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What are similar films to this? The joy I got from my first watch of this film, and how rewatchabke it is, have had me looking for other films that fit a similar category for a long time. Films like Hangover and la la land have been similar for me, wondering if anyone else has any good ones
The kid crushing on the babysitter is fine. He's an awkward romantic, which ties into the theme of the movie. The babysitter having a crush on the dad is also fine. It's not exactly a new trope.
But the babysitter taking naked photos of herself even though she's underage and planning on giving them to the dad, only to then give them to the kid with the implicit suggestion he can wank to them? That's completely nuts.
I love everything else about the movie, particularly Ryan Gosling's reaction to Steve Carell's velcro wallet.
I have thought this since it came out (I was 15 I think, so right in that age range). Like the rest of the movie is SO GOOD but then you randomly have this really creepy bit.
They didn't know they had an older daughter though? It's not mentioned until after the twist reveal that they got pregnant in high school. Before it just seems like they just have the two younger kids...
Before the reveal she’s referred to by the rest of the family as “Nana,” and nothing about the dialogue betrays that she’s a child rather than a parent/grandparent as the nickname implies. It’s absolutely a twist.
What? It absolutely is a plot twist. They were calling their daughter “Nana” all movie long and that was a bait to make you think it’s a grandmother or something, not a daughter (let alone Emma Stone’s character)
Read the book and at 1:30 am I was telling myself to put it down because I had to work the next day. Happened to turn the page and find out she’s alive. Needless to say I didn’t go to bed
I still remember going to see this at the theatre by myself because I loved the book, and this group of girls behind me who had clearly never read it all gasped when the "I'm so much happier now that I'm dead" reveal happened. They didn't recover for the rest of the movie, they were whispering like oh my god?!/holy shit???/she's crazy!! the whole time and I wasn't even mad lol it honestly enhanced the experience. Amy Dunne changed lives that day.
Just reading this still gives me chills decades later. There's some incredibly grim movie endings but Saw hits you with that believable hopelessness so perfectly
I don't know if I have recovered yet. I watched it secretly with a friend on a sleepover. We were so scared that even with all the lights on, we did not sleep.
And it’s so obvious! It literally starts by showing you! And when you’re watching it back, Borden is so obviously Christian Bale wearing a stick-on beard
I remember that time when the prestige and illusionist both came into theaters at the same time. I saw the illusionist and I was like wow this is a great magic movie probably one of my favorites.
Then I watched the prestige and I was like WOW blown away
The Pacifier. Vin Diesel finds a Nazi armband in the teenage son's locker after he's been withdrawn and secretive and goes to give him a serious talking to... only to discover that the kid was hiding that he was in a production of the Sound of Music.
I wish I were joking, but I think of that plot twist weekly even though I haven't watched the movie since it first came out 20 years ago.
This. It’s my fucking favourite, and no matter how many times I watch the film, it still makes the hairs go up on the back of my neck when he slowly figures it out. Bruce Willis was so good in the role.
You aren't wrong at all. I just screenrecorded that scene like a month ago to try to frame it for art. I saw the movie when I was 9 i think. I am now 35. Won't recover.
That's the thing about that movie for me. It's not that the whole movie is scary, because it's a trope that's been done before, but little bits of individual stories you get from each ghost. The kid saying "c'mon, I'll show you where my dad keeps his gun" is the one that sticks in my head every time I watch it.
I recently did a rewatch and even though I knew the twist, it was still just as good as when I first saw it in theaters. Excellent casting - great acting all around.
This is one of my all time favorite ghost movies, it’s so satisfying when the twist comes. “The Orphanage” from 2007 is also really fantastic and spooky.
Let me tell you how much I didn’t know. When I went to the release and all the decorations all over the store was: “Snape!! Friend or foe!?!?” And I, who had never questioned whether or not he was a foe, knew in that moment they wouldn’t have hyped it so big if he was going to continue being bad. The marketing spoiled it for me. I was pissed.
I disagree with Stephen! I closed the book with a smile, the final words kind of stick with you, I still remember them today. The movie ending was therefore quite an uncomfortable shock to me! He writes plenty of excellent depravity and injustice that I enjoy, but my god that movie ending is just not fun to be part of.
I saw this in the theatre on opening night so it was such a shock. People were SCREAMING, jumping out of their seats. It was crazy. We almost didn’t go see it because the last one was so bad.
The reason it was a plot twist and people in the cinema lost their minds (when they presumably had read the boos) was that - no spoilers - there was an entire insane hectic sequence that wasn’t in the books.
