>>>>Personally, I thought it was a major snore.
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>>>>I had the ending figured out about 10 minutes into it.
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>>>I don't remember exactly the time, but it was quite early as well -
>>>but I am pretty sure that all the comments / efforts to "hide" a surprize made it easy -
>>>clearly this was the only possible "big surprize" possible by the setup.
>>>Not so sure it would have been this evident if I had seen the movie without any info.
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>>I guess I am among the slow-witted here. It wasn't until the famous scene with Malcolm and Cole at the hospital, the immortal line, that I knew.
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>...which I forgot. Nice movie, and actually the first one we went to see, within a couple of months after getting to the US. It was a nice surprise - a movie about "I can see dead people" which doesn't try to scare the viewers. Did I say I hate horror? Well, hate is maybe too strong a term, it's rather that I don't have the patience.
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>And I got the surprise about two minutes before the character got it on screen. I just enjoyed the leisurely pace and didn't bother to think of the plot as a mystery, just let it take me wherever it wanted.
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>>Maybe I didn't want to know. Movies are a form of pleasant escapism for me and I am happy to suspend my disbelief.
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>Pleasant escapism? That's Hollywood, not movies. But then, where would you see different movies?
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>And I don't suspend any disbelief. I just jump in the scene and enjoy being there for as long as it doesn't do anything stupid. Copouts like deus-ex-machina, too many cliches, predictable plots and, worst, predictable endings do kick me out. It's more like a game to me - you get in and play for as long as the game is fair. Once the rules of the game change for sake of author's (producers, lawyers et al included) comfort / incompetence / pocket, I'm out.

Most of my favorite movies are foreign made. I'm not being snotty about it but in general they seem to have more heart. They don't seem corporate.

That said, I like "The Sixth Sense" a lot. And "The Departed."