Most Clever Movies *Spoilers*

[Gxas]

All I'm going to say is "Donnie Darko". If you haven't seen it; I compel you to. I didn't want to watch it the first time, but i was enthralled by it within the first ten minutes. It's definitely 3 on my top 5.

 

[Jingle_Bombs]

Lock, Stock and two smoking barrels was excellent. As was Twelve Monkeys.

 

[Rocksa]

I personally thought The Village was kinda clever. People razzed it to much in my opinion. I liked it. But thats just me. I'm strange that way.

i also though that it was a nice movie, the problem is that the trailers made the ublic think that it was something diferent

Yes, and Heaven forbid the public should have something unexpected happen to them every once in a while, lol

Eh, the problem wasn't that something unexpected happened, it was that everything we were told about the movie was false. The basic premise I kept hearing was that it was supposed to be a "what if fairytales were real?" story, much like how Unbreakable was superheroes being real, and 6th sense was ghosts. Not really what it was though. Well, sort of, but not the way they kept advertising it. Don't get me wrong, it was a good movie, nice twist, everything. Smart film really. Problem is that is wasn't what I thought I was paying for.

To put things simply.

You go to a restaurant, order a cheeseburger with the works, pay for said burger, wait for said burger, get excited about said burger, cashier calls your name up to come get said burger, you sit down with your still covered meal imagining how great this burger is going to be, I mean you are salivating at this point because everyone else was so excited about it. Open up your meal there and you have a chicken sandwich. Now this is a flippin' awesome chicken sandwich, probably one of the best you'll ever have, but you expected a burger and that's what you paid for, that's what you'd hoped for, and somehow you don't quite appreciate the sandwich as much because of it.

Same thing here.

Anyway, back to the topic at hand. Let's see...Identity was pretty awesome, had a nice twist to it, especially the end. Have to say that the ending has one of my favorite movie quotes in it. Cloverfield was also pretty nice, I mean you basically know what's going to happen right at the beginning if you pay attention to things, but to see how it gets to that point, thought it was nice.

 

[RetiarySword]

I thought the dark night was very clever, it wasn't the whole 'bad guys there, go get em!' scene. There was an incredible backing story and amazing twists throughtout the film. Also the film hard candy I thought was very smart.

 

[Dudemeister]

Disaster Movie manages to cleverly disguise itself as a really crap film, then finally reveals itself to be just that.

 

[Simski]

I liked saw, however I was not to fond of the other movies.
The first saw movie felt rather refreshing, and I was terribly awed when the movie ended.

The other movies in that series just made me feel ill.

 

[Sylocat]

off the top of my head:

Be Kind Rewind
Courage Under Fire
The Dark Knight
Dogma
His Girl Friday
Le Fableaux Destin D' Amelie Poulain (known simply as Amelie in the American release)
Memento
Minority Report
Pan's Labyrinth
The Sixth Sense
Sullivan's Travels
Three Kings
Wonder Boys
Zero Effect

and, of course, WALL?E.

 

[vlanitak]

I really liked The sixth sense a lot. I normaly hate ghost movies (not horror movies though) but this made me think and at the end go WOW so his dead??

 

[m_jim]

Brick is one of cleverist films I've ever seen. Cleverly written, the plot was clever, the dialogue was clever (and unique), and the way it was shot was clever. I just love the film all together and won't stop singing its praises until everyone has seen it. The best film noir movie since Pulp Fiction modernized it before it.

And while we are at it, Pulp Fiction was an extremely clever movie which told three different interconnecting stories from three different view points using awesome and witty dialogue along with an everyday sensebility. Love that movie, one of my favorites.

Brick! That was such a great movie. The cinematography and dialog were amazing (the last line is a killer...), but whoever came up with that concept deserves a hearty pat on the back.

 

[Space Spoons]

Inside Man. Incredible, on so many levels.

 

[Smash Tabby]

Adaptation. A film written by Charlie Caufman starring Nicholas Cage as he plays Charlie Caufman and his twin brother who doesn't exist as they write a script? Awesome. The only movie where I can stand Nicholas Cage, anyway. And anything by Charlie Caufman is genius.

 

[Ares Tyr]

Also, Donnie Darko deserves an additional mention because it assembles a new set of rules, immerses you in that world and then breaks your heart.

But not on first viewing. On first viewing it makes no sense.

Agreed, sir. Very much agreed.

 

[cleverlymadeup]

Snatch was really funny

I'm with you on snatch, I comletly didn't see the ending coming.

"periwinkle blue"

if you get the dvd of snatch, it has "paikie" subtitles that only turn on when Brad Pitt is talking, cept for the aforementioned perwinkle blue bit, not that he's too hard to understand, especially after hanging out with a bunch of drunk newfies

i totally forgot Inside Man, for Spike Lee film it was great

 

[Jamanticus]

I personally thought The Village was kinda clever. People razzed it to much in my opinion. I liked it. But thats just me. I'm strange that way.

i also though that it was a nice movie, the problem is that the trailers made the ublic think that it was something diferent

Yes, and Heaven forbid the public should have something unexpected happen to them every once in a while, lol

Eh, the problem wasn't that something unexpected happened, it was that everything we were told about the movie was false. The basic premise I kept hearing was that it was supposed to be a "what if fairytales were real?" story, much like how Unbreakable was superheroes being real, and 6th sense was ghosts. Not really what it was though. Well, sort of, but not the way they kept advertising it. Don't get me wrong, it was a good movie, nice twist, everything. Smart film really. Problem is that is wasn't what I thought I was paying for.

To put things simply.

You go to a restaurant, order a cheeseburger with the works, pay for said burger, wait for said burger, get excited about said burger, cashier calls your name up to come get said burger, you sit down with your still covered meal imagining how great this burger is going to be, I mean you are salivating at this point because everyone else was so excited about it. Open up your meal there and you have a chicken sandwich. Now this is a flippin' awesome chicken sandwich, probably one of the best you'll ever have, but you expected a burger and that's what you paid for, that's what you'd hoped for, and somehow you don't quite appreciate the sandwich as much because of it.

Same thing here.

Anyway, back to the topic at hand. Let's see...Identity was pretty awesome, had a nice twist to it, especially the end. Have to say that the ending has one of my favorite movie quotes in it. Cloverfield was also pretty nice, I mean you basically know what's going to happen right at the beginning if you pay attention to things, but to see how it gets to that point, thought it was nice.

Okay- I've never seen the movie itself, but I saw the trailers they were running and then read the plot synopsis.... Ah well, it seems that The Village was either a fantastic movie or an absolutely terrible movie, depending on who watched it

 

[ultra_v_89]

On the subject of stupid endings, I Am Legend would have been a very smart movie if they'd have kept the original ending, instead of the ill-fitting one they chose to go with.

I agree, the ending they went with completely contradicted the meaning of the novel. The revelation was that Smith's character was mindlessly slaughtering the mutuated, whom were displaying very human behaviours throughout the film, ie. setting up traps, displaying a form of verbal communication, having a clear leader, and to top it off, only wanted to rescue one of their own. He was meant to be the nightmare of their legend, hence the damned title. However, the American test audience was clearly gathered from the nearest trailer park because they didn't want to see the peaceful resolution of the intended ending. So, instead of Robert Neville realising his errors and making peace with the mutants, he 'valiantly' blows himself up just to take a few more of the bastards to hell with him. For more, see http://www.cracked.com/article_16258_5-awesome-movies-ruined-by-last-minute-changes.html