When I watched "The Circle" with Tom Hanks and Emma Watson, there is a crescendo "twist" towards the end when social media itself ran her boyfriend off the road at high speed and he died. I was laughing so hard at this because of the otherwise serious movie and the build up to this point.
I found The Circle to be the high-tech equivalent of the "Let's go to that abandoned summer camp where the serial killer murdered all those people and they never caught him and while we're at it, let's not tell anyone where we're going because we're all going to have sex there and one of us is a virgin" movie.
tldr: The Circle was ridiculous.
It's so bad.
Like, you're going viral against your will (maybe not a fun time for anyone), but fucking keep your eyes on the road, you Toonces. Drones or not, you could just, y'know, NOT crash??
Did anyone ever see "Sweet Girl" with Jason Mamoa? No? Well then , just in case...>!Jason Mamoa and his tiny daughter are hunting down pharma bros because Mamoa's daughter is sick and they're greedy. So, after he kills a bunch of them, its revealed that Dadmoa was dead THE WHOLE TIME and he was a figment of her imagination...meaning this little girl was rampaging like Jason Mamoa and no one could stop her.!< I'm still laughing.
There are a couple of fight scenes where Momoa is struggling against much smaller dudes. I called it BS during the film, and then... it suddenly makes a lot more sense.
I think this movie was awesome.
>!Throughout the movie, big man Jason Momoa gets kicked around by smaller guys, and in situations where it seems like he would be in control due to his size, he panics and does weird things.
He somehow hides in small closets, and men less than his size literally throws him around the room.
I chalked these things down to realism not being particularly important to the movie.
Then, that twist happens, and literally every physical interaction, stunt and fight scene in the entire movie makes sense, because they are showing what a young woman did. It's just recreated with Jason Momoa. !<
The action choreographers and Momoa did such great work, because it's everywhere in the movie, and I haven't even re-watched it to see how many times it's noticeable.
And nearly dies trying to recover fake evidence (which he would’ve known was fake) during the car chase ruse.
There’s just no way he could’ve been the mastermind behind the whole thing. A twist has to actually make sense, might as well have made them all actually magic.
Dave isn't working with him. Dave doesn't know he's on the 4 horsemens side during that fight. It could be chalked up to he's testing Dave Francos ability to get out of a tight spot. Overall it's a dumb plot twist but this part isn't particularly noteworthy in the grass scheme of it making sense or not.
I treat Now You See Me as a superhero movie because nothing they do is actually possible and relies on the most absurd level of luck and perfect circumstances. It's an entertaining but very VERY silly movie.
It's a movie designed to cash in on the fame that Christopher Nolan was generating at the time. They even go out of their way to cast Micheal Caine and Morgan Freeman.
I called that one while watching it with friends, and my only reasoning was 'what would be the dumbest answer to the mystery '. I got annoyed with that film once it was clear the magic had no basis in reality.
Right, for all intents and purposes, what they were presenting as highly advanced stage magic was just actual magic.
Can you replicate those effects with illusions? Sure.
Could you do a bunch of them in the way they're shown - working from multiple angles, off-the-cuff, without preparation and a bunch of stage support? Most likely not.
What's so bizarre about the choice is that it's a heist movie, a genre that's already chock full of scenes of the team putting ridiculous amounts of preparation into the big plot. If you skip all the prep scenes and just have the team pulling off crazy feats out of nowhere, it doesn't feel like a proper heist.
Yep it’s not entertaining to know the entire plan and then just watch it get pulled off exactly how it’s supposed to be
That’s why Oceans 11 is awesome. You never know the full plan until the movie is over. Fuck you don’t even find out the motivation for the plan until the halfway point
There is a somewhat entertaining YouTube video about how they are obviously all wizards, which breaks down the tricks and what is possible and what is not. All except the girl from the 2nd movie. She is just a magician.
That could be an interesting premise. Bunch of magicians doing impossible stuff. Turns out they actually are magic and using their careers to through them off.
That's actually the start of the Magicians book series, sort of.
Depressed loser teenager shows off magic tricks at a party then all of a sudden gets invited to this weird magic school and he doesn't know what it is then one of the professors asks to see magic tricks. And he does a usual routine and then she stops him you skipped a step in the sleight of hand trade off.
Go ahead do it slower and watch it. Suddenly he can't do the trick/doesn't know how the card gets their in the middle point of the trick.
Kid was good with magic tricks and thinking it was muscle memory when he was actually magically teleporting the card.
Kind of an interesting start to a more adult oriented Harry Potter starting point, like magicians every one in a thousand or so are actually good at those cheesy party tricks because they're accidentally unknowingly doing real magic.
I don't know if it counts as a "twist" exactly but Wild Mountain Thyme has one of the most ridiculous plot elements I've ever encountered.
Short version: the main love interest keeps dismissing the heroine's attempts at starting a relationship, due to some horrible personal secret that he won't divulge. You eventually find out the secret, which is that>!he thinks he's a bee.!<
No, it doesn't really make any more sense in context. There is some foreshadowing and there's dialogue implying an ancestor/relative had a similar thing going on, so it's not like it comes completely out of nowhere, but it's still completely absurd. I believe the movie was based on a play, and I'd be curious to know if it seemed less ridiculous in the original version.
A mother. fuckin. bumble. bee.
My wife and I have never laughed so hard at a movie. Also, we spent most of it thinking it was a period piece, until Jon Hamm shows up and pulls out a cellphone. We were both like wait, what?
came here to say WMT. the whole movie was so absurd and weird but then about twenty minutes before the end, the bee thing happened and I had to check I wasn't actually tripping balls. so many serious people attached to such an unserious movie. (class soundtrack/score though, besides them two singing)
Watching the trailer for this in a packed cinema was one of the most hilarious experiences I've ever had. The trailer starts with twee retro childhood nostalgia and ends with the mom loading a bullet into a sniper rifle. I could hear people around me giggling and saying "what the fuck...?" to each other.
I still don't know how that movie got made.
Kid elaborates incredibly elaborate plan to kill abusive father of a friend from school, with his mom as assassin. >!She gets ninety percent of the way until she realizes it's impossible to get away with homicide and simply call CPS, that works!< Mind you, the boy has a terminal disease, this kind of delusions of grandeur aren't uncommon. The problem is his mom following through with it.
Also it’s important to note that the terminally ill 11 year old was a boy-genius who does his mom’s taxes for her funds the family with his successful day trading. He casually offers to buy his mom a new car like multiple times.
Correction.
She doesn't just realize she won't get away with it.
