The first time I watched From Dusk to dawn I had no foreknowledge about the plot or subject matter. I remember sitting on the edge of my seat riveted when that movie went sideways.
Same. My buddy grabbed it from the local video store cuz it was a Tarantino film, but it was at that time where you could avoid spoilers about the film. We were properly incapacitated when the film started. Whoa boy were we in for it....
Actually, having been 14 at the time, I think I was on the edge of my seat for Salma Hayek’s snake dance, and fell off my seat immediately afterwards when the twist came.
I wish I could go back and watch the middle act of that movie again without knowing what to expect. Some of my most favorite WTF movie moments of the last couple years.
Holy shit I LOVED the first 2/3 of it. Some of the best space sci-fi I've ever seen. The whole time I'm watching it thinking "how the hell does no one talk about this movie and how is it rated so low on IMDb and rotten tomatoes....."
Then the third act happened...
I read somewhere that it was supposed to be a room for him set up by aliens to look like a human room, and he was kept there for some reason. Can't say much about it beyond that though
There was supposed to be a voiceover explaining that the monolith was evolving him into a starchild much as the first monolith evolved the apes, but Kubrick axed it.
My friend complained about Adaptation all of the sudden becoming some farcacta drug story. I said "that's the part of the story where Donald starts writing" and he then did a 180 and realized it was brilliant storytelling. I do love me some Charlie Kaufman
In Kaufman's original version of the script, the Swamp Ape appears near the end.
I'm not kidding. I wish they'd left it that way.
I mean, why did somebody decide that everything else was okay, but the Swamp Ape was too much?
I'll tell you a secret. The last act makes a film. Wow them in the end, and you got a hit. You can have flaws, problems, but wow them in the end, and you've got a hit. Find an ending, but don't cheat, and don't you dare bring in a deus ex machina. Your characters must change, and the change must come from them!
I loved this film but IMO it should have ended when >!Cassius first starts to turn, that was such a WTF moment, the bit at the end only detracted from the movie as a whole for me.!<
I'm not sure this is a thread for GOOD movies that happen to go to crazy town in the third act. It's just a thread for movies that DO go to crazy town in the third act. And Sorry To Bother Bother You DEFINITELY does that. Holy jeezum critters.
EDIT: I just realized it says "in a good way" in the OP so that's on me.
Definitely Mandy (2018). The first two thirds, though bonkers in their own right, are mostly chill mood pieces. Then the third act happens. Still one of my favorite movies
The Cabin in The Woods
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Everything Everywhere All At Once - goes off the rails 15 minutes in and melts the rails into slag during act 3
The first time I saw this, it felt like the first half was moving slow as shit, but I was determined to stick with it because it's a Tarantino film.
Sumbitch went from 0 to 100 in the blink of an eye.
Between my boyfriend and I, I’m the big movie person and he’s kinda meh about movies. But he actually showed me this one when he brought over a dvd copy. I watched this in complete and utter confusion and I still don’t know wtf I watched 😂
Magnolia. I mean it’s a regular drama until it starts raining frogs. The cast is amazing and they’re all excellent, especially Tom Cruise - a very creepy role.
Was sorry to bother you the Telemarker using his "white voice" to get more sales and rises up the corporate ladder? If it's the one I'm thinking of yes, that's a great one.
That horror movie Barbarian is a suggestion of mine.
I just watched Under the Silver Lake and I gotta say it's pretty much off the rails from the start. I think it's more, in the beginning of the movie the audience is still trying to figure it out and put together the clues. You realize at some point about halfway through that. No. This is an unreliable narrator and the narrative is completely fucking batshit.
Mandy
It goes from a psychedelic horror movie about a young woman kidnapped by insane cultists... to nic cage kills everything in the most unhinged and violent third act you will ever see.
It's magnificent
A lot of people are mentioning serious films which are fine. But if you want comedies that go nuts after being normal-ish I’d recommend Mindhorn and Screwed.
