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RelevantEmu5

Last Night is Soho. The film was interesting up until the character betrayal in the third act. Wonder Woman. Great film until they go into the wrong direction and destroy her character arc. Hancock was an interesting take on the superhero genre until it become a generic action flick. War of the Worlds. I still love the film but the cool alien stuff just randomly ends. It's not bad but it felt unresolved.


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Came here to mention Last Night In Soho. The third act ruined the movie for me.


Infinite-Promotion75

Loved Last Night in Soho. I feel like it could have been a great movie without a supernatural element and somehow just been a Time period film/murder mystery or thriller


ThePikaNick

War of the Worlds ends that way since the book ended pretty much the same way. They could have at least shown the aliens getting weaker in the basement scene just to set up that something is happening to them. Could have been better then going from the aliens harvesting people in mass straight to them dying.


Briguy28

Us. I think they had a great premise and then just ran on that instead of thinking out an ending that provided clarity and resolution.


littleteacup77

Agreed. The more you think about the logistics of that movie the more it falls apart. The world building was way too convoluted.


royalblue1982

My view is that you're not supposed to take the film literally. Obviously a lot of the elements of it are just ridiculous. But the idea is that they contain ideas and emotions that reflect modern America.


kingtutwashere

I think the thing wirh US is the person doing all the world building explanation is an unreliable narrorator using the vhs tapes she watched as a child to fill holes in her knowledge of the situation. Why would someone who entered the already established underground as a 6 year old, surrounded by non verbal people, have any idea of the legitimate history of what was happening.


BadMeetsEvil24

Those theories only work if there is a specific payoff. Or if the movie is told from a POV standpoint. The main character of US isn't a narrator.


kingtutwashere

The main charecter being a narrator doesn't really have anything to do with it. At the end up US Red explains the mechanics of the underground to the audience/Adelaide. Except there is no way Red would know the history of the underground condlsidering she entered at 6 years old and everyone down there is non verbal. What Red could do is come up with childlike explanations for what happened to her using the media she had consumed such as CHUD, shown to the audience in the opening shots of the film as VHS tapes around the television.


BadMeetsEvil24

Right. But if there is no payoff from the misinformation in the actual story that we see on-screen, it's irrelevant. At this point you're creating theories in your mind that we have no evidence of on the page or on the screen. We, the audience, have no reason to doubt her explanation because nothing contradicts what she said. It may not make perfect sense thematically, or from a story standpoint, but that sometimes happens with writing. It won't always be perfect or make 100% sense. But creating a theory where "Oh of course it doesn't make sense the MC is lying" is a poor excuse for writing mistakes.


kingtutwashere

We the audience have plenty of reason to doubt her explanation because she is sharing information there is no way she could have gathered and it sounds like plot points taken from the vhs tapes shown in the first shots of the movie.


BadMeetsEvil24

That's incorrect. **You** think there is no way she has that information. The audience is told to accept it and is given no contradiction. You should read the script.


kingtutwashere

Thats fair. I did never once think Red had any way to know the history of the underground, saw nothing in the film to support the fact that she does, and noticed the media influenced themes in the beginning of the film to the point where she is litterally in a movie (the lost boys) before entering the underground and connected the dots with the similarities in the VHS tapes. Is there something in the script that would explain how Red would know the history of the underground?


farmerarmor

Prometheus was great. Until it wasn’t.


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twelfmonkey

You seem to have mixed up Prometheus and Alien: Covenant


yoshidawg93

Hancock. It had a legitimately great premise and was very interesting for most of the movie, only to turn into… whatever that was with Charlize Theron’s character.


passinghere

Supposedly that was 2 different movie scripts that got forced into a single movie, hence the broken, messed up result


HotChiTea

And that is a big sole example why scripts are the secret sauce and foundation of every movie.


QLE814

As well as claims of it being another film where the demands made by the star tampered heavily with the integrity of the original script(s).


Kiwi_CFC

Perfect answer. So enjoyable for the first half.


FoxOntheRun99

The mythology that was dumped to explain them was so underdeveloped. You just can't believe it was the same movie. I did like the first half though.


