What movie are we talking about, again?

@DRDMovieMusings said:

@intothenightalone said:

Devil was good. The village was a great twist. I haven't seen his latest which got good reviews (split).

Didn't see The Village. Tried Signs and The Happening, then just tuned him out, didn't bother with Lady in the Water or Last Airbender. I didn't even see _Devil _in theatre, (I remember when its trailer showed before some other movie I'd gone to see, the theatre just erupted in laughter, he'd become a complete joke by this point) - anyway, one night, _Devil _was on TV and my movie review buddy said watch it. I did, it was good. Very good - I mean, there was some cheesy piffle, but the bigger picture of the story covered the piffle.

On your recommendation, I may try The Village!

I think if you are going to try another Shyamalan film, Unbreakable is probably your best bet. Devil wasn't directed by him. He just produced and had a story credit.

@Halberstram said:

What movie are we talking about, again?

Smokey and the Bandit 2

Awesome.

I love Burt and Dom's blooper credits!

@DRDMovieMusings said: A) all the other injuries were evident not just to the boy but also to we the audience; B) hiding this one key injury is therefore inconsistent, it's not treated like the rest, to drive the big reveal.

The reason we saw all those injuries is because they were in obvious places or even shown to us by the dead people themselves. Bruce Willis' wound was hidden by a coat. And Shyamalan didn't show us the burned side of that woman's face either until he wanted us to see it. I would say there is a variation in all the ghosts scenes, there aren't really any rules. Just like scenes in other movies don't all begin and end the same way. Sometimes we do see a ghost, sometimes we don't. Sometimes a ghost shows up out of nowhere, sometimes they're already there before the scene begins. Sometimes we see how they move objects, sometimes we don't. Likewise, we don't always see complete scenes with Bruce and perhaps not even all of them. At one of those unseen moments the boy may have seen those injuries, or perhaps he may not. He did know Bruce was dead thanks to his special sense.

C) most movie makers who make a twist ending own that the twist was supposed to be shocking, not insult their audience by saying, essentially, "you idiots, how could you not see all the clues I provided to you with so much skill and craft that missing them should have been impossible, are you blind or were you just not paying attention?" (yeah, I paraphrased, but you get the gist).

If that's what he really said, then he does seem like an arrogant jerk. It also seems contradictory. If it's so obvious, then it isn't really a twist, now is it?

@JustinJackFlash said:

The whole thing about the visible wounds is subjective. When your watching a film like that your supposed to give it some leeway I think. Any twist in the world you could find that kind of fault with. It's up to > > you to dwell on it too much or to let it go.

I dwelled on it because of how he came off in the interview, how he talked about it. Small of me? Perhaps, sure. But I've watched enough good movies from enough better movie makers to find his posture rather offensive - he was far too new (first big movie) on the scene to be as smug as he was.

The great Billy Wilder admits that the apartment door opening outwards into the hallway in Double Indemnity was silly - but, to make the scene work as he wanted, he felt that was the best way to do that. That's much more humble and acceptable than him taking the angle that doors open out into hallways all the time in [name some obscure country the movie was not set it] and that it's stupid for audiences to get overly distracted by it.

Be that as it may, maybe it's time for me to let it go! And you know what - I'm feeling better about the prospect of that already :-)

@Stratego! said:

If that's what he really said, then he does seem like an arrogant jerk. It also seems contradictory. If it's so obvious, then isn't really a twist, now is it?

Exactly! And the degree to which everyone was talking about this big twist says it wasn't so obvious; if it was as obvious as he suggested, we must all be stupid.

@Stratego! said:

The reason we saw all those injuries is because they were in obvious places or even shown to us by the dead people themselves. Bruce Willis' wound was hidden by a coat. And Shyamalan didn't show us the burned side of that woman's face either until he wanted us to see it. I would say there is a variation in all the ghosts scenes, there aren't really any rules. Just like scenes in other movies don't all begin and end the same way. Sometimes we do see a ghost, sometimes we don't. Sometimes a ghost shows up out of nowhere, sometimes they're already there before the scene begins. Sometimes we see how they move objects, sometimes we don't. Likewise, we don't always see complete scenes with Bruce and perhaps not even all of them. At one of those unseen moments the boy may have seen those injuries, or perhaps he may not. He did know Bruce was dead thanks to his special sense.

I think that sums things up perfectly. It's just the art of movie making.

@Halberstram said:

Awesome.

I love Burt and Dom's blooper credits!

I really wanna see a 'tache off between Burt and Tom Selleck.

Pulp Fiction has been forgotten here even in its own thread! Everybody is talking about Sixth Sense.

@dirtyredshoes said:

Pulp Fiction has been forgotten here even in its own thread! Everybody is talking about Sixth Sense.

Whats Pulp Fiction? Is it any good? :p

Pulp Fiction was my go-to answer back in the 90s when asked what was my favorite movie. These days I have seen so many films that I cannot pinpoint one as my favorite. But Pulp Fiction I still believe is one of the best films of all time and most definitely one of the best of the 90s which was a wonderful decade for films.

Pulp Fiction (1994) - 10 outta 10 stars

@JustinJackFlash said:

@dirtyredshoes said:

Pulp Fiction has been forgotten here even in its own thread! Everybody is talking about Sixth Sense.

Whats Pulp Fiction? Is it any good? :p

I don't know, some film about phony oranges I think? It's good, but not as good as A Clockwork Orange. 🙃

@A-Dubya said:

@JustinJackFlash said:

@dirtyredshoes said:

Pulp Fiction has been forgotten here even in its own thread! Everybody is talking about Sixth Sense.

Whats Pulp Fiction? Is it any good? :p

I don't know, some film about phony oranges I think? It's good, but not as good as A Clockwork Orange. 🙃

Or Mr. Orange?

I was watching Reservoir Dogs last night and I cannot believe I just noticed that the diner Mr. Orange meets his commanding officer to tell him about his success in infiltrating Cabot's organization is the same exact diner that Pumpkin and Honey Bunny rob. Heck, it even looks like they are sitting at the same booth.

Wow, yeah I did not realize that either. Another one I didn't know for many years, is that it was Steve Buscemi as the waiter at Jackrabbit Slims.