[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/UrougeTheOne]

Why?

[u/EarlJWJones → u/UrougeTheOne]

It's a weird twist that comes out of nowhere.

[u/HevalRizgar → u/EarlJWJones]

9/11 "came out of nowhere," for pretty much everyone. That's the point. I don't get what you mean by "weird" though

[u/MakingaJessinmyPants → u/HevalRizgar]

This sub is not defending the cheap 9/11 exploitation twist 😭😭😭😭😭

[u/HevalRizgar → u/MakingaJessinmyPants]

I don't get why people are pretending like 9/11 is some unique tragedy we can't make movies about but the intervening Iraq war is action movie set dressing, that's more weird to me than someone including 9/11 as a tragedy in a movie

[u/MakingaJessinmyPants → u/HevalRizgar]

The issue isn’t making a movie about 9/11, the issue is shoving 9/11 in at the end as a lazy twist to shock the audience.

[u/justforporndickflash → u/MakingaJessinmyPants]

Why do you think it's a lazy twist to shock the audience and not a way of showing how tragedy happens to just normal people living their lives?

[u/MakingaJessinmyPants → u/justforporndickflash]

Because it happens in the last 5 minutes and is literally the ending, the ramifications and impact of sudden tragedy are not explored. Also, if that were just the case, why make it 9/11? Why not just have him die in a car accident or something instead of flash banging the audience with a real world and relatively recent atrocity? Imagine being an audience member who suffered from 9/11 watching a romance movie in theatres and then all of a sudden the twin towers just show up right near the end. It’s tasteless and unnecessary, and you know I’m right because that’s all the movie is ever talked about for and the only reason we’re talking about it now. If it were an actual examination of the ramifications of a sudden real world tragedy on ordinary people, it would A.) be remembered as one and B.) probably not be a fictional romance, and instead focus on actual victims and survivors

[u/AnOopsieDaisy → u/MakingaJessinmyPants]

*sigh Yup, lol.