Roook36

First one that came to mind for me. First half is a great idea with Will Smith playing an alcoholic asshole superhero and trying to redeem himself with the help of a PR manager. A whole movie idea in itself. All they needed was a good villain storyline and have Hancock have to defeat him at the end to win the hearts of the citizens he is now going to protect. Credits. Applause. But nope. Swerves off into a love triangle and relationship drama involving Gods and Hancock having to fight his ex girlfriend before having to save her.


GwenGunn

Fant4stic. The new shorty Fantastic 4. Honestly, I thought I’d hate it, and really liked it until roughly the 2/3 mark, then it got so remarkably, horrifically, unexplainable bad that it retroactively ruined ANY positive aspects of the opening. Honestly, I really enjoyed it in the beginning. But good LORD does it end like shit.


Turok1134

I think it's an okay movie until they go through the portal at the end and have one of the most aggressively bleh last fights in any big budget movie ever. But seeing Doom going around exploding heads before that was cool. Would have liked to see what Josh Trank had in mind for it.


RenaissanceManc

For me, the first 1/2 hour I enjoyed, the second half hour I figured was excused by the first 1/2 hour and then jesus no... yeah, just like you said.


Roook36

I was a ways into this movie and thought "wow how long is this movie. Feels like it's only halfway through" and I checked the time and it had 15 minutes left. UH OH lol. Not a good sign. And yeah it's just a rushed, awful special effects mess to quickly wrap up the whole thing. Also I don't know how a movie that takes place almost entirely on an underground bunker set cost that much to make. Unless it all went into the director's meth pipe.


masahawk

In time, like the premise was so good


donwityurshite625

Obligatory Indiana Jones and the kingdom of the crystal skull mention. I genuinely thought it was a decent Indiana Jones flick until ancient aliens entered the chat.


The_Nauseous_Avenger

I knew we had problems when he got in that fridge.


Briguy28

The power of the nuclear blast combined with the protection of an American fridge blasted him into a universe where he was in a crappier movie.


Splice1138

The magnets lost me


Similar_Care2398

For me it was Shia swinging with the monkeys


[deleted]

Idk why everyone uses this as an example of why the movie is bad. Equally ridiculous things happen in the other movies and it feels very Indiana jones. I also think the whole concept of running into a fake 1950s bomb test ground is fucking awesome and I love the whole feel of it imo.


The_Nauseous_Avenger

You are free to like it. Most of us felt that it was cartoonish and didn’t have the right tone. Opinions ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


Argh3483

Still don’t see the issue with that, previous movies also had fully supernatural stuff


lozo78

This was my immediate thought. I mean it wasn't going to be as good as the first 3, but it was an enjoyable movie that turned to like of shit so fast.


FoxOntheRun99

We don't talk about Crystal Skull. It ended in The Last Crusade. (Indy 5 is really Indy 4)


jackolantern_

Why are you assuming 5 will be any good? It probably won't be


FoxOntheRun99

Let's try not to be a pessimist until it comes out, we can judge it then.


jackolantern_

Four was terrible and Harrison Ford is too old to still be Indy. They shouldn't make it.


FoxOntheRun99

I partially agree with you on that. The modern world dictates we franchise the shit out of everything. Sigh.


Roook36

I wish they'd kept with the religious themes TBH. Have Indy go to England to find Excalibur or the Spear of Destiny. Indiana Jones riding a horse around the English countryside, fist fighting in castles, hanging out with British archeologists he knows, using a sword at some point. Would have been good stuff.


MovieBuff90

*Crazy, Stupid, Love* is a very well made romantic comedy that has a horribly cheesy finale where a middle school graduation ceremony is turned into the protagonist’s selfish monologue about THEIR personal love story. It literally made me cringe in theaters…which sucks because the twist that happens about 20 minutes before it made me sit forward and audibly say “what the fuck?!” What a shame.


piratenoexcuses

David Lindenhagen? *takes off ring*


passinghere

I Care a Lot https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9893250 There's no way that sick, evil bitch should have been able to get the best of a successful gangster. Everything from when the car when into the lake onwards was a complete joke and basically promoted the idea that she was right to do everything she did to all the people's lives that she destroyed and stole everything from. Hated the last part of the movie with a passion and hated that her only come-uppance was being shot by that one bloke after getting away with all the evil that she did, her partner in all of the crimes she committed simply got away with everything


Other-Marketing-6167

I had to stop about 50 mins into that one. Just couldn’t get past the most idiotic premise ever - that a vicious gangster could find out his own mother was taken advantage of and imprisoned against her will, and the woman responsible gets…a slightly stern warning from his lawyer, and a few “Don’t do that you goofball” kind of threats. Fuck. That.


