Quiz: Movie "twist" endings

[Guest]

You scored 10 out of a possible 10 You've seen more twists than an Olympic gymnastics judge. But what you've just done wasn't a quiz at all. It was a cat. An alien cat. A half-robot alien cat. In a woman's body. Called Keyser Soze. And you can kill it by throwing water at it. And ... it's your own father.

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[OldnotDead]

8 of 10

I missed two, but it didn't tell me which two, and I got the same review of my results as Perdita, so I think Perdita is just faking the extra two to make me think she is smarter than me.

Wait! Everyone knows Perdita is smarter. So why IS she faking it?

 

[Colleen Thomas]

You scored 10 out of a possible 10 You've seen more twists than an Olympic gymnastics judge. But what you've just done wasn't a quiz at all. It was a cat. An alien cat. A half-robot alien cat. In a woman's body. Called Keyser Soze. And you can kill it by throwing water at it. And ... it's your own father.

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8 of 10, not bad for someone who dosen't see many movies


Thanks for the fun Dita

-Colly

 

[sweetnpetite]

You scored 7 out of a possible 10
You've seen more twists than an Olympic gymnastics judge. But what you've just done wasn't a quiz at all. It was a cat. An alien cat. A half-robot alien cat. In a woman's body. Called Keyser Soze. And you can kill it by throwing water at it. And ... it's your own father.

Anyone see "Color of Night"?

Anyone figure it out before the end? I did! Then I thought, no way that's too messed up, that couldn't be the end. But it was!!!

 

[Guest]

Well now I'm pissed off. Those with two wrong get the same blurb as me? Ptooey!

OnD: I don't fake anything (mostly). P.

 

[Guest]

You scored 7 out of a possible 10
You've seen more twists than an Olympic gymnastics judge. But what you've just done wasn't a quiz at all. It was a cat. An alien cat. A half-robot alien cat. In a woman's body. Called Keyser Soze. And you can kill it by throwing water at it. And ... it's your own father.

 

[Guest]

The quiz was prompted by "The Village". Here's the beginning of a scathing review. - Perdita

The Village - 2 stars - Peter Bradshaw, August 20, 2004, The Guardian

Wear not the bad colour - for it angers them! Do not go into the woods - for that is where they live! Reveal not the surprise ending - for it is completely rubbish!

This absurd and badly plotted thriller from director M Night Shyamalan has sent his reputation south like dotcom stock, leaving those of us who invested massively after his breakthrough movies The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable with a barrowload of worthless shares on our hands. Shyamalan had such a sensational impact with those two sinuous, elegant movies, becoming the Chubby Checker of Hollywood, the king of the twist, and cut an auteurist dash by writing, producing, directing and making a sly, Hitchcockian cameo in each. (Perhaps only Alejandro Amenábar or Robert Rodriguez do more, by actually composing the music.) Then came the disappointing Signs, his film about - ooo-er! - corn circles, probably the least scary subject in the world.

Now this. It's a period-costume chiller about the remote village community of Covington, Pennsylvania, whose little collection of farm dwellings, clapboard houses and church is surrounded by a dark and mysterious forest in which horrifying creatures are said to live, and can be heard howling at night. The villagers are ruled over by a committee of religious elders including William Hurt, Brendan Gleeson and Sigourney Weaver, who have evidently brokered a deal with the woodland beasties. As long as no human ventures out into their domain, no monsters will come into the village.

However, the humans must suppress all signs of the colour red, for it sends the forest creatures into a murderous rage. All red clothes are forbidden and red berries must be hastily buried. But after the tragic death of a child, villager Lucius (Joaquin Phoenix) - an intense young fellow, and a man of few words - tells the elders that he wants to journey through the forest to reach the rumoured "towns" beyond, where they have modern amenities that might have saved the infant. The elders forbid it, but Lucius won't be told.

Shyamalan certainly returns to the twisty style which he appeared to have abandoned for Signs. There's a medium-sized twist half-way through, then a sort of mini counter-twist where the first twist seems to be cancelled out, and then for the finale a mega-twist so massive it's intended to leave you with whiplash, a neck-brace and many months of chiropractic therapy. But in each case the twist is telegraphed with a feeble explanation which dulls the impact and this final twist just doesn't work in the first place. It's only effective for about a fraction of a second before you're thinking: whaaat? Then the whole conceit falls down one of the many, many bus-sized plot holes that Shyamalan has left in his script. Which is frankly a mess. The Village suffers from precisely that banal and ubiquitous vice which this director had made his name by avoiding: it starts strongly and tails off - quite spectacularly. full review

 

[poohlive]

Color of Night ending?
Hmmm, I know my way around a movie theatre. Plots, twists and whatnot. I've seen a lot of them coming from miles away, but that one?
That one got me by surprise. Huh, maybe it's just cause I was watching the made-for-tv version and it was on at 3 in the morning on TNT, and I was half asleep and not really paying attention.

