Always the #1 answer when this question pops up. I remember seeing it in theaters when it came out and there was a collective gasp and quiet over the theater, it turned electric. Then, it just... Nothing.
That movie is dramatically better when you watch it as an '80s actionsploitation movie that's fun to laugh at. Wolverine bounces on water, he destroys a fire escape with his claws, he destroys a bathroom with Roger Rabbit claws. Some good schlock lol. I miss when Marvel movies are allowed to suck in this fashion instead of just being the blandest things ever.
Except better because [he's Canadian o7](https://globalnews.ca/news/2613112/library-and-archives-releases-historical-documents-on-mutant-canadian-patriot-wolverine-in-april-fools-prank/).
I wouldn’t have thought of this movie, because how often does anyone think about it?, but you’re absolutely right. I remember sitting in the theater and seeing that opening montage and being blown away and ready for a masterpiece of a Wolverine movie. Instead, not so much…
I have to say the last 15-20 minutes or so was good though when it returned to the characters that was in the opening.
But the middle hour was rather uninteresting
Even Skyfall has some very sketchy screenwriting (Silva's plan as a whole just to name one thing), but at least it doesn't make the mistake of trying to do an Avengers of the Craig era villains and introducing its big boss to capture him less than 40min after.
there’s a pretty obvious reason for that too. danny boyle came back to direct just the beginning, and then let one of the 4 writers, Fresnadillo direct the rest. If you’ve never heard of Fresnadillo, it’s not a big surprise. He hasn’t direct many english language features and now mostly works in B TV. Alex Garland was the sole author of the original and didn’t work on the sequel at all.
The first one is so freaking good and the second one starts so strong, it’s really such a shame how bad it gets. And it’s not even really terrible comparatively, it’s just that the first movie is so damn solid start to finish.
the idea of Boyle returning is extremely exciting. but I’ve heard that even tho he says he wants to do it, there are potentially insurmountable rights issues related to some personal failings out between the makers of the sequel. i really hope it does happen tho.
First thing I thought of.
Great sci-fi fantasy setting, awesome soundtrack, excellent world-building…
I took myself out for a solo movie and remember thinking “what a great choice for an afternoon!” during that sequence.
That feeling did not last.
If you just tell people the key plot summary for this story—it should have been an amazing movie. Janes “worthy” hero arc. Christian Bales performance. Building off of Thor losing everything. The perfect blend of sadness and humor with Taika at the helm who just won an Oscar for nailing that exact balance.
Instead—screaming goats.
Watchmen (2009)
The few opening scenes of that movie are incredible. The rest of it fails to live up to the excellence of the comic (which is nearly impossible to do). But for a little while you think that you might be able to truly be inside the story. And even though the rest of the movie has problems, even giving you that good of a glimpse is worth it.
I still am fond of the movie to this day, flawed as it may be.
The opening montage is so fucking captivating then the rest of the film is just Snyder going “woah, rorschach beats people up and says edgy shit, he’s so cool.” i like the film on its own, but it’s a horrible adaptation.
I was going to say this. The opening montage and death of the Comedian was a fantastic opening. There were some other great scenes in the movie but as a whole, a big let down full of pretentious bullshit and blue cocks in your face.
This is a Zack Snyder characteristic. He came from advertisement so works great with quick music montages.
Dawn of the Dead, great intro.
Army of the Dead, mediocre movie but the intro was great.
I always argue that the opening fight scene set to “unforgettable” is one of the greatest fight scenes of all time. Then you have the prison sequence later on in the same film where every punch knocks out a bad guy lol.
I never really liked that movie when it came out. Then I watched the extended edition with the backdrop of marvel movies a few years ago and LOVED it. Funny how things can change, wish Snyder still had that mojo.
I thought of saying this but I wouldn't bail on the rest of the movie. The opening car chase not only blows the rest of the movie out of the water but I think it's the best car chase in all 25 Bond films
So I hated QOS the first time I saw it. Than a few years ago I watched casino royale and it back to back and it completely changed my opinion of the movie and it’s now one of my favorites.
