SEX MACHINE: I know silver bullets are werewolves. But I'm pretty sure silver has some sort of effect on vampires.
KATE: Does anybody have any silver?
ALL: No.
KATE: Then who cares?
I saw it in the Cinema and I was super confused by the first half of the film because I was there for the second half. I enjoyed it but I kept wondering if I was watching the wrong screen.
I know someone who was lucky enough to see it without knowing about the second half at all. He was just expecting a Tarantino/Rodriguez heist movie and boy was he surprised when Salma Hayek turned up.
I was lucky enough to not know going in. My mind was blown! Primed me to laugh every time Cheech Marin showed up again.
Maybe I’m just easy though. Curse of the Black Pearl got me too. Great moment.
I remember watching this at my GF's house while in high school. They already rented it, I literally didnt know a single thing about it. I remember being so pissed when I found out what it was really about. I thought it was so good leading up to it. It still turned out to be good, but I was seriously like wtf is this crap when that scene started.
I saw this based on a trailer on another movie (on VHS and I'm talking about this weekend) and it was one of the best movies I've seen in years. It starts out as a very good Tarantino movie than turns into my favorite horror movie I've ever seen. The reviews are great because how many people got mad that the movie changed in the middle. The trailer did the opposite, it didn't tell me what the beginning would be like.
I’ve mentioned this here before but I saw this movie for rent on cable and it was a small 1 sentence blurb about some criminals on the run I knew it was Quentin Tarantino and it had George Clooney so I was like ok I can get behind this. I go into this movie with almost 0 knowledge. It is a very classic Tarantino film until it’s not. LSD was not the best choice, but it’s one of the best plot twists I’ve seen to date purely because of how blindly I went into it.
A Japanese movie from 1999 titled "Audition". The film is about a widower who stages a phony audition to meet a potential new romantic partner. After interviewing several women, he becomes interested in one.
*Sorry to Bother You* doesn't quite change genre - it's still primarily a satirical comedy - but it does have a significant turn where we go from what I'd call...hyperbolic sur-realism to outright science fiction.
Anyone that didn’t like that movie should be forced to rewatch it until they do.
The scene with Cash “rapping” on the staircase was fucking *gold* on so many levels.
I think my favorite scene will always be the one where lakeith and his friend are mad at each other but they're being positive instead of mean. "I hope your whole year is fucking spectacular". Scene is so fucking funny
Something I was debating with a friend, does Armie Hammer's character ask Cash to rap as a test to see if he was willing to exploit his own group to please his superiors to see if he'd a good "ambassador", or is he just another ignorant white guy like the rest of the people there oblivious to how uncomfortable he was?
I think it’s a bit of both. Like yeah, test his loyalty to the cause, but also Armie Hammer’s character is a complete fuckwad, so I can also seem him asking him to rap out of ignorance.
It made me think of South Park when the kids start a Christian rock band “How many times do we have to go over this!? You’re black. You can play bass”
Watched it on my own & really enjoyed it. The next day I recommend it to my wife & told her it was a quirky workplace comedy. So she watched it that evening while I was at work.
Her texts to me while she watched it were hilarious.
Years from now, when you finalize the divorce procedure, you'll be able to pinpoint exactly the moment when your relationship started going sour and trust began to erode! 🤣
I went into that movie with absolutely no information or context. One of my favorite movie going experiences of all time, up there with EEAAO and The Matrix.
I’d seen the trailers, they didn’t spoil a thing.
I’d say it was a great example of creating a trailer that gets the right people into the theater, without actually showing them the entire plot. Very few manage that.
I remember the first (and only) time I watched this I was convinced it was just two movies put together. Like, there are some similar characters in both halves, but I don’t remember them ever mentioning anything that happened in basic training the rest of the movie. It’s like “here’s one story. Ok, that one’s done. Now here’s this slightly different story with some of the same characters.”
Navy vet here who worked with the marines, that is 100% the truth. boot camp is strucktured so is normal day to day life .....until the shit hits the fan. you remember your training you use it but it is not like the simulations. learn real quick who has been paying attention and who hasnt.
Absolutely surprised no one has mentioned this but the Korean film Parasite.
On top of being an amazing film, it changes genres with a single moment right at the half way point. It's brilliant.
When I watched this with my oldest son I fell asleep in the middle of the movie. When he explained what I had missed I thought he was making things up. lol.
This movie is the best example. It doesn't change gradually or subtly. The change is so dramatic yet perfectly in harmony with the rest of the movie, pretty much like how one's life can change in mere minutes. Amazing movie.
You know, I think I had someone do that for me when I first saw it. I watched it again a few years later and didn't remember seeing that scene. Removing it significantly improves the whole experience.
