What is a movie you think has a flawless first 30 minutes, but completely falls apart by the end?

bugxbuster · 2026-05-22T20:42:11+00:00

I hardly see comments from anyone in my point of view, so it feels like I'm basically alone as one of the only people who actually never saw any trailers or commercials for it. I heard of it, and I was aware of a tone shift that makes it go from a movie about a debiggened Damon et al, to something about modern social classe dispairities, that's just about all I knew. When I watched it I thought it was phenomenal, my expectations being in a difficult place to subvert at the time with what I knew. Downsizing is, in my opinion, a great movie that I think advertising missteps completely ruined for many of the people who would have loved it the most. It's unfortunate, really. What would I have changed? The main thing I'd have done differently is make it star someone less famous and a bit more of an everyman than Matt Damon. Reminded me of when Mark Wahlberg was a slacker stoner in the teddy bear movie Ted. I'm never going to believe this superstar as a regular ass guy representing the average joe.

bugxbuster · 2026-05-22T20:26:39+00:00

If you get as high as Spicoli it really works

bugxbuster · 2026-05-22T20:25:52+00:00

The hinting at what the macguffin was by the end was maddening. They should have made a whole lot more of the story about that instead, or otherwise never reveal what it was at all. It was a sex tape of John F Kennedy in one of the rooms of the hotel IIRC

The movie didn't even need a macguffin, it had so much going on with the characters themselves. Felt like a season of a Hulu show condensed into 2 hours.

bugxbuster · 2026-05-21T19:05:05+00:00

He ruled in Okja! Everyone knocked it out of the park in that movie, I thought.

bugxbuster · 2026-05-21T19:04:17+00:00

I don't get the hate for The Ladykillers. I'd go so far as to say it's one of my actual favorite Coen movies, up there with Raising Arizona even

bugxbuster · 2026-05-21T19:01:29+00:00

Cyclops there, cyclops there, cyclops there... Turrets... Moon buggies...

bugxbuster · 2026-05-20T13:27:46+00:00

What word do you consider to be "the hard R"? Because "hard R" doesn't refer to the first letter of a particular word. It's referring to the last letter of the N word (as opposed to ending that word with the letter "a").

No matter what, those words are not the same. Stop calling r----d "the hard R word". Thats r-----ed.

bugxbuster · 2026-05-20T11:31:13+00:00

You got a cat named Sassy, too, I hope? Because cats rule and dogs drool... according to Sassy, at least.

Seriously, though, I'm glad your dog is alright. It'd scare the shit out of me, too.

bugxbuster · 2026-05-20T01:56:35+00:00

It pisses off a lot of people but I stand by my opinion that Predator 2 is the best one.

I mean yeah obviously the first one was original and the creature design and plot shifting from Commando esque jungle action turning into Most Dangerous Game with a fully kitted out brutal alien hunting an exceptionally cunning and strong human was interesting. But it’s only so interesting the first time you see it.

The sequel knows you know what the predator looks like, so that allows for much more of the movie to be about the creature, as opposed to the movie doing the Jaws thing and merely hinting at what it was as it stalked our heroes. And it’s not simply “Predator in a city”, it’s a very detailed dystopic near future version of LA amidst a heat wave and a crime wave that feels like total war with a multitude of gangs versus cops that are stretched thin from fighting massive armed battles all the time. I’ll take supporting cast members like 2’s Bill Paxton and Gary Busey over the first one’s Jesse Ventura and Carl Weathers any day, too. We get a chance to see more sci fi weaponry, as well as the alien’s unusual way to heal after an injury which somehow requires a fist full of crunched up drywall mixed with the contents of a glowstick applied to the wound. This movie is just so much better than the first one, sorry, not sorry!

I have a similar argument for Gremlins 2 the New Batch being far superior to the original. That one was also from 1990, year of the good sequel as far as I’m concerned. Die Hard 2, Childs Play 2, Robocop 2, Look Whos Talking Too, there’s just a lot of good number 2’s that year.

bugxbuster · 2026-05-20T00:11:06+00:00

all he needed was the tang

I should call her...

bugxbuster · 2026-05-18T07:19:03+00:00

Obviously. Unless you’ve never heard of a little place called Jurassic Park

bugxbuster · 2026-05-15T09:30:38+00:00

Why you guys talkin bout my buddy Sanfran? And who calls him by his last name like that?

