider it bardo but kind of the same.
I mean, they definitely telegraph it in the first half, but I still think it’s a beautiful film. I literally can’t watch it without crying by the end
I am surprised that The Villain is not on this list staring Kirk Douglas, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. The ending was totally unexpected. it is also a great movie, and funny
Please add timestamps
4:31 I agree, it’s easily the best.
Jacob's Ladder was good but creepy.😊
The Game is wholy underrated! It's a fantastic film! In fact I might just go watch it now!
1:49 how did anyone who watches Red Dwarf not recognize Craig Charles?
He was a presenter for the show, all of the presenters were known from actually being popular in tv.xx
I love red dwarf
3:10 to Yuma was also remade (in my opinion) as the 2006 John Cusack/Morgan Freeman film "The Contract." Although, based on the Elmore Leonard novel, this storyline is just a larger version of a short story and the name of this story escapes me. The story is about a school keeper in an African nation during a civil war. The teacher closes the school for the winter due to weather and the ongoing strife. A soldier (I think a general) comes upon the school in desperation escaping a battle and the teacher takes him into custody for the night caring for him but keeping him as a prisoner. In the morning the teacher allows the general to leave on his own recognizance to walk to a nearby prison camp. The general complies on his own volition but other soldiers see this occur and respond by burning the school down. Can anybody find the title of this original short story?
Now you see me need to be talked about i hope yall put it in the list
3:06 what? thats the plot from a book by a swiss author Dürrennatt, even the name is the same! Very nice
They filmed Take Shelter in my hometown. I had no idea and was watching it when I started seeing things that looked very familiar. I was living in Hollywood and was used to seeing places I recognize in movies but not from the tiny village I grew up in Ohio.
The game was such a good movie
Take Shelter was insanely good.
Arlington Road is a good movie from the 90’s with Tim Ribbins and a great ending. Check it out if you haven’t seen it.
Die Hard 3 had a different twist: That Simon did not really care. But since it was actually not a Die Hard script originally but got changed, this makes sense.
Unfortunately I haven't seen any of these movies 😭
Best twist imo is in remember me, cheesy romance then boom greatest unexpected ending I’ve experienced
You when you play a record backwards? That's this narrators cadence when he talks. Haha
This may also be the first time I have ever heard a rhotic British accent. It kind of threw me.
I still can’t believe I’ve never seen ghost watch and I’ve heard so much about it for so long…does anyone know where I can watch it?!
I think Shudder still has it.
@ thank you
Take Shelter is SO underrated.
We need a list of movies with the best plot twists that are only found in the Directors Cuts! Movies like the Butterfly Effect and The Descent have director's cut endings that are WAY WAY better than the theatrical ones.
Descent
@jamiethal1319 damn autocorrect
Ghost Watch was brilliant, but looking back at as an adult the regular people are obviously played by actors who must have become quite recognisable later as their careers grew.
What movie are those evil 80s robots at 2:23 from? They kind of look like the evil 80s robots from Chopping Mall but they aren't the exact same ones.
They are the daleks. Villains in the show Doctor who
The thing about Take Shelter, if I remember right, you actually see what happens to them after the ending, just not in order. Check out what his wife is wearing, in his dream, and then pay attention to the ending. When she let's herself get rained upon, the events as we've seen them already, will unfold.
Identity! Yes! Had that maybe-unique 1-2 effect at the end. 😎
1. the truth about the sixteen people at the hotel and their connection
2. the whodunit aspect
The Awakening is good with Rebcca Hall
Everyone watched ghost watch. Everyone. Except me 😫. I got to school the next day and everyone was talking how amazing it was. Baring in mind I love and have always loved ghost stories, horror films etc. I only got to watch it a couple of years ago and I’m 47! 😩😩😩
Take Shelter is a really good movie
I love Chaos.
Ghost Watch is an absolute classic!
4:26 Die hard is the best die hard. It must've sucked that you didn't get the Hans Gruber connection in part 3, because you watched them out of order.
So if u watch the game do u loose the game
No. You win because it’s a pretty good movie
Do you have loose shoes on?
You can only lose the game. Knowing about the game condemns you to losing the game. Enjoy the blissful ignorance when you, for a time, forget about the game before you are reminded, again, that you have lost the game.
Ghost Watch. Arguing that its a movie 🙄That just informs you of how high quality this list will be.
Simon being Hans’ brother is a meh twist. It doesn’t really add any to the movie.
The fact that Simon wasn't really after revenge, but pretending to go after revenge as a distraction for the gold heist was the real twist imo.
Rip Julian sands
Someone said it and it is also my opinion. Die hard 3 is the best of this trilogie😁!
While I appreciate the lists on this channel as always, it's getting frustrating hearing about a movie that gets my interest, only to find that none of the streaming services carry it -- or, if they do, that it requires either a rental fee or subscribing to ANOTHER service in addition.
The MINUTE I saw Lister, I woulda known it was a hoax.
Hilarious that the doofuses who made this video don’t know what a “twist” is.
You forgot Frailty and Bad Match
1:58 "Pipes?"
The Pledge is one of the few, if not only, "subverge expectations" movies that I liked and it made it better
Filmed down the road from me. Drove passed the bridge yesterday
The DID twist is lazy, unrealistic, overdone, and harmful to those who suffer with the condition.
“See the description for more info” yet puts no information in the description 🙄
that identy one was dumb and really obvious it was another one of those crappy the last person you would suspect endings
Also the poster gave it away. I told my friends what I expected and they were PISSED at me
I thought it was a good twist.
The Game was great, but is forgettable because there's a happy ending with nothing really sinister about the movie.
just saying it would be smarter to you know NOT put the twist before the movie name!?! just put the movie name and then people can skip the movies they dont want spoiled where as with this you literally spoil the twist before you even tell us the movie name
I don't know anyone who was fooled by Ghostwatch. It was amateurish.
Top shelf
The other..... John Ritter
TWO mpd movies. Ugh.
But it isn't a die hard movie. Die Hard movies are Christmas movies.
@@Laugh1ngboy It’s funny you say that because “Die Hard With a Vengeance” was originally an original script (“Simon Says”) that was then shoehorned into a Die Hard movie!
@@JoeServo Yeah I always thought that was funny. How ever best part of the movies was the Jesus moment.
I lost the game
I remember watching die hard two and being disappointed it was gruber's brother. Like, you guys couldn't think of something else? Just basically did the same villain?
wrong sequel
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Die hard 2 is at the airport.
I wish some would get discussed less so those of us who were a little late wouldn't get spoiled.
10:33 after all the shxt sue-mi did. She was just like fxck it! 🤷🏽♀️ sue me. Then her sister sue-yoon was like okay bxshh ima sue-yooon 😂
Take Shelter is just boring
I disagree with the Jacob's Ladder twist being great, it's essentially an "It was all a dream" ending
I love it BECAUSE the whole movie feels like a waking dream/nightmare
Suspense and tensions in "The Batman"?!
The best detective in the world cause a road carnage to catch the Penguin only to release him when he correctly conjugate the clue in espagnol that led them in the pursuits in the first place.
Tension! SUSPENCE!!! High school homeworks!
The Pledge: awful film.
The batman was a terrible movie. miserable. hard to watch, terribly directed. weird zooms. etc.
and you thought the identity twist was good? jesus fucking ballsack...