Darn it, I say, I’m going to guess a surprise ending one of these days.
It hasn’t been very long, in terms of life years, since I’ve been aware and creative enough- well, maybe just aware- to predict things in movies/television that weren’t o-b-v-i-o-u-s-l-y going to happen (the bad guy shows up at the hospital where his henchman lies dying; he kills him, the badass he is; wait, I’ve seen this scene before! ;)). If Sixth Sense came out now, I would o-w-n it (actually, that surprise was spoiled for me, but…). A year ago I saw Matchstick Men; I didn’t know there was a surprise ending, and it owned me. But for friggin’ sake, send one by me now and I’ll get it!
Well I didn’t get the ending of Prey Alone, although I came close (yet I never would’ve imagined… :eek: ). Let me know if you guess the ending.
And reccomend some other surprise ending SHORT films (just short; let’s not get into a discussion of films w/ surprise endings, start another thread if you want to, and do a Search and find the ones already done) that I can watch online.
Seriously. My desktop is busted, and my laptop with Ubuntu can NEVER play embedded media files on webapges. I can play ones I can download to my system just fine, but not ones in webpages that I can’t DL.
Fantastic! I’m pretty sure I came “close” to getting the ending the same way you did, andrewdt85.It was pretty clear that the interrogator was hunting himself in an infinite loop, anyway. The whole twist makes so much of the incidental stuff absolutely perfect on review, though. “Level one.” Heh heh.
bouv, I wasn’t able to get the Atomfilms site to work on any of my browsers, either. That javascript just does nothing.
I hunted around and found the lead animator’s website, which contains a link to download a nice 113mb .mpg version. (And a smaller 74mb version.)
It turns out that he’s also the guy responsible for those wacky milk commercials featuring cavemen meeting unfortunate ends while trying to work out that whole soda thing. Be sure to check out his gallery of stills! Some very nice work there.
The special effects are impressive and the movie is entertaining, but the ending wasn’t surprising.
The way the car was driving sideways while the driver was shooting expertly was so ridiculously unrealistic that I immediately thought of
Grand Theft Auto, especially when the helicopter was shot from the sky
At that point, everything clicked for me and all the subtler clues fit together nicely.
(I’ve found that when I’m told that I’ll never guess the ending of a movie, I’m far, far more likely to guess it correctly than if I just watch the movie with no prompting. That probably played a role here.)
Well, thanks for the link Larry Mudd, but I tried to watch the video (low-res version) and the god damn audio and video are off. It started off just a second or so off, but after a few minutes, I would see the action…and five second later get the audio. Unbearable. I’ll DL the high res and see if that doen’t have the problem.
I am very good at guessing endings. Neither Usual Suspects nor Sixth Sense fooled me.
This, I never saw coming. I noted the unrealistic driving and other events, but… …since I’m not a video game player, this was not really a useful referent for me.