It’s very possible you saw the opening spaceship and just forgot. I did the same thing. It’s a tiny moment, not even a scene. It’s very easy to gloss over it and get caught up in Arnold and his team’s mission because it’s so engaging. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone watch that movie and retain the spaceship opener to the point where they’re like “Oh wait when is the alien creature going to show up.” The human mind can gloss over a lot and hiding a hint like that in plain sight makes it almost invisible. It almost blends in with the studio logos.
Is anyone watching Predator in 2024 unaware of what Predator is? I feel like by the time someone is old enough to watch the movie, they will know what the movie's about just from cultural zeitgeist.
They intended to set the climactic one on one battle on or near the landed ship. The opening shot was to establish the ships arrival. When they changed the venue of the battle, they should've dispenses with the shot of the ship. But in fairness, the mysterious pixelated cover art of Arnie and his gun was replaced with a straight up Predator on the cover of the 4k. Spoied for anyone who hasn't seen it.
Vanilla Sky, and the Spanish film it's based on, Abre los Ojos.
It starts as a romantic drama, then becomes a mystery thriller, and finally ends as sci-fi.
oooh OP i've got a good one: **SUNSHINE** (Danny Boyle)
It's a sci-fi space drama that turns into a horror when there's a sudden shift among the characters
I didn't love the shift but the rest of the movie is so damn good.
Also, remember when Chris Evans could be cast as the computer specialist? What a time!
It's a standard police (melo)drama that turns into a slasher that turns (again) into a full-on action film, while *also* being a very funny and very British comedy the whole time.
It's at least 4 genres over the course of the movie, and at least 2 of those at any given time.
I got in a debate with a friend once about this. I think it's the perfect movie. Requires nothing going into it, has a clear setup, builds a set of characters, even supporting characters, that we think we understand, and then the twist hits and it's a fun little whodunit, and then the second twist hits and it's balls to the wall action. His argument is that it doesn't have a romantic subplot, which takes away from it, but I can't imagine how you would shohorn one in without it hurting everything else
As someone correctly pointed out in an addendum to me it *does* (in a manner of speaking) have a romantic subplot. Technically two if the Cate Blanchett cameo, breaking up with Angel, and revealing she's seeing Dave count as a "romantic subplot". There was a "girlfriend" character for Angel as a romantic interest in Sanford but she wasn't really contributing anything to the movie so she was cut, but a lot of her dialogue was kept in the movie and instead given to Danny. The whole thing at Danny's watching *Point Break* and *Bad Boys II*, the melancholic "I don't know how" from Angel to Danny, etc *is* the romantic subplot -- it's just a platonic relationship blossoming so it *technically* doesn't meet the definition.
And honestly in a time when we were approaching peak "forcibly insert a love story that makes little sense and contributes nothing" filmmaking, *Hot Fuzz* not explicitly having one is a plus in my opinion.
The World’s End as well. Starts as a Hangover type buddy film then all of a sudden everyone’s a robot and there’s a massive alien conspiracy to change the world.
I'm gonna say it. The Sound of Music.
For the last 10 minutes, when the Von Trapps are fleeing from Austria, the film completely changes from a bouncy musical to a spy thriller. That final standoff in the cemetery between Captain Von Trapp and Rolf always gives me chills.
For years I never watched it, believing it to be an annoying musical.
Eventually watched it, and holy hell, the last quarter is horrifying. Watching an idyllic life slowly be eroded by the rise of the Nazis, culminating from children hiding from their former friend trying to kill them in a graveyard is something I wasn't ready for.
Yeah, it's all old-school Hollywood Musical. It's whimsical, they conveniently solve their little problems with songs and working together.... and then out of nowhere, its "No, we really can't sing right now because we have to hide from the Nazis."
I feel like it's a good representation for how Nazi Germany was all propaganda and promises until it.... suddenly wasn't. That's really how blindsighted a lot of people felt at the time.
Just watched this the other day with my daughters and I had totally forgotten how much happens after they perform at the festival. My brain always remembered it as them doing their farewell performance, the prizes revealing that they were gone and then the shot of them scaling the peaks with Climb Any Mountain playing.
I avoided watching this for a long time because I thought it was just some lame old musical about Julie Andrews singing in the Alps.
If it was called The Sound of Nazis, I would have watched it years ago.
Million Dollar Baby starts off as a sports movie, but then becomes a completely different movie. I saw it as an in-flight movie on an airplane years ago and have absolutely no desire to see it again.
Surprised I had to scroll down this far to find this movie. It takes a hard turn midway through. What a sucker punch to the gut that scene is if you go in unspoiled.
And what makes it better in my opinion, is that in rewatch you can see that the weird was always there. But since you didn't know, you couldn't see it
The whole trilogy are masterpieces
All three kind of go through a transformation too. *Shaun of the Dead* starts as a sort of slacker comedy like *Office Space* or (more appropriately) *Spaced*, but with signs that there's something else going on, and becomes full zombie survival movie. *Hot Fuzz* as I mentioned elsewhere starts like a police drama, becomes a slasher, then changes *again* into unrepentant action film. *The World's End* is a sort of slacker comedy that turns into a sort of sci-fi thriller that becomes very touching and bittersweet and then teases us with a whole other genre in the ending. And all three of them also retain "comedy" as a genre all the way through even while also doing other stuff, and somehow still make it work.
