Movies that basically turn into a different film midway through...Name em

[We Ready]

Full Metal Jacket can't be topped when it comes to this thread.


Insidioius is damn close though.

 

[FrederickDouglas]

Bane's whole philosophy was that there "can be no hope without despair". That's why he puts Bruce in that prison. That's why, instead of blowing Gotham up instantly, he gives it over to the people for a time and presents the false hope of Gotham's survival. The bomb was going to go off at the appointed time. Everything else was a matter of giving individuals hope in order to intensify their despair. Even the detonator was not going to be used unless somebody attempted an escape.

Bruce was being forced to watch Bane take over his beloved city, knowing the eventual outcome (which ties into the idea of revenge against Bruce).

Bane's ego was also at work. He was egotistical from the beginning, flaunting his superiority (ie "Do you feel in control?" "Search him...then I'll kill you"). To see Batman come back from the hell he had placed him in was intolerable; he felt a need to beat Batman totally. That's why when Talia told Bane not to kill Batman because she wanted him to die in the explosion with the rest of Gotham in order to feel the "millions of souls going up in flames", Bane completely ignored her and told Batman "You know I HAVE to kill you now...you'll just have to imagine the flames." He was getting ready to blow Batman's head off when Catwoman came in all deux ex machina.

I think Bane was pretty consistent throughout the whole movie.

 

[KingJaffeJoe]

Running scared. With the kid getting kidnapped by that weird couple in the middle of the movie.

 

[DaylitoJames]

American Gangster. I love the rise and fall of Frank Lucas, what I didn't like was the random scenes of Russel Crows' character doing random things like being in court in child custody... I don't give a fukk about that and really didn't serve a purpose about how he was going to catch Lucas.

 

[DaylitoJames]

Running scared. With the kid getting kidnapped by that weird couple in the middle of the movie.

That had me like when I first saw that making me question "Is this a pedophile movie now? "

 

[Prez]

Belly.

Now you a hitman looking to take out this Elijah Mohamed ass nikka?

 

[Bryan Danielson]

one that wasn't MIDWAY in the film like the thread says. 2nd, bane wasn't a dumb simpleton, he was merely 2nd in command when everyone thought he was the true leader.

but i see how u troll this in...

Actually, I still even disagree with this point, but I do agree with where you're going with it.

Peeps keep saying that Bane was a No. 2, but I dont see it like that. I see it as him and Tahlia were both equal partners but both just handled different sides of the business or plans like any other dual partnership.

Tahlia was the espionage part and the insider boardroom business strategist, Bane was the muscle and the battlefield strategist. Think about it, Bane was proven to be "about that life" I dont Tahlia was completely built like that. I think she was more "we got a go, do what you got to do to proceed forward with it, but dont tell me the details"

In shorter terms.... they were more EQUALS than anything else

 

[Bryan Danielson]

Also, reading through some pages, its like some of yall are shytting on movies cuz of turns like this. I dont think its always for the worse tho.

Prime example a movie that I believe is HIGHLY underated and I believe off the strength of it being a BLACK movie is Next Day Air.

That movie in the trailers just looked like another typical black comedy and even starting off, that shyt does have its share of laughs, but somewhere down the line, that shyt gets really serious and turns into something you wouldnt expect it to be

That movie was DOPE to me

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/M...WU3MDYzNDMzNDI@._V1._SY317_CR7,0,214,317_.jpg

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

A fantasy action film set in a dynastic period about a retired war general Su Can who gets betrayed by his adopted brother, Yuan. Yuan's family was killed off by the Su Can family for being fukk up but Yaun and his sister was taken in as kids and raised as a part of Su Can's fam.

After Yuan gains political status, he bides his time learning a new fighting technique based on poison and alters his body (making a good amount his own skin into armor).

Yuan comes back and puts the beats on Su Can, leaves him for dead, and takes over his family. Su Can makes a comeback and kills Yuan but not before he can save his wife. Sounds like a bittersweet ending-

Oh so the movie is not over?

So now the movie is set in a colonization period



And turns into a "fukk the white man" movie much like Ip Man 2 but poorly done.

It's like the government stepped in on the set and told the director to stop what he's doing and then forced him to add in a part about China's struggles with oppressive foreigners

I didn't see that


Zombieland started dope then turned into a sappy love story, IIRC.

