Two brilliant twists: 1. In Raiders of the Lost Ark, Toth, with a deadpan face, forcefully pulls out what seem to be nunchaku to harm Marion, and understandably she (and we the audience) flinch. Then he quickly converts it to a coat hanger and we, like the characters, let out a sigh of relief. 2. The plot twist in the 3rd act (2nd act?) of the James Bond film Goldfinger is brilliant. *Everyone* must have assumed Goldfinger was planning to rob the gold, that's always the general assumption about the villain; *no one* would have ever thought that he was going to simply make the Fort Knox gold radioactive and therefore worthless, and make his existing gold more valuable. That came out of genius writing.
HOW CAN YOU NOT MENTION PSYCHO?!? Alfred Hitchcock took a bankable leading lady (Janet Leigh) and gave her an intriguing story arc such that the audience thinks she was encased in impenetrable plot armour. What follows is certainly one of the most shocking and iconic death scenes in the history of cinema.
I saw Executive Decision in the theatre with a group of friends. When Steven Seagal's character died, I burst out loud with, "This is going to be the best movie ever!" The whole theatre laughed. On one level, it was kinda a joke, but mostly it was not a joke - if the director was willing to kill off Steven Seagal, he is willing to take risks and no character is safe, so you REALLY do not know who will live and who will die. This was reconfirmed later when the FLIGHT CREW was killed just minutes from safety. It's not Gone with the Wind, but, for the category, it is a GREAT movie.
I'd go one further with Moon. Is clear that Gertie's main loyalty is the the company. It's complicit with the secret of the mission, and only reluctantly helps Sam figure things out. You expect that it will go the way if Robocop and have a failsafe that protects the company at all costs, like preventing Sam from following through with his plan. Even without murderous intent, this would be an obvious obstacle for his success. But - no. Without drawing any kind of line in the sand, without overtly renouncing its loyalty to the company, Gertie gives up the ghost, steps aside and lets Sam proceed. Understated and delicious.
I think they set it up in the beginning with a few things. Mainly, Gertie allowing Sam to overhear the live call. Later it's the password etc (which I think was a bit quick as well), but it was never outright preventing him from finding out the truth. His answers being direct and honest, yet a bit guiding to look between the lines. I also assume the safeguards we would look for were simply skimped on by the company. Save a dollar to not pay the AI programmer for that subroutine? why not lol
@@luke9648GBU kind of, well, drags in places. It’s almost too epic. A Few Dollars More though is just solid filmmaking. The interaction between the two leads is great, and that final duel to the music of the pocketwatch is at least as iconic as the graveyard shootout.
@@slcchina The final duel is definitely not as ICONIC, but it's also epic and amazing. I view GBU, For a Few Dollars More, and OUAT in the West as pretty close in terms of quality. All 3 are absolutely amazing. And yeah, GBU does drag a bit in places, agreed.
I HATED!! Mission Impossible. It was bad enough when I thought they killed him in the first act but turning Jim Phelps into the bad guy was such a betrayal to the fans of the TV show that I haven't watched any of the other films.
@@paulcanning4702 I hear you but I grew up on MI. It was the first TV show I can remember watching. They could have killed Phelps in the movie to pass the baton and made another team member the bad guy and it would have worked fine. The choice to vilify the character for the sake of a twist was IMO a deliberate insult to the fans of the series and goofy as it is to feel that way about a TV show I took it personally. I'm sure the franchise will do fine without me.
You forgot "Executive Decision" (Steven Segal dies in the middle of the movie, mobody saw that coming), "Psycho" (that movie is mother subverted expectations), "Bourne Triology" (Bourne actually applied to be an assassian), "Spartacus" - 1960 (instead having some satisfaction and having last fight between good guy and main villian, where Spartacus would kill Carssus, we had final fight between best friends - Spartacus and Antoninus fought who will die in bigger misery by being crucified at cross).
@@HariSeldon913 Correct. But Doom was awful movie, while Executive Decision was one of the better action thrillers and killing Steven was probably good thing. Killing Rock was bad decision, although Karl Urban did great job as main character, but movie was awful and that scene didn't make movie better.
You could say that John Doe turned himself in because he was close to getting caught like when they found his apartment and in his hubris not wanting to seem inferior to the cops as an intellect turned himself in.
