Twixt (aka B'Twixt Now and Sunrise) - February 28, 2023

[blackadder213]

Originally Posted by Protozoid

Curious to hear your thoughts.

From what I recall,

[Show spoiler]Swimming Pool

and Twixt have different twists.

[Show spoiler]Pretty sure we know from the beginning Hall Baltimore's daughter is dead, at least in the 2011 version. That may be less clear in the new one but I don't think it's a twist in either version. I think the only real twist is that the sheriff is the killer, and that's treated as a secondary plot-line in the new version.

According to my notes, B'Twixt Now and Sunrise is 75 minutes without end credits. Almost exactly 8 minutes shorter than Twixt.

Unless I badly misinterpreted the film, the twist I mean is

[Show spoiler]that the experiences of both writers throughout the films were just part of the stories they were writing, and didn't actually happen.

In fact even the basic premise of the films is the same (IIRC).

[Mindfather]

Just got the new cut on bluray today, might check it out tonight. I've heard its solid now!

[Protozoid]

Originally Posted by blackadder213

Unless I badly misinterpreted the film, the twist I mean is

[Show spoiler]that the experiences of both writers throughout the films were just part of the stories they were writing, and didn't actually happen.

In fact even the basic premise of the films is the same (IIRC).

It's been almost 20 years since I've seen Swimming Pool, but I did not interpret Twixt that way.

[Show spoiler]Hall Baltimore is investigating a story that reminds him of his daughter, which inspires him to have dreams about a vampire girl, which is informing his writing. What's real and what's a dream sequence is pretty clearly delineated, although it is ambiguous whether Baltimore is being visited by real ghosts who are telling him what actually happened, or if these are only Baltimore's dreams, mashing his story, his investigation, and his imagination together. The only big twist was that the sheriff is the one who killed the girl in the morgue (which is made less concrete in the new cut).

Maybe if I rewatched Swimming Pool I'd see what you mean, but it isn't clicking for me at the moment.

Edit: Oh, okay. Reading the Wikipedia synopsis, it does sound like the 2011 cut of Twixt was meant to be interpreted that way. That "twist" is gone in the new cut.

[blackadder213]

I've just finished watching the new version and I'm not sure what to make of it. The ending is certainly different, though I don't remember as much of the rest of the film to compare. (I'll go back in this thread to read others' commentary.) I thought there were more sequences of Hall and V together in the old version, but I could well be misremembering.

Anyway, I haven't changed my IMDb rating, which is 6/10 or "good."

[Protozoid]

Originally Posted by blackadder213

I've just finished watching the new version and I'm not sure what to make of it. The ending is certainly different, though I don't remember as much of the rest of the film to compare. (I'll go back in this thread to read others' commentary.) I thought there were more sequences of Hall and V together in the old version, but I could well be misremembering.

Anyway, I haven't changed my IMDb rating, which is 6/10 or "good."

The new ending definitely takes a moment to get used to. As you correctly pointed out, the old ending was a cheesy rug-pull, and the new ending is completely different in tone and degree of sincerity.

6/10 sounds about right, but I definitely prefer the new cut, personally. After going back and forth between the two cuts to compare scenes, I don't miss anything that was cut except for a couple of the visuals from the lemonade scene.

[Brian81]

Is the slip for this scarce? I didn't see it on copies at one store upon release and just finally today decided to try other stores. Tons of copies, no slips. All my other Coppola is either steels, box sets, or with slips and I guess this might be the odd one out unless I go eBay?

[waxHead]

Originally Posted by Brian81

Is the slip for this scarce? I didn't see it on copies at one store upon release and just finally today decided to try other stores. Tons of copies, no slips. All my other Coppola is either steels, box sets, or with slips and I guess this might be the odd one out unless I go eBay?

People were reporting earlier that it doesn't come with a slip:

Originally Posted by willo007

Does this release come with a Slipcover, the reviewer here stated it does, however the copy that I got delivered from BestBuy didn't have one and the pictures on Ebay of the product does not show any slipcover.

Originally Posted by Ruined

No slip from amazon either.

Originally Posted by ninfan81

My Amazon order had no slip

[Brian81]

Thanks. I guess I can just buy it whenever then! I wish it was a UHD.

[Ruined]

Originally Posted by Brian81

Thanks. I guess I can just buy it whenever then! I wish it was a UHD.

If you can find a black viva elite case to put it in, it doesn't really need a slip.

[lupinskitten]

I watched about half of this on Amazon Prime this afternoon and finally gave up. It bored me.