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'Guardian' spoilt twist ending

posted 8 years ago by DavidTL
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https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/dec/13/collateral-beauty-review-will-smith-helen-mirren-keira-knightley?CMP=twt_gu

This looked like an awful movie so no surprise supposed to be bad. Article mentions a twist so bad M Night wouldn't use it then seems to actually reveal the ending without even having said it would and entire so called "review" ends up being more a complete reveal of entire ending.

"He starts writing letters to abstract concepts like Death, Love and Time, to rail at them. So his sorrowing colleagues ? Ed Norton, Kate Winslet and Michael Peña ? cook up a sneaky plan. They intercept the letters and hire three actors, played by Helen Mirren, Keira Knightley and Jacob Latimore, to go up to Will in the street and argue with him, pretending to be Death, Love and Time."

"Ed, Kate and Michael will secretly video his arguments with these imposters, digitally remove the actors from the video to make him look like a crazy person talking to himself, then show the video to the board to get Will voted off."

[–] bobholt27 8 years ago

I read this in the screenplay and I thought they would remove it. Too bad.

[–] C-Younkin 8 years ago

This is not a twist ending. I just got done with an argument with a guy on my youtube channel about this. The film says plainly in the first 30 minutes of the film that the co-workers are going to hire actors to make him look like he's lost control. It is the main plot of the film, not a twist ending.

[–] DavidTL 8 years ago

That's fine then if it is actually PART of the film.
Bad article writing to make 'review' seem more of a complaint of implied ending than actually a 'review'.

Interesting though, the trailers I've seen did not mention any of this. You had Kate Winslet character and people talking about Smith's situation and who he is writing letters for but that was it.

Marketing then seems to want the film to be 'spiritual', when actual reality turns out as you said first 30 minutes isn't that at all.

[–] C-Younkin 8 years ago

The marketing for it makes it seem so spiritual, but that's because the reality of it was this film has a plot where people do things that are unbelievably cruel and creepy under the guise of it being well-meaning. I sat there in horror as I watched it.

[–] DavidTL 8 years ago

When I read the Guardian article, and read that part I thought the article writer was just being really over the top about it.

I always thought this film looked very ridiculous and laughable and awful, but that ending sounds so amazingly wonderfully crap *beep* bad I wish I could have experienced that myself, as I literally would be sat in horror too

[–] C-Younkin 8 years ago

Yeah, it's a bad film all around man. I reviewed it on my Youtube channel if you wanna take a look. If you like the video, I could use your support. Really want to turn this into something funny and informative and fun to watch.

https://youtu.be/j6E_mun4Cj0

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[–] Marcwolf-2 8 years ago

Ahh... But there is a twist.

The actors who played Love, Death, and Time WERE Love, Death, and Time.

Lets consider the old movie "Miracle of 34th St" where a bearded old man who looks like Santa Claus.. actually WAS Santa Claus. The premise has been used in other movied where a mortal has been asked to play a supernatural entity and infact turns out the be the entity itself.

Walk Quietly through this Earth
Leave nothing but Smiles and Pawprints

[–] santosdelano 8 years ago

I will be honest here. i just watched it last night and the twist at around the end is by far the worst and the best of 2016 if you know what i mean. it totally made the whole film worse while it was actually bad enough. i was like "WTF just happened?!" when that scene was playing and many people were very confused at that point. i could sense it by the reactions from some people in front of me.

**i'm referring to the twist that Guardian didn't mention**

[–] Saturn9 8 years ago

"I'm referring to the twist that Guardian didn't mention."

Please reveal what that is. I really don't want to sit through this thing to find out.

[–] santosdelano 8 years ago

The characters of Will Smith and Naomie Harris turned out to be a divorced couple. Smith's character left her a letter about being a stranger to each other after their daughter died. eventually, they ended up in love again at the end. there's also 1 more twist, but that one is actually a good one, not so awful like this one.

[–] xamwatson 8 years ago

What is the other twist?