I felt the opposite. The movie starts out as a shot-for-shot remake of The Fall of the Roman Empire, but the last hour and a half or so are pretty solid entertainment.
Movies that don't suck until later in the film?
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I felt the opposite. The movie starts out as a shot-for-shot remake of The Fall of the Roman Empire, but the last hour and a half or so are pretty solid entertainment.
Thespeckledkiwi
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I felt it got really cliche and really bad.
I think that whole sequence is proof that it's time to let a new creative team work on the next Spider-Man movies. Actually pretty much the whole movie is proof but that's another story...
Everything in 'Pirates of the Caribbean 3: At World's End' after 'Hoist the Colours.' That was a great opening scene to the film; shocking, compelling, poignant, only to be completely blown by almost everything that followed after it. Okay, that's kind of cheating, but it was really such a good scene that I was looking forward to so much more from the rest of the film.
'The Lost World' once the T-Rex shows up in San Diego. Just who did eat the crew of that ship anyway? The crew dying in confined spaces while the T-Rex was still locked up would seem to suggest that raptors got onboard, yet no follow-up to this is ever made.
I'll agree with others about 'Die Another Day.' When it was Bond being captured, tortured, being a suspected traitor, and having to go on the run to clear his name without any gadgets, I thought it was shaping up to be one of the better Bond outings. Then it managed to turn around and embrace all of the worst traits of the franchise in abundance.
'The Matrix: Revolutions' once it was revealed that Neo had powers in the real world... just because he does. After the ending of 'Reloaded' where Neo uses his powers in the real world I thought for sure they were going to say that Zion and everyone in it was simply part of another level of control beyond The Matrix, but nope, he's just magical like that.
I thought 'Mission to Mars' was a pretty decent film (even with the ridiculous Face on Mars premise) right up until the alien showed up and they flew to that galaxy that's apparently in orbit of Jupiter.
'Transformers' lost me when all the giant robots started doing their gymnastics floor routine in the middle of not-LA, but clearly LA.
Sunshine
I am Legend
Signs
No Country for Old Men
'The Lost World' once the T-Rex shows up in San Diego. Just who did eat the crew of that ship anyway? The crew dying in confined spaces while the T-Rex was still locked up would seem to suggest that raptors got onboard, yet no follow-up to this is ever made.
I'll agree with others about 'Die Another Day.' When it was Bond being captured, tortured, being a suspected traitor, and having to go on the run to clear his name without any gadgets, I thought it was shaping up to be one of the better Bond outings. Then it managed to turn around and embrace all of the worst traits of the franchise in abundance.
'The Matrix: Revolutions' once it was revealed that Neo had powers in the real world... just because he does. After the ending of 'Reloaded' where Neo uses his powers in the real world I thought for sure they were going to say that Zion and everyone in it was simply part of another level of control beyond The Matrix, but nope, he's just magical like that.
I thought 'Mission to Mars' was a pretty decent film (even with the ridiculous Face on Mars premise) right up until the alien showed up and they flew to that galaxy that's apparently in orbit of Jupiter.
'Transformers' lost me when all the giant robots started doing their gymnastics floor routine in the middle of not-LA, but clearly LA.
Sunshine
I am Legend
Signs
No Country for Old Men
I thought Transformers was pretty boring early on, actually. Just a lot of unfunny and cliched teen hijinks that dragged on and on. Then it gets interesting again when the Autobots land and Optimus has that 'I am Optimus Prime' routine. It quickly looses steam after that, though, as it still doesn't seem to be going places and how the robots are handled is decidedly unsatisfying.
Which is probably why I can't think of good examples for this thread. I've seen films I consider bad, or have mixed opinions of, but few which were good and then I can pinpoint a part where they suddenly begin to suck. A good example is Matrix Reloaded. The rave scene was terrible, the action scene with the cars was boring, a lot of the supporting character stuff I didn't care for, but all the philosophical rambling put throughout the film was generally more interesting than its equivalent in the original Matrix, particularly the final conversations with the Architect. Bumpy rides rather than sudden crash landings, as it were...
Which is probably why I can't think of good examples for this thread. I've seen films I consider bad, or have mixed opinions of, but few which were good and then I can pinpoint a part where they suddenly begin to suck. A good example is Matrix Reloaded. The rave scene was terrible, the action scene with the cars was boring, a lot of the supporting character stuff I didn't care for, but all the philosophical rambling put throughout the film was generally more interesting than its equivalent in the original Matrix, particularly the final conversations with the Architect. Bumpy rides rather than sudden crash landings, as it were...
Beat me to it - this movie got weirder and weirder and made less and less sense as it went along. the secodn half essentially ruined the trilogy, all by itself.
28 Days Later nosedived as soon as Cillian Murphy escaped a firing squad, while Sunshine remained good throughout even though the villain was overblown (but there was foreshadowing).
I Am Legend went down the tubes as soon as the Fresh Prince was rescued by that religious loony and her brat. Face Off went deeper into the shitter when the protagonist went into that silly sci-fi prison.
I Am Legend went down the tubes as soon as the Fresh Prince was rescued by that religious loony and her brat. Face Off went deeper into the shitter when the protagonist went into that silly sci-fi prison.
Good Will Riker
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
It goes downhill once Indy & the gang hit the CGI jungle!
It goes downhill once Indy & the gang hit the CGI jungle!
The recent Indiana Jones movie. Starts out pretty good, but goes down hill quick, even though it was still entertaining.
Agreed. In my opinion, had the movie ended with the car crash preceding the rescue, it would've been nearly perfect.
Exactly. The first two acts were brilliant, but then came the psycho slasher stuff. Thankfully, the rest of the movie was so good, it was able to survive even after that bit.
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