1. "Surprise! You Slept With the Daughter of One of Your Mortal Enemies! Here's a Knife!" - The Dark Knight Rises
For months, Marion Cotillard (one of the greatest living actresses of our time) had to blatantly lie to fans and speculators about her role in
The Dark Knight Rises. And maybe we were asking for this, because her reveal as Talia is not only the most drawn-out, absurdly exposition-y five minutes of the movie, but it was so completely predictable by Batfans that we all just sort of sat there and watched slack-jawed all the credit seemingly slide from Bane to Talia. No, I no longer think Bane was "just a henchmen" but I certainly do think the character got the rug pulled out from under his feet in that monologue. It's not even that a lot of people didn't
not see it coming, it's just that a lot of us hoped that it would have felt a bit more complete instead of so off-the-cuff, how-many-twists-can-we-get-in-here, and "gotcha!" inducing. Tsk, Mr. Nolan. Of course, I've already stated that your final twist did sort of win me back over.