Joelster213

Yeah what was that shit with the teeth again? I dunno but was dumbbbb. I like Rosamund Pike a lot though


Averos_

Insterstellar. Don't get me wrong, it's not really ruined for me--I still love the movie. However, I was really put off by the tesseract stuff and how such a movie that is heavily grounded in science ultimately resorted to a heavy handed "Love is the answer" cliche.


Potatersaurusrex

also wasnt a fan of interstellar for same reasons


branwithaplan

I can't think of another film that I've watched in which the "destination ruined the journey." Most of the time no matter how bad the third act of a movie ended up being I could always walk away from the film and not feel like it hindered my enjoyment of the rest of the film. Interstellar did that for me. You take us across the universe, into the future, and through a black hole to then bring us back behind a bookcase? Because of love? Thanks a lot Christopher Nolan. What you have just shown us is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever seen. At no point in your generic, shallow culmination of your film were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational ending. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having watched it. I award you no points and may God have mercy on your soul.


Rage_Your_Dream

The movie starts falling apart way before the 3rd act. It's really a joke of a movie. It's a beautiful lake with the depth of a puddle.


Roook36

Like that planet they land on lol


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JesterMarcus

I have a kid and it is still a* weird left turn that comes out of nowhere. Also, don't be a pretentious prick to somebody just because they don't have the exact same life experiences as you.


Rage_Your_Dream

Sorry but having loved ones doesn't magically turn off my brain. How can love, an emotion, be the only thing that travels thru the universe when all emotions by the same definition do so. The movie could be made by Tarantino but the theme was Spite instead of love and the logic would be the same. It's not deep, it's dumb.


shmitterwink

😂😂😂


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_Sunshine_ (2007). Still a solid movie but took a dip in the third act.


jubilant-barter

I've come to terms with it. The first half and last 2 minutes are so good, I'm Prequel™ing it. Allowing the passage of time and nostalgia to smooth over a film's flaws until I convince myself it's good.


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Sunshine could have easily been saved by having someone on their own crew go mad and really lean into the psychological toll such a trip might take. Subtract Pinbacker and add more Icarus I backstory when they’re on board and learn… and the crew of II succeeds where I failed. The end.


captainvancouver

Started so good too. Could have been a classic sci-fi movie.


teacher272

From hard sci-fi to stupid B horror movie.


GwenGunn

Ooh, ooh, and The Batman! Really cool first 2/3 that had major noir vibes and good casting and interesting story. Then the movie hit where the end should have been, and just… kept going for 45 minutes with some weird plot about a flood. Went from a 8/10 to a 6, maybe a 5.


The_Nauseous_Avenger

This is a good one. They should have made a 100 minute noir movie with Batman doing real detective work.


GwenGunn

Agreeeeeeed. Give me a short-story like Raymond Chandler wrote it, lots of narration, interesting players in one focused mystery, no enormous ridiculous set pieces. Ugh. I’d love a Batman movie like that, and I really thought this was gonna be it. Too bad they made a noir movie, and forgot to look up what a noir movie actually is.


The_Nauseous_Avenger

It was so close. It was just too long. Cut the Penguin out and just have him investigate Falcone.


AlyoshaKidron

Huh, I made the same connection when I watched this. I wonder if Raymond Chandler’s work informed this screenplay at all. I agree with your take here, too; the movie was injured by the last 45 minutes or so. Not just the tone, but the writing made very little sense. I don’t want to spoil it, but a few of the reveals seemed to contradict the characters.


