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Turns out it was Earth the whole time, and it was people!
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Captain Monkey posted:What? I thought he just went religious crazy. From what I remember, yeah, it was just religious awe, which happens elsewhere in the movie too.
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May 23, 2021 00:28
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Cowslips Warren posted:Other than The Sixth Sense for pretty much being the first in its generation, what movies do the twist ending with any real decency? The original Planet of the Apes.
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May 23, 2021 00:36
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yeah I eat rear end posted:I thought shutter island had a pretty decent twist. It's very obvious when you rewatch it but I didn't see it coming when I first watched it. Yeah I appreciated that. There’s a lot of little details I didn’t notice or know what to make of the first time through
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May 23, 2021 00:40
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Cowslips Warren posted:Other than The Sixth Sense for pretty much being the first in its generation, what movies do the twist ending with any real decency? Arlington Road was pretty good for this.
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May 23, 2021 00:45
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In Thor Ragnarok, Thor really shouldn’t be bothered by Hulk being naked in the hot tub. He’s a god, 1500 years old, and has probably been in thousand of orgies and around drunks forever. Nudity shouldn’t bother him.
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May 23, 2021 01:19
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Maybe hulk has a weird dick
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May 23, 2021 01:27
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christmas boots posted:Maybe hulk has a weird dick
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May 23, 2021 01:39
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Tbh I think that’s worse than if it were, say, broccoli or something
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May 23, 2021 01:46
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It looks exactly like Loki's helmet.
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When the inevitable 'Project Hail Mary' movie comes out, that will be a fun (if minor) twist if they leave it in.
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Cowslips Warren posted:Other than The Sixth Sense for pretty much being the first in its generation, what movies do the twist ending with any real decency? I haven't seen it in maybe a decade or so at this point so not sure how it holds up but I remember being pretty blindsided by Jim Carrey's character faking an AIDS diagnosis in I Love You Phillip Morris. That's not really a twist ending though, just a twist I guess
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May 23, 2021 03:27
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Blood Nightmaster posted:I haven't seen it in maybe a decade or so at this point so not sure how it holds up but I remember being pretty blindsided by Jim Carrey's character faking an AIDS diagnosis in I Love You Phillip Morris. That's not really a twist ending though, just a twist I guess
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May 23, 2021 03:57
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I thought Hulk’s broccoli dick was canon.
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Post Your Favorite (or Request): I'm existing just for listing!!! › Irrationally Irritating Movie Moments: Maybe hulk has a weird dick
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May 23, 2021 15:10
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Cowslips Warren posted:Other than The Sixth Sense for pretty much being the first in its generation, what movies do the twist ending with any real decency? Unbreakable The Prestige Bad movies for some reasons maybe and I haven't seen them in years but I also want to say Swordfish and Basic
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May 23, 2021 15:36
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christmas boots posted:Yeah I appreciated that. There’s a lot of little details I didn’t notice or know what to make of the first time through A good twist ending makes the movie fun to rewatch, without making you feel like the movie's trying to make you feel stupid. Recontextualising things is fun, and it's the good way to do a myth arc and a mystery.
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May 23, 2021 15:39
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Recontextualising This is the key to any decent twist of any kind in fiction. If the twist doesn't recontextualize what has previously been presented its not really anything at all. Turns out context matters who knew!
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May 23, 2021 15:42
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Cowslips Warren posted:Other than The Sixth Sense for pretty much being the first in its generation, what movies do the twist ending with any real decency? The Informant! does a good job of this, with the idea that the voice-over is not some omniscient descriptor for the audience's benefit as is often the case, but instead diagetic voices in Matt Damon's head and a symptom of his mental illness.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:I thought shutter island had a pretty decent twist. It's very obvious when you rewatch it but I didn't see it coming when I first watched it. I was going to post that one myself. It was ruined for me because I'd read the book first but Scorcese still did a good job on it. The Mist was the first one I thought of though. Others (spitballing here): Get Out Knives Out Momento Psycho Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Gone Girl (spoiled again from reading the book) Chinatown Primal Fear Scream Gone Baby Gone Us The Shining (arguable twist) Saw (someone mentioned) Friday the 13th Inglorious Basterds Joker (arguable twist) Seven Escape From New York Empire Strikes Back House of Games there's a lot of good ones... Hell, I'll throw in the finale of Newhart! too
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Some of those raise the question of what is a twist versus a reveal. In Friday the 13th, for example, you know for the whole movie that there's a murderer, and all it does is reveal who that murderer is. By that logic every Murder She Wrote has a twist. I originally put "every Agatha Christie novel" in there, but I'd say stuff like And Then There Were None (or whatever racist title you know it by) and Murder on the Orient Express do indeed have twists. But I don't know if I can define the difference between "the Butler did it" and those ones.
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The movie ending of The Mist apparently had Stephen King pretty much going 'drat, I wish I'd thought of that'.
