The Triangle

Triangle!

I just saw it on NetFlix Online Instant Play and must say it is the scariest and most complex movie I've seen in a long time!

It makes Shutter Island look like a Disney Flick.

Anyone seen this and or sees it and can explain it to me I will give you the keys to my car!







Go see it!

looks pretty cool

Honestly it looks really cheesy

Originally Posted by neil1138

Honestly it looks really cheesy

check it out buddy.

That is why it is good. They set it up to make you think you are about to watch a slasher type flick but it takes you beyond all the cool blood/gore scenes.

My gfriend saw it last night and she kept saying it was dumb because she didn't get it.

Then this morning she gets up and starts talking about the movie.

She could'nt get it out of her head and today she saw it two more times and said the best movie ever.

Reminds me of ghost ship but i'll give it a shot.

Now, Keys to your car please...

SPOILER ALERT










Jess is a single mother to Tommy, who is autistic. Encouraged by her friend, Greg, to take some time for herself, she joins him and his friends for a day of sailing. Soon, they get caught in a freak electrical storm which capsizes their boat, forcing them to seek refuge in a passing ocean liner. Once on board, they realize that the ship is empty. Jess, however, feels that she has been there before.
As the group explores the ship further, strange things begin to happen. Jess finds her keys tossed on the floor, food appears to have been prepared for the group, and footsteps are heard in the halls. A masked figure stalks the group while Jess attempts to unravel the mystery as well as survive.
There are two distinct phases to the total cycle denoted by A and B. Events happening in these phases are similar but not identical. By having an A and B phase the audience is fooled into thinking that Jess is altering the cycle when in fact she is simply playing her proper role in the alternate phase. In each phase there are three versions of Jess denoted by 1, 2 and 3. The phase alternates between A and B each time all the minor characters are killed and the tertiary Jess character is thrown overboard. The surviving two Jess characters advance from primary to secondary and secondary to tertiary, respectively and a new primary Jess character boards the ship.
A phase: (Film focuses on A1-Jess)
Once the group is on the Aeolus they read about the story of Sisyphus at which point A2-Jess drops her keys and the keys are found by the group. The entire group enters the ballroom of the ship where A1-Jess catches a glimpse of A2-Jess. Victor runs after A2-Jess and ends up outside where he is confronted by A2-Jess. A2-Jess accidentally fatally injures Victor. A3-Jess has her character shift and becomes the masked killer.
Gregg and Jess walk away from Sally and Downey and discover the note written in Downey's blood to go to the theatre. A1-Jess walks away from Gregg and heads for the ballroom.
Sally and Downy are told to go to the theatre by A3-Jess. On their way they see blood trails from where A3-Jess dragged Greg's body out of the theatre. A1-Jess kills Victor in the ballroom after he attacks her. We are tricked into thinking A1-Jess then runs to the theatre but in fact A2-Jess shows up in the theatre. This is because after escaping the theatre unharmed this Jess obtains a knife. This knife is used by tertiary Jess in the next cycle to attack Sally and Downy in the bedroom.
A3-Jess kills Gregg, Sally and Downey in the theatre while A2-Jess flees the theatre and gets the knife. A2-Jess, with the knife, is on the top deck of the ship and is heard running by A1-Jess who is immediately attacked by A3-Jess. A2-Jess has no further role in the A cycle. A1-Jess eventually wins the struggle and throws A3-Jess overboard. The cycle is complete. A1-Jess becomes B2-Jess. A2-Jess becomes B3-Jess.
B phase: (Film focuses on B2-Jess)
B2-Jess resets the skipping record and then sees the new group about to board the Aeolus. In the hallway she drops her keys for the new primary group to hear and runs into the bedroom to see the note to go to the theatre written in Downey's blood. Downey was killed in the theatre in the preceding A phase so this note was made using Downey's blood from the B phase that preceded this B phase.
B2-Jess fatally injures Victor on the deck then goes below deck, scribbles another note "If they board kill them all", takes a shotgun and loses her locket down the grate. This scene shows the audience that Jess cannot alter the total cycle and is in fact playing her proper role in the B phase of the total cycle.
B2-Jess prevents B1-Jess from killing Victor in the ballroom. B2-Jess then saves Downey and Sally from being killed in the theatre where Gregg is killed. B3-Jess is grazed in the head by B2-Jess.
B2-Jess gives Downey the shotgun and goes to look for Victor. She returns to the ballroom where his body has been thrown overboard.
B3-Jess tricks Sally and Downey into following her into a bedroom where she attacks them using the knife she obtained as A2-Jess. Sally escapes with a fatal wound to her chest while Downey is killed.
B2-Jess searches for Sally who makes the distressed call to the next primary group. She finds Sally amongst a pile of dead Sallies and gives her the brown jacket.
B3-Jess finds B1-Jess and is thrown overboard after a struggle. When Sally dies the cycle resets. B1-Jess becomes A2-Jess. B2-Jess becomes A3-Jess.
A phase: (Film focuses on A3-Jess)
A3-Jess has a character shift when she realizes that she must kill everyone in order to save them. She goes below deck and writes "Go to the theatre" in Downey's blood before dragging his body out of the bedroom and throwing him overboard. Next A3-Jess drags Gregg out of the theatre. Victor's body has already been disposed of.
A3-Jess tells Sally and Downey to go to the theatre then leaves to get another shotgun and become the masked killer.
When Gregg offends A1-Jess she leaves him alone and A3-Jess confronts him in a balcony above the theatre where Sally and Downey are waiting. A3-Jess kills Gregg, Sally and Downey in the theatre. A2-Jess flees the theatre and gets the knife which she will use as B3-Jess.
A2-Jess is on the top deck of the ship with the knife and is heard running by A1-Jess who is immediately attacked by A3-Jess. A2-Jess has no further role in the A cycle. A1-Jess drops down one level and grabs an axe. A1-Jess attempts to distract A3-Jess by throwing an object. A3-Jess remembers having done this when she played the part of A1-Jess and cuts her off. A3-Jess ultimately loses the struggle and is thrown overboard where she washes up on shore.
Jess goes home and we find out that the real Jess is abusive towards her son. The real Jess is killed by Sisyphus-Jess. In an attempt to escape the loop she puts the body in her car, takes her son and flees. She hits a seagull and throws its body onto a pile of dead seagulls. She gets back into her car and is involved in a head on collision with a truck. She escapes 'unharmed' and is greeted by a taxi driver. Sisyphus-Jess is in fact already dead and the entire film has taken place inside her constructed punishment.
It is likely that the loop started when real Jess, distracted because she was abusing her son, died in the head on collision along with her son. After dying, real Jess becomes Sisyphus-Jess. The cab driver, playing the role of Hermes, escorts her to the harbor where she will join the next primary group about to board Aeolus.

