Movies that started good but took

[Guest MrRant]

What movies have you seen that started off well but the just went to shit? A few come to mind that are mainly horror movies.. but I can't think of the titles right now. What about you all?

[Guest bps "The Truth" 21]

I enjoyed Dragonfly for the first hour.

 

Then it went...poorly.

[Guest Big McLargeHuge]

I like this topic. I know there are tons of these but I just can't think of them right now.

[Guest Youth N Asia]

House on Haunted Hill (The newer one) started great...

 

Tons of spooky images and the stuff with the doctors was scarey as hell...but by the time it got to the end it was a horrid joke of a film...same with Th13teen Ghosts

[Guest LexLugerRules]

Jeepers Creepers...

[Guest MrBiznatch]

A.I. .......started harmless enough.......but went down the crapper.

[Guest El Satanico]

Damnit you took my responses youth n asia.

 

:shakes fist:

 

you damn kids!

[Guest Hitman Jebus]

I second "Jeepers Creepers"...once the flying creature/monster got involved...down the crapper!

 

I loved the first 30 minutes or so minutes of "Snake Eyes" then...crap!

[Guest MrRant]

Going Overboard with Adam Sandler... started out okay and then became unbearable shit after about 10-15 minutes.

[Guest Shaved Bear]

Jebus stole my answer with Snake Eyes

[Guest NaturalBornThriller4:20]

Youth N Asia, You Son Of A Bitch!

 

You stole my goddamn answers.

 

Halloween:Resurrection: First 15 minutes

after that, The Shit Hit The Fan.

[Guest MrRant]

I don't know why but Star Trek IV was great for like the first 30min to 1 hour and then was shit. Stupid goddamn whales.

[Guest Slingshot Suplex]

And a third nomination for Jeepers Creepers

 

Children Of the Corn..first half hour is good then it went crazy

 

The Langoliers..first half pretty good...2nd half swirls down the toilet to a medicore end

[Guest Shaved Bear]

knock-off...wait that was all bad

[Guest CED Ordonez]

Kung Pow: Enter the Fist. Started out as "Hey not bad as everybody said. Actually this is pretty damn funny" but it loses steam really quickly and eventually the tape is ejected before the movie ends.

[Guest J*ingus]

Me and my brother actually refer to this as "Snake Eyes Syndrome", since that movie was probably the best example, starting out damn good (with Chip Motherfucking Zien, yeah~!) but around the halfway points suddenly turned into the worst fucking movie that De Palma has ever laid his hands on.

 

Other primo examples: Jeepers Creepers, The World Is Not Enough, The Horned Man (okay, that last one is a book, but goddamn it pissed me off!).

[Guest evenflowDDT]

Add another vote for Jeepers Creepers. Also, Full Moon's Horrorvision is a really awesome slick little low budget cyber-thriller but it falls apart... bad.

[Guest Madmartigan21]

Fight Club had a tremendous first and second act with a very broken third act.

 

I enjoyed Snake Eyes for about seventy-five percent of it, THEN it fell apart.

 

I like the beginning of Blue Velvet. It started off as this great modern film noir/mystery and then took a turn into the bizarro world and was ruined. (run-on sentences rule) Lost Highway gave the same kind of feeling.

 

Actually most of David Lynch's movies are like that. The fact that he refuses to explain ANYTHING is what keeps many of his movies from being great.

 

David Lynch's movies are the best example for movies fitting this topic. The reason being that you feel cheated after seeing a movie that starts off well. It's a lot easier to forget about a movie that was all bad. But with the movies in this topic, you end up thinking about what could have been, or rather what SHOULD have been. That feeling of disappointment that lingers on with you long after you leave the theater is really aggrivating.

[Guest Ravenbomb]

Super Troopers. The first bit with the stoned guys was pretty funny. But after that it was crap with little tiny bits of 'hey, that was pretty funny' thrown in here or there

[Guest C.H.U.D.]

Signs.

[Guest MillenniumMan831]

I'm not a Woody Allen fan in the least but Small Time Crooks started pretty funny and inoffensive, however, the plot took a 180 and Hugh Grant became the main focus and the film went to hell!

[Guest Vyce]

I'll go with popular favorite "Jeepers Creepers". Although I didn't think the 2nd half was crap. I still, as a whole, enjoy that movie. It's just that the 1st half - up until we actually see & meet the monster - was fucking GREAT. I was thinking, "Shit.....this could be THE film. The horror film which can set the standard for all horror flicks for the next few years!" And then it fell flat. Still a good flick, though.

 

I vehemently disagree about Fight Club, however.

 

It's arguable that all of M. Night Shamalyan's movies fall into this category. I wouldn't put Sixth Sense here, but Signs left me wanting, and Unbreakable....well, it was okay, UNTIL he put the text on the screen. That pissed me off. Not only was it somewhat condescending, but that film didn't need a perfect, nicely-wrapped happy little ending.

[Guest HBK16]

I disagree with Jeepers Creepers. I liked it.

[Guest shlidgn90]

i though the craft had an terrible ending.

[Guest Big McLargeHuge]

I'm gonna say Independence Day. I thought the beginning was great. After they blew up the cities, there just wasn't any reason to watch it anymore.

[Guest TheDames7]

Definitely, without a doubt....Jeepers Creepers. Silly title aside, the movie ROCKED until that thing showed its true face. Oh...and the ending just drew the loudest boos that I've ever heard in a theater.

 

Dames

[Guest Redhawk]

Jeepers Creepers -- When I thought the Creeper was some creepy old man, it was cool, and then it just sucked.

 

From Dusk Til Dawn -- As soon as that first girl turned into a vampire (the stripper), things got crappy.

[Guest El Satanico]

I don't get what the big problem with the end of Jeepers Creepers. Sure it was slightly strange but it wasn't some horribly bad ending that ruined the entire movie.

 

I can see why some people wouldn't like the ending but it wasn't bad enough to belong here. It can't be compared to movies like House on Haunted Hill(remake) that started great but was totally trashed by it's horrid ending.

[Guest Slingshot Suplex]

With Jeepers Creepers,it wasn't the end of the movie that was the problem.It was from about 30-45 minutes into the film all the way to the end.

[Guest J*ingus]

Satanico, I liked House on Haunted Hill. I thought the ending was some pretty lazy storytelling, but still liked the movie as a whole. On the other hand, the last half, and especially the ending of Jeepers Creepers were SO bad that it completely ruined the film for me.

 

And thank you, shlidgn, for reminding me of The Craft. Whoo boy this had potential, and then completely flushed it away. The movie had basically two messages: "If the geeky, unpopular kids ever get power, THIS IS WHAT WILL HAPPEN, " and "All the cosmic magical ungodly power in the universe can be defeated by a good kick to the midsection."