Avoid the writer's featurette on "Basic"
 

Just saw this movie on DVD. I've heard a lot of negative reviews about its twist ending. I love Usual Suspects, Memento, etc. so I was stoked to see this. 2 hours later, I'm so sorry I wasted my time with this turd. This movie feels like the worst Mission Impossible episode ever.

For those who feels the same way and want to bitch slap the writer around, please avoid the featurette. It'll only add salt to the open wound from his kick to your nut. He was very smug and self-satisfied - it just add so much more emotion to the feeling that you've been had.

Thanks for letting me vent.

yea, I felt the same way, fight club, memento, usual suspects great... hated Basic

I just watched this movie. It seemed to have twists for the sake of having twists... or that the twists were the entire point, which is unfortunate since it didn't "earn" most of them.

Unfortunately, I watched the writer featurette. It was laughable what he talked about in regards to the audience and screenwriting conventions. Wasn't exactly a shocker when I saw that he wrote Darkness Falls too.

I got Basic as a blind buy. I didn't think it was all that bad. I was more annoyed with Connie Nielsen's inconsistent and bad southern accent. I have to agree with Face/Off's opinion that the movie had twists for the sake of having them and didn't really lead to much else. I think that "Rashomon" style of storytelling is a tad overdone since Kurosawa's film came out in the early 50's. Anyhooo, the writer's featurette had the writer read passages from his script. Why? Like it's some great original piece of storytelling!......Yeah avoid the featurette!

Although I liked the movie, I thought the featurette was pretty bad. His and John McTiernan's reasoning for the final twist is ridiculous

The two or three clues for the ending that the writer points out are also pretty ridiculous