ITT: films that have a flawless first half and a terrible second half

Starting with The Place Beyond The Pines

This made me mad. The goose part of this film was actually interesting as fuck, the rest was pure shit.

The Guest is one of the films that checks that box.

Everything till dr Jekylass shows up is 10/10!
>London crypt discovery
>Ahmanet flashback
>tomb exploration
>plane crash
>gothic church/forest scenes
Then blaaah.

More like the last 1/3 of the movie, but Sunshine qualifies.

I LEIK GOOSE MOVIE MAEK GOOD GINO

Spectre

First half was good, second half they just keep dropping the ball lower and lower and lower.

From Dusk Til Dawn
Full Metal Jacket
28 Days Later
Heavyweights
Pearl Harbor

The second part was bad because of the wannabe gangsta boy, the rest was fine, and it had some pretty great cinematography as well.

Oh please, the beginning of the movie has so much overexposition it's ridiculous
>Oh, Ahah, I sure am A MERCENARY FOR HIRE WHO'S TRYING TO PAY OFF HIS DEBTS BY PLANNING TO SELL ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ARTIFACTS
>Hey, , you are A BRILLIANT ARCHEOLOGIST AND AN EXPERT ON THIS WEIRD-LOOKING TOMB, right?
>I sure am A BRILLIANT ARCHEOLOGIST AND AN EXPERT ON THIS WEIRD-LOOKING TOMB
>Hey, I think THIS TOMB THAT WE'RE IN RIGHT NOW MIGHT NOT BE A TOMB BUT RATHER A PRISON
>Did you just say that THIS TOMB THAT WE'RE IN RIGHT NOW MIGHT NOT BE A TOMB BUT RATHER A PRISON?

Reminder that if you list Full Metal Jacket you probably belong in Sup Forums

LotR sort of qualifies. Fellowship is a masterpiece, but Two Towers is bad and Return is awful.

The second half of 28 days is good doe
It stops being about zombies and starts being a pretty strandard decline into savagery
Scarecrow starts being just as violent as the zombies

Its got a dope eye gauging scene as well.

Goodfellas

first half of FMJ is reddit core, the second half is patrician

Final scene with the music and eye gouging is pure kino though

>>Hey, I think THIS TOMB THAT WE'RE IN RIGHT NOW MIGHT NOT BE A TOMB BUT RATHER A PRISON
>>Did you just say that THIS TOMB THAT WE'RE IN RIGHT NOW MIGHT NOT BE A TOMB BUT RATHER A PRISON?
Only she states that, once. Cruise and his pal are more interested in things they can steal and sell.
I wouldnt say it's overexposition, we get to know he is soldier who raids precious arteficts.
Overexposition starts when they hit Prodigium.

>FMJ
this. jesus fuck it dragged on after Pyle

Agreed. As soon as Ryan died, I completely lost interest in the rest of the film.

Unironically this

Hancock

from dusk till dawn, only good part in second half is salma hayek

I thought goose was in this entire movie so when he died midway through I was very confused. The second half was very, very bad

>Full Metal Jacket
Came to post this. It only has 1 or 2 decent scenes after the boot camp

This

The first half was just as dumb as the second half. Ryan Gosling looked like a clown and the Suzuki DR650 is probably the worst motorcycle for trick riding. Also why would he steal shit from a bank using a street legal dual sport which required license and registration? Much safer to use a stolen dirt bike. They also made the bike sound like a crotch rocket for some reason.

Logan

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I liked the whole film but they threw tension out the window for the second half

Came here to post this

Goodfellas, after they get to the 1980s and the whole film turns into paranoid Henry's wild ride.

sorta this
>fucking 10/10 premise
>3/10 execution
I am so pissed, the counter-intuitive and unnecessary climax "for western audiences". The fact that they lived happily ever after is acceptable imo, but the movie has so many great questions but ignores then utterly, making for a standard meh-tier blockbuster with good but too-mainstream actors.

his son's story is good though, I like the feel when he's hanging out with (((cohen))) boy and later visiting the old trailer. There's a strange quality to this film I can't describe.

I would say the first half is fine, ignoring the climax-related bs, and blandness.

It has 3 parts, the 3rd with the sons is actually good. It’s the 2nd part with Bradley Cooper that sucks because he sucks.

you mean the Ben Mendelsohn part

Not terrible but the first half outshines the second

Wouldn't say shit but definitely underwhelming. Felt like it was trying to be epic in a way that hadn't really been earned with the multi-generational aspect of the story. Killing goose was a pretty bold move, I actually kinda respect it even though it didn't work out

Like clockwork, plebs think the last third doesn't fit despite the entire film building up to it

>full metal jacket
im glad im not the only one that thought this, really turned what seemed like a 9/10 movie into a 7/10 for me, the last half is basically apocalypse now/platoon but not as good and crammed into an hour

I like the last third. I mean it's insane but that's kind of the point because that's the frame of mind the crew would be in at that point.Not really to be taken at face value. Underrated movie

bait, the last day in the fast lane is one of the best sequences in any crime movie period

Seems what stands behind the movie is the idea of using someone for your own desires.
He in a certain way rapes her in the broader sense. Rapes her into being his exclusive partner and the guilt that menifests itself in the ship almost breaking down killing of all the rest of society.

Furthermore the fact it has an obviously saccharine ending makes the movie a scared pinning for the impossibility of a long lasting monogamous relationship.
The movie as if knows that its impossible to have a long lasting relationship, such a thing is so inconceivable that it can literally destroy society and the success of such a relationship can only be conceived within a completely obviously unrealistic fairytale like hollywoodian ending.

