Hey guys I just saw Lord of the Flies, and I must say I did not see that ending coming! Wow was that cool! I would have to put it among the most inspired twist endings of all-time.
Here are my picks in order
1) Shawshank Redemption
2) Psycho
3) Fight Club
4) Lord of the Flies (1990 version)
5) Austin Powers: The Spy who Shagged Me
What do you guys think? Is LOTF on your list of most surprising endings of all-time?
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Booty
Nothing all that surprising about the ending to me, though I was certainly biased from having read the book. But even despite that, how unforeseeable is it that the boys are eventually rescued, especially considering that they just set much of the island on fire?
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You forgot The Usual Suspects (1995).
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Yeah, a "twist" ending is usually something at the end of the movie that causes you to realize that the previous events were not all quite what they seemed. Vader's revelation in Empire Strikes Back is a famous example. The revelation in Memento is another. If you've played Assassin's Creed 3, you'll find one of my favorite plot twists somewhere toward the beginning, and done very well.
Having a marine show up at the end of this movie is generally unexpected, and it serves well to show how the boys have morally degraded over time, but it's not quite a twist ending.
Oh, I just realized that the original post is from 2009. I doubt he'd even read this! =)
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shareSo many of us had read the book before seeing this film that it was not a surprise.
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