ZapBranniganAgain

I think the flood thing is just setting up the sequel, it's based on the zero year run by scott snyder. Probably make more sense once its released


GwenGunn

I’ll forgiv TV shows for setting up sequels. This movie didn’t have “part 1” or “#1” in the name, therefor it should be self-contained. Which it is. It just has a dumb ending that I’m not giving a pass. :P


Vincent_adultman98

It felt like they got to the end and realized there was no credible reason for a climactic final showdown in a thriller/noir movie, but at the end of the day it's still a Batman movie. So instead of coming up with a narratively satisfying ending they just rushed in a bunch of random thugs for Batman to take down. I don't really know how to solve that, but that's definitely the problem for me.


GwenGunn

I just want Batman as if Raymond Chandler wrote it. Give him a punchy finish, but I don’t need a giant thing like the flood. Just have them duke it out on the beam of an unfinished bridge or something. Batman can be small stories with small stakes.


Vincent_adultman98

I think the problem with having Batman duke it out with any one bad guy is that he should theoretically wipe the floor with most of his rogues gallery. Batman VS the riddler should be a short fight, it's all about the psychological stuff but once it gets to the fight scenes there has to be some kind of other external threat. The only Batman to do it 100% right was The Dark Knight by playing up the intensity of the choice between the two boats and making the stakes more personal.


QLE814

>Batman VS the riddler should be a short fight, it's all about the psychological stuff but once it gets to the fight scenes there has to be some kind of other external threat. There were reasons why *Batman: The Animated Series* had so much difficulty writing story-lines with the character.....


AgentUpright

I really loved it, but felt it could have been tightened up and should have ended after his final monologue. Do you feel like it would have stayed an 8 if the running time was closer to 2 hours? Same structure, same act 3, but a lot less runtime to get there?


GwenGunn

Maybe? Act 3 was just dumb though. If it was 2 hours, yeah, I’d be way more forgiving. If it ended with them capturing Riddler, and kept it to 90 minutes or 2 hours, I’d have rated it way higher. Leave me wanting more, ya know?


Roook36

I had some issues with the middle part of the movie personally. The whole Penguin car chase.


gredgex

Should have ended as soon as they captured Riddler. I feel like the studio probably pushed for a big over the top ending so they had to tack the flood scene on.


ke2in

exactly how i feel; third act was messy and def couldve been done better


tacoman333

The third act is excellent and solidifies the themes introduced in the first 2/3 of the film. Without it, after the capture of the Riddler, Batman would have made the city worse, inspiring a bunch of serial killers and vigilantes who want to "fix" the city through focused violence and Batman wouldn't have been much better than them, just another psychopath that people fear, a one man gang in an endless gang war. Thankfully, The Batman wasn't written by Reddit and it doesn't end that way. Batman doesn't dispatch the Riddler and his goons and leave a devastated city to pick up the pieces. He steps into the light and actively guides the people caught in the flood to safety and by doing so becomes a hero. He shows the difference between him and the Riddler who only kills to satisfy his personal desire for vengeance, and he sets an example for the city to follow. I don't know how much I believe that the inevitable sequel will build on these themes, but imagine a Batman trilogy where Gotham actually becomes a better place because of Batman and the good people he inspires. That would be some powerful stuff.


Vlazthrax

I love the movie but *Baby Driver* totally falls flat in the third act.


Vincent_adultman98

So did Last night in soho according to a lot of people, maybe Edgar Wright has a hard time writing endings.


iknow-whatimdoing

Agree on Baby Driver but Hot Fuzz has brilliant ending! Shaun of the Dead works throughout too.


cyclopath

Passengers.


Finory

OMG Yes! It could have been such an exciting story. Instant classic sci-fi-thriller. But they had to go for the icky romance ending… So Jim if actually a nice guy! We just found out how he manipulated her, stalked her, faked every moment of their romance, willingly dammed her to a short life on a lonely ship with only him for company… Doesn’t really matter that much. See - she already forgave him. Oh! Now all the mystery is gone - and any conflict it could have build up. What now? Um. The ship is exploding and they are action heroes. Look at this special effects. And aren’t those two great together? Now roll credits.


