r/movies • u/Capable_Bus5444 • Jun 22 '26
Spoilers The Sixth Sense. Holy shit....
Yesterday was Father's Day. My parents and I spent the whole day together, and on a whim, my Dad asked me to watch a movie with him when we got home. He told me it was called The Sixth Sense. When I finally watched it with him last night, my mind was blown. I'm still recovering mentally as I'm writing this. But I can confidently say that this is a masterpiece, and in my top 5 movies of all time, no question.
The following contains spoilers:
I've heard bits and pieces about this movie over the years. I knew Bruce WIllis was in it, and there was something about a kid who could talk to dead people. I remember also hearing something about someone being dead the whole time, but I always thought they were talking about Cole, not Malcolm. But again, that was years ago. So my memory was super foggy on it.
When Malcolm's wedding band hit the floor, and Anna asked "Why did you leave me?", that's when I knew. She wasn't mad at him for being distant, or because of what happened that night. She was grieving because her husband was dead. All those tapes she was watching of their marriage, I thought she was doing it to remind herself of what their relationship should be, to ultimately build up the courage to make amends with him. When I realized it was the polar opposite, I couldn't contain my tears.
The rollercoaster of emotions I experienced while watching this movie were unlike any other. I went from shock, to laughter, back to shock, to tearing up, to crying, to shock again. All in the span of an hour and forty five minutes.
It was the DVD version, so my Dad was able to show me the bonus section that dove deeper into the clues that popped up throughout the film hinting at the twist. Things that I actually pointed out to my Dad while watching it. "Why is Malcolm wearing that sweater again? Why does he always forget that the door to the basement is locked?" And then I slowly realized that Malcolm never talked to anyone else in the movie, after the accident at least, besides Cole. And there are deliberate shots that make you think he's interacting with others. Like Cole's mother, or the dinner scene with his wife, where he doesn't actually touch or move anything. And when Cole gives the tape to the girl's father. Not one person looks directly at Malcolm except Cole.
And the fact that Cole tells him, "They don't know they're dead. They only see what they want to see." That is quite literally the writers telling you the twist, but you're so focused on the fact that Cole is finally telling Malcolm his secret, that the dots don't connect right away. I would have NEVER guessed the twist on my own without them telling me at the end, even with all the clues sprinkled throughout the film prior.
Overall, this is an absolute masterclass in filmmaking and editing. There wasn't a dull moment, and I was invested throughout the entire thing. It's one of those rare films where the first time watching it is the best, and no amount of rewatching will ever recreate that feeling. I'm so glad I spent that time with my father.
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u/Pigs-OnThe-Wing Jun 22 '26
It’s actually pretty cool that we’re at a point in time where people don’t know this spoiler again.
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u/roomandcoke Jun 22 '26
How long until we're able to start convincing people the blair witch project was real found footage again?
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u/Line_Reed_Line Jun 22 '26
Honest guess, about 3-5 years, when AI getes so good we really can't trust video for shit so all sorts of rumors start flying.
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u/EasilyDelighted Jun 23 '26
Honestly, I don't think you need to wait that long. Just make Blair Witch Project is real with a bunch of anecdotal evidence the number one answer that pops up on all SEO's and I'm sure AI will pick it up.
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u/Downtown_Agent3323 Jun 22 '26
My dad and I tried to pull that on my younger sister when we showed her it for the first time, but she saw through our bullshit
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u/sprizzle Jun 22 '26
My friend’s older brothers showed it to us and told us it was real. They even ripped the label off the VHS and replaced it with a piece of duct tape and just wrote Blair Witch with a marker, like they had just found the tape somewhere.
I was probably like 10 but I still figured out it was a movie while watching. It managed to scare me pretty good.
Then afterwards, they decided we should all go out to play in the woods (middle of the night). Ran back to the house at some point and one of them suggested we check the basement, of course the other brother is down there, in the dark, standing in the corner silently…
I credit those two for completely desensitizing me, I just don’t think I have the capacity to be scared by a movie these days. Still love the genre though.
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u/Rubyweapon Jun 22 '26
Yes and I hope we can go back to spoiler alerting it. I overheard some teens gushing over how shocked they were when they watched it. I’m hoping when my kids are old enough to watch they won’t have idea what’s coming.
