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Is there another good movie that falls apart worse in its final act than Minority Report?

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Everything after Anderton inadvertently murders Leo Crowe is so fucking bad. Like, just the absolute worst Spielberg tendencies wrapped up neatly in one final act that feels so wrong for a movie of this type. Anderton proves that the system doesn't work ... there is a 'minority report', human have free will and can choose. Their actions aren't predetermined. Anderton and his wife make amends and she ends up pregnant. The Precogs live out their days peacefully on a little house on a prairie. What a false and pat piece of shit ending
 
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There's a psychological thriller/horror film called Pet which released some years ago which if not for the ending I would have regarded in the same breath as Alien/T1/Carpenter's The Thing.

It was that close to being perfect.
 
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I thought Glass was great until I realized that it was almost over and that they weren't going beyond that parking lot and that Mr Glass was actually a clueless dolt who had very little idea what he was doing but was saved by the utter incompetence of everyone else on earth.
 
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The Devil Inside ends in a cliffhanger that cuts to black, says 'the mystery was never solved', then a URL pops up that leads you to a site that advertises the movie.


That's the end.
 
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This too. A lot of it has to do with the fact that the threat and the characters' behaviors work as a metaphor but not in the context of the movie. It's invisible, not intangible, but this distinction is never used to the protagonist's advantage. Maybe pelt it with flour or paint if the plan was to have your friend shoot at it, yeah? Or maybe think of that before the brilliant plan of luring it into a pool lined with toasters.

Then because they wrote themselves into a corner with an apparently unstoppable force and really stupid characters, it just kinda ends.
 
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Sunshine has the GOAT worst third act. Its one of my favorite sci-fi movies of all time for the first two acts and then turns into complete shit.
 

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JB1981 said:
Everything after Anderton inadvertently murders Leo Crowe is so fucking bad. Like, just the absolute worst Spielberg tendencies wrapped up neatly in one final act that feels so wrong for a movie of this type. Anderton proves that the system doesn't work ... there is a 'minority report', human have free will and can choose. Their actions aren't predetermined. Anderton and his wife make amends and she ends up pregnant. The Precogs live out their days peacefully on a little house on a prairie. What a false and pat piece of shit ending
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You don't remember Scullibundo's post on the double ending.

It's great when you look at it that way.
 

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I Am Legend was worse, because the book already had an all-time great ending and they just cast it aside for a bad ending.
 
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Sunshine can't be topped here considering how good it's first two acts were.

Also, this is a show and not a movie but Refn's Too old to die young ranks.
 
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i thought Possum kind of went limp once it started explaining everything outright to you

also Titanic completely fell apart in the third act
 
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Z-Beat said:
This too. A lot of it has to do with the fact that the threat and the characters' behaviors work as a metaphor but not in the context of the movie. It's invisible, not intangible, but this distinction is never used to the protagonist's advantage. Maybe pelt it with flour or paint if the plan was to have your friend shoot at it, yeah?
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This sounds like an episode of Scooby Doo.
 
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Come on, man. This is Spielberg we're talking about here. Where is the tip-off to the audience that none of this was real?
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Like the literal guy screaming to the audience "They Say you have VISIONS, that your life flashes before your eyes that ALL YOUR DREAMS ... come true"

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A lot of the best horror comes from having these awesome, fantastic premises or monsters with no way to wrap up the story in a satisfying way
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The "rules" for Us when fully explained fully broke the movie for me. They make absolutely no sense. It would have been better to leave it vague than try to explain it the way they did.
 
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Mekanos said:
The "rules" for Us when fully explained fully broke the movie for me. They make absolutely no sense. It would have been better to leave it vague than try to explain it the way they did.
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yea, i thought i wanted some answers, until i got them, then i didn't want them anymore
 
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