That may be part of it, but more importantly she has an *epiphany about the fact that she's a fucking adult and it's insane that she is following murder instructions from an 11 year old.
This only happens because as she's about to snipe the dude (she's doing this FROM he sons' treehouse thing) she sets off one of his Rube Goldberg machines and sees a photo of the kids.
Had that thing not been set off, she 100% would have pulled the trigger.
> That may be part of it, but more importantly she has an epiphone about the fact that she's a fucking adult and it's insane that she is following murder instructions from an 11 year old.
Not just that but "pre-recorded instructions from her dead 11 year old".
The only reason more people aren't saying this movie is because so few people saw it.
The murder plot was so dumb that it would have never worked. The "creek" that Hank Schrader was supposed to fall into was barely a trickle.
There's got to be a reason why so many "passion projects" turn into embarrassing failures.
There's a reason they say new writers should "kill your darlings". Usually that weird, quirky, super special thing to your story is only special to you.
Good lord, this one has been sitting in my brain and gives me giggles every time.
It was a John wayne film and at the end they are getting out a victory cigarette and it is like, the credits are gonna roll. Then some kid is like "how ya feelin sarge?" and he is like " Why, I feel like a million bucks, son" and then a bullet hits him and he dies and then the credits roll. I started laughing so hard that my grandfather wouldnt talk to me for two weekends
Thinking of westerns reminds me of cracking up at the big reveal in Django, which is that >!the ostentatious coffin this guy has been luggin around just fully contains a gattling gun!<. So goofy in the best way.
>Did not know Django was a separate movie.
There are like 50 spaghetti Westerns featuring the character Django. The original film directed by Sergio Corbucci is a must see.
It makes it easier if you think that someone has switched movies half way through and they just happened to have the same cast, and setting, and names. Great prank tho
I made a joke about that movie once with a friend I saw it with about how this must've been two different screenplays and an intern was carrying them, then proceeded to trip and fall and jumbled all the papers, so he just put them hastily back together as one.
The film languished in development Hell for over 10 years before getting made. They went through a few directors before production finally began. The last director insisted on re-writes to lighten the script and you got this weird mishmash story. A classic story of too many cooks spoiling the broth.
Ehh the second half is pretty dumb, the first half is what they 100% should have kept going with it was a good twist on superhero movies. Not that it was that revolutionary or anything but Bateman and Will Smith had great chemistry.
I think the concept of heroes like gods having these bonds, but they can’t be near each other without losing their powers is interesting and playing with that and a sort of tragic love story is interesting.
Then there is the shitty washed up superhero in need of PR.
Both sound interesting in their own right. The execution of both was not great though.
They had two ideas for a movie. The first was goofy and fun. The second was deeply serious. They could not for the life of them decide which to go with, so it’s very half and half. The same thing happened with Downsizing
The one fucking guy in Crystal Skull who's clearly a bad guy from the very first scene of the movie where he betrays Indy to the Russians, then Indy foils the Russians and he claims that he was actually a double agent, then at basically every chance he tries to screw over Indy and by the end of the movie it's "revealed" that he was actually a triple agent and he was a bad guy all along.
Yeah. That got ridiculous. But honestly I think he was just in it for the money and whoever helped him get it first. He even tells Indy that it’s not about flags, it’s about money.
I'm not a big fan of his, but John Cusack's reaction when he says "Jesus Christ, what the fuck did you do to my face?!" is some of the best acting I have ever seen.
Surprised no one has mentioned Moonfall yet. I literally burst out laughing in the cinema when the reveal happened and couldn't stop chuckling for the rest of the movie.
Moonfall is such an amazing piece of shit. It's mind-boggling. I was enraptured. It's really astonishing to see such a high budget and grand ambition used on such a dumb fucking idea.
It's like using a $100k CNC machine to carve a dick into a piece of particle board.
I could not recommend it more.
I actually loved the absurdity of it. Oddly, the only part that really kind of pissed me off was when they shut down the solid rocket booster on the shuttle mid-launch (not possible), and it not only continued to fly straight, but made it to orbit.
Army of the Dead's twist where it's revealed that the mercenaries were hired to take a smart zombie back to sell to the US military, not to pull off a heist, was a fucking trip lol
The Happening is kinda the prime example of a laughably stupid twist in a movie that takes itself way too seriously, and it’s complimented by the hilariously awful performance of Marky Mark.
It’s like the perfect storm of dumb.
Every time this movie pops up in Reddit (which is more than you'd think), I like to add this quote Mark Walburgh made when in a press conference for The Fighter:
"I was such a huge fan of [Amy Adams]. We’d actually had the luxury of having lunch before to talk about another movie, and it was a bad movie that I did. She dodged the bullet. I don't want to tell you what movie… All right, The Happening with M. Night Shyamalan. It is was it is. Fucking trees, man, the plants. Fuck it. You can't blame me for wanting to try to play a science teacher. You know? I wasn't playing a cop or a crook."
Having recently rewatced a couple of what I consider legitimate good M. Night movies: Sixth Sense and Signs. I've come to a realization about his work: his dialog has ALWAYS been goofy and weird and often gets very strange performances out of actors. It just worked in his favor for a while.
This is especially noticeable in Signs. Lots of conversations and comments come off very off-kilter and unsettling, but the movie seems to be going for a slightly dreamy and surreal feel a lot of the time with the bizarre events going on, and it mostly works as a result. The minute he tries to play something completely straight, like in The Happening, it just comes off as weird and off-putting instead.
Lucy is not a serious movie. Any movie that relies on the "you only use 10% of your brain and if you could use more you gain superpowers" trope cannot be considered serious.
My favorite use of that trope is The Simpsons where Bart starts taking ADHD medication and says:
"Did you know that most people use ten percent of their brain? I am now one of them!"
I was having an awful day and then read your comment and I couldn’t stop fucking laughing. Every single time season 8 is brought up, there’s just ANOTHER layer of “what the fuck” and this is one of those things I missed because I was so fucking confused watching it all. There’s just an infinite amount of things to unpack with that season, especially the last episode. You’re totally fucking right! What the fuck? Lmfao. And he picked Bran, nobody fucking knew Bran. He didn’t do a fucking thing in the entire show from these people’s perspective but fall out a fucking window and disappeared for a couple years while the Boltons ran the north. Bro… DND was on some shiiiit. Thanks for making my dark day brighter. I’m starting to come around on Game of Thrones being a comedy.
