what movie has the greatest turnaround. Like all hope is lost, people are fleeing or whatever, and something happens, then everyone rallies and of course wins the day.
Its in tons of movies, usually pretty cheesy. But there must be some that do it right. What are they?
The original/alternate ending of “I am Legend” that was scrapped for the dumb reason that test audiences didn’t immediatly understand it.
Spoiler:In that ending, the main character realized that the “mindless zombies” he hunted are actually pretty sentient and from their perspective, HE was the monster terrorizing their entire species day in, day out. The main character had captured one of them to conduct experiments for a possible cure, and once he realizes that the zombies attacking his base only want to get her back, he sets her free and the zombies leave in peace. That was such a cool, meaningful “oh shit!” moment and they scrapped it in favor of “main character heroically blows himself up and kills all the zombies in the base” instead
Same here! It was during the MoviePass heyday, so basically once a week we’d eat dinner near the theater and go see whatever was playing. We were definitely pleasantly surprised.
Hell yes. I remember watching that during the premiere in theaters many years ago, and it was so emotional and powerful. Fucking love these movies so much.
I think he’s referring to the last battle where everyone basically agrees that they are all doomed unless Frodo is still alive and has the ring so they decide since all hope is lost, they’ll put all their men on the front line in the hope of buying Frodo an opportunity to get to Mt Doom. But I think most of them only go along with it because they know they are pretty much gonna die either way.
Edit to add: Bert literally stops the movie at one point to fourth-wall how hopeless everything looks. Ernie reassures him by asking what kind of movie would have a sad ending. Bert immediately replies Titanic.
I’ve not seen the movie or read the book but I do know the plot. While the two had different endings I don’t think either of them were happy were they?
I have to go with Bad Lieutenant: Port Call of New Orleans. Everything has gone to shit, the main character is addicted to drugs and spiraling. You 100% expect this movie to be a tragedy with him dying. Then completely unexpectedly everything just works out. I still can’t believe a studio let that happen, but I think I appreciate the movie because it’s so atypical.
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