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34 Movie Plot Twists So "Predictable," People Claim To Have Guessed Them From The First Few Minutes
"I predicted the entire twist when I saw the first trailer..."
by Allie Hayes StaffLink
We recently asked movie lovers in our Community, "What's a movie plot twist so poorly executed, you (or someone you know) actually guessed the 'twist' before it even happened?" and, WHEW, people came through with some controversial answers!
NBC So, with that in mind, here are just a few of the movies people believe provided a little too much plot and not enough twist:
Also, a quick SPOILER WARNING: Due to the nature of this post and the question being answered, there are spoilers ahead for literally every single one of these movies. Please proceed with caution!1. Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Paramount Pictures "Miranda Richardson was a big name in the opening credits, but had very little screen time prior to the big reveal that she was the one controlling the Headless Horseman. This proved to me that, in a mystery, the biggest name in the movie with the least amount of screen time is the one behind it."—kelsomike55 Watch the scene here:
View this video on YouTube Paramount Pictures / Via youtube.com 2. The Incredibles 2 (2018)
Walt Disney Studios / Pixar "The villain reveal was painfully obvious from the beginning of the movie. What? The other empowered female character is going to turn out to be evil?! Disney could have chosen any other character for a better surprise."—hiitsnicetomeetyou Watch the scene here:
View this video on YouTube Walt Disney Studios / Pixar / Via youtube.com 3. Saw (2004)
Lions Gate / ÂLions Gate/Courtesy Everett Collection "I didn't know who it was, but I knew the dude face down on the ground in the bathroom was not actually dead right from the get-go."—umrawk85 Watch the scene here:
View this video on YouTube Lionsgate / Via youtube.com 4. What Lies Beneath (2000)
Dreamworks / ÂDreamWorks/Courtesy Everett Collection "I remember telling my parents that Harrison Ford was definitely going to try to kill his wife with that paralytic drug they introduced early on. They were shocked I figured it out, but come on, if they introduce a horrific drug in Act One, they're going to use it. It's Chekhov's paralytic pharmaceutical."—mkatherinekelly Watch the scene here:
View this video on YouTube Dreamworks / Via youtube.com 5. The Uninvited (2009)
Paramount / ÂParamount/Courtesy Everett Collection "You can literally see the twist from a mile away. Of course the other one is dead, and of course the one the main character killed is not the right one. The original version was much better (but it was too bad that I had already seen this American version first, so I knew what was coming)."—prekeles Watch the scene here:
View this video on YouTube Paramount Pictures / Via youtube.com 6. Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
Chuck Zlotnick / ÂColumbia Pictures/courtesy Everett Co / Everett Collection "The Vulture being Liz's dad...it was so obvious to me. I don't know if it was meant to be a huge twist, but it certainly wasn't."—kkendra19 Watch the scene here:
View this video on YouTube Marvel Studios / Via youtube.com 7. Spectre (2015)
Columbia Pictures / ÂColumbia Pictures/courtesy Everett Co / Everett Collection "The whole 'Blofeld and Bond are step-brothers' twist. I've rewatched it several times, and no other character has made my blood boil more than Blofeld (aka Franz Oberhausser, aka Bond's long lost abusive step-brother). He started this evil organization just to put James Bond through endless sibling domestic abuse due to the fact his father adored Bond more."—tanyam44ab2253d Watch the scene here:
View this video on YouTube Columbia Pictures / Via youtube.com 8. Malignant (2021)
Warner Bros. /Courtesy Everett Collection "It was just way too obvious from the first scene that there was either a parasitic twin or D.I.D. situation going on, and the first time we see the killer in action it was very clear it was a parasitic twin."—sawyerxvii Watch the scene here:
View this video on YouTube Warner Bros. / Via youtube.com 9. Shutter Island (2010)
Paramount / ÂParamount/Courtesy Everett Collection "I predicted the ENTIRE plot when I saw the first trailer. I was in the theater with my mom, saw the trailer, leaned over to her and said, 'He’s the murderer all along. It’s an asylum and he’s imagining he’s a cop.' I never saw it in theaters, but my friend did and came back and told me, 'OMG, you called the WHOLE THING!' I never understood why people always cite that movie as having a great twist. If I called it from the trailer, other people must have, too."—cs613 Watch the scene here:
View this video on YouTube Paramount Pictures / Via youtube.com 10. Frozen (2013)