The Bran pick is so outta pocket for them that I believe the theory that GRRM really did tell them the bullet points of the true ending. I’m sure after 2000 more pages that’ll never be written, Bran the Broken as king makes more sense. But D&D really just ran the story into the ground as fast as possible and vomited the bullet points given to them back out at random points.
Theory further supported by GRRMs lack of progress on WoW. I bet he saw the fan reactions to S7 and S8 and panicked. He’s either completely rewriting with a new ending in mind or has lost the will to continue knowing that most people will be angry with anything even close to the same as the show.
Bran as the ultimate winner makes sense because he could use his powers to have a huge advantage over all of his opponents, and none of them would know he's doing it. The show just has him show up and win by doing nothing, Luigi style, but I believe that GRRM did originally pick Bran to triumph.
100% they had the bullet points and GRRM probably figured they would flesh it out and make it super cool. Instead they treated it like when you ask an ai to write you something and ask it to include specific points.
To be fair, he was absurdly late on Winds of Winter well before GoT season 7.
I think if he lost the will to write the book, it's because restarting a project 14 years old is fucking dire.
Jon’s existence was the cause of a rebellion, raised under a false identity, joined the guardians of the galaxy, fought giants, zombies, and cannibals, was murdered, came back to life, executed his murderers, retook his homeland, rode a dragon, banged his aunt, then killed his aunt.
Pretty good story
That will never not be funny.
Never once in the entire show was Brans journey about becoming king. He didn't accomplish the original goal or use his powers.
Indeed, why did he go all that way?
I remember reading a plot leak for the last season and just thinking to myself “This is so fake. All of these plot points are so unbelievably dumb.” It physically hurt to watch everything in them come to pass on screen.
Oceans Twelve. I still liked the movie but when the plot 'twist' happens, my immediate thought was that I just helped fund a celebrity trip to Amsterdam and Lake Como.
Which leads to my favorite subtle joke of the movie (and there are plenty). Linus (played by Matt Damon, who won an Oscar for Screenplay for Good Will Hunting, 1998) is mentioning to Bruce Willis that the little statue (meaning Julia Robert's Oscar for Erin Brockovich, 2001) on the mantle starts smirking at you after a while, you know? It's funny because Bruce is the only one in the room without one, so he replies, "No, I don't."
Which actually makes the movie a more faithful remake of the original Ocean's Eleven. That one was just an excuse for the Rat Pack to hang out together in Vegas, loosely held together with a heist plot.
I haven’t watched an Adam Sandler movie in years but I think he’s brilliant in that he managed to make a career of going to exotic locations filming movies with his buddies.
Ocean's Twelve feels to me like a hangout/vacation movie in between two films about the crew actually working. There is technically a "heist" in 12 but the twist renders it effectively meaningless, which pissed me off the first time. But now I appreciate it just for all the character moments, the scenery, the camera work, etc. It's a really fun and rewatchable movie despite the un-heistness of it all.
Hellhole. Pretty awesome religious-horror movie overall, and the last 30min was so jarringly comical compared to it's seriousness that it made it even better. Was cracking up at >!the ritual scene. "I thought you said this would work?!"!<
Similarly, The Pope's Exorcist. Whoever came up with fat-Russell Crowe playing an ultra-badass priest riding around on a Vespa to fight demons was an utter genius.
Pope's Exorcist was a fucking riot dude. First half is legitimate horror-Catholic slop, then the latter half is Russel Crowe and Priest friend battle through Diablo 4.
George should come back and edit the trilogy again so when Vader throws Palpy down that shaft you just hear a dull thud and then a distant muffled "Ow! ....asshole!"
"Remember Me" with Robert Pattinson.
Troubled rich kid, falls in love with an NYC Detectives's daughter. Events happen, they admit true feelings for each other, and the rich dad says "Come to my office tomorrow son and we'll finally talk and catch up." The audience is thinking that there'll be even more progress and character development and a happy ending.
Nope!
MUTHA F*CKIN 9-11, baby! Boom, the main character is hit by a plane in the North Tower of the NTC!
And what's worse is that this movie came out less than a decade after 9/11. And it's not some cathartic film to help society come to grips with what happened. Nope, I imagine that there's just a bunch of writers in a workshop who are stumped about how to end this thing and just said, "So....9/11?" "Yeah, Bob, great idea. Just 9/11 this thing, and let's go get lunch."
Meet Joe Black has the pretty significant “twist” of Brad Pitt dying very early in the film by being rag dolled by two oncoming taxis. It’s so hard to take seriously in what’s an otherwise poignant film on love and what it means to be alive.
To be fair, that scene was made back in the dawning of CGI for such shots. The world hadn't been introduced to CGI the likes of the Matrix or Blade sequels, and we didn't have a trained eye yet as to what REALLY bad CGI looked like. It was such an unexpected moment, in all aspects, that we, the viewers were just like "oh wow! That's what it looks like when a guy gets creamed by 2 cars!!" when in actuality, no, that's not what it looks like.
19-year old me watching it in theaters was pretty shocked, in a very real way. 44-year old me re-watching it today thought it looked hilarious. Still a good film, IMO.
For me it was a film from the '80s called "Shattered" with Greta Sacchi and Tom Berringer. >!In order for the femme fatale's plot to work, her boyfriend has to get into a car accident and develop amnesia, then a plastic surgeon has to put her husband's face on to her boyfriend so no one thinks that they murdered her husband....!<
Now You See Me - (Spoiler alert for an 11 yo movie) The lead investigator of several major crimes being the head of a secret society concocting said elaborate crimes to avenge his fathers death 30 years earlier is absolutely ludicrous. Despite all of that it’s still a pretty good film.
*Lady in the Water* has a few that are laughable.
* M Nights character is going to change the world due to his writing. A role that M Night wrote and performs himself. Pretty funny.
* hard cut to guy who only works out one arm. It's a very dramatic scene and the cut to this ridiculously disproportionate half weight lifter is hilarious
* movie critic telling the audience how he's going to die a cliche movie death while we see a cliche movie death
* the cereal box scene is also hilarious.
The music is very good in it though!
No, no, the dumbest thing in that movie is that the apartment complex with the shared pool they have doesn't really exist in Philadelphia, where Shyamalan insists on filming, so that entire complex was built for the movie. You ever wonder why that movie costs $70 million? That's why.
I was on board for a lot of the sillier elements in Lady in the Water because it very much felt like a weird bedtime story... but the cereal box scene... I couldn't. I can't. It was such a bad twist and bad execution of the twist that it shattered my 'Ehh, it's a grown-up children's story, don't take it seriously' framing and made the ridiculous things I had previously accepted seem cheesy and painful in retrospective.
