Movies where you liked one half better than the other

In the first half of A Passage To India very little happened, but it was so damn pretty i couldn't stop watching.

Gone With The Wind took a little while to pick up, but when it did, boy, did it. The first half was good and tragic, the second was kind of boring.

The Birth Of A Nation's first half was good. The second half, well...

Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull and the second half of 2001SpaceOdyssey

I've also heard this about WALL-E, but honestly the Captain, M-O, and the Autopilot were some of the best things about the film.

Hancock

The first half is really funny, then it kinda loses itself and becomes an entirely different (not to mention not as good) movie

Atlantis: The Lost Empire, The Journey was far better than the destination.

The second half of Star Wars Revenge Of The Sith with all the cool battles was better than the stupid plot and Romantic Plot Tumor of the first half.

Bolt was the first thing that came to mind. I actually kind of liked the first half. It wasn't great but certainly it wasn't bad. The second half though...ugh.

Also, M seriously picked up in the second half.

Hood Winked. Second part just kinda...sputtered.

I'll second Hancock (in fact, it's the first thing that came to mind when I read the thread title). First half was probably the most original superhero film in years. Second half wasn't just generic good vs. evil, but also had all the characters acting like idiots.

Cloverfield. Up until they get on the rescue helicopter it's an interesting, suspenseful films with likeable characters and Lily. Then it becomes really stupid and The Load is (supposedly) the Sole Survivor!

It's not quite half, but the war scenes in Paths Of Glory were really good and the movie could have had more of them.

..A Bug's Life.

I'll have to third Hancock and second it being the first thing to spring to mind (albeit with me not immediately remembering its name). I just found the second half to be extremely boring and The Reveal to be a HUGE Left-Fielder.

First half of Full Metal Jacket was fantastic...second half....mediocre (sniper battle was a nice setpiece though, if very cliched)

Captain America. Up to the point where he rescues the soldiers and becomes an actual hero, it was probably the most interesting Marvel movie to date. Sadly, afterwards it becomes a rather generic action piece.

The Dark Knight had a great first half. Heath Ledger was at the top of the game,most of the characters seemed kind of rational,and it had some humorous moments. It went downhill after Rachel Dawes died,The Joker started dishing out one too many lectures,people started doing stupid things,it got a whole lot too serious,and finally it dragged on too long with the boats which made the film have a Broken Aesop and Unfortunate Implications

Also the second half of The Shining was much more exciting than the first half,which was mostly a boring set up. But the second half lets Jack Nicholson ham it up and throw an ax through the door and of course the typewriter is in the second half to.

edited 8th Sep '11 9:42:37 AM by terlwyth

My thoughts exactly.

I'd have to say the Sgt. Pepper movie. Now, hear me out: I think the first half of the movie (aside from the intro montage) is pretty bad, if only because of just how unfocused and disjointed it is. The second half of the movie actually gains SOME coherency and can actually be followed. Although killing Steven Tyler and Race Lifted Sgt. Pepper suddenly jumping out of the weathervane and bringing everyone back to life/de-eviling everyone kind of ruined it.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheInventionOfLying was awesome in the first half when they were exploring the implications of the world's first lies. It got really dull and annoying when they started exploring his relationship with a sexy yet annoying, stupid, vapid, shallow woman who Ricky Gervais' character was just too good for. Ricky Gervais' character was a great guy all around, so I totally believed that he could teach her not to be a dumb bitch and she would learn to love him, but for godsakes Mark Bellison, just LEAVE HER ALONE. SHE IS NOT WORTH YOUR TIME. I wish they had spent the second half exploring what happens when others find out he lies, or the dark side of lying/having too much power or something. Sheesh.

I'd have to say The Empire Strikes Back. As a diehard Star Wars fan, I'd say it's overall pretty overrated. I find it pretty repetitive, and it's only in the second half that its momentum picks up.

What??? Where's the love for the angry robot cows, man?

The Battle of Hoth doesn't seem to impress me anymore. It's those Rebel soldiers who really don't do anything.

Wall-E is a great movie, but the first third/half set on Earth was definitely superior to the scenes on the Axiom and beyond.

It's interesting. Andrew Stanton had the first half of WALL-E in mind when working on other films at Pixar seven years before it actually went into production, and the second half and overall "message" formed when it was finally time to write an actual script! It's VERY evident. Also, the first act was all you saw in the trailers until the final trailer, released weeks before the film, so people had their expectations too high.

Now here's another one: Looney Tunes Back In Action! It starts off very promising, then you notice the cartoons aren't composited over the live-action half as well as in Roger Rabbit, then the story kicks in, any reasoning takes a back seat to the humor, it starts going nowhere, and by the end you can't even understand what you just watched! I still watch it because it's a Guilty Pleasure though.

edited 13th Sep '11 10:43:30 AM by kyun

Marvin the Martian still kicked ass in that film. Which is a lot more than what I can say for Space Jam.

Now there's a movie where I hated both the first and second parts! ... but I would watch it when I was a kid.