# Movies that you only like parts of
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-only-like-parts-of/676014
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [December 10, 2013, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-only-like-parts-of/676014 "2013-12-10T20:31:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2013, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-only-like-parts-of/676014/1 "2013-12-10T20:31:46Z")
I find that the only part of “Saving Private Ryan” is the masterful hitting the beach on D-Day sequence. It’s tragically awesome. But I really don’t like the set-up of the rest of the movie. I don’t care about Private Ryan - I care a little about Tom Hanks and his crew. But not enough to make me like the rest of the movie.
Any of you find you only like certain parts of some films?
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### Author:  [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2013, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-only-like-parts-of/676014/2 "2013-12-10T20:38:49Z")
**Full Metal Jacket** may as well have ran the credits after Private Pyle’s last day of basic training.
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### Author:  [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2013, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-only-like-parts-of/676014/3 "2013-12-10T21:22:14Z")
_Serenity_ started off really well. Lots of snappy dialogue as they were semi-crashing onto a planet. Then it just … went on. Hey! Where’s the snappy dialogue?
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### Author:  [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2013, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-only-like-parts-of/676014/4 "2013-12-10T21:24:58Z")
The first time I watched _From Dusk til Dawn_, I was riveted … right up until that first vampire showed up - I was in severe WTF-land after that.
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### Author:  [@pachabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pachabel)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2013, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-only-like-parts-of/676014/5 "2013-12-10T21:35:45Z")
Both Fried Green Tomatoes and Julie & Julia are better without the contemporary stories. I usually fast forward during those parts
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### Author:  [@mcgato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mcgato)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2013, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-only-like-parts-of/676014/6 "2013-12-10T21:46:38Z")
I liked Beetlejuice right up until the point that Beetlejuice appeared.
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### Author:  [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2013, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-only-like-parts-of/676014/7 "2013-12-10T22:01:32Z")
_Stripes_ should have ended immediately after the graduation ceremony. It would have been the perfect screwball Army comedy.
Then suddenly we’re in Germany with a Winnebago and – wha??? It’s like an inferior sequel began right after the first movie ended.
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### Author:  [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2013, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-only-like-parts-of/676014/8 "2013-12-10T22:06:54Z")
The Phantom Menace. When Lucas did the ROTJ type ending splitting the story into 3 plot lines you jumped between (Luke & Vader showdown, Han/Leia/Ewok battle, & Lando space battle) he tried the same thing with Phantom (Darth Maul - Jedi showdown, Anakin space battle, Naboo vs. droids surface battle).
Well, at least the Darth Maul part was pretty good.
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### Author:  [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2013, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-only-like-parts-of/676014/9 "2013-12-10T22:10:53Z")
> [@Wheelz](#):
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> _Stripes_ should have ended immediately after the graduation ceremony. It would have been the perfect screwball Army comedy.
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> Then suddenly we’re in Germany with a Winnebago and – wha??? It’s like an inferior sequel began right after the first movie ended.
That never occurred to me before, but you’re right. The movie has a great ending, and then just keeps going.
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### Author:  [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2013, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-only-like-parts-of/676014/10 "2013-12-10T22:11:28Z")
Lawrence of Arabia – perhaps my favorite movie up through the capture of Aqaba. And then maybe stick around and watch the train derail…and that’s it. Don’t need to see Lawrence’s descent into self-loathing sado-masochism.
Fiddler on the Roof is front-loaded with good stuff, up through the wedding. The 2nd half is just depressing.
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### Author:  [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2013, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-only-like-parts-of/676014/11 "2013-12-10T22:17:54Z")
I liked most of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon but I am bored to tears by the flashback in the desert
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### Author:  [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2013, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-only-like-parts-of/676014/12 "2013-12-10T22:29:26Z")
> [@Wheelz](#):
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> _Stripes_ should have ended immediately after the graduation ceremony. It would have been the perfect screwball Army comedy.
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> Then suddenly we’re in Germany with a Winnebago and – wha??? It’s like an inferior sequel began right after the first movie ended.
I was coming to past that very thing. 🆒
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### Author:  [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2013, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-only-like-parts-of/676014/13 "2013-12-10T22:36:52Z")
It’s quite common to hear people mention that they like the middle part of 2001: A Space Odyssey. The ape-men sequence is too mucky, and the hallucinatory flight through hyperspace (and the hotel room coda) are too weird.
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### Author:  [@johnspartan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnspartan)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2013, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-only-like-parts-of/676014/14 "2013-12-10T22:47:12Z")
> [@ftg](#):
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> _Serenity_ started off really well. Lots of snappy dialogue as they were semi-crashing onto a planet. Then it just … went on. Hey! Where’s the snappy dialogue?
Really?
> [@](#):
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> Dr. Simon Tam: I thought she was getting better.
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> Jayne Cobb: And I thought they was getting off. Didn’t we have an intricate plan on how they was gonna be not here any more?
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> Kaylee Frye: We couldn’t leave them now.
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> Jayne Cobb: No, now that she’s a killer woman, we ought to be bringing her tea and dumplings.
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> The Operative: Are you willing to die for your beliefs?
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> Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: I am…
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> [they draw. Mal fires first, and the Operative is forced to take cover]
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> Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: 'Course, that ain’t exactly plan A.
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### Author:  [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2013, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-only-like-parts-of/676014/15 "2013-12-10T22:53:12Z")
I cringe at the Molombos flashback scenes in _Airplane_. (But they do provide a good chance for a bathroom break.)
All the flashback scenes are kind of dull (except for Ethel Merman, of course. And, I guess, the geezer with the knife-in-back dance. And the fighting girl scouts). I’m also not fond of the ‘fetching Rex Kramer from his house’ scenes.
But the rest of the movie is gold, of course.
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### Author:  [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2013, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-only-like-parts-of/676014/16 "2013-12-10T23:10:01Z")
> [@Wheelz](#):
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> _Stripes_ should have ended immediately after the graduation ceremony. It would have been the perfect screwball Army comedy.
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> Then suddenly we’re in Germany with a Winnebago and – wha??? It’s like an inferior sequel began right after the first movie ended.
In fact we watched this movie at home all the time when I was a kid–and turned it off right after that ceremony.
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### Author:  [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2013, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-only-like-parts-of/676014/17 "2013-12-10T23:13:04Z")
The scenes with Jack Nicholson in **Easy Rider** are priceless. The rest of the film is disposable.
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### Author:  [@tim-n-va](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim-n-va)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2013, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-only-like-parts-of/676014/18 "2013-12-10T23:22:52Z")
“The Princess Bride” gets really slow when they get thru the fire swamp.
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### Author:  [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2013, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-only-like-parts-of/676014/19 "2013-12-10T23:33:31Z")
> [@Morbo](#):
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> **Full Metal Jacket** may as well have ran the credits after Private Pyle’s last day of basic training.
This.
And\*\* Top Gun\*\* should run the credits after Goose dies.
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### Author:  [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2013, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-only-like-parts-of/676014/20 "2013-12-11T00:41:22Z")
The parts of **Midnight Cowboy** with Dustin Hoffman are pretty good. The stuff with Jon Voight by himself is pretty lame.
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