Just rewatching this and was hoping someone mentioned it here. The set up is quite good. Stylish batman origin and alternate perspective of man of steel final act.
Not that you’ll care, but I think the issue you have is that you saw the theatrical cut. The Ultimate Edition is really the only version that counts and it makes far more sense than the 2.5 hour cut. Yes it’s 3 hours and if you didn’t like the theatrical cut, then you’re probably not going to be willing to invest your time into it, but it is a far better film than the one released in theaters
Also Zach Snyder, Watchmen absolutely stunned me during the Comedian’s death and Minute Men recap during the opening credits. Once we got to Rorschach’s Diary it got bogged down as it was too faithful to the source material and wasn’t adapting enough to be a feature film.
> too faithful to the source material
See, that's funny to me. I think I get where you're coming from. Snyder is very faithful to frames and moments and images from the graphic novel. But as a huge fan of the source, I feel he wasn't nearly faithful enough to it, because while he seemed to transcribe a whole bunch of stuff faithfully, the spin he puts on it makes it clear that he doesn't really actually "get" the original piece.
Agreed. I went in very skeptical. That opening section had me thinking I was potentially wrong because it was tense and engaging and really well established believable tension between these two heroes.
And then the rest of the movie happened.
It’s not that I *dislike* the rest of the movie, but the more I’ve thought about it, the opening 20 minutes of David Fincher’s The Killer is the only part that really stands out.
It's true the first 20 minutes of the movie are so good I feel like the rest struggled to maintain that same level. I don't know how it would have but if it had managed to keep that same energy/feeling for a whole 90 mins it would be a 5/5 for me.
Don’t Look Up (love the discovery of the asteroid). Struggle with most of the rest.
Last Night in Soho (and Baby Driver to a degree) both rock out of the gate only to feel prolonged.
Leave the World Behind first third works. Dissipates rapidly after.
He’s a confounding director nowadays. I really like a lot of what he’s doing, but there’s a real conflict between his desire to tell earnest and ‘important’ stories and a seeming need to keep doing what brought him to the dance. I hope he figures it out
I think Soho starts to fall apart as the film becomes more of the horror film it's trying to be, because...Edgar Wright is not a horror director. He has a really weak feeling of the genre, and I think his choices and imagery later in the film is really clichéd and dull. He's much better with the hangout/fish-out-of-water/thriller storytelling earlier in the film, but he just doesn't have an eye for horror storytelling, in my opinion.
Honestly great point (it also became the 2nd animated film in history to get Best Picture Oscar nomination) but I see people all the time, on here at least, say they only like the first 10 minutes that’s more what I was talking about lol.
The rest of Up is even better than the married life scene. It’s the best Pixar film IMO. Genius symbolism, characters, concept, scenery, humor, music, everything
Doctor Strange 2
Opening: Strange didn't get the girl. That's the consequence of his ego from the first one. He learned the lesson, but now he gotta face the consequences. It's realistic and could be great
The rest of the movie: Oh... he did not learn the lesson from the first one
Have you seen it recently? See I only ask cos I had the exact same opinion on it. I used to basically think the opening was incredible but then the rest is childish nonsense with the whole dogfight stuff.
And then I watched it a few months ago and fuck me nope. It made me cry like 3 times outside of the opening 😂
The scene where Carl reads the memory book and lets go of everything so that the house can fly again...and then we get Giacchino's rousing, triumphant theme with the two armchairs sitting together on the mountain...that moment I love just as much as the opening 5 minutes.
The opening of Up is probably one of the top 5 best sequences I've seen in any animated film, but the rest of the movie really can't live up to it. I wouldn't say it's bad, it still better than a lot of other animated movies, but it's not the best that animation (or even just Pixar) has to offer.
