10 Sci-Fi Movie Moments That Literally Stopped Movies
5. Serenity - It Was All A Game
For the longest time, it felt as though the trope of a story being revealed to be nothing but a dream the whole damn time was popping up in just about every edge-of-your-seat thriller ushered into cinema screens. But, thankfully it seems as though that cheap get out of jail card is largely behind us nowadays... with it now being replaced by a video game instead!
As one of the latest examples of a tale being revealed as a complex simulation all along, look no further than the Matthew McConaughey-starring Serenity.
After spending much of the film following a fisherman by the name of Dill, his ex-wife who had tasked him with murdering her current husband for $10 million, and his son who had been tapping away on a computer from afar, Miller suddenly pulls the rug out from under the audience's feet with the reveal that Dill, and the entire world we'd been watching unfold, was simply a bunch of code being tapped into a machine by none other than his son - oh, and Dill was actually dead IRL this whole time.
If that isn't enough to snap you out of a narrative, then I don't know what is...