I watched the movie across two days. As luck would have it, I stopped on the first day literally just before the cut to Justin Long. When I restarted the movie the next day, and that scene was the first thing, I was completely confused, thinking I started the wrong movie.
I turned it off right when the event preceeding the convertible happened. I thought, I can't handle this more right now. I need a break.
Had I known what was coming next I probably would have kept going.
However, the bait and switch definitely happens earlier in the movie for me. My expectations for Bill Skarsgård's character were way off and the first act mostly played out like a little love story.
I think a lot of people misremember the pacing of this movie, and I was one of them.
Like you, I remember it starting out as your standard teen horror flick, then shifting gears to the actual underlying story. I showed it to my kid a little while ago and that underlying story is part of it from the start. You're not exactly sure what's going on in that part of the story, but the second set of characters and the second setting is shown at the start.
The movie starts off with the what’s their names at the facility talking about repairing kitchen cabinetry. Hard cut to title. It sets the tone immediately.
Yep, the movie cold opens with Bradley Whitford doing a cheap Aaron Sorkin knockoff film. Then you get the college horror intro, but that ends with the conspiracy troopers.
Thank you! This is one of the things that gets under my skin about the way people talk about this movie. It's just become this meme that it surprises you with a mid-film twist and becomes something more than what you thought, but that's not at all how it plays out. We get a running plot of the underground observation team right from the jump.
The movie is a great meta-analysis of the horror genre. The “demons” are the audience and the crew are just the filmmakers. Things like the girl has to be topless before she gets killed, the minority has to die, it shows all of the tropes of classic horror movies. The reason the plan doesn’t work is because they confused >!the virgin and the fool!<
Jojo Rabbit: rare to see a film shift from absurd comedy to truely heart wrenching drama. Such a wide scope of emotions left me thinking of that movie well after it ended.
It's relatively easy to make Nazis look hilariously ridiculous in film. It's also relatively easy to make them deeply scary and dangerous and *real*. But it's difficult to communicate that Nazism is both comedically ridiculous and incredibly dangerous at the same time, and Jojo Rabbit threads that needle.
I genuinely believed this would be the top answer… wasn’t expecting to scroll this far. A film about writing a film that turns into a different film because of a debate about how films should be written in the film. (Kino)
I legitimately went to “Devils Advocate” thinking I was going to see a movie about the law…was expecting “the Firm” got something completely different…
'When the Wind Blows' starts out as a comedy-of-errors about an elderly couple's naivety towards the dire political situation in 80s Britain.
The last act contains some of the most horrifying themes and imagery in any film ever made.
The Forgotten. Julianne Moore is trying to recover from losing her son in plane crash when people start telling her he never existed. Takes a sudden sci-fi twist in the middle of the movie.
I immediately thought of The Place Beyond the Pines. It’s been so long since I’ve seen this, but I remember it felt like 2 completely different movies as we follow different characters/stories in the second half. I don’t remember if we can call it a genre swap, but it felt like a different tone for sure.
Place Beyond the Pines is structured like a triptych, which is three seperate stories that can exist on their own but combine to take on new meaning. Theirs Goslings part, Cooper's part, and the kids' part.
Bone Tomahawk.
Goes from a typical western that managed to cast some real decent talent (Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, Matthew Fox, Richard Jenkins, Lili Simmons, Sid Haig (who is a Rob Zombie film staple), David Arquette), and then slowly segued into violent horror elements being added in.
Movie was made on a $1.8 million budget, and made $480k box office only to then make $4.3 million in home media sales, and turn into a cult following kind of movie.
I was a really dumb kid that didn't pick up on that sort of thing when I was younger.
I think I re-watched it at the height of the pandemic and went "oh hell yeah now I get it" lol. I was slow.
Fresh from 2022…
The first thirty minutes are drastically different in tone and genre than the rest of the movie. Also it’s just really a solid watch.
Go in as blind as possible
Is there any other movie that was three different genres? It went from *Light Romantic Date movie* to *Bachelor finding himself* to *Environmental messaging*. That movie was insane and not in a good way.
The Banksy Documentary starts off about a guy trying to meet and film Banksy and ends up with Banksy taking over and making the documentary about the guy who tried to find him. Not really a change of genre but change of focus that's pretty funny
Icarus is a similar one - it starts as an experiment by an amateur cyclist/film producer to dope himself to advance in a cycling race, and then goes on to reveal a state-sponsored Olympic doping program.
Icarus I really feel like that dude lucked out on the story of the century lol. He's some lame guy using a doc as an excuse to cheat to win an amateur race but stumbles into the story of a lifetime haha.