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rydiafan posted:Some of those raise the question of what is a twist versus a reveal. Yeah, that's a good point. I was just doing a stream of conscious list of movies that popped into my stoned head. But I think it's fair to call the Friday the 13th reveal a "twist", if for no other reason than no one expected the murderer to be a (old) woman. Even Scream, one of the other movies on my dumb list, uses this to make a little twist of its own in the very first scene. But you're right that "whodunnits" are kind of cheating. That Mist ending punched me in the gut hard. I watched that movie shortly after my son was born and wasn't loving having it. E: I'll add the original Bad News Bears to the list, even though that's a stretch and it's not really a twist so much as a subversion of expectations. In any other movie like this, the underdog team always wins but Kelly Leak is tagged out at home to end the game vs the hated Yankees and nobody expected that. BiggerBoat has a new favorite as of 17:38 on May 23, 2021 |
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BiggerBoat posted:I'll add the original Bad News Bears to the list, even though that's a stretch and it's not really a twist so much as a subversion of expectations. In any other movie like this, the underdog team always wins but Kelly Leak is tagged out at home to end the game vs the hated Yankees and nobody expected that. That's still not a twist, I think. A twist is a change in the original premise. "The Bears try to win a game, will they?" is the premise. A twist might be: "The Bears were intentionally trying to lose all along!" Same thing with "Who murdered the victim?" It doesn't matter who it was, if that premise is still intact, it's not a twist. A twist would be: "The victim is not dead."
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lord funk posted:That's still not a twist, I think. A twist is a change in the original premise. "The Bears try to win a game, will they?" is the premise. A twist might be: "The Bears were intentionally trying to lose all along!" It's really not worth getting into what is/isn't a twist. You're gonna end up with people going "this movie I never heard of but found on TNT one morning was a twist!" And it'll be like Predator
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I dunno, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd had a twist ending.
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A very tiny semantic one in an otherwise fun episode of a show I love - Chilling Adventures of Sabrina season 4, episode 2 - why the hell did the Revelation spell work on the Uninvited like that? It wasn't a glamour that was put on him, he'd just had a bath and changed his clothes, so that WAS kind of the real him, but him after a day of looking after himself and not looking like a deranged hobo for a change. It's not like Blackwood magicked him pretty, he just bathed him and gave him a suit.
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For movies with a good twist, I love The Game, but that's from 1997.
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"Sleight" has to be the dumbest ending for a movie I've seen. It starts out as a standard "guy gets in over his head in drug dealing" and then it transitions to a bunch of handwavy "physics" that leads to him basically being magneto. It instantly turned the movie from a "this is OK, nothing special but I don't hate that I spent time watching it" to "what a waste of time, I hate it".
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I guess if you're going to call The Sixth Sense the first one, you need to then include Fight Club, which came out like a month later. Regardless of its connection to just the worst sort of white male shitlord, think back to when you first saw the scene, "it's called a changeover. The movie goes on, and no one in the audience has any idea". That scene put my jaw on the loving floor.
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BioEnchanted posted:A very tiny semantic one in an otherwise fun episode of a show I love - Chilling Adventures of Sabrina season 4, episode 2 - why the hell did the Revelation spell work on the Uninvited like that? It wasn't a glamour that was put on him, he'd just had a bath and changed his clothes, so that WAS kind of the real him, but him after a day of looking after himself and not looking like a deranged hobo for a change. It's not like Blackwood magicked him pretty, he just bathed him and gave him a suit. I really enjoyed the first season or two of CAOS but the fourth season is pretty much a stinker. Especially the ending.
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IUG posted:For movies with a good twist, I love The Game, but that's from 1997. One of my favorite movies. “I got drugged and left for dead in Mexico and all I got was this T-shirt”
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Baron von Eevl posted:I really enjoyed the first season or two of CAOS but the fourth season is pretty much a stinker. Especially the ending. Eh, I'm enjoying season 4 so far, the Eldritch Terrors are interesting enough. not a fan of the plot point of Roz being a witch all along though.
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I was reminded of the existence of Big Bad Beetleborgs the other day. Even as a kid, I was struck by the lack of thematic cohesion between the wacky friendly Univeral Classic Monsters-esque dudes and the tokusatsu robot alien guys.
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FreshFeesh posted:I felt Army of the Dead was lacking overall, but one thing that really bugs me about modern heist movies is the inevitable heel turn, no matter how clearly broadcast it is beforehand. Why did the company man betray the group anyway? If the real prize was the My gf and I watched that a couple days ago, and yeah that movie had a lot of weird issues. We asked the exact same thing about the mom, she just vanishes and is never mentioned again. The biggest issue I had with the film is that it's just filled with incrediy stupid people whose stupidity gets everyone killed. Geeta, for going in like an idiot, Kate for following her in like an idiot, then running off despite not even knowing if Geeta was alive or if she was even in the Olympus, the whole crew for not just locking themselves in the safe until the bombs cleared, the company man for trying to get people killed for reasons(?), Guzeman's friend not yelling out that company man tried to get her killed, Guzeman for not shooting the zombies around her, Coyote for staying behind despite the fact that getting on the chopper with the head as a hostage would've seen her escape, etc. Yikes, many words. Also why the gently caress (I'd say this is a spoiler but it's literally never addressed at any point in the film) were there robot zombies????? And why does no one ever mention it?
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The theme song makes it abundantly clear.quote:Three Typical Average kids Perfectly reasonable.
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tfw you free a ghost and it turns you into a beetleborg
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Morpheus posted:Yikes, many words. Also why the gently caress (I'd say this is a spoiler but it's literally never addressed at any point in the film) were there robot zombies????? And why does no one ever mention it? Thank you! I knew I had forgotten at least one other thing. It seems like such an insane element to keep in the movie when it’s never referenced before or after.
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FreshFeesh posted:Thank you! I knew I had forgotten at least one other thing. It seems like such an insane element to keep in the movie when it’s never referenced before or after. I remember seeing one get shot in the head and fall down and it looked like a terminator head but I thought nah I must have misinterpreted what I saw that makes no sense on several levels
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