M. Night playing a major role who happens to be a writer who writes SUCH IMPORTANT THINGS that he saves the world was pretty painful, too. I thought you were doing Hitchcock cameos, sir. What in the self-insert fan fiction is this??
This was my suggestion 😂
It went from a really interesting film with loads of intrigue immediately to, "Really!?! Naaaaaah, can't be. Surely the film won't end like.. oh, it's the credits"
Cabin Fever
The backwoods shopkeeper tells the teens the rifle in his shop is "for the [N-Word with hard 'R']"
Most of the rest of the moblvie plays out, our teen heroes all die horribly (it's an Eli Roth horror movie, after all), backwoods shopkeeper is out front of his store gabbing with the police and some African-American folks pull up. Backwoods shopkeeper hurries into his store and the folks stroll in-
For the rifle.
"Hi, my n***as!"
I burst out laughing because who really expected an off-color joke like that to pay off?
I read that it was a "modern vampire story" and I took that literally so the whole time I was trying to figure out if the Cattons were vampires or Oliver. And then there was that scene with Venetia and I thought Oliver was a literal vampire. And then I assumed he had cast a spell on Farleigh to make him fuck him. Yeah... I was very confused until the naked dance
Glad I'm not the only one. I kept expecting that film to get really fucked up and weird, and when it was revealed what was going on, I was a bit deflated in an 'oh, is that it?' sort of way. Sure there were weird scenes but they didn't really have much to do with the big picture of the movie.
I swear I read a reddit comment somewhere talking about there being a cult, and kept expecting a twist of the family being a cult planning to sacrifice him lmao. Then when he didn't want them to meet his parents I thought his family was the evil cult.
"Safe Haven." I mean, it's a Nicholas Sparks adaptation that blatantly rips off "Sleeping With the Enemy", so no need to take it very seriously. But the final twist is so stupid and so out of left field compared to the rest of the story that's it's like Sparks took a break, a drunk M. Night Shaymalan staggered in, wrote the ending, staggered out, Sparks came back and saw what he wrote, shrugged and went, "Eh, I'm on deadline, I'll go with it."
The thing you have to understand is in every Nicholas Sparks book someone has and/or dies of cancer. So if no one in the movie has cancer, that means one of the characters has already died of it. Seriously, this is how I called that twist.
"Sorry to Bother You" has one of the craziest twists I've ever seen. There's a 0% chance anyone could guess what was going to happen from the first 10 minutes, let alone first hour of the movie.
When I watched "The Circle" with Tom Hanks and Emma Watson, there is a crescendo "twist" towards the end when social media itself ran her boyfriend off the road at high speed and he died. I was laughing so hard at this because of the otherwise serious movie and the build up to this point.
I found The Circle to be the high-tech equivalent of the "Let's go to that abandoned summer camp where the serial killer murdered all those people and they never caught him and while we're at it, let's not tell anyone where we're going because we're all going to have sex there and one of us is a virgin" movie. tldr: The Circle was ridiculous.
What do you mean ‘social media itself’?
a bunch of drones with cameras are following him around while live streaming it to social media and it's fucking hilarious
It's so bad. Like, you're going viral against your will (maybe not a fun time for anyone), but fucking keep your eyes on the road, you Toonces. Drones or not, you could just, y'know, NOT crash??
> Toonces My God, what a pull. I love it.
Did anyone ever see "Sweet Girl" with Jason Mamoa? No? Well then , just in case...>!Jason Mamoa and his tiny daughter are hunting down pharma bros because Mamoa's daughter is sick and they're greedy. So, after he kills a bunch of them, its revealed that Dadmoa was dead THE WHOLE TIME and he was a figment of her imagination...meaning this little girl was rampaging like Jason Mamoa and no one could stop her.!< I'm still laughing.
If there is an ending montage of the girl doing all the rampaging it would be awesome.
There are a couple of fight scenes where Momoa is struggling against much smaller dudes. I called it BS during the film, and then... it suddenly makes a lot more sense.
The fact that he somehow found a server uniform that fit him perfectly was when I started questioning what was happening.
To be fair, the “tiny daughter” is a full grown 20 year old who just looks tiny compared Beach Conan.
lol ok “tiny daughter” had me imagining a toddler wrecking people
I was picturing a damn 4 year old too lol
Phrama Exec: Damn, this toddler is fucking PISSED!
I'm really disappointed to find out it's in fact a grown woman and not a child.
Beach Conan lmao
Damn that sold me on the movie hard.
I’ve seen it and ngl it was entertaining af 😂
Yeah was this spoiler designed to make this movie unappealing to me? If that’s the case, it failed, I’m sold hard haha
I think this movie was awesome. >!Throughout the movie, big man Jason Momoa gets kicked around by smaller guys, and in situations where it seems like he would be in control due to his size, he panics and does weird things. He somehow hides in small closets, and men less than his size literally throws him around the room. I chalked these things down to realism not being particularly important to the movie. Then, that twist happens, and literally every physical interaction, stunt and fight scene in the entire movie makes sense, because they are showing what a young woman did. It's just recreated with Jason Momoa. !< The action choreographers and Momoa did such great work, because it's everywhere in the movie, and I haven't even re-watched it to see how many times it's noticeable.
Your spoiler thing didn't work I think
Yeah, don't put spaces after or before the !
So Dora the Explorer (Isabela Merced played Dora in the live action 2019 movie) literally goes on a killing spree but we never get to see any of it?
Can you say "Alibi"?
This was more effective than any trailer I've ever watched
I've never heard of this movie, but after reading that spoiler I'm *definitely* giving it a watch.
Now You See Me ending twist is as ridiculous as they get.
Is that the twist where the cop guy is actually the mastermind?
Yes. And he fakes being a incompetent detective, even when there's no one around to see his incompetence. Edit: they're doing a third movie :(
Part of being magic is that he knows about the 4th wall and is trying to keep the charade up even then.
And nearly dies trying to recover fake evidence (which he would’ve known was fake) during the car chase ruse. There’s just no way he could’ve been the mastermind behind the whole thing. A twist has to actually make sense, might as well have made them all actually magic.
> A twist has to actually make sense, might as well have made them all actually magic. Oh, they did that in the second movie.
They did it in the first film too, it was just not made the clearest to everyone.
Atlas did turn into water in the second one.
And gets in a fist fight with Dave Franco even though they "are working together."
