ITT: Movies that are better before the "main" part of the movie gets goingeg. The best parts of The Mummy are arguably before the titular mummy gets resurrectedFrom Dusk til Dawn is arguably bettter before the twistobvsly subjective, but let's hear your suggesties
It's a Wonderful Life is better when he still wants to kill himself
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>>221372146I liked sinner more as a period drama about two rejects building up their business in their hostile hometown before the vampires came into the picture
Kingdom of Heaven is kino until Liam Neeson diesFirst half of Seven Samurai is better than the second
>>221372164I used to like the boot camp part more when I was younger. But now I like the Vietnam part better.
>>221372146The beginning is about suspense and mystery, but once revealed the second half is still pure adventure goodness.
>>221372146Once upon a time in hollywood was a snoozefest until the ending where those manson hippies broke in decaprio's homeAside from that dogshit slop from kikatino niggerloverOh yeah and brad pitt beating up that hippie was satisfying too
>>221372146Matilda is a great movie until she suddenly realises she can solve all her problems with magic powers
films where nothing happens are often better than films where a lot happens
>>221372146>From Dusk til Dawn is arguably bettter before the twistdefinitely
>>221372146>Aryan me and my future Jewish gf
>>221372146WALL-E
>>221372146Van Hellsing is pure fucking slop once the first attack in the village when Hellsing and Carl arrive and it only gets worse
>>221372146The first three minutes of Mission Impossible 2 >> the main film (but this is maybe just a pre-credits thing and hardly counts).The first fifteen minutes of Indiana Jones & the Temple Of DoomThe montage in Up!The opening sequence of Saving Private Ryan I guess
>>221374242Fucking geek...
I literally always like first part of any movie better than the second, I can't quite explain it, maybe it's knowing everything is ahead and there's anticipation, kind like life,
Black Phone is a big one for me. I was enjoying the beginning a lot with the school drama. Wish the whole movie was just a coming of age story with maybe a few more school characters.
>>221372146in jurassic world fallen kingdom, it showcases escaping one of the islands under a volcano eruption with a huge action set, only to suddenly slash the budget and turn it into a slasher film in a mansion. is this a world or a mansion? sure it has global repercussions but its like they entirely slashed the budget. imagine if it had highway motorcycle chase scenes. they didn't even try.in the dark knight rises, after having dealt with jokers scenario games before, batman walks entirely into a trap setup because the woman so hot and his back is broken and he is thrown into a pit. he proceeds to magically repair his spine (maybe he previously dipped in the lazerus pit, sure) while the villain manages to waltz into the gotham stock exchange and entirely crash it by using forged bruce wayne credentials. johnathan crane makes a reappearance to hold mock trials and the joker is nowhere to be seen. just play the arkham batman games instead which it copied. at the end of it, a rookie cop is told by a retired batman to be robin without batman in one of the world handover that could have been made for the big screen.in I am legend, the movie remains believable until the end where the doctor manages to make a cure and the zombie shows signs of turning human as her mate angrily pounds on the glass door. in the theatrical ending that completely deviated from the book, he hands the cure to some stragglers and they escape and blows himself up. in the cut ending which follows the book, he realizes that they just want the zombie back to their tribe and they make peace and he departs with the straggler to hand over the cure.in chronicle, the film is basically invincible and then by the end it turns into akira. you can imagine how much worse it becomes.in indiana jones and the crystal skull, the movie slowly descends into madness like surviving a nuclear blast in a fridge, being paired with shia lebouf and a very lame ending
>>221372146in hobbit: desolation of smaug, they add in a female warrior elf named tauriel that was never part of the books, turning it into a cringe self insert fanfiction movie
>>221372146Immediately thought of Hancock (2008). The movie was so much better when it was about a washed-up superhero getting bills for all the buildings and roads he smashes up before it turned into girlboss, fight-the-supervillain nonsense. It just tanked so hard.
