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In the Star Wars prequels, was the audience actually supposed to be surprised that Darth Sideous and Palpatine turned out to be the same person? Ian McDermond was only credited as Palpatine but Christopher Lee was credited as Count Dooku/Darth Tyrannus. That makes me think that maybe we were supposed to have some doubt. If it was supposed to be a twist, it was a pretty weak one.
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No kidding. It was so incredibly transparent, that I was sure Lucas must have had a twist waiting in the wings. Brothers. Cousins. Clones. Something.
[QUOTE=pepperlandgirl]
RE: The Sixth Sense, I so agree. Every time somebody calls it a plot twist, it makes me angry. Every time somebody calls it a good plot twist, I see red. I know everybody else saw the beginning of the movie and huge fucking hole in the middle of Bruce’s body. Modern medical science is pretty amazing, but I don’t think it’s found a cure for a giant hole in the body.
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You might want to watch it again, because you’re remembering stuff that didn’t happen in the movie. There’s no “huge fucking hole” in the middle of his body. When he gets shot, he falls back onto the bed, holding his lower left abdomen. There’s relatively little blood, and he’s conscious and insisting that he’s okay before the scene cuts away. It’s not at all unreasonable to think that he’s survives it. Hell, the bullet wound Wesley takes in Season 2 of Angel looks a hell of a lot nastier, and he survived it okay.
[QUOTE=Swallowed My Cellphone]
I remember it differently. I recall that they filmed his head nods before they interviewed her, explaining that they would need “head nods” and stuff, and they were explaining how they would do the interview process. I remember him having a pleasant conversation with the interviewee and joking about something an essentially saying something like “watch this”, doing the teary-eyed thing, and then the woman he was interviewing said, “Wow, that’s so amazing.” because she thought it was cool that he could make himself cry on demand.
It was a long, long time ago though, so I may be completely misremembering that.
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You’re close. When Jane is watching the raw footage, she sees him explain to the interviewee that they’re going to film him head-nodding and such. While they’re setting up for those shots, you hear the cameraman (off-camera) say something about him almost tearing up while the interviewee was telling her story, and it was a shame they couldn’t capture that. Hurt’s character says “Give me a minute” and then works up the tear. The interviewee says “Wow, that’s amazing.”
Perfect Stranger with Bruce Willis and Halle Berry
That she turns out to be the killer - I found it more unbelievable that she was supposed to be a hard-nosed journalist she spent the whole movie being shrill and stupid.
Also, Mr. Brooks…
Really, the serial killer killed him? I am just shocked!
Primal Fear, I didn’t see the movie that everybody raved about so much, but I read the book by William Diehl (who I’ll never read again) and saw every single damn plot twist coming.
Let’s see, we’ve got a dead Catholic Priest. He’s going to turn out to be a pedophile. Check. Killed by an altarboy. Check. Who’ll offer an insanity defense due to being molested. (In this case it was multiple personalities) Check. The kid will be found innocent. Check. But he’s not really insane! Ooooooohhhhhh! Check and :rolleyes: There was every suspense cliche in that book.
Wait, it was supposed to be a twist that Senator Palpatine was Darth Sidious?
That can’t be true. We knew from the original trilogy…or maybe it was the EE?..that the Emperor was “Emperor Palpatine”. And we knew what the Emperor looked like. And when “Darth Sidious” showed up in Phantom Menace, he looks/sounds exactly like the Emperor from ESB and RotJ, so we know Darth Sidious will become the Emperor eventually. And when shown “Senator Palpatine”, we know that Senator Palpatine is really Darth Sidious and will become Emperor Palpatine.
That’s not an obvious plot twist. It’s not a twist at all. It’s like a civil war movie with a character “John Booth”, and then at the end he assassinates Lincoln, and it turns out he’s John WILKES Booth. It’s not supposed to be a twist.
[QUOTE=Lemur866]
Wait, it was supposed to be a twist that Senator Palpatine was Darth Sidious?
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No, but I had people who insisted, after Phantom Menace, that Sidious and Palpatine might not be the same person because we never saw the guy pull his hood over his head. :rolleyes: Apparently they thought George Lucas was the spawn of Alfred Hitchcock and some cheesy soap opera director. Because the Star Wars movies are famous for their intricate plotting.
[QUOTE=Marley23]
Apparently they thought George Lucas was the spawn of Alfred Hitchcock and some cheesy soap opera director. Because the Star Wars movies are famous for their intricate plotting.
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Hey, I didn’t see the “Leia is Luke’s sister” thing coming, did you?
I remember hearing an audience member gasp during Die Another Day whenEmma Frost, hot secret agent, is actually… a bad guy!I had to suppress a chuckle at the person who hadn’t seen that coming.
The Others: Five minutes in, just after Nicole Kidman has shown the new servants around the house, she tells the new housekeeper that “the postman forgot to pick up the latest mail, so how could you be answering the ad I meant to place?” At that moment, it was quite clear to me that…
