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00:00When a movie plot twist is done right, it can become an enduring part of the pop culture bubble for
00:05decades and decades,
00:07sometimes even becoming independently famous away from the film that it originated from.
00:11The Sixth Sense, Psycho, Fight Club, Empire Strikes Back, mention any of these films and chances are you'll end up
00:18in a discussion about their twists almost immediately,
00:20with their shock value, story ramifications and general cleverness making for some satisfying narrative turns that are still entertaining to
00:28watch even after all this time.
00:30But the dangerous thing about plot twists is that, because they're meant to be big surprises that reframe the movie's
00:35narrative,
00:36fans can often feel like a story has promised them one thing only for a bizarre and unwarranted twist to
00:42come out of nowhere and give them another.
00:44Worse still, some twists don't seem to serve any purpose other than providing a cheap bit of shock value,
00:50punishing viewers who've invested their loyalty in a story by plucking an odd reveal or pointless character death out of
00:56thin air.
00:57We all love a good twist, who doesn't?
00:59But what we don't love is feeling like our time investment has been wasted.
01:04I'm Ellie with WhatCulture here with movie plot twists that punished loyal fans.
01:09The random giant monster, the Cloverfield Paradox.
01:12The first Cloverfield movie was a fantastic standalone flick that didn't need to become a franchise,
01:18but follow-up 10 Cloverfield Lane was surprisingly good,
01:21a claustrophobic thriller with a glorious John Goodman performance and a fun monster-infused ending.
01:26The Cloverfield Paradox, however, was a massive letdown.
01:29If viewed in a bubble, it would probably come across as a solid sci-fi horror with a terrific cast
01:35of actors
01:35and some creative stomach-turning death scenes.
01:38But we don't live in a bubble.
01:39The main problem was how its marketing led us to believe that we'd get some definitive answers
01:44regarding the Cloverfield universe, with a specific focus on that original 2008 movie.
01:50Where did the monster come from?
01:52What is it?
01:53Hell, the description box for the film's official trailer still reads,
01:5710 years ago, something arrived.
02:00Today, we now know why.
02:02But that description was a complete lie.
02:04In one final twist, the movie leaves us with the head of an enormous Cloverfield monster poking through the sky.
02:11Its size means that it can't possibly be the same monster we saw in 2008,
02:15so where did it come from?
02:18What is it?
02:19And why is it so massive?
02:21Fans had hoped for answers, but instead they walked away with even more questions.
02:25David Dunn's anti-climactic death, Glass.
02:28The biggest problem with M. Night Shyamalan's movies is that audiences now expect there to be some kind of mind
02:34-blowing reveal,
02:35and looking at Glass, it seems as though this expectation has now infected the way the filmmaker approaches his work.
02:41While there isn't a twist like the one in The Sixth Sense, something that changes the way you look at
02:45the entire movie,
02:46there are a couple of smaller curveballs throughout.
02:48Some are harmless, like the fact that the big epic battle atop the skyscraper doesn't actually take place,
02:54but one that just doesn't sit right is the way that David Dunn is unceremoniously killed off.
02:59Fans yelled about a sequel to Unbreakable for ages, cries that Shyamalan undoubtedly heard,
03:06and a big reason why we wanted that sequel so badly was to see David in full-on vigilante mode,
03:12roaming the streets at night, protecting the innocent and stopping crimes.
03:16And while we did get a small taste of that in Glass, David is instead held captive for most of
03:22the runtime.
03:22Then he's drowned in a puddle outside the facility, killed off in the most unsatisfying way imaginable.
03:28Because hey, Shyamalan's got a twist, right?
03:31Tom Webster isn't real.
03:33Last Christmas.
03:34From the second its debut trailer came out, fans were predicting, despite the film being an original story,
03:39what the twist in festive rom-com Last Christmas would be.
03:42Nobody even knew that it definitely would have a twist, but the footage was so clearly pointing towards a certain
03:48outcome
03:48that it just seemed like an inevitability.
03:51Well, spoiler alert, it was.
03:53Like a train speeding towards its next pre-assigned destination,
03:57the film reveals that Tom Webster isn't actually real,
04:00and that he can only be seen by miserable 30-something retail worker Kate.
04:05Movie fans spent months saying that this would be the twist, and lo and behold, we were right.
04:09Even then, a lot of folks may have bought tickets with a glimmer of hope that the talented duo of
04:14director Paul Feig
04:15and writer Emma Thompson could come up with something a bit less predictable, but sadly, they could not.
04:21Watching this movie and expecting something other than the blindingly obvious,
04:24and then getting the blindingly obvious, it felt like punishment for buying a ticket.
