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On a side issue, someone brought up the meaning of the ending of that recently, and I came to a different conclusion.
First time around I thought the woman on the plane seemed to be stopping the virus spreading, but in reality, the outbreak had already happened, he had opened the vial in the airport at security… So they had failed.
Then realised that the scenario was this: they’d been putting many people back in time iteratively to track the disease and pretty much this time they’d found it. And while Willis dying and them failing this time, it was likely they’d stop it next time around…
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I thought they weren’t trying to stop it at all, just get a hold of a sample of the virus before it had mutated, so that they could develop a vaccin and get on with life in their timezone?
A coupe of other really great and surprising moments: The Odessa File – Jon Voigt confronts Nazi war criminal Eduard Roschmann (Maximilian Schell) in his chateau. Based on a Frederick Forsythe novel, another really great twist you wouldn’t know is that the there really was a Nazi war criminal named Eduard Roschmann, and that his career and crimes as depicted in the book (and the film) are accurate.
A TV show – “Demon with a Glass Hand”, one of Harlan Ellison’s scripts for the original The Outer Limits, has a priceless twist when Trent (Robert Culp) asks the computer (i the form of a glass hand grafted onto his arm) how he can escape the alien Kyben that have him surrounded.
**The Great Waldo Pepper ** in which a rolicking comedy is turned into a truly tragic movie when one of the main characters is killed in an accident two-thirds of the way through the movie. When I saw it, the audience at first thought it was a joke and expected the character to get up and say something funny. When the audience realized that the character was actually dead, the up-to-then almost non-stop laughter stopped suddenly and there was a stunned silence that lasted the rest of the movie.
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I thought they weren’t trying to stop it at all, just get a hold of a sample of the virus before it had mutated, so that they could develop a vaccin and get on with life in their timezone?
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Hmmn, it might be worth a rewatch… Been a while…
It might well have been me reinterpreting it in a “Terminator/Time” is malleable context, when it was in a “Can’t change time” context, in which case correct.
[QUOTE=Smid]
Hmmn, it might be worth a rewatch… Been a while…
It might well have been me reinterpreting it in a “Terminator/Time” is malleable context, when it was in a “Can’t change time” context, in which case correct.
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Seeing as how the whole Bruce Willis life turns out to have been a gigantic time loop, it seemed likely to me that changing the past wasn’t going to happen.
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I actually have never seen any of the SAW movies because the few details I have heard of them seem to cross my fake-gore limit (and that’s accomplishing something.)
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Just a tip, but steer clear of **Hostel ** too. And Hostel 2.
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I think you need to warn about spoilers in this thread! But, for me, the biggest surprise in a recent movie was Leslie Burke’s death in Bridge to Terabithia: I mean, this is an American children’s movie, and sympathetic main characters don’t die! (Of course, I didn’t read the book until after seeing the movie).
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Yeah. I haven’t read the book - and the movie was marketed here in the UK as a Narnia-esque fantasy adventure. Took the kids along to see it, and was mightily surprised and disappointed - partly at the fact it wasn’t the kind of movie they sold us, and partly because it just sucks that she dies - just a big, pointless anticlimax - as far as we were all concerned (and indeed the rest of the audience, if their faces weren’t lying).
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Oldboy. Scissors (not the ones stuck in Daesu’s back at the end of the fight sequence).
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That’s precisely the movie I came in here to name. I thought I’d finally figured out the twist and was feeling smug, but the feeling lasted about 1 minute until the REAL twist came along. Holy. Crap.
Pan’s Labyrinth had me sobbing when I finally put the pieces together towards the end and realised what the first scene meant.
15 Minutes, despite being a pretty craptacular movie in most ways, totally threw me for a loop when you realise that Robert DeNiro’s character is really going to die and won’t be rescued in the nick of time, because one of the unspoken rules of Hollywood is that you don’t pointlessly kill off your leading man before the movie is even halfway through.
The Departed, near the end. You think everything’s been settled, Costigan has caught the rat and is taking him into custody. Then the elevator door opens.
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You obviously mean the end of the second series. With it’s two endings I think it is just about the best conclusion to a series of all time.
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I liked it for it’s originality, but I was genuinely disturbed at the choice Sam made. Still it is nice to be surprised for a change, instead of being fed some “stock” ending.
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I really did NOT see the ending of Saw coming, at all. When it turned out that the “dead” body in the center of the room was actually Jigsaw, I thought it was one of the most clever and unexpected movie moments ever. Because even though he’s lying there on the floor from the very beginning of the movie, the drama between the other characters takes over so much that you completely just forget about that body lying there and don’t even think to wonder how exactly it got there and why.
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I hate horror movies, but considering this is a spoilerish thread, could someone give the one paragraph description of how this twist works? (If that’s possible and not too much trouble. It’s not a big deal.)
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Not a movie, a tv series, but I was shocked, shocked! by the last episode of Life on Mars.
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Good one. I wouldn’t have thought he would have had the chance to choose his own reality. How did that happen?
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Good one. I wouldn’t have thought he would have had the chance to choose his own reality. How did that happen?
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Would either of you guys be willing to spoil said ending for me? I’ve been thinking about searching out Life on Mars since I’ve heard so many good things about it, but I won’t bother if the end is just going to piss me off. (See: Forever Knight, Newhart, The Dark Tower series, etc.)
The one I wanted to mention wasn’t a twist at the end of the movie, but rather a realy “whoa” moment in the middle of the movie. The movie is Deep Blue Sea, which is actually kind of a crappy movie. It’s biggest star is Sam Jackson, andhe gives a typical Sam Jackson speech, full of emotion and anger, about how they are going to stick together and get through it, when a shark jumps up and eats him…the star of the movie, just like that. Even though it is pretty rdiculous, it still is a “WTF!” moment.
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I hate horror movies, but considering this is a spoilerish thread, could someone give the one paragraph description of how this twist works? (If that’s possible and not too much trouble. It’s not a big deal.)
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[SPOILER]The main part of the movie takes place in a creepy underground chamber (asylum bathroom?): two men are chained to each part of the room. On the floor is a dead body, aparantly in a pool of its own blood.
The lights periodically go out, and when they come back on, the deranged, sadistic killer has left cryptic clues and mindfuck-devices for them, among them a promise that whichever of them kills the other will be set free.
During the movie, we see shots of the apparant killer going about other buisiness, turning out the lights, making phone calls etc. However, by the end, it turns out that this killer was a patsy: he was a random guy who had been given a slow working poison, and a detailed set of instructions to follow if he wanted to be given an antidote.
After a particularly grisly bit of buisiness involwing the eponymous saw, the dead body suddenly stands up :eek: The killer had been playing dead on the floor all along, no doubt getting off on the ever increasing despair in the room.[/SPOILER]
