Best Surprise Endings?

What are some of the most clever, and/or most shocking, surprise endings you have seen in cinema?

The Crying Game
Planet of the Apes (original)
The Sixth Sense
The Other
The Others
Sleepaway Camp
Se7en
Midnight Run (my favorite)

What else?

Personally, I prefer it when the film isn't structured entirely around the ending alone i.e. the ending doesn't change your entire perspective of the movie e.g. SE7EN, as opposed to The Sixth Sense.

I think the ending to The Others was a little stupid, removing the atmosphere and mood that it had struggled so hard to maintain.

I liked Fight Club's which was a balance of the original idea I mentioned.

Also, there's Vanilla Sky, which was somewhat of a surprise, as well as Being John Malkovich which was interesting, and somewhat clever.

And who could forget Citizen Kane - "Rosebud"

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Primal Fear, The Usual Suspects, Fight Club, etc

See this thread:

http://www.movieforums.net/showthrea...5&pagenumber=1

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Crap it didn't work. QUick someone smart fix it.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Take out the stars, man.

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oops!

ADMIN NOTE: fixed.

I just fixed it. I think you missed the part in the explanation thread where Spud said you need to remove the asterisks -- they were only there to give an example of how the tags are used without the tags actually being processed.

DON'T WORRY, NO SPOILERS BELOW!!

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excuse me? Those look like spoilers to me.

Didn't shoot the deputy huh? That's not what HE said.

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Fight Club , Vanilla Sky , TSS , ect ect.

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The three best ever:
Fight Club
The Sixth Sense
Unbreakable

At the surprise in all of these movies I had that moment where I looked away from the movie at the other folks watching it with me to say, 'Oh.......man........I didn't see that coming!!'

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you guys. man. it's just a joke.

Dark City

with Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, and Jennifer Connelly

it was a very good but underrated sci fi movie... worth a rent

I forgot about that one...

i haven't seen it. don't give anything away!

Arlington Road

Caught me off guard big time.

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A few of my fave surprise endings are:

Alan Parker's ANGEL HEART
Adrianne Lynne's JACOB'S LADDER
John Frankenheimer's SECONDS
Franklin J Schaffner's PLANET OF THE APES
Mike Hodge's GET CARTER
Alan J Pakula's THE PARRALAX VIEW
Alex Proyas' DARK CITY
David Fincher's FIGHT CLUB
Sidney J Furie's THE IPCRESS FILE

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brodie, funny post.

B&W- i was laughin' so hard.....i did the same thing when i was attempting to do a spoiler tag....left the asterisks in and then screamed for HELP. ........"quick somebody smart...fix it!"

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