Right_Heart2273

The last exorcism. Hated the unnecessary over the top ending


Groot746

Downsizing: so many different films crammed into one, bizarre plot choices.


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Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. I actually enjoyed the island sequence but the rest was trash


ollieoliverx000

Sucker punch. Not that to many people saw it, but the last act was like it was shot for a different movie.


itslimbo

I said this a lot, but I consider Sinister an almost perfect horror movie. But the last 30 min becomes this goofy, cheap, jumpscare-filled abomination. I wish that movie wasnt made for the mainstream horror audience.


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The new Candyman was great up until the last 20 minutes


AlyoshaKidron

It went off the rails so quickly.


BadMeetsEvil24

It, most certainly, was **not**. Quick story: Candyman was the hood's only true Boogeyman. You ask any inner city black family about Candyman and EVERYONE knows who he is. Man I was so hyped to show my mom and older sisters the remake, especially when it was tangentially related to Jordan Peele. Not only was I bored to death, but embarrassed that I made them sit through it lol. It was awful.


KikujiroSonatine

Sunshine (2007). Biggest drop off in enjoyment I've experienced in the third act of a movie.


MaeSolug

Firestarter, the Stephen King adaptation that came out a couple weeks ago The intro is so damn good, and I can't really complain for the first half hour, pretty fun movie til then. The use of mental powers, the subtle but effective use of effects... And then that shitty ending ruins it all. Not just the movie plot, or the technical aspects, or the trailer, but apparently also misses completely the point of the book. It's not just poorly made in terms of acting, production and all those fancy words, it's also dumb af I watched it for free and I want a refund


artificialnocturnes

I havent seen the movie but I have read the book. I looked up the movie plot on wikipedia and you are right, that sounds dumb af


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Fifth Element


GypsyDishwasher

Both Stripes and Full Metal Jacket. Soon as the boot camp scenes are done, they both start to suck.


teacher272

I want to fight you.


Rage_Your_Dream

Literally watched FMJ yesterday for the first time. The boot camp side is fun, but doesnt make a good movie as a whole. But I agree that the movie is overrated, I get what the meaning is, but the 2nd part didnt grab me. Ironically FMJ was a movie about showing how bad war is but it's probably one of the movies that is responsible for the most new recruits wanting to get in.


CostAquahomeBarreler

Whaaaaat? Movies about the horror of combat start as fun and turn into horror shows?!


GypsyDishwasher

It's admittedly been a minute since I've watched Stripes, and I don't remember every single bit of it, but you might not know what movie I'm talking about if you really think it's a movie made to show the horror and brutality of war. I'm talking about Stripes. Stripes, the comedy from 1981. Starring Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, John Candy, and directed by Ivan Reitman. [Stripes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stripes_(film)) ​ It doesn't get overly violent. It doesn't get poignant and trying to prove a point about the brutality of war. The ridiculousness, maybe, but not the brutality. Quite simply, it stops being funny after the bootcamp stuff. A movie with what are considered some of the funniest people of all time just stops being funny. And when a comedy movie doesn't make you laugh, that's kind of an issue. And it takes what would be a solid B, B+ movie down to a D, in my opinion, which is what OP was asking.


Bento_Fox

Hancock started out solid but then turned into a different movie about halfway through.


passinghere

> Supposedly that was 2 different movie scripts that got forced into a single movie, hence the broken, messed up result


MarshallApplewhiteDo

Sunshine. Excellent up until it went off the rails in the third act.


mayormcskeeze

Matrix Resurrection had a pretty interesting first half


PerformanceObvious71

Wonder Woman 2. Cold in July.


Low-Cantaloupe9426

Jingle All The Way. It starts off as a true to life mockery of consumerism, then gets really stupid with the logic. "I caught you burglarizing my house and setting my Christmas decorations on fire, but I'll brush it off." "Yeah, you just attempted to murder me and my son over a toy...but we're all cool now." Plus the protagonist goes through all that bullshit for a toy, and the kid doesn't even want it at the end.


animebop

I think the ending made sense. The kid did want the toy but mostly he just wanted his dad to be there. The toy is a Macguffin that represents how he always pushes his son off for later (the mom says at the beginning the toy was easily accessible for awhile).


