Jess is actually Bush with a vengeance!

For the curious, there are spoilers from multiple movies in this thread.


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I'm a movie monster. Give me a movie, and I'll watch it. I've seen the worst(Darkness) to some of the best(Battle Royale). What I like most about my movies is a good, solid story. As long as you have a thought-provoking movie, I'm sold. Add in a good plot twist, and it's gold.

Now lately, directors and writers have been thinking, "Boy, if we add random, unnecessary plot twists into our movies, the audience'll think it's thought-provoking!". They don't pay attention to the good, yet unfortunately shy, guy who says, "But what about the non-idiots that'll see through it!". They need to start listening to him. Right now. The kind of garbage that they spew into would-be great movies totally ruins them. Many of these movies have good, solid stories(save for a select few which will be named later) that could've gone far. But then once I think it'll get better or stay the same, it regurgitates some godawful plot twist right into my eyes.

Example from Hide and Seek. It is finally shown that Charlie, is in fact, a real person. But who is it? None other than her father! But wait! We can't just end there, we have to have irony in it! Let's make him a psychologist. As soon as the father's revealed as Charlie, it was ruined. He randomly moves to a new home and decides "BWAH, SUCKAS. I'M GONNA HAVE 2 PERSONALITIES!".

Example 2 is from The Village. Words cannot express how great the movie was going. It was creepy and, though the acting was slightly off, the mood was just right. You know what M. Knight Shyamalan does? He pulls a Signs on us. It doesn't actually take place in colonial America. No, it's in present time. They're in a animal reserve so they can protect themselves from the outside world. What's even better is that the monsters are actually the village elders in costumes to keep the people from leaving. This stupid, godawful twist was mind-bogglingly unnecessary. I was just about urinating in my pants, when this garbage is thrown at me. It ruined the mood and ruined the entire movie.

Now comes the worst of the worst: Signs. M. Knight Shyamalan should stop making movies. Signs was an abomination and I'll never forgive myself for wasting my friends' and my money on this. It turns out that the aliens were weak against water. Seeing the alien on the roof and in that birthday party creaped me out. But then they turn this into a Pokemon movie. Heck, if they had Squirtle beating the crap out of the aliens, it would've made for at least a few laughs. What's worse is that Shyamalan decided, "Okay, okay, since I'm so kickin' rad at creating thought-provoking movies, let's have the wife of Mel Gibson have a completely unnecessary, illogical premonition of the final battle." In the final battle, there were cups and pitchers of water everywhere, yet the baseball player decides to swing at the alien with a baseball bat, instead. God, Shyamalan, forget logic. You're just trying to get us teens thinking. Crazy guy.

So yeah, I can't stand these plot twists. They ruin the movie and are 100% unnecessary. Discuss here ____________________

I LOVED The Village. I thought the twist improved the movie, but that's just me. The Village was great, between the story, the acting and the beautiful soundtrack.

I think most critics complained about how Hide and Seek was advertised as a supernatural thriller, but ended up being psychological instead.

Anyhow, it's become easier and easier for me to distinguise between honest attempts at good film making and Hollywood bull. It's easy anymore for me to look at a movie and say, "Hey, there's going to be a stupid twist. Hey, I'm never going to watch that movie ever."

It's really bad with horror movies.

We could blame Hollywood, or we can blame the viewer who actually goes into a movie like Hide and Seek and expects a solid, intelligent movie. Hmm.

Horror/Suspense movies are by their very nature, the fast foods of the movie-making Industry. It offers quick cheap thrills, and most of it is sloppily made and more than a little greasy. But just like the occassional wonderful fast food burger (ie: In-n-Out) you get the the very rare suspense movie that is everything a good movie should be (Silence of the Lambs).

The plot twists are part of the ingrediants to a Horror movie. A lot of the times those twists will be predicatable and unfulfilling. Honestly, you should go into these movies hoping at best for an elevated heart rate and maybe a few laughs at the expense of the actors/director/producers.