Ruined by the third act
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Giraffe_Monster — 10 years ago(August 09, 2015 01:10 PM)
How was it wasted, exactly?
It just becomes apparent that what was happening was a very real and traumatic issue, something that got way out of hand and ended the way it did; in tragedy
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Fine, fine, I'll leave! But first I'm going to bother these peanuts! Hmm? Yes? Hmm? HMM? -
jenna-side — 10 years ago(August 15, 2015 01:28 PM)
I'll make myself clearer: the ending has been done before in other films. The ending itself wasn't even bad, as I said in my post. I don't mind endings like that, I have liked this kind of films my entire life but it's time to stop. It's not funny anymore. That's why I said it was a waste. Not a bad film at all, just the same film I watched a hundred of times.
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radb707 — 10 years ago(October 18, 2015 01:39 AM)
Sixth Sense?? What? You're going to have to explain that one, because it's not the same at all. Fight Club is closer to this ending than Sixth Sense. All the movies people are listing is really trying to stretch it.
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chet19 — 10 years ago(March 25, 2016 03:25 PM)
Easy to explain. Sixth Sense portrayed a ghost as a real-life human. Both the audience and the characters thought the ghost was a real person. then at the end, we find out it's just a ghost.
Exactly the same Goodnight Mommy and 6th Sense -
chet19 — 10 years ago(March 25, 2016 04:12 PM)
Easy to explain. Sixth Sense portrayed a ghost as a real-life human. Both the audience and the characters thought the ghost was a real person. then at the end, we find out it's just a ghost.
Exactly the same Goodnight Mommy and 6th Sense -
Superdessucke — 9 years ago(July 24, 2016 07:16 PM)
I didn't like the ending either but don't think it was quite "Sixth Sense" like. The movie made little attempt to hide the fact that the twin was dead. I figured that out well before the end and if I'd paid more attention I probably could have figured it out much sooner.
I just really didn't care for how the ending kind of wasted the suspense that the rest of the film had built up. After all of that, which was quite good, all the end shows is that the kid is mentally F'd and the mom is probably really the mom, and you end up feeling kind of sad and sorry for her. Wouldn't say that was per se unoriginal, it was just kind of a let down. -
Willtur — 10 years ago(October 28, 2015 03:31 PM)
tale of two sisters, now that is a damned good horror/suspense film. This one was lame all the way through, you could tell immediately what the issue was and maybe on purpose but it left nothing, no reveal, no explanation for the odd dreams, just silly.
There is a movie very similar to this called the Death and the Maiden with Sigourney Weaver, now that had a plot and suspense. -
halbian — 10 years ago(November 01, 2015 02:22 PM)
I just watched "The Death and the Maiden" and it's a pretty interesting movie.
However I think it's vastly different from this movie in almost every way I can think of.
I liked "Good Night Mommy" better because it was more mysterious, ambiguous and thrilling.
The ending of "The Death and the Maiden" didn't intrigue me at all. I just didn't care.
"Oh. So he was indeed guilty after all. Oh wellhe might have just admitted it at the beginning of the movie and saved me some time."
Whereas in "Good Night Mommy" I actually went back to all the key scenes of the movie and watched them with a different perspective. -
NiteOwl94 — 9 years ago(April 16, 2016 12:51 AM)
Key scenes? Are you kidding me? I knew the twist within the first five minutes. The mom refused to acknowledge Lukas. Dead giveaway.I paid attention throughout the whole movie, and nobody at all talked to him, addressed him, and the mom could never hear him. I was DYING for the movie to prove me wrong somehow, but nope.
It was a pathetic twist and one that was easy to see coming for miles away.
Every single scene had the biggest friggin clues.
The sea shells or whatever? "One from me and one from Lukas"
And she didn't take the one from Lukas?
The game they played. She didn't know anyone with two kids?
She only put one tray of food out?
If anyone reads all this, and thinks it's a spoiler- congratulations, you have a brain.
If you can't guess the twist after all that, then you should watch more movies.
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wreckage-1 — 9 years ago(May 08, 2016 07:08 AM)
I figured this early, too, but set that theory aside when Elias went downstairs to see the freezer guy unloading his stuff. I figured Lukas must have let him in. I guess I should have resurrected that theory when the Red Cross people did the same.
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carjones51 — 9 years ago(July 30, 2016 08:20 AM)
Yeah . . . the twist was obvious to me when the mom didn't give Lukas any food. What mother does that?!?! My sister was quicker than me and figured it out in the opening scene when they were in the water. I read others who also said that's when they figured it out.
In fact, the twist was so freaking obvious that I thought there had to be a second twist! I believed there had to be more to the story but, sadly, there wasn't.