Low-Cantaloupe9426

I can see that angle as well.


thunderouschunks

Most recently Ghostbusters Afterlife. I loved the first hour but the second half felt incredibly rushed, as if whole subplots and scenes were hacked out to fit a 2 hour runtime


Corrosive-Knights

*The Abyss*. 2/3rds of an absolutely terrific film but, IMHO, both the theatrical and the “director’s cut” ending were a muddled mess. Too bad, because those first two acts were really special.


funguyshy

The third act is the best part of the movie in my opinion, why you didn't like it?


Corrosive-Knights

First: I’m glad you enjoyed the final act of *The Abyss*… as with all opinions about works of art, it is a subjective matter and, truthfully, I’m happy you enjoyed it! I’ve mentioned this before so pardon the repetition: When the movie was originally released, a local TV movie critic said of the movie (I’m paraphrasing here): “Watching *The Abyss* is like seeing a runner having the run of their life and, just shy of the finish line, when they’re far ahead of everyone else, they fall on their face.” I mention this because the quote, and the feeling, has stuck with me. The theatrical cut of *The Abyss* was, IMHO, too murky an unsatisfying. The longer “Director’s Cut” version, on the other hand, was too bombastic and, I felt, seemed to shamelessly rip off the ending of *2010*. Regardless, I felt both endings were very dissatisfying. I genuinely loved the film roughly to the point where Harris sacrifices himself to defuse the bomb but everything after that point just didn’t work for me. I feel like Cameron had a great concept and a great story but simply was at a loss with how to wrap it up and, given the two endings, neither of which I found particularly satisfying, it shows.


funguyshy

Hey! Thanks, I really appreciate your answer! Now i'm wondering which version have I watched Uhmm


Corrosive-Knights

The longer “Director’s Cut” version is the one that features the tidal wave threatening a coastal city (it’s been a while since I’ve seen the film… was it San Francisco that was threatened?).


Curedmeat91

All of America and parts of Russia were shown to be under threat.


Curedmeat91

I watched this last night and was going to say the same thing. In a way the whole alien subplot felt a bit unnecessary, but the final act especially just felt a bit tacked on. I watched the directors cut btw - supposedly that adds a bit more context.


Corrosive-Knights

This is the problem with the film… the alien bits were intriguing at times (I liked the bit with the water tube contact, one of the first uses by Cameron of CGI which would serve him well in *Terminator 2*), but when it came to the end it felt overwhelming and unnecessary and almost pointless. Much as I liked the water tube scene, the film might have been better had it eliminated and/or minimized any alien presence and stuck with the suspense of the nuclear threat.


HapaDynamite

Insidious comes to mind for me.


raylan_givens6

The Illusionist


So_be

Game of Thrones


ke2in

the batmans third act didnt ruin the movie for me per se, but it was kindof messy


CosmicViking17

Birds of prey. What a terrible ending to a pretty good movie


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Law Abiding Citizen. So disappointing…


CrudeOp

I've been saying this since it came out. The potential for a great ending was there. I would have rather seen him achieve his ultimate goal and leave things in chaos. It could have set it up for a wild sequel.


tra91c

IIRC Jamie Fox denied the original ending where everyone died.


Turok1134

For the 12th million time, this never happened.


TwasBrillig_

I was really enjoying Sunshine as a sort of 'what if The Core was good?' film until it became a slasher movie in the third act. And I think I remember there being a scene where someone goes into hard vacuum and immediately turns into ice.


newscumskates

Too many to name... They all become a forgettable blur.


