Movies that fell apart during the third act.....

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#1 Darkknight_13x
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I was watching Red Eye on TV today, and I thought the movie was pretty good until [spoiler] the guy gets stabbed in the neck [/spoiler] The movie just fell apart from there.

So name some movies that you thought was good until the horrendous third act.

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#2 Memberino
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Yep, Red Eye is definitely one of them. Event Horizon is another one, as well as Sunshine (although I've warmed to its final act)- another film starring Cillian Murphy btw, hmm. Seems to be quite endemic to the sci-fi genre and movies involving high concepts in general. I also find a lot of comedy movies fall apart though - Anchorman's ending was not funny, it was just stupid.
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The first Hulk springs to mind. The movie started out awesome, and could have gone down as one of the better comic films. But then they tacked on that out-of-nowhere Final Fantasy fight in the clouds, and it just completely took me out of the movie.

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Hancock. Whatever act it was.
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Hancock. Whatever act it was.Wilfred_Owen

Yes, I also thought of this one. I think the film really just suffered from false advertising more than anything, though.

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#6 flazzle
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Hancock. Whatever act it was.Wilfred_Owen

Totally agree.

I'll also say Apocolypto. It became a typical 'oh look, i set traps' movie

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#7 clayron
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I was watching Red Eye on TV today, and I thought the movie was pretty good until The movie just fell apart from there.

So name some movies that you thought was good until the horrendous third act.

Darkknight_13x

Holy **** I just finished watching that. And I was just thinking the same thing.

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#8 Da_lil_PimP
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How are you supposed to tell when an act is in a movie? When you say third act, I think of a Shakespearean play.

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The first Hulk springs to mind. The movie started out awesome, and could have gone down as one of the better comic films. But then they tacked on that out-of-nowhere Final Fantasy fight in the clouds, and it just completely took me out of the movie.

TGM_basic

That was the end of the third act. The third act began when The Hulk actually started tearing **** up.

Anyway, I'll technically agree, since the part that you mentioned happened during the third act. But I think that The Hulk is a bad example, since the movie also really only started to get GOOD during the third act.

Anyway, my choice was Sunshine. I think that the whole movie fell apart at the BEGINNING of the third act, and never recovered.

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Hancock. Whatever act it was.Wilfred_Owen

This was exactly the movie I thought of first when I saw this thread. I love the first half of the movie, but then it went a completely different direction for the worst.

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How are you supposed to tell when an act is in a movie? When you say third act, I think of a Shakespearean play.

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Haha. It's sometimes hard to discern unless you're watching a Tarantino film. Those specifically say them. Specifically Kill Bill and Inglorious. Not all obviously, just those 2 come to mind.
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#12 Pro_Snuggles
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The Men Who Stare at Goats. It was all going so well until it all went so wrong in the final 20/30 minutes.
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[QUOTE="Pro_Snuggles"]The Men Who Stare at Goats. It was all going so well until it all went so wrong in the final 20/30 minutes.

I felt like I needed to be high to understand that movie. I wasted an hour and a half of my life watching it.
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The Men Who Stare at Goats and Hancock are great examples. The former though would probably make more sense if I was high. Hancock was just lame after the chick shows us that she has powers.
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The Dark Knight...Awful final portion.
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not sure about act, but my interest dies after the 3rd hour of The Return of The King (LotR). :P
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The Dark Knight...Awful final portion. Toriko42

...with Two-Face. Yeeeeeeah... :|

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Sunshine. It's a good movie that could have been great.
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#19 narog84
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The Dark Knight...Awful final portion. Toriko42
WHAT?? i fell sleep in the first part and you say the final is worst ? xD no joke i really sleep
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#20 alwaysdrunk13
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Since it was billed as an interactive movie, I will say Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy. "Ok, this is cool, liking the story, flashbacks and dual-sided story telling.... Ok now I'm Captain Planet and The Oracle is in this game..."
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#21 Raiden004
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The Dark Knight...Awful final portion. Toriko42
I wouldn't say awful but definitely not as good as the 1st two acts of the film.

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Blazing Saddles. The action spilling out onto the Warner Bros. lot is the last straw.
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#23 lostrib
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I remember burn after reading kind of going down hill after brad pitt gets shot in the face. Not sure what "act" that counts as

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#24 JML897
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F*cking Sunshine. I was all ready to make it one of my favorite movies and then that happened.
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Holy mother of all thread revivals. :o
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#26 lostrib
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F*cking Sunshine. I was all ready to make it one of my favorite movies and then that happened.JML897

what is so terrible that happens in that movie?

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