What's the best mind-blowing movie twist of all time? Spoiler alerts as standard!

[Blue Maverick]

The one that threw me and is a personal favourite was the ending of Memento,"Now where was I"

Apparently you can watch the film backwards !

 

[TonyM]

Still think about the end of Arrival to this day.

The premise of the movie is simple: a dozen-or-so alien spaceships land on Earth, so Amy Adams, who plays a linguistics expert who is recovering from the death of her daughter, and a physicist played by Jeremy Renner, are recruited by the US military to work out why the aliens have come. It's a race against time, though, because the rest of the world's armies are mobilising to attack the spaceships.

But...

Spoiler

Throughout the film, Amy Adams constantly dreams about her daughter. But at the end of the film you find out that the opening montage of her daughter's death, and the dreams she has about her, actually take place after the events of the film, not before. By learning the alien race's language, she also developed the ability to experience memories of events yet to occur. And the "dreams" she's been having all along about her daughter are actually premonitions and memories from the future - she learns that she'll fall in love with Jeremy Renner's character, have a daughter with him, and that Jeremy Renner will divorce her when she eventually tells him that she knew their daughter was going to die but went though with the pregnancy anyway. Around the same time, Amy Adams has a premonition of a future United Nations conference where the world's political leaders are celebrating humanity's unity with the alien race. There, she meets the Chinese president, who whispers something in her ear. Back in the present, she stops the breakout of war against the aliens by calling the Chinese president herself and reciting what he'll later whisper to her: his wife's dying words, which only he knows until he tells her in the future. It's such a tough ending to pull off and it works spectacularly.

It would have been better if she got her tits out.

 

[Kippaxpete]

Apparently you can watch the film backwards!

You can indeed watch Momento 'backwards' which, for anyone who knows the film, means in chronological order given that the narrative is back to front.
It's complicated but, to access the chronological re-edit, you have to select the clock icon in the DVD menu and choose C on the following five pages. You then see a quiz that shows four illustrated panels of a woman changing a flat tyre on her car. The quiz asks you to place the panels in chronological order. The trick, though, is to place the panels in reverse order. After that, the film begins playing its scenes in chronological order.
You're welcome.

 

[TonyM]

Apparently you can watch the film backwards !

Or upside down.

 

[Kippaxpete]

Or upside down.

Not that I wish to sound like a nerd but...

It's possible to access all of the following on Disc 2 of the DVD special edition of Momento if you know where what are referred to as the 'easter eggs' are hidden.

1) Chronological presentation
2) A 25-minute full-frame documentary.
3) Director's script.
4) The original short story by Jonathan Nolan.
5) Theatrical trailers.
6) Production stills and sketches gallery
7) Props gallery
8) International poster art gallery
9) Concept art gallery
10) Bootleg cover art gallery.
11) Journal (page from Leonard's journal).

I really must get out more!

 

[urban genie]

Do people stull buy DVDs ? I don't think I have bought one in 7-8 years

got loads but haven't put one on for a few years, just used to streaming now I guess

 

[fanatic1]

Another fave final twist was in "The Wicker Man" Everybody must have seen this now (like "Don't Look Now" - both over 40 years old but still pack a powerful punch.) A police sargeant (Edward Woodward) is lured to an isolated Scottish island where the natives have renounced Christianity. As he's a fool, devout Christian and still a virgin, he's an ideal candidate for ritual sacrifice by fire to the old gods of the earth to ensure future prosperity for the local economy which has crash dived.

 

[Dirty Harry]

The scene where he has his palm read, I started thinking the woman was actually right although it seemed too obvious

I had no fuckin idea mate, maybe I was a bit distracted and missed a few clues, I don’t know, but it went from “HTF have I sat through this garbage” to “WOW” with 20 seconds left, I’m quite surprised it’s not already been mentioned.

 

[Dirty Harry]

The one that threw me and is a personal favourite was the ending of Memento,"Now where was I"

Brilliant film and one of my favourites, the one that made me start taking Guy Pearce as a serious actor.

 

[dronefromsector7G]

Or upside down.

Or whilst wanking backwards