This. The title of the film doesn't even make sense in the context of the ending. And for most of the film to be honest.
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Is there another good movie that falls apart worse in its final act than Minority Report?
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This. The title of the film doesn't even make sense in the context of the ending. And for most of the film to be honest.
It's more interesting to see which movies pull of the reverse of this.
Summer of 84 is a predictable, boring slog throughout that was seemingly only created to pander to the Stranger Things and It crowd, but then out of nowhere it has a really inventive third act with non-traditional ending which made me wish the rest of the movie was even half as interesting.
Summer of 84 is a predictable, boring slog throughout that was seemingly only created to pander to the Stranger Things and It crowd, but then out of nowhere it has a really inventive third act with non-traditional ending which made me wish the rest of the movie was even half as interesting.
Haven't seen this yet, but I definitely felt the final act of Get Out was very weak.
Best pick. Really enjoyed the movie, then the ending was so bad I never bothered watching it again. It pissed me off so hard it's still the thing I remember most about the movie.
What? The final act was great. I dont know if I have seen a movie with a better pay off. That ending, is one of my favorites
the fake out with the police car and then it actually being his friend was so satisfying
I really enjoyed Will's performance but I really hated the cgi for the vampires.
The Cure for Wellness.
The whole movie isn't amazing, but at least intriguing, and it just devolves into B movie schlock in the last 1/3.
The whole movie isn't amazing, but at least intriguing, and it just devolves into B movie schlock in the last 1/3.
God that third act is so goddamn good. Its not often horror flicks pull through on the endings nowadays too.
i defense of Minority Report if kind of pushed the epilogue to the side, like a 20 second snippet of "... and then stuff happened". like Anderton could've gone on to shoot up a mcdonald's you really wouldn't care at that point.
though yeah, very by the numbers Spielberg. hard not to give it an eye roll
though yeah, very by the numbers Spielberg. hard not to give it an eye roll
Like the literal guy screaming to the audience "They Say you have VISIONS, that your life flashes before your eyes that ALL YOUR DREAMS ... come true"
The 'all your dreams' part is a central problem with this interpretation that leads to it falling apart.
If we assume the dream theory is true, then Anderton should find his son alive or at the very least what happened to him.
Anderton doesn't, which means that not all his dreams come true and so what the guard says is unreliable.
But the reason we have to believe the dream theory is accepting that what the guard says is reliable and that the 'happy' ending is dreams coming true.
So, accepting the dream theory requires us to deny that the evidence for the dream theory is reliable.
This is absurd, and so we should reject the dream theory.
Hereditary got worse the more it became clear
that it was actually a demon and not just the mom going crazy
It's a homage to Nancy's genius plan in Nightmare On Elm Street in pulling Freddy out of the dream into the real world.
Sometimes when you're desperate to come across as clever online it helps to stop, take a second, and realise you're talking about teenagers in a horror film who are not teenagers who watch a lot of horror films. Your average teenagers aren't aren't going to come up with some clever plan.
The final act is fine. The second act however, is incredibly unnecessary. Even the supposed point of that second act is immediately reversed at the beginning of the final act; definitely a "Huh" moment from me personally.
I liked Sunshine's final act, but I'm a sucker for sci-fi horror in general, even schlocky sci-fi horror. I love Pandorum, for example.
The abruptness of the ending followed by the shameless promotion is legitimately hilarious in hindsight.
You're actually underselling the absurdity here.
The film ends with the main characters in a car. It's suddenly revealed that the driver was possessed and immediately steers into oncoming traffic. EVERYONE DIES. Cut to black. The end.
The abruptness of the ending followed by the shameless promotion is legitimately hilarious in hindsight.
Yeah. What set it apart from other typical horror movies is just how strong the performance is, especially from Toni Collette, but the ending is incredibly predictable and I am just really disappointed that the movie went exactly the path that I think it's going to be while watching it. Personally, it's a tired "twist".