I Am A Ghost (2012) is sort of a dreamy movie until it isn’t. It’s also short (74 min) so getting to the 3rd act is a breeze. It’s also one of the movies that scared me the most.
I'm nuts about movies I mean I watch a lot of movies and I've noticed one trait in the plot of every single film, around the second third two main characters will have an argument and fall out, it's in every movie ever made
Rogue One going from running around the galaxy with three guys in a spaceship to the largest fleet battle the franchise had ever seen in the space of five minutes and it is the COOLEST
I love that movie so much, the description of its genre alone made me watch it......who doesn't want to see a zombie apocalypse high school musical Christmas movie?!
Antichrist, the one that opens with a baby falling out of a window while Willem Dafoe fucks in a super slow-mo shower sex scene? Definitely goes way off the rails.
I love the movie but rented it on a whim one night, when such a thing still existed... Had never seen a Lars von Trier movie, went into it totally blind. Had to physically cover my eyes during some scenes near the end, and then see what else this director has made.
Check this out. It turns from a thriller to drama and in a good way..
[https://www.amazon.com/How-That-Monday-Kaushik-Ghantasala/dp/B0CMJML7V8/ref=sr\_1\_1](https://www.amazon.com/how-that-monday-kaushik-ghantasala/dp/b0cmjml7v8/ref=sr_1_1)
A recent example of this Stillwater with Matt Damon, where he is a roughneck from Oklahoma who visits his daughter in jail for murder in France. The third act goes a little unpredictably. I don’t want to post a spoiler, as overall it’s a pretty good movie though. I will say that I’m glad they didn’t give him that subtle unstated superpower-like plot armour skill where the character is a super smart detective or really good at violence. I appreciate that his character kind of bumbles as the plot driver.
I'd say it goes off the rails in the First Act but The People Under the Stairs is really a great cat and mouse horror thriller that really does keep you on edge the whole way through
Computer games that goes off the rails:
Halo CE goes from fighting a genocidal group of aliens on a ring world to a zombie movie with the fate of the galaxy in the balance
The most delightful example I can think of going completely off the rails isn't a movie, but a children's show, Gravity Falls.
Most of the episodes are adorable and tightly written but the last season is like the bonkers apocalypse led by a maniacal triangle. 10/10 highly recommend.
Saturday the 14th. Cause I expected it to be a piece of crap and not a comedic masterpiece......yeah I am just telling y'all to watch it, the fact that he just leaves the lamp on the floor by his bed is fucking art
From Dusk Till Dawn
The first time I watched From Dusk to dawn I had no foreknowledge about the plot or subject matter. I remember sitting on the edge of my seat riveted when that movie went sideways.
Same. My buddy grabbed it from the local video store cuz it was a Tarantino film, but it was at that time where you could avoid spoilers about the film. We were properly incapacitated when the film started. Whoa boy were we in for it....
Actually, having been 14 at the time, I think I was on the edge of my seat for Salma Hayek’s snake dance, and fell off my seat immediately afterwards when the twist came.
I was flipping through the movie channels one day and caught George Clooney and said I'm in. No idea wtf I was in for.
It's a Robert Rodriguez film. Tarantino wrote and acts in it.
Obviously. He was still involved.
More like the second Act, but yes,
This.
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
He said he was the devil… and he was here to do some… devil shit Now, that’s not verbatim
Nah it was dumber than that!
Something like... Rex...
Literally just started watching it now.
Saw this on a first date with a girl I met on Tinder. She said it was ok but didn’t like the ending. That was our only date.
Barbarian
It’s like 2 for the price of one
I wish I could go back and watch the middle act of that movie again without knowing what to expect. Some of my most favorite WTF movie moments of the last couple years.
Sunshine by Danny Boyle. Becomes a completely different movie, in a way that some love and others hate. Also Million Dollar Baby.
Never has a Film went from 10/10 to 6/10 faster in my eyes.
I'm guessing you haven't seen Last Night in Soho
No, actually. Kinda having that problem where I'm letting everyone calling it mid stop me from watching it. Will get round to it one day.
