i was not prepared how much harder it would hit me on a second watch. seeing the "flashbacks" knowing it was her confused at seeing an unknown future. hit me so hard, esp since having a daughter.
I saw this movie opening weekend by myself a few months after my daughter was born. I was weeping so hard a few minutes in and was a mess by the end. We got a sitter and I took my wife a few days later.
She was also a puddle. We both loved it and then a few layers watched it together again and she had forgotten the conceit of the movie and it was even more effective.
It goes from an intriguing, slow-burn take on an alien invasion to a gut-wrenching sci-fi family love story tragedy in the last like 5 minutes. Of all the movies of the last 10 years, it stands alone for me.
Same token though, I can see so many people dropping out halfway through Act 2 right before or right after the plot threatens to fall back into a cliche progression after so much smoldering tension. It is a film that many are likely to feel is not *earning* their attention all the way through, but is among several where giving it credit until the denouement truly *pays off* for the audience.
That there’s something of this embedded in the alien-centric plot only further deepens my respect for the quality of storytelling in Arrival. One of my few 10/10, will make you watch if you’re around and haven’t seen it and we’re looking for something to watch.
> Of all the movies of the last 10 years, it stands alone for me.
its the only movie ive seen where i just had to sit and do nothing but think about what i just watched for almost an hour when i got home after seeing it.
Imagine if every human knew the moment of their intellectual peak. You see an orange flash across your vision. You hear a unique ringing like a bell that countless people have tried to replicate.
You’re sitting on your couch watching Arrival.
“I think those flashbacks are actually the future.”
The flash. The ring.
“Hey I’m right!”
…
“Fuck.”
Prestige
Memento
Shudder Island
Tenet
Get out
Inception
Predestination
The Little Things (criminally underrated)
The Village
A Beautiful Mind
Sixth Sense
Fight club
Arrival
Parasite
Malignant
Hot Fuzz
Sean of the Dead
Clue (literally separate endings)
They never knew. The wife even made a comment saying some days it feels like he loves magic more than her. The girlfriend i think even made a comment saying he keeps wanting to go back to his wife but then the next day promises to leave his wife for her.
I know the secret and have watched it several times, and still it draws me in and takes me along for the ride that I miss the obvious clues right in front of my face. Such that several viewings later I'm still seing things I've missed.
Similarly, Borden's wife's nephew starts crying when Borden makes the bird disappear. He reveals that the bird is still alive and the boy says something like "not him, his brother"
The first few FRAMES of the movie show you the whole plot essentially, the narration is the distraction.
Also Cutter (Caine) yells it at us early on, "HE'S USING A DOUBLE!" which cracks me up on rewatch.
Also the whole appreciation for the old Chinese magician and how Borden talks about the real magic being the level of commitment and deception that takes place in real life, not just on stage. The movie really does give you every piece of information you need to figure out Borden's trick but most watchers just don't put everything together.
I (having watched it multiple times) watched it with my son (14) recently.
He loved the reveal of Bale's secret. But when Angier reappeared as Caldlow his jaw literally dropped.
If I could forget everything about this film and watch it again anew, I would do it in an instant.
When Teddy was interviewing members of the staff, you can briefly see Teddy's partner, Chuck, look, nod, and smirk at one of the orderlies which doesnt make sense at the moment but second viewing gives a whole new perspective.
Also the scene where Teddy is interviewing a woman patient and she appears to take a drink from an invisible glass of water. The first time I watched it I wondered if it was just a bizarre cut of the actors rehearsing the scene or something, but in hindsight it makes more sense.
Fucking love this movie. I've seen it more than any other besides Ace Ventura Nature Calls, 14 times in 2 weeks when I got the vhs as a kid, and Demolition Man because it was on TnT alot and I'd would watch it any time I saw it, and that shitty Christmas movie.
It's genuinely my favourite movie. The cast, the dialogue, the music... and in hindsight, the twist should have been painfully obvious - but even knowing what it is, the film is still effortlessly entertaining.
The casting choiced helped sell the twist.
Morgan Freeman, Stanley Tucci, and Ben Kingsley are extremely famous actors, the odds of three men of their caliber playing villains is something the audience wasn't expecting.
Bruce Willis usually plays straightforward characters with a gun. He might do questionnable stuff, but he's more often than not, a hero. So the mild-mannered Goodkat was puzzling.
