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Spoilers -- When did you first figure out the secret?

posted 13 years ago by Zando777
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If it was before the very end?

I figured it out about halfway through, at the anniversary dinner. I heard there was a twist, so I was trying to figure out what it was. At first, it appears that people are interacting with Willis, so I didn't think he was a ghost. However, at the dinner, I realized that she never actually looked at him, and that's when it started clicking.

Usual Suspects took me a little longer, maybe 75% of the way through.

Any other good twist films out there? I love those. I've seem Memento, the ghost movie with DeNiro and the little girl, The Others, etc.

The Ring was scary partly because of the twist near the end -- wasn't really over like we thought it was.

[–] Fresh-Tomatoes 13 years ago

I was a bit slow to figure it out. LOL. I didn't figure it out until the end. :) But that's why I liked the movie so much I guess.

Neville: So, blow it up? Boom?!
McGonagall: Boom!

[–] joeann_21 13 years ago

I must be slow too, Bobista, I didn't figure it out till the end also!

SPOILER

I had missed the beginning of the movie when it was shown last night on the Family Channel (surprisingly), so I forgot who shoots Malcolm? From my reading some IMDB info - was it an escaped mental patient?

Thanks!

[–] DonMachiavelli 13 years ago

Very end when I first saw it.

But now it seems impossible to watch the film and NOT catch it.

[–] ghostfan 13 years ago

First time I saw it, I remember thinking, "Oh yeah - a guy could get shot where he did, and be fine six months later... and the fact you never see he and his wife REALLY interacting... And of course when the boy says "sometimes there are ghosts who don't know they are dead." and I almost got it. But I was in a theater, so it wasn't like I could stop or hit pause and compare notes with the person I saw it with. So I guess I have to say I didn't get it until the end.

[–] Albatoss 12 years ago

I didn't catch it until the very end which I suppose is the same with most. I don't see how you could on the first watch unless somebody told you.

[–] Waigon 12 years ago

I didn't figure it out until my mother got annoyed and told me, shortly after calling me an idiot. I sometimes think about other things during movies, or they say something and then I imagine an alternate situation as the real one's going on in front of me. So I was lost for a moment. Then I was like "aha. OH MY GOD."

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[–] acidbrat 13 years ago

The shooter is Vincent Grey, who was a child patient that Malcolm treated for "hallucinations" (which were actually the same "sixth sense" that Cole has). Vincent doesn't want to be afraid anymore and accuses Malcolm of failing him as a kid.

Also ...

SPOILER

I didn't guess the "secret" until right after the school play when Cole is jousting in the stairwell and says, "I'm not gonna see you anymore, am I?"

[–] Waigon 13 years ago

I love how some people base their life on the fact that they guessed the ending to this movie before it happened. Brav-AH. Congratulations on NOT having the chance to watch the exact same film a second time round as if it were new. You are my GOD.

I didn't even discover it at the end, that's how stupid I am. My mother had to point it out to me, because I asked what was going on after everyone in the audience gasped. I was 14, too, so not little. Sometimes I just stop paying attention.

[–] M24 13 years ago

At the dinner, same time you did zando777. I think the problem was I think at the time it was released I had heard there was a twist so I was actively looking for it, or maybe it was just too obvious.

[–] diane-bernaerts 12 years ago

Yeah, when you KNOW there is a twist and you are actively looking for it, you might get it sooner. I watched it again, after 13 years, yesterday with my children; they already knew there was a "big twist", and my 12-year old daughter was actively looking for it. So she noticed that there was no conversation between Cole's mother and Malcolm, and no conversation between Cole and his wife in the restaurant, and so she almost guessed the truth. Only when Cole's wife said "happy anniversary", she thought she had it wrong. But when you saw this movie when it aired in the theaters and had no opportunity to rewind scenes, you could easily miss all that.

[–] andriuspe 13 years ago

Halfway, after realizing that no one is interacting with Willis really and seeing the door to his office not opening but then finding him in it :)It was too bad because I hoped for a shocking ending.

[–] april_rain 13 years ago

I think I knew when the wife exchanges christmas gifts with the other guy while Malcolm is in the study. He even shouts "Can somebody get that?" when the guy knocks the door. Ignoring him to that extent seemed abnormal.

[–] satan-stole-the-muffins 13 years ago

I always had the idea that Malcolm was dead since right after he was shot, but it was just a passing thought really, so when it was finally revealed, I was like "I *WAS* right!!" But I didn't actually think about it seriously until the scene after the play and Cole gives him advice and says goodbye.

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[–] Chicken_Francese 13 years ago

I didn't know until the very end either, and I saw it the first night it came out so I wasn't looking for a twist.

As for FIGHT CLUB---SPOILER coming up...

I saw it a couple years after it came out and heard their was a twist so I was looking for it, and figured it out quite early....not really a SPOILER but whatever.

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[–] McHinch 13 years ago

That's a BIG thing- to know that there's a spoiler acoming. I'd never heard that before seeing this and didn't figure it out ahead of time.

There are a bunch of movies that I knew a spoiler was coming and I figured it out and a bunch that I knew a spoiler was coming and was wrong! One in particular, The Village (Spoilers!), I figured out that the town elders were the ones in the Pig-Monster outfits, but I didn't guess that they were in modern times- I got one, missed one!

For the first poster- its not a "spoiler" in the least bit about who shot Bruce. Its the very first scene of the movie!!

[–] SnoozeAlarm 13 years ago

I must be a bit slow, because I didn't figure it out until I read this thread

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[–] drystyx 13 years ago

I really would've thought more people got it the same time I did.

To me, it became a big "ding" when he chased his wife's suitor who was driving away. It was then that all the times he was ignored, the door he couldn't open, the opening sequence, all came together, and when I said "wait a minute". It really struck me then. I asked my friend, who saw the movie already, "he's dead, isn't he"? I kept insisting, and she finally gave in, admitted he was dead.

When he chases the guy in the car, then you remember that no one but the boy ever really addresses him, that his lines don't necessarily get a response.

I really thought more people would've picked that scene for the "give away." I really think that's when it was intended for most people to go "Ohhhhhh, so that's it". It certainly has to be the biggest real clue in the film.

Of course, it helps that this very scene was taken from an old "short short educational film" about a man who died in a car wreck, and whose family couldn't see him.

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