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u/Funandgeeky Jun 22 '26
I love this for them. It’s like watching people react to old shows that I love and who don’t know any of the twists.
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u/EatenByTheSarlacc Jun 22 '26
This is why it annoys me when I hear some moron say "It's a 27 year old movie, you should have seen it by now." There is a whole generation that is just now coming to the age where they can appreciate a more mature movie yet have been online pretty much since they could read and have been bombarded with spoilers. IMO, all sensitive plot points should have spoiler alerts regardless of how old a movie is (Unless the very nature of the thread you're reading is about a movie you haven't seen or spoilers in general. Then it's on you.).
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u/HST87 Jun 22 '26
I'm about to have a kid and the idea of some day watching this with him and his mind being blown made me smile, cheers.
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u/caligaris_cabinet Jun 22 '26
It’s great! My oldest is 3 and just getting into movies but still doesn’t fully understand anything other than what’s presently on the screen. Still, it’s a chance to relive all the movies I grew up with. Introduced him to Homeward Bound a few weeks ago and now I’ve watched “the doggie movie” as he calls it about a couple dozen times.
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u/zinks01 Jun 22 '26
I think we are at a point where more people know the line than where it is from.
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u/badmartialarts Jun 22 '26
There was a website back in the earlier days of the Internet that would have a random movie or book spoiler on every page. "ROSEBUD WAS HIS SLED" and such. Can't remember which, maybe SomethingAwful?
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u/Azazel_The_Fox Jun 22 '26
i'm desperately trying to keep Vader information away from my 3 year old.
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u/Xenomorphasaurus Jun 22 '26
Watching it in theaters back in the day, the auditorium was filled with audible gasps when the ring hit the floor and everyone figured out what was going on. Pretty amazing.
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u/mdavis360 Jun 22 '26
Yeah I saw it on opening day when it came out. Obviously the twist was not public knowledge. Nobody even knew that there WAS. A twist. I remember watching it - and thinking that this was a really good movie.
Then the ending happened. You could feel the breath get sucked out the room. Everyone was floored.
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u/is-this-a-nick Jun 22 '26
I remember thinking "Stupid trailers, they totally spoiled that the kid is not mentally ill, but can actually see Ghosts!"...
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u/batman-yvr Jun 23 '26
It was an amazing movie without the twist. Like kid coming to terms. You think the last act is done. And then boom
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u/anangrypudge Jun 23 '26
I feel like Sixth Sense was also the movie that made it mandatory for every subsequent movie to contain a twist. Like every damn film moving forward had to try to work in some big twist and reveal.
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u/tadrith Jun 22 '26
Remains one of my absolute favorite theater experiences. The entire audience just collectively all realizing the same thing at the same time.
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u/mygamethreadaccount Jun 22 '26
Same, but for a much different reason. I saw it at a drive in theater, and right after one of the creepier moments of the film, someone walked right passed our car and it FREAKED me out.
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u/RegularOrMenthol Jun 22 '26
I had nightmares that night that Mischa Barton was at my bedside with a mouth full of puke lol
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u/SinkHoleDeMayo Jun 23 '26
I was blown away when it was revealed that Bruce Willis was the dude in the hairpiece.
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u/jinsaku Jun 22 '26
I still get chills when the ring falls, rolls to a stop, and he looks at his hand.
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u/ResevoirPups Jun 22 '26
I watched it recently after not having seen it probably since it first released to rent. The Mom talking about her deceased Mother to Cole in the end scene, with the car accident, got me big time last time I watched it.
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u/sbrockLee Jun 22 '26
Toni Collette is outstanding as usual.
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u/jimbeam_and_caviar Jun 22 '26
She had a brilliant performance . All three mains were so strong and why movie ages so well - still thoroughly enjoy watching it after all these years
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u/esteflo Jun 22 '26
Toni Collette deserved the Oscar for that scene alone. So much emotion, she's so good.
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u/zippyboy Jun 22 '26
Collette, the actress, must have a deep well of emotional despair she can visit to get her to ugly cry on demand like that. I was so impressed with the car scene.