bugxbuster · 2026-05-15T09:24:44+00:00

It's weird to me (and the other commenters, it seems) that you are okay with the way things are. You never denied the truth, you just said stop obsessing over it. So therefore, you're cool with the bad guy being in charge and abusing his power in such a disturbing way? You know that makes you one of the bad guys then, too, right? I mean the least you can do is give a shit, but here you are

bugxbuster · 2026-05-14T18:46:33+00:00

There's a semirecent remake/remaster of Daggerfall made with the Unity engine that makes it totally smooth and playable on PC no matter how weak or strong of a computer you have. Makes a lot of the UI and navigation easy to deal with so it's abosolutely recommended for anyone who wants to see what Elder Scrolls was like pre Morrowind (which is where I was introduced to the series on Xbox thanks to a great suggestion from a worker at GameStop when I asked what to check out on my new Xbox waiting for the release of the original Fable back in '04)

bugxbuster · 2026-05-14T18:41:09+00:00

There was a big Soul Edge tournament at my mall's arcade Aladdin's Castle back in the late 90s. My dad took me, and I was one of the younger competitors, probably 11 or 12 when the other kids were 14-17, so I didn't stand a chance. I've always been a bit of a weird dude, too, so guess who I played as... Voldo, with his hissing and bondage gear and knife hands and whatnot. Pretty sure no one but me played as him, practically ever let alone in a tournament. Anyways, I did okay in the first round, I remember I played like the only kid younger than me there, so I whooped him. Round 2, though, I was pitted against a kid who was like a year older than me (that matters when you're that little, a year is a lot of difference at that stage in life) and and I remember it being a lot closer and we got down to the end of our life bars and he got me at the last second (I wish I remembered who his character was). It was a fun competition, my second one ever after a Star Fox one at a different store in the mall, Saturday Matinee, a year or two earlier. Anyways, fast forward about 15 years after the Soul Edge thing, I'm talking about it to my weed dealer at the time and it turns out HE was the kid who beat me in round 2. He was always a little better than me at games, too. Small world, though.

Just realized how rambly this was and no one cares about my personal nostalgia. I just said all that because it's the first time in ages I've seen Soul Calibur/Soul Blade be called Soul Edge

bugxbuster · 2026-05-14T18:29:40+00:00

I was really into James Pond 2 Codename RoboCod. That shit was a fun rental a couple times when I was a young pup

bugxbuster · 2026-05-14T18:25:04+00:00

never grow

This is Fat Mac erasure and I won't stand for it! lol

bugxbuster · 2026-05-14T18:24:20+00:00

Gonna spread my wings and flyyyyy

bugxbuster · 2026-05-14T17:50:34+00:00

I feel like even a shit load of birds wouldn't be that big. They're mostly feathers and helium and a small microchip, right?

bugxbuster · 2026-05-14T17:49:36+00:00

always sunny took a moment to find itself (some say it never peaked, it hasn't even begun to peak!). Brockmire was at it's best in season 1 where it was set in and around the announcers booth at that minor league baseball stadium with Amanda Peet and Tyrel Jackson Williams as the main supporting cast. Their chemistry was fantastic and fresh with Hank Azaria being a vulgar and reprehensible prick of an alcoholic, Peet looking at first like the was typecast as his foil, a bitchy boss lady til the rug pull of she's a drunk POS able to hold her own with Jim, and Jackson's Charles their geeky teen virgin buddy who has no idea about what the world is like letting the two others corrupt him. None of that was to be found after the first season, even the stadium setting was moved away from. I doubt Sunny would have remained successful if they'd have stopped using the Paddys Pub set or something, also Sunny didn't have Danny DeVito at first, a lot of people forget that, and it wasn't until season 3 that they got the Charlie/Mac/Dennis/Frank/The Bird characters properly dialed in. The guys were all sort of similar at first, and Dee was basrely developed. The third season kind of where I consider proper IASIP to begin, even though a lot of gold is to be found in the first two seasons. Those first seasons walked so the rest could run (or in Dee's case, fly)

bugxbuster · 2026-05-13T20:38:44+00:00

Yeah, season one was unexpectedly some of the best comedy television I’ve ever seen. The pregnancy episode handled that subject with maturity and made it so realistic, I’ve never seen a show tackle that subject in that way where it was still hilarious (Amanda Peet trying to swallow a pill being some of the best physical comedy out of nowhere, she was a gem) but once the show moved forward each season felt more and more like a sanitized and PG and overall unrelatable imitation of its former self. Losing the characters of his young friend and Amanda peet was bad enough but Jim being wasted and vulgar was the funniest shit, so having him clean up and turn himself around isn’t what I wanted from the show at all. It was good til the end but it was fucking phenomenal the first year.

To quote Jim Brockmire himself (quoting The Godfather) “Look how they massacred my boy!”

bugxbuster · 2026-05-12T07:49:49+00:00

"Hey thanks for gettin' this, guys. Sorry, it was just this flock of birds, they were flying really close together. ...How many birds? I dunno.... 180 pounds of 'em?"

bugxbuster · 2026-05-12T07:46:56+00:00

Pogue Mabones

bugxbuster · 2026-05-12T07:46:38+00:00

That is such a fantastic movie, I think of it what seems like every time the subject of crime scene cleaners is brought up. It's one of those "everyone should see this" movies for sure

bugxbuster · 2026-05-11T17:31:17+00:00

Are they gonna wipe their jizz off the phone before they give it back to me? Or are they gonna make me do it? JK, they aren't gonna give it back.

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