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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Do you mean The Black Stallion?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Blasphemy, I know, but…
I maintain the only good parts of Godfather 2 are the ones in Michael’s story.
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.
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.
The plane scene from Superman Returns was the only thing I liked about that movie.
Yebbut, Diane Franklin. I could watch her reading the phone book.
Wedding Crashers didn’t need Ferrell.