Movies that made you say What??!!

The Happening made me say 'What!!!' as well as 'Oh no he di'nt!'

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There comes a point in time, usually about a year after a movie releases, wherein the 'wtf spoilers!' trick no longer works. It's just been around for too long

^^^not so, one of lecturers constantly thought it was ok to show the final clips of several films that i had planned on seeing, he ruined the original Get Carter for me as well as Cronenberg's Shiver's

Hmm, you have a point. Guess I'm just feeling crotchety

I see your point though, most people know endings of movies they wish they didnt, they read an article or see a picture or someone spoils it for them. I knw the ending of Soylent Green - a film i still really want to see, because the pivotal line (if you've seen it you'll know the exact one i mean) was featured in Drop Dead Gorgeous

Soylent Green... haha, that was my pick for this thread if you look on the previous page... such a poor movie in my opinion though it is not without a few redeeming qualities.

i wont look at the previous page now! Im probably going to have to watch it for my module on Dystopian Cinema in the spring, might try and catch it before then.

Well, I don't believe my post has any major spoilers. Just minor things. You can probably get it through your local library with ease.

The Girl Next Door(not the one bout the pornstar but based off the Jack Ketchum novel),The Heart is Deceitful Above All things, Happiness where "What??!!" as in, "Man that was a crazy movie!" But Storytelling' was more of a "What??!!" the hell was the point.

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^^^Happiness - the one with Phillip Seymour Hoffman in it? that was a ****ed up movie.

Oops. Did I really do that?

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Absolutely every movie ever directed by David Lynch.

Videodrome, messed up psychotic hallucinations and mixed realities.

Well, then "Dune", for that matter. I remember reading the book after watching the movie and wondering where it mentioned Baron Harkonnen's boils anywhere. The whole movie played like a Cliffs Notes version of the book with basically the outline but none of the detail of the story.

My God, QFT. I am a huge fan of the Dune novels (the originals by Frank Herbert, not the crap churned out by his son, Brian), and the movie was essentially sacrilege.

The ending from Hatchet came out from no were. I honestly did not see it comming. I expected the ending to be a cliched slasher flick ending but boy it was not!

The end of Oldboy when Oh-Dea-Su looks into the family album, I screamed the roof of my house (everybody who has seen this movie, knows what I mean!) It was more like a 'what' with TF!!! followed afterwards and then repeated like 100 times!!!!!!

The endings to movies Chinatown and Blade Runner.

I disagree. Dune is a book that I think just isn't screen worthy, even for a tried and true director of epics, which Lynch certainly was not. There is just to much subjective stuff in these books, and a ton of contemplation the characters do in the boo came across as ham fisted or gimmicky in the film, as Lynch had to overuse voice over to the extreme. Event a brilliant cinematic story teller would have had trouble nailing this picture down.

That said, and I have read Dune multiple times, I thought Lynch totally nailed the tone, better than anyone would have, really. Tone is Lynch's forte, and I think he delivered in spades. Unfortunately, Lynch's cut of the film clocked in at around four hours, and I wonder if he had captured more of the story in that original cut. The studio butchered the film so much, in an attempt to bring the time down to their target, so much so, that Lynch eventually asked to have his name removed from the credits.

It was a lofty goal to begin with, one that needed everything to work just right. Lynch was not experienced enough to take on a project of that magnitude. The film was a failure on quite a few levels, but, on other levels, it totally works.

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Ack! I thought you liked those films?