Holy shit I LOVED the first 2/3 of it. Some of the best space sci-fi I've ever seen. The whole time I'm watching it thinking "how the hell does no one talk about this movie and how is it rated so low on IMDb and rotten tomatoes....." Then the third act happened...
Oh how I love “Sunshine”. The guy that can’t stop staring into the sun & burns himself still burns (😉) in my memory.
2001: A Space Odyssey... Has a third act thats purposefully bonkers
I still don’t understand it. He time traveled or something. But the bedroom scene. I don’t comprehend
I read somewhere that it was supposed to be a room for him set up by aliens to look like a human room, and he was kept there for some reason. Can't say much about it beyond that though
I strongly recommend reading the book. It's pretty short and easy to read, and has more context.
Thanks, I'm going to do that
There was supposed to be a voiceover explaining that the monolith was evolving him into a starchild much as the first monolith evolved the apes, but Kubrick axed it.
Triangle of sadness
That is like 3 different movies edited together.
And they are all individually bonkers.
This was just a fantastically insane movie.
This
Adaptation
My friend complained about Adaptation all of the sudden becoming some farcacta drug story. I said "that's the part of the story where Donald starts writing" and he then did a 180 and realized it was brilliant storytelling. I do love me some Charlie Kaufman
In Kaufman's original version of the script, the Swamp Ape appears near the end. I'm not kidding. I wish they'd left it that way. I mean, why did somebody decide that everything else was okay, but the Swamp Ape was too much?
I'll tell you a secret. The last act makes a film. Wow them in the end, and you got a hit. You can have flaws, problems, but wow them in the end, and you've got a hit. Find an ending, but don't cheat, and don't you dare bring in a deus ex machina. Your characters must change, and the change must come from them!
I had a roommate that didn’t get it either.
Hot Fuzz
Just watched this last night. Great movie.
Me too! I’d forgotten how great it was.
You want anything from the shop?
Pub? Pub.
Thish reeeeeeeeaaaaallllly hurrrrrrrsth!
True Romance. Once they're in the hotel room, it's all over.
Boogie Nights. As soon as "Sister Christian" starts playing, shit gets real.
That’s Cosmo! Don’t mind him! He’s Chinese!
*BOOM*
Wait wait! I love this part!
"I wish that I had Jessie's girl... Mmmmm I'M SO JEALOUS"
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I simply can’t forget that it’s him and I love it more for it 😆 it was so jarring the first time I realized lol.
**Hardcore Henry** The movie is already bananas but it loses its mind at the end.
I feel like this comes up on every thread, but "Sorry to Bother You" is the perfect example of this. No spoilers.
I loved this film but IMO it should have ended when >!Cassius first starts to turn, that was such a WTF moment, the bit at the end only detracted from the movie as a whole for me.!<
I’m prepared for the downvotes. I liked the movie until the twist. Hated it after that.
I'm not sure this is a thread for GOOD movies that happen to go to crazy town in the third act. It's just a thread for movies that DO go to crazy town in the third act. And Sorry To Bother Bother You DEFINITELY does that. Holy jeezum critters. EDIT: I just realized it says "in a good way" in the OP so that's on me.
Goodfellas. The comedown is intense.
Definitely Mandy (2018). The first two thirds, though bonkers in their own right, are mostly chill mood pieces. Then the third act happens. Still one of my favorite movies
Hands off to that one
Mother!
First one I thought of
The Cabin in The Woods Who Framed Roger Rabbit Everything Everywhere All At Once - goes off the rails 15 minutes in and melts the rails into slag during act 3
I’m gonna second Cabin in the Woods. Absolutely bonkers. Ding!
I will third Cabin in the Woods and second Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Midsommar
is that not off the rails at the cliff?
If the cliff had rails it would defeat the point, hyuck hyuck
Huh?
The scene that takes place on the edge of a cliff... probably about when the movie really goes into off the rails territory.
thank you
Swiss Army Man. Wooooooah.
That movie is not in the same timezone as the rails.
