Mine is at the end of Spider-Man homecoming where you find out Peter Parker is Spider-Man

Ima keep it real chief, The Accountant is one of the most underrated films I have ever had the pleasure of watching, the score, acting and screenplay is literally masterful I can't believe the critics' reception was the way it was...

I think this is why shutter island is so amazing for me, despite the entire story being reliant on the plot twist at the end, it's so enjoyable going back to watch again and the impact upon first viewing was so powerful

My favorite plot twist is in Ender's Game, knew nothing about it and it blew me away

i am 99% sure that Stuart little had a plot twist...

I remember having the plot twist of The Sixth Sense spoiled for me before I went to see it in theatres. As the analysis in your video suggested I did enjoy the movie more. I picked up on the subtleties thrown in throughout and it felt like I was on the inside of an inside joke.

Memento has like 900 plot twists.

Inside Man has one of the best examples of Nonlinear Narrative I've ever seen - the film starts with Clive Owen's character in what appears to be a prison cell, cryptically telling the audience that despite his surroundings, he's not in prison - at the end of the film it's revealed that this "cell" is actually still in the bank itself, and is what the crew had been working on during the heist, thus ensuring Clive Owen's character could simply walk out of the bank, just like he told the detective earlier in the film

A note on the spoiler study: There's a difference between enjoying something more and experiencing it as it's meant to be experienced. I don't care if I'll ultimately enjoy a story more, I'd rather be surprised by its twists and fooled by its writers. Writers craft their stories around these secrets and they make efforts to lead you in that direction throughout the story. Knowing the answer before even starting a story can ruin the experience by disrupting immersion. I'd also like to know the methodology of that spoiler study, as well as the sample. I'd like to see more than just enjoyment measured. You're not always intended to feel joy or excitement during a story. Sometimes you're meant to be angry, heartbroken, scared or anxious. I don't think one can argue that knowing a spoiler doesn't impact the reveal of said spoiler negatively.

Spoiler alert: spoilers don't matter! My favorite plot twist this past year was in Arrival.

When you mentioned the type where someone unimportant turns out important, I immediately thought of the show Sherlock when Molly’s boyfriend turned out to be Moriarty

Usual suspects, the greatest plot twist of all time. I refuse to believe anything else

For me, a good plot twist has to be well-seeded. If you look over the clues within ASOIAF, the red wedding has early warnings (for example Dany's visions in Qarth) and there is a building sense of dread over the chapters until the culmination. Plot twists are useless if they are tossed in for shock value. There are hints in Fight Club or The Prestige you pick up on when you rewatch. Same with The Sixth Sense. If the plot twist comes out of nowhere, it will be shocking for a minute but ultimately meaningless. Changing the rules of the game suddenly is not a plot twist. Its lying to the audience

From "Black Mirror" The episode "Shut up and dance". Some how at the end of the episode you go from cheering on the main character to hating him instantly after the twist.

I don’t think of Shawshank as having a “plot twist,” that’s just a revelation of Andy’s cleverness.

I was waiting for an explanation of the accountant but you didn’t spoil it except tell us there’s a twist. Brilliant

I've been thinking a lot about The Accountant lately and, coming back to this video (which I liked when I first saw it and still do), it has struck me that this film in particular is structured *in the form of a puzzle* much like one The Accountant assembled as a child and we see again at the end (also "do you like puzzles?"). So I'm not sure if what's going on is properly called a "twist" or series of them, or if there's something else to describe what's going on story-wise. It's not so much that the narrative is leading the viewer to expect one thing and then delivers something different; it's that the narrative structure is building the story from the corners to the connecting pieces until finally the last couple of pieces fill in the middle and you have the whole picture in front of you. Or maybe I'm just defining "twist" wrong.

The way Mickey Rourke delivers the plot Twist in Angel Heart was flawless. It wasn't even about how it changed the movie you had just seen (which it did)… the power of it is in Mickey's ability to showcase the emotional impact. You couldn't see it without a sympathy that floored you to heart break.

Can you add a warning for spoilers as there are a few large movies/shows which are spoiled. (Like GOT)

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King Arthur: Legend of the Sword a MAJOR PLOT TWIST, Eric Bana, father of King Arthur, is the actual stone that Excalibur is stuck in. He was killed by his brother, played by Jude Law in the opening scenes.

knowing about rosebud before watching citizen Kane made it so much more enjoyable for me

honestly the gap between videos is justified by how well crafted these videos are.

Favorite Plot Twist: Epstein didn’t kill himself

Really informative video! I always admire when a movie goes for a plot twist, no matter how strange or absurd! The Prestige is one of my favorite movies with a plot twist, watching it a second time is mind-blowing how obvious it was!

