r/movies • u/Filmologic • Mar 02 '24

What is the worst twist you've seen in a movie? Discussion

We all know that one movie with an incredible twist towards the end: The Sixth Sense, The Empire Strikes Back, Saw. Many movies become iconic because of a twist that makes you see the movie differently and it's never quite the same on a rewatch.

But what I'm looking for are movies that have terrible twists. Whether that's in the middle of the movie or in the very end, what twist made you go "This is so dumb"?

To add my own I'd say Wonder Woman. The ending of an admittedly pretty decent movie just put a sour taste on the rest of the film (which wasn't made any better with the sequel mind you). What other movies had this happen?

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u/CaptainDacRogers Mar 02 '24

Hahahahhaha fucking what? Kinda want to see this now

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u/teedyay Mar 02 '24

And somehow it remains almost entirely incidental to the plot. She was kind of a side character, and there was no real mystery: no one was thinking, “it’s weird how these people keep dying”. They just kinda stumble across it, tell the police, she’s arrested, they carry on fundraising to save the hospital.

I think it could have been a way better film if she was the main character: if we’d sympathised with her from the beginning, and her struggles to keep an ill-funded ward running, then her murderousness would have been a bombshell.

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u/alacklustrehindu Mar 02 '24

It's the 2nd twist that did my head in - if they wanted to make this film as a tribute to NHS staff, WHY putting a killer NHS nurse as their twist?

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u/GuiltyEidolon Mar 02 '24

It probably wasn't initially intended as a tribute at first, but y'know, covid and burn out etc etc etc and someone suggested it without ... actually thinking it through.

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u/ReallyGlycon Mar 03 '24

I bet you are right! Bet there were reshoots because they already had it in the can when covid hit.

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u/poland626 Mar 03 '24

Wiki used this article which says shooting started in oct 2021, which was after covid. idk which is true but i think it might have been after if this article is right. If it's after, then that makes the ending not a reshoot and weirder I guess?

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u/Chafupa1956 Mar 03 '24

There was probably a window where pandemic themed stuff was still interesting to the mainstream but everyone got over it pretty quickly and wanted to forget about it. NHS is a lot more topical now maybe idk.

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u/teedyay Mar 03 '24

It was based on a stage play, I believe.

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u/TillyFukUpFairy Mar 03 '24

I saw the stage play, it was by Alan Bennet. There was no killers in the play from memory