At Slate. WARNING: Contains easily avoidable spoilers for bad movies you ought not to see anyway.
Let me second the nomination for Tim Burton's
Planet of the Apes. Just awful. That movie's ending is by far the most convoluted, most incomprehensible, single worst movie moment of all time (
and intentionally so). After seeing it in the theater, Jaimee, Eric, Neil, and I spent almost forty minutes in the parking lot trying to figure how
the last two minutes of that movie could possibly have happened, until Jaimee finally made us leave.
And I could tell the twist ending to
The Village simply from reading an Internet transcription of its trailer, so you KNOW it's bad -- but Simon de Vet's verbal beating of it takes the prize:
The Village
I saw the twist ending coming within the first ten minutes, and spent the remaining eight hours of the film coming up with better twist endings:
- The village is on the bottom of the ocean
- The village is in a frighteningly plausible apocalyptic near future
- The village is surrounded by dinosaurs
- The village is on the moon
- The village is part of an elaborate reality TV series
- The village is microscopic, and located at the center of an atom
The Village is remarkable, as its twist ending is not only worse (or at least less interesting) than that of any other movie, it's worse than any other ending that is conceivable. In mathematical terms, the value of twist ending in The Village is less than epsilon, for any epsilon.
Simon de Vet
Burn.
I just ask one thing: leave
Fight Club alone. It's good. I swear, it's good.
# posted by
Gerry Canavan @ 5:13 PM
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