From: e-mail.me@from.BRmovie.com   
      
   Standing in the dark, rainy shadows of a city alleyway, I spied the   
   Replicant Sentinel covertly transmitting a message to renegade friends   
   in alt.fan.blade-runner.  Tracking...   
      
   >In retrospect though the plot twist makes perfect sense (pun intended).   
      
   An interesting esoteric thought though - when viewed in "retrospect"   
   (or for the second time), is it then a "plot twist"?  If a twist comes   
   from following the film with a certain expectation of where it is   
   leading and then you realise it is actually something completely   
   different, is it still a twist when you follow the "real" plot when   
   reviewing or re-viewing the film?  Is it somewhat Schrodinger - as in   
   once you open the box and see the cat is dead (multiple level to that)   
   then it doesn't matter if you shut the box again and reopen it - you   
   know the cat is going to be dead.  With movies with the (at least   
   intended) big twist, one watches the second time looking for how the   
   plot leads to what you now know is the conclusion - i.e. it no longer   
   twists away from what you expect.   
      
   >Geez, at least give the movie *some* credit for being clever!   
      
   I won't.  It is a nice idea certainly, but while I didn't have the   
   eminent prescience of the Sponge to know the end before I saw the   
   beginning, I do share the opinion that it is not greatly executed.  As   
   I said before, it irritated me.  Unbreakable was an interesting idea,   
   but it too started to irritate me.  I tried wanting to watch The   
   Village, but could never care enough.  I did watch Lady in the Water   
   because wife wanted to, but it really irritated me.  As for Signs -   
   well, I would like to burn every copy of it on the planet, but   
   couldn't do that as it would deprive other people of deciding for   
   themselves how much they hate it.  I have seen none of these films a   
   second time.  For me, Shyamalan is now in the same category as Julia   
   Roberts - if I'm considering if I want to see a movie, if they are   
   involved, that is automatically negative points and there need to be a   
   lot of positives to make up for them.  Just my personal preferences -   
   if you like their work that's great.   
      
   Netrunner   
   --   
   Or as Schrodinger's wife once said,  "What did you do to the cat?  It   
   looks half dead."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)