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Old 03-02-05, 11:16 PM
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movies that do a complete 180 half way through the movie (will contain spoilers)
these are movies where the movie starts going one way, and then takes a completly different route for the second half.
from dusk till dawn,
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its first a semi disturbing kidnap story then about an hour in, it becomes a non stop vampire movie. i cant imagine how some horror movie/vampire movie fans felt at that first hour, since there is no indication of that except in the trailer,
i highly underrated movie btw.
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full metal jacket first is about the military training
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then after R Lee Ermey is killed, it becomes a war movie
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Old 03-02-05, 11:43 PM
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Predator.

Starts out a standard fare commando operation/rescue mission, turns into a great alien sci-fi battle.
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Full Metal Jacket can also be seen as two stories examining the dehumanization of Pyle, then Joker.
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A vengeful man in black killing nearly everything he sees turns into...A Street comedian?
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I agree with you on From Dusk til Dawn. That switch is one of the reasons I didn't like that movie.

Office Space... From anti corporate flick to I don't know what happened

Star Wars: Phantom Menace...switches mid stream to a silly kids racing movie then back to a Star Wars movie.
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He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not . . . just see it! Audrey Tatou
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Would Fight Club be considered a 180?
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"From Justin to Kelly":

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It starts out sucking major ass, then somewhere in the middle it starts to make sense and starts kicking major ass...or, no, sorry, I was confusing this movie with "You Got Served". This movie sucks ass the whole time.
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There's this film called PSYCHO that takes a pretty drastic turn after the first 45 minutes.
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Rashomon...this damn movie is all over the place.
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Saw-----maybe to some extent 180 at the end
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He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not . . . just see it! Audrey Tatou
actually...it is the exact same movie throughout. the ending just makes you realize that.
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The Jonathan Demme film Something Wild.
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Goes from a missing kid/mom may be crazy angle to freakin' aliens. I like sci fi as much as the next person, but I was in no way prepared for it to be aliens.

Ruined the movie for me, and I liked it up until that point.
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Goes from a missing kid/mom may be crazy angle to freakin' aliens. I like sci fi as much as the next person, but I was in no way prepared for it to be aliens.

Ruined the movie for me, and I liked it up until that point.
Actaully, that is the only thing I liked about this movie.
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Not exactly "halfway through", but Don't Look Now with Donald Sutherland has to be the most whacked out twist ending ever, followed cloesly by Fat Girl.
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A lot of people hated From Dusk Till Dawn for it's approach, I loved it for that. In all honesty, I would love to see more horror movies take that approach.

A friend of mine is a big fan of The Excorcist and she made an interesting point: imagine if people went into the movie with no book or preview BG. For a lot of the movie, it seems as though the movie is about a young teen girl dealing with the problems of a divorce and maybe a mental disorder.
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A friend of mine is a big fan of The Excorcist and she made an interesting point: imagine if people went into the movie with no book or preview BG. For a lot of the movie, it seems as though the movie is about a young teen girl dealing with the problems of a divorce and maybe a mental disorder.
I have a friend that is anal about previews and reviews. Won't even let a group of people who have seen it to discuss it in his presence. Almost to the point of being an asshole about it. I always ask him how he chooses to see a movie if he has 0 background info on the film. Does he just go by titles? He never really has an answer for that.
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The Jonathan Demme film Something Wild.
Damn, that's the one I was going to say.

Great, underraterd film.
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2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY does a, hmm, well, I guess it would be a 120 twice...
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The Abyss, uncut version. Action Sci-Fi flick changes to preachy social commentary at the end.
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For Pete's sake! You can't do that in a film, it's so tragic.

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What a disappointment towards the end. It's such a shame.
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