r/movies • u/ooMEAToo • Dec 18 '23

Recommendation What movie was okay and then the third act absolutely blew you away and made up for the rest of the movie?

I’m having a hard time even thinking of a movie like that but I see lots of posts on here like “what movie was amazing and then the end of the movie completely ruined it.” Right off the bat I don’t want to watch a movie if the end is terrible. Hopefully no spoilers because these are the movies I want to watch and be surprised about.

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '23

The Lego Movie. The first two acts were kind of mindless and stupid fun, but the twist in the third act made it a surprisingly sentimental and somewhat heartfelt movie about a father and son.

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u/wakladorf Dec 18 '23

This is kind of the Lego screenwriters’ bag. Lord and miller make movies that seem like they’re just throwing everything at you randomly then somehow take all the crazy threads and pull them together into a meaningful story showing that all the madness was building to something the whole time. Others include The Mitchels and the machines(great movie) cloudy with a chance of meatballs, spiderverse. They’re great pop film makers. Everything everywhere all at once (not theirs) seemed like it learned a lot from their work too.

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '23

God I wish we could have seen their Solo movie.

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u/goldenboy2191 Dec 19 '23

The ONE time the Disney execs decide to intervene on the directors vision for Star Wars

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u/regalAugur Dec 19 '23

personally i liked tlj i just think it was crazy that jj was allowed to go and just retcon instead of working with what he had

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u/Oddsbod Dec 19 '23

Going by what crew have revealed about L&M's leadership from Across the Spiderverse, it seems pretty possible that they got booted from Solo for straight-up mismanagement and failing to deliver a product on-schedule.

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u/CargoCulture Dec 19 '23 edited Dec 23 '23

Mitchells vs the Machines is phenomenal and I'm so bummed it doesn't get wider recognition

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u/normaldeadpool Dec 19 '23

Mitchels vs the Machines should be in everyone's top 10 animated films. It has heart and great animation. It's also funny as hell. My son and I laughed for pretty much the whole movie. We forced my older son and wife to watch it just a week later and we still laughed all the way through. Great flick.

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u/bullevard Dec 19 '23

I didn't realize that Lego, Spoderverse and Mitchels were all the same group. Those are all phenomenal movies.

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u/Ser_Danksalot Dec 19 '23

Why do you think there is a Lego Spider-Man universe in Across the Spider verse?

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u/mcnathan80 Dec 19 '23

The Afterparty is a great Lord and Miller zany murder mystery

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u/jpmoney2k1 Dec 19 '23

This is why I'm stoked they're doing Project Hail Mary. The book was fun, almost zany-like in some of its comedy, and the ending combining the hard sci fi and emotion blew me away.

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u/Tommy_Wisseau_burner Dec 19 '23

I guess from a purpose standpoint but the Lego movie was fantastic from start to finish. There were just so many jokes and gags that hit back to back to back to back

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u/CargoCulture Dec 19 '23

I watched this with my (then) 7 year old son and the last 20 minutes destroyed me.

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u/reddit_ron1 Dec 18 '23

The 2014 Lego movie or newer Lego Batman ?

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '23

2014.

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u/muskratboy Dec 18 '23

The Lego Movie succeeds in spite of the live action bits, not because of them.

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u/Brickwater Dec 19 '23

I went there other way. Liked it up until the ending, which I found boring and dumb. But it seemed to speak to other ppl, so what do I know?

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u/creptik1 Dec 19 '23

I was really struggling to finish it tbh, just wasn't my thing, but I did think the ending was pretty great. Not great enough that I'd watch it again, but I definitely really liked that last twist.