![]() ![]() Unfortunately, 1999 (a banner year for cinema) was the last time any movie ending was capable of shocking viewers in such a way. View full post on Youtube Why twist endings can no longer match The Sixth Sense ![]() Somewhere in the world every day, a grade school teacher comes to work on a bad day, faces one too many obnoxious brats, and has a straight-up Stuttering Stanley meltdown. Another teacher got pissed off at someone's yapping and threw the blackboard eraser at his (my) head. When I was a kid, I watched my math teacher send a boy to the principal, slam the door behind him, and accidentally shatter the door's glass into the hallway. It's not hard to find a story about a grade school teacher who lost his or her temper. The Stuttering Stanley scene connected with current and former students everywhere to add a sense of familiarity to the film. He didn't take the bumblebee pendant, dammit! Stuttering Stanley Only a sociopath could look at that poor little ghost whisperer and not obsess over protecting him. Crowe's failing marriage often seemed like an irrelevant distraction from the plot's heart. The audience grew so preoccupied with Cole's supernatural curse that Dr. ![]() Naturally, little Cole seized control of viewers' empathy from the moment the kitchen cabinets opened mysteriously and trouble started brewing. If that kid were your nephew, you'd take him out for ice cream every week just to meet women. If Mara Wilson and Macaulay Culkin had a child, it would be 1999 Haley Joel Osment, the quintessential baby face o' profundity. Anyone who claims he saw it coming wears his pants afire, because The Sixth Sense did everything right. Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis) was dead until the last scene of the movie. But none of that was enough to truly expose the A-bomb ending.įirst-time viewers had no idea that Dr. Sure, there was a lot of red stuff, and that door handle got some conspicuous screen time. Sure, he wore the same shirt, his wife ignored him, and it was cold all the time. The Sixth Sense met The Usual Suspects standard, and that will never be outdone. Postmillennial films like Identity and Memento were excellent in the same pursuit, but the '90s were the greatest era of plot-warping finale mind enemas to ever grace the silver screen. The Sixth Sense came out 15 years ago today, and it still contains the greatest twist ending since its release. ![]()
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