10 Movie Plot Twists That Punished Loyal Fans

8. Tom Webster Isn't Real (Last Christmas)

Last Christmas Emilia Clarke Henry Golding
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From the second its debut trailer came out, fans were predicting - despite the film being an original story - what the twist in festive rom-com Last Christmas would be. Nobody even knew that it definitely would have a twist, but the footage was so clearly pointing towards a certain outcome, that it just seemed like an inevitability.

Well, spoiler alert: it was.

Like a train speeding towards its next pre-assigned destination, the film reveals that Tom Webster (Henry Golding) isn't actually real, and that he can only be seen by miserable thirty-something retail worker Kate (Emilia Clarke).

Movie fans spent months saying that this would be the twist, and lo and behold, we were right. Even then, a lot of folks may have bought tickets with a glimmer of hope that the talented duo of director Paul Feig and writer Emma Thompson could come up with something a bit less predictable, but sadly, they could not.

Watching this movie and expecting something other than the blindingly obvious... and then getting the blindingly obvious. It felt like punishment for buying a ticket.

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