The plot twist the feisty woman isn't the traitor but rather the more down-to-Earth one in The Mask kinda reminds me of how, in Uncut Gems, the young hot fling he cheated on his wife with he tries to break up with her and asks his wife to take him back, but she says no and despite everything they have done to each other, it is the hot young fling far too young and hot for him at his age and ugliness that they profess their undying love for each other in the end rather than ending up going back to his wife in the end like in normal movies. Clandestine relationships aren't supposed to work out, so that was very surprising and unexpected to me. I mean, it still doesn't work out because he manipulates her into helping him to continue enabling his gambling addiction and then a mobster brutally murders him in cold blood, but they still loved each other up until the end whether in a healthy or unhealthy way. Blade Runner 2049 has to have one of the best endings of any movie I have ever seen. The plot twist that he never was the son or the chosen one, followed by Rachel's death, then Luv's, then Joe's himself, then followed by Deckard's reunion with his daughter is one of the most bittersweet endings I have ever seen, it is enough to bring tears to anyone's eyes.
Shazam when Billy finds his mother, and she rejects him. The whole time I was expecting the shitty Hollywood happy reunion ending. She could have easily found him in the intervening years, and I was so not up for giving an absentee mother a pass; that's a bad trope
I can't believe you left out Robert 'Bob' Paulsen from Fight Club's death as you realize he is a figment of the Narrator's imagination ( just as Marla is a figment as well) as he had testicular cancer that started him in going to the group meetings as he can't admit that it is cancer and not insomnia is keeping him awake.
M.I was brilliant, M.I.2 is a better movie. The rest........ with no disrespect intended I couldn't tell you with any real confidence those I've seen from those I haven't. The setpieces from each/any not withstanding. I love FAFOD and TGTBATU, how Dollars More isn't widely considered the best of the three does baffle me though. That said, with stiff competition from John Wayne, Eastwood himself and somehow, Jaime Foxx, Josey Wales is the greatest western ever. Even Clint in Pale Rider and High Plains Drifter, playing straight up ghosts (probably), has never been as scary. When he "empties" all guns into red legs at the end, goosebumps.
Even if some movies mentioned in the comments should have made the cut, it's great to have a Sergio Leone's movie at the top. Still, it would be a nice touch to pronounce his name correctly, even more so since he decided to use it as a homage to his family instead of using a pseudonym like his father, Roberto Roberti, and since his movie is one of your favorite western titles.
Two brilliant twists:
1. In Raiders of the Lost Ark, Toth, with a deadpan face, forcefully pulls out what seem to be nunchaku to harm Marion, and understandably she (and we the audience) flinch. Then he quickly converts it to a coat hanger and we, like the characters, let out a sigh of relief.
2. The plot twist in the 3rd act (2nd act?) of the James Bond film Goldfinger is brilliant. *Everyone* must have assumed Goldfinger was planning to rob the gold, that's always the general assumption about the villain; *no one* would have ever thought that he was going to simply make the Fort Knox gold radioactive and therefore worthless, and make his existing gold more valuable. That came out of genius writing.
HOW CAN YOU NOT MENTION PSYCHO?!? Alfred Hitchcock took a bankable leading lady (Janet Leigh) and gave her an intriguing story arc such that the audience thinks she was encased in impenetrable plot armour. What follows is certainly one of the most shocking and iconic death scenes in the history of cinema.
@@sjurzen Same deal with Drew Barriemore in Scream, but that was arguably inspired by Psycho.
I saw Executive Decision in the theatre with a group of friends. When Steven Seagal's character died, I burst out loud with, "This is going to be the best movie ever!" The whole theatre laughed. On one level, it was kinda a joke, but mostly it was not a joke - if the director was willing to kill off Steven Seagal, he is willing to take risks and no character is safe, so you REALLY do not know who will live and who will die. This was reconfirmed later when the FLIGHT CREW was killed just minutes from safety. It's not Gone with the Wind, but, for the category, it is a GREAT movie.
I agree 100% that For a Few Dollars More is brilliant and criminally underrated.
I was completely flabbergasted at the end of the 1st act in Place beyond the Pines
It’s a great twist… but the biggest problem is probably just that Gosling is too good.
For a Few Dollars More is my favorite part of the Man with No Name trilogy
I'd go one further with Moon. Is clear that Gertie's main loyalty is the the company. It's complicit with the secret of the mission, and only reluctantly helps Sam figure things out. You expect that it will go the way if Robocop and have a failsafe that protects the company at all costs, like preventing Sam from following through with his plan. Even without murderous intent, this would be an obvious obstacle for his success. But - no. Without drawing any kind of line in the sand, without overtly renouncing its loyalty to the company, Gertie gives up the ghost, steps aside and lets Sam proceed. Understated and delicious.