Do you mean if you thought the guy was a girl? I had my doubts about that, but I had no freaking clue he was seeing everyone else as different people, and killing everyone, and then being a girl to seduce the therapist.
Is it me, or did he/she have a lot of multi-tasking to do. Did anyone ever understand why she did all that shit? Maybe that's a better question.... why.
Hee hee, sorry, just rambling. When I get on the subject of movies... it comes out in droves.
All mindless and nonsensical... but still, droves.

 

[doormouse]

7 out of 10

I did better than I thought I would seeing how I guessed half of them

 

[poohlive]

If you score under 5 (doesn't matter the number) you get this, you don't know anything about twists ad, which wasn't very good, but here's one for five and up (to, about seven, I think).

"Like a 7-year-old at a wedding, you love twists. They make you all giggly. But one twist too many and you completely lose your bearings. And from there on in, the plot's horribly predictable. Orange-squash coloured vomit all down your party dress. Tears. Tantrums. And a half-robot alien cat woman who's been stage managing the whole thing. Called Katie. "


I got a nine out of ten, which I think is good, considering I didn't see 4 of those movies. Ha ha. talk about predictable.

 

[CharleyH]

You scored 9 out of a possible 10
You've seen more twists than an Olympic gymnastics judge. But what you've just done wasn't a quiz at all. It was a cat. An alien cat. A half-robot alien cat. In a woman's body. Called Keyser Soze. And you can kill it by throwing water at it. And ... it's your own father.

I havent seen the Villiage yet

 

[cantdog]

8, but I had to guess a lot.

Keyser What?

 

[Guest]

Keyser What?

You haven't seen The Usual Suspects?

 

[cantdog]

Nope.

 

[poohlive]

Ha ha, well, you can't now. You just ruined it, lol. A lot of people didn't like Usual Suspects, because there were no clues leading up to who Keyzer Soze really was. They thought it was just two hours of dicking around, and then a killer plot twist.
Can a movie survive on a good plot twist alone?
Hmmm...
I think so.
hee hee

 

[Guest]

the ususal suspects

Can a movie survive on a good plot twist alone?

No, I don't believe so. Plus I couldn't stand Kevin Spacey, really don't care for him at all. I don't regard him as an actor, just a good faker.

Perdita

 

[sweetnpetite]

Color of Night ending?
Hmmm, I know my way around a movie theatre. Plots, twists and whatnot. I've seen a lot of them coming from miles away, but that one?
That one got me by surprise. Huh, maybe it's just cause I was watching the made-for-tv version and it was on at 3 in the morning on TNT, and I was half asleep and not really paying attention.

Do you mean if you thought the guy was a girl? I had my doubts about that, but I had no freaking clue he was seeing everyone else as different people, and killing everyone, and then being a girl to seduce the therapist.
Is it me, or did he/she have a lot of multi-tasking to do. Did anyone ever understand why she did all that shit? Maybe that's a better question.... why.
Hee hee, sorry, just rambling. When I get on the subject of movies... it comes out in droves.
All mindless and nonsensical... but still, droves.

Yeah, I knew it was the same person. Like I said, I thought it was too crazy an idea to be right. I also thought when she was having sex on the bed that she looked a lot like the face on the headboard. (turned out it was made by her brother...)

I pretty much thpought from the beginingthat the young 'boy' was a girl. Maybe they make it fairly obvious so you will think *that's* the twist. I watched it on video tape by the way, so it probably helps that stuff wasn't cut out. I figured it out not *right* away, but definatly before he did. The second time I watched it, I saw *sooo* many more hints it seemed glaringly obvious! I was watching it w/ a friend and I kept thinking, she's going to figure it out before I did, look how obvious it is! OF course it wasn't, lol.

