10 Movies That Completely Wasted Awesome Twists

6. It Was All A Cover For Cannibalism (Maybe) - Life Of Pi

If you like being told long, pretentious, aimless stories, only to have a much more interesting version teased at the very end, then Life Of Pi is the movie for you.

Most of the film is about twee-as-f*ck Pi, a boy named after a swimming pool who believes in three different religions because that's how it works, apparently. He's stranded at sea after the ship transporting his family's zoo (I told you, twee-as-f*ck) sinks and he goes through various psychedelic misadventures while sharing a lifeboat with a freaking tiger.

If that sounds ridiculous, you're not alone - the investigators into the shipwreck probe further and everything is turned on its head. Turns out the whole film was actually a coping mechanism for some incredibly dark, definitely not PG-13 stuff that would never win a flailing VFX studio an Oscar; the animals were stand-ins for humans (Pi, his mother, a sailor and a violent chef) and the events a cover for how Pi killed a man and feasted on his corpse.

But before the real horror of that can sink in, adult Pi gleefully posits that the fake story is more fun, so why not choose that one instead. End credits. Best Director?

I get it - the movie is meant to be all about spiritualism and faith in the unknown, but the argument that picking the nicer option is how it is with God simply makes religious people look deluded and squanders a much more interesting moral.