>>221376395that movie still had him flying around being a jerkass at the end just less, the conflict premise was far from original but it was a an above average mid show even by the end
>>221372146Independence Day
>>221376459No. It was just a regular superhero movie after the girl got involved.Thanks, but no thanks for your pointless opinion?
Ghost Ship.Evil Dead 2013.
>>221372146Dusk till Dawn is a good choice. My very first thoughts of that movie were that the bank robber brothers plot at the beginning seemed way more interesting than the biker bar full of Mexican vampires.
>>221376485ok, we take away the girl, and the movie turns into seven pounds and will smiths character dies and donates all his organs for some dumb self serving premise than any actual altruism. hows that sound? great?
>>221372168it was actually a pretty decent movie at that point.
>>221376604No need. Just make the 2nd half as good as the first. OP was asking for movies where the lead-up is better than the "main" part. I delivered with Handcock. It's not exactly a movie you defend, but I guess it's near and dear to you.
>>221372146The Goonies
you can stop watching Drive after the openig scene ends
>>221372346I like the hopium in KoH's second part. And also Saladin.
>>221372146ok this is pretty tenuous and a tv show/book/vidya, not a movie, but The Witcher.It sets up Geralt as this cool loner monster hunter who just wanders the world taking on bounties for monsters.but it's actually fuck all to do with that, it's just him getting embroiled in the squabbles between kings and simping for that bitch yennifer.I wanted monster of the week and instead got some gay game of tudors dogshit.
The Day After TomorrowNo point watching after the tornadoes and tsunamis
>>221372146mission impossible final reckoning looks great then after the first 10% of the movie they drop the human villain and we are introduced to the villain: AI. turns out that the deadly plague capsule (implied to be coughvid) was actually an AI superchip that has infected the world as virtual skynet. wow. what an original premise that isn't trend chasing. tom cruise then has to leave his genius technician to die, because I guess iron bars are the strongest thing in the universe and he has no gadgets or mini saw and they really need to have a scene of a city going up in flames. tom cruise then recruits a femme fatale back from prison and she turns against the human villain because...uh...the villain treats her badly. tom cruise then boards a submarine and then he has the "genius" revelation that the map coordinates were scrambled by being upside down. he has a fistfight with a spy inside the submarine that has no communication with the outside world for decades and declares "you watch! too much! internet!" like that is possible. tom cruise then torpedoes himself out, and by miraculous luck they managed to find him by contrived chance. not snowden is portrayed as a good guy who the russians turn against, tearing the fringe of believability to shreds. tom cruise battles with the human villain for the second switch while his allies go into a cave with the first switch that has to be pressed at the same time. his ally sustains a wound and he tells the femme fatale to cut some wire but passes out. tom cruise is snoopy fighting the red baron and the villain goes stupid, does some loop de loop and crashes. and so he presses the button and she magically cuts the right wire at the right time and the ai is forced into a test tube. later, there is a scene of the allies covertly meeting and they pass tom cruise the vial of malicious ai and he pockets it like that is a good idea at their point. if you managed to read all this your stomach must be made of iron or something.
>>221376861tl;dr
>>221372146My favorite part is actually immediately after the mummy is resurrected, when the mummy is still dangerous but not so dangerous that they're in constant peril.
>>221374823>I was enjoying the beginning a lot with the school drama. Wish the whole movie was just a coming of age story with maybe a few more school characters.Bitch taste.
>>221376881this mission impossible movie didn't even make 10% across before it completely turned to endless cowdungpiles. it makes even the 7/10 ghost protocol buoyed by entertaining catfights look like an 9/10. tom cruise needs to stop fucking changing directors every movie in the series but hes having fun being jackie chan and doing his own stunts, he doesn't care. also, incredibles 2 looked like something great initially and then it turns out they just genderswapped mr and mrs incredible and had her play his role and the villain was just an awfully dumb plothole premise.