04:29Laurie didn't actually kill Michael Myers' Halloween Resurrection.
04:32The Halloween timeline was simplified, with the release of Halloween 2018,
04:37which erased every other film in the franchise since the original.
04:40This hard reset was a good thing for several reasons,
04:43getting rid of a bunch of terrible movies for one thing,
04:45and thankfully, it means that this forehead-slapping twist from the start of Halloween Resurrection is no longer canon.
04:51At the end of Halloween H2O, heroine Laurie Strode kills Michael Myers by chopping off his head.
04:56It was a really badass moment, and would have been an excellent place to end the franchise and leave Michael
05:01dead and buried.
05:02But wait! Laurie didn't actually kill Michael!
05:05For no apparent reason other than money, Dimension Films chose to resurrect the pale-faced menace in Halloween Resurrection,
05:12explaining that Laurie, who dies early in the film, had killed a paramedic who Michael had swapped places with.
05:17The paramedic's throat had been crushed so he couldn't speak, but for some reason, he didn't try taking the mask
05:23off.
05:24Okay then.
05:25It's a dumb twist in and of itself, but one of the worst things about it was how it completely
05:30ruined Laurie's character.
05:31Fans who'd stuck with her for decades finally got to see her win at the end of H2O,
05:36only for this twist to make her seem like a bit of an idiot, and for her life to be
05:40taken shortly afterwards.
05:42Sticking with this franchise through two decades and countless crappy sequels,
05:46finally receiving a decent conclusion and being rewarded with yet another crappy sequel that undid said decent conclusion,
05:52does our loyalty mean nothing, Hollywood?
05:54Blofeld was behind everything.
05:57There were a lot of high hopes heading into Spectre, with director Sam Mendes having just delivered the previous entry
06:02in the series Skyfall,
06:04a movie that some were put among the greatest all-time Bond films.
06:07But Spectre failed to hit those same heights.
06:10Lacking Skyfall's flair and feeling like a regression back to a more traditional and formulaic Bond movie,
06:15it was a dull affair that didn't do much to surprise or even excite,
06:19despite a massive attempt to do both of those things midway through its runtime.
06:23Coming face-to-face with Blofeld inside his remote desert base,
06:27Bond learns that the villain was responsible for all the bad stuff that had happened to him in the previous
06:31films,
06:32from the death of Vesper to the activities of villains like Dominic Green and Silver.
06:36The twist was such a painfully obvious retcon of the events in Craig's previous films that it was impossible to
06:42buy into,
06:43a transparent attempt to quickly and easily beef up the bad guy levels of the Spectre organisation,
06:48and of Blofeld himself.
06:50Even worse, the twist had a negative effect on Craig's first three Bond films.
06:54If you were a fan of any of the villains from those last films,
06:58this retroactively neutered them and essentially made them henchmen doing someone else's bidding.
07:03There's nothing worse than a sequel that detracts from its predecessors.
07:06Marie was the killer all along.
07:08High Tension.
07:09The frustrating thing about High Tension's dumb twist is that the movie itself is highly entertaining.
07:14The polar opposite of Last Christmas, here we have a gotcha reveal that is about as unpredictable as you could
07:19imagine,
07:20but is no less annoying considering the 90 minutes you've already invested in the movie.
07:24Directed by gore hound Alexandre Adger, the flick follows best friends Marie and Alex as they head to the latter's
07:30family home for a weekend of studying.
07:32Unfortunately, that study time goes down the drain when a serial killer interrupts proceedings,
07:37murdering Alex's family and pursuing the two besties with reckless abandon.
07:41And then, out of nowhere, a reveal. Marie was the killer all along.
07:45There are numerous reasons why this doesn't make sense,
07:47but the worst thing about it is that this means that the movie completely disrespects your time.
07:52It just pulls a random twist out of a hat near the end, goes,
07:55well, there you go, and then rolls the credits, making those first 90 minutes feel utterly pointless.
08:01It's annoying as hell and punishes you for sticking with it through to the end.
08:05John Connor is a Terminator. Terminator Genisys.
08:08On most levels, Terminator Genisys does not work.
08:11From various miscastings to the way that it chose to retread story beats that had already been executed in a
08:17far more skilful manner,
08:18the movie was just a waste of everyone's time, and the franchise would be better off if it was suddenly
08:23wiped from existence.
08:24And on top of its general pointlessness, Genisys also chose to annoy the hell out of fans.
08:29One of the twists in the film, if you can even call it a twist,
08:32is that John Connor has been turned into a deadly Terminator,
08:35specifically the T-3000, to ensure that Skynet can rise to power.
08:39What's odd about this whole thing is that there didn't seem to be a good reason why the T-3000
08:44had to appear as John.
