they literally show shane in the middle of it and she says the line at the end. no portal, no team, no city blowing up. just a tired old guy, a car and a kid he didn't ask for. would the same ending hit if it was a normal x-men movie or was the western thing the whole point???
not a knock but i think it's one of the best winners of the decade. saw it once in 2016 and i still remember most of it. it's all phones and filing cabinets and people being polite at each other and somehow that's the scary part. does rewatching even matter for best picture or is that the wrong way to judge it????
It flatters the viewer into feeling they saw past the movie, when usually they just tuned out the third act. Thanos, Killmonger, the Joker, none of these films are hiding a secret endorsement. They built a coherent monster and trusted the audience to hold two things at once: he has a point, and he is still setting the world on fire to make it. "He was right" keeps the flattering half and throws away the harder one. Which film do you think gets flattened by this the most?
not the villain who was secretly good. the villain who was correct, and the movie just didnt want to admit it until the end
killmonger is probably the one that ruined this for me. his whole point about wakanda hoarding everything while people who look like him suffered everywhere else never actually gets argued down, they just win the fight and change the policy after hes already dead
feels like every other twist runs out of juice after the first viewing once you know its coming. this one still hits because it doesnt need surprise to work, it works because youre forced to actually sit with whether he was right
think its the rarest kind of writing tbh, being willing to let the antagonist win the argument even if he loses the movie
whats a villain whose actual point never really got a good counterargument??
hes barely in the movie compared to the actual cast and he still walks away the most memorable thing in it
feels like writers relax the second theyre not writing the lead. hes just allowed to be a specific weird guy instead of carrying a plot
funniest part is nothing about him is even that complicated, hes just fully himself in every scene hes given
whats a side character with barely any screen time that ended up more memorable than the actual lead
used to think a good ending could save a movie. now i think it just makes you forget how bored you were for the middle hour
wolf of wall street does this to me every single time. that third act hits so hard i forget there's like 40 minutes of yelling in a boardroom before it even gets there
not even mad about it honestly, just annoying that it works on me every time
what's one that got away with this on you and you didn't clock it till way later