My favorite plot twist was in The Usual Suspects - KEYSER SOZE!! KEYSER SOZE!! Great video, but if you can see a plot twist from a mile away is it really a plot twist?? Eat Arby's.

I'd say that the reason why so many people enjoyed watching/reading something that was already spoiled even more is because the plot twist is supposed to make it more fun to rewatch! So the people who watched The Usual Suspects the first time found out the plot twist at the end, and then they rewatched it and saw all of the little details that add up to the ending. Spoiling a plot twist might make the first time watching more enjoyable for some people, but it ruins the fun of being shocked the first time and watching again. Anyways tag your spoilers everyone!

I very much enjoyed your analysis of this film, Mr. Herald.

Man this is a very good analysis of the art of the plot twist. I have never paid much attention to it but I did notice that I had to connect the dots in The Accountant which I really enjoyed.

when gary goes to patrick instead of spongebob

Your videos are awesome! I just wish you would post more often.

Great video, loved the Accountant, thank you!

Holy moly a new video!!!! :OOO

The Prestige's twists are what made it my all-time favorite movie. They way they constantly spoil it for you when "you aren't really looking" throughout the entire film blew my mind! Foreshadowing at its finest!

I don’t mind spoilers, as long as the execution is awesome 👏🏼

Film Herald your videos are always brilliant my favorite plot twist is Lucky Number Slevin

You do great movie reviews would like to see more. You cover some of my favorite movies.

I love those looping plot twists

Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archive series. The first book sets up a wealth of different plot twists to be seen later that have been shown time and again the further into the books you get. The earliest one revealed near the end of the first book, is that the parshmen (a race of docile work slaves used for manual labour and with seemingly no personality beyond a need to care for their dead) are shown time and again as a background element. There are some operating the elevators, they're used on a dock to help unload the cargo tirelessly, etc. You know they're there, but you only have a vague sense of what their connection could be to the Parshendi (race of tribal warriors in this medieval magic world who are larger and have personalities, customs, and ability to form their bodies how they require) who are one of the main threats throughout the first book. In the last act of the first book, one of our 3 main viewpoint characters finally is told the discovery. Their religion's demons, their heralds of death and destruction and ruin, what they are told of as the endless Desolation of Man, are the Parshmen and Parshendi. They did not kill their destroyers, they enslaved them. And thus we start to ask all the questions until the second book reveals the next twist about the Parshendi, and the third reveals the twist about humans entirely! It is a fantastic series with 2 fairly well explained magic systems (One being more hard magic and the other a bit of a softer one) and I wholely recommend it.

I love the plot twist in COD zombies that Ricthtofen was using the crew to control the zombies

Mr Robot's prison twist in S2 was fucking brilliant. That whole show is perfect.

I like the movies that give you subtle hints to the twist before it actually happens, that you don’t realise until you re watch it. Best example I can think of (because I watched the movie the other day) is Harry Potter 3, it gives you so many hints that prof lupin is a werewolf before it’s actually revealed

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My favorite plot twist is the Red Wedding I didn’t see it coming at all and as much as it was horrible to see the good guys slaughtered by their own supposed allies it was a great scene and I loved how it was hinted at. For starters in S3E6 Ramsay Bolton says to Theon Greyjoy, “If you think this has a happy ending you haven’t been paying attention”. Another one that I’m pretty sure is only in the books is when Daenerys is in the House of the Undying she sees visions and one of them is, “she came upon a feast of corpses. Savagely slaughtered, the feasters lay strewn across overturned chairs and hacked trestle tables, asprawl in pools of congealing blood. Some had lost limbs, even heads. Severed hands clutched bloody cups, wooden spoons, roast fowl, heels of bread. In the throne above them say a dead man with the head of a wolf. He wore an iron crown and held a leg of lamb in one hand as a king might hold a scepter, and his eyes followed Dany with mute appeal.” Obviously in this scene the man with the wolf head is Robb, and is quite literal since after he and his pet direwolf Grey Wind were killed the head of Grey Wind was sewn on the stump where his own was cut off, while the rest are the banner men who were killed at the wedding. The final one that stuck out to me was the name of the episode, that being The Rains of Castemere. This is the name of the song celebrating the triumph of the Lannisters over the Reynes and Tarbecks and is often played as a warning to never cross the Lannisters. It clearly signified to me that the Lannisters would achieve some kind of victory in the episode which confused me when I saw that it was basically just a wedding. And when the minstrels in the hall started playing it it was a feeling of “oh” in the worst possible way, but even then I didn’t expect a slaughter I thought they would be prisoners and be executed so even after the song started playing the killing was a shock.

My favorite plot-twist from recent memory, is from 'The Wailing'. I think it has two plot-twists in the last 20 minutes and it was used to confuse the audience and the protagonist, at the same time. That led to one of the most tension-filled moments in the movie. I think you should give it a watch.