looks like a good movie. rotten tomatoes gave it 81%

It was a good movie! I saw it, and 1/2 way through I decided I absolutely HATED IT and it made no sense whatsoever! By the end, it all came together nicely and made sense. Nice real life analogy of the story of Aeolus. She's repeating the same arduous punishment for "cheating" death (Her dead double in the car crash). One of those movies that makes you think afterwards!

wanna see it

Was this ever a book? Also, when was it released? I see some references to a 2005 movie... is that a different movie?

Originally Posted by Ler0y Jenkins

Was this ever a book? Also, when was it released? I see some references to a 2005 movie... is that a different movie?

No there was a made for TV Movie/Show called The Triangle on the SciFi network (now called ScyFy) back around that time about the army and aliens in Bermuda Triangle.
This movie is just called Triangle and is from summer 2009 and was made and debut in Australia/New Zealand and the rest of Europe. I think arrived to the USA on limited release.

Not sure if it would be based on a book. But it is based on the mythology of Aeolus.

this movie put me in a pissy mood. just saying.

Did anyone see Primer?

just watched it, not bad, a bit low budget it seems

cool, thx for heads up gonna watch it on netflix

just saw this today. complete mind-fcuk. watched it again and started to make sense. great flick. i love these kinds of movies that every time you watch, you learn something new.

Watch Primer next. Primer is like Triangle but the AP version. In retrospect, I enjoyed Triangle over Primer because Primer is so bare bones that you never see it coming when it does so you can't enjoy it the same way.

But if you want to keep the party going then see Primer next after seeing Triangle
Primer is also on Netflix Instant View

Just watched it, good flick.

sorry but that movie wasnt scary at all, it was a solid 3...

wasnt scary but i do agree on the mind fcuk this was ridicolous. It was kind of like boondock saints I dont know if it was the greatest movie of all time or some complete **** that will do great in the box office because everyone thinks likewise..

I didn't get the impression it was supposed to be scary, just clever.