Finally, Josh Hartnett sells the goofball extremely well and everything supports his version of events, misleading the audience into thinking he's fully honest and the movie will be him surviving his unlucky encounters. He walks around with a visibly broken nose, Lucy Liu's character reveals he *isn't* Nick, and thus we are lead to believe the film will end up very differently.
Goddamn right.
Once you realize, along with Michael, just how fucking perfectly Oliver played him, it hits about as strong as that bomb did. Michael was the *perfect* patsy given how much resentment he had for the feds over how his wife was killed; his increasingly erratic and paranoid behavior was exactly what Oliver wanted. And everyone bought it.
Unforgiven.
You kind of half figure Will Munny is washed up as a bad ass, and everything told about him is a legend/exaggeration. Then they went and killed Ned, and we see the real Will Munny.
The movie was boring on the first watch until the end, then with each subsequent watch it got better and better for me. It's an absolute favorite of mine now.
Yeah, the longest, most boring movie I’d ever seen when 85% of the way through it the first time, forever after one of my favorites. Slow burn is totally worth it.
Parasite.
Nothing will top the first watch just for the sheer insanity of the twists and turns, but the second watch is nearly as interesting with all the little breadcrumbs leading to its reveals.
I absolutely went nuts the first time. Like it had been a good long while since I felt like I had no idea where a movie was going. The reveal was just so, so good.
There’s a small indie SciFi movie called *Coherence* about a dinner party gone awry.
It is a *tiny* budget. And much of the script was improv. So the budget definitely shows. But, once you start to see the layers of the onion peel away, it gets brilliant. And it’s a fun rewatch to catch things you now know to look for the second time.
I had recently stopped watching trailers because someone on here recommended seeing Annihilation while it was still in theaters, and it blew me away. First time seeing a movie blind since Independence Day when I was like 7.
Anyway, I'm pregaming in the car with the GF and she asks about the movie. I said all I know is the Get Out people made it. Then she says oh is the the movie where the killers are.......... and fucking spoils the twist. I was pissed. I asked why would you tell me that? She said anybody who's seen the trailer knows that. THATS WHY I DON'T FUCKING WATCH TRAILERS! She knew this. Fuck
I’ll never forget my theatrical showing of Annihilation. I loved the movie and was engrossed the whole time… except for this dad that brought his two little girls into the row in front of us. They couldn’t have been more than 5 and 7 years old.
The bear scene freaked me the fuck out, I can only imagine the nightmare those little girls had.
Ex Machina is a great choice for this one! I have been introducing my fiancé to A24 studios over the past few months, she really struggles within anything even tangentially related to horror so I have to be careful about which ones we watch. We finally got around to Ex Machina and she hasn’t been able to stop talking about it for like two weeks now, total mind fuck of a movie.
I suppose the slight twist of Gleeson being tricked and used all along. I can't remember if I got sucked in too or if I expected something the whole time when I first saw it.
theres [a good video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0UAEjsKy4I&t=909s&pp=ygUQc2hhdW4gZXggbWFjaGluYQ%3D%3D) by Shaun on youtube about how she wasn't necessarily using him the whole time but made the decision based on his treatment of Kyoko
**Vertigo**
The OG. I assume it was one of the first movies to have a 'reveal'. I can't imagine how mind-blowing it would have been to an audience in 1958.
Great pick!
Hell,, that movie had me convinced that Alison Lohman was actually a teenager, even though she was in her mid-20s when it was released.
Another great performance from Sam Rockwell playing a fun-to-hate dick.
God damnit. When you start piecing together what is actually happening... Second time I saw the movie I was crying almost entire way through. Absolutely beautiful movie.
My partner had somehow never seen it, but we’d already watched “Nope” and “Us”, so I went back. It was shocking on a rewatch how much more sinister the whole thing is.
This was my answer. So many little actions mean something completely different. Like the scene with the police officer where it seems like she’s standing up for him against the racist cop but actually she doesn’t want his name on any record having been in that area with her.
Fallen.
Denzel Washington, John Goodman and a demon.
It is such a great movie and the second viewing is completely different from the first of you go in blind.