I probably would have figured out the 6th sence sooner if someone hadn't told me that there was something 'else' going on that they didn't get. I just kept thinking that the guy was a child mollester or something. (he seemed so creepy, he was a shrink and slowly gaining this boys trust... and was by the boy when he was in bed and stuff ) I think I figured it out about 2 seconds before he did. and that was because I finally asked my BF who knew the ending if BW was doing something bad and he said no. So that freed up that line of thought, lol.

'Why'- back to color of night, was because her/his brother had fucked her up, made her think that she was there brother who died, but she really wanted to be a woman (cuz she was!) What really suprised me, was how different she really looked in the different costumes. As the redhead, her teeth looked huge!

You just *have* to watch it again for clues you missed.

 

[sweetnpetite]

Re: the ususal suspects

No, I don't believe so. Plus I couldn't stand Kevin Spacey, really don't care for him at all. I don't regard him as an actor, just a good faker.

Perdita

not an actor, just a good faker- is there a difference? lol.

I love Kevin Spacey!


The worst twisty movie I've ever seen was that one with Nev Cample, "Wild Things" I felt that there was no consistancy whatsoever, it was just about shocking the audience.

 

[McKenna]

I really suck at this stuff. I scored a 6 out of 10, and I'm pretty sure I only did so well cause a few I guessed on, I must have guessed correctly!

I am doing better about broadening my movie-watching horizons, however. A few weeks ago I was introduced to Rocky Horror Picture Show. Oy.

I'm scarred for life.





You scored 6 out of a possible 10
Like a 7-year-old at a wedding, you love twists. They make you all giggly. But one twist too many and you completely lose your bearings. And from there on in, the plot's horribly predictable. Orange-squash coloured vomit all down your party dress. Tears. Tantrums. And a half-robot alien cat woman who's been stage managing the whole thing. Called Katie.

 

[pop_54]

9 out of 10... knew 8 of them... guessed 2 and got one wrong... got the same blurb as you *P* darling.

Bloody good twist though wasn't it, with the clues at the end, the mug, the map, and everything in the policemans office, as Spacey limps, then walks, away to his car.

Hey Mc K darling, you're hooked at last then... looking forward to the next re-run with anti.........ci..................pa.................tion.

 

[poohlive]

Rocky's the good kind of scarred though. That's the kind of scar you whip out and tell the younger generation, "yeah, I was there, that was me."


Yes, I suppose so. After you watch anything the first time, the clues (if it's a really good movie, or ironically a really bad one) do come out more and more. Maybe I didn't give Color Of Night a good chance. I think I'll go rent it, see what I missed.

If you look at all of Kevin Spacey's characters, you will see a frightening similiarity, they are all in one way or another fucked up in the head. I don't know if he's specifically a good actor or not, it's hard to call someone a good actor unless they've done a range of people.

Kevin Spacey is a character actor, I believe (which, the definition is not far off from a faker) and I think it's somewhat of what I am as well. A character actor just studies one type of person, (idiot, leading man, cooky sidekick, mean asshole, what have you) and does it so well, that whenever someone wants that type of person for a movie, they call him.
So, whenever someone wants a mean, arrogant man who is insane and capable of eating little children, they go to Kevin Spacey.

I do agree, it takes a lot more than a plot twist to make it a good movie, and sometimes it takes a good movie to make a plot twist. Ha ha.

I actually did see Scary Movie before I saw Usual Suspects. I didn't get the connection, and no one bothered to tell me, so when the end of Suspects had Spacey walking out, and the detective finally figuring it out, I was staring wide eyed thinking, "Whoah..." and then thinking, "Hey, isn't this the end of Scary Movie" and then thinking "Whoah, cool... that's where they got it. It makes sense now"

Well, you know what they say. Us Harper's have always been slow starters. Unfortunately we've always been slow finishers too... ha ha, so there you go.

 

[McKenna]

Hey Mc K darling, you're hooked at last then... looking forward to the next re-run with anti.........ci..................pa.................tion.

What?! You mean I have to watch it again?!


Hold me Pops, I'm scared.

 

[Guest]

Clarification:

I meant that Kevin Spacey fakes acting.

Perdita

 

[Svenskaflicka]

7 out of 10. Not bad, considering I've only seen about 3 or 4 of the films mentioned!

 

[Guest]

7 out of 10. Not bad, considering I've only seen about 3 or 4 of the films mentioned!

Well, that's it for me. These quizzes suck. If you get a perfect score it's meaningless. P.