# 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:  [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2013, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-only-like-parts-of/676014/21 "2013-12-11T01:06:53Z")
> [@Oakminster](#):
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> This.
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> And\*\* Top Gun\*\* should run the credits after Goose dies.
Good! Also, Star Wars should end right after Obiwan is killed. They could freeze frame Luke shouting, “No!” and just roll the credits. Maybe add an epilogue about how they were all captured and executed, but that Wedge later brought the Empire down using a gigantic Ponzi scheme.
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### Author:  [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2013, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-only-like-parts-of/676014/22 "2013-12-11T01:10:45Z")
I like **Better Off Dead** up until the French foreign exchange student starts talking. Then it loses a lot of the dark humor and becomes a much more standard zany '80s high school comedy.
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### Author:  [@Sealemon88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sealemon88)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2013, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-only-like-parts-of/676014/23 "2013-12-11T03:10:13Z")
Any of the Michael Bay Transformer movies. With my edit each movie would be about 10 minutes of the robots fighting, then credits. God, those movies suck.
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2013, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-only-like-parts-of/676014/24 "2013-12-11T13:56:26Z")
I generally fast-forward through the long boring “Zion” sequences in **Matrix Reloaded**.
In both the original graphic novel and the movie, I stop watching \*\*V for Vendetta[/B[ after the first half or so. I could do without Evie Locked Up and what follows.
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### Author:  [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2013, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-only-like-parts-of/676014/25 "2013-12-11T14:13:40Z")
Barton Fink (Coen Bros.). There’s a trick camera shot that races down the plumbing, and the movie goes down the tubes then too.
Black Beauty has one of the most beautiful opening sequences evah, and then turns into an ordinary boy and his horse film. But the first 15 minutes rank with 2001’s Dawn of Man, Saving Pvt. Ryan, or Up.
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### Author:  [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2013, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-only-like-parts-of/676014/26 "2013-12-11T14:29:19Z")
**Heat** - the opening robbery, the beginning of the investigation, and the big robbery and shootout are awesome. The rest of it, I really don’t give a shit about these guys’ fucked up personal lives.
**Pulp Fiction** - I generally skip right over “The Gold Watch” and most of “Vincent Vega and Marsellus Wallace’s Wife”. Not that there isn’t good stuff in there, but there’s a lot of slow parts that I just want to get past. And I could watch “The Bonnie Situation” and “The Diner” on a loop all day long.
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### Author:  [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2013, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-only-like-parts-of/676014/27 "2013-12-11T14:42:58Z")
I have no interest in the rest of the film, but my husband was watching **Flight** , and I walked by during the plane landing scene. It was completely riveting. Just absolutely viscerally effective.
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### Author:  [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2013, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-only-like-parts-of/676014/28 "2013-12-11T15:04:15Z")
> [@Baal\_Houtham](#):
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> Black Beauty has one of the most beautiful opening sequences evah, and then turns into an ordinary boy and his horse film. But the first 15 minutes rank with 2001’s Dawn of Man, Saving Pvt. Ryan, or Up.
Do you mean _The Black Stallion_?
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### Author:  [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2013, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-only-like-parts-of/676014/29 "2013-12-11T16:02:29Z")
In _ **The Joy Luck Club** _, the stories of the mothers’ lives in China are all interesting. Their Chinese-American daughters, on the other hand, are whiny, self-absorbed, boring brats, and I couldn’t care less what happened to any of them.
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### Author:  [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2013, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-only-like-parts-of/676014/30 "2013-12-11T16:32:18Z")
I watch _Jaws_ whenever I stumble across it, but only for the second half when they are on the boat. The first half, with Brody against the mayor, is totally boring.
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### Author:  [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2013, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-only-like-parts-of/676014/31 "2013-12-11T16:36:19Z")
Major League: fast forward through all the scenes with Rene Russo & Tom Berenger. What’s left is one of the best sports movies, and funniest comedies ever, and you haven’t missed a thing.
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### Author:  [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2013, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-only-like-parts-of/676014/32 "2013-12-11T16:44:55Z")
**Die Hard.** I skip the first 17 minutes and jump straight to the arrival of Gruber’s team.
**Attack of the Clones** The DVD/Blu-ray is divided into so many chapters that it’s really easy to skip every stupid Anakin/Padme scene.
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### Author:  [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2013, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-only-like-parts-of/676014/33 "2013-12-11T17:14:03Z")
**The Rundown** - one of The Rock’s better movies, but if I see it on the TV schedule I’ll almost always just watch the opening scene where he beats up the football players in the club, then watch something else.
**The Hot Spot** - Jennifer Connelly topless. I have no idea what the rest of this movie is about, and I don’t care.
**Bruce Almighty** - Jim Carrey fucking with Steve Carell during the newscast. Just about the only funny thing in that whole movie.
**Kill Bill, Part 1** - I skip right to the big fight at the end.
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### Author:  [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2013, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-only-like-parts-of/676014/34 "2013-12-11T17:47:29Z")
**Thank You For Smoking** wonderfully adapted the first half of the book, and then went wildly off the rails.
**Carousel** could have stopped when Billy Bigelow died and been immensely improved.
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### Author:  [@johnspartan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnspartan)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2013, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-only-like-parts-of/676014/35 "2013-12-11T18:08:20Z")
Blasphemy, I know, but…
I maintain the only good parts of Godfather 2 are the ones in Michael’s story.
> **[Sell me on the Vito half of GF2.](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=516426)**
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> Not going to apologize for open spoilers here… 30+ years is past the statute of limitations, IMO. Okay, so I love Godfather II. Or, more specifically, I love the Michael Corleone scenes in Godfather II. The DeNiro “Young Vito” scenes bore the...
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### Author:  [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2013, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-only-like-parts-of/676014/36 "2013-12-11T18:29:16Z")
I used to think I really loved **Excalibur**. After 10 or 12 viewings, I decided I really only loved the ending – the death (for the time being) of Arthur and the return of Excalibur to the Lady in the Lake.
After another dozen viewings, I decided that it’s not really the movie, it’s the music – it’s Wagner’s Siegfried Funeral March that I love. But I’ll watch that scene every chance I get, anyway.
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### Author:  [@Nom\_de\_Plume](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nom_de_Plume)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2013, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-only-like-parts-of/676014/37 "2013-12-11T18:57:31Z")
The beginning of pretty much any Tim Burton movie. He sets up a wonderful, beautiful world…and then the story just kind of peters out, as if he lost interest in the movie.
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### Author:  [@FordTaurusSHO94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordTaurusSHO94)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2013, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-only-like-parts-of/676014/38 "2013-12-11T21:19:07Z")
The plane scene from Superman Returns was the only thing I liked about that movie.
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### Author:  [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2013, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-only-like-parts-of/676014/39 "2013-12-11T22:12:03Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#):
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> I like **Better Off Dead** up until the French foreign exchange student starts talking. Then it loses a lot of the dark humor and becomes a much more standard zany '80s high school comedy.
Yebbut, Diane Franklin. I could watch her reading the phone book.
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### Author:  [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2013, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-you-only-like-parts-of/676014/40 "2013-12-11T22:33:06Z")
_Wedding Crashers_ didn’t need Ferrell.
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