5. Movies Built Entirely Around Twists
Because
The Sixth Sense existed at one point in time, it now means that society has a strange itch for movies that culminate in shocking twist endings. And although those kinds of movie are fine from time to time, it does seem like we've reached a point in cinema history where twist endings feel a little cheap. Back when M. Night Shyamalan pulled the rug out from under our feet in the late '90s, you have to remember that it was genuinely shocking to discover Bruce Willis was a ghost, because twist endings were still something of a rarity. But, as with everything, we've taken this trope one step too far - now we get movies that exist
entirely for the sake of their twists. The problem with this, of course, is that you're stretching out up to 2 hours of story in the hope that you're going to shock audiences into liking your movie 'cause it's clever and stuff, when the bulk of it has been shoe-horned in. Very few twists are genuinely clever, because they jeopardise everything that came before it. Worst of all, twists like this almost always render a movie unwatchable for that second viewing.