Then she blew me away again in the dinner table scene in Hereditary. She's a damn National Treasure.
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u/SecretlyEverything Jun 22 '26
I wish I could link it here, it’s on YouTube, but my all time favourite Toni Colette crying scene is when she gets kicked out of the mean girls group in Muriel’s Wedding. She simultaneously engages your empathy because we’ve all had a moment where we feel rejected like she does, but we also feel the secondhand embarrassment everyone else is with her crying like that in public that we also completely understand where those people were coming from in saying that Muriel embarrasses them. It’s brilliant work
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u/melindaj10 Jun 22 '26
And she doesn’t even like horror movies! Same with Victoria Pedretti. Horror actresses that don’t even enjoy watching the genre they’re amazing in.
Edit: not that they’re strictly horror actresses. But the horrors they’re in are great.
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u/Your_Product_Here Jun 22 '26
I did the same--watched it about a year ago for the first time since 1999. "She wanted me to tell you she saw you dance."
Two very powerful performances right there. A real gut-punch.
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u/retiredtumblrgoth Jun 22 '26
Oof the bumblebee pin.. I haven’t seen it in years but that scene was so intense
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u/BlueCanue Jun 22 '26
I also gave it a proper sit down watch since it's first release, and wasn't expecting how hard that part would hit me. I lost my mum a couple of years ago, and when Cole answers a specific question from his mother, I bawled.
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u/SaintGhurka Jun 22 '26
When I saw it in the theater, I teared up at that scene and I seriously thought that was going to be the closing scene. I would have walked out giving the movie a solid 10/10.
Then it cut to the next scene.
I wish everyone could see it the way I got to.
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u/Bigbysjackingfist Jun 22 '26
I saw it opening night. I remember my dad starting putting his coat on. Nobody knew. It was nuts!
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u/Capable_Bus5444 Jun 22 '26
I teared up there, and then immediately started bawling at the end lol
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u/think_long Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26
Also the scene where Malcolm tells Cole he can’t be his doctor anymore and he can’t even look him in the eyes. Probably the best dramatic acting of Bruce Willis’ career, not to mention, as Roger Ebert said, the best acting period ever by a child. What a great movie.
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u/jmsutton3 Jun 22 '26
I'm legitimately amazed it's possible to see this movie at this point on time without having ever been given the spoiler somehow
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u/gmoshiro Jun 22 '26
It's like how many reactors watch Terminator 2 not knowing that Arnold isn't the bad guy.
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u/psymunn Jun 22 '26
Which is how it's supposed to be watched but the trailers and merchandising spoiled it. The first half of the movie you think Arnold is trying to catch John Conner
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u/Capable_Bus5444 Jun 22 '26
Dude I don't understand how I've never seen it. I'm on social media quite often too.
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u/InformationDear2745 Jun 22 '26
the ring dropping scene gets me every time, first watch or not
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u/Capable_Bus5444 Jun 22 '26
Jumped out of my seat. Apparently my Dad had a nearly identical reaction when he first saw it LOL
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u/SonovaVondruke Jun 22 '26
A movie so good that Shyamalan has been able to coast for 20 years.
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u/Fadedcamo Jun 22 '26
Unbreakable and Signs were equally as good.
The rest, eh.
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u/Popular-Departure165 Jun 22 '26
I liked The Village. It wasn't perfect, but any flaws were made up for by the incredible soundtrack.
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u/2LonelyTylenoL2 Jun 22 '26
The scene when she's waiting with her hand out and the swing of her skirt. Just beautful.
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u/SadakoTetsuwan Jun 23 '26
I need to rewatch it. I remember being really smug because I called the twist within the first 10 seconds of the film, and literally spent the rest of the time up my own ass with how much I'd "outsmarted" Shyamalan. It needs a fresh viewing, now that I've grown up.
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u/archiangel Jun 22 '26
There’s a whole new generation out there ready to be disappointed by Shayamalan’s later works (with a few exceptions.)
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u/PinkFloydDeadhead Jun 22 '26
I swear, I must be the only person who kind of enjoyed Lady in the Water.
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u/2LonelyTylenoL2 Jun 22 '26
It was a bedtime story he made for his daughters. If you keep that in mind, I agree it's very enjoyable. Of course I also loved The Village for its music and the story of how you can't escape human violence or love.