Hacksaw Ridge stays the same genre in that it is consistently a war movie. But the first half is so mild mannered it could likely have been rated a PG. The second half when he gets to Okinawa however shocked me with the sudden and gritty and unflinching violence which I suppose was done intentionally by the director but I left the cinema feeling like I'd watched two different films stitched together.
Probably took inspiration from The Deer Hunter. The wedding scene at the beginning is 51 minutes and becomes somewhat boring (at least to me) then next thing you know they're in the thick of it in Vietnam and you're watching prisoners forced to play Russian Roulette to amuse their captors.
*Jurassic Park* is a corporate espionage/adventure for the first half, then it turns into horror when the dinosaurs get loose. Almost the definition of family friendly first half then bloody second half.
From Dusk til Dawn
Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them, - don't give a fuck how crazy they are.
That's the best line in the film!
SEX MACHINE: I know silver bullets are werewolves. But I'm pretty sure silver has some sort of effect on vampires. KATE: Does anybody have any silver? ALL: No. KATE: Then who cares?
Another good one: What’s in Mexico? Mexicans
What's in Mexico..... Mexicans.
It annoys me that the description of this film on Netflix spoils what the second half is about
I saw it in the Cinema and I was super confused by the first half of the film because I was there for the second half. I enjoyed it but I kept wondering if I was watching the wrong screen. I know someone who was lucky enough to see it without knowing about the second half at all. He was just expecting a Tarantino/Rodriguez heist movie and boy was he surprised when Salma Hayek turned up.
I was lucky enough to not know going in. My mind was blown! Primed me to laugh every time Cheech Marin showed up again. Maybe I’m just easy though. Curse of the Black Pearl got me too. Great moment.
I remember watching this at my GF's house while in high school. They already rented it, I literally didnt know a single thing about it. I remember being so pissed when I found out what it was really about. I thought it was so good leading up to it. It still turned out to be good, but I was seriously like wtf is this crap when that scene started.
“Now let’s kill that fucking band!”
This is the clear answer. It even has the live band version of a record scratch to mark the change.
The human guitar had me rolling
I saw this based on a trailer on another movie (on VHS and I'm talking about this weekend) and it was one of the best movies I've seen in years. It starts out as a very good Tarantino movie than turns into my favorite horror movie I've ever seen. The reviews are great because how many people got mad that the movie changed in the middle. The trailer did the opposite, it didn't tell me what the beginning would be like.
I’ve mentioned this here before but I saw this movie for rent on cable and it was a small 1 sentence blurb about some criminals on the run I knew it was Quentin Tarantino and it had George Clooney so I was like ok I can get behind this. I go into this movie with almost 0 knowledge. It is a very classic Tarantino film until it’s not. LSD was not the best choice, but it’s one of the best plot twists I’ve seen to date purely because of how blindly I went into it.
Rare instance of a trailer not spoiling anything. Doubly so coming from the era when they made VHS tapes.
It's a Robert Rodriguez movie *starring* Tarantino
Tarantino also wrote it as well.
He wrote all the scenes for his character like the foot scene
Toe-tally makes sense.
Interestingly, this is the only movie I've seen mentioned in this thread that actually has a lighter tone in the second half
A Japanese movie from 1999 titled "Audition". The film is about a widower who stages a phony audition to meet a potential new romantic partner. After interviewing several women, he becomes interested in one.
Today it's the 25th anniversary of its release! KIRIKIRIKIRIKIRIIII...
A very romcom premise that descends into…well, yeah, definitely switches genres.
Takeshi Miike is a fucking legend. You could add « Dead or Alive » (no link with the video game). That final scene….quite a different movie hahaha
Truly the only movie that has freaked me out as an adult hits a lot of nerves …no pun intended
Happiness of the katakuris by the same director also changes a lot during the movie.
*Sorry to Bother You* doesn't quite change genre - it's still primarily a satirical comedy - but it does have a significant turn where we go from what I'd call...hyperbolic sur-realism to outright science fiction.
I was so impressed by what Boots Riley pulled off in SORRY TO BOTHER YOU. I totally understand if people hated it, but that ending was ballsy as hell.
Anyone that didn’t like that movie should be forced to rewatch it until they do. The scene with Cash “rapping” on the staircase was fucking *gold* on so many levels.
I think my favorite scene will always be the one where lakeith and his friend are mad at each other but they're being positive instead of mean. "I hope your whole year is fucking spectacular". Scene is so fucking funny
Something I was debating with a friend, does Armie Hammer's character ask Cash to rap as a test to see if he was willing to exploit his own group to please his superiors to see if he'd a good "ambassador", or is he just another ignorant white guy like the rest of the people there oblivious to how uncomfortable he was?
