10 Obvious Movie Twist Endings Fans Saw Coming
10 Obvious Movie Twist Endings Fans Saw Coming
Hollywood loves a good surprise ending, and while some twists take people completely by surprise, others are rather obvious from the start.
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Surprises make movies fun and as result, many directors tend to include them at the end. Predictable storylines are no good. However, more often than not, attempts to throw in a twist in the final arc tend to backfire. Viewers get hints during the movie (and sometimes even before the release) that things are going to go a certain way.
A predictable twist doesn’t necessarily make a movie bad but it does take it down from excellent to good or good to average. There are obvious twists in Hollywood like the good guy being one of the oppressors or the revelations that a character was dreaming all along. There are more creative twists too, but some of these tend to be ruined by events in the earlier arcs.
10 The Notebook (2004)
The sleeper hit’s plot revolves around an elderly man named Duke reading a love story to an unnamed female patient at a nursing home. The story is about a young couple who fell in love in the 1940s. It’s a beautiful story and at the end of it, it’s revealed that the elderly woman in the nursing home is actually the female protagonist. Duke is also her husband.
Years ago, the woman, named Allie, wrote a journal reminiscing her younger years when she was deeply in love. The fact that the elderly’s woman’s name was kept a secret before the 3rd act gave viewers hints that she was indeed the woman in the story. Viewers are also quite familiar with the “it was the narrator all along” plot twist.
9 The Phone Booth (2002)
Among the late director, Joel Schumacher, many great movies is The Phone Booth, a thriller that remains grounded but never loses its intensity. Stu Shepard (Colin Farrell) is held at sniper-point in a city phone booth, while the sniper keeps taunting him over the phone. Before all that, Stu had an altercation with a pizza guy at the phone booth.
As the movie progress, the sniper is found dead in his hotel room. He slashed his wrists rather than allow himself to get caught. Apparently, the pizza guy was the culprit, which is hard for audiences to buy since his voice was so different from that of the caller. In the end, it’s revealed that the caller was a mysterious man played by Kiefer Sutherland and he framed the pizza guy. Kiefer Sutherland’s voice easily gave away the twist. It’s one of the most iconic voices on TV.
8 Saw 3D (2010)
The first Saw film ended with Dr. Lawrence Gordon (Cary Elwes) leaving a bloody bathroom and escaping alive after a string of horrific events. Fans speculated that he might return in the franchise later on as one of the serial killer Jigsaw’s apprentices and events play out just like that in the seventh film.
The fact that Lionsgate had announced Cary Elwes’ return made the ending easy to predict. He was obviously not going to be a victim again. It’s revealed that Gordon was treated by Jigsaw after escaping from the bathroom and turned into an apprentice.
7 The Visit (2015)
In The Visit, a mother sends her teenage children to stay with their grandparents. The children have never met the grandparents before because their mother is estranged from them. The teenagers soon realize that something is not right about the grandparents. Apparently, they are imposters who escaped from a psychiatric facility and murdered the real grandparents.
Several moments in the movie betrayed this reveal. Why would a mother let her children go alone to visit parents that she actually isn’t on good terms with? The fact that the teenagers didn’t know what their grandparents looked like also set up the imposter plot perfectly.
6 The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
The last film in the trilogy sees villain Bane force a scientist to make a neutron bomb. On the other hand, Bruce Wayne is feeling disgruntled and no longer wants to be a hero. When the bomb is about to explode and destroy Gotham in the final moments, Wayne sees no option but to carry it out to the sea with his jet where it explodes. Batman is thus presumed dead.
Making audiences think Batman is dead wasn’t exactly a bad idea. However, since no clear successor has been set up in the movie, there is the feeling that he isn’t really dead. Indeed, Bruce Wayne appears in Florence at the end of the movie where he is seen sipping coffee with Selina Kyle.
5 Last Christmas (2019)
Kate—a young woman living in London—has a loving but overbearing mother. Her mother is constantly concerned about her health because she recently got a heart transplant. Kate is afraid she will never achieve her dream of becoming a singer but then she meets a charming man named Tom who keeps inspiring her. The two soon fall in love.
It turns out Tom isn’t real. He died months ago and he’s the man whose heart she got. One of the songs in the movie hints at this. There’s also the fact that if a character is only being seen by one person in a movie, they are likely just a product of the protagonist’s imagination.
4 Fractured (2019)
Fractured is all about tragedy. It starts off with parents Joanne and Ray rushing their daughter Peri to a hospital after she falls into a pit at a gas station. At the hospital, Joanne takes Peri to have a scan, while Ray dozes off in the waiting area. Ray later wakes up to discover that his wife and daughter have disappeared. Kidnapped? Not really.
Both Joanne and Peri apparently died at the gas station. Ray was traumatized so he put their bodies in the trunk and began imagining different events that would be more ideal. From the moment Ray wakes up and discovers his family is missing, it’s obvious that things will go either of two ways: imaginations or dreams.
3 Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (2019)
Quentin Tarantino’s decision to mix the struggles of 1960s Hollywood with the Manson family’s infamous murders was ambitious, to say the least. Luckily it worked out well. At the end of the film, Sharon Tate doesn’t get brutally murdered like she did in reallife. A struggling actor and stuntman save the day.
This was expected, considering the fact that Tarantino is known for giving viewers a taste of alternate history. In Inglourious Basterds, for example, Hitler’s face got blown off. The aversion of Tate’s real-life fate had even become a fan theory before the release of the movie.
2 The Village (2004)
Director M. Night Shyamalan is known for packing twists in his movies but the twist in this one wasn’t well concealed. In the movie, people in a village have constructed a large barrier to protect themselves from creatures known as “Those We Don’t Speak Of.” They can’t get out because they are afraid these creatures will kill them.
The twist at the end? The creatures aren’t real. A history professor pushed the lie to prevent grief victims from leaving the village and interacting with the outside world. Viewers saw this coming because no one had ever seen the creatures apart from the professor and his daughter who was blind.
1 Halloween (2018)
The recent sequel to the critically acclaimed 1978 Halloween was quite good. The only problem was with the ending. Protagonist Laurie Strode lures the killer Michael Myers into a basement trap before setting the house on fire. Myers is finally dead? Viewers would have thought so, had more sequels not been announced.
At the end of the film, it becomes clear that Myers didn’t die in the fire. The basement is empty. Of course, Myers had to escape because a sequel without him wouldn’t have felt as entertaining. After all, the villain hasn’t been killed since the first film came out in 1978.
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