The plot twist in Jacob’s Ladder has to be my favorite, because it changes the entire context - and maybe even the genre - of the film.

One of my favourite movies ever is the low-budget time travel flick Primer and it's absolutely full of twists as well as a mind-bending premise. The first twist is pretty minor: when Abe is telling Aaron about time travel for the first time, he's actually already travelled, revealed as they see their doubles leave the warehouse. Major spoilers from here on out: the next twist is that Abe has created a failsafe to reset the whole week, which he uses when they realize Thomas Granger has somehow time travelled. Then it's revealed that Aaron has already discovered this failsafe and gained the upper hand, also revealing that the time machines are not single-use only. Then you realize that all of this was already happening much earlier in the film (birds in the attic are Aaron's double). Finally a version of Abe is trying to prevent time travel and prevent Aaron from finding out, but this was thwarted by Aaron using the recorded message that we'd been hearing throughout the film. Lots of people have tried to explain Primer, but the more you understand the movie, the more you realize that no two explanations are the same and some things don't quite add up in those explanations. The final meta-twist of Primer is that, like the Granger incident, a complete explanation is unknowable. The film depicts only a slice of the endless permutations, and symmetry has been broken (meaning that time travellers' memories of events in previous timelines no longer match the events of the timeline they find themselves in). The brilliance of the film is that even once you concede defeat in figuring out the last details, it's still intriguing for its characters and philosophical take on time travel.

Darth vader being lukes father is the best plot twist in movie history

Great video, thank you. I have watched The Accountant four times (I am an introvert and spend too much time thinking about what i see so I miss a lot the first few times). Can you please explain the press conference at the end. They didn’t catch the accountant who what were they congratulating themselves for? Thank you in advance.

Oldboy has the plot twist because it gives you a sick feeling. And it lasts till even after the credits.

As many times as M.Night got it wrong, the plot twist in Unbreakable is absolutely spectacular

Palpatine was behind it all!!!

My favourite plot twist is from cube 3. Plot twist at the end of the 3rd movie changes the whole first movie without a word being said.

Favorite plot twist is probably in memento

My god please make more videos, I can't wait months at a time

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A plot twist I’ve found myself thinking about a lot in the past few days is in Red Dead Redemption 2. Just 3 days ago I was playing through the story and then all of a sudden it happened, out of nowhere. My favourite 1899 outlaw Irishman had a bullet in his head. Thinking about it now it really shows the players how vulnerable Dutch’s gang really is, telling you that there will be more loss and that (apart from the guys in the original) everyone now has a target painted on their back. Not the best plot twist, but it really made an impact for me.

My favorite plot twist of all time was in Shawshank Redemption. I went into the movie with NO ideas what it was about. I was completely blown away.

Andy escaping isn't a plot twist it's just a reveal. Same with the Accountant reveals aren't the same as plot twists.

often times getting the spoiler makes me decide on the spot either "thats not worth watching" or "i wonder what leads to this situation" so i like spoilers

I don’t actually know if this counts as a spoiler for the Mist Stephen king movie but it’s definitely my favorite so yeah. When their in the car at the end of the film and he has to mercy kill all of the people we got to know in the movie, it was ingense by itself, especially seeing his young son look at him before he kills him to save him from a terrible death by Mist monster. But then the music swells and he goes outside, no bullets left to kill him self, screaming st he minstrels to end his suffering, then the most clears, and the army rolls in. He’s saved. He breaks down, sobbing. If he had waiting minutes more all of them would have been saved, now he survived to Mist alone, and has to live with the unneeded murder of his son and friends. Every fucking time it gives me nightmares, that movie, which is why it’s my second favorite movie of all time. Watch it my dudes, it’s fantastic.

I can 100% say finding out the end game spoiler ruined the enjoyment I could have had from the movie

The Dead Zone was one that I loved that I don’t see mentioned.

One of my favorite plot twists has to be The Prestige. And I’d add that it feels more like 2-3 plot twists throughout the film.

The dark Knight Jocker himself is a plot twist

I have dodged spoilers from this film for 6 years. At first, I’m not sure if it really worth it. After watching this video, I’m glad I did.

I like plot twist because if I know it before I watch a certain movie it will give me more time to focus and to piece the story and the ideas all together

The plot twist for the Usual Suspects was great. Its my favorite.

Attack on Titan has some of the most mindblowing plot twists of all time sprinkled throughout

Just knowing the ending of a book or movie doesn't spoil my enjoyment of it, it's the journey that is the joy, not just the ending, it's how the charters get there. That's why I will return books and movies and watch again and again.

One of the best plot twists ever was in “Behind the mask: the rise of Leslie Vernon” when you find out the real final girl is the chick in charge of documentary and Leslie Vernon has been grooming her

a good plot twist is a key component in some of the best stories. on of the most brutal plot twists ever is in orwell's 1984.