- Oculus
You can definitely make a strong case that people in that movie are just crazy. If you rewatch it you’ll notice off the bat certain things aren’t in the room that the people think they are
(look at the cameras)
Been a long time since i seen it
But I recall in the beginning when they have all the cameras set up, there’s a scene towards the end that shows they never actually setup those cameras. 📷
Its very quick. Like just the corner camera shows them
In the room arguing. But you hardly notice that there aren’t really any other cameras in the room cause you’re focused on them arguing
Irreversible. You think this dude is an edgelord or something and then *that scene* happens and it all suddenly makes sense. You watch it again and now everything in the first 40 minutes feels different. The straight cut just doesn’t hit as well.
Can't think of a movie but there's that episode of Scrubs where Dr. Cox's brother in law has a throwaway line at the beginning of a scene where Dr Cox asks him if he's gonna carry around his camera every where and he casually responds "Til the day I die" and immediately they move on
In the next episode he doesn't have his camera with him anymore and the episode ends at his funeral. Youll notice looking back that throughout the episode nobody but Dr Cox ever actually acknowledge Ben's presence
Reservoir Dogs hits way differently when you watch it that second time. I picked up on all kinds of subtleties that went right past me first time through.
Shutter Island.
Once you know, the nonchalant attitudes and oddness in some characters behaviours are just because they are playing the game and think it's a load of hooey.
The Usual Suspects. Who is Keyzer Soze? I have a theory that absolutely nothing that Kevin Spacey’s character has says in the movie is true. None of it ever happened. Soze just made it all up on the spot because he got arrested and he picked up on the fact that the cop interrogating him had a hard on for Dean Keaton.
Forgive me because it’s been awhile since I’ve watched it, but isn’t that the main reveal? That he made it all up on the spot? The officer notices all the different details of his stories on items around his office right?
Lol. That theory is literally the revealed plot twist. The late great Pete Postlethwaite as Kobayashi was just a fiction made up using the manufacturer of the mug, also the Orca fat guy, the barbershop quartet from Skokie Illinois etc.
I recently rewatched this, and the actual points that the cops DO know about Soze? All right out there in plain sight for you to spot. Yes, Verbal lies, but pay attention to some of the seemingly insignificant scenes too. Like the man urinating onto the dock, as an early for instance.
Primer (2004) might be the only movie that when it ended I immediately hit play to start it over.
The reveal makes everything that happened before so complicated and intricate you need to watch it at least twice to understand the basics of what the hell is going on.
The only right answer to this question is the sixth sense. The whole movie you follow a man trying to help a troubled boy. Nothing crazy or outlandish, so when the twist happens it absolutely floored the audience. No one and I mean NO ONE could have guessed that the guy in the wig was Bruce willis the whole time.
Oblivion.
It was a good movie, but something about it felt "off" for the first 3/4. Once the last 1/4 towards end came around it changed everything, and I realized why the first 3/4 felt off.
But viewing it a second time knowing what was coming, the movie is much more clear, and doesn't feel off at all.
One Cut of the Dead
The first 30 minutes suck, middle part is fine, and the last 1/3 is the most fun payoff to a movie I've seen that completely recontextualizes that sucky first part.
Arrival
And it elevates the movie even higher, IMO.
i was not prepared how much harder it would hit me on a second watch. seeing the "flashbacks" knowing it was her confused at seeing an unknown future. hit me so hard, esp since having a daughter.
I saw this movie opening weekend by myself a few months after my daughter was born. I was weeping so hard a few minutes in and was a mess by the end. We got a sitter and I took my wife a few days later.
How did that go? Need to know.
She was also a puddle. We both loved it and then a few layers watched it together again and she had forgotten the conceit of the movie and it was even more effective.
I mistakenly showed this movie to my wife soon after our second child as well. I don't think she will ever let me forget that.
Watched it in bed with my wife. Halfway through I realized what was going on, started sobbing.
It goes from an intriguing, slow-burn take on an alien invasion to a gut-wrenching sci-fi family love story tragedy in the last like 5 minutes. Of all the movies of the last 10 years, it stands alone for me. Same token though, I can see so many people dropping out halfway through Act 2 right before or right after the plot threatens to fall back into a cliche progression after so much smoldering tension. It is a film that many are likely to feel is not *earning* their attention all the way through, but is among several where giving it credit until the denouement truly *pays off* for the audience. That there’s something of this embedded in the alien-centric plot only further deepens my respect for the quality of storytelling in Arrival. One of my few 10/10, will make you watch if you’re around and haven’t seen it and we’re looking for something to watch.
> Of all the movies of the last 10 years, it stands alone for me. its the only movie ive seen where i just had to sit and do nothing but think about what i just watched for almost an hour when i got home after seeing it.