08:45It's not like the movie dragged it out and saved the revelation for a third-act punch-in-the-gut
08:49twist,
08:50so it just came across as a cheap trick and a gimmick,
08:53something crazy to put in the marketing to get people talking.
08:56And talk people did, but not positively.
08:58All this twist really did was anger people who viewed John Connor as the ultimate hero,
09:03the guy who we wanted to see kick Terminator's arse and ensure the survival of humanity,
09:08not become the enemy he was literally born to fight.
09:10Credence is a Dumbledore, Fantastic Beasts, The Crimes of Grindelwald.
09:15Fantastic Beasts, The Crimes of Grindelwald was a mess.
09:18From its complicated mishmash of subplots to its lack of action scenes and its mistakes with established Potter lore,
09:24it was a huge boring letdown coming off the promising and fun debut film.
09:28But even if the experience as a whole was terrific,
09:31there would still be a big question mark hovering over it because of its confusing ending twist,
09:36which saw Credence Barebone outed as Aurelius Dumbledore,
09:40Albus Dumbledore's long-lost brother.
09:42For one thing, Aurelius had never been mentioned in either the books or the movies up until this point,
09:47and considering that the Deathly Hallows novel delved deeper into Dumbledore's youth and home life,
09:52it doesn't make sense that Aurelius wasn't even name-dropped.
09:55The twist also doesn't make sense timeline-wise,
09:58with Credence, if he is Albus's brother, being too young for the year that the movie takes place in.
10:04For years, Potter fans have been told specific facts about the Wizarding Universe.
10:08It's already been established that Albus had a brother, Aberforth, and a sister, Ariana,
10:13with nobody else being brought up.
10:15To suddenly drop Aurelius out of nowhere feels like a slap in the face to people
10:18who've been following this saga for the past 20-plus years,
10:21and a cheap, not-to-mention-illogical way to try and make this spin-off series
10:26feel just as important as the seven primary Harry Potter stories.
10:30Newt and Hicks are both dead.
10:32Alien 3
10:33One of the reasons why James Cameron's Aliens is so great is its varied cast of characters.
10:39Everyone feels distinct, well-written, and entertaining to watch in their own unique way,
10:44making it easy to find at least one or two characters that you've no problem latching onto.
10:48Two of the characters that people latched onto the most, however, were Newt and Hicks.
10:52The young girl who Ripley takes under her wing and the cool, composed, and brave Colonial Marine
10:56are among Aliens' most memorable personalities, and since they both survived to the end of the film,
11:02there was an expectation that we'd get to see their stories continue in the inevitable third Alien movie.
11:08But surprise, they died.
11:10One of the first bits of information that David Fincher's messy Alien 3 throws at us
11:14is that Newt and Hicks are both dead, an unexpected turn of events that seemed highly unnecessary,
11:20considering how much fans loved those two characters.
11:23It was a cruel punishment for people who were excited to see more of them,
11:27and the movie struggled to recover from this dodgy start.
11:30Alien 3 had a notoriously troubled production,
11:32so it's understandable that not everything in the film would flow seamlessly or even make sense,
11:38but why would you get rid of two of the best things about the previous movie
11:41in such an unceremonious and frankly lazy manner?
11:45John Connor Gets Killed Off, Terminator Dark Fate
11:48Poor John Connor just can't catch a break, can he?
11:51This one is a real shame, because while Dark Fate isn't perfect,
11:54it did a lot of things right, and could have taken the series in a positive direction.
11:58Unfortunately, the movie upset a lot of fans within its first ten minutes,
12:02which didn't inspire many people to return for repeat viewings,
12:05nor did it make the movie feel like a natural continuation of Terminator 2,
12:10something that it had been billed as from the very beginning.
12:13The introductory scene finds Sarah and John Connor relaxing by a beach,
12:17the world apparently safe from the robotic threat of Skynet,
12:21but suddenly a T-800 appears out of nowhere and kills John,
12:24sending the movie down a completely different path from the one many expected.
12:29There's nothing wrong with the movie trying something surprising,
12:32but this particular choice didn't seem warranted in the slightest.
12:35At the end of T2, John and Sarah stop Skynet and ride off into the distance,
12:39hopeful for the future.
12:41To then immediately kill John in such a blasé fashion
12:44feels like Dark Fate is ignoring that ending, not building on it,
12:48almost like the filmmakers wanted to get him out of the way
12:51so that they could tell the story they really wanted to tell,
12:54rather than the one that made sense in terms of following T2,
12:57which is what fans had hoped to see all along.
13:00FISH INSANE
13:00SHAY
13:00SHAY
13:00SHAY
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