I guess I need twists to be clever to appreciate the movie, but not necessarily the explanations.
Probably a me-specific dividing line, too.
I don't think it's just you. For me, it depends somewhat on my expectations going in. For example, I know a lot of people hated
The Village
because they thought the "twist" was really dumb. But I knew what it was going in, so I was able to think of it merely as an explanation rather than as a shocking and clever reveal, and I ended up liking the movie quite a bit.
he didn't make a huge impression on me in that movie
::sniffs::
::haughtily::
I thought he was marvellous. Didn't have the screen time of Del Toro, but it's his face I associate with the movie. Well, in the positive associations, anyway.
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.
Ugh. If ever a movie needed to end 40 minutes early, it's that one.
He was good, ita, he's always good, but he wasn't burned onto my retinas. For me, that's Del Toro's movie--oddly, I think it's the only performance of his I actually LIKE, and I really didn't like the film much.
And a GREAT cameo by Topher Grace.
More movies could use a great cameo by Topher Grace. Like, all of them that don't already have one.
I specifically avoided Identity because of what Jessica and Lyra said the twist was.
Do the timelines work out for Identity to be cribbing?
Actually, some people suspect that Charlie Kaufman may have done some script doctoring on Identity, and that's what inspired him to create such a horribly implausible screenplay for Donnie Kaufman to have written in Adaptation.
Also I really liked Traffic.
I liked it, but didn't love.(Did love TG, though)
Adaptation? One of my favorite recent films.
I guess I need twists to be clever to appreciate the movie, but not necessarily the explanations.
Lately I've begun to feel that the twists in most movies are too clever, and become uterly implausible. In fact, I think Hollywood has become over reliant on twists and reversals. I don't think it's absolutely necessary for a movie to show me things I've never ever seen before in any other movie. Sometimes it's okay to show me things I've seen before in a different way, or done better than they were before.
Most movie with "twists" these days just feel like they're trying too hard, and bug me with their excessive cleverness.
