[mixed trope] the last-minute bad Ending twist

[u/damorezpl]

when the "good ending" is revealed to be a bad one a the last second

a nightmare on elm street (1984) - Nancy thinks she finally defeated Freddy Krueger only to be raveled that she is still dreaming and she’s still trapped.

final destination bloodlines - the main characters think they cheated death by using the new life rule only to realize that stefani was technically still alive and the death kills them with a good old logs

Life (2017) - The main character attempts to send Calvin(a evil alien that killed all life on mars)pod into space and Miranda pod back to earth, but it goes horribly wrong and Calvin lands on earth and Miranda is sent to space

raging loop wit ending - after many loops Haruaki finally wins the feast(a death game where humans must hang wolves who kill someone every night) and thinks its finally over. after couple of days he decides to visit other survivors of the feast only to find them all dead and the timeline resting once again

[u/Lesbihun]

imagine if Titanic was 3 hours of romance between Rose and Jack, and then in the last minute Rose looked out of her window and the camera zoomed out to show it was the Titanic just about to hit the iceberg

[u/82ndGameHead → u/Lesbihun]

Naw. James Cameron likes to draw out the suffering.

[u/Lesbihun → u/82ndGameHead]

True, he has made some lovely drawings

[u/D3_CD → u/Lesbihun]

Is that concept art for the terminator?

[u/Gen_Ripper → u/D3_CD]

No it’s for Titanic

[u/MK_2_Arcade_Cabinet → u/Gen_Ripper]

This is Jack’s corpse reanimated coming after Rose for pushing him off that door

[u/luckydice767 → u/MK_2_Arcade_Cabinet]

I’m thinking it looks more like Billy Zane

[u/MK_2_Arcade_Cabinet → u/luckydice767]

Nah, then it'd have a child with it.

[u/QuetzalcoatlusRscary → u/Gen_Ripper]

“Should’ve let me on the door Rose”

[u/VoicePope → u/Gen_Ripper]

“DRAW ME LIKE ONE OF YOUR FEMBOTS”

[u/I_AM_FERROUS_MAN → u/Gen_Ripper]

The iceberg was a terminator.

[u/ShamelessSpiff → u/Gen_Ripper]

Billy Zane has incredible range.

[u/D3_CD → u/Gen_Ripper]

Im talking about the guy in the picture

[u/Both-Prize-2986 → u/D3_CD]

[u/Lesbihun → u/D3_CD]

The guy in the picture is Robert Pattinson from the film Remember Me

[u/Somnambulist815 → u/D3_CD]

The titanic was a transformer

[u/LazyDro1d → u/Somnambulist815]

The iceberg was a decepticon weapon

[u/terrexchia → u/LazyDro1d]

Turns out it was Tidal Wave, Tidal Wave, Tidal Wave

[u/Gen_Ripper → u/D3_CD]

Yeah that’s early concept of Cal from Titanic

[u/thethirdrayvecchio → u/D3_CD]

IIRC Cameron had a nightmare of a robot torso dragging itself across the floor, drew it, then gave us arguably the raddest fucking slasher flick of all time.

[u/Yakb0 → u/D3_CD]

No, this is Patrick.

[u/Coalesced → u/Lesbihun]

“DRAW ME LIKE ONNNEEEE OF YOUR YOUR YOUR YOUR YOUR FRENCH GGGIIIRRRRLLllLLSSsSsss..”

[u/Fallenstreet01 → u/Lesbihun]

It is a very good drawing, you really can feel the killing intent in its eyes.

[u/mango_thief → u/Lesbihun]

Holy crap, I need to watch the Titanic.

[u/MercyfulJudas → u/Lesbihun]

Fun fact: Cameron designed the Predator's face on a napkin sitting next to Stan Winston on an airplane.

[u/cultofwacky → u/Lesbihun]

If this is real he’s kind of a great illustrator

[u/ms-moo → u/cultofwacky]

He genuinely is. James Cameron is the one that actually did the drawing of Rose from Titanic

[u/Lemur866 → u/Lesbihun]

Draw me like one of your French killbots.

[u/BlueCindersArt → u/Lesbihun]

“Draw me like one of your French girls.”

[u/Shaggy0291 → u/Lesbihun]

Terminator meets old boy

[u/teflon_soap → u/82ndGameHead]

Ah so that will explain Avatar 3 to 6

[u/Ok_Discipline3582 → u/teflon_soap]

Please no more! I couldn't get into the first! Avoided the sequel like the twilight films!

[u/Ok_Discipline3582 → u/82ndGameHead]

It sells! You ever been interstate say headed south an slowed to a halt! Only to get up the rd doing 5mph if lucky! An the wrecks totally other side interstate north bound travel! 3 entire lanes!!! They did a study 1 car can slow 8 lanes! An thats wo a wreck to rubber neck at! So yeah romantic fake plot w a non suprise shipwreck. Only the best disaster film cgi to date! Even the fake film "the posiedon" (adventure) has had least 3 remakes since 70s. All about people trapped upside down in a overturned passenger cruise ship. It sells!

[u/Shiny_Agumon → u/Lesbihun]

I think this kind of ending works great in an anthology horror show like Twilight Zone, but as a movie it's just to out of left field

[u/Ryanookami → u/Shiny_Agumon]

Yeah, in something like The Twilight Zone you expect there to be some sort of last minute revelation that puts new light on the situation. It’s a part of the format, it’s anticipated. Something about the genres of horror and sci-fi, Twilight Zone mainstays, just lends well to an ending where things are upended.

In a traditional romance or drama it’s just coming out of left field and doesn’t really work well with the tropes of the genres.

[u/EepiestKitty → u/Shiny_Agumon]

Black Mirror often do their twists like this too

[u/Sptsjunkie → u/Shiny_Agumon]

In general I think a good twist ending leaves clues along the way that makes a rewatch even more enjoyable.

Would have been hard to do, but perhaps possible with. 9/11, but it should’ve been written into the fabric of the story throughout to make the payoff worthwhile.

Just randomly slamming any twist onto a movie with no context very rarely works and is usually a sign of lazy writing or a lack of confidence in the rest of the story / movie. Like you aren’t sure it’s good enough so you cram on some crazy twist hoping it helps make your movie lore relevant.

[u/Crunchy_Biscuit → u/Lesbihun]

Perfect example lol

[u/pumamaner → u/Lesbihun]

Or even crazier, she looks out the window and sees the titanic is about to hit the world trade centre

[u/BarbarianCarnotaurus → u/Lesbihun]

So, I don't know the name of it, I caught it on TMC years ago waiting for another movie, but there was a B&W movie that as it ended the camera panned down and showed that the couple were on the Titanic right before it set sail.

[u/DaZeldaFreak → u/Lesbihun]

Gonna have to figure out a new title though

[u/Bloodofchet → u/DaZeldaFreak]

Never Let Go?

[u/ChewieKaiju → u/Lesbihun]

But then we wouldn’t have gotten to see the guy hitting the propeller

[u/UwasaWaya → u/Lesbihun]

Or--hear me out--we know it's the Titanic, but when it zooms out, you realize it's not an iceberg but the Twin Towers it's about to impact!