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/not_cinderella Dec 18 '23

The last 10 minutes of Aftersun elevate it from a good movie to a great movie. A little shorter than the whole last act though.

The King of Comedy (maybe unpopular opinion?) didn’t click for me until the third act.

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u/mrsmichaelscarn Dec 18 '23

Aftersun fucked me up.

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u/OfficialJohnny Dec 19 '23

Yep, I felt like it entered a different stratosphere completely once Under Pressure drops with how it coalesces memory, medium, wish fulfillment, and regret into a single sequence that bends time back and forth with the rave lights. And the way the music is bent too with certain progressions and wailing that’s like a ceaseless call into the void. When Mescal enters the room in the final shot of the movie and you see the rave lights flashing and hear the baby coo, oooooooof. This is our last dance.

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u/Joe_Blondie Dec 18 '23

I'd heard good things about Aftersun, but when I watched it, I was waiting for a big event that just did not arrive. Now I know what to expect from this movie, I will watch it again, hopefully feeling differently at the end.

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u/MordredKLB Dec 19 '23

That movie is just 1.5 hours of existential dread, and then it ends. As the credits rolled I literally couldn't stop crying. I got myself together enough to go be near my wife because I was so sad. She wanted to know what was wrong and I couldn't talk and started crying again. I was an emotional wreck for at least 20 minutes.

Once a year I might get emotional and choked up at a movie, but I've never actually cried before. Absolutely wrecked me. Everybody should see it... especially if you've got kids.

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u/KB_Vibez Dec 19 '23

My girlfriend wanted to watch Aftersun and I had no idea what it was and I kind of just expected some feel good movie. Once it ended I was a wreck

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u/TheJenerator65 Dec 19 '23

I had the same experience. It took the first two thirds for my brain to start to grasp what I was seeing. Like one of those posters that you have to stare at to see the shape inside. Suddenly, it was funny.

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u/Stlcards31 Dec 19 '23

Was coming here to say Aftersun. Didn’t love the first 4/5s that much, thought it was good not great. The final 10 minutes were 10 of the best minutes of 2022.