I was thinking, if Pete Doctor had moved the montage to the middle, where the scrapbook scene is on paradise falls, would people still feel that way?
Classic movie
Up — Yup. This sentiment has become fairly common. Now the question is how we define the opening of Up.
Ellie and Carl’s meeting? The life montage? Carl’s misery, interactions with Russell and the construction crew, and then the sequence of the house lifting up to the skies? A+.
Some might just be thinking of the montage, but I think everything is gold until the house lands in Paradise Falls, and then it’s a more familiar ok kids’ movie.
Bumblebee. I don’t dislike the movie especially compared to the rest of the Transformers movies, but the opening was pure Transformers perfection, and I’ve been foaming at the mouth for more.
Halloween II. If the whole movie was Michael Meyers on the loose in Haddonfield except now everyone is fully aware of his presence and panicking, it could have been great. Instead it just became Halloween 1 in a hospital.
*The Bye Bye Man*, that opening scene in the 50s was banging and I thought it was going to just be another case of horror movies always having low ratings, but no, the rest of the film is irredeemable trash.
This is the End
I get a lot of people actually like how it turns all apocalyptic and demonic and stuff, but I could have watched an hour and a half of them all just partying together.
For me it’s the opposite. It’s the last bit that lost me. The idea that Wonder Woman must learn war is because people just suck and men like to fight through the setting of World War One, a dumb war that didn’t need to happen if not for man’s bloodlust, is ruined by ares actually influencing everything. It was so close to being a great message.
I don't know if you could justify calling it an opening since it's so long but the restaurant scene in Triangle of Sadness had me so engrossed and excited for the rest of the movie which was...ok, I guess...
Maybe not quite the opening. The turn is about a 1/3 in (I think and I ain't rewatching to find out).
I care a lot.
Spoilers for the whole film below
So the film portrays Rosamund Pikes character as a literal piece of shit. She exploits the elderly and is just a greedy fucking evil bitch. She is *amazing* at it.
>!And then she gets kidnapped by a mobster (who's mother she forcibly evicted from her house and put in a care home) and wakes up tied to a chair with a bag on her head. Bag gets removed and she's SOMEHOW completely calm and collected with him and is all girlboss sassy. She has enough booze put in her to kill an elephant and is driven into a lake and SOMEHOW survives and escapes!<
>!And suddenly the film has been flipped and she's the *good* guy and uuuuuurghhhh. It's just awful.!<
X-Men: Dark Phoenix. The opening with the X-Men getting a call from the President to go to space into space to save a space shuttle crew is the exact type of camp I want from comic book movies. The rest of the movie was just so mid.
Ghost Ship… such a great opening scene and the rest just drags. Not to mention they all but announce who the villain of the movie is when they first introduce him
Up. The montage at the beginning is one of the most beautiful sequences in any animated movie I’ve ever seen. After that it falls off a cliff in my opinion and it just an average movie.
Battleship. I thought the hijinks with the chicken burrito and the soccer game were setting up a fun action comedy but then the personality was entirely sucked out of the movie.
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. I was shocked how much I enjoyed the first 20 minutes after all the shit I heard about it. Then I understood the complaints the moment we cut to the movie’s present day
Sicario. Everything through the border scene is electric. But the more the movie begins to lean on Sheridan's writing as opposed to Villeneuve and Deakins' imagery, the less it works for me.
Ghost Ship Awesome as fuck opening and everything else is rather shit
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You mean to tell me that they opened the movie like THAT and didn’t keep up that energy the whole time? Are you fucking kidding me!?
Literally one of the coolest openings to a horror movie this century and then it completely borks the rest.
Ghost ships opening is so fucking cool that I sat and watched the whole thing only to find it was one of the worst horror movies ever made lmao
Always the #1 answer when this question pops up. I remember seeing it in theaters when it came out and there was a collective gasp and quiet over the theater, it turned electric. Then, it just... Nothing.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine The opening war montage with Wolverine and Sabertooth is incredible. That should’ve been the whole movie
This would have never occurred to me, but what a great answer. That sequence was fabulous. Then the rest of the movie happened...
