Let's be cautious with spoilers here.
What are the films that looked great up to the point where OH NO they completely ruined themselves. I'm not talking about sequels, but about the movies themselves, which you were enthusiastically endorsing until the twist, or the turn, or the line, or the scene, that prevents you to recommend it after all.
I'm thinking of films such as (for me) :
- Die Another Day. Which, despite a cringeworthy Madonna song, was looking like a great return to Goldeneye quality for Brosnan's Bond. Untill the second part, and the ice castle, and the invisible car, and the sub-Escape-From-LA surf scene, and just all the oh my god this is actually the worst Bond ever what was I thinking. Felt like going back to the wrong projection room after the intermission.
- The Prestige which was a clever, tricky, ingenious mystery until
. So no, not the movie I was assuming it to be as I was enjoying it.
- The Discovery of Heaven is an epic, clever, haunting movie that delighted me during its full first half, with its wit and great relationship between Stephen Fry's character and his best pal. Aaaand then there's the second half, which follows a very boring character in his very boring quest for a very long time in a very long movie and then the end. If they had made it a two-parter, it would have been one great film and one lame one. But as a unique film, I have no idea what it is.
- Interstellar. Great take on space travel. What the **** did you smoke near the end ?
- Nikita. Okay there was a warning in the form of the name Luc Besson appearing in the titles (blame yourself if you weren't attentive to such details), but still, textbook "oops we're out of reel now, any idea how to wrap it up ?".
So, do you know any movie that would have been remembered as The Best Movie Ever if a fire had broken out in the cinema at the 68th minute ?
What are the films that looked great up to the point where OH NO they completely ruined themselves. I'm not talking about sequels, but about the movies themselves, which you were enthusiastically endorsing until the twist, or the turn, or the line, or the scene, that prevents you to recommend it after all.
I'm thinking of films such as (for me) :
- Die Another Day. Which, despite a cringeworthy Madonna song, was looking like a great return to Goldeneye quality for Brosnan's Bond. Untill the second part, and the ice castle, and the invisible car, and the sub-Escape-From-LA surf scene, and just all the oh my god this is actually the worst Bond ever what was I thinking. Felt like going back to the wrong projection room after the intermission.
- The Prestige which was a clever, tricky, ingenious mystery until
WARNING: spoilers below
oh look the magician's cunning trick is that he was actually using absurd sci-fi magic all along, and in the most stupid possible way, didn't see that coming did you
- The Discovery of Heaven is an epic, clever, haunting movie that delighted me during its full first half, with its wit and great relationship between Stephen Fry's character and his best pal. Aaaand then there's the second half, which follows a very boring character in his very boring quest for a very long time in a very long movie and then the end. If they had made it a two-parter, it would have been one great film and one lame one. But as a unique film, I have no idea what it is.
- Interstellar. Great take on space travel. What the **** did you smoke near the end ?
- Nikita. Okay there was a warning in the form of the name Luc Besson appearing in the titles (blame yourself if you weren't attentive to such details), but still, textbook "oops we're out of reel now, any idea how to wrap it up ?".
So, do you know any movie that would have been remembered as The Best Movie Ever if a fire had broken out in the cinema at the 68th minute ?
Last edited by Flicker; 08-03-21 at 10:33 AM.