Movies where you liked one half better than the other

I felt this way about The Amazing Spider Man when I first saw it. Wasn't a big fan of how they tweaked the origin. Thought it picked up a lot after Ben's murder.

I thought that The Birds was a great film...once the Genre Shift from Romantic Comedy to horror happens.

My freshman history teacher clearly thought the same thing about Life Is Beautiful, since she only showed us the parts from concentration camp onward

She should be fired!

I was herded into a screening of Life is Beautiful when it was just an arthouse flick. We had zero clue what was in store. It's about as close to film-goer "purity" as we ever got.

Full Metal Jacket was better in the first half before Vietnam.

And The Dark Knight had a terribly plodded second half,roughly after The Joker got captured did it mostly just fall apart. Sure there was the "WHERE ARE THEY" and the Hannibal Lecture,but that's about it.

The Dark Knight Rises also fell apart in the second half.

Can't believe it was two years ago I wrote something here until now.

Wings Of Desire. I found the first hour sluggish and pompous and it felt like a parody of slow-moving art films. I was all ready to bail at the half-way point. Then “something happened” and it finally clicked with me. The second half was so beautiful, so emotional, I almost cried. The first hour finally made sense. This is a movie I highly recommend, just know that you’ll need to stick with it as there is a big payoff!

This is going to PO some people, and it's a slight departure in that it's the first two acts, but since Premonition 45 took a chance with Empire Strikes Back I have to say that...

Blade Runner bored me silly. Or at least the first director's cut did. Don't get me wrong, beautifully made and awesome visually, but it was like watching really pretty paint dry with the occassional attention-grabbing Daryl Hannah walk-by. But then Roy Batty enters and I'm totally glued.

As for the aforementioned Hancock, I like both halves despite the Fridge Logic in the second, but it is a crowning example of Mood Whiplash.

Totally agree with you about Blade Runner (although I disliked the whole thing). It looked great but it was so dull.

Anyway, Terminator Salvation really picked up in the last sixty minutes.

I didn't like Blade Runner simply because I liked the book it was based off of better.

Hancock has an interesting first half and an interesting second half, but they don't go together very well (or at all). I wish they had stuck to the story of the first half.

Come And See.

While the film as a whole is incredible, it's only when Florya returns to his village that things start to get truly nightmarish.

Imaginaerum. At least the first time I watched. The first half was a confusing mess of a plot with no explanation about a single damned thing saved only by its visuals, the second half was a tearjerking story of an artist's downfall.

However, when I re-watched, I managed to reinterpret the first half better, with the knowledge of the second part.

edited 10th Aug '13 1:22:21 PM by Gaon

In Amityville II: The Possession, I was more interested by the messed up family drama in the first half than the Exorcist knockoff it became in the second half.

Tears Of The Sun's first half is a wonderfully dark and gothic Heart Of Darkness-style tale which also manages to say a lot about modern Africa. The second degenerates into the kind of mindless action which is perfectly fine if it spreads over the whole film, but, after the previous catalogue of darkness, rain, war crimes, and nastiness, is like adding the end of A New Hope to The Searchers. Could have been so much better.