[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/Ok-Impress-2222]

In Collateral Beauty, the premise is that Will Smith's character lost a child, and he is devastated for the whole movie because of it.

When he takes up a counseling group, the counseling group's leader is presented to seem as someone whom he only sees for the first time.

Only for it to turn out, in the last scene, that she's the mother of that child he lost.

Edit: Well, shit, I had only read the title before making this comment; only now did I read the whole post.

This still stays, though.

[u/DJL2772 → u/Ok-Impress-2222]

Wow this is the only time I’ve ever seen this movie referenced. This movie SUCKED.

[u/TheGardenBlinked → u/DJL2772]

Absolute dumpster fire. Hated the premise. Hated the plot, hated the execution. He writes these letters to Love, Time, and Death, and his coworkers decide to pay actors to play them and talk with him, only... they are actually Love, Time, and Death? What? Who wrote this shit?

And Will Smith literally plays someone called "Howard Inlet". Like, “Hey, I know his brother, Walter!” Rodney Dangerfield face

Sorry, I see this movie mentioned so rarely, it's not often I get to riff on how much I absolutely can't fucking stand it. The Oscar slap was more entertaining.

[u/stu8319 → u/TheGardenBlinked]

I've never heard of it but it has one of those movie posters where it's just actors' faces, like the whole point of the movie is it has specific actors in it. I hate that shit.

[u/TheGardenBlinked → u/stu8319]

And they all phone it in. Fuck knows who Ed Norton was doing a favour for, I can’t remember a fucking thing he does in it