WTF Moments in Movies

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exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

I never understood the random sped-up chipmunk dialogue scene in Carrie, an otherwise 100% played straight horror film. Why does this exist? Who thought it added anything to the movie?

# ¿ May 25, 2018 18:34

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# ¿ May 15, 2024 16:40

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

Golden Bee posted:

The twist in Tully, which changes the theme of the movie from �friendship can change your life� to �your life is better when you�re crazy.� People in my theater audibly sighed.

I thought the twist was totally unnecessary and seemed like the script was rewritten around it for third act shock value. I'm trying to think of what would change if we knew from the beginning that Tully was some imagined manifestation of Charlize Theron's younger self and I can't think of anything that would have been less impactful. When a plot twist doesn't alter your understanding of the story or characters in any meaningful way you kind of have to wonder why it's even there. They could have played it 100% straight and it would have been the same drat story minus another overwrought accident scene.

# ¿ May 28, 2018 09:39

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

The number one thing to remember about the first Tomb Raider movie is that it went into production immediately after the Matrix was released, and every artistic decision was the result of Paramount execs asking themselves "how we make more like Matrix?"

# ¿ Jun 3, 2018 19:41

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

In Home Alone, the bizarre heroic closeup on �Jimmy, stop that boy!� for a character who appears in the movie for all of ten seconds.

# ¿ Jun 24, 2018 18:32

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

BiggerBoat posted:

Finished my Superman 1 and 2 double feature weekend.

Wtf happened to the end of Superman 2?

Suddenly everyone can teleport and project holograms? The cellophane shrinky dink "S" thing? The villains all fell into a bottomless cavern and died I guess? People bitch about MoS and Clark killing Zod but here he wasted three motherfuckers and no one said poo poo. Why did Superman just leave Lex there to gently caress around with his crystals and poo poo?

And that goofy rear end hypno kiss. They sort of wrote themselves into a corner but I think it would have been better to just leave Lois knowing, which could have set up a cool dynamic for future films.

The development history of Superman 2 was troubled, to say the least. Richard Donner was replaced halfway through production and some adjacent scenes were shot as much as two years apart. Gene Hackman refused to return once Donner was let go and had to be replaced with a body double in reshoots. There are continuity errors all over the place besides the hacked together ending if you pay close enough attention.

# ¿ Aug 26, 2018 20:10

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# ¿ May 15, 2024 16:40

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

Mortal Kombat Annihilation is the exactly the kind of movie I'd want to see performed entirely in drag.

# ¿ Aug 30, 2018 14:11

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