>>221372146I second From Dusk Till Dawn. Was really into the "normal" plot but once it switched over I lost interest and wasn't really immersed anymore
For me its the found family hipster drama of young adults in new york
>>221376814kind of feel the same way about Berserk. I like the chapters where Guts is just wandering around on his own, way more than the main plot.
This was so fun and comfy, but just descended into generic action slop.
>>221377807Nah man, the beginning is obviously great but it's generally awesome throughout
>>221372146Kino movie setting until the army arrives
>>221377868definitely. I gave up Berserk once it got like that. personal tales of adventure, saving a small village, a single family or even just some self discovery is way more interesting than getting involved in some big scale bullshit between kings whose lives' work will get completely undone by whoever succeeds them in a few decades anyway.even in the Witcher 3 game I speedran the utterly dogshit main quest just so I could just enjoy wandering from village to village looking for contracts.
>>221372146>obvsly subjectiveokaaay.....
The first 15 minutes of The Empty Man are better than the rest of the movie.
Avatar: The Way of Water, the first part where I met my friends and had a good time with them was far better than the second part where I sat in the movie theatre and watched the most expensive piece of shit I hope to ever see in silence.
>>221372481The boot camp part appeals to a fear or becoming part of a system. That's the part that appeals to teens struggling with it. Vietnam is when you're already in the system and realize it's all bullshit. That appeals to working adults. It's coming of age and dealing with expectations in two parts. I love the whole thing.
Might as well turn off the film when Hicks sees the Aliens in the ceiling and the film turns into an escape sequence
any film where they start off in the past, future, fantasy/scifi world and have to travel to our time and spend the rest of the movie in fucking american suburbs instead of Eternia etc.who else did that? vin diesel did the last witch hunter, I can't think of any more cos I just refuse to watch anything that uses that trope any more but I feel like it happens constantly.
>>221372146I wish Cameron made an whole movie with the same vibe as the underwater part of Titanic
There must be a name for this phenomenon, desu. Or there is something appealing about slice of life that we like so much to the point I've seen myself turning off the movie when the plot starts to happen.
>>221372146The best part of Atlantis is before they get to Atlantis
the tone and execution of the first act is 10/10 and then it just turns into a standard stephen king short story where you go oh i get it can it end now
>>221379376turning a good premise into a consistently satisfying 3-act narrative is really hard to do.movies need to introduce us to the world which is usually the most interesting part, then build to a climax which means escalating shit and usually that escalation is either really convoluted, narratively or tonally inconsistent with the rest of the film, or outright retarded.
>>221379376>>221379658another explanation is what we want as media enjoyers.I call myself a "sidequest gamer" because I could not give less of a shit about the game's plot, I just want to immerse myself in the world and do all the comfy small scale side quests.movies are ONLY the main quest plotline.I have hundreds of hours in skyrim and I've never finished the main quest.Witcher 3 I had to speedrun the main quest to get it out of the way and I nearly quit dozens of times cos I just did not give a shit about it.
>>221372146Return of the Jedi is kino when they are in Jabba's palace and gets worse when they get to Endor.
>>221379144This is the terminator though
>>221372879Sadly, I have to agree. The opening scenes (until they arrive at the Axiom, so not really just the opening) are so great that inevitably the baby people plotline on the ship is a letdown. The Wall-E/Eve plotline is still kino though.
>>221379440It would've been better if the atlanteans turned out to be the real threat, instead of trying ot make us believe the most dangerous people there were a handful of dudes. Disney's hateboner for competent white men made a lot of their movies worse than they needed to be. Imagine Pocahontas but instead John Smith turns out to be the bad guy while the outsider poratgonist is that meek kid who follows him around. Would've sucked ass.
Skyfall.Enjoyed it up until that retarded home alone third act. bond finales are in underwater bases and volcano lairs, not mummy and daddy's abandoned mansion in fucking scotland.
>>221379985In this case John Smith is Milo. Milo was always the main character and the most competent member of the team. An Atlantean that helped Rourke would've been more interesting instead of the tired noble savage trope.