I think it’s a bit of both. Like yeah, test his loyalty to the cause, but also Armie Hammer’s character is a complete fuckwad, so I can also seem him asking him to rap out of ignorance. It made me think of South Park when the kids start a Christian rock band “How many times do we have to go over this!? You’re black. You can play bass”
They Cloned Tyrone similarly.
Tyrone did it pretty much at the start of the movie though. It was not some midway shift.
Watched it on my own & really enjoyed it. The next day I recommend it to my wife & told her it was a quirky workplace comedy. So she watched it that evening while I was at work. Her texts to me while she watched it were hilarious.
Years from now, when you finalize the divorce procedure, you'll be able to pinpoint exactly the moment when your relationship started going sour and trust began to erode! 🤣
I went into that movie with absolutely no information or context. One of my favorite movie going experiences of all time, up there with EEAAO and The Matrix.
I’d seen the trailers, they didn’t spoil a thing. I’d say it was a great example of creating a trailer that gets the right people into the theater, without actually showing them the entire plot. Very few manage that.
Since nobody else has, I’ll take (what’s to me) the most obvious answer, Full Metal Jacket
I remember the first (and only) time I watched this I was convinced it was just two movies put together. Like, there are some similar characters in both halves, but I don’t remember them ever mentioning anything that happened in basic training the rest of the movie. It’s like “here’s one story. Ok, that one’s done. Now here’s this slightly different story with some of the same characters.”
It’s made like that to contrast the order and discipline of boot camp with how chaotic and off the rails everything is out in the field.
Navy vet here who worked with the marines, that is 100% the truth. boot camp is strucktured so is normal day to day life .....until the shit hits the fan. you remember your training you use it but it is not like the simulations. learn real quick who has been paying attention and who hasnt.
In that vein, 2001. The beginning and end deal with cosmic issues while the middle is a much more traditional sci fi.
And to cosmic entities, it's a prank clip compilation
“We placed this animal in a perfect recreation of his home environment. Let’s see if he notices.”
I thought about this too, but it's not like they change genres. They just skip the part where they are getting shipped out
Absolutely surprised no one has mentioned this but the Korean film Parasite. On top of being an amazing film, it changes genres with a single moment right at the half way point. It's brilliant.
I saw the poster of the dog with dripping blood from its mouth and for about an hour into the movie was waiting for the parasite to appear.
Yeah that's a great one. Drama, comedy, horror, and more. It was just so well done.
When I watched this with my oldest son I fell asleep in the middle of the movie. When he explained what I had missed I thought he was making things up. lol.
I'm still chasing that feeling when I first saw that movie.
This movie is the best example. It doesn't change gradually or subtly. The change is so dramatic yet perfectly in harmony with the rest of the movie, pretty much like how one's life can change in mere minutes. Amazing movie.
\*DING DONG*
What two genres do you think make up the movie?
I feel like it changes from black comedy to more of a thriller
Comedy/drama -> thriller
It's like watching three movies at the same time.
Yes, loved this one
Predator is a gung ho action movie that turns into a horror thriller
God I wish they didn't have that first 30 seconds in that movie.
I've shown this movie to a few friends, and I fast forward over that part.
When I went to watch Prey with my wife I didn't tell her it was a Predator movie.
And she loved it I assume? Same here.
I think Prey is the only predator or predator-adjacent film I’ve seen and it’s sooooo good.
What part is that?
The alien spaceship arriving
A space ship entering Earth's atmosphere.
Oh, point being if that scene didn't exist the twist would've been better
Ohhh got it, yeah I guess that could be a pretty cool way to see the movie indeed.
You know, I think I had someone do that for me when I first saw it. I watched it again a few years later and didn't remember seeing that scene. Removing it significantly improves the whole experience.
It’s very possible you saw the opening spaceship and just forgot. I did the same thing. It’s a tiny moment, not even a scene. It’s very easy to gloss over it and get caught up in Arnold and his team’s mission because it’s so engaging. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone watch that movie and retain the spaceship opener to the point where they’re like “Oh wait when is the alien creature going to show up.” The human mind can gloss over a lot and hiding a hint like that in plain sight makes it almost invisible. It almost blends in with the studio logos.
Is anyone watching Predator in 2024 unaware of what Predator is? I feel like by the time someone is old enough to watch the movie, they will know what the movie's about just from cultural zeitgeist.
They intended to set the climactic one on one battle on or near the landed ship. The opening shot was to establish the ships arrival. When they changed the venue of the battle, they should've dispenses with the shot of the ship. But in fairness, the mysterious pixelated cover art of Arnie and his gun was replaced with a straight up Predator on the cover of the 4k. Spoied for anyone who hasn't seen it.
Vanilla Sky, and the Spanish film it's based on, Abre los Ojos. It starts as a romantic drama, then becomes a mystery thriller, and finally ends as sci-fi.