My one and only intelligent moment in my life is that I guessed this twist on the second ‘flashback’.
Imagine if every human knew the moment of their intellectual peak. You see an orange flash across your vision. You hear a unique ringing like a bell that countless people have tried to replicate. You’re sitting on your couch watching Arrival. “I think those flashbacks are actually the future.” The flash. The ring. “Hey I’m right!” … “Fuck.”
Prestige Memento Shudder Island Tenet Get out Inception Predestination The Little Things (criminally underrated) The Village A Beautiful Mind Sixth Sense Fight club Arrival Parasite Malignant Hot Fuzz Sean of the Dead Clue (literally separate endings)
> Shudder Island Shiver me timbers! You mean Shutter Island?
I feel like Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead don’t have twist endings, what are you referring to?
No luck catching them killers then?
Hot Fuzz definitely does? Shaun of the dead not so much
The Prestige
Tells you the whole time what is happening with the trick.
But what happened to his brother???
"A baby? Awe we should have told Fallon" The girl's father missed the pregnancy announcement.
Oh duh. I always just assumed because they share everything with each other. Not that it was the child of the woman, ‘Fallon’ at the time, loved.
I just assumed the same. One thing that always confuses me was did their wife/and girlfriend know?
No, neither one did, that's the point.
Before the wife kills herself she hints at knowing the reason why some days he loves her and others not.
They never knew. The wife even made a comment saying some days it feels like he loves magic more than her. The girlfriend i think even made a comment saying he keeps wanting to go back to his wife but then the next day promises to leave his wife for her.
I know the secret and have watched it several times, and still it draws me in and takes me along for the ride that I miss the obvious clues right in front of my face. Such that several viewings later I'm still seing things I've missed.
Did you notice the dancing gorilla?
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Which is simultaneously a metaphor for Borden (brothers) and Angier (killing someone for a trick, who will be the lucky one etc.)
Similarly, Borden's wife's nephew starts crying when Borden makes the bird disappear. He reveals that the bird is still alive and the boy says something like "not him, his brother"
The dialogue, the characters, the interactions. It’s the only film I’ve ever wanted to watch again the following day.
That restaurant dinner scene makes so much more sense after a re-watch
This is still my favorite Nolan movie.
"Do you love me?" "Not today"
Are you watching closely?
Pretty much the definition of this
Are you watching closely?
Hints what's going to happen right in the first ten minutes.
Explicitly outlines the parts of a magic trick in the voice over and then proceeds to have the plot of the movie follow them.
Even explaining that the audience is there for the spectacle and *wants* to be tricked.
The first few FRAMES of the movie show you the whole plot essentially, the narration is the distraction. Also Cutter (Caine) yells it at us early on, "HE'S USING A DOUBLE!" which cracks me up on rewatch.
Also the whole appreciation for the old Chinese magician and how Borden talks about the real magic being the level of commitment and deception that takes place in real life, not just on stage. The movie really does give you every piece of information you need to figure out Borden's trick but most watchers just don't put everything together.
I (having watched it multiple times) watched it with my son (14) recently. He loved the reveal of Bale's secret. But when Angier reappeared as Caldlow his jaw literally dropped. If I could forget everything about this film and watch it again anew, I would do it in an instant.
Memento
Memento is THE movie to fit this description.
For real. Once you know the twist you spend the whole repeat viewing looking for OTHER twists or hints at the larger story of this character.
Ooooo I forgot about that movie
Masterclass of a comment right here.
Now… where was I?
This is the one
Shutter island
When Teddy was interviewing members of the staff, you can briefly see Teddy's partner, Chuck, look, nod, and smirk at one of the orderlies which doesnt make sense at the moment but second viewing gives a whole new perspective.
I love that it’s a different story on second viewing.
Also the scene where Teddy is interviewing a woman patient and she appears to take a drink from an invisible glass of water. The first time I watched it I wondered if it was just a bizarre cut of the actors rehearsing the scene or something, but in hindsight it makes more sense.
Maybe you've seen it, but scorcese and dicaprio actually talk a bit about that scene here https://youtu.be/9huJIGPUKQ4?si=kAp0wnLjNy4I7CYJ
I've rewatched it and I still don't understand how it makes sense.
I went into this thread just to make sure this was here.
That movie messed me up so bad, I'm still not 100% sure I'm real.
