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?

Maybe the CGI was too expensive to bring the character back?

t donates like, a billion dollars to the cause

Aimée, I'm guessing IMDB only has the big ones this early on.

you're saying that my whitefonting of Bruce Willis getting shot in the first ten minutes was perhaps a little excessive and silly?

Nope. Just that I'd be surprised if anyone here both cared and didn't know.

I'd be surprised if anyone would care to be protected from what I whitefonted too, but I still did it.

I hope so.

I *really* liked Colossus. What a kick ass mutation.

I like how your [edit: ita's] cutting and pasting totally destroyed the whitefonted part. I think that's only appropriate, considering.

I started to tag it, and got lazy.

I'm rebuking (also chastising, but no spanking, that would be odd) myself right now.

I like both Identity and The Game.

Identity did give me the "Oh god, does every movie need a twist?" feeling at first, but I saw it again and decided it was a pretty cool movie. Plus, John Cusack.