ITT: Movies that have a great first and a terrible second half

ITT: Movies that have a great first and a terrible second half.

Full Metal Jacket

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well meme'd

>first half directed by quentin tarantino
>second half directed by robert rodriguez

this

THIS

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Atonement

Except for the long take

The Autopsy of Jane Doe

Jeepers Creepers

Great set up, then they show the monster and everything goes to shit real quick

came here to post this

Why is it that the fire in old films looks more real than fire in modern films?

Even when I know that the fire in a new film is a practical effect and the fire is 100% real, it just never looks as real at did in films from say 20-30 years ago.

place beyond the pines
spiderman 3

Saw The Bad Batch this year at TIFF. The first half is gritty, stylish, and austere. The second half is Twilight.

fucking retard

The video of your birth, because the first half you got your mums sweet pregnancy titties but the second half was shit because you were born alive and without your umbilical cord wrapped around your neck like a noose

The 2nd half of Leviathan was great though, depressing as fuck.

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What's more interesting is what are movies with a terrible first and second act, but a great third act?

Under the Volcano

That's a book, cuntboy

Kino of Heaven

wouldn't that be "terrible first half, good second half" though?

those movies can be kino

That depends on your point of view

Every single David O Russell movie

Every Danny Boyle movie.

Full metal jacket, obviously

Neon Demon
Noth whole second half though, just the ending.

He's right you faggot, how is the first part of FMJ not the only good part? When they leave training it goes bad

No.

>When they leave training it goes bad
I literally thought this way when I was 13. Now I feel the opposite at 26. Really makes me think.

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District 9

> First half is a bizarre black comedy
> Second half if an hour long action scene

Nocturnal Animals is a film that gets better the longer it goes. Especially the first act lacks strength when viewed independently.

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savage

Although calling the first half "great" is a stretch, the second half was completely unwatchable garbage.

Limitless

TAKE IT BACK

Second half not memey enough for ya?

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You should at least hit google before you post autist, to prevent yourself from being so wrong

Battle Royale 2.

Signs. The moment when you actually see that alium my suspense boner was a goner

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>place beyond the pines

This is a great pleb filter. The second half isn't as tense by design, but it gives the first half meaning. It's what makes the film exceptional.

agree 100%. also the writer is my neighbor.

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Fuck, I was about to watch that tonight.

Watch it, op just has shit taste. It's great all the way through, one of the best movies of the past few years. Just be prepared, because it is crushingly bleak

>viewing parts of a story separately
I don't get why would anyone do this

Especially in story driven movies. It breaks the immersion

sunshine
although its more like the last 20mins, still ass fucks the great begining

That's the one where Peter Weller fights the fish mutant, right?

This movie is ok at first, then after a while Salma Hayek show up and makes it great.

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Yeah except that the editing in the second half is Suicide-Squad-tier.

>dat sequence when he is caught cheating

I actually enjoy how grounded Ravenous starts then becomes X-files as fuck with superhuman cannibals shrugging off gunshots and evisceration

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Zodiac

Well, most Fincher flicks desu.

PBTP has 3 parts. Only 2nd one sucked

Independence Day

It's a russian drama about corruption. It is high quality and not meant for low attention span cape shit viewers.

Goodfellas. After the scene where they're making pasta in prison it all goes downhill.

> Leviathan
Just so everybody knows, OP is just kidding. Movie is great all the way through.

I'm gonna have to agree.

Same with Casino. When Sharon Stone becomes the most unlikeable character.

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the lobster

this

Seriously it's like his movies change genre or something and he just doesn't care. I can't think of a single one that has an above average second half

Return of the Jedi

Gone girl
Fight club
And zodiac's second half was just as good

Gone girl and fight club's second half were crap, in my honest opinion, family

Zodiac was O-K.

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this so much
watched it last week such a waste second half this could be a great horror still its alright but second half is just terrible compare to the start

The Wailing
Hacksaw Ridge

God damn.

Hancock

The Nice Guys

agreed

Really? I thought it was awesome when they had to escape the monster by blowing up the underwater base and then they surfaced with help of those airbags.

To be fair it was a fucking awesome action scene, despite the shift in tone. That lead mercenary was such a fucking badass I can't even. I was practically cheering for him near the end. "one tough hombre" as someone said out loud when he was walking towards Wikus near the end.

TDKR

As soon as Batman is in the pit and shitty unoriginal timebomb comes up..ruins all the bad ass Bane's heist.. Frank Millers dark and tortured fascist spirit survived only a bit with the gotham police story..