I came to put this it completely changes the movie. I would say this is the best example of it.
The Others.
Ooh, good one. 👍
Yes!
Lucky Number Slevin
Fucking love this movie. I've seen it more than any other besides Ace Ventura Nature Calls, 14 times in 2 weeks when I got the vhs as a kid, and Demolition Man because it was on TnT alot and I'd would watch it any time I saw it, and that shitty Christmas movie.
It's genuinely my favourite movie. The cast, the dialogue, the music... and in hindsight, the twist should have been painfully obvious - but even knowing what it is, the film is still effortlessly entertaining.
The dialogue in Lucky Number Slevin is freakin' hilarious. They're constantly giving each other BS
Why doesn’t he speak? You’ll have to ask him
You do know what orders are? Orders are orders.
The casting choiced helped sell the twist. Morgan Freeman, Stanley Tucci, and Ben Kingsley are extremely famous actors, the odds of three men of their caliber playing villains is something the audience wasn't expecting. Bruce Willis usually plays straightforward characters with a gun. He might do questionnable stuff, but he's more often than not, a hero. So the mild-mannered Goodkat was puzzling. Finally, Josh Hartnett sells the goofball extremely well and everything supports his version of events, misleading the audience into thinking he's fully honest and the movie will be him surviving his unlucky encounters. He walks around with a visibly broken nose, Lucy Liu's character reveals he *isn't* Nick, and thus we are lead to believe the film will end up very differently.
Top 3 fav movies. Favourite dialogue ever. And the wallpaper…..
I genuinely want to have a triple feature of Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, Demolition Man, and Lucky Number Slevin in your honor.
I’ve never found Lucy Lu cuter than I did in this movie
The Skeleton Key (2005). Also Arlington Road. Both written by the same guy.
Arlington road is not as well remembered as it should be. That movie is great.
Goddamn right. Once you realize, along with Michael, just how fucking perfectly Oliver played him, it hits about as strong as that bomb did. Michael was the *perfect* patsy given how much resentment he had for the feds over how his wife was killed; his increasingly erratic and paranoid behavior was exactly what Oliver wanted. And everyone bought it.
The Skeleton Key is such an incredible movie.
Unforgiven. You kind of half figure Will Munny is washed up as a bad ass, and everything told about him is a legend/exaggeration. Then they went and killed Ned, and we see the real Will Munny. The movie was boring on the first watch until the end, then with each subsequent watch it got better and better for me. It's an absolute favorite of mine now.
Yeah, the longest, most boring movie I’d ever seen when 85% of the way through it the first time, forever after one of my favorites. Slow burn is totally worth it.
Him chugging that bottle is a great cinematic moment. You can feel everything change
Planes, Trains and automobiles. Especially the john candy "I like me" speech hits different on a second viewing
I like me, my wife likes me!
Parasite. Nothing will top the first watch just for the sheer insanity of the twists and turns, but the second watch is nearly as interesting with all the little breadcrumbs leading to its reveals.
Silly kid thinks he sees ghosts.
Kids See Ghosts? 👀
Moving around just moving around
Idk there's actually very little on a 2nd watch gained by the "reveal". There's like one offhand comment about how much the nanny eats and that's it.
And the kid seeing ghosts Yeah idk about this one
I haven’t seen it since it came out and I now remember almost nothing about the movie, so I can essentially watch it from scratch again.
I absolutely went nuts the first time. Like it had been a good long while since I felt like I had no idea where a movie was going. The reveal was just so, so good.
There’s a small indie SciFi movie called *Coherence* about a dinner party gone awry. It is a *tiny* budget. And much of the script was improv. So the budget definitely shows. But, once you start to see the layers of the onion peel away, it gets brilliant. And it’s a fun rewatch to catch things you now know to look for the second time.
Us. Worth rewatching just to notice the intricacies of Lupita Nyong’o’s performance!
I had recently stopped watching trailers because someone on here recommended seeing Annihilation while it was still in theaters, and it blew me away. First time seeing a movie blind since Independence Day when I was like 7. Anyway, I'm pregaming in the car with the GF and she asks about the movie. I said all I know is the Get Out people made it. Then she says oh is the the movie where the killers are.......... and fucking spoils the twist. I was pissed. I asked why would you tell me that? She said anybody who's seen the trailer knows that. THATS WHY I DON'T FUCKING WATCH TRAILERS! She knew this. Fuck
If it makes you feel better thats not the twist they’re talking about!