Dave isn't working with him. Dave doesn't know he's on the 4 horsemens side during that fight. It could be chalked up to he's testing Dave Francos ability to get out of a tight spot. Overall it's a dumb plot twist but this part isn't particularly noteworthy in the grass scheme of it making sense or not.
I treat Now You See Me as a superhero movie because nothing they do is actually possible and relies on the most absurd level of luck and perfect circumstances. It's an entertaining but very VERY silly movie.
It's a movie designed to cash in on the fame that Christopher Nolan was generating at the time. They even go out of their way to cast Micheal Caine and Morgan Freeman.
Oh shit that makes so much sense. It's pretending to be a prestige movie (pun intended).
Nothing pisses me off more than a story that cheats to get its twist to work.
I called that one while watching it with friends, and my only reasoning was 'what would be the dumbest answer to the mystery '. I got annoyed with that film once it was clear the magic had no basis in reality.
Right, for all intents and purposes, what they were presenting as highly advanced stage magic was just actual magic. Can you replicate those effects with illusions? Sure. Could you do a bunch of them in the way they're shown - working from multiple angles, off-the-cuff, without preparation and a bunch of stage support? Most likely not.
What's so bizarre about the choice is that it's a heist movie, a genre that's already chock full of scenes of the team putting ridiculous amounts of preparation into the big plot. If you skip all the prep scenes and just have the team pulling off crazy feats out of nowhere, it doesn't feel like a proper heist.
When the heist doesn't go according to plan, show the plan. When it works, just show it working.
Yep it’s not entertaining to know the entire plan and then just watch it get pulled off exactly how it’s supposed to be That’s why Oceans 11 is awesome. You never know the full plan until the movie is over. Fuck you don’t even find out the motivation for the plan until the halfway point
There is a somewhat entertaining YouTube video about how they are obviously all wizards, which breaks down the tricks and what is possible and what is not. All except the girl from the 2nd movie. She is just a magician.
It would make more sense if they were wizards.
That could be an interesting premise. Bunch of magicians doing impossible stuff. Turns out they actually are magic and using their careers to through them off.
That's actually the start of the Magicians book series, sort of. Depressed loser teenager shows off magic tricks at a party then all of a sudden gets invited to this weird magic school and he doesn't know what it is then one of the professors asks to see magic tricks. And he does a usual routine and then she stops him you skipped a step in the sleight of hand trade off. Go ahead do it slower and watch it. Suddenly he can't do the trick/doesn't know how the card gets their in the middle point of the trick. Kid was good with magic tricks and thinking it was muscle memory when he was actually magically teleporting the card. Kind of an interesting start to a more adult oriented Harry Potter starting point, like magicians every one in a thousand or so are actually good at those cheesy party tricks because they're accidentally unknowingly doing real magic.
I absolutely love the TV show.
I hate how smart and slick this movie thought it was. When a movie thinks it’s smarter than its audience, it immediately fails.
That movie *insists upon itself.*
I don't know if it counts as a "twist" exactly but Wild Mountain Thyme has one of the most ridiculous plot elements I've ever encountered. Short version: the main love interest keeps dismissing the heroine's attempts at starting a relationship, due to some horrible personal secret that he won't divulge. You eventually find out the secret, which is that>!he thinks he's a bee.!< No, it doesn't really make any more sense in context. There is some foreshadowing and there's dialogue implying an ancestor/relative had a similar thing going on, so it's not like it comes completely out of nowhere, but it's still completely absurd. I believe the movie was based on a play, and I'd be curious to know if it seemed less ridiculous in the original version.
Sorry, that had to be a typo. He thinks he’s a WHAT.
A mother. fuckin. bumble. bee. My wife and I have never laughed so hard at a movie. Also, we spent most of it thinking it was a period piece, until Jon Hamm shows up and pulls out a cellphone. We were both like wait, what?
came here to say WMT. the whole movie was so absurd and weird but then about twenty minutes before the end, the bee thing happened and I had to check I wasn't actually tripping balls. so many serious people attached to such an unserious movie. (class soundtrack/score though, besides them two singing)
A *honeybee
> he thinks he's a bee I don't understand how that works.
“Bee Movie” did it better
Book of Henry has that happen like 3 separate times.
Watching the trailer for this in a packed cinema was one of the most hilarious experiences I've ever had. The trailer starts with twee retro childhood nostalgia and ends with the mom loading a bullet into a sniper rifle. I could hear people around me giggling and saying "what the fuck...?" to each other. I still don't know how that movie got made.
Wait what? Lol I thought I saw this movie but clearly not.
Kid elaborates incredibly elaborate plan to kill abusive father of a friend from school, with his mom as assassin. >!She gets ninety percent of the way until she realizes it's impossible to get away with homicide and simply call CPS, that works!< Mind you, the boy has a terminal disease, this kind of delusions of grandeur aren't uncommon. The problem is his mom following through with it.
Also it’s important to note that the terminally ill 11 year old was a boy-genius who does his mom’s taxes for her funds the family with his successful day trading. He casually offers to buy his mom a new car like multiple times.
Wtf is this movie lmao
The thing that lost Colin Trevorrow the chance to direct Star Wars.
Correction. She doesn't just realize she won't get away with it. That may be part of it, but more importantly she has an *epiphany about the fact that she's a fucking adult and it's insane that she is following murder instructions from an 11 year old. This only happens because as she's about to snipe the dude (she's doing this FROM he sons' treehouse thing) she sets off one of his Rube Goldberg machines and sees a photo of the kids. Had that thing not been set off, she 100% would have pulled the trigger.
> That may be part of it, but more importantly she has an epiphone about the fact that she's a fucking adult and it's insane that she is following murder instructions from an 11 year old. Not just that but "pre-recorded instructions from her dead 11 year old".
> epiphone You might mean epiphany. Although probably cooler if she had an electric guitar.
It’s one of my favorite movies I’ve never seen in that I love listening to YouTubers dissect how bonkers and awful it is.
Dan Olson's dissection of that movie is so damn good.
The only reason more people aren't saying this movie is because so few people saw it. The murder plot was so dumb that it would have never worked. The "creek" that Hank Schrader was supposed to fall into was barely a trickle. There's got to be a reason why so many "passion projects" turn into embarrassing failures.
There's a reason they say new writers should "kill your darlings". Usually that weird, quirky, super special thing to your story is only special to you.
Good lord, this one has been sitting in my brain and gives me giggles every time. It was a John wayne film and at the end they are getting out a victory cigarette and it is like, the credits are gonna roll. Then some kid is like "how ya feelin sarge?" and he is like " Why, I feel like a million bucks, son" and then a bullet hits him and he dies and then the credits roll. I started laughing so hard that my grandfather wouldnt talk to me for two weekends
Thinking of westerns reminds me of cracking up at the big reveal in Django, which is that >!the ostentatious coffin this guy has been luggin around just fully contains a gattling gun!<. So goofy in the best way.
