Movies that you only loved one half of
01-04-09, 11:19 PM
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I'd go with Sunshine, as well. Not a big Danny Boyle fan, but I was loving the movie until it turned into a horror movie.
01-04-09, 11:23 PM
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Slumdog Millionaire.
When the teenage versions of our hero and heroine meet in the gangster's mansion, and have that long "romantic" scene of discovery and that super-long-drawn out hug, the whole movie jumps into a pile of shit.
When the teenage versions of our hero and heroine meet in the gangster's mansion, and have that long "romantic" scene of discovery and that super-long-drawn out hug, the whole movie jumps into a pile of shit.
01-05-09, 03:54 AM
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"Last Action Hero" - When things move to the "real world".
The satire and fun from the first half slows to a trickle, and the when the action picks up it turns into the very action movie(s) it was meant to poke fun at (namely the fight on the roof).
The satire and fun from the first half slows to a trickle, and the when the action picks up it turns into the very action movie(s) it was meant to poke fun at (namely the fight on the roof).
01-05-09, 04:30 AM
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The 5th Element. I absolutely love the the first half of the movie, and absolutely can't stand the second half, pretty much when Chris Tucker's character enters the storyline.
01-05-09, 08:59 AM
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The Ninth Gate. Great movie that had me hooked until the last 20-30 minutes. Then it turned to crap real quick.
01-05-09, 09:35 AM
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More like 3/4 and 1/4 instead of half and half, but for me it would be... APOCALYPSE NOW. The boat trip is absolutely brilliant. But once they arrive at Colonel Kurtz's compound, the film completely unravels for me. Dennis Hopper just doesnt fit right in the film (for me), and the story just loses its intensity for some reason.
01-05-09, 09:36 AM
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I did love Tommy Lee Jones' monologue at the end about the dream.
01-05-09, 12:21 PM
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Re: Movies that you only loved one half of
The fencing sequence is really the dividing part of the film. For some, such as yourself, it's the beginning of the end. For me, it's the last enjoyable part of the film, and one of the best sword fights I've seen in recent cinema. Brosnan and Stephens play it with such intensity, and it loses any semblance of civility, devolving into a rage-filled fit of absolute destruction....absolutely love it. Once Bond meets with M in the next scene, though, the movie becomes a video game.
01-05-09, 12:30 PM
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...It's not that the second half doesn't work, it just doesn't work with the first half. The first half gives us this 'brothers on the lam' story which is excellent drama and the second half throws all that out the window for B-movie vampire nonsense and some comedy. Put it this way, they could have left out the vampires altogether and spun the story in a different direction and had a compelling drama and it would have been a far better movie for it. The two halves just don't work together.
01-05-09, 01:28 PM
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01-05-09, 02:56 PM
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01-05-09, 11:18 PM
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01-06-09, 12:30 AM
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That's because his character is completely superfluous. You can take him out of every scene he's in, and it would make no difference to the story.
01-06-09, 02:15 PM
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I disagree with 28 Days Later.
I feel the entire film is a large homage to Romero's (original) Dead trilogy.
The first act resembles that of Night, the second act resembles that of Dawn and the third act, when our heroes get to the military base, resembles that of Day.
Granted, the third act is not as high caliber of the first two acts, but it's a lot better than what was meant to be the original third act (as seen through storyboards on the DVD).
I feel the entire film is a large homage to Romero's (original) Dead trilogy.
The first act resembles that of Night, the second act resembles that of Dawn and the third act, when our heroes get to the military base, resembles that of Day.
Granted, the third act is not as high caliber of the first two acts, but it's a lot better than what was meant to be the original third act (as seen through storyboards on the DVD).
01-06-09, 02:44 PM
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I'm unfamiliar with Romero's trilogy, all I know is that the first half of 28 Days Later was gripping then about halfway through it turned into a video game.
