I wonder if there is more than one version of this movie, then. The version I saw started out at a coma-inducing level of boring and maintained that mood the entire way through.
Forrest Gump.
It was kind of funny at first but it went down hill to the point of being one of the worst movies that I have ever seen. When he was giving that horrendous speech at his wife’s grave that went on and on and on, I was just moments away from shrieking in agony and plucking out both of my eyes when it mercifully ended.. What a case of the emperor has no clothes. Everyone just loved that glurgey piece of crap and talked about it’s originality. It was no more than a third rate Zelig.
Haj
That’s funny I had almost the opposite reaction. That the first 15 minutes or so were totally boring and the rest of the movie was funny.
Forrest Gump is what Zelig wants to be when it grows up.
My reply to the OP: Explorers. The first half of this movie was perhaps one of the best Teenage adventure movies ever, then all of a sudden it turns into a bad teenage comedy movie. It’s like it’s two entirely seperate movies they spliced together. I cna’t help thinking that this movie would have been ten time better if the aliens had been more imposing, like the Talosians in Star Trek: TOS.
Heathers
You know, I really wanted to like this movie because the beginning half of it was pretty original and perceptive, if a little over the top. But then in the second half, it completely lost it’s focus until you weren’t really sure what the movie was supposed to be about and it turned into a second rate Massacre at Central High.
Bullworth-I didnt’ even watch the end but when he started going after Halle Barry and acting like a black guy, I was bored.
The beginning had some good political satire.
Any Cheech and Chong movie, but I think that is by design. Dopers tend to not pay much attention after 25 or 30 minutes so it’s harmless.
I would like to add, Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. Starts out in a very interesting post apocalyptic society then degenerates into baby-sitting kids.
I agree, and pretty much the same argument can be applied to Spies Like Us
OMG. You are talking about a movie that’s 40 years old. Believe me, in it’s day, that ending was pretty suprising.
To me this is like hearing that shakespear used too many cliches.
I agree about Full Metal Jacket, but I watch enough to see the “me so horny” hooker before I turn it off.
And in the not just the movie but also the book category, The Stand begins excellently but once they all move to Boulder the story is crap.
The hell? Four people turn into vampires. Jim Brown, Harvey Keitel, Quentin Tarantino, and Sex Machine. Keitel’s sone would have, too, had he not been kiled so quickly. And this movie, at least, is supposed to take a ninety-degree turn into B-movie gore.
Justin
[rereads Justin’s reply] Hmmm. I’m not really sure if you’re arguing with me or agreeing with me.
There are dozens of people in the nightclub. Most of them were already vampires before the movie begins. Four people turn into vampires; the rest already were. Perhaps I should rephrase for clarity:
The people in the nightclub when the fugitives arrive don’t turn into vampires, they already were vampires. (italics added for clarity). Thus I refute the assertion that “everyone started turning into vampires”.