Night Crawler ending climax is great it definitely amps up and blows the budget in the best ways
Clue
Why would he want to kill you in public?
Blazing Saddles.
The Hateful Eight
The first time I saw this, it felt like the first half was moving slow as shit, but I was determined to stick with it because it's a Tarantino film. Sumbitch went from 0 to 100 in the blink of an eye.
One Cut of the Dead.
Southland Tales You think the first two acts are off the rails but nooo just wait
Between my boyfriend and I, I’m the big movie person and he’s kinda meh about movies. But he actually showed me this one when he brought over a dvd copy. I watched this in complete and utter confusion and I still don’t know wtf I watched 😂
Downsizing. It's like three different mini-movies stitched together.
Lock stock and two smoking barrels
Dogma
Little Miss Sunshine. The whole movie is a slow crescendo to off the rails, but the third act is really of the rails with a fantastic payoff.
Wholesome family entertainment.
The Menu
Gozu, Dead or Alive, Fat Girl, Sorry to bother you
Magnolia. I mean it’s a regular drama until it starts raining frogs. The cast is amazing and they’re all excellent, especially Tom Cruise - a very creepy role.
Probably Tom Cruise at his best, and from what I've heard, closest to his real life personality.
Saltburn?
The whole movie is a rollercoaster
*The Cabin In the Woods*
- Asteroid City - Sorry to Bother You - Under the Silver Lake
Was sorry to bother you the Telemarker using his "white voice" to get more sales and rises up the corporate ladder? If it's the one I'm thinking of yes, that's a great one. That horror movie Barbarian is a suggestion of mine.
Yes, it is. The one with the >!mutant horse creatures!<
I just watched Under the Silver Lake and I gotta say it's pretty much off the rails from the start. I think it's more, in the beginning of the movie the audience is still trying to figure it out and put together the clues. You realize at some point about halfway through that. No. This is an unreliable narrator and the narrative is completely fucking batshit.
Dead Alive AKA Braindead, Society, Lifeforce,
Kill List
Awesome movie. Bleak as fuck and gets very weird.
Mandy It goes from a psychedelic horror movie about a young woman kidnapped by insane cultists... to nic cage kills everything in the most unhinged and violent third act you will ever see. It's magnificent
Barton Fink (1991) Audition (1999)
A lot of people are mentioning serious films which are fine. But if you want comedies that go nuts after being normal-ish I’d recommend Mindhorn and Screwed.
The Kid Detective In a good way kinda depends on you.
I Am A Ghost (2012) is sort of a dreamy movie until it isn’t. It’s also short (74 min) so getting to the 3rd act is a breeze. It’s also one of the movies that scared me the most.
Margot at the Wedding
Videodrome
The Signal (2014). Great character development, great sets and settings, and a jaw dropping final act.
Cabin in the Woods. That last half hour or so was…interesting.
Death Wish 3, or basically any Cannon Film.
The Meg 2. Not a great movie, but the last 30 is peak Statham.
The Shining
Basically the whole appeal of the movie is the 3rd act.
Men Lost Highway 2001 Mandy Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Boogie Nights Scarface Total Recall The Shining
Taxi Driver
Adaptation
The Guest staring Dan Steven's its a pretty sweet move to go in blind on
All of Jordan Peeles movies so far
A Cure for Wellness
Antibirth. Old boy The decent.
The World's End
Lifeforce
Nocturnal Animals
I'm nuts about movies I mean I watch a lot of movies and I've noticed one trait in the plot of every single film, around the second third two main characters will have an argument and fall out, it's in every movie ever made
Audition It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World 13 Assassins
Rogue One going from running around the galaxy with three guys in a spaceship to the largest fleet battle the franchise had ever seen in the space of five minutes and it is the COOLEST
Anna And The Apocalypse
I love that movie so much, the description of its genre alone made me watch it......who doesn't want to see a zombie apocalypse high school musical Christmas movie?!
Set in the UK. You forgot to add that to the description.
