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What movies do you find predictable? What about movies that have great plot twists? I was just watched Inception, so it kind of inspired this thread.
Don’t take this the wrong way, but The Incredibles was (sort of). I’ve mentioned this before, but the only reason it was predictable to me was because of reading a short comic in an issue of Disney Adventures before the movie came out that was only about the prologue with younger Bob and Buddy. The predictable part was seeing Buddy and thinking “Oh, I bet that’s Syndrome!”. 
What wasn’t predictable about the film however was that surprise ending with Syndrome invading their home. I’m sure most of us probably expected it to be over after the last Omnidroid blew up.
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. I had the ending figured out in the very beginning. 
My mom watches a bunch of Christmas TV movies. Those are horribly predictable.
PS, I LOVE that gif, MONS†ER!
Both Carl Muntz’ and Lotso’s dark ‘reveals’. Saw it coming to be honest (though the TS3 trailers didn’t help I guess in that case for me I figured it out). But as soon as I saw Muntz again in Up I was like “He’s going to be revealed to be the ‘bad guy’ isn’t he.” Somehow that seemed really really predictable. I’d forgotten who he was when he first appeared again but then remembered and that was my first thought even as he was all smiley and friendly to them.
Though Lotso actually leaving them behind actually did suprise me- though it wasn’t a nice surprise. Oh well, at least we got the incinerator scene in all its glory.
I guess you could say every single Disney movie is predictale in that’ll have a happy ending for the protaganists. I don’t really want that to change of course though. (But I like to see the twist and turns to get there and I like to run my favourite characters out a lot and make them suffer before hand). Often it seems with animated family films the variety and difference to the ENDING really occurs over the antagonists fate whether it will be standard death, humilation or reconciliation- the latter of which Pixar only has a little spot here and there of in its films and isn’t particulary common. Unfortunatly, Pixar was also almost a bit repetitive in a weird sort of way by having both a TS film and a Pete Docter film side by side in chronological order which BOTH have some old fatherly dude turn out to be not what he apparently seems to be to the protaganists at first. -coughs- I like TS3 overall don’t get me wrong- just saying. They kind of join the ranks of Stinkey Pete and Waternoose- though Waternoose is still the most impressive and terrifying and gut punching of the lot for me even if he wasn’t the first, since he had a much deeper relationship with the main character and his actions and situations are more likely to be those taken by real people in the real world.
But looking back, I’d say Muntz was definitly Pixar’s most predictable ‘surprise’ anatgonist.
Haha, Buttercup for the win!
Well, Meet the Robinsons was extremely predictable. I figured out the whole plot withen the first 20 minutes of watching it.
Hmm, that’s hard. I don’t remember what I thought of movies before I watched them. However, Finding Nemo and Brother Bear stick out to me.
Predictable movies? Any prequel and inbetweenquel. Sorry, but it’s true, right?
When you’ve seen a lot of movies, most begin to be very predictable, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
But the mother of all predictability has to be Avatar. I predicted every single minute of it. That can’t be a good thing.
I used to think Lotso’s reveal might’ve been intentionally obvious. Many of us had already speculated he would be the villain before the film came out, some Pixarians blogged about the antagonist, and the trailer made it pretty obvious. Therefore, there was not much a suprise. However, I now believe it was just a lazy way to add tension. I love Toy Story 3, but all the “evil twists” are predictable just by what has previously occured. The scene with Woody, Bullsye and the LGM hiding from Big Baby ended in such a predictable matter I actually groaned in the theatre! I think the blame would have to go to Arndt on this one, I mean he hasn’t written a children’s script before, and was probably more worried about creating a worthy Toy Story story than an intelligent drama. Mission accomplished on both Michael Arndt, but the latter is still predictable.
The ending however, was mind-blowing.
I don’t think Lotso being evil was meant to be that much of a surprise, a lot of the things he says and the general way he acts seem fairly suspicious early on, hinting at what’s to come. I think the point was not so much to fool the audience, but was more about fooling the characters, if the audience was fooled as well then that’s just a bonus.