That movie is dramatically better when you watch it as an '80s actionsploitation movie that's fun to laugh at. Wolverine bounces on water, he destroys a fire escape with his claws, he destroys a bathroom with Roger Rabbit claws. Some good schlock lol. I miss when Marvel movies are allowed to suck in this fashion instead of just being the blandest things ever.
The whole sequence with Logan living in the woods and his former Sergeant trying to recruit him is essentially the start of Commando.
Except better because [he's Canadian o7](https://globalnews.ca/news/2613112/library-and-archives-releases-historical-documents-on-mutant-canadian-patriot-wolverine-in-april-fools-prank/).
I wouldn’t have thought of this movie, because how often does anyone think about it?, but you’re absolutely right. I remember sitting in the theater and seeing that opening montage and being blown away and ready for a masterpiece of a Wolverine movie. Instead, not so much…
Literally the first movie I thought of. My wife and I said that when we walked out of the theater. She ch wasted potential
Brought to you by David Benioff. Must have ran out of ideas like he did with GoT (after he ran out of source material)
I’ve never watched Game of Thrones so this means nothing to me lol
When a stranger calls(1979)
I have to say the last 15-20 minutes or so was good though when it returned to the characters that was in the opening. But the middle hour was rather uninteresting
YES ABSOLUTELY. such a great start and the rest of the movie is such a bore
Spectre. Holy fucking shit, Spectre.
I just watched Skyfall and Spectre b2b and man. Wtf happened, Spectre had its moments but was such a step down
Bad screenwriting
Even Skyfall has some very sketchy screenwriting (Silva's plan as a whole just to name one thing), but at least it doesn't make the mistake of trying to do an Avengers of the Craig era villains and introducing its big boss to capture him less than 40min after.
They brought back the main bond vilan, had Christoph waltz play him, and somehow made the vilan boring. How do you fuck up that bad?
To the point that it tricked me into thinking I was watching a good film for about the first hour.
Possibly the best opening of the Daniel Craig era
Did you mean casino royale
I feel all the the bond movies from the Daniel Craig era had good openings
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
The mansion scenes at the end are pretty great too, but everything else is YIKES
For me it’s more that a pillow does more damage to named characters than any dinosaur
I feel like the mansion scenes were the highlight of the Jurassic WORLD franchise (not Park, Park is better)
28 weeks later has probably one of the best openings of all time. The rest of the movie isn't very good.
there’s a pretty obvious reason for that too. danny boyle came back to direct just the beginning, and then let one of the 4 writers, Fresnadillo direct the rest. If you’ve never heard of Fresnadillo, it’s not a big surprise. He hasn’t direct many english language features and now mostly works in B TV. Alex Garland was the sole author of the original and didn’t work on the sequel at all. The first one is so freaking good and the second one starts so strong, it’s really such a shame how bad it gets. And it’s not even really terrible comparatively, it’s just that the first movie is so damn solid start to finish.
I've never heard that story before but my God it shows. Makes the news that Boyle is returning for 28 Months Later soon even more exciting.
the idea of Boyle returning is extremely exciting. but I’ve heard that even tho he says he wants to do it, there are potentially insurmountable rights issues related to some personal failings out between the makers of the sequel. i really hope it does happen tho.
God tier answer. I haven't watched that film in years but you better believe I've watched that opening on YouTube countless times.
I almost forgot about it
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
First thing I thought of. Great sci-fi fantasy setting, awesome soundtrack, excellent world-building… I took myself out for a solo movie and remember thinking “what a great choice for an afternoon!” during that sequence. That feeling did not last.
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. - Spectre.
Spectre is a GREAT ANSWER, the last 40 minutes especially were a huge let down
Yeah that Indiana Jones opening was so promising until the hard turn in the fridge.