Walt Disney Co. / ÂWalt Disney Co./Courtesy Everett Collection "I knew that Prince Hans would be the bad guy. What Disney princess falls in love and gets engaged in the first 10 minutes of the movie?! As soon as Kristoff made his appearance, I knew that was who she’d actually end up with."—jennakaeb Watch the scene here:
View this video on YouTube Walt Disney Pictures / Via youtube.com 11. Scream (1996)
Dimension Films / ÂDimension Films/Courtesy Everett Collection "In the original, there were parts early on in the movie where the masked killer would seem to be in two places at the same time. I remember watching it with some friends who had already seen it, and — about a third into the movie — I made a comment that there must be two killers. I got a strange look, and then no one believed me when I said I had never seen it."—jarrodascott Watch the scene here:
View this video on YouTube Dimension Films / Via youtube.com 12. Last Christmas (2019)
Universal / courtesy Everett Collection "I called the twist as a joke the moment Henry Golding showed up on-screen."—jennr4ab11fa64 Watch the scene here:
View this video on YouTube Universal Pictures / Via youtube.com 13. Get Out (2016)
Universal / ÂUniversal/Courtesy Everett Collection "As much as I truly enjoyed and appreciated the movie as a whole, I thought it was incredibly predictable. It was just an updated version of Stepford Wives. I was shocked others didn’t see the twist coming like I did."—kristyd913 Watch the scene here:
View this video on YouTube Universal Pictures / Via youtube.com 14. Eternals (2021)
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures / Marvel Studios / Courtesy Everett Collection "Maybe it's because I watch a lot of superhero stuff, but I saw the twist with Ikaris coming from a mile away. It's always the guys with the Superman-esque powers!"—ynnad265 Watch the scene here:
View this video on YouTube Marvel Studios / Via youtube.com 15. The Usual Suspects (1995)
Gramercypictures / ÂGramercyPictures/Courtesy Everett Collection "My parents saw it in the theater on a date (it was both of their first times seeing it), and midway through my dad leaned over to my mom and said, 'I don’t trust Kevin Spacey. I bet he’s secretly the bad guy.'"—jconway Watch the scene here:
View this video on YouTube (c) Gramercy Pictures / courtesy Everett Collection / Via youtube.com 16. Moon (2009)
Sony Pictures / ÂSony Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection "In the first 10 minutes, I said, 'He's a clone'. It was an overused twist in sci-fi at the time. That didn't ruin the movie for me, though. Sam Rockwell was brilliant in it."—nevl Watch the scene here:
View this video on YouTube Sony Pictures / Via youtube.com 17. The Happening (2008)
20thcentfox / Â20thCentFox/Courtesy Everett Collection "There was a shot that made me turn to my friend and say as a joke, 'Gasp, the trees are doing it!' He got mad at me for spoiling the surprise. I didn’t actually think it was that simple!"—murrays3 Watch the scene here:
View this video on YouTube 20th Century Fox / Via youtube.com 18. The Sixth Sense (1999)
(c) Buena Vista Pictures/ Courtesy: Everett Collection "10-year-old me was like, 'Oh, he’s dead right? Is that why his wife keeps ignoring him?' We didn’t even make it halfway through the movie. My mom was so pissed that I spoiled it for her."—ashleykangarurub Watch the scene here:
View this video on YouTube Buena Vista Pictures / Via youtube.com 19. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
Paramount / ÂParamount/Courtesy Everett Collection "I saw it in theaters, and — when one of the characters said the skull 'couldn't have been made by humans' — I whispered to my friend, 'Aliens!' When it was revealed to be aliens, I whispered to my friend, '...I was kidding.'"—jburnickas Watch the scene here:
View this video on YouTube Paramount Pictures / Via youtube.com 20. Wonder Woman (2017)
Warner Bros. / courtesy Everett Collection "I knew Ares was going to be David Thewlis’s character. You don’t book David Thewlis for a tiny role that only appears in three scenes."—nightcourt013 Watch the scene here:
View this video on YouTube Warner Bros / Via youtube.com 21. Fight Club (1999)
(c) 20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved. "Just seeing the way Helena Bonham Carter's character acted towards The Narrator was a dead give away."—sforsgren1 Watch the scene here:
View this video on YouTube 20th Century Fox / Via youtube.com 22. Coco (2017)
Pixar / ÂWalt Disney Co./courtesy Everett / Everett Collection "Héctor being Miguel's true grandfather was so obvious. When a seemingly random character suddenly becomes one of the main characters in a story with a mystery at its core, you should immediately expect a twist in the near future."—femkat Watch the scene here:
