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The twist is stupid.

posted 8 years ago by bluefarmer14
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First off, this isnt a question about if the movie was good or not, the movie was ok for me, until the ending, but the problem with the twist, is that it brings too much issues.

First of all, it makes everything that happened before pointless, the chase, the bathroom tension scene, hiding before the car in the gas station, the scene in the room where both of them are talking while the kid dies with shotgun rounds, the fight in the greenhouse, the removing of the bullets in the gun.

What was the point of the kid photograph ? What was the point of the blowjob with the decapitated head ? It established in a monstrous way the kind of guy the actress was facing, and they blew that away for nothing.

Everything was pointless.

If all those photographs were from dead people, how can that conflict with her rampage ? Was she killing people long before ? Did she stop the serial killer in her when she met her next love fixation ?

I know some people can make appologisms for this though, "It was her inner POV bla bla" but still it makes no sense, i as a viewer, was having much more fun with the "Wolf Creek" premise and the ending cheated some viewers like me of the thrill.

Just my 2 cents.

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[–] JackAteSally 8 years ago

All red herrings pretty much. Take it or leave it, this film has been forever polarizing since I first saw it in theaters in 05'. I personally feel that without the twist this movie would have been easily forgotten and overshadowed many other extreme slasher/backwoods horror of that time. The best part is that the ending of the movie, or twist, is revealed within like the first 2 minutes of dialogue.

Cecile de France's character says something along the lines of... "it was me, in the dream I was chasing myself." Like most movies, this flick gets better upon viewing,.. for me. And from the very first time I saw it, the moment it ended I wanted to watch it again... from a completely different angle. Marie became so much more to me after that. I say you watch it again and watch it for what it is, not what you expected it to be, and realize that though it is flawed it is indeed tense and brutal.

"Oh... I'm not afraid."
-Pamela Voorhees

[–] bluefarmer14 8 years ago

Interesting opinion, i dont think it would be overshadowed, if anything Wold Creek wasnt nor this would be also.

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[–] JackAteSally 8 years ago

That's subjective, I've never had the urge to revisit Wolf Creek in going on eleven years now... was not memorable or groundbreaking, IMO. But to each their own, I know it gets a lot of love.

"Oh... I'm not afraid."
-Pamela Voorhees

[–] Youaresomoneybaby 8 years ago

Seriously, it was so stupid, and worse, made no goddamn sense. If you're gonna have a twist like that it has to make SENSE. Instead when you re-watch the movie knowing its ending it just illuminates how terribly it was written. It's like they got to the end of the movie, ran out of ideas, and were like "F- it, Marie is the killer"