I recently saw The Orphanage and mildly enjoyed it, but afterward, when I thought about it, it was REALLY clever. I.e. the way that the director diverted the two narratives to logically portray the ghost story alongside the ingeniously simple and obvious truth.

Can you think of any?

I very much thought that Pan's Labyrinth was quite clever- the imagery of the two horns everywhere mixed with the girl's fantastic adventures that were all analogous to her reality made the film quite amazing for me...

the usual suspects and se7en

won't say much more but both are absolutely brilliant

Inside Man. You have to watch it twice- once to get the wow effect and once to say 'Oh, those clever people'.

I personally thought The Village was kinda clever. People razzed it to much in my opinion. I liked it. But thats just me. I'm strange that way.

meatloaf231:
Memento was pretty cool

I agree.

It got a bit over hyped, but I have to admit that The Sixth Sense totally fooled me. I didn't realize the main character was dead until the end of the movie.

Just about every Alfred Hitchcock movie from the TV series was superbly clever. They don't make plot twists like that anymore. I've played a game with friends before where you watch a Hitchcock movie that none of you have seen before and write down who you think the villian is or what you think the ending will be (depends on what the story is about). Then you see who was right at the end of the film. It's harder than it sounds.

Luck Number Slevin was damn good! One of my top 5 movies.

haha! You couldn't figure out that Bruce Willis was dead in sixth sense, you suck!

Not really. I had to watch it a second time just to make sure they didn't actually hint that he was dead. Seriously, it's pure greatness. If you ever show it to somebody who has never heard of it and even hint at the twist, you are a dick.

If we can include anime I'd put in Evangelion, where they make the annoyingly silent girl the end-boss and have her devour all the people in the world.

gamebrain89:
I personally thought The Village was kinda clever. People razzed it to much in my opinion. I liked it. But thats just me. I'm strange that way.

i also though that it was a nice movie, the problem is that the trailers made the ublic think that it was something diferent

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gamebrain89:
I personally thought The Village was kinda clever. People razzed it to much in my opinion. I liked it. But thats just me. I'm strange that way.

i also though that it was a nice movie, the problem is that the trailers made the ublic think that it was something diferent

Yes, and Heaven forbid the public should have something unexpected happen to them every once in a while, lol

The Score, with Robert Deniro and Edward Norton. All of the trailers made you think that the movie was going one direction, but then it pulls the rug out from under you with an out-of-nowhere twist and rolls the credits.

gim73:
If we can include anime I'd put in Evangelion, where they make the annoyingly silent girl the end-boss and have her devour all the people in the world.

agreed... my brother made me watch the movie without watching the series =O my brain still studders about it once in a while. i'm not exactly sure what happened to them still... but i'm still afraid to watch that movie again
But i'd say that Inside Man was pretty good, i haven't seen momento but i heard that was pretty good too

Brick is one of cleverist films I've ever seen. Cleverly written, the plot was clever, the dialogue was clever (and unique), and the way it was shot was clever. I just love the film all together and won't stop singing its praises until everyone has seen it. The best film noir movie since Pulp Fiction modernized it before it.

And while we are at it, Pulp Fiction was an extremely clever movie which told three different interconnecting stories from three different view points using awesome and witty dialogue along with an everyday sensebility. Love that movie, one of my favorites.

One of my favorite all-time movies, The Boondock Saints has a very captivating way of sucking you into the story by giving you the end result and then piecing it all together. Not to mention how full of awesome the last 15 minutes or so are.

Also, cat + shotgun = funny as hell.

The Fountain was a pretty clever movie, but i thought it was about something very different because none of the reviewers understood the movie. Me and my friends litterally had an hour long discussion to prove we knew what it was about

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blackadvent:
Inside Man. You have to watch it twice- once to get the wow effect and once to say 'Oh, those clever people'.

Wow, I thought I was the only person who ever watched that movie and enjoyed it. I agree, extremely clever movie. I also agree about The Usual Suspects. I love any heist/crime movie with an interesting twist.

I liked Inside Man, but I didn't feel the need to watch it twice (watched it on a plane to Australia, so in fact I watched it one and a half times.)

I'll sum up with one line. "After that, my guess is that you will never hear from him again. The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. And like that... he's gone."

Snatch, Fight Club.

Momento was really good. The guy has a memory that wipes after a few hours, so film runs backwards :)

blackadvent:
Inside Man. You have to watch it twice- once to get the wow effect and once to say 'Oh, those clever people'.

Yeah I watched that recently, that was a really unique movie amongst the heap of heist films.

I thought American Beauty to be clever with it's little "whodunit" thing at the end. It's not a big storytwist or anything, but it shows nicely how something gets unneccesary complicated when you count too many factors in.

Also, it was great to see in 28 days later

Mister Shades:
Momento was really good. The guy has a memory that wipes after a few hours, so film runs backwards :)

Not quite right- he cannot commit anything new to long term memory, so his memory lasts only for the duration of short term memory- mere seconds.
On the dvd, there's an option to run the film in chronological order, i.e. in reverse.

I thought the butterfly effect was pretty good. Some of my favorite movies are lock,stock and two smoking barrels, snatch and Lucky Number Slevin which I think are all clever. Also, Se7en was very clever.
WARNING SPOILER ALERT: Did anyone else think that at the end of Se7en, Pitts character would kill himself? Seeing as how all the other committers of the sins died? I though it was odd that he went to jail, I thought a murder-suicide was in order to drive the message home.

The Devil's Backbone.
Unbreakable.
Donnie Darko.
Reservoir Dogs.

I totally agree with most of these; I think of all the "twist" movies mentioned, my favorite is The Village, because I totally worked it out as I was watching, as it made perfect sense - i.e. maybe it's smarter to me because it didn't take a character explaining the twist or little flashbacks - I literally figured it out just before the reveal. It's a really smart movie - I think that maybe the reason a lot of people didn't like it is because the central deception didn't even cross their minds and maybe they felt a bit cheated.

If you watch the movie again, you see that Shyamalan built a fully cohesive piece that isn't just about the twist and really shows off how brilliant a director he can be. This is coming from someone that didn't really like Unbreakable by the way, so I'm not an M. Night fanboy.

As an aside, my favorite game plot twist was the revelations about the The Boss' motives in MGS3 : Naked Snake. It was so obvious but I didn't call it. I still listen to Starsailor Way to Fall all the time.

Also, Donnie Darko deserves an additional mention because it assembles a new set of rules, immerses you in that world and then breaks your heart.

But not on first viewing. On first viewing it makes no sense.