I wouldn't call throwing paint on it to make it easier to shoot a clever plan, more like common sense, but okay. Even the kid in that Goosebumps book was able to think up "what if I made it visible so people believed me?" as a plan. Also Nancy was limited in help because the town refused to help to cover up the vigilante murder. These ones didn't even try for outside help because of the metaphorical concept of an STD. The family in the first Conjuring didn't have to be genre savvy to come up with the plan of "can we just leave?" and the writers realized that someone would probably ask that question in that situation.
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Insiduous.
When the ghost hunters come in, it feels like the cast members of a completely different movie (a goofier one), comes in.
When the ghost hunters come in, it feels like the cast members of a completely different movie (a goofier one), comes in.
Yeah, the whole
Grandma's a satanist
It was definitely unoriginal but it was the execution of it that made it good.
One was a decent movie about an asshole hero learning redemption and caring about people thanks to his relationship with his agent
The other is whatever the fuck the second half is
Book ending wouldn't have really made sense with the rest of the movie, though, since it showed little indication that the vampires are anything more than feral.
From your other posts you seem to be referring to the moment you realise it's a vampire movie. Which is by no means the last act.
They're not even vampires just zombie mutants or whatever
It's not perfect but in the original ending Will Smith realized that the reason the monsters were hunting him down was because he captured the mate of the alpha and the fact he spent his free time kidnapping and experimenting on them so they think he's a monster. So they have some level of intelligence
They're intelligent vampires but it's better than the grenade ending
Yeah they fucked the whole thing up really. The first part is decent, but they didn't have a good ending so they should have just stuck closer to the original story.
My vote would go for Jeepers Creepers.
My mum rented it from Blockbusters when I was like 11 or 12. We had just got surround sound set up and it was the first movie we watched. The first hour or so where the brother and sister are being chased by this huge truck was super tense. Seeing him disposing bodies in the chute. Realising they're getting caught up in it. The song coming over the radio. The locals acting strange towards them.
Then you see the monster and it's absolutely hilarious.
My mum rented it from Blockbusters when I was like 11 or 12. We had just got surround sound set up and it was the first movie we watched. The first hour or so where the brother and sister are being chased by this huge truck was super tense. Seeing him disposing bodies in the chute. Realising they're getting caught up in it. The song coming over the radio. The locals acting strange towards them.
Then you see the monster and it's absolutely hilarious.
Game of thrones takes the crown
Nobody wanted to talk about it after it was done. It just disappeared.
Nobody wanted to talk about it after it was done. It just disappeared.
I wouldn't agree for the reason that it moves from something of a classic haunted house horror flick to a more action driven splatter gore fest. But loses all the unsettling aspects or scares the rest of the film worked for.
I liked the ending of Pet.
And not sure what problem anyone had with the end of It Follows.
I guess the denouement is way too upbeat, neat and tidy - but I don't think any one aspect of it is particularly awful. There are much worse examples of this. I still think the twist is handled real good.
He goes back to his wife and she is basically already pregnant. You know, the act of getting a new son.
And some people mention that Cruise got closure for his son by freeing the precogs from the water, just like he lost his son in the water
This so much. It goes from a chilling little horror into a frat comedy. It's super jarring.
Fundamentally disagree with everyone saying Hereditary, which is my favourite third act in a film for years.
Actual thread candidate: The Silent House (2010). A real-time haunted house film edited to look like it's been shot in one continuous take, which makes it incredibly tense and effective until the halfway point,
Ruins the film and makes all the buildup seem pointless.
Actual thread candidate: The Silent House (2010). A real-time haunted house film edited to look like it's been shot in one continuous take, which makes it incredibly tense and effective until the halfway point,
when we discover that the supernatural elements are all in the heroine's head as a way of processing her abusive childhood.
Came to post this.
Great movie. The villain reveal + final confrontation sucked.
Once they leave Themyscira the movie gets bland fast. Really really bad as a whole.
Alternative generally restores the intent of the book's ending - would definitely recommend watching it, it actually makes it a really great movie. It's the only way I've ever watched it.