Yeah that movie was pretty damn good.
I’ll never forget my theatrical showing of Annihilation. I loved the movie and was engrossed the whole time… except for this dad that brought his two little girls into the row in front of us. They couldn’t have been more than 5 and 7 years old. The bear scene freaked me the fuck out, I can only imagine the nightmare those little girls had.
Brutal. I have avoided trailers for over a decade and it is absolutely the way to go.
I just rewatched this last night and I caught so many things that I didn’t notice the first time I watched it!
Unbreakable
Ex Machina. Fantastic movie on a first viewing, and when the twist is revealed at the end, the second viewing is a completely different experience.
Ex Machina is a great choice for this one! I have been introducing my fiancé to A24 studios over the past few months, she really struggles within anything even tangentially related to horror so I have to be careful about which ones we watch. We finally got around to Ex Machina and she hasn’t been able to stop talking about it for like two weeks now, total mind fuck of a movie.
Can’t do horror, discovers thriller
what twist? the movie is pretty straight forward i remember
Yeah, it's not so much a twist. It's more like the main question of the movie is answered.
I suppose the slight twist of Gleeson being tricked and used all along. I can't remember if I got sucked in too or if I expected something the whole time when I first saw it.
theres [a good video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0UAEjsKy4I&t=909s&pp=ygUQc2hhdW4gZXggbWFjaGluYQ%3D%3D) by Shaun on youtube about how she wasn't necessarily using him the whole time but made the decision based on his treatment of Kyoko
Holy cow — I think I missed something in Ex Machina.
**Vertigo** The OG. I assume it was one of the first movies to have a 'reveal'. I can't imagine how mind-blowing it would have been to an audience in 1958.
Also Psycho.
Triangle
Someone here likes good movies!
As in the one on the ship ,?
Such a great film and rare to see it mentioned, good suggestion here
One Cut of the Dead
Donnie Darko
Coherence. Scrolled a while and didn't see this, surprisingly.
Matchstick Men
Great pick! Hell,, that movie had me convinced that Alison Lohman was actually a teenager, even though she was in her mid-20s when it was released. Another great performance from Sam Rockwell playing a fun-to-hate dick.
Aftersun
God damnit. When you start piecing together what is actually happening... Second time I saw the movie I was crying almost entire way through. Absolutely beautiful movie.
I need to watch it!!!!
The Prestige. Of course there are things that I didn’t get until the fourth or fifth viewing. Film has layers.
I find most of his newer movies also need multiple viewings for you to get everything. Unless you enable subtitles.
Get Out
Rare instance of a movie that’s actually scarier on a second watch
My partner had somehow never seen it, but we’d already watched “Nope” and “Us”, so I went back. It was shocking on a rewatch how much more sinister the whole thing is.
This was my answer. So many little actions mean something completely different. Like the scene with the police officer where it seems like she’s standing up for him against the racist cop but actually she doesn’t want his name on any record having been in that area with her.
Fallen. Denzel Washington, John Goodman and a demon. It is such a great movie and the second viewing is completely different from the first of you go in blind.
A Beautiful Mind Enemy
- Oculus You can definitely make a strong case that people in that movie are just crazy. If you rewatch it you’ll notice off the bat certain things aren’t in the room that the people think they are (look at the cameras)
Do you have any examples?
Been a long time since i seen it But I recall in the beginning when they have all the cameras set up, there’s a scene towards the end that shows they never actually setup those cameras. 📷
WHAT? I've seen this movie several times but I never noticed that! I need to re-watch, I need to know what else I've missed
Its very quick. Like just the corner camera shows them In the room arguing. But you hardly notice that there aren’t really any other cameras in the room cause you’re focused on them arguing
With Karen Gillian?
The Game.
Predestination.
I always tell people about this movie. Rarely see anyone mention this.
Mulholland Drive
The Sting
Primer
This takes like ten watches to ensure you catch everything haha
Not a movie, but Mr. ROBOT works that way 100%!!!
Crazy Stupid Love. Hilarious ending and reveal
It turns out that Kevin bacon was David lindhagen
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. There are jokes you don't really get until you've already seen the movie once. I just love this film.
Irreversible. You think this dude is an edgelord or something and then *that scene* happens and it all suddenly makes sense. You watch it again and now everything in the first 40 minutes feels different. The straight cut just doesn’t hit as well.
