Beginnings of movies that the rest can't live up to
Submitted by directorspen on Fri, 09/24/2004 - 01:00
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- Scream...always have loved the beginning to this movie. Leaves the rest of the movie to be made well (but it's not, unfortunately). Still, very thrilling with some brilliant ideas, parodied often in other movies.
- Gangs of New York...I really love this movie even though I don't know many people who do. The very energetic beginning pumps me up and the flute/drum combination for the score is perfect and then Brendan Gleeson kicks the doors open into the snow covered square. The first fight is great as is the rest of the movie, but I never feel the energy that I do with the material after the beginning.
- Magnolia...it all started with the crazy/interesting opening involving a shotgun, a feud between a wife and a husband, and a falling body. From that point, I didn't care too much about the movie. But since so many people liked this movie, I might rewatch it sometime.
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail - I roll on the floor everytime the opening credits come on and my stomach is in pain when they finish and I'm so laughed out and for the rest of the movie, while it's still hilarious, can't make me laugh as much as I want to.
- L.A. Story...there are some humourous parts throughout the movie, but nothing beats Steve Martin's car ride to work.
- Irma la Douce...I liked the movie a lot, but as soon as Jack Lemmon turns to a different lifestyle, the movie sags a bit and that begins not too far into the movie.
- Saving Private Ryan...(thanks to Stooky) the battle at Normandy is devastating and amazing at the same time. The rest of the movie is incredible but doesn't and can't shock your mind like the Omaha Beach scene.
More to Come!
Saving Private Ryan would be one.
So true about L.A. Story, when he screams at his friend to get out the pistol I'm practically rolling on the floor.
T'ho
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SPR is a good one, thanks for the suggestion.
I was rolling too.
I disagree with Holy Grail being on there, but whatever.
When I rented Josie and the Pussycats, I didn't expect much... but as I started watching it, I found it was better than I thought it would be... the boy band spoof with Seth Green and Breckin Meyer was pretty funny vicious and funny... then the movie just slowly deteriorated bit by bit until the end when I wished I could erase the film from my mind...
heres some: (i could probably think of more, ill have to think harder later but...)
Animated beginning in "Catch Me If You Can"
The Travel through the gun In "Fight Club"
The Comic Book intro in "Spider-Man2"
The Conveyer belt walking intro to "The Graduate"
Well i'll think of more!..oh i got one!
The Travel of the feather in "Forrest Gump"
Doh! just read the part where it says "That the movie cant live up too" lol i thought it was "The Best Entrance" kind of thing, so yes Scrap my suggestions earlier! they were all amazing movies.
The Bob & Doug McKenzie movie Strange Brew starts off amazing with Bob & Doug's movie within a movie and a jar full of moths to get their money back. "Free the moths... eh?" I remember thinking: "I can't believe that this is going to be the funniest movie ever!"
It wasn't. After no more than a quarter hour it plunges off the cliff, briefly pausing to grasp at two branches, and plummets to its well-deserved death.
Oh! what might have been, eh?
Can't agree with Gangs Of New York cus it has that amazin' middle section that ends with the killing of the new sherriff. Damn fine beginning though, the tracking shot is amazing as it weaves between characters eventually emerging into the white courtyard.
T'ho
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Full Metal Jacket (as Jim recently pointed out, the first act triumphs, the rest struggles to hold up the same level of awesomeness).
Yes, the beginning is very good, but I haven't actually completed the film, I've just seen up to the first few minutes of when they're actually in Vietnam, so I won't put it on the list for the sake of unfinished business.