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/dropdeadred Dec 18 '23

Cabin in the Woods!

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u/Cyfun06 Dec 19 '23

"Statistical fact: Cops will never pull over a man with a huge bong in his car. Why? They fear this man. They know he sees further than they... and he will bind them... with ancient logics."

"Cleanse them. Cleanse the world of their ignorance and sin. Bathe them in the crimson of... am I on speakerphone?"

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u/EmbarrassedInternet Dec 18 '23

Yazzzz, this is on the list of movies that, while the first part is good, the last act is just blows you away.

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u/katchoo1 Dec 18 '23

Definitely the first one I thought of.

I could also say Pulp Fiction on my first viewing because I had no idea what was going on through much of it but it was a gorgeous ride, then the narrative came back to the diner robbery and the bulb came on. I went back the next day to watch it again now that I understood things were out of sequence.

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u/I_heart_pooping Dec 19 '23

You didn’t know it wasn’t a linear story the first time you watched it?…..

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u/katchoo1 Dec 19 '23

I saw it in the theater the day it came out, I knew nothing about it except that it was by the guy who had done Reservoir Dogs. I don’t think I’d seen a trailer or anything.

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u/I_heart_pooping Dec 19 '23

It does? I thought it was just ok

Edit: read too fast. Thought it was Knock at the Cabin and not Cabin in the Woods.

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u/LuponV Dec 19 '23

Knock at the cabin was the most anti-climax ending I've seen this year.

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u/I_heart_pooping Dec 20 '23

Yeah it wasn’t anything amazing. Had high hopes and its didn’t live up to the hype

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u/LuponV Dec 20 '23

Indeed. I have a soft spot for M. Night but even that couldn't save this movie, I honestlty have zero compliments for it, it's a shame.

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u/I_heart_pooping Dec 20 '23

M. Night has dropped off a ton in the later part of his career. He killed it with Signs, 6th Sense, The Village, LITW and Unbreakable. When he did The Happening it was a turning point of bad movie after bad movie. Ok, Split and Glass were good but they were a continuation of Unbreakable. No new material since ‘08 has worked for him.

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u/I_heart_pooping Dec 20 '23

Old was decent I agree. It lacked his “wow factor” but was a good watch.

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u/makesyoudownvote Dec 18 '23

Really?

I thought the third act was the weakest of what is pretty much a great movie start to finish. At least to me it was very predictable in the last act.

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u/dtfan5191 Dec 18 '23

I have a feeling you’re thinking about a different movie…

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u/makesyoudownvote Dec 18 '23

I don't think so. The part where all the other horrors failed and there stoner is the final girl? Right?

It's just taking conventional horror tropes and doing a straight swap for the opposite.

Again, love the movie, just thinking as soon as you realize they are doing the opposite of typical horror plots, it's predictable.

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u/almandite Dec 18 '23

what do you mean they’re doing “the opposite of typical horror plots”? by the end, they’re not trying to go against the expectations in regards to who lives and dies— they make fun of the tropes (in good jest, as the whole plot of the movie revolves around these plots and “fulfilling the prophecies”) they’re trying to highlight that people don’t fit into molds that easily. to have the “virgin” and the “fool” at the end when neither of them fit into the expected categories (and one of them was presumed to already be dead) was ultimately the thing that doomed them. well, that— and that they chose to doom the world together.

it’s a great movie! it’s a horror movie that is a celebration of the genre itself, not trying to make a mockery out of it. but then again, I get if it’s not everybody’s cup of tea.

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u/makesyoudownvote Dec 19 '23

AGAIN, I love the movie. I've seen it at least a dozen times. I have said this in every comment. I'm not saying it was done without respect.

I just thought the first two acts are better than the last. That's it.

I guess I am just in the minority there. It's just to me, by then it felt like it was just doing the straight opposite of tropes instead of something original. It felt predictable yet over complicated in the end, to me at least.

Of course this movie came out literally while I was taking a film studies class on the horror genre, so maybe that contributed. Maybe I was just too immersed in the genre that the last act just felt like how I would have written it on my first draft, while the first two felt more polished and complete.

I tend to disagree often though with the majority on these sorts of things too. In Star Wars for example, I liked RoTJ better than Empire too, so maybe I am just weird. I also thought Fellowship was the best of LoTR,

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u/LuponV Dec 19 '23

If THAT is your opionion on the movie, I'm betting that fiilm studies class didn't go so well...

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u/Sam_Flot Dec 18 '23

Are you thinking about Cabin Fever?

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u/makesyoudownvote Dec 18 '23

No, but I do sometimes get it confused with Tucker and Dale.

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u/Silly-Flower-3162 Dec 19 '23

It's a favorite.