'The Girl in Question'
A place to talk about movies--Old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
There's a huge article on Million Dollar Baby in today's USA Today, which makes the point (and pretty well, though I skimmed) that it's a movie to see now because there's a huge twist that can't stay secret much longer. Which is annoying, because I fall for that shit, especially when I think it's to be a good movie (as opposed to The Sixth Sense, or something).
And no, I'm not sure why I whitefonted either. There are no plot details in the above paragraph. But it was news to me.
Alexis Bledel taking what looks to be a pretty dark role,
I read that as Alexis Denisof at first, and I was all "woo-hoo!"
Is it a HUGE twist?
I don't know.
But really -- it's a boxing movie full of Oscar-winning actors. What sort of ending do you think it's going to have?
The Clint Eastwood character is a transvestite.
A dead transvestite.
...named Rosebud.
They're dead boxers?
They're actually from the Boxer Rebellion?
They're all really Boxers-- the dogs?
Calling it a "twist" is misleading, IMO. I do think it's probably better to see the film unspoiled, but I wouldn't say there's a plot twist.
Calling it a "twist" is misleading, IMO. I do think it's probably better to see the film unspoiled, but I wouldn't say there's a plot twist.
So, basically, it's a twist in the sense that all movies should have some sort of twist, or unexpected event? Or, you know, a plot point.
Calling it a "twist" is misleading, IMO. I do think it's probably better to see the film unspoiled, but I wouldn't say there's a plot twist.
See, they start off by comparing it to The Sixth Sense and Crying Game.