I almost think James Cameron filmed it the way he did because he had intended to have the T1000 imitate the kid later. The fact that this never happened really means he should re-edit the sequence. I also remember being 14 and expecting this to happen.
I think there is an earlier version of the script where during the Opera scene, this is indeed said. Despite still being bad in many ways, I give kudos to Lucas for re-writing/editing the scene to only mildly imply the idea instead of directly say it.
They filmed those movies simultaneously(or at least back to back), though. In fact, they released months apart. I think they had 90% of the final movie in the can by the time the 2nd one came out.
In the third season (I think) of Grimm, they went to great lengths to establish that Nick had a change in his metabolism – slow heartbeat, greater strength – yet that subplot just was dropped and never mentioned again.
When I was forced to watch The Notebook, I was hoping beyond hope that the normal, responsible, respectable guy that whatshername gets engaged to would turn out to actually be James Garner’s character in the framing story. What an unexpected twist and a play on tired romantic tropes! That she eventually came to her senses and dumped Ryan Gosling for good and we saw in their old age what a good decision she made.
But no, tired romantic tropes won the day and 123 minutes of my life were not just wasted, but made my life less happy.
I figure the most likely scenario is that some Force user (possibly even a Jedi) raped Anakin’s mother, and then used the Force to make her forget that any sort of encounter ever occurred. So, to her mind, she has no idea how she became pregnent. It just sorta happened.
That’s what bugs me so much about romantic comedies. 90% of the time, the guy that gets dumped is a perfectly nice guy. Only rarely is he ever some jerk who actually deserves to get dumped. And I have never yet seen a movie where the guy has done anything to even remotely deserve getting dumped at the alter, with all his family & friends watching.
Altho, given what this says about the girl and her judgemement, I suppose it was probably for the best that he didn’t end up stuck with her
Speaking of James Cameron, when I saw Jack and Rose banging in the back seat in Titanic, I thought “oh jeez, he’s doing the same thing he did in the original Terminator, and the granddaughter from the framing story is going to turn out to be Jack and Rose’s granddaughter; otherwise the granddaughter’s a fairly pointless character”. I was surprised when that didn’t happen.
On Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I was sure the Watchers’ Council was going to assassinate Faith (or try to, anyway) in order to get a more obedient Slayer–one they could control. This didn’t happen.
On a more obscure note, in Kenneth Oppel’s novel The Boundless, the protagonist is on a cross-country train ride, and is warned about three dangers. The first one he’s warned about happens, then the second, and then…the first danger happens again. The third danger never happens.
Having just watched Boyhood, I was doing this constantly with no success. Possibly because I was so bored:[ul]
[li]Mason drinking with other kids in the house under construction, throwing circular saw blades into a piece of particle board so it “stuck,” then another kid held up a board to get karate chopped - I absolutely thought the kid holding the board was going to get kicked backwards and impaled on the saw blade.[/li][li]Prison guard boyfriend waits up for Mason - totally thought he was going to assault him[/li][li]Ethan Hawke’s character - kept expecting some sort of dealing drugs / prison tragedy…never happened.[/li][li]Drunk professor guy - kept expecting him to show up in a rage after they escaped…never saw him again[/li][li] Kids meet attractive, hip liberal woman while putting Obama campaign signs in yards, who loves that their father has them helping and is so committed to his politics…then Dad pulls up to get them…and does not meet the attractive woman, who disappears completely after that tiny scene.[/li][li]Mason gets hit on by that cougar at his graduation party…then nothing happens. (Checkov’s vagina?)[/li][li]Mason does drugs with his new college roommate and they go hiking on some cliffs, surely someone is going to fall or something…nope, nobody gets hurt and everyone’s fine.[/li][/ul]
I dunno. There’s a website dedicated to collecting tweets and texts from people who didn’t realize the background events of Titanic (ie, Rose and Jack weren’t real, but there really was a ship called *Titanic *that hit an iceberg and sank)-- really happened-- or just now found out, and are shocked, shocked, I tell you. What a tragedy!
I had a different one from the second Matrix movie. I was waiting to see the real Architect, because obviously that schmuck that looked like Colonel Sanders was just a ruse to stop Neo from going through the solve-everything door. Nope, he really was telling the truth, despite the fact that we had no reason whatsoever to believe him.
And the ending of Battlestar Galactica would have made a lot more sense if it had been time travel. Uncalculated jump, using (essentially) random coordinates, made from the close vicinity of a black hole? Yeah, that could do it. And it would also account for the proven fact that the place they ended up was our Earth, as well as the proven fact that the ruined planet was our Earth. But then they had to go back and fetch the rest of the survivors on the other ship, which they obviously couldn’t have done if it were a time-jump.
I’ll probably think of more, but off the top of my head:
The Houses October Built (2014)
[spoiler]Like a lot of viewers I was sure that it would turn out that either:
a. it was going to turn out to be a set up by one of the people making the movie and they’d feel dumb for falling for a huge joke
or
b. it would turn out that everything that happened was part of them being unwittingly involved in “the ultimate scare.” Maybe they’d live, maybe not, but they’d know they’d found what they’d been looking for all along and had even become part of scaring the crap out of other thrill seekers.
Nope. Just murdered, for real, by some psychos that they apparently pissed off with their behavior mid-way through the movie.[/spoiler]
While that’s possible, Palpatine doesn’t say anything definite. Further, his reference to this as a “legend” may indicate it was something that happened long ago. Even the one quasi-canon source which says he was telling the truth also implies he made it up.