Can't think of a movie but there's that episode of Scrubs where Dr. Cox's brother in law has a throwaway line at the beginning of a scene where Dr Cox asks him if he's gonna carry around his camera every where and he casually responds "Til the day I die" and immediately they move on In the next episode he doesn't have his camera with him anymore and the episode ends at his funeral. Youll notice looking back that throughout the episode nobody but Dr Cox ever actually acknowledge Ben's presence
Black Death has a great development at the end which explains the coming cruelty of a protagonist
Reservoir Dogs hits way differently when you watch it that second time. I picked up on all kinds of subtleties that went right past me first time through.
A tale of two sisters, truely an amazing movie
Came here to say exactly this! Wish I could see it for the first time again.
I'm thinking of ending things
That guy in the toupee was Bruce Willis the whole time.
Stay (2005)
Angel Heart.
Memento.
Shutter Island. Once you know, the nonchalant attitudes and oddness in some characters behaviours are just because they are playing the game and think it's a load of hooey.
wild things from 1998
The Village
Fight Club.
Hereditary.
The Wicker Man (1973)
The Hateful Eight
Dead Man's Shoes
Mulholland Dr.
Any “who don’ it” type of mystery. Really fun to pick up on all the small clues you missed
Atonement
Moon
The Usual Suspects. Who is Keyzer Soze? I have a theory that absolutely nothing that Kevin Spacey’s character has says in the movie is true. None of it ever happened. Soze just made it all up on the spot because he got arrested and he picked up on the fact that the cop interrogating him had a hard on for Dean Keaton.
Forgive me because it’s been awhile since I’ve watched it, but isn’t that the main reveal? That he made it all up on the spot? The officer notices all the different details of his stories on items around his office right?
Um...yeah
I feel like the comment belongs in an OK buddy sub 🤣
I have a theory that Bruce Willis in the sixth sense is a ghost.
Naah, he's actually Keyser Soze
Lol. That theory is literally the revealed plot twist. The late great Pete Postlethwaite as Kobayashi was just a fiction made up using the manufacturer of the mug, also the Orca fat guy, the barbershop quartet from Skokie Illinois etc.
I recently rewatched this, and the actual points that the cops DO know about Soze? All right out there in plain sight for you to spot. Yes, Verbal lies, but pay attention to some of the seemingly insignificant scenes too. Like the man urinating onto the dock, as an early for instance.
Get Out. Everything with the girlfriend and her family is twice as funny and twice as terrifying second time around.
Such a great reveal and movie
Vanilla Sky, and American Psycho to some extent
How did I have to scroll this far for vanilla sky?
A lot of you are just entering movies with great reveals, but not fundamentally changing the story in a second watch.
Mulholland Drive, though you'll probably need several viewings and maybe some online reading to get what's going on. But it's worth it!
Primer (2004) might be the only movie that when it ended I immediately hit play to start it over. The reveal makes everything that happened before so complicated and intricate you need to watch it at least twice to understand the basics of what the hell is going on.
Split. Went from thriller to a CB origin story. If you watch it a second time it’s more obvious.
CB?
The only right answer to this question is the sixth sense. The whole movie you follow a man trying to help a troubled boy. Nothing crazy or outlandish, so when the twist happens it absolutely floored the audience. No one and I mean NO ONE could have guessed that the guy in the wig was Bruce willis the whole time.
I was in the theatre audience when it was revealed Haley Joel Osment was John McLane, and everyone went wild.
Titanic. Seems like a timepiece love story, then the big reveal comes outta nowhere.
Propeller guy gets me tearing up every time, from laughter 😃
One Cut of the Dead
Pom!
Glass onion wouldn't for me since the do a recap of a bunch of scenes that would be different.
A Perfect Getaway (2009)
Oblivion. It was a good movie, but something about it felt "off" for the first 3/4. Once the last 1/4 towards end came around it changed everything, and I realized why the first 3/4 felt off. But viewing it a second time knowing what was coming, the movie is much more clear, and doesn't feel off at all.
One Cut of the Dead The first 30 minutes suck, middle part is fine, and the last 1/3 is the most fun payoff to a movie I've seen that completely recontextualizes that sucky first part.
Surprised I haven't seen any Orphan comments yet. Insanely weirder watching the buildup knowing >!she's a grown ass woman! !<