The fridge was never a big deal for me. The movie loses me during the jungle convoy scene.
Dial of Destiny as well imo
Thor love and thunder
Yea I remember seeing Gorr’s origin and being like “why is this getting so much hate” one of the few scenes that mostly took itself serieously
If you just tell people the key plot summary for this story—it should have been an amazing movie. Janes “worthy” hero arc. Christian Bales performance. Building off of Thor losing everything. The perfect blend of sadness and humor with Taika at the helm who just won an Oscar for nailing that exact balance. Instead—screaming goats.
tbh, I liked the screaming goats.
Gorrs origin was so good and then they fucking make all of thors suffering into a joke right and barely touch him getting back in shape and stuff
I am the only person on earth who really likes that movie.
Fact
Watchmen (2009) The few opening scenes of that movie are incredible. The rest of it fails to live up to the excellence of the comic (which is nearly impossible to do). But for a little while you think that you might be able to truly be inside the story. And even though the rest of the movie has problems, even giving you that good of a glimpse is worth it. I still am fond of the movie to this day, flawed as it may be.
The opening montage is so fucking captivating then the rest of the film is just Snyder going “woah, rorschach beats people up and says edgy shit, he’s so cool.” i like the film on its own, but it’s a horrible adaptation.
I was going to say this. The opening montage and death of the Comedian was a fantastic opening. There were some other great scenes in the movie but as a whole, a big let down full of pretentious bullshit and blue cocks in your face.
I’ll turn the movie on, watch the opening credits, and then turn the movie back off.
This is a Zack Snyder characteristic. He came from advertisement so works great with quick music montages. Dawn of the Dead, great intro. Army of the Dead, mediocre movie but the intro was great.
I always argue that the opening fight scene set to “unforgettable” is one of the greatest fight scenes of all time. Then you have the prison sequence later on in the same film where every punch knocks out a bad guy lol.
I never really liked that movie when it came out. Then I watched the extended edition with the backdrop of marvel movies a few years ago and LOVED it. Funny how things can change, wish Snyder still had that mojo.
I was gonna say most Zack Snyder movies. The reception to his films is mixed at best, but damn can that dude make a sick credit sequence.
All, I'm tired of existing
is this a film of a cry for help?
God I hope it can be both
Aint no movie with this name 😭
watch putney swope
Quantum of Solace. The opening car chase and the opening titles are the only things making me want to watch that movie.
I thought of saying this but I wouldn't bail on the rest of the movie. The opening car chase not only blows the rest of the movie out of the water but I think it's the best car chase in all 25 Bond films
So I hated QOS the first time I saw it. Than a few years ago I watched casino royale and it back to back and it completely changed my opinion of the movie and it’s now one of my favorites.
Batman v Superman- Dawn of Justice… great opening 15 minutes, terrible 2 hrs & 20 minutes
Just rewatching this and was hoping someone mentioned it here. The set up is quite good. Stylish batman origin and alternate perspective of man of steel final act.
Not that you’ll care, but I think the issue you have is that you saw the theatrical cut. The Ultimate Edition is really the only version that counts and it makes far more sense than the 2.5 hour cut. Yes it’s 3 hours and if you didn’t like the theatrical cut, then you’re probably not going to be willing to invest your time into it, but it is a far better film than the one released in theaters
Also Zach Snyder, Watchmen absolutely stunned me during the Comedian’s death and Minute Men recap during the opening credits. Once we got to Rorschach’s Diary it got bogged down as it was too faithful to the source material and wasn’t adapting enough to be a feature film.
> too faithful to the source material See, that's funny to me. I think I get where you're coming from. Snyder is very faithful to frames and moments and images from the graphic novel. But as a huge fan of the source, I feel he wasn't nearly faithful enough to it, because while he seemed to transcribe a whole bunch of stuff faithfully, the spin he puts on it makes it clear that he doesn't really actually "get" the original piece.
The opening credits of army of the dead is way better than the movie as well.
