Movies that don't suck until later in the film?

[Jayson]

Not all bad movies are like "Batman and Robin" that start sucking from the first scene and never let up. Some movies start out okay but then get worst and worst until you realize your watching a bad movie. Which movies would be like that for you? Two that come to mind for me would be....


1 Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back=It's kind of fun at first,especially getting to see Dante and Randall and Brodie etc but things get worst and worst when the plot gets going and they are headed to Hollywood.

2Star Trek:Generations=The stuff with Kirk and the Enterprise-B is fun but once you get to the 24th century the movie pretty much dies though I do think it plays a little better in repeat viewings than it orginally did.

Jason

 

[archeryguy1701]

It didn't become a bad movie, but the one off the top of my head in "I Am Legend" with the theatrical ending. The third act kills the movie in my opinion. However, the alternate ending redeems it (after watching it a second time today, it turns the third act around A LOT!).

 

[Harvey]

Steven Spielberg's recent War of the Worlds. Wonderful, terse, grim story-telling that falls flat as soon as Tom Cruise remembers he has to be an action hero in the third act.

 

[clint g]

007: Die Another Day. I thought the part in the beginning inside korea was great. Once he makes it out of Korea though its just non-stop suck

 

[TheSeeker]

I'd say that the first 20 minutes or so of Eragon was pretty good and then it just went off the deep end.

 

[RoJoHen]

The ending to "The Prestige" completely ruins it, IMO. Cloning? Seriously? It took the plausibility right out of the film.

 

[JonathonWally]

The ending to "The Prestige" completely ruins it, IMO. Cloning? Seriously? It took the plausibility right out of the film.

I dunno, it's kind of a mindfuck when you think about who's dying, the original or the clone

 

[RoJoHen]

I get that that's what it's supposed to be about, but it's too absurd for me to take it seriously.

 

[JoeZhang]

007: Die Another Day. I thought the part in the beginning inside korea was great. Once he makes it out of Korea though its just non-stop suck

Die another Day is odd, they start off much "harder" than any Bond film we'd see in years and then...

 

[JoeZhang]

I get that that's what it's supposed to be about, but it's too absurd for me to take it seriously.

Me too it just all came to pieces...

 

[JoeZhang]

My own - Sunshine - spaceship serial killer? just say no.

 

[Gepard]

Pretty much anything by M. Night, with the exception of the Sixth Sense. Aliens killed by water, which the characters can only figure out by reading a divine plan into the bizarre crap that's happened in their lives? Dear god.

 

[Aragorn]

The Transporter. Everything about his profession was uber-cool, especially with his first job. After he discovers his human cargo for the second job and has a change of heart, he becomes a one-man killing machine and the plot goes into absurd overdrive. It would be like if Ridley Scott directed the first half of a movie and they brought in Michael Bay to direct the second half.

 

[Deckerd]

I agree Sunshine has a terrible second half after a really interesting start.

I also agree with I am Legend. The ending made the film completely pointless.

LOTR The Return of the King is my especial bête noir. All that gazing at each other and smiling mushily while the orchestra shmaltzes on. Twenty bloody minutes of it.

 

[Australis]

Surprised no one's mentioned the recent Tim Machine. Started off well, great SFX, interesting messing about with time, then it went off to the far future and fell apart.

 

[CaptainCanada]

I'd have cut out a couple of the different epilogues from The Return of the King (some, such as the "you bow to no one" and the final one are important; the soft-focus reunion is a definite cutting-room floor moment).

 

[Kegek]

The ending to "The Prestige" completely ruins it, IMO. Cloning? Seriously? It took the plausibility right out of the film.

I dunno, it's kind of a mindfuck when you think about who's dying, the original or the clone

Not really. I thought it was pretty obvious: The new clone survived every time. The machine created a new clone up in the balcony and the earlier clone plummets to his death.

That said, the film did screw with the audience's head a great deal, and I liked it for that. Didn't mind the cloning twist either, given the fantastical lore that surrounds Nikolai Tesla (though so far as I know he never claimed to be able to clone).

 

[Twilight]

Sunshine

Beautiful, thoughtful flick.

But WTF was up with "the villain"? It became an EVENT HORIZON after being a SOLARIS.

 

[JGordon]

For me, it would have to be Signs. That movie started off so tense and intriguing -- I was really into it, and then went downhill so fast. Aliens burned by water? Then why land on a planet that is 70% water? Why eat people that are 80% water? Wouldn't the humidity in the air give a constant skin irritation? Why the hell were they running around without any weapons? (I know the kid read something in a book about "they won't use their advanced tech so we won't use nukes," but that's the lamest reason I've ever heard.) And the god-awful rediscover-your-spirituality ending was just retarded

Honorable mention to the previously mentioned War of the Worlds, Return of the King (all the epilogue stuff, rest was still awesome), Transporter, and I am Legend.

 

[sidious618]

The ending to "The Prestige" completely ruins it, IMO. Cloning? Seriously? It took the plausibility right out of the film.

I've heard that opinion before. Personally, I think the film is fantastic and it is one of my favorites.