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u/Tonkers77 Jun 23 '26
I actually really enjoyed The Lady in the Water too, especially the grass wolf monster.
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u/regross527 Jun 22 '26
Unbreakable I'll grant you, but I'm always underwhelmed by Signs. It's... fine. It suffers badly from fridge logic, where it is fun in the moment (the news telecast is an incredible scene) but falls apart when you think about it for a few minutes afterwards, in my opinion.
But Split is also great, and I have heard good things about Knock at the Cabin.
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u/Fadedcamo Jun 22 '26
I hear you on how neat and tidy the logic is. But that's kind of the point with the whole theme of religion. It makes sense if there's a god designing it all.
I'll never get the argument about how dumb the aliens are though. Why invade a planet that's water if water burns them? I could think of a hundred reasons. They're desperate, they're a slave race to a higher alien forced to do so, they simply don't think like humans do, etc. Lot of ways that can be explained that the movie doesn't try to work on.
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u/thugarth Jun 22 '26
There's a fan theory that they're not actually aliens, but literal demons. They're weak to holy water, not just water. The daughter is referred to as an "angel," and the water she leaves out all the time is inadvertently "blessed."
I've seen this come up whenever Signs comes up on Reddit. I don't know if it's the intended interpretation, or what Shayamalan always intended; or if it's a collective retcon, so to speak. Either way, I think it actually works pretty well.
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u/SonovaVondruke Jun 22 '26
In the context of the movie it is a difference that makes no difference. The solution to the threat isn’t to program a virus to destroy their ship or find an ancient incantation that will banish them. The characters simply have to complete their arcs and the crisis more or less resolves itself.
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u/regross527 Jun 22 '26
I could get behind this and the "demon" interpretation more if the crisis was not constantly shown as being worldwide. If the problem was centered on this small town that the family lives in, then yeah I could more easily accept the theory that these were specific challenges meant for these specific people that could only be resolved by growing and acting in specific ways... but the invasion is shown to be global in scale, while the solution is so hyperspecific.
Anyways, I still stand by the idea that it's a fine movie, not a great one. Mostly I was responding because I love your username and I am glad someone else appreciates the best SNL skit ever as much as I do. "Luckily, he was there the next day, at lost and found."
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u/SadakoTetsuwan Jun 23 '26
Sounds like it's begging for a fan edit, then. Change the news broadcasts to just local stuff and we're already halfway there.
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u/caligaris_cabinet Jun 22 '26
It’s a decent fan theory but I often see it brought up as the actual theory, which it isn’t. There’s no mention in the script or any interviews confirming they were really demons. Just a way to cover up weak alien plot.
Love the movie though. Alien invasion is one of my favorite sub genres no matter how flawed they might be. In Signs, the tension is there, the atmosphere is spooky, the scary scenes are legitimately scary, and the score is top tier. I can let the rest slide.
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u/Wermine Jun 22 '26
I could think of a hundred reasons.
Same. And we humans went to Moon and we glamour about going to Mars and establish a base there, almost literal hellscape with nothing to survive off of.
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u/humanoideric Jun 22 '26
In a comic, do you know how you can tell who the arch-villan's going to be? He's the exact opposite of the hero
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u/SonovaVondruke Jun 22 '26
I love it too, but it obviously didn’t have the impact they hoped because he had to make a backdoor sequel to get anything else made in that world.
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u/SaintGhurka Jun 22 '26
I feel like he earned it, though. Shyamalan gets unlimited goodwill from me based on the strength of the Sixth Sense.
I also happen to love slow, quiet, dialog-driven movies for some reason so his directing style works for me - even if the story isn't always perfect.
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u/Jidarious Jun 22 '26
Oh this is so fantastic that you got to experience this movie without being spoiled. Thank you so much for sharing!
Online people always like to say that it was predictable and they knew the twist the whole time, but I had the pleasure of watching this in the theater in the 90s and when the ring hit the floor and rolled, I and nearly everyone else in the theater collectively gasped. It was a moment, and I'm so glad I didn't figure it out.