I think they set it up in the beginning with a few things. Mainly, Gertie allowing Sam to overhear the live call. Later it's the password etc (which I think was a bit quick as well), but it was never outright preventing him from finding out the truth. His answers being direct and honest, yet a bit guiding to look between the lines. I also assume the safeguards we would look for were simply skimped on by the company. Save a dollar to not pay the AI programmer for that subroutine? why not lol
If you liked moon, watch Infinity Chamber.
I cannot emphasize enough how much I recommend this movie.
YEAAAAAAAH!!!! For a Few Dollas MOOOOOOORE!!!!! The unsung Leone masterpiece!!!
I honestly thought it was the best of the trilogy
@@loboneiner1034 Fistful of Dollars just isn't THAT great, and while the end of GBU is my favorite scene (s) of all time, as a whole, i might agree.
@@luke9648GBU kind of, well, drags in places. It’s almost too epic. A Few Dollars More though is just solid filmmaking. The interaction between the two leads is great, and that final duel to the music of the pocketwatch is at least as iconic as the graveyard shootout.
@@slcchina The final duel is definitely not as ICONIC, but it's also epic and amazing. I view GBU, For a Few Dollars More, and OUAT in the West as pretty close in terms of quality. All 3 are absolutely amazing. And yeah, GBU does drag a bit in places, agreed.
Mission impossible was released in 1996 not 1998
I loved Moon and also was surprised when the robot wasn't evil
Julianne Moore’s early death in Children Of Men was more shocking than Gosling in Pines.
Steven Segal's death in the beginning of Executive Decision was more shocking than both lol
That scene was also crazy, arguably one of the best shot death scenes in film history.
I don't think Peggy being thrown into the printing press was a deleted scene, I very much remember that scene being in the original release.
It wasn't in the original but I think some cable tv showings of it put it in.
Billy Costigan's (Leonardo DiCaprio) demise in _The Departed._ Verbal Kint's (Kevin Spacey) hidden identity in _The Usual Suspects._
Sorry, we watched Infernal Affairs 1,2,3 - we all knew DCaprio's charchter will die. But Scorssese made brilliant job putting all 3 movies in one.
9:32 Cameron Diaz was such a babe!
I think Mission: Impossible came out in 1996.
Just wanted to say that
Its such a relief that Maveric doesnt have a child. We will not have a 3rd part 😂😢😮😅
Jessica's lineage is in Dune 2 not to mention the ending was also a gut punch of a twist.
Gotta ask what the top 5 Mann movies are if Collateral doesn’t make the cut? Heat, Thief, Manhunter, Insider, ?
'collateral' is a magnificent flick, under-rated.
Was wondering the same myself. Collateral is second only to Heat in my head.
1. Heat
2. The Insider
3. Thief
4. The Last of the Mohicans
5. Manhunter
@@loboneiner1034not mad at it I guess. Just think Collateral is better than like three of those in my personal opinion
I HATED!! Mission Impossible. It was bad enough when I thought they killed him in the first act but turning Jim Phelps into the bad guy was such a betrayal to the fans of the TV show that I haven't watched any of the other films.
Your loss I guess 🤔
@@paulcanning4702 I hear you but I grew up on MI. It was the first TV show I can remember watching. They could have killed Phelps in the movie to pass the baton and made another team member the bad guy and it would have worked fine. The choice to vilify the character for the sake of a twist was IMO a deliberate insult to the fans of the series and goofy as it is to feel that way about a TV show I took it personally. I'm sure the franchise will do fine without me.
Sean Bean dying in that last film he was in, TOTALLY wasn't expecting it.
A place beyond the pines was a really good movie.
I still love '98 MI more than the newer ones. Brilliantly done film, and all of the newer ones piggyback off of its success.
How does the 98 one compare to the 96 one?
You forgot "Executive Decision" (Steven Segal dies in the middle of the movie, mobody saw that coming), "Psycho" (that movie is mother subverted expectations), "Bourne Triology" (Bourne actually applied to be an assassian), "Spartacus" - 1960 (instead having some satisfaction and having last fight between good guy and main villian, where Spartacus would kill Carssus, we had final fight between best friends - Spartacus and Antoninus fought who will die in bigger misery by being crucified at cross).
Dwayne Johnson does the same in Doom as Segal in Exec Decision.
@@HariSeldon913 Correct. But Doom was awful movie, while Executive Decision was one of the better action thrillers and killing Steven was probably good thing. Killing Rock was bad decision, although Karl Urban did great job as main character, but movie was awful and that scene didn't make movie better.
