Which book or movie has the best mind bending ending you've seen?

And speaking of Jean Claude van Damme.... I really really liked his JCVD movie....

He plays him self, going back home to Belgium, the French speaking part, lots of poverty, closed mines etc., he goes into a bank, when he's in there the bank gets robbed, everything goes wrong, hostage situation and before you know it it's on CNN etc. "Van Damme takes hostages at bank heist", it's hilarious.... The movie end with him, just him, looking into the camera talking about his career, getting cleaned out by divorce, cocaine addiction, it's pretty amazing really....

Donnie Darko
2010 (2001 sequel)
The Thing

Come on nobody...?

The first rule of fight club.

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BEST fucking war movie ever made:

Memento is excellent.

The whole movie is mind bending, told from the point of view of a guy with anterograde amnesia (incapable of forming short-term memories), so he can't remember what he did a few minutes ago.

Meanwhile, this guy is looking to avenge the death of his wife, setting up systems to remember the clues he found before forgetting them, and finding himself in dangerous situations without remembering why.

Since we're seeing everything from his point of view, what happened a few minutes ago is a mystery for the audience too, until the big reveal at the end. So we get treated to cool scenes like this:


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Da

For a Netflix watch it was riveting

When mother closes the door to the shipping container...damn son

That’s was an hour & 1/2 waste of time

:)

Hollywood production :) I don't waste much time on those kind of movies, here and there some ok stuff coming out, I liked Ad Astra with Pitt, beautifully made.....

Now this one was a work of pure genius :)

This is funny as hell:



And somehow makes me think of this one, Ron Perlman's first real movie, Quest For Fire:

Pandorum. Good movie too.

The Devil's Advocate is pretty on point.

Didn't see his post there.

I looked it up though...

Predestination.

It will fuck with your head for a long time.

Predestination is a fantastic movie!

Yeah Predestination, you wanna see another really really good time travel movie, PRIMER!!!

It'll mess with your head too, total cult movie and one of the cheapest made movies ever, it cost them around $7000 to make (and grossed $545,436 World wide)

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12 Monkeys...the best.

The Primer movie that was just suggested is good if you like the intellectual aspects of time travel more than the movie production type excitement of it. I liked it, but I remember it being a bit lacking in the overall entertainment department.

Another movie that I liked better about time travel of sorts is Time Lapse. It is a better movie fit for most people out looking for an interesting and enjoyable film that is also thought provoking.

The Crying Game left me crying...

If you're looking for more of a mainstream thriller, I remember The Others being good and it has a unique ending.

Thanks for the tip!

Source Code

Also the new Knives Out was entertaining with unexpected twists

Frailty - Bill Paxton - have to see to the end
The Game - Michael Douglas - rich man finds...
Equilibrium - Christian Bale future dystopian
Travelers - Netflix time travel series Eric McCormack
Law Abiding Citizen - Gerard Butler - mans family gets killed & then ...
White Noise - Michael Keaton - wife dies and tries to communicate..


Predestination - Ethan Hawke - Personally did not like it but what a mind fuck -.- one you wish you could bleach your mind of (assuming this is the movie another poster was referring to which cannot been unseen)

Mind-bending, huh? Setting the bar kinda high.... lessee...
First movie that comes to mind is The Usual Suspects. Watching "Verbal"Kint (Kevin Spacey) morphing into Keyser Soze as he strolls away from the police station remains one of my favorite movie endings to date.
Say what you will about Kevin Spacey there's no denying that the man is a brilliant actor.
As for books, it's been WAY too long since I actually read an entire book. Not sure why, in my youth I was a voracious reader. Now, if it weren't for road signs and menus I probably wouldn't read five words a day.

yes. can't scrub it out....

The Prestige

Rant: The Oral Biography of Buster Casey
Novel by Chuck Palahniuk

Jacobs Ladder

Angel Heart

Agree, love Memento! :D

Good call