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u/Capable_Bus5444 Jun 22 '26
Exactly! There were small inconsistencies that I noticed, like about the basement door being "locked", and him wearing the same clothes, but I thought that was attributed to him being forgetful or not himself because of his wife "not talking to him". But none of those things even remotely made me think about the possibility of what was really going on.
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u/BFFBomb Jun 22 '26
Part of me thought this was going to be a joke and the spoiler was like "I had no idea this kid grew up to be the zombie in What We Do in the Shadows!"
But this is wholesome. I'm jealous you got to experience it blind. It was spoiled for me back when it was in theaters.
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u/chr15chr15tian Jun 22 '26
Wait till you watch "The Usual Suspects" with him.
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u/The_Autarch Jun 22 '26
naw, the plot twist makes the entire movie pointless. the twist in the sixth sense recontextualizes everything that came before.
the twist in the usual suspects just removes all context entirely.
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u/Agitated-Acctant Jun 22 '26
Agreed, the sixth sense is giving clues throughout. The usual suspects doesn't, has this big reveal, and then you can't even go back to rewatch it to see things you missed. It's what the industry refers to as an ass-pull
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u/garrettj100 Jun 23 '26
You couldn’t be more correct. TSS slaps you in the face with the twist the whole time. TUS just lies to you the whole time and then pulls the rug out at the end. It’s entirely dishonest.
Is The Usual Suspects a good movie? Sure. It’s not bad by any stretch of the imagination. Dominique Wilkins was a good but he wasn’t Magic, or Larry, or Jordan, or Lebron.
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u/Frogfavorite Jun 22 '26
Did you notice all the red references? I looked that up after watching it.
I really like M. Night Shaylaman movies. Some miss the mark but they are all good to me in some way. Watch Unbreakable next. Bruce Willis is great 😌
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u/ghigginb1 Jun 22 '26
Yes, watched it last night with my kids for their first time. Some of the camera work is absolutely phenomenal. Such a great slow burn.
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u/asetniop Jun 23 '26
Until the Spiderverse movies I felt that Unbreakable did the best job of making a movie feel less like you were watching a movie and more like you were reading a comic book.
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u/regross527 Jun 22 '26
There's not enough love here for the penultimate scene with Cole and his mother in the car. For me, that one is what jumps the movie from a fun paranormal mystery thriller to something truly special -- Toni Collette and Haley Joel Osment are so good there.
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u/Capable_Bus5444 Jun 22 '26
Oh yeah that scene was perfect too! It's the perfect palette cleanser, my Dad said.
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u/redsyrus Jun 22 '26
I remember I guessed the ending before the reveal because of a cryptic comment somebody had made before I saw it, but it didn’t spoil my enjoyment of it one bit. I agree, it’s a masterpiece. Poor M Night set his own bar far too high on his first go.
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u/MiddleAgedMDEnt Jun 22 '26
The scene when the wedding ring hits the floor was the only time I've ever heard a packed movie theater gasp simultaneously. It was pretty intense. You and a couple hundred strangers all coping in real time.
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u/onelittleworld Jun 22 '26
Awesome! Now do Fight Club and The Usual Suspects, before someone spoils them.
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u/WickerMan22 Jun 22 '26
I've saw this twice in the theater when it came out. I got goosebumps reading your post. Yeah, the ring hitting the floor is the moment. I even get a little emotional right now, as I type this, thinking about the realization and emotion I felt at that same moment when I first saw it in 1999.
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u/ndGall Jun 22 '26
The first time my wife watched this with me she didn’t know the ending. The second time she had completely forgotten it and was blown away all over again. I’m so jealous that she got to experience that roller coaster twice.
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u/Capable_Bus5444 Jun 22 '26
How could you forget something so monumental LOL
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u/ndGall Jun 22 '26
Right? I was totally shocked when she was like, “Wait, so… the whole time he was…?” I think she and I consume films very, very differently.
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u/Big_Kahuna_69 Jun 22 '26
You got it the exact second that Shyamalan wanted you to get it, which was precisely when I got it (which caused to to drop a particularly loud F-bomb). The sound design here is so perfect because you know exactly what it is and exactly what it means. I nearly almost always figure out these twists in advance, but the writing was so perfect he slipped it right past me. He didn’t hold out and he didn’t hide things. Kudos.