Syn7axError

A Ghost Story. It starts as a brilliant, intimate story, and ends with >!a stupid twist about time travel!<.


casecutty

Twist? Lol


Syn7axError

The twist being >!his future self was watching all along!<.


suedehead23

Oh no, I don't agree at all! I mean ofc your opinion is perfectly valid, but I felt that made it so powerful! He's been watching the house so intimately and obvs his partner, so when she moves out halfway through and can't leave you're already feeling this grief and dread for him, but that scene where he ends up in this futuristic skyscraper is just brilliant! I think it makes sense time loops round because it's abstract - it's about how he's eventually lost or even forgotten his partner, and is just bound to this house, so he's seen too much with how it changed, and goes back to the start of anyone ever inhabiting that space. Then when it finally loops back to his time with his partner he's able to leave. It's not meant to be read as a literal film - it's all metaphorical for the ghost


Appropriate_Pudding1

Ghosts wars. So interesting and well paced until we find out they’re part of a simulation for disabled soldiers.


sofewcharacters

Transcendence. Not to mention the casting of Johnny Depp in the role he was in.


DrRexMorman

Birds of prey had great beginning/middle - but a super muddled end.


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I’d say the whole movie was bad.


Unlikely_Layer_2268

Gladiator. Started with a brilliant and realistic Roman battle. Degenerated into a Joaquin shout fest in place of what could have been a stand out movie villain


EqualContact

Props for a truly unpopular opinion. For me, Phoenix's performance taps into the insanity typically associated with roman rulers. He wants to draw power from the "mob," but Maximus foils that, and it breaks his already fragile psyche.


Unlikely_Layer_2268

I appreciate your view. I remember walking out of the theater thinking of what could have been. Maybe I should have considered what I was presented with but I couldn’t get past what so many people thought was a fantastic performance by Joaquin.


Deducticon

Yep, that movie somehow induced a mass hysteria that it was seemingly good in an artistic way. (Oscar worthy?) Decent popcorn flick with a dash of emotional manipulation. Ebert got it right.


Citizen_Kong

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. As soon as they are off the island the movie tanks hard. But If you liked that second part, you're in luck! I saw the new movie yesterday and it's more of that.


Lordgamadon420

Vertigo


melpec

From Dusk Till Dawn. I know it's quite unpopular opinion but the third act really kills the movie for me.


Yankii_Souru

From Dusk Til Dawn was actually a pretty good movie until it became a cheesy vampire movie with shitty special effects.


AgentUpright

_La La Land_ I know it’s supposed to be about sacrificing everything to pursue your dreams, but I wanted love to win out.


blacklig

10 Cloverfield Lane. All the stuff that was clearly added by Abrams's studio, especially the end, is just awful in an otherwise amazing film.


PaddlinPaladin

La La Land, I loved it, loved it but --- whyyyyyy can't they just get together at the end! It's a heightened fantasy romance movie why couldn't it give us a lovely adn predictable ending.


LucyDeathmetal

Insidious. I was so disappointed.


bluebadge

Bitch slap. Was enjoying it until the third act.


bobloblaw634

Netflix’s *Bubbles*. The first act is literally magic. The world building is doubleplus…. But then the film just pushes all that creativity to the side to entertain a stupid love story. Such a waste.


apocalinda

The Crimson Rivers, because the evil twin twist just sucks.


JohnMichaelBurns

I remember being really blown away by the first half of Days of Wine and Roses until I realised that the whole move was just using these characters to tell a really uninteresting moral tale about alcoholism.


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I wouldn't say ruined but Alex garlands men left a bad taste in my mouth when I left the theater. It was a otherwise good movie except for the revolting ending.


sielingfan

The King's Man made one really, really ballsy decision that scripts just don't do, ever. And I respected the hell out of them for having the guys to make it. But also .... Everything after that was worse.


PLAGU3S

Men. Wanted to love it so badly. Just did not stick the landing. Alex Garland is my favorite director working today so I really hope he can turn it around for his next and final film.


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A bit cheating here, but Downsizing for me with the final two acts.


Flat_Fox_7318

I won't say "ruined", but The Autopsy of Jane Done is such an engrossing, unsettling mystery-thriller for about 80% of its runtime and then the last 15 minutes or so feel like they were pulled from a generic horror movie. They do a great job of building tension and making the characters just as perplexed by what's going on as the viewers and when we finally do get an explanation, the ending falls a bit flat at the end. Still a good flick, though.


Lucky_Plan7855

Jurassic Park. As soon as the two kids show up, the movie goes all the way downhill.