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12-30-2019, 11:23 PM | Topic Starter |
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Biggest Curve Ball Movies
I am re-watching the Matrix. When it came out in 1999, there were some reviews that I didn't watch. I saw it a few years later, and because I had no clue, when I did watch it, it FLOORED me. Total surprise.
Similar to the 6th sense. Blew me away, again. What other movies have done that? Please no spoilers |
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12-30-2019, 11:29 PM | #2 |
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Se7en, knew something was coming but not that.
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"What's in the box?!?!!"
hands down one of my favorite films of ALL TIME. The studio initially didn't want to keep that ending because they thought it was too effed up but Brad Pitt fought hard to get the original ending in tact. Last edited by sully1983; 01-02-2020 at 10:00 AM.. |
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Fight Club was great because the twist wasn't just a gimmick, it was the soul of the story. It was foreshadowed without revealing and was revealed for maximum impact.
And while many might have seen it, and it's easy to spot once you know to look for it, I went in blind opening weekend and was so caught up with the surface narrative that the twist just sent the story into hyperdrive. It wasn't so much a 'holy shit, what happened' moment as it was a 'holy shit, I thought I was enjoying this, when I was just sleepwalking through it' moment. Me, in the theater, already enjoying myself thoroughly.
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12-31-2019, 12:38 AM | #6 |
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Adding to the ones already mentioned: Momento, Gone Girl, American Psycho and Life of David Gale
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From Dusk Til Dawn in a way. Total change-up like halfway through the movie.
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The Fast and The Furious
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Overlord: starts as a thrilling dday landing for a platoon of paratroopers and turns into an awesome schlocky, body horror nazi kill fest.
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I might have passed out somewhere in that movie
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, right after that is when the movie crashes into a cliff, Baby Lee.
You made it to the true ending. |
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I mean, I already loved Tarantino, and I really really enjoyed Desperado, but this one created an unfounded notion in me that, when a movie goes to schlocky shit, that's Rodriguez unleashing his id, and when schlocky shit turns into gold, that's Tarantino rescuing it. Not fair, but it's stuck with me for a while.
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