A good plot twist always makes sense in a second viewing.

Spoilers are good because they keep you on the edge on your set wondering when it is going go happen

My fave plot twist was in No Way Out (1987) where the ending not only reveals the true meaning of the beginning, give new context to other scenes, but also serves out a bit of irony.: Adecorated Navy officer, Farrell, takes a new job at The Pentagon.He becomes involved with a socialite, Susan, who is also the mistress of his boss, the Secretary Of Defense,David Brice. Brice is jealous over his girlfriend's seeing another man, although he does not know the identity of the man. Brice accidentally kills the woman, and, with the aid of his right hand man Pritchard, covers up the death by concocting a story that she was killed by "Yuri" , a Russian spy working as a mole in the Pentagon. Farrell is informed of the cover up, as he will 'lead' the investigation. He becomes nervous when evidence he left behind of his relationship with Susan is discovered, as well as eyewitnesses to their romantic weekend, because it will wrongfully implicate him in her death, and also make him look like a traitor to the country. Farrell goes to great lengths not only to prove his innocence, but must find a way to implicate Brice. He is successful, but it is discovered that he, too had a relationship with Susan. On the run, Farrell consorts with agents who at the start of the film, we as the audience thought were CIA. It turns out they were KGB and Farrell was Yuri all along.

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The 2014 New Zealand "horror" movie "Housebound" will make your head spin with not just plot twists, but full-blown genre about-faces. I defy anyone to sum up the movie with a label. "Eugene!!!"

My favorite plot twist is the existence of snow buddies which demonstrates that throughout the entire buddies series dogs have been capable of human speech, which retroactively turns air bud into an allegory for sports integration

Chekhov’s gun derives from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, where Shakespeare mentions the poison that would kill Romeo and motivate Juliet to commit suicide in the early scenes, which in words it said poison would do some sort of damage

Some people enjoy examining various parts of a movie while others only wish to be entertained.

You know...I've seen nonlinear narrative used in the rather pulpy "Leverage" to great effect, in a cold open. Their version, you show the hero in dire straits...and then reveal that he's actually 'winning' all along.

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Just fell in love with this chanel. I don't wish to spoil the movie but old boy the original movie has an amazing plot twist. However my favourite is berserk, the anime series. It honestly had me stunned and for weeks I thought about it.

Oldboy has a couple of twisted plot moments

You should watch and make a video of the film "Predestination". The plot twist is truly shocking and unpredictable.

The fight club plot twist is my fav by far. I just love the film and the book.

BROOOO I didn't even realize that the childhood friend was his handler until just now WTF!!! THATS SO COOL!!! THAT'S THE REASON SHE SAYS "HEAVY SIGH"!!! FUCKIGN GENIUS!!!!

Great video! What music did you use?

I enjoyed Don't Breathe for it's plot twists. They made the movie a ride!

My favorite plot twist is that Tyler is Jack

You should still worry about spoilers. The reason people enjoy the work more after is they see the world as it really is and the effort taken to maintain that. You see that the narrator only pays one bus fair in Fight Club, that they have the same briefcase. You see the hypnotic imagery in Oldboy. You see how hard the author/director worked to maintain the reality of the twist without allowing you to become aware of it. However what you take away is experience, the "oh shit" moment can never be retreived, which benefits later readingss even more.

I'd love to see you make a video on a movie called Rorschach, its free to watch on KZfaq and was excellent in my opinion!

I don't know how that study came to the conclusion that it did, but if a story is spoiled for me, I do not enjoy it more. Part of the enjoyment is figuring things out for ourselves, even if we don't fully succeed by the time the plot twist occurs. I might enjoy the movie better during the second viewing but it is a completely different experience. Do not deny me the first viewing experience. EDIT: Also, I liked video.

The shutter island plot twist is still my favourite

I don't have a favorite but spoilers help me understand the movie more. While I was watching Parasite (2019) I was constantly trying to figure out why it got nominated for an Oscar. But, I didn't look anything up as to not ruin the surprise. At the end of the film, I looked up forums because it felt like a mediocre film. I learned that it was so "incredible" for being about working class struggles, but as someone in the working class I never felt inspired and I wish I had spoilers so I could have just enjoyed it instead of trying to find what's so amazing about it and being let down

the classic "NO, I AM YOUR FATHER" will always be my favorite

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In my opinion, the greatest plot twist is the revelation at the end of “Field of Dreams.“ Even knowing the end, the scene is as moving every time it is watched. How many plot twists exist that make a person want to watch a movie again just so they can see and experience the plot twist repeatedly?

the biggest plot twist ever was nobody knew clark kent was superman

when you find out the body on the floor is actually jigsaw