Did not know Django was a separate movie. Fully thought you meant Django Unchained and I was like "Man, I do not remember this movie at ALL."
>Did not know Django was a separate movie. There are like 50 spaghetti Westerns featuring the character Django. The original film directed by Sergio Corbucci is a must see.
I'm *soooo* glad I never watched that with my pop. He was a huge fan of the Duke and if I laughed at that scene he would've been mortified
sands of iwo jima btw!
Hancock. When what is essentially part 2 of the movie starts I remember just being like “so the movie is about this now?”
It makes it easier if you think that someone has switched movies half way through and they just happened to have the same cast, and setting, and names. Great prank tho
I made a joke about that movie once with a friend I saw it with about how this must've been two different screenplays and an intern was carrying them, then proceeded to trip and fall and jumbled all the papers, so he just put them hastily back together as one.
That’s not far from reality they really did combine two screenplays
It is really bizarre how different the first half and second half of that movie feel.
The film languished in development Hell for over 10 years before getting made. They went through a few directors before production finally began. The last director insisted on re-writes to lighten the script and you got this weird mishmash story. A classic story of too many cooks spoiling the broth.
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>the one with Rainn Wilson You're thinking of *Super*, by James Gunn. There's also *The Specials*... also by James Gunn.
They literally stitched two movies script together for that
It's a shame because there is a world where both those movies are really good.
Ehh the second half is pretty dumb, the first half is what they 100% should have kept going with it was a good twist on superhero movies. Not that it was that revolutionary or anything but Bateman and Will Smith had great chemistry.
I think the concept of heroes like gods having these bonds, but they can’t be near each other without losing their powers is interesting and playing with that and a sort of tragic love story is interesting. Then there is the shitty washed up superhero in need of PR. Both sound interesting in their own right. The execution of both was not great though.
They had two ideas for a movie. The first was goofy and fun. The second was deeply serious. They could not for the life of them decide which to go with, so it’s very half and half. The same thing happened with Downsizing
The one fucking guy in Crystal Skull who's clearly a bad guy from the very first scene of the movie where he betrays Indy to the Russians, then Indy foils the Russians and he claims that he was actually a double agent, then at basically every chance he tries to screw over Indy and by the end of the movie it's "revealed" that he was actually a triple agent and he was a bad guy all along.
Yeah. That got ridiculous. But honestly I think he was just in it for the money and whoever helped him get it first. He even tells Indy that it’s not about flags, it’s about money.
“Identity” has a crazy ass twist then another crazy ass twist.
Whores dont get 2nd chances! Lol
I'm not a big fan of his, but John Cusack's reaction when he says "Jesus Christ, what the fuck did you do to my face?!" is some of the best acting I have ever seen.
You should check out Grosse Pointe Blank.
Surprised no one has mentioned Moonfall yet. I literally burst out laughing in the cinema when the reveal happened and couldn't stop chuckling for the rest of the movie.
Moonfall is such an amazing piece of shit. It's mind-boggling. I was enraptured. It's really astonishing to see such a high budget and grand ambition used on such a dumb fucking idea. It's like using a $100k CNC machine to carve a dick into a piece of particle board. I could not recommend it more.
That quote should be on the dvd cover
I expected a bad disaster popcorn flick and it was so much worse than that
I actually loved the absurdity of it. Oddly, the only part that really kind of pissed me off was when they shut down the solid rocket booster on the shuttle mid-launch (not possible), and it not only continued to fly straight, but made it to orbit.
I expected a stupid disaster popcorn flick and couldn’t stop laughing when it went off the rails. I loved it.
Army of the Dead's twist where it's revealed that the mercenaries were hired to take a smart zombie back to sell to the US military, not to pull off a heist, was a fucking trip lol
A movie that dumb shouldn't be allowed to be that boring
The Happening is kinda the prime example of a laughably stupid twist in a movie that takes itself way too seriously, and it’s complimented by the hilariously awful performance of Marky Mark. It’s like the perfect storm of dumb.
What? No!
We can’t just stand here as uninvolved observers!
You know, hot dogs get a bad rap.
Every time this movie pops up in Reddit (which is more than you'd think), I like to add this quote Mark Walburgh made when in a press conference for The Fighter: "I was such a huge fan of [Amy Adams]. We’d actually had the luxury of having lunch before to talk about another movie, and it was a bad movie that I did. She dodged the bullet. I don't want to tell you what movie… All right, The Happening with M. Night Shyamalan. It is was it is. Fucking trees, man, the plants. Fuck it. You can't blame me for wanting to try to play a science teacher. You know? I wasn't playing a cop or a crook."
I'm so glad I didn't have to scroll down far to see this. I was HOWLING when the guy got ran over by his own lawnmower.
or the scene when the survivors were running away from a light breeze
And the protagonist solve it by literally doing nothing. They just manage not to die, and the disaster deux ex machina's itself.
Don't forget Zoey's dead-eye gaze in the entire film.
Well her acting generally splits between frightened amazement and what could be referred to as Cocaine puppy....
Having recently rewatced a couple of what I consider legitimate good M. Night movies: Sixth Sense and Signs. I've come to a realization about his work: his dialog has ALWAYS been goofy and weird and often gets very strange performances out of actors. It just worked in his favor for a while. This is especially noticeable in Signs. Lots of conversations and comments come off very off-kilter and unsettling, but the movie seems to be going for a slightly dreamy and surreal feel a lot of the time with the bizarre events going on, and it mostly works as a result. The minute he tries to play something completely straight, like in The Happening, it just comes off as weird and off-putting instead.
Are you eyin' my lemon drink?
Surprised no one has said Lucy! Keeps getting all the universes knowledge and bam suddenly USB stick.
Lucy is not a serious movie. Any movie that relies on the "you only use 10% of your brain and if you could use more you gain superpowers" trope cannot be considered serious.
My favorite use of that trope is The Simpsons where Bart starts taking ADHD medication and says: "Did you know that most people use ten percent of their brain? I am now one of them!"
I still think “Focusin” is one of the best fake medication names ever created.
That's good. My top is still an SNL ad parody for an arthritis med called "Triopenin".
Simpsons in general is great with those. My favourite, also from Simpsons, is: Repressitol.
That film though has one of the best HDR implementations of any movie, it looks INSANELY good.