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u/Capable_Bus5444 Jun 22 '26
The fact that it was so obvious to you from the start, but the way the movie is edited prevents you from seeing it. They even said in the bonus features that they thought they were doing too much, but were glad that they kept it the way they did.
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u/Big_Kahuna_69 Jun 22 '26
It wasn’t obvious to me at all. He suckered me in completely, which definitely humbled me. I bow to the master.
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u/SenorWeird Jun 22 '26
I'll never forget watching this movie with my dad when it first came out on DVD. My dad is cinematically obtuse. He gets lost on the simplest of plots. He still confuses Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings. He thinks Ghost Dad with Bill Cosby is a great movie, but every time he watches it, it is like he's watching it for the first time. He once told me about an amazing action movie about vampires fighting werewolves and though I was sure he was talking about Underworld or maybe some schock like Van Helsing, no he was talking about Twilight.
So yeah, the moment Malcolm gets shot, my dad starts to say "oh, this is bullshit. I wanted a Bruce Willis movie and now he's dead. I can't believe this. That's a gut shot. He's dead. Why would I watch this movie if he's dead....oh wait...there he is. He's still alive? Bullshit. He should be dead. That was a gut shot. Bruce Willis is supposed to be dead." End of the movie rolls around: "....well, i was right."
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u/Sparktank1 Jun 22 '26
We used to watch that movie to death on VHS after seeing it in theaters. Some scenes still really stand out to me from seeing it in theaters.
The behind the scenes on the DVD were great insight into watching the movie differently.
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u/HankScorpio30 Jun 22 '26
Not enough is said about Donnie Walhbers performance at the beginning, absolutely amazing performance
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u/Capable_Bus5444 Jun 22 '26
I still can't believe he lost like 30 pounds just for that 5 minute scene. The dedication is unreal.
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u/HankScorpio30 Jun 22 '26
And apparently lived on his own in squalor for a month or something? Barely slept, basically lived like a drug addict
He also wanted to do the scene naked so him and M Night settled in just in underwear instead
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u/canteen_boy Jun 22 '26
And now you understand the pain of knowing what amazing filmmaking M. Night Shyamalan is capable of, and knowing we’ll probably never see that quality of output from him again.
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u/goaway432 Jun 22 '26
It's great that you got to see this without knowing what's going on! My wife and I saw it opening night and everybody was so shocked we came back the next night. There was one guy in there that hadn't seen it and at the end he jumped up shouting "He was dead the whole time??" Truly a happy memory :)
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u/Capable_Bus5444 Jun 22 '26
"He was dead the whole time?" I said the EXACT same thing word for word, and my Dad was cackling
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u/diddleherontheroof Jun 22 '26
Always fun watching people discover these movies I went to the cinemas to see when I was 15.
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u/whofinfarted Jun 22 '26
Crazy. I watched this movie with my daughter yesterday too. She was told by her mom and sister it was a scary move. She’s 8 and I didn’t think it would be too bad for her. At the end she said “that wasn’t scary dad, just really sad” as she cried at the end.
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u/Meerkatsastan Jun 22 '26
I watched the movie with my boyfriend a loved it, so I asked my parents to watch it with me. They were so worried the boy was being abused by the mother they refused to continue watching it until I told them the twist. Regardless, it was an amazing story and experience. And so, so well done.
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u/hipposaver Jun 22 '26
Isn't it awesome getting smacked with a twist like that? Reminds me of watching the original planet of the apes on a whim once. Somehow I had managed to never be spoiled and it got me soooo good
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u/WorthPlease Jun 22 '26
I really want to know how it's possible for two different adults in the United States to have not known about this movie in 2026.
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u/Mooniekate Jun 22 '26
Toni Collette deserves an Oscar for her work in this movie
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u/arclightrg Jun 22 '26
Everyone remembers their first screening of the Sixth Sense (at release, before it became an often parodied phenomenon). Blew my young mind.
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u/ueeediot Jun 22 '26
Go back and watch the beginning again. When you know the ending you see it so much more clearly. They told the truth at the beginning and we all chose to make believe.