Not even the middle. Segal died 1/3 into it iirc and it was surprising at the time.
The Place Beyond The Pines is sooooo underrated
You could say that John Doe turned himself in because he was close to getting caught like when they found his apartment and in his hubris not wanting to seem inferior to the cops as an intellect turned himself in.
The plot twist the feisty woman isn't the traitor but rather the more down-to-Earth one in The Mask kinda reminds me of how, in Uncut Gems, the young hot fling he cheated on his wife with he tries to break up with her and asks his wife to take him back, but she says no and despite everything they have done to each other, it is the hot young fling far too young and hot for him at his age and ugliness that they profess their undying love for each other in the end rather than ending up going back to his wife in the end like in normal movies. Clandestine relationships aren't supposed to work out, so that was very surprising and unexpected to me. I mean, it still doesn't work out because he manipulates her into helping him to continue enabling his gambling addiction and then a mobster brutally murders him in cold blood, but they still loved each other up until the end whether in a healthy or unhealthy way.
Blade Runner 2049 has to have one of the best endings of any movie I have ever seen. The plot twist that he never was the son or the chosen one, followed by Rachel's death, then Luv's, then Joe's himself, then followed by Deckard's reunion with his daughter is one of the most bittersweet endings I have ever seen, it is enough to bring tears to anyone's eyes.
03:53; 1996, not 1998
Uh, John Doe WAS seen on screen, twice, before he turned himself in. He even spoke to Mills. Jeez, man, did you guys see the movie?
Title should have been: "Ryan Gosling Films."
I swear the amount of lapdogs fully in support of M:I’s character assassination
Lee Van Cleef was great in the Sabata / Saturday trilogy
Mission: Impossible did not come out in 98. Do your research.
Samuel L Jackson in The Deep Blue Sea.
He's Samuel Freaking Jackson and...chomp!
Mission: Impossible came out in 1996, not 98.
Three Tommy SeaCruise movies in a row... are you a Scientologist?
It’s almost like he’s in a lot of popular movies 😂😂😂
Subverting expectations...Hollywood's word for doing a crappy job in stories and not giving viewers the hopeful and gratifying ending.
Only Lee Van Cleef can make smoking a pipe look badass.
Columbo rules!!!!
Shazam when Billy finds his mother, and she rejects him. The whole time I was expecting the shitty Hollywood happy reunion ending. She could have easily found him in the intervening years, and I was so not up for giving an absentee mother a pass; that's a bad trope
I can't believe you left out Robert 'Bob' Paulsen from Fight Club's death as you realize he is a figment of the Narrator's imagination ( just as Marla is a figment as well) as he had testicular cancer that started him in going to the group meetings as he can't admit that it is cancer and not insomnia is keeping him awake.
I don't believe any of that is actually confirmed and is just fan theory
How did you not include killing off William Petersen's character in To Live and Die in LA?
M.I was brilliant, M.I.2 is a better movie. The rest........ with no disrespect intended I couldn't tell you with any real confidence those I've seen from those I haven't. The setpieces from each/any not withstanding.
I love FAFOD and TGTBATU, how Dollars More isn't widely considered the best of the three does baffle me though.
That said, with stiff competition from John Wayne, Eastwood himself and somehow, Jaime Foxx, Josey Wales is the greatest western ever. Even Clint in Pale Rider and High Plains Drifter, playing straight up ghosts (probably), has never been as scary. When he "empties" all guns into red legs at the end, goosebumps.
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Sorry, but ALL Mission Impossible DO NOT ECLIPSE The TV SERIES AT ALL !!!! It is ALL PURE Cr@P !!!!!!! I can not understand what people see on it !!!!
When I hear or read the words Mission Impossible I always think of the tv series and hear the theme music in my head.
Lol you guys are so easily triggered
Even if some movies mentioned in the comments should have made the cut, it's great to have a Sergio Leone's movie at the top.
Still, it would be a nice touch to pronounce his name correctly, even more so since he decided to use it as a homage to his family instead of using a pseudonym like his father, Roberto Roberti, and since his movie is one of your favorite western titles.
Brad Pitt and George Clooney's scene in Burn After Reading should've made this list.
I laughed hard at that scene
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Mark Ruffalo is unwatchable in most of his movies!! He is always cringe Ruffalo, doing an impersonation of a cringier Ruffalo!!!
Collateral SUCKS!!!
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