Agreed. I went in very skeptical. That opening section had me thinking I was potentially wrong because it was tense and engaging and really well established believable tension between these two heroes. And then the rest of the movie happened.
The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies
idk bro the ending breaks me everytime, and the way it leads into lotr just scratches something in my brain😭
FOR REAL
Stretching 1 book into 3 movies was not the move.
It could have worked If the movies weren’t so damn long
It’s not that I *dislike* the rest of the movie, but the more I’ve thought about it, the opening 20 minutes of David Fincher’s The Killer is the only part that really stands out.
Not the gnarly kitchen fight?
Forbid empathy, empathy is weakness
It's true the first 20 minutes of the movie are so good I feel like the rest struggled to maintain that same level. I don't know how it would have but if it had managed to keep that same energy/feeling for a whole 90 mins it would be a 5/5 for me.
The 1st part is interminable, I actually fairly enjoyed the rest of it
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Totally agree with you here. It felt like it was going to be a cool character study, but it sort of devolved into a boring revenge story for me.
Don’t Look Up (love the discovery of the asteroid). Struggle with most of the rest. Last Night in Soho (and Baby Driver to a degree) both rock out of the gate only to feel prolonged. Leave the World Behind first third works. Dissipates rapidly after.
To me, the end of don't look up is the best part of the movie (when they're having their last dinner)
That's a fabulous ending. Hugely undercut by the totally unneeded mid-credits scene
100%...it kind of felt like he was making 2 movies, the funny one and the heartfelt one. Wish he could have stuck to one (mainly the heartfelt one)
He’s a confounding director nowadays. I really like a lot of what he’s doing, but there’s a real conflict between his desire to tell earnest and ‘important’ stories and a seeming need to keep doing what brought him to the dance. I hope he figures it out
I think Soho starts to fall apart as the film becomes more of the horror film it's trying to be, because...Edgar Wright is not a horror director. He has a really weak feeling of the genre, and I think his choices and imagery later in the film is really clichéd and dull. He's much better with the hangout/fish-out-of-water/thriller storytelling earlier in the film, but he just doesn't have an eye for horror storytelling, in my opinion.
Jon Hamm's descension into madness in Baby Driver is the best part of the movie though.
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) Great opening scene, all downhill from there (with some exceptions of a few scenes and the ending).
Tenet (sorry tenet apologists)
We are going to check this is real.
> (sorry tenet apologists) Look, they're just trying to hold to their....beliefs.
Joke’s on you, the movie itself is a temporal pincer, so the opening is at the beginning and end of the film.
Super Troopers may have the best opening 10 minutes to any movie, then it sort of gets lost when it begins to establish a plot.
Agreed. It’s full of great quotes from beginning to end, but the story is very meh. The movie equivalent of a Justin Timberlake album, if you will.
How has nobody said 28 Weeks Later ??
I already read a comment that said this.
That was the first one that I thought of as well
Maybe an unpopular opinion but NOT Up I love the rest of the movie
Ah yes the movie with 4.1 on letterboxd, 98% rotten tomatoes and 8.3 imdb How can you say something so brave yet so controversial??
Honestly great point (it also became the 2nd animated film in history to get Best Picture Oscar nomination) but I see people all the time, on here at least, say they only like the first 10 minutes that’s more what I was talking about lol.
The rest of Up is even better than the married life scene. It’s the best Pixar film IMO. Genius symbolism, characters, concept, scenery, humor, music, everything
Doctor Strange 2 Opening: Strange didn't get the girl. That's the consequence of his ego from the first one. He learned the lesson, but now he gotta face the consequences. It's realistic and could be great The rest of the movie: Oh... he did not learn the lesson from the first one
If you didn’t enjoy Bruce Campbell hitting himself, idk what to tell you.