 

[Bryan Danielson]

Bane's whole philosophy was that there "can be no hope without despair". That's why he puts Bruce in that prison. That's why, instead of blowing Gotham up instantly, he gives it over to the people for a time and presents the false hope of Gotham's survival. The bomb was going to go off at the appointed time. Everything else was a matter of giving individuals hope in order to intensify their despair. Even the detonator was not going to be used unless somebody attempted an escape.

Bruce was being forced to watch Bane take over his beloved city, knowing the eventual outcome (which ties into the idea of revenge against Bruce).

Bane's ego was also at work. He was egotistical from the beginning, flaunting his superiority (ie "Do you feel in control?" "Search him...then I'll kill you"). To see Batman come back from the hell he had placed him in was intolerable; he felt a need to beat Batman totally. That's why when Talia told Bane not to kill Batman because she wanted him to die in the explosion with the rest of Gotham in order to feel the "millions of souls going up in flames", Bane completely ignored her and told Batman "You know I HAVE to kill you now...you'll just have to imagine the flames." He was getting ready to blow Batman's head off when Catwoman came in all deux ex machina.

I think Bane was pretty consistent throughout the whole movie.

thats why I at cats that keep calling Bane a simp, hired gun, or underboss or etc. Bane pretty much played by his own rules. He had a partnership and worked with everything according to the plans but at niccas actually thinking Tahlia was the one constructing all the plans like the plane heist, the heist at the stock exchange and get away, the set up of Batman and heist of his weaponry, the destruction of the football field, the and the whole pretty much take over of Gotham. This nikka BANE was the one underground with blueprints while Tahlia is up above trynna set up meetings with Bruce and do a whole bunch of cover up charity shyt, yall think this bytch is actually focused coordinating on other shyt that she wasnt even gonna be a part of??

 

[Roadie pipeher]

Adaptation.

After Nic Cage goes to the screenwriting seminar it basically turns into a parody of OTT generic action movies. Hilarious.

Someone mentioned Mulholland Drive and Lost Highway, but the change up in Lynch's Inland Empire is even more extreme. The first 40 or so minutes are pretty weird but in a typical Lynch like fashion but once Laura Dern's character enters that door it basically turns into this insane trip which dispenses with any kind of conventional narrative. Wild film.

I guess the last 20 minutes of There Will Be Blood was a bit of a switch up. It was weird having the story jump so far ahead of time, and the tone in the last scene is something straight out of a Kubrick film.

Speaking of PTA, the plague of frogs in Magnolia was extremely random and unexpected.

While I see a lot of people in this thread using examples like these in a negative way, I actually like what these films do with unconventional narrative twists. There are some films that are obviously badly written, but when done right (like my examples IMO and dude above with the Kubrick films), it can add to a film.

Another one now I think about it is Gus Van Sant's Elephant. 3/4's of the film plays out like a very lowkey Highschool drama. Last half it turns into a disturbing film about a high school shooting.

i came in to post this...still don't know what movie is about... admiteddly the first time i slept thru it.

 

[THE 101]

Yo the moment THIS shyt HAPPENED:

Spoiler

That shyt fukked me up

 

[Larry]

Not a movie, but the first thing that came to my mind was the anime series "Berserk". So good in the beginning and middle, but the end you were like

the twist was left field, but the movie was consistent IMO


at no point did I feel I was watching something completely different than I initially began watching


Anyone seen Atonement tho? I mentioned it earlier, great movie, but its change is so drastic from point A to point B that it really does feel like a different movie.

13 year old Briony is pretty much the main focus of the film for the first 45 minutes or so, but once Robbie is accused of sexual assault, the movie jumps ahead like 5 years and completely focuses on his character. We don't even hear from Briony again until she's a grown woman.

It's still a great film. It's just the change was so sudden and noticeable, that I had to readjust quit a bit to get back into it. One minute we're watching a little kid with a crush on the housekeepers son, next we're watching a nikka walk around dead bodies in some war.


Also, the movie Sleepers turns to shyt once the kids grow up IMO

 

[MidniteJay]

I didn't see that

I'm exaggerating the "fukk the white man" part but don't tell me you didn't see the big ass shift to Fantasy action plot to an oppressive foreigners segment.

 

[Stacks]

American Gangster. I love the rise and fall of Frank Lucas, what I didn't like was the random scenes of Russel Crows' character doing random things like being in court in child custody... I don't give a fukk about that and really didn't serve a purpose about how he was going to catch Lucas.

That was 15/20 minutes total in a more-or-less 3 hour movie