PHMustang2000

What is your view on movies that end with the main character either in their head or having everything you watched up until that point be a dream. Do you wish the actual story you solve actually got resolved or do you like them with that twist ending?

Couple examples

The Wizard of Oz
The Sixth Sense

PopcornTreeCt

Yeah, this is going to be a major spoilage thread. Goodbye.

JumpCutz

Jacob's Ladder

See ya....

PHMustang2000

I haven't seen Jacob's Ladder. What was you take on the ending. You can use spoiler tags if you need to.

I am actually doing a little research on this

Groucho

Huh? Not true at all.

Rockmjd23

The Sixth Sense?! Watch it again.

My favorite is Nightmare City

Groucho

Total Recall...or WAS IT?

kgrogers1979

How can you not know how the Sixth Sense ends? Its only one of the most spoilered movies of all time. Not knowing the ending is like not knowing Darth Vader is Luke's father.

wishbone

Solid Snake

I was going to post Inception cuz people for some goddamn reason thinks it's a dream to the end.

Troy Stiffler

Time Bandits

whoopdido

Yeah The Sixth Sense? WTF?

Twist? Sure, obviously. But a dream? Not so much.

PHMustang2000

Yes I have seen it, The Sixth Sense. I also will include movies with a twist you never saw coming. I read originally they were going to make the last scene with cole in the car with his mom. They added that ending later. Would the ending of worked without the bruce willis ending?

kgrogers1979

Where in the world did you read that? On a first viewing it may not be so obvious, but on repeated viewings it is painfully obvious that it was intended all along. It wasn't something added later. There are many clues throughout the movie that

davidh777

I avoid all threads like this or "Most shocking death in cinema?"

PHMustang2000

I was watching the blu-ray and I heard it on one of the features

JumpCutz

...and yet here you are.

davidh777

I know, I happened to click into this one just hoping to see a comment like PopcornTreeCt's, and now I'm trying to skim without reading any titles

dvdjunkie32

I don't like it when it is used as an easy cheat or way out for the writers. Identity is a prime example. Great movie until you learn at the end that the whole story was just a sicko's fantasy. Definitely ruins it for repeat viewing.

RichC2

I thought it worked great in Identity, and that's actually one of my favorite slasher-style thriller flicks. They gave it some gravity by essentially making whoever won the battle be his real life personality. However, even if that weren't the case, it's still a really fun movie.

Mulholland Drive is the first movie that comes to mind here, love that movie as well. Almost like a proper remake of The Wizard of Oz, with lesbians.

Dr. DVD

Haven't seen it, but I have heard that Human Centipede 2 leaves the impression that it was all some sicko's fantasy.
I will also say that if they ever want to re-boot the Alien franchise to exclude all but the first two, the set up for three and four being one big dream is done quite well in the second, with all of the talk dreams between Ripley and Newt.

Solid Snake

no. Just leave the latter part of the Alien franchise alone. Just stop. Prometheus on the other hand...fuck yes, motherfucker.

whoopdido

I also agree that Identity worked great. It's not a perfect movie by any means, but I find it very entertaining even with repeat viewings. I thought the twist was very well done and when I first saw it I had no idea that was coming. Obviously the stuff with the judge, lawyers, mental patient, etc had something to do with the story, but I certainly didn't put two and two together and was pleasently surprised by the ending. I think a lot of twist endings fail miserably because the twist was just put in there for shits and giggles and really makes no sense, but personally I think Identity was done really well and with repeat viewings, like The Sixth Sense, it's much easier to figure out what's going on if you look at the clues.

Dr Mabuse

The best example I've ever seen, and probably the most intelligent and best made film about such a theme, is 'Point Blank'.

Mabuse

Invaders From Mars uses the "it was all a dream" brilliantly.