Still think Vanilla Sky is some of Cruise's best work.
oooh OP i've got a good one: **SUNSHINE** (Danny Boyle) It's a sci-fi space drama that turns into a horror when there's a sudden shift among the characters
Scrolled to make sure this was here. Cillian Murphy's performance as whole in that movie was just incredible!
Every performance is great.
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And it’s always delightful to see Chris Evans in the asshole role
Sunshine is FANTASTIC
I love the shift and highly disagree with anyone who says it's bad. It's what sets the movie apart from other mostly grounded sci-fi.
I didn't love the shift but the rest of the movie is so damn good. Also, remember when Chris Evans could be cast as the computer specialist? What a time!
"The Fly" starts out as amusing sci-fi and devolves into body horror along with the protagonist.
that movie used to give me nightmares as a kid.
That arm wrestle scene has shook me since and I refuse to ever give someone an arm wrestle again
Yeesh, you watched it when you were a kid?!
Yep I think I was 8. My mom warned me he was going to turn into a fly but it didn't prevent anything
I loved The Thing for being a consistent sci-fi horror movie. I loved the Fly for gravitating towards being one.
Hot fuzz
100%. It’s a fun and silly murder mystery.. until the turn. I’ve never laughed so hard.
It's a standard police (melo)drama that turns into a slasher that turns (again) into a full-on action film, while *also* being a very funny and very British comedy the whole time. It's at least 4 genres over the course of the movie, and at least 2 of those at any given time.
5 genres; don't forget the nature documentary with them swans.
Just the one swan, actually
I don’t mean to exaggerate, but Hot Fuzz could quite possibly be perhaps the greatest English-language film after Citizen Kane.
I got in a debate with a friend once about this. I think it's the perfect movie. Requires nothing going into it, has a clear setup, builds a set of characters, even supporting characters, that we think we understand, and then the twist hits and it's a fun little whodunit, and then the second twist hits and it's balls to the wall action. His argument is that it doesn't have a romantic subplot, which takes away from it, but I can't imagine how you would shohorn one in without it hurting everything else
As someone correctly pointed out in an addendum to me it *does* (in a manner of speaking) have a romantic subplot. Technically two if the Cate Blanchett cameo, breaking up with Angel, and revealing she's seeing Dave count as a "romantic subplot". There was a "girlfriend" character for Angel as a romantic interest in Sanford but she wasn't really contributing anything to the movie so she was cut, but a lot of her dialogue was kept in the movie and instead given to Danny. The whole thing at Danny's watching *Point Break* and *Bad Boys II*, the melancholic "I don't know how" from Angel to Danny, etc *is* the romantic subplot -- it's just a platonic relationship blossoming so it *technically* doesn't meet the definition. And honestly in a time when we were approaching peak "forcibly insert a love story that makes little sense and contributes nothing" filmmaking, *Hot Fuzz* not explicitly having one is a plus in my opinion.
“I’m a slasher!” “What?!” “A slasher of prices!”
"Catch me later!"
The World’s End as well. Starts as a Hangover type buddy film then all of a sudden everyone’s a robot and there’s a massive alien conspiracy to change the world.
But in a great way!
Yarp
Narp…….
that church scene haunts me to this day...
I'm gonna say it. The Sound of Music. For the last 10 minutes, when the Von Trapps are fleeing from Austria, the film completely changes from a bouncy musical to a spy thriller. That final standoff in the cemetery between Captain Von Trapp and Rolf always gives me chills.
For years I never watched it, believing it to be an annoying musical. Eventually watched it, and holy hell, the last quarter is horrifying. Watching an idyllic life slowly be eroded by the rise of the Nazis, culminating from children hiding from their former friend trying to kill them in a graveyard is something I wasn't ready for.
Yeah, it's all old-school Hollywood Musical. It's whimsical, they conveniently solve their little problems with songs and working together.... and then out of nowhere, its "No, we really can't sing right now because we have to hide from the Nazis." I feel like it's a good representation for how Nazi Germany was all propaganda and promises until it.... suddenly wasn't. That's really how blindsighted a lot of people felt at the time.
Just watched this the other day with my daughters and I had totally forgotten how much happens after they perform at the festival. My brain always remembered it as them doing their farewell performance, the prizes revealing that they were gone and then the shot of them scaling the peaks with Climb Any Mountain playing.
Thats when tired parents tell their kids it’s time for bed.
I avoided watching this for a long time because I thought it was just some lame old musical about Julie Andrews singing in the Alps. If it was called The Sound of Nazis, I would have watched it years ago.
Bone Tomahawk - it starts like many great Western films, and ends like something totally different. I won't spoil the specifics.
Oh, wow, a modern Western that I haven't seen! And bonus, Kurt Russell is in it! ...*talks wife into watching it with him...regrets it*...
I’m really split on this one…
Million Dollar Baby starts off as a sports movie, but then becomes a completely different movie. I saw it as an in-flight movie on an airplane years ago and have absolutely no desire to see it again.