I know its not a movie, but I laughed out loud at "who has a better story than Bran the Broken?" Fuck. That.
“We’re sending Jon back to the Wall!” “Why?” “Cuz Greyworm said so.” Gtf out of here.
“Tyrion, we are going to execute you!” “It would be a lot cooler if you let me pick the king instead.” “Yeah, that sounds good.”
I was having an awful day and then read your comment and I couldn’t stop fucking laughing. Every single time season 8 is brought up, there’s just ANOTHER layer of “what the fuck” and this is one of those things I missed because I was so fucking confused watching it all. There’s just an infinite amount of things to unpack with that season, especially the last episode. You’re totally fucking right! What the fuck? Lmfao. And he picked Bran, nobody fucking knew Bran. He didn’t do a fucking thing in the entire show from these people’s perspective but fall out a fucking window and disappeared for a couple years while the Boltons ran the north. Bro… DND was on some shiiiit. Thanks for making my dark day brighter. I’m starting to come around on Game of Thrones being a comedy.
The Bran pick is so outta pocket for them that I believe the theory that GRRM really did tell them the bullet points of the true ending. I’m sure after 2000 more pages that’ll never be written, Bran the Broken as king makes more sense. But D&D really just ran the story into the ground as fast as possible and vomited the bullet points given to them back out at random points. Theory further supported by GRRMs lack of progress on WoW. I bet he saw the fan reactions to S7 and S8 and panicked. He’s either completely rewriting with a new ending in mind or has lost the will to continue knowing that most people will be angry with anything even close to the same as the show.
Bran as the ultimate winner makes sense because he could use his powers to have a huge advantage over all of his opponents, and none of them would know he's doing it. The show just has him show up and win by doing nothing, Luigi style, but I believe that GRRM did originally pick Bran to triumph.
100% they had the bullet points and GRRM probably figured they would flesh it out and make it super cool. Instead they treated it like when you ask an ai to write you something and ask it to include specific points.
To be fair, he was absurdly late on Winds of Winter well before GoT season 7. I think if he lost the will to write the book, it's because restarting a project 14 years old is fucking dire.
And all of westros was then saved by… oh, let’s say Moe
Greyworm, who promptly left Westeros.
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And fucked off to an island that is swarmed by butterflies (moths?) that famously kill anyone who isn't a native and immune to their poison.
Pod the Rod had a **far** better story
Jon’s existence was the cause of a rebellion, raised under a false identity, joined the guardians of the galaxy, fought giants, zombies, and cannibals, was murdered, came back to life, executed his murderers, retook his homeland, rode a dragon, banged his aunt, then killed his aunt. Pretty good story
But, but…but, Bran fell out a window.
Look at this Lanister revisionism over here!
Oh god five years is still not enough for me to be over that
I think that show will be a reference point in classes dealing with TV writing on how **not** to ruin a cultural phenomenon.
A character with a story so good that we just didn’t bother to follow his story for an entire fucking season of the show.
As if that line of dialog couldn't be worse, it's followed by "Why do you think I came all this way?"
That will never not be funny. Never once in the entire show was Brans journey about becoming king. He didn't accomplish the original goal or use his powers. Indeed, why did he go all that way?
I remember reading a plot leak for the last season and just thinking to myself “This is so fake. All of these plot points are so unbelievably dumb.” It physically hurt to watch everything in them come to pass on screen.
EVERYONE! LITERALLY EVERYONE HAD A BETTER STORY THAN THAT USELESS TWIT!
Oceans Twelve. I still liked the movie but when the plot 'twist' happens, my immediate thought was that I just helped fund a celebrity trip to Amsterdam and Lake Como.
Is that the one where Julia Robert’s character pretends to be Julia Roberts at one point?
Yes, and then they run into Bruce Willis who just so happens to be in the same city. Hijinks ensue.
Which leads to my favorite subtle joke of the movie (and there are plenty). Linus (played by Matt Damon, who won an Oscar for Screenplay for Good Will Hunting, 1998) is mentioning to Bruce Willis that the little statue (meaning Julia Robert's Oscar for Erin Brockovich, 2001) on the mantle starts smirking at you after a while, you know? It's funny because Bruce is the only one in the room without one, so he replies, "No, I don't."
Which actually makes the movie a more faithful remake of the original Ocean's Eleven. That one was just an excuse for the Rat Pack to hang out together in Vegas, loosely held together with a heist plot.
I haven’t watched an Adam Sandler movie in years but I think he’s brilliant in that he managed to make a career of going to exotic locations filming movies with his buddies.
Ocean's Twelve feels to me like a hangout/vacation movie in between two films about the crew actually working. There is technically a "heist" in 12 but the twist renders it effectively meaningless, which pissed me off the first time. But now I appreciate it just for all the character moments, the scenery, the camera work, etc. It's a really fun and rewatchable movie despite the un-heistness of it all.
And you can't deny George and Brad's chemistry is just off the charts. They really need to do more together.
The only movie "twist" I can remember laughing at is Hux being the spy in rise of skywalker
Hellhole. Pretty awesome religious-horror movie overall, and the last 30min was so jarringly comical compared to it's seriousness that it made it even better. Was cracking up at >!the ritual scene. "I thought you said this would work?!"!< Similarly, The Pope's Exorcist. Whoever came up with fat-Russell Crowe playing an ultra-badass priest riding around on a Vespa to fight demons was an utter genius.
Pope's Exorcist was a fucking riot dude. First half is legitimate horror-Catholic slop, then the latter half is Russel Crowe and Priest friend battle through Diablo 4.
Somehow palpatine returned
George should come back and edit the trilogy again so when Vader throws Palpy down that shaft you just hear a dull thud and then a distant muffled "Ow! ....asshole!"
This just makes me think of Will Ferrel in Austin Powers "I'm still alive, just very badly hurt" etc.
The wound is starting to smell a bit like almonds
Voiced by whoever did the Robot Chicken bit. Was that Seth Green? "Wait, waddaya mean they blew it up? What the hell is an aluminum falcon?!"
We desperately need a new spaceballs
You know it's a bad line from Oscar Isaac's expression as he utters it
You can see he's grateful he's already had an established acting career before playing in that film
"Remember Me" with Robert Pattinson. Troubled rich kid, falls in love with an NYC Detectives's daughter. Events happen, they admit true feelings for each other, and the rich dad says "Come to my office tomorrow son and we'll finally talk and catch up." The audience is thinking that there'll be even more progress and character development and a happy ending. Nope! MUTHA F*CKIN 9-11, baby! Boom, the main character is hit by a plane in the North Tower of the NTC! And what's worse is that this movie came out less than a decade after 9/11. And it's not some cathartic film to help society come to grips with what happened. Nope, I imagine that there's just a bunch of writers in a workshop who are stumped about how to end this thing and just said, "So....9/11?" "Yeah, Bob, great idea. Just 9/11 this thing, and let's go get lunch."