And the big baby scene was just meant to show off how creepy he is, it wasn’t really much of a twist at all, but maybe I just don’t get what you’re saying.
^ I was about to post that. I think the audiences know very early he’s evil. The “surprise” point is he doesn’t push the button, because most villains of that kind find redemption in those situations and he didn’t.
No, on how the toys were hiding from Big Baby, and the moment he approaches their location the toys have vanished. That is seriously one of the most over-used thrill scenes ever.
The whole escape sequence was a tribute to prison movie cliches, so I think it fits in well.
I’m sorry, but MegaMind. I really enjoyed this film, but I saw every twist coming 20 minutes away. Still a good movie, though.
How about Speed? Any takers that bus won’t explode at the end? 
I like romantic comedies as a guilty pleasure, but they are soooo predictable. I remember watching “Leap Year” and being able to guess the dialogue almost to the word just because I had seem other romcoms.
Since this is in the animation section, I’ll keep my comments to animated films and TV series. SPOILERS BELOW (but you’ve probably seen all the relevant material anyway).
Predictable: 1. The vast majority of How to Train Your Dragon and Legend of the Guardians. Didn’t stop me loving both, though, and there were a few twists that were legitimately surprising.
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Syndrome’s true identity. His distinctive hair style, as well as the fact that he showed up in the trailer, thus meaning I was keeping half an eye out for him earlier, really didn’t help things.
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The ‘twist’ in the nature of the quest in the pilot for My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. You know, for someone who’s so well-read, Twilight Sparkle isn’t very genre savvy.
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Most movies in the Disney Animated Canon. There’s usually a minor twist or two in each one, but nothing major.
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Every Pokemon movie and Land Before Time sequel ever.
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Anastasia, largely because it is just Don Bluth doing a Disney Princess movie without Disney. It’s still better than any Disney Princess movie before The Little Mermaid, though.
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The plot of the animated Titanic film. Yeah, obviously we know that the ship sinks, but the fact that the whole plot is just a simple gender-swapped ripoff of the (remarkably watchable) James Cameron version means that I’m quite glad that the Nostalgia Critic is around to remember it so I don’t have to.
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Ferngully. I could even figure out where it was going as a kid. At least Avatar had some cool effects to earn my attention.
Unpredictable: 1. The incinerator scene in Toy Story 3. In the (paraphrased) words of Chester A. Bum, “Dude, Toy Story got dark.”
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Any season finale of Beast Wars. The second season most so.
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WALL-E’s temporary memory wipe. I legitimately feared that he wasn’t going to get it back. Part of me still fears that every time I watch you. Curse you and your brilliance, Andrew Stanton.
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The basic idea of the final act of Turtles Forever, as well as the final method of victory.
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Tiana getting turned into a frog after kissing Naveen in The Princess and the Frog. I hadn’t seen the trailers, so while it was obvious the kiss wasn’t going to work, the exact method of failure did take me by surprise.
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The twist at the end of Shrek. How did Dreamworks manage to lose that talent for so long?
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Watership Down. Okay, the plot was fairly predictable, but the sheer amount of blood and miscellaneous nightmare fuel took me surprise. I knew it was dark, but not that dark.
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Lightning McQueen giving up the Piston Cup. I’m sure I shouldn’t be surprised, but I guess I’d only watched the cheesy sports movies where they win (well, okay, I’d watched Cool Runnings as well, but that’s a very different situation).
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Aladdin tricking Jafar into wishing to be a genie. Defeating a power-hungry villain by making wish for more power? Brilliant, and utterly unpredictable to me as a kid. The foreshadowing is clear to me now, but I still think it would take most people by surprise if they saw it for the first time.
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The true villain reveal in Monsters Inc. Pixar’s other uses of this were all fairly obvious, but this one took me by surprise for some reason.
^ Oh, I think Shrek was very predictable.
I agree. Every turn in Shrek is expected for me, at least.