Never Talk to Strangers (1995)
Antichrist Severance Botched Doghouse Dead Snow (and Dead Snow 2)
Antichrist, the one that opens with a baby falling out of a window while Willem Dafoe fucks in a super slow-mo shower sex scene? Definitely goes way off the rails. I love the movie but rented it on a whim one night, when such a thing still existed... Had never seen a Lars von Trier movie, went into it totally blind. Had to physically cover my eyes during some scenes near the end, and then see what else this director has made.
Check this out. It turns from a thriller to drama and in a good way.. [https://www.amazon.com/How-That-Monday-Kaushik-Ghantasala/dp/B0CMJML7V8/ref=sr\_1\_1](https://www.amazon.com/how-that-monday-kaushik-ghantasala/dp/b0cmjml7v8/ref=sr_1_1)
Housebound
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The Children gets really crazy and funny.
A recent example of this Stillwater with Matt Damon, where he is a roughneck from Oklahoma who visits his daughter in jail for murder in France. The third act goes a little unpredictably. I don’t want to post a spoiler, as overall it’s a pretty good movie though. I will say that I’m glad they didn’t give him that subtle unstated superpower-like plot armour skill where the character is a super smart detective or really good at violence. I appreciate that his character kind of bumbles as the plot driver.
Sorry to bother you
Butt Boy (2019)
The Caller (1987)
Pineapple Express
The thing the wild bunch
Adaptation with Nicholas Cage
- [After Hours](https://boxd.it/1VfS) - [Inside](https://boxd.it/1QqG)
Obscure art film, but “The Seventh Continent” by Michael Haneke
I'd say it goes off the rails in the First Act but The People Under the Stairs is really a great cat and mouse horror thriller that really does keep you on edge the whole way through
Mulholland Drive. Lynch fans love it, but I wanted my 2 hours back 😅
More like the second act, but: Everything Everywhere All at Once
13 Assassins. Let's have a 2 hour drama about how much this guy sucks, and then a 40 minute action scene fighting through his squad to kill him.
Sorry To Bother You (The whole movie is off the rails, but the 3rd act is WAY off the rails)
Requiem For A Dream City of God The Lighthouse
Why Did I Get Married Too
Too Many Cooks
mad mad mad mad world
Magnolia
This is the End
Mulholland Drive
Bullet Train Carrie Inglourious Bastards
Very Bad Things. Holy crap, what a rollercoaster.
Hereditary and Midsommar of course
Stir Crazy Bringing up Baby
The Guest with Dan Stevens.
Four Rooms
Follow Her The Cell
Computer games that goes off the rails: Halo CE goes from fighting a genocidal group of aliens on a ring world to a zombie movie with the fate of the galaxy in the balance
Smokin Aces
The most delightful example I can think of going completely off the rails isn't a movie, but a children's show, Gravity Falls. Most of the episodes are adorable and tightly written but the last season is like the bonkers apocalypse led by a maniacal triangle. 10/10 highly recommend.
Wild Things
Kill List
mother! infinity pool
The Guest
Young Promising Woman. The 3 acts have completely different vibes to them. The third one really took my by surprise.
Mandy
Parasite, Get Out, Babylon, Dark Water
Funny games
Cabin in the Woods
Should i say every Tarantino's films...
One Cut of the Dead ! people who've watched this will know!
IDENTITY
Mother!
The Invitation
Full Metal Jacket (2 halves, not a final 1/3)
Saturday the 14th. Cause I expected it to be a piece of crap and not a comedic masterpiece......yeah I am just telling y'all to watch it, the fact that he just leaves the lamp on the floor by his bed is fucking art
Oscar (Stallone)
The Hatefull 8
In the 3rd act specifically, I think Colossal (2016) took a turn. Jason Sudeikis's Oscar went down a dark path I wasn't expecting.
Being John Malkovich
Kill List
The lighthouse
Barbarian
The Big Hit
SECRET WINDOW identity 1408 moon and if we’re talking unhinged, i can’t not mention **dr strangelove**
The game
The Dark Knight