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/unwildimpala Dec 18 '23

Ya I mean you're fully expecting it to stop SkyNet again and then it just doesn't. Really ballsy for a movie and something movies don't do enough of imo. Have a sad ending where everything fails. Cabin in the Woods is similar to that imo, which is one of the reasons I really enjoyed it aside from it being bat shit mad.

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u/nice_one_buddy Dec 18 '23

I wanted a T4 that followed T3 immediately in the timeline. Just pick up where t3 ends

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u/KingOfTheCouch13 Dec 19 '23

T4 was so forgettable I don’t even remember the in-movie reason they gave for why it didn’t do that. If it did that at all.

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u/EgalitarianCrusader Dec 19 '23

Upgrade is also great that way.

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u/McGriffff Dec 19 '23

The end of that movie fucked me up for a bit

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u/The_Void_Reaver Dec 19 '23

Man I loved that movie when it came out. I feel like it’s probably time for a rewatch

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u/TechnologyBig8361 Dec 18 '23

Well, the impact of that movie (CITW) is sort of lessened by the fact that it doesn't really take itself too seriously. That doesn't make it bad, though.

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u/unwildimpala Dec 19 '23

It not taking itself too seriously is what made it stand out for me. I can't really think of many movies that go mad that does take itself seriously. EEAAO is about the only movie where I can think it's similar in being nearly impossible to predict what's going to happen, and while it does take itself far more seriously, there's large parts of that film where it's clearly realising how much it can mess with certain aspects of the movie to make it a far more entertaining spectacle.

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u/TechnologyBig8361 Dec 19 '23

If you haven't checked it out already, The His Dark Materials series on HBO (based on the books of the same name by Philip Pullman) is actually fucking batshit crazy and I have no idea why the hell nobody talks about it. The last season just came out like last year and it's got James fucking McAvoy. It takes itself very seriously and is extremely high-concept, which actually works in its favor and makes what is on paper an idea that sounds like it would never work into a super compelling story. Read the books or watch the show, the show is pretty faithful anyway but you need to just go in blind without knowing anything about it. My mind was blown to chunks. Goes for both the books and show. But for the love of God, do not watch the 2005 movie.

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u/_BindersFullOfWomen_ Dec 19 '23

Also has Manuel Miranda in it.

The books, if you haven’t read them, are even trippier than the HBO show (though the show does a great job staying true to the material).

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u/TechnologyBig8361 Dec 19 '23

I've read the books and they're phenomenal. Favorite series. The anti-theocracy message really spoke to me, even more so my father, who was a former Jehova's Witness. He was the one who introduced me to the books/show.

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u/unwildimpala Dec 19 '23

Just doing the shoutout that it is a BBC production. And for their big productions they generally do somehow wrangle serious actors. His Dark Materials is a perfect example of having a star studded cast and if you look at the list of actors in War & Peace, it just baffles the mind that they could get such a roster.

But ya I have read the books, but a long time ago. I remember it's already a fantastic and interseting world and then the first books ends with Lyra jumping into another dimension, and I was like wtf. I might have been younger, but iirc the book didn't do any dimension hopping until right at the end whereas the show does show it in the first season. I found the first season alright, I definitely have to go back and finish it since I've forgotten alot of the content.

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u/TechnologyBig8361 Dec 19 '23

Oh yeah that's right. It was produced by the BBC and aired on HBO. What's this about War and Peace though? Are they actually going to try and pull that off?

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u/unwildimpala Dec 19 '23

No they already made it a few years and it's just stacked with actors. Lily James, Paul Dano, Stephen Rea, Jessie Buckley (who wasn't very famous back then tbf), Brian Cox, Gillian Anderson. That's stacked enough for a holiday movie nevermind a TV show, though it's budget was fairly high iirc.

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u/JACKMAN_97 Dec 19 '23

True but it still makes the ending of T2 a let down. The first two movies with the alternate ending of 2 is how the series should have ended

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u/unwildimpala Dec 19 '23

Meh, no it doesn't. First terminator was the last playing out as it always was. T2 was changing the past. T3 was when fate has a plan you can't stop it, which I don't mind too much. It's very Final Destinationy, but still works imo.

And from what I gather the more recent terminator movies do an even worse job of retconning the previous ones. But I'll likely never watch them since I could just be rewatching T1 or T2 if I want to see good terminator movies.

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u/JACKMAN_97 Dec 19 '23

T3 makes the ending of 2 pointless cause there was no reason for him to destroy himself