One of the ways Bond gets under the skin of Drax in the book is to defeat him playing contract bridge.
Films that start well and end terribly
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Which would make for a film without much action. 
Recently I watched Resident Evil #? It had one of the coolest beginnings EVER, the reversed scene of the attack on the boat. So the first 7 minutes were AMAZING, the rest of the movie was a waste of time.
Books do this a lot too. Do writers overreach and can't quite tie it together? I swear I've read books where the writer got tired of the whole mess and just was looking for a quick way out. Which after investing many hours reading a series can just be so aggravating.
Recently I watched Resident Evil #? It had one of the coolest beginnings EVER, the reversed scene of the attack on the boat. So the first 7 minutes were AMAZING, the rest of the movie was a waste of time.
Books do this a lot too. Do writers overreach and can't quite tie it together? I swear I've read books where the writer got tired of the whole mess and just was looking for a quick way out. Which after investing many hours reading a series can just be so aggravating.
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Die Hard With a Vengeance is arguably the best action movie of the '90s, but the ending has never sat well with me. It's just a let-down after all the awesomeness leading up to it. The alternate ending on the DVD is no better.
Knowing is a fascinating, gripping, amazingly-shot sci-fi thriller that utterly falls apart in the last 10 minutes.
Knowing is a fascinating, gripping, amazingly-shot sci-fi thriller that utterly falls apart in the last 10 minutes.
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You are in a small group of people, those who have actually read Fleming's Bond novels. Over the decades, the films actually did a disservice to Bond--fans of the movies probably wouldn't even recognize the literary Bond.Billy G. wrote:I read the Moonraker novel. Totally unlike the book. No space station crap.
One of the ways Bond gets under the skin of Drax in the book is to defeat him playing contract bridge.
Not to say that Fleming's novels were great literature but they are definitely different than the movies.
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Stephen King films often end badly because King often seems to run out of steam in his books.
It was a giant space-spider? ugh.
the Mist fixed that with a better ending. but I had told Julie the original ending and we were both shocked at the new ending. in fact Julie was angry with me for the new ending.
It was a giant space-spider? ugh.
the Mist fixed that with a better ending. but I had told Julie the original ending and we were both shocked at the new ending. in fact Julie was angry with me for the new ending.
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The 2001 version of Planet of the Apes. I'm still scratching my head over that finish.
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I had almost forgotten about that movie. I think we are supposed to believe that he journeyed to some parallel universe but that doesn't make any sense whatsoever, even in the context of the movie. *shrug*dANdeLION wrote:The 2001 version of Planet of the Apes. I'm still scratching my head over that finish.
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Only in the dimensions that we can perceive.sgt.null wrote: It was a giant space-spider? ugh.
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No kidding.sgt.null wrote:Stephen King films often end badly because King often seems to run out of steam in his books.
It was a giant space-spider? ugh.
You know what's worse than a giant space-spider?
A dark tower at the center of the universe that gives one dude with a gun infinite do-overs.
Even worse than that?
Hyper-intelligent, multi-[or maybe non-]dimensional tweens who sit around at play time giggling about torturing puny humans...
anyway.
sorta on topic. Star wars [the first which is really the second trilogy...as a series, though not a single film. Yuck]
Several Star Trek ones...but particularly fucking space-whales [heh...you though space-spiders were dumb] and the cloud god who's an all-powerful fucking moron at the center of the galaxy.
Citizen fucking Kane.
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the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
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the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
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Heh...I refer you to the topic title. "end terribly."Hashi Lebwohl wrote:I will have to disagree here--that was a really good movie. Anti-climactic, maybe, but still really good.Vraith wrote:
Citizen fucking Kane.
There is no doubt of the many great things about it.
The end is just as terrible, or worse than:
"and then s/he woke up."
[spoiler]Sig-man, Libtard, Stupid piece of shit. change your text color to brown. Mr. Reliable, bullshit-slinging liarFucker-user.[/spoiler]
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
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HAH! YOu SLEIGHED me!Icarus Unfallen wrote:Certainly, that ending could be associated with heading downhill on a very slippery slope.
[spoiler]Sig-man, Libtard, Stupid piece of shit. change your text color to brown. Mr. Reliable, bullshit-slinging liarFucker-user.[/spoiler]
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
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Oh dear lord, Blood Angels(?). It was so promising, for a 2 star movie that I got for free of Dishnetwork's netflix rip-off, about a bunch of girlpires who escape from their evil vampire master and open a night club.
Then it just.....................apparently being a vampire makes you an expert in karate, even if you've only been one for 5 minutes.
Hilariously the only actor I had ever heard of, turned out to be the person who during the movie I kept saying, wow this movie is great aside from this jerk.
Then it just.....................apparently being a vampire makes you an expert in karate, even if you've only been one for 5 minutes.
Hilariously the only actor I had ever heard of, turned out to be the person who during the movie I kept saying, wow this movie is great aside from this jerk.