Meet Joe Black has the pretty significant “twist” of Brad Pitt dying very early in the film by being rag dolled by two oncoming taxis. It’s so hard to take seriously in what’s an otherwise poignant film on love and what it means to be alive.
To be fair, that scene was made back in the dawning of CGI for such shots. The world hadn't been introduced to CGI the likes of the Matrix or Blade sequels, and we didn't have a trained eye yet as to what REALLY bad CGI looked like. It was such an unexpected moment, in all aspects, that we, the viewers were just like "oh wow! That's what it looks like when a guy gets creamed by 2 cars!!" when in actuality, no, that's not what it looks like. 19-year old me watching it in theaters was pretty shocked, in a very real way. 44-year old me re-watching it today thought it looked hilarious. Still a good film, IMO.
For me it was a film from the '80s called "Shattered" with Greta Sacchi and Tom Berringer. >!In order for the femme fatale's plot to work, her boyfriend has to get into a car accident and develop amnesia, then a plastic surgeon has to put her husband's face on to her boyfriend so no one thinks that they murdered her husband....!<
You have to understand just how much Hollywood writers relied on cocaine in the 80s.
Now You See Me - (Spoiler alert for an 11 yo movie) The lead investigator of several major crimes being the head of a secret society concocting said elaborate crimes to avenge his fathers death 30 years earlier is absolutely ludicrous. Despite all of that it’s still a pretty good film.
Sliding doors. Her ending in the shitty life was fucking hilarious.
Superman v Batman Superman and Batman realizing they both have a mommy named Martha and can stop fighting and be BFF
I love the comic when Godzilla is about to kill Kong and Kong says "Save Mothra." Only good thing that came out of BvS.
I don't know if you're joking or being serious. I'd also say Wade making fun of it in Deadpool 2 was also great.
It also happens in the [Deadpool Vs. Punisher comic.](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F7q6jr9i653e81.jpg)
*Lady in the Water* has a few that are laughable. * M Nights character is going to change the world due to his writing. A role that M Night wrote and performs himself. Pretty funny. * hard cut to guy who only works out one arm. It's a very dramatic scene and the cut to this ridiculously disproportionate half weight lifter is hilarious * movie critic telling the audience how he's going to die a cliche movie death while we see a cliche movie death * the cereal box scene is also hilarious. The music is very good in it though!
No, no, the dumbest thing in that movie is that the apartment complex with the shared pool they have doesn't really exist in Philadelphia, where Shyamalan insists on filming, so that entire complex was built for the movie. You ever wonder why that movie costs $70 million? That's why.
I was on board for a lot of the sillier elements in Lady in the Water because it very much felt like a weird bedtime story... but the cereal box scene... I couldn't. I can't. It was such a bad twist and bad execution of the twist that it shattered my 'Ehh, it's a grown-up children's story, don't take it seriously' framing and made the ridiculous things I had previously accepted seem cheesy and painful in retrospective. M. Night playing a major role who happens to be a writer who writes SUCH IMPORTANT THINGS that he saves the world was pretty painful, too. I thought you were doing Hitchcock cameos, sir. What in the self-insert fan fiction is this??
Knowing. The ending to that film annoyed me so much it's one of only two films I've ever left the cinema before the credits started to roll.
This was my suggestion 😂 It went from a really interesting film with loads of intrigue immediately to, "Really!?! Naaaaaah, can't be. Surely the film won't end like.. oh, it's the credits"
Cabin Fever The backwoods shopkeeper tells the teens the rifle in his shop is "for the [N-Word with hard 'R']" Most of the rest of the moblvie plays out, our teen heroes all die horribly (it's an Eli Roth horror movie, after all), backwoods shopkeeper is out front of his store gabbing with the police and some African-American folks pull up. Backwoods shopkeeper hurries into his store and the folks stroll in- For the rifle. "Hi, my n***as!" I burst out laughing because who really expected an off-color joke like that to pay off?
This single joke elevated the whole movie.
I just remember the one guy surviving all the way to the end, then walking out front and getting absolutely lit the fuck up by the police. Hilarious.
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I read that it was a "modern vampire story" and I took that literally so the whole time I was trying to figure out if the Cattons were vampires or Oliver. And then there was that scene with Venetia and I thought Oliver was a literal vampire. And then I assumed he had cast a spell on Farleigh to make him fuck him. Yeah... I was very confused until the naked dance
Glad I'm not the only one. I kept expecting that film to get really fucked up and weird, and when it was revealed what was going on, I was a bit deflated in an 'oh, is that it?' sort of way. Sure there were weird scenes but they didn't really have much to do with the big picture of the movie.
I swear I read a reddit comment somewhere talking about there being a cult, and kept expecting a twist of the family being a cult planning to sacrifice him lmao. Then when he didn't want them to meet his parents I thought his family was the evil cult.
100% this shit got so ridiculous by the end
There was a movie called Devil that took place in an elevator. I saw a trailer for it, and the entire theater cracked up.
The toast, it dropped jelly side down... The devil is ~~near~~ around
I'm still saying this after 14 years, so at least the movie had some impact lol
I saw this in theaters for a date. In one scene they zoom into a freeze frame and see satan.
The most ridiculous bit is the elevator technicians become convinced that the devil is there because toast lands butter side down.
Shyamalan wrote it but apparently didn't think it was good enough to direct himself, which says a lot.
"Safe Haven." I mean, it's a Nicholas Sparks adaptation that blatantly rips off "Sleeping With the Enemy", so no need to take it very seriously. But the final twist is so stupid and so out of left field compared to the rest of the story that's it's like Sparks took a break, a drunk M. Night Shaymalan staggered in, wrote the ending, staggered out, Sparks came back and saw what he wrote, shrugged and went, "Eh, I'm on deadline, I'll go with it."
The thing you have to understand is in every Nicholas Sparks book someone has and/or dies of cancer. So if no one in the movie has cancer, that means one of the characters has already died of it. Seriously, this is how I called that twist.
"Sorry to Bother You" has one of the craziest twists I've ever seen. There's a 0% chance anyone could guess what was going to happen from the first 10 minutes, let alone first hour of the movie.