Makes me wonder, did they actually live a good life?

anyone else agree?
the scene when Harrelson breaks into their den and assassinates his family got me really hyped, but then it turned into some civil rights bullshit that meant nothing and had no effect on the plot for an hour and a half

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>these 'people' saying Full Metal Jacket

All fucking redditors must fucking HANG.

You're watching the wrong series if the civil rights type stuff is bullshit to you. But yeah that whole section dragged, it felt like it could have ended three or four times. Best part was when it was almost a pseudo western with the small group travelling around.

From Dusk Till Dawn

DON'T CALL ME A PLEB

He made a tie! That tightened itself!

Had me hooked, then he gets on the ship and its all down hill.

I think the second half is different but just as good.

For me, it's around this point in the movie where Knowing turns from decent suspenseful thriller to meh tier disaster porn

Without question, this.

Movie starts off with a bang; aerial dogfights in space, big stakes to aggressively pursue colonization, sinister Dr. Smith, dope as fuck Jupiter 2 redesign, interior of ship consists mostly of cool 3d holographic interfaces, a few cameos from the original cast, sick ass Robot redesign, sexy fucking Judy, Penny and Mrs. Robinson in those skintight anatomically correct spacesuits, cool subplot inside ghost ship with crazy space spiders wrecking shit, a movie where someone from fucking "Friends" looks like an action star in the making...

It all just drops off as soon as theg hit that fucking planet and run into bad-CGI spider Gary Oldman and homeless bum older Will Robinson . I could understand it having tough competition that summer at the box office, but that 3rd act just took a vile dump in quality and I bet its why it didn't end up with a sequel. Unless it was intended to just be a standalone film, which I doubt...but yeah, its a chore to get to the end after that ship blows up.

>expecting a movie about niggers ruling the world to not have civil rights bullshit

This was retarded the entire way through.

fuck outta here

I feel the opposite.

he should have died at the end and then she should have woken someone up rather than live out her entire life alone on the ship. that would have been a better ending then the stupid one we got.

Same people who hated Interstellar last act, are hating Sunshine's ending. Wtf is wrong with them.

the second half wasn't terrible you goose faggot

Not the entire second half, just when the deus ex machina bullshit goes full force

This film, if indeed anyone has seen it.

I liked interstellar and hated sunshines last third.

Both movies have shit last acts. Deal with it pleb.

I disagree but can see your point. Trashland Earth was kino AF

But I'm in minority. Majority (of which most of them are plebs) disliked the ending.

The Lobster but no one here watches art films.

>thinks the difference between plebs and patricians is whether they're the majority or not
Get a load of this brainlet pleb

agreed

The entire movie was awful.

I agree.

The first half of The Other Guys is one of the funniest movies I've ever seen and the second half is preachy garbage

It goes from fun, but otherwise forgettable sci-fi to batshit insane (fun) sci-fi.
I genuinly liked the second half, because it was so over the top and without it no one would remember that movie.

But it's true. People with high IQ are in minority. You are too dumb to understand that you are dumb.

>thinks this immediately correlates with a minority of retards liking something that's bad just to be contrarian
I bet you think BvS is a masterpiece and Snyder is a genius.

Wew lad, thanks for remembering me
Knowing was a real disappointment

What about first third?

That ended was so dumbed down and hamfisted I still get mad, I locedthe movie otherwise

Best part is when woody talks about how he killed his son. Rest of it is shit

Yes, i think BvS is really good movie, but no Zack is not genius.

i liked the scenes where he jumped between the timeframes.

it went full retard as soon as they met the underground monsters

Agreed. It further drives me insane that 95% of the population fucking LOVES it and thinks it's GENIUS and the most CLEVER FUCKING THING EVER. To me it's just plain lazy writing.

I still didn't get the twist ?
Was it that aliens in reality were trying to save us?
I think it was too obvious that i didn't even think of it as a twist.

The other guys get preachy? I mean it's a forgettable end, but it's a dumb comedy so most are.

Did you mean nice guys?

>From Dusk Til Dawn
>Full Metal Jacket

I don't honestly remember I'm so blinded with irritation. The only thing I remember the twist being is:
>whatshername learning the aliens language
>foreshadowed that learning a new language, in a way, "rewires" your brain
>by learning their language, she no longer perceives time as linear
>because of this, she can "go to the future" where she already solved all the problems and wrote her book and talk to the chinese general or whatever
>he (OH SO NATURALLY) re-gives her his phone number, and re-tells her what she already told (IE has to tell) him to stop from killing everybody
>with these tools in hand, she return to the present and saves the day
god damn textbook deus ex machina

Hanna was great to start with but when the Germans turned up it went straight to potato level intelligence.

for me it's the fifth element.
it gets shitty after they board the ship to fhloston paradise.

I wouldn't go as far to say it wasn't "fun". There's tons to look at and take in and all that, and it feels like a good premise, but then it divulged into time travel shit with that weird "bubble" on that planet and it just took a nosedive from there

Came to post this

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Your point?

Youre all plebs. Goose is supposed to be endearing and charming so that, after he's dead, the audience can feel the loss the characters feel themselves. You loved goose and as soon as hes out of the movie you say "its shit". Well turns out that every character feels the same way in the second half of the movie.

If you dont enjoy the second half you need to go out more. If you think its bad youre a pleb.

graphic design for movie promotions absolutely peaked in the span of time from 1997 to roughly 2005. i cannot wait until roughly ten years from now when that's realized and it all makes a resurgence.

Filthy pleb

>28 Days Later

Ouch, thanks for reminding me. That was pretty awful.

It was a pretty good movie at the beginning. Once it came out that Butler wasn't a regular guy going Death Wish on everyone but a super secret agent who was a bonafide psycho the whole fucking point of the movie was lost.

Kek

everyone agrees first part is great and second part is forgettable and boring, but of course, contrarians gonna contr