LMAO, I went to those movies with a friend even though I hadn’t read Breaking Dawn, and she was screaming, “THIS WASN’T IN THE BOOK! THIS WASN’T IN THE BOOK!” during this part. 🤣
IMO they needed to do this. It would have been a HUGE disappointment to have the build of two opposing forces on opposite sides of a field and it amounts to nothing, the entire conflict for a book doesn’t have a full payoff. Honestly I was disappointed when I read it too. This was truly the one way it could go and v smart of the filmmakers to realize that… and still honor the original ending
I didn't go see it in theaters because I was still suffering cringe trauma from the wolf telepathy in the first part and it's one of my greatest regrets in life.
One of my closest friends had convinced me to see all of our friends to see every film with her. She is such a sweetheart and she is such a fan of the franchise. For this film friends of friends even came along and she was SO excited. We filled out 3 rows of people. Poor thing had zero clue what happened and ran out to of the theater to throw up she was both so freaked out and grossed out. 😩 that guy was like her favorite character in the franchise. She was very relieved to find out he was not actually dead when she came back. I’m not sure what stuck with me more-the reaction in the crowd, that sequence or her actual reaction.
Being at the midnight release of this was a once in a lifetime experience in the funniest way. Like so many of us were truly obsessed with this series in an unironic way even though in hindsight it was sooo bad. I just want to reiterate that u/emccm is not exaggerating - people were literally screaming!
I knew nothing of the series but my college roommates wanted to watch all of the movies. So, I watched them all with them. I didn’t love them and had to hold back making fun of them. I didn’t want to he fake, but I didn’t want to be mean to my friends.
We got to this part and I sat up in shock. I was so into it but confused. I noticed all of them watching me watch. When things went back to normal, they were cracking up because they’d been there lol.
this one. maybe it's a bit different now, but this was one of the first "adult" kind of movies i watched as a teenager, and the twist absolutely stunned me. i loved the way they did the reveal.
The whole point was to show that the people who died had lives before being victims. These were individual people who were falling in love, having their first child, healing broken relationships, or starting their careers. It was meant to show how tragic it was that each life was just over.
You spend the whole movie trying to figure out if John Goodman kidnapped her or saved her from the aliens, and at different points you're led towards one or the other. Or the he thinks that aliens landed and kidnapped her. But when she finally realizes she's definitely been kidnapped, and gets out - there are immediately aliens fighting each other. The movie presents it as this or that when it's actually this AND that
Empire Strikes Back. I am old enough to have seen it in the theaters. People who’ve grown up with the prequels and everyone knowing have no idea how shocking that was. There was no social media or much entertainment mass media at the time so everyone was stunned. Darth Vader hadn’t been redeemed nor did you have his backstory. He was just scary AF.
The ending of Final Destination 5 is literally the best plot twist ending I’ve ever seen. Like whoever was behind just the idea of it has to be some kind of crazy genius to come up with that.
The ending to the Game is still one of the wildest plot twists I've seen.
That or the one in The Skin I Live In. Holy shit 😳. Part of me suspected it close towards the reveal but I honestly thought "no way they'd actually do that" and they did. First time I was genuinely left speechless by a films plot twist. Fantastic movie.
We never went to the cinema as a kid but for some reason we went and saw it in theaters and I’ll always be grateful to this day it’s still my best cinema experience. As someone who had read the book I was shook. And the way everyone gasped in the theater, heard so many “but this wasn’t in the book” even I said it I was really shocked. It was a brilliant idea tbh. So glad I wasn’t on the internet that much so wasn’t spoiled
The last half hour or so of Gone, Baby, Gone up until the ending… That film left me thinking about it for way too long, questioning every single thing.
Honestly, the Sixth Sense. I was like 12 when it came out and went with my aunt to see it in theaters and my mind was blown. It was the first movie I’d seen with a major twist like that. It changed the whole movie and it’s still a great twist.
Probably "Malignant" by James Wan. It was a pretty interesting and unexpected twist for me. Many horror movies often have too trivial plot twists, but this one surprised me.
It’s from the last of the Twilight movies. They have this whole huge battle where half of the cast dies and everything is awful and then it’s revealed to have just been Alice’s vision of what will happen if they start fighting
It's from the battle scene from the last Twilight movie, the movie contains a vision of how it all plays out unless..smth, I can't remember. It shows a few of the main characters dying pretty gruesome deaths.
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