View this video on YouTube Walt Disney Studios / Pixar / Via youtube.com 23. The Purge (2013)
Universal / ÂUniversal/Courtesy Everett Collection "Five minutes after The Stranger was let into the house and disappeared, I kept wondering where he was. So, towards the end of the movie when the neighbors were going to kill the family, surprise! He jumps out and attacks the neighbors and saves the family. I saw that coming from halfway through the movie."—dougfancy101290 Watch the scene here:
View this video on YouTube Universal Pictures / Via youtube.com 24. Legally Blonde (2001)
Mgm / ÂMGM/Courtesy Everett Collection "While watching it for the first time, my mom shouted at the TV, 'Everyone knows you can’t shower after a perm!' immediately after the daughter states that's what she was doing."—jessbruso Watch the scene here:
View this video on YouTube MGM / Via youtube.com 25. The Visit (2015)
Universal Pictures / Courtesy Everett Collection "What mother would send her children to visit their grandparents — who she herself hasn't seen in 20 years — without talking to them at least once beforehand and introducing them to the children?!"—sarad4850d5c99 Watch the scene here:
View this video on YouTube Universal Pictures / Via youtube.com 26. The Others (2001)
Dimension Films / ÂDimension Films/Courtesy Everett Collection "Not even five minutes in, I turned to a friend next to me and whispered, 'I bet they’re all ghosts.' She was so mad and I felt terrible, but it was interesting to watch how people reacted to the twist as it happened."—seldale Watch the scene here:
View this video on YouTube Dimension Films / Via youtube.com 27. Orphan (2009)
Warner Bros. Pictures "I saw the trailer, turned to my mom and said, 'I bet she'll be a fully-grown woman pretending to be a kid.' Once we watched it, my mom told me to never tell her any of my movie theories again."—thicccryptid Watch the scene here:
View this video on YouTube Warner Bros. Pictures / Via youtube.com 28. Premonition (2007)
Sony Pictures / ÂSony Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection "I knew after maybe the second day through that it was 1) In fact, a time loop, and 2) That Sandra Bullock interfering was going to be what killed her husband."—emersinning Watch the scene here:
View this video on YouTube Sony Pictures / Via youtube.com 29. Spiral: From the Book of Saw (2021)
Lionsgate / Courtesy Everett Collection "I literally called who the new Jigsaw killer was before the character even spoke, which was such a letdown because the first few Saw movies had unforgettable twists and this one was just sooo bad."—and8 Watch the scene here:
View this video on YouTube Lionsgate / Via youtube.com 30. Wild Things (1998)
Columbia Pictures / ÂColumbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection "It was very predictable. It was pretty obvious that they were all working together, including the cop."—doofenshmirtzevilinc Watch the scene here:
View this video on YouTube Columbia Pictures / Via youtube.com 31. Dream House (2011)
Universal / ÂUniversal/Courtesy Everett Collection "It was obvious from the beginning that his wife and kids were dead the whole movie. That twist just doesn’t work anymore, and isn’t surprising in any movie since The Sixth Sense."—megz52 Watch the scene here:
View this video on YouTube Universal Pictures / Via youtube.com 32. Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Warner Bros. /Courtesy Everett Collection "I didn't even finish the movie because it was too obvious."—ecocrafty Watch the scene here:
View this video on YouTube Warner Bros / Via youtube.com 33. The Lake House (2006)
Warner Bros / ÂWarner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection "Within the first 10 minutes, I looked at my husband and told him what was going to happen, and, of course, it did."—treid54 Watch the scene here:
View this video on YouTube Warner Bros. / Via youtube.com 34. And finally: Knives Out (2019)
Claire Folger / Lionsgate / courtesy Everett Collection "I absolutely hate to say this because I adored the film, but the twist was obvious to me. I always suspect the 'black sheep'-type characters to end up being the killers, and that's what Ransom's character was. There was also no real toxicology report to confirm that Harlan died as suspected, and Ransom helping Marta after the will reading seemed a bit too convenient to me."—ambki87 Watch the scene here:
View this video on YouTube Lionsgate / Via youtube.com All right, you've read their picks, but now it's YOUR turn! Do you agree with any of these? What's a movie plot twist that you (or someone you know) actually guessed before it even happened? Share your pick(s) in the comments below!
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