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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 too am a bit weary of the Ta Da! school of filmmaking.
Yes, this. Revealing something in the last ten minutes of the film that causes the audience to re-evaluate what they've seen in interesting ways that hold up on rewatch is good. (Fight Club, The Usual Suspects.)
Revealing something in the last ten minutes because you want the audience to go "OMGWTF!?!?!!!" while easier, is getting almost as old and tired as ironic self-awareness.
Revealing something in the last ten minutes because you want the audience to go "OMGWTF!?!?!!!" while easier, is getting almost as old and tired as ironic self-awareness.
"New things make people feel scared. And smart things make people feel stupid."
t /Fry
The Sixth Sense's twist held up for me because you could go back and watch knowing the twist and the movie was still interesting.
I'd totally guessed the twist to Sixth Sense from the previews, and knew I was right when Bruce Willis got shot ten minutes in. I still enjoyed the movie.
I think if you don't know the twist to Sixth Sense but care to be unspoiled, you should leave the internet. Now. Quickly! What are you looking at? Why are you still here? Shoo!
X3 character spoilers -- I'm very hurt that Bacic won't be Beast, and intrigued by possible casting choices for Angel.
I also think that whitefont is excessive for the above paragraph, but just in case.
But whitefont is so fun!
Ok, but what about Colossus??? He isn't listed in IMDb.
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.
And not just Hollywood. I stopped watching L&O around the time the commercials started talking about "The Law And Order Twist!" When the whole rest of the movie is set-up for a reaction-shot after The Twist, you've lost me.
The reason things like Usual Suspects work for me is that the twist isn't just a gotcha - it makes you go back and look at everything in a different way, and once you do that, you see how B follows from A, but also how you got sidelined into thinking that C was the thing all along.
So ita, you're saying that my whitefonting of Bruce Willis getting shot in the first ten minutes was perhaps a little excessive and silly?
Maybe the CGI was too expensive to bring the character back?