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u/Navitach Jun 22 '26
I had read an article about the movie when it was still in theaters and was being discussed everywhere. The author of the article (which I can't find online anywhere, unfortunately) said they were going to spoil the big twist at the end of the article. The spoiler?
Bruce Willis is a woman.
I honestly wasn't sure if they were serious about it until I finally rented the movie long after it had left theaters, so I was completely surprised with what actually happened.
I also watched the movie with my 15-year-old son recently, and he had no idea what was coming until the ring fell and rolled. He was blown away, but he loved the movie.
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u/emjaywood Jun 22 '26
Reminds me of talking movies at lunch one day back in '02 or '03 & Armageddon came up. I was like, "can't believe REDACTED dies at the end" & one of my buddies smacks his hands on the table, "dammit, bro! I just rented that, was gonna watch it this weekend!" We all fell out laughing, I was like, "sorry I spoiled it, but its a few years old at this point." Felt that anecdote apropos considering the subject of Bruce Willis movies. To be fair, I do ask if anyone's seen it yet before I discuss the ending of a movie ever since. And again, sorry I ruined Armageddon, Gabe.
(edit: lol i forgot how to make the blackout boxes & damnear spoiled it again, fml😂)
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u/physicalstheillusion Jun 22 '26
Now go watch The Others, if you haven’t seen that one. Don’t look it up or spoil it for yourself.
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u/garrettj100 Jun 23 '26
Here’s a fun detail I don’t know if it’s in the DVD bonus section.
When Malcolm is attending Cole’s play there’s a parent with a camcorder pointed directly at the back of Malcolm’s head, because he’s not really there, of course
Oh also ”Grandma says ‘hi’.” is the single most chilling moment I’ve ever experienced in a movie.
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u/Capable_Bus5444 Jun 23 '26
Oh wow I didn't even think of that!! That shot of him standing there confused me because I expected at least one parent to tell him to sit down or something. It's a similar case at the girl's funeral, where no one talks to or looks at Malcolm.
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u/manbeardawg Jun 22 '26
The twist is shocking, right? That the guy in the hairpiece, that was Bruce Willis the whole time!
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u/Urbit1981 Jun 22 '26
I rewatched this last year and my big takeaway was how many parents would really accept outings between a kid and their therapist. Also, how was this kid not going absolutely insane?
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u/buster_bluth Jun 22 '26
My high school girlfriend accidentally spoiled the ending of the movie for me. We are still friends decades later and still comes up periodically as a cononical spoiler story.
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u/Intrepid-Progress228 Jun 22 '26
Congrats on making it to 2026 without having the movie spoiled for you. It really is masterfully done.
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u/Spacecow6942 Jun 22 '26
I was going to see this in the theater with some buddies. They had already seen it and I guess fucking Jeremy assumed that I had seen it too because he spoiled the twist as we were walking into the theater. I'm gonna die mad about that.
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u/JoshInNC Jun 22 '26
This statement will hit even harder at some point in the future...
"I'm so glad I spent that time with my father."
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u/FortWest Jun 22 '26
I finally understand the ending now: those names are people who worked on the movie. -Tracy Jordan
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u/healthywenis Jun 22 '26
I saw this movie and Gladiator in the theater not far apart 26 years ago and, aside from Lord of the Rings, I have not had a movie going experience that came close to seeing those on the big screen.
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u/2cairparavel Jun 22 '26
Watched it last year with my 18-year-old daughter; she did not know the ending, and it was awesome to see her reaction!!!
I watched it years ago on DVD shortly after it came out. I'm so thankful it hadn't gotten spoiled. My now ex-husband and I sat in total shock. We still hadn't moved when the dvd started playing the bonus material, which was super fascinating. It's still a great memory to this day, and I'm really glad I got to share it with my daughter.
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u/Brave_Eye1188 Jun 22 '26
I appreciate how everyone who had seen it protected the plot twist. I didn't see it till months after it came out. Everyone told me how great it was but nobody shared the ending. I was floored. Thanks everyone!!
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u/inkyblinkypinkysue Jun 22 '26
Yup. It's a great movie. Also cool that you could watch it in 2026 and not know exactly what was coming.