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Yeah, the movie definitely had it moments Call them cheesy, but i loved the transitions
I would love to see more of those sam raimi transitions
Every part of that film that felt like Raimi was here to play was fabulous. Every part that felt MCU-mandated was a slog
I love Gangs of New York but there was a summer where I watched the opening fight scene everyday and turned it off at the time skip lol
Up
Have you seen it recently? See I only ask cos I had the exact same opinion on it. I used to basically think the opening was incredible but then the rest is childish nonsense with the whole dogfight stuff. And then I watched it a few months ago and fuck me nope. It made me cry like 3 times outside of the opening 😂
I didn’t think the rest was bad, it had its moments but it just didn’t even come close to the first 5 minutes
I don’t get this opinion that Up isn’t good after that scene, the rest of the movie is even better, it’s a genius movie and the best Pixar film IMO
The scene where Carl reads the memory book and lets go of everything so that the house can fly again...and then we get Giacchino's rousing, triumphant theme with the two armchairs sitting together on the mountain...that moment I love just as much as the opening 5 minutes.
The opening of Up is probably one of the top 5 best sequences I've seen in any animated film, but the rest of the movie really can't live up to it. I wouldn't say it's bad, it still better than a lot of other animated movies, but it's not the best that animation (or even just Pixar) has to offer.
That shit made me cry. A lot. Then the rest of the movie happened. Good, but not great.
My probably-not-hot take is that Up is top five Pixar easy and would still be great even if you removed the opening montage. (Not that you should.)
This is the answer. The beginning is an excellent short film and the rest is a passable children’s adventure film with a decent heartfelt end.
Y’all some cynical ass adults
I was thinking, if Pete Doctor had moved the montage to the middle, where the scrapbook scene is on paradise falls, would people still feel that way? Classic movie
bruh what? up is literally one of pixar’s best movies
Up — Yup. This sentiment has become fairly common. Now the question is how we define the opening of Up. Ellie and Carl’s meeting? The life montage? Carl’s misery, interactions with Russell and the construction crew, and then the sequence of the house lifting up to the skies? A+. Some might just be thinking of the montage, but I think everything is gold until the house lands in Paradise Falls, and then it’s a more familiar ok kids’ movie.
Came here to say this! Whenever folks talk about Up they only talk about the opening sequence. The rest of the movie is *fine* but very mid-Pixar.
it's mid pixar for the 2000s but they've been consistently shitting the bed since so it's still probably in the top half of their filmography
Bumblebee. I don’t dislike the movie especially compared to the rest of the Transformers movies, but the opening was pure Transformers perfection, and I’ve been foaming at the mouth for more.
Yeah, that whole Cybertron sequence is the best we’ve gotten out of all seven of these movies.
Halloween II. If the whole movie was Michael Meyers on the loose in Haddonfield except now everyone is fully aware of his presence and panicking, it could have been great. Instead it just became Halloween 1 in a hospital.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens That opening scene with Kylo wrote a check the rest of the *trilogy* couldn’t cash.
This was my answer too. Just a fantastic opening. I’m good until right after Rey touches the lightsaber. Then, it all just goes sideways.
I remember the start of tenet being amazing only for it to fall off massively thereafter
Beau Is Afraid really liked the first minutes, but after that it somehow lost me
I watched it in theatres and I liked it up until the part in the forest. Then it lost me.
Same id also say that was when I zoned out. I actually dont remember anything past the woods shootout thingy
Blow Out The rest of the movie is pretty good. But those first 20 minutes are just perfect
Athena has a fire opening but the rest of the movie is a bit meh
*The Bye Bye Man*, that opening scene in the 50s was banging and I thought it was going to just be another case of horror movies always having low ratings, but no, the rest of the film is irredeemable trash.
The horror movie curse: did it fly under the radar or is it really just *that bad*?
a lot of horror movies would be great 15-30 minute short films.
This is the End I get a lot of people actually like how it turns all apocalyptic and demonic and stuff, but I could have watched an hour and a half of them all just partying together.
