Movies that lose their way.

[Rafael Hernandez]

What do you think were movies that started out great but then they screwed up and the movies takes a wrong turn. It happens a lot maybe because they go all those executives that ruin a movie.

The movie that it reminds me is one from when I was little called Career Opportunities from Johnn Hughes. It was this movie about how this guy who was a loser in high school and has a job as guardian in Target, get stuck all night in the store with the old high school knockout which is Jennifef Connelly. Man was she hot (or is). It´s a cool idea although silly but who wouldn´t want to be there stuck with her. They can of explore issues about popularity and being a loser and it was alright but it could be more. But then the movie brings in 2 thiefs who are trying to rob the store and it send the whole movie down the hole. It turns into a Home Alone movie and it sucks big time. I didn´t even finish it since I turned it off. Horrible.

I hate when the executives apparently try to help a movie and ruin it. And the point is that the movie bombed which is even worse. It reminds me of the MST3K the movie, where they changed a lot of things after focus groups only for the movie to bomb anyway. Also Final Fantasy, where they didn´t add anything about the games.

There a couple of movies like that but I will come up with others later.

[bmurphyfl]

Collateral

[CHICO13]

The Serpent and The Rainbow. Started out scary as hell, lots of drama and suspense then turned to total and utter crap.

[art]

The Serpent and The Rainbow. Started out scary as hell, lots of drama and suspense then turned to total and utter crap.

I loved that movie. I had nightmares about the spike through the scrotum for months.

Saving Private Ryan is a quintessential example of this. One of the most amazing opening 20 minutes in movie history, followed by...blech for 2+ hours.

[Lithium858]

"Signs" and "Mission To Mars"

[skipshady]

Collateral
Definitely. It was a great Michael Mann film until it became Die Hard IV.

[Ghost]

Three Kings.The minute they decide to become noble, it completely disintegrates.

[Rafael Hernandez]

Although I wasn´t a a huge fan of the early part of the movie one ofthe best examples of these movies is definately the Matrix. It started out as a good sci fi movie with and interesting plot and it endend being a super shoot em up action movie. I still can´t believe that a lot of people I knew wanted it to be nominated for Best Picture: I was "Did you see when it turned into a shoot em up? Did you see the Deus Ex Machina they did?"

I didn´t even see the sequels.

[odg78]

--Spartan. I'm not sure I'd say that it lost it's way as much as it came to an abrupt end. It seems as if just jumped from the middle of the movie directly to the end. I thought my DVD was scratched or something.

[Real Ray]

Although at the end of the day, I still give it a favorable review, "Scarface" has a very poor second act, and never really regains its form.

Up to the point when Tony kills Frank Lopez, its really well paced, and engrossing. After...it loses its way.

Interesting too, the music used in "Team America: World Police" to spoof montages, is very similar to the "Take It To The Limit," song that is used in Scarface's montage-which brings home this point even more.

[obie]

Shouldn't this be called the "Full Metal Jacket Thread"?

[Dave Brull]

Seabiscuit

Here is a movie about a horse that come from nowhere to defeat the greatest horse of his generation. Movie should have ended there. But you get this 45-minute mini-movie tacked on where now the horse and jockey struggle to rehab and return to glory. That can work in a book but not film. The movie ends, and then ends again 45 minutes later.

I have seen this double-ending occur in other movies since. I call it the Seabiscuit Ending.

[needs]

Seabiscuit

Here is a movie about a horse that come from nowhere to defeat the greatest horse of his generation. Movie should have ended there. But you get this 45-minute mini-movie tacked on where now the horse and jockey struggle to rehab and return to glory. That can work in a book but not film. The movie ends, and then ends again 45 minutes later.

I have seen this double-ending occur in other movies since. I call it the Seabiscuit Ending.

I thought Seabiscuit lost its way in the beginning. Here's a movie about a horse, named after the damned horse, and the horse doesn't show up until 45 minutes into the film? After a history of the early auto industry? And more narration than in a Ken Burns film? As for the end, I think it only feels like the film lost its way b/c by that time, you've been watching the damn thing for 45 minutes too long anyway.

Oh, and Fight Club's final 30 minutes sucked.

[Claymore]

The last two Matrix movies.

[Gonzo02]

Collateral

Definately...it was excellent until Jamie Foxx decided he wanted to be a hitman as well.

[Megatron]

Artificial Intelligence-I thought the movie was great until the ending which really disappointed me.

[Laggard]

Contact

[chad]

american beauty

[Pints]

Every Stephen King movie made.
(with the exception of The Shining)

This is actually a fault of the writer more so than the screenwriter/producer/director

It seems all his stories start out good, and get creepy or scarey then it's as if his wife calls him to dinner and he just blurts out the ending.
case in point "IT."

....and then they go into this cave and they see a giant spider and they kill it the end.
.

[talina_baby]

Swimming Pool, I guess.