'Touched'
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.
I do recall having an extended debate, during the recent airing of G. I. Jane, about whether breast implants would explode if one jumped out of an airplane at high enough altitude.
Sounds like a job for Mythbusters.
I could live with Romjin or Jennsen for WW.
Sounds like a job for Mythbusters.
Poor, degraded Buster.
Hee!
Oh my god. Demi Moore is going to be Wonder Woman, isn't she.
I don't think Demi has that much box office clout anymore (if she ever really did).
Sounds like a job for Mythbusters.
Either that or Titbusters.
edited for a missing "anymore".
Did anybody see the Slate article about the stupidest twist endings? It's funny, even if I don't agree with all of the opinions expressed. (Specifically, I liked "Fight Club" and "The Usual Suspects" and think I liked "The Game," but mostly don't remember it that well.)
My least favorite twists are "Identity" and "The Life of David Gale," but the latter is a very bad movie to start with.
Edit: Actually, the twist in "Hide and Seek" trumps all of the above. I'd blocked it out, that's how bad it was.
Edit the second: There are some spoilers in the article, so proceed at your own risk.
I like the suggestion of The Passion Of The Christ.
I haven't seen enough of the ones on his list, and I mean to, so I had to skim the article. I did like Unusual Suspects and Identity -- the latter wasn't that twisty. I mean, the movie doesn't make sense without an explanation, but it's just not the one you might have thought. Whereas The Game drove me nuts, because it's not sufficiently hinged on the "Oh! That's what it was!" at the end. It just shifted from dumb movie A to dumber movie B.
What's the twist in The Game?
Poor, degraded Buster.
Wouldn't they have to develop a Busterette to examine the exploding tit myth?
Wouldn't they have to develop a Busterette to examine the exploding tit myth?
Oh come on, you know how much Buster likes to examine tits.
Identity -- the latter wasn't that twisty. I mean, the movie doesn't make sense without an explanation, but it's just not the one you might have thought
Maybe. I just get hung up on the fact that (as I think Jessica and I have each said a dozen times) it's the exact same twist as the stupid brother's screenplay idea in "Adaptation." Which makes me giggle now, but made me angry at the time.