Well for twists, there's the twist at the end of Frailty that I LOVE. Even when a critic compared it to The Usual Suspects and I was prepared for Matthew McConaughey being up to something besides just a confession, I was totally blindsided by the ending and it totally changed everything in the movie. 

I used to love Dan Simmons but now I have all these books of his on my shelves and I'm afraid to read them because I think I'll hate him now.

OH! Now I remember which movie was a great bait-and-swtich - The Breakup - billed as a whacky comedy, it turns into a really sad meditation on not being able to let go or even communicate with someone that you used to totally click with. It's one of the few Vince Vaughn movies where you like him more at the end…

That's ok. We all know that Alanis is stupid.

Actually the problem was in you thinking that whiny song rocked.

Oh yeah. Hell, it was almost as if Kevin Smith's entire film career was an elaborate setup for one of the hugest surprises in film. If it had been directed by ANYONE other than Kevin Smith, the major tonal shift might have been interesting but unsurprising (and that preaching might have been shorter) but with Smith as…

So did you see Elementary? Guess who Moriarty is.

Scott Lynch is a writer that uses bait and switch - sort of. At least in his first two books there is a plot that is based on the main characters trying to rip people off. It's an elaborate con where they hold all the cards and they are playing everyone around them.

Oh, I was thinking for the first Star Trek movie which was supposedly a more cerebral Star Wars as far as I knew. Oh sure I watched the show but I was young and I was more into Star Wars. Instead, I got the longest and most wearisome movie where almost every scene had to get dragged out for longer than humanly…

Brassed Off is the only bait and switch I am remembering off hand. All of the advertising has it as a brass band version of The Full Monty complete with poor miners and a romantic comedy.

Ok. That's kind of what I got out of it. It seemed like it was basically "sorry that I fucked with your head, I totally still dig you - bye now. Call me." and then there were bees.

I liked it but I think I got distracted because I'm not exactly sure what was going on in the last scene with Irene/Moriarty. Was she just going "sorry, I do like you" or was there something else. I'm really tired.

The gratuitously stupid scenes would have almost saved the movie for me. It was the constant barrage of one-liners that just wouldn't stop. It's like the man could not kill anyone without stopping to deliver a bon mot.

Yep. By Die Another Day the people behind this films should have known better.

Well the other possibility is that Ted and the mother meet and then they have to include Ted and her hanging out in the bar with the rest of the cast. 

I saw it. It's a piece of shit for the most part. The few skits that were funny were funny because of Steve Carrell and Louis CK (I think that Colbert was also on that show) but even when those skits kill, fucking Dana Carvey comes on with another impression of Church Lady or Hanz (or Franz) to murder them.

Then maybe I will know what the hell was going on in that book. The only part that I got was that they lost the mother's body and the father just found a new girlfriend right away.

Maybe Mel is trying to revive his image by hanging out with people that most people like - such as Jodi Foster or Tom Jones. 

As is Chris Rock from that Die Cracker Die skit.

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