Ruined by the third act
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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.
It was so horribly apparent that I feel insulted it wasn't a red herring. -
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. -
bladexz95 — 9 years ago(December 26, 2016 12:25 AM)
I was actually hoping they weren't going to do the dead thing, and the mother was actually going insane and not seeing his brother who was alive and well.
Then they pulled it, and you just felt sorry for her that she was trying not to be stricken with grief and move past Lukas' death.
I also saw it incredibly early in the movie, and was hoping it wasn't going to go that route. -
Robrocop — 10 years ago(September 13, 2015 01:18 AM)
Even if they went the other direction posts would pop up recycling the same nonsense. What direction could they have gone and it be something that hasn't been done to death already. As for movies that have done this before and better, Tale of Two Sisters EASILY is a better horror film.
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timolet — 10 years ago(August 10, 2015 03:19 PM)
You consider it ruined because the movie turned out to be really realistic and you were probably expecting some kind of grand Hollywood exposition where the spooky ghosts and special effects kick in.
The good thing about this movie, is that it takes a very tragic but 'simple' situation, injects the viewer at a certain point in the story and then we watch it evolve. The third act is the reveal, but realistically you can figure out what's going on earlier. It's the fact that it really is just a realistic tragedy and not some kind of doppleganger paranormal beep or whatever that gets the movie the praise, and it's not until the third act that you find out it really is that way. There's no major plot twist or anything, just a confirmation of your intuition. For some reason, that takes guts to do in this day and age of film. -
Giraffe_Monster — 10 years ago(August 10, 2015 03:34 PM)
Thank you. As you said, some folk who didn't like this movie were clearly hoping to be spoon-fed something else
Fine, fine, I'll leave! But first I'm going to bother these peanuts! Hmm? Yes? Hmm? HMM? -
nkavy71488 — 10 years ago(August 21, 2015 02:00 AM)
Or maybe they just didn't like it. Assuming that just because someone doesn't enjoy a movie, that they need to be spoon-fed information as if they can't use their imagination, is pretentious. I'm not even saying I didn't like it. Certain aspects of it were exceptional. But come on no need to be so presumptuous.