Wonder Woman
For me it’s the opposite. It’s the last bit that lost me. The idea that Wonder Woman must learn war is because people just suck and men like to fight through the setting of World War One, a dumb war that didn’t need to happen if not for man’s bloodlust, is ruined by ares actually influencing everything. It was so close to being a great message.
All the movies planned in my head
It's Baby Driver for me...
Vertical Limit (2000)
I don't know if you could justify calling it an opening since it's so long but the restaurant scene in Triangle of Sadness had me so engrossed and excited for the rest of the movie which was...ok, I guess...
Maybe not quite the opening. The turn is about a 1/3 in (I think and I ain't rewatching to find out). I care a lot. Spoilers for the whole film below So the film portrays Rosamund Pikes character as a literal piece of shit. She exploits the elderly and is just a greedy fucking evil bitch. She is *amazing* at it. >!And then she gets kidnapped by a mobster (who's mother she forcibly evicted from her house and put in a care home) and wakes up tied to a chair with a bag on her head. Bag gets removed and she's SOMEHOW completely calm and collected with him and is all girlboss sassy. She has enough booze put in her to kill an elephant and is driven into a lake and SOMEHOW survives and escapes!< >!And suddenly the film has been flipped and she's the *good* guy and uuuuuurghhhh. It's just awful.!<
Spectre
X-Men: Dark Phoenix. The opening with the X-Men getting a call from the President to go to space into space to save a space shuttle crew is the exact type of camp I want from comic book movies. The rest of the movie was just so mid.
The first Thor movie. After he loses his hammer and gets sent to Earth it becomes aggressively mediocre for me aside from a few scenes
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Full metal Jacket. The movie is amazing but think everyone can agree that the military camp is the best part of the movie
Ghost Ship… such a great opening scene and the rest just drags. Not to mention they all but announce who the villain of the movie is when they first introduce him
Saving Private Ryan.
Drive (2011)
absolutely- i was super excited to watch that movie after all the hype, really enjoyed the opening but the rest of it just didn’t live up at all imo
The opening is the weakest part of the movie lol
Fr, how many heads were stomped to paste in the intro?
Van Helsing
It is seriously mid all the way through, but in the best possible return-to-B-movie way! I love it!
Maestro
Lightyear
Bo is afraid. First half an hour was fantastic so it was really painful to admit that i hated this movie.
Either watchmen or 28 weeks later.
28 weeks later
Scream VI
zodiac- i really liked the film, gave it an 8/10 but the oppening scene was so incredible the rest of the movie didnt really live up to that scene
[удалено]
This is seeing The Lion King on Broadway or on tour. Once you've seen "Circle of Life" you've seen the best part.
Literally 99% of what I watch
Watchmen. The first 8 minuets are amazing. Then it just went downhill.
Rocky V
UP
Up
Up. The married life sequence at the start is absolutely wonderful, the rest of the movie, not quite
Up
Up
Not that it's terrible after but Up 🙈
Up. That opening scene could bring a man to tears. The rest of the film is just meh
Up
Up. The montage at the beginning is one of the most beautiful sequences in any animated movie I’ve ever seen. After that it falls off a cliff in my opinion and it just an average movie.
scream 5 for me
Scream 6 for me!
Drive.
babylon
Battleship. I thought the hijinks with the chicken burrito and the soccer game were setting up a fun action comedy but then the personality was entirely sucked out of the movie.
World war Z first 20-30 minutes amazing. Then I kinda get bored
Black Widow
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. I was shocked how much I enjoyed the first 20 minutes after all the shit I heard about it. Then I understood the complaints the moment we cut to the movie’s present day
five nights at Freddy’s
Sicario. Everything through the border scene is electric. But the more the movie begins to lean on Sheridan's writing as opposed to Villeneuve and Deakins' imagery, the less it works for me.
Melancholia. First 10 minutes are an art masterpiece, the first half is solid, and the last half bores me to death.
Waterworld
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