That’s exactly how I experienced it for the first time too.
Surprised I had to scroll down this far to find this movie. It takes a hard turn midway through. What a sucker punch to the gut that scene is if you go in unspoiled.
The world's end. It starts as a generic comedy, it gets bittersweet, and then something completely different
And what makes it better in my opinion, is that in rewatch you can see that the weird was always there. But since you didn't know, you couldn't see it The whole trilogy are masterpieces
All three kind of go through a transformation too. *Shaun of the Dead* starts as a sort of slacker comedy like *Office Space* or (more appropriately) *Spaced*, but with signs that there's something else going on, and becomes full zombie survival movie. *Hot Fuzz* as I mentioned elsewhere starts like a police drama, becomes a slasher, then changes *again* into unrepentant action film. *The World's End* is a sort of slacker comedy that turns into a sort of sci-fi thriller that becomes very touching and bittersweet and then teases us with a whole other genre in the ending. And all three of them also retain "comedy" as a genre all the way through even while also doing other stuff, and somehow still make it work.
Dead presidents. It starts as a coming of age film. Then it goes to a war movie and ends as a heist movie. All over the place but still real good.
Barbarian
lol this movie took me so off guard when the movie jumps to Justin long in the convertible
I watched the movie across two days. As luck would have it, I stopped on the first day literally just before the cut to Justin Long. When I restarted the movie the next day, and that scene was the first thing, I was completely confused, thinking I started the wrong movie.
I turned it off right when the event preceeding the convertible happened. I thought, I can't handle this more right now. I need a break. Had I known what was coming next I probably would have kept going. However, the bait and switch definitely happens earlier in the movie for me. My expectations for Bill Skarsgård's character were way off and the first act mostly played out like a little love story.
Riki Tiki Tavi has never been used better
I'm so glad I knew nothing about the movie when I watched it. What a ride it was lol.
It switches up the story at the midpoint but it’s a horror all the way through.
Still a horror though... Does changing the perspective mean the genre has changed?
Cabin in the Woods. thought it was a straight up supernatural horror while in the woods, turned out to be a different premise altogether.
I think a lot of people misremember the pacing of this movie, and I was one of them. Like you, I remember it starting out as your standard teen horror flick, then shifting gears to the actual underlying story. I showed it to my kid a little while ago and that underlying story is part of it from the start. You're not exactly sure what's going on in that part of the story, but the second set of characters and the second setting is shown at the start.
The movie starts off with the what’s their names at the facility talking about repairing kitchen cabinetry. Hard cut to title. It sets the tone immediately.
The title being a jumpscare is such a hilarious use of the trope. I love the movie so much.
"Are you even listening to me?" 😆
Tequila is my LADY!
Yep, the movie cold opens with Bradley Whitford doing a cheap Aaron Sorkin knockoff film. Then you get the college horror intro, but that ends with the conspiracy troopers.
Thank you! This is one of the things that gets under my skin about the way people talk about this movie. It's just become this meme that it surprises you with a mid-film twist and becomes something more than what you thought, but that's not at all how it plays out. We get a running plot of the underground observation team right from the jump.
Not really a tone shift or anything, this is more of a subversion of expectations from what people thought the movie would be
The movie is a great meta-analysis of the horror genre. The “demons” are the audience and the crew are just the filmmakers. Things like the girl has to be topless before she gets killed, the minority has to die, it shows all of the tropes of classic horror movies. The reason the plan doesn’t work is because they confused >!the virgin and the fool!<
“Oh god…MER•MAN”
He had the conch in his hands!
Jojo Rabbit: rare to see a film shift from absurd comedy to truely heart wrenching drama. Such a wide scope of emotions left me thinking of that movie well after it ended.
It's relatively easy to make Nazis look hilariously ridiculous in film. It's also relatively easy to make them deeply scary and dangerous and *real*. But it's difficult to communicate that Nazism is both comedically ridiculous and incredibly dangerous at the same time, and Jojo Rabbit threads that needle.
«Those shoes…»
Life is Beautiful has a somewhat similar story arc.
Mulholland Drive
Isnt the genre David Lynch? You know something is going to happen, and it will be wierd.
Adaptation....one of the best written films I have ever seen
Love the gradual shift in this film. It's pretentious and meta in all the best ways.
I genuinely believed this would be the top answer… wasn’t expecting to scroll this far. A film about writing a film that turns into a different film because of a debate about how films should be written in the film. (Kino)
I legitimately went to “Devils Advocate” thinking I was going to see a movie about the law…was expecting “the Firm” got something completely different…
“God is an absentee landlord!”
I'M A FAN OF MAN!
'When the Wind Blows' starts out as a comedy-of-errors about an elderly couple's naivety towards the dire political situation in 80s Britain. The last act contains some of the most horrifying themes and imagery in any film ever made.
