What movies do you love the beginning of, and then at some point everything goes wrong? The one that made me think of this topic is Dune 1984. The beginning is amazing and I love it, and at some point, not quite sure exactly where, I start hating it. You got any like these?
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I agree in spirit, but everything going on in space with Luke, Vader, and the Emperor keeps my interest locked in until the end.
shareI remember reading somewhere that the whole Ewok defeating the Imperial army on the Ewok's home turf was an allusion towards the Vietnam War, with the Vietnamese successfully resisting a technologically supeiror occupying force. Despite that, the allusion coud have remained by having Wookies who used primitive weaponry.
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I think it was film critic Peter Biskind citing a unconscious inspiration on Lucas part. Given Lucas politics, I think the idea has credence.
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Lol I think it comes down to the choice of cute teddy bears hitting themselves with slingshots or whatever, but managing to defeat an Imperial army. I once tried to look at it as if there was only a small Imperial army stationed on Endor. That could be possible if the Emperor never thought the Rebels would find the base, but that's not what happened if I remember correctly.
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I like that one, not as much as the others, but aliens are equally as plausible as Christ.
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Agreed, Signs falls apart. It sails pretty smoothly to the end, then collapses at the last minute. I don't want to debate you, just availing you of my nonbeliefs. I think it's strange to find aliens out of place in a series that was established as fantasy adventure.
shareGood call. When the Tarzaan and fencing on top of trucks start it goes south so fast. CGI killed that movie.
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Yeah, that one falls apart, maybe not as much as Revolutions though.
shareThe Forgotten (2004). It had an amazing build up, but once it turned into an alien abduction thing I completely lost interest.
Difficult question, although I know I've experienced it many times. The only one I can think of right now is Primal Fear. A pretty suspenseful thriller until Ed Norton reveals his supposed split personality, at which point it becomes silly and predictable.
shareAgree completely. After that there was no point to the movie IMHO.
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Ben Affleck's "The Town". The first few minutes, when the opening bank heist took place, were interesting, but then this film began to go downhill after that, and to sort of disintegrate, and fall apart. That was especially obvious during the Fenway Park heist, as well.
The Box (2009) starring Cameron Diaz. They took it from one of my favorite episodes of The Twilight Zone called "Button, Button" starring Mare Winningham.
The plot was A small wooden box arrives on the doorstep of a married couple, who know that opening it will grant them a million dollars and kill someone they don't know.
Started out very good but turned into sci-fi mambo jumbo. It got so bad I could not watch the whole thing.
Sandman, with a direct hit.
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Hot damn, you guys are good!!!
Agreed on The Box. There are a lot of movies that are based on a great short story idea, but in their attempt to stretch it to a 90 min feature film, they die a miserable death. Almost every attempt to make an Edgar Allan Poe feature film has fallen prey to this.
Dolan's Cadillac (adaptation of "Cask of Amontillado")
Tell-Tale (adaptation of "The Tell-Tale Heart")
and at least a dozen movies that call themselves "The Raven" :/
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The prect.
LOL. I'm doing the dance from Bill & Ted 2
"You might be a king or a little street sweeper, but sooner or later you dance with The Prect!"
I never saw either "The Box" or "Dolan's Cadillac.", so I have nothing to compare them to, but I do stand by my position that Ben Affleck's "The Town" began to disintegrate shortly after Doug and Claire have sex in Claire's apartment.
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Yes. I liked it all the way until the end, and the big heist didn't quite work. The worst part for me was Affleck's character getting away with it, seemingly just because he's the director and star, not because his character really should have. Would have sat better if he died as well. All the way up until the end I like it, and then it's not quite right. I loved Jeremy Renner's performance, but I always do.
shareIn the Alternate Ending of "The Town", Doug MacRay does die, at the hands of the two Dominican men whose apartment that Doug MacRay and Jem Coughlin broke into, beat up, and permanently crippled one of them by shooting him in the knee, all because the Dominican guys (who were also working for Fergie, as the Alternate Ending points out), retaliated by shooting Doug MacRay to death just as he was about to get into his car and head for Florida.
In the book on which "The Town" is based, Doug MacRay does die, bleeding out in Claire's living room, after a shoot-out with Fergie, his crime boss.
Jeremy Renner's "Jem" was the only really and truly believable character in "The Town".