4. C'mon, Everyone Knows It Anyway The Sixth Sense
The Twist: Malcolm Crowe has been dead the whole time. I once met someone who became suddenly incredibly spoiler averse on mention of a twist in The Sixth Sense. I could never look at him in the same way again. The Sixth Sense put M. Night Shyamalan on the map (a map he successfully got himself off shortly after), but the main thing people remember is that Bruce Willis is dead, despite his character being the simple way into the more interesting action for most of the film. If someone doesn't know the twist odds are they're living under a rock (or at least avoiding the Internet) - it's the only thing anyone ever talks about regarding The Sixth Sense. Similar to Citizen Kane revealing the twist makes an initially uninteresting film seem to have a point This twist is so big that I'm fairly certain it was legit to reveal it the moment the film came out. It had definitely reached cultural saturation in less than five years. Oceans Twelve, a film whose biggest laugh was that Julia Roberts looks like Julia Roberts had it as a recurring joke throughout its excruciating middle section.