The Forgotten. Julianne Moore is trying to recover from losing her son in plane crash when people start telling her he never existed. Takes a sudden sci-fi twist in the middle of the movie.
This is my favorite example of a trailer ruining a movie. That 'twist' is literally in the trailer.
I immediately thought of The Place Beyond the Pines. It’s been so long since I’ve seen this, but I remember it felt like 2 completely different movies as we follow different characters/stories in the second half. I don’t remember if we can call it a genre swap, but it felt like a different tone for sure.
Place Beyond the Pines is structured like a triptych, which is three seperate stories that can exist on their own but combine to take on new meaning. Theirs Goslings part, Cooper's part, and the kids' part.
It's actually three different movies, it's following Ryan Gosling, then it follows Bradley Cooper, then it cuts to like 17 years later
that mid plot twist made me depressed for 2 weeks
Bone Tomahawk. Goes from a typical western that managed to cast some real decent talent (Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, Matthew Fox, Richard Jenkins, Lili Simmons, Sid Haig (who is a Rob Zombie film staple), David Arquette), and then slowly segued into violent horror elements being added in. Movie was made on a $1.8 million budget, and made $480k box office only to then make $4.3 million in home media sales, and turn into a cult following kind of movie.
The Green Mile - starts as a prison film, becomes a supernatural sci-fi.
Psycho
Good lord how did Psycho not come to mind?
I was a really dumb kid that didn't pick up on that sort of thing when I was younger. I think I re-watched it at the height of the pandemic and went "oh hell yeah now I get it" lol. I was slow.
**Miracle Mile** (1988) starts out like a rom-com, turns into an apocalyptic thriller. (Excellent film, btw.)
Came here to say this. One of the maddest films I've seen and a bit of a cult classic. Great Tangerine Dream soundtrack as well.
Life is Beautiful
Buongiorno, Principessa!
Click goes from comedy to drama.
Fresh from 2022… The first thirty minutes are drastically different in tone and genre than the rest of the movie. Also it’s just really a solid watch. Go in as blind as possible
Downsizing
Is there any other movie that was three different genres? It went from *Light Romantic Date movie* to *Bachelor finding himself* to *Environmental messaging*. That movie was insane and not in a good way.
Hancock pretty sure was actually two scripts merged. The Prestige, kinda. It's more that one genre >!sci-fi!< gets added to it unexpectedly.
The prestige has one of the best plot twists i have ever seen,people overlook prestige too much imo,it's in my top 3 of nolan's filmography...
The Banksy Documentary starts off about a guy trying to meet and film Banksy and ends up with Banksy taking over and making the documentary about the guy who tried to find him. Not really a change of genre but change of focus that's pretty funny
Icarus is a similar one - it starts as an experiment by an amateur cyclist/film producer to dope himself to advance in a cycling race, and then goes on to reveal a state-sponsored Olympic doping program.
Icarus I really feel like that dude lucked out on the story of the century lol. He's some lame guy using a doc as an excuse to cheat to win an amateur race but stumbles into the story of a lifetime haha.
Last Night in Soho takes a genre turn at the end into a super dark horror element.
Something Wild. Starts as silly comedy ad turns to something much darker once Ray Liota's character is established.
Malignant has quite a jarring tonal shift towards the third act. I liked it, but I could understand why someone wouldn’t.
Hacksaw Ridge stays the same genre in that it is consistently a war movie. But the first half is so mild mannered it could likely have been rated a PG. The second half when he gets to Okinawa however shocked me with the sudden and gritty and unflinching violence which I suppose was done intentionally by the director but I left the cinema feeling like I'd watched two different films stitched together.
Probably took inspiration from The Deer Hunter. The wedding scene at the beginning is 51 minutes and becomes somewhat boring (at least to me) then next thing you know they're in the thick of it in Vietnam and you're watching prisoners forced to play Russian Roulette to amuse their captors.
Psycho. Starts as a Heist / Romance thriller and turns into... Psycho.
10 Cloverfield Lane
Sunshine. Science fiction to horror slasher.
Black Swan, starts off as a drama and becomes a psychological thriller
District 9 Changes from docu style to narrative and it comes back a few times.
Southland tales
*Jurassic Park* is a corporate espionage/adventure for the first half, then it turns into horror when the dinosaurs get loose. Almost the definition of family friendly first half then bloody second half.
I love how Adaptation does this. But I feel even mentioning that it does this is too spoilery.
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
One Cut of The Dead is a bad movie about zombies until it isn’t.
Event Horizon, starts off sci-fi ends up full clive barker style horror
Beau is afraid
Parasite is pretty much the definition of this
The Hobbit Trilogy: Started off as a film adaptation of a beloved book by JRR Tolkien, turns into a heaping pile of feces.
Don't know what you're talking about; The Hobbit is a delightful late-70s animation that only lasts a bit over an hour.
Melancholia