Ramble: Jenny's Favorite and Least Favorite Plot Twists of All Time
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Transcendence is one of the most bafflingly terrible movies I've ever seen. The lead character dies of radioactive blood poisoning, and yet they have him CREMATED, and then dump his ashes into a creek... I was already over Johnny Depp at this point. His behavior wasn't a secret.
sean
2025-03-13 14:34:49 +0000 UTCthe best twist in my opinion is The Murder on the Orient Express, it has every all the makings of a type 1 twist i will refrain from explaining any further to avoid spoilers, but i would highly recommend that people read the book
J
2024-12-24 09:45:53 +0000 UTCZ
cake_007
2024-10-21 16:14:10 +0000 UTCI'm late to the party, but in the short story The Mist, it ends with the same group of people in the car and as they're driving south their radio begins to crackle as if picking up faint signals, and they just drive off into the mist and that's how it ends. It indicates at least some hope that if there's a distant radio signal, that means the mist must have an ending to it and if they keep going and if they have enough gas, they can live. Having read the short story, when I saw the movie my jaw hit the floor I was so shocked at how they'd changed it. A rare occasion of Stephen King writing a neutral/hopeful ending and then the movie making it way more depressing.
Hannah Olech
2024-10-03 18:53:32 +0000 UTCI believe in Saw in the beginning of the movie you can see some sketches for the reverse bear trap in John's (the Jigsaw killer) stuff in the hospital, but again you wont catch it unless you're looking for it
Gee
2024-07-23 09:08:51 +0000 UTC"A bad movie that I think is funny" gosh, it could be anything "It's tangentially related to the furry fandom" delgo
well anyway
2024-07-16 07:14:36 +0000 UTCShe's not saying it's some kind of plothole. She's saying it's thematically incoherent.
Maria Metaterran
2024-06-21 05:47:54 +0000 UTCI think you should rewatch the mist. You missed a few points. (spoilers for 2007's The Mist) The people in the store were sending people out to be sacrificed, they were probably days if not hours from completely eating each other alive, so I doubt the military came through in time to save them. The relative safety of the building was already disintegrating anyway. The people in the car are just the guy and his son, the two other people are unrelated to him. The reason there's a time crunch to decide what to do is because his son is asleep, and the hard decision is to mercy kill right now, or let him wake up and come to understand the despair they're in. They have no supplies, and as they're driving is a montage of hopelessness (including passing by the man's home and seeing the cocooned corpse of his wife). Additionally, a woman in the store early on leaves to brave the mist to get her son from... somewhere. Daycare? School? She's on the military convoy with her son. Also, the military resistance is foreshadowed by some conversation about how the source of things is a military base. I do agree the ending is somewhat cruel, and I usually really hate bitter sad media, but something about the mist resonated with me. It was very sad what he had to do, but with the information he had, it was necessary, and I think it reflects a reality of life that sometimes you're forced to make a horrible decision that's right at the time and turns out to be wrong later. I think overall there's something to it, and it's not just pointless cruelty.
BeeesWith3Es
2024-06-19 17:32:31 +0000 UTCI mean she’s already said she’s working on a FNAF movie video so I think the movie she’s talking about here is something more obscure
Mac Monkeyhat
2024-06-18 19:03:05 +0000 UTCThat potential video being "tangentally related to the furry fandom"... I wholly believe it's FNAF lmao
Cosmic Giraffe
2024-06-13 16:01:55 +0000 UTCI love that you've seen so much classic Twilight Zone, because it's so good!! The Transference twist reminds of this Hitchcock movie I hate. Joan Fontaine spends the whole movie thinking her new husband is trying to kill her for the insurance money. At the end of the movie he says, "I'm Cary Grant, of course I'd never kill you!" and they drive off happily into the sunset. Perfectly fine thriller up until then.
Just to Settle a Trek Argument
2024-06-12 23:11:10 +0000 UTCLoved the video, ty Jenny, but was surprised on your take on (and other ppl comments on) The Mist. When the military convoy arrive they do a close up on the mother played by Melissa McBride, revealing she's alive! Someone that everyone had written off as dead. For me that gives a karmic end to the film: The woman who put herself in harms way to help others by going into the mist alone was rewarded. But when she asked for help from the others they ignored and rejected her, and they end up dead. Maybe you could interpret this ending as "it doesn't matter if you rationalize being selfish as 'sensible' and 'practical' you're still being awful by refusing to help a woman find her children, and besides you can't expect anything good to come of that."
Galewolf
2024-06-09 12:05:32 +0000 UTCThe Rey Palpatine foreshadowing could have been accomplished by her shooting electric bolts out of her hands like the emperor did. Maybe she does something good with it, but Luke or someone else knows what that means and it's ominous. It would have looked cool too.
Kavi Montanaro
2024-06-08 22:29:27 +0000 UTC
