I kind of felt this way about The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, though it wasn’t that great to start with.
‘A Knight’s Tale’ starts with a jousting competition where the assembled peasants suddenly break into rhythmic song. (Queen : we will rock you’).
I liked that intro, but not the rest of the film. :eek:
supervenusfreak,
AI was the first movie I thought of when I read the title of the thread. It started out really good, fascinating, and then went into the boy’s quest for the blue fairy?!? Give me a break.
Holy Christmas! :eek: We got this far in without anybody mentioning From Dusk 'Till Dawn?
Man, this movie kicked eight-shades-of-ass until the vampires came out. Then it turned into a humungous suckity-fest. Stupidest, most tacked-on ending EVAR.
Mrs. Chastain and I watch this movie until right when Salma Hayek vamps out, then we shut off the movie. In my mind, everybody dies, and there were no sequels. 
I guess it’s because FDTD had a great beginning and an even better ending, hence it doesn’t fit the bill 
Oh man. It’s ON, now. I can’t imagine anybody defending the end of that thing, but I guess that’s why they have 51 flavors of ice cream. Because there’s invariably 50 other people that are too stubborn to like what I like, dammit.
I think the premise of Sphere is fantastic. Exploring the sea floor, people stumble upon an ancient buried metal object, which turns out to be a spaceship. Upon entering it, it is found to have been built by humans from the future.
How could you possibly make a terrible movie with a premise that good, particularly with a really fantastic cast?
And yet they somehow managed…
(Oh, and I agree with A Knight’s Tale to a certain extent, although it’s just a tiny bit at the very end that bothered me. :
So there’s a good guy and a horribly evil bad guy who are very well matched jousters. But for the very final joust, the good guy, for some reason, has to joust without his armor. I was all ready for him to somehow take advantage of his armorlessness in some brilliant and original way, thus winning the joust. Instead, he just… won the joust. What happened to the bad guy’s jousting skill?
Van Hesling - I thought the black and white bit was brilliant…then it just went from bad to stupid (thanks goodness I had some JD with me to slip into my coke or it would have been a totally wasted night ).
Would that be vanilla?
Just kidding…although vanilla is actually my fave.
I also agree with you re: FDTD, a good movie until Cheech Martin apeared on screen then it just went down the shitter.
Ask Michael Crichton…
Been so long since I saw it, I forget the title, but it’s the WWII London under the German blitz movie about the little boy (he yells “Thank you, Adolf,” when a bomb demolishes his school) and his friends. Great stuff–typical growing up scenes, peeking at naked girls, etc., kids will be kids even during the worst of times.
Then, iirc, in the third act, they go to his grandfather’s house and play cricket until the end of the film, no real resolution, whatsoever.
Was called “Glory” Something, I think.
Sir Rhosis
Can’t say anything about the movie, but I remember the box art of the running boy.
My submission: “Baby Boom.” Diane Keaton as hard-edged businesswoman, driving force, a real ball-buster. Acquires a girl and goes kind of gooey on her. Moves to Vermont and uses her mad biz skillz to help her neighbors.
Then gets called back to the company and instead of being the ball-busting hard-edged businesswoman that she was throughout the entire film, turns into … Diane Keaton.
Sir Rhosis
I’ve seen bits of that as well. I can’t remember the name.
“13 milimeter shell.” (smacks it into his palm)“Unexploded!”
“Do you know any curse words?”
“Yes.”
“Say them.”
“Fuck.”
(stunned gasps from other boys)
“That word is special. Repeat after me- bugger, bloody, sod.”
There’s also a scene in which a woman agrees to let the boys look down her knickers in exchange for some jewelry they found in the rubble. One boy pretends to vomit down her knickers. One boy says “I’ve seen better.”. One boy is afraid to look
Enemy Mine
I disagree completely. Davidge goes from a man who thinks the only good Drac is a dead Drac, to caring about Zamis more than anything else in the universe. He doesn’t care about his reputation, about being courtmartialed, even death is less important to him than saving Zamis.
Froom Dusk Til Dawn
I disagree about this as well. Like the original Night Of The Living Dead, this is a film about people who could have survived if they had communicated with eachother properly
You know, I felt the same way about The Abyss. If only it had ended with the guy in his dep water suit at the bottom of the ocean glimpsing lights that might be aliens. But, no. There’s that whole long squence where he’s taken into the spac ship and it rises to the top. It was a great action adventure up until that part which I think should have been left to the imagination.
I’ve seen the director’s cut of The Abyss and it’s even longer. There’s a long ridiculously unecssary part about the aliens causing tidal waves to threaten the world’s coastlines unless they do something. (about pollution, maybe? I don’t remember.)
I call 'em “Tractor Pull” movies. Lots of momentum going in, looks like they’ll make it all the way, and then they get bogged down and go nowhere.
Star Wars Ep. 1: I was so excited seeing the opening in the theater. The Jedis were finding some cool ways to use their weapons and powers! Cool, force-speed boost! Lightsabers can cut through steel! Woah, a huge droid invasion army! This should be great.
And then: “Wheresa you goin’, Master Jedi? Meesa no like boom-booms.” And just like that my hard on for all things Star Wars went limp. JarJar destroyed what not even two Ewok movies could.
I just threw up in my mouth a little.
Hate to tell your Sir (can I call you Sir?) but the demolision of the school was the end of the movie.
I admit it lost some steam when they left London. But then that wasn’t out of keeping with the wartime experince of London children. I guess they wanted ot get that part in. Andway, Hope and Glory was a great film, including the ending.