Because it wasn’t a twist - it was a heavily telegraphed reveal that could be cut and you’d still have the same exact movie due to the fact that it was forced in by reshoots. Cloverfield Paradox belongs on a lot of “the worst” lists, but on a list of twists and surprises? Not at all.

I guessed the ending. My friend told me there was a dumb twist ending and I said “Let me guess he kill his family and mist goes away” and my friend said “oh so you saw it” to which I responded that I hadn’t, but it was the dumbest thing I could imagine since Stephen King was behind it.

This is pretty much the only takeaway I had from the film and the only way to read its events really.

Well we don’t specifically know if the films would never have seen light of day if not for the branding. They might have. Also we don’t know if they can keep the track record of two good movies (I’ll go to bat for the 1st film, but I’ve got a pro=kaiju bias) going even though there was a lot of promise surrounding the…

“beautifully twisted fairy tale”... so just a fairy tale then. :)

It’s not really a franchise. It’s a anthology at best and a marketing ploy at worst. They’re unrelated films, often either an already existing film (10 Cloverfield Lane was a finished film titled Valencia before JJ Abrams’ Bad Robot ever acquired it), existed as a script for a long time (The God Particle had been…

Re: Cloverfield

90s cartoon was the only thing that translated him well. The Last Stand, like most X-Men branded films after X2, was rage inducing in how little Fox actually cared about anything from the source material. Fox was very big on just picking names and slapping them on entirely unrelated characters who at best had somewhat…

I’m just here to watch people shit on Ready Player One.

So clearly Tron: Legacy is in the top 20....

Mark Strong was my dream pick for Sinestro so imagine how I feel when he was utterly perfect and entirely squandered.

An mysterious alien species able to manipulate time is just about the least sequel proof concept I can possibly think of even if the narrative of those characters was finite that general concept can go a hell of a lot further than the Alien franchise of which we’re at uhh... 6 movies and 2 spin offs already? With more…

Not really. They’re doing another season pass and more content (including more character specific story chapters in 2018) so really - a *better* time to get into this would be Royal Edition 2: Electric Boogaloo when they’re finally done trying to fix the game.

As long as they don’t forget they have the sword this time. They probably won’t if they use Charlie Day’s proposed theme songs

Sorta, kinda? I mean that’s essentially what’s happening - but I think the story is more about the how communication between people and an alien intelligence is nearly impossible (and actually how communication between people in general kinda sucks too). Kinda like Solaris, but through the stylings of HP Lovecraft.

Not just bland, but poorly made. That is some Z-tier 3 AM Showtime Beyond film school drop out quality film making right there.

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Thank you so much for this.

Actually I think Johnson was an amazing storyteller in this regard.

His backstory is JJ Abrams is a garbage storyteller that can’t be bothered to come up with anything other than “here’s a thing, I won’t tell you what it is and hopefully your curiosity will keep you interested through all these lens flares”. Which is to say anyone who bought into Snoke should have known they signed on…