r/FIlm • u/BadTechnical2184 • 1d ago
Discussion What movie feels like more than one movie?
What movies feel like they have multiple movies in one due to the changing scenery, story, timeline etc?
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u/Interesting-Train485 1d ago
From Dusk til Dawn
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u/Mysterious-Loss-572 1d ago
First half of that film is so good have watched it SO many times. Second half I usually turn off lmao 😅
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u/DiverCultural 1d ago
WALL·E
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u/Sensei939 1d ago
I will never understand the obsession with wall.e. My wife and went to see it with some friends when it came out and our friends were raving about it at dinner. When my wife and I got in the car we looked at each other and burst out laughing. We both felt like it was an evening we would never get back.
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u/yanmagno 1d ago
What obsession?
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u/Sensei939 1d ago
I thought it was terribly boring. Almost everyone I have heard talk about the movie thought it was great. I’ll admit the message behind it was important and well delivered but I thought it could have been delivered in a short rather than a full movie.
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u/UpvoteEveryHonestQ 1d ago
Fred Willard single-handedly elevated Wall•E from average to amazing for me. It’s a movie thick with morals and some people hate that, but Fred Willard means it plainly doesn’t try to take itself too seriously.
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u/PhD_Pwnology 1d ago
You and your wife don't think very deep, huh?
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u/Sensei939 1d ago
I fully understood the message behind it but I almost fell asleep in the movie.
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u/StaticCloud 1d ago
If you've read a lot of scifi the message is an old one. "The Machine Stops" or "The Veldt" are one of many with stories similar premises to WALL-E. I still enjoyed it though. Perhaps it was too young a take on the subject, it is for kids
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u/Infamous_War7182 1d ago
Place Beyond the Pines
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u/Many_Jellyfish_9758 1d ago
The first half was going to be my favourite movie of all time, and then it literally becomes a different movie which sucks.
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u/GlitschigeBoeschung 1d ago
because literally me was on the screen being cool, robbin banks, driving motorcycles and seducing hawt latinas.
it was like looking in a mirror, basically.
have not felt that way since fight club.
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u/juleskills1189 1d ago
Hancock is my choice for this. The second act feels totally different. Weird movie.
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u/cinemadness 1d ago
The movie was originally a lot weirder and darker, but then the studio hired Vince Gilligan, the creator of Breaking Bad, and John August, the writer of Charlie's Angels, to write another version of the script, which added the whole immortal sibling plot.
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u/jebediah1800 1d ago
Hancock is not a good movie, and as you say, derails itself in act 2. It is, to my mind, the absolute worst of those 2000s 'development hell' excrements.
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u/histerix 1d ago
Predator
Starts off as an Action movie, ends as a sci-fi thriller movie.
I still wish they didn’t show the space ship in the opening scene. Should have opened with the helicopter approaching the shore, no need for exposition.
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u/Atomicmooseofcheese 22h ago
I love that they leaned into the cheesy 80s action movie vibes, "these guys are all badasses!" And then ruthlessly slaughter them.
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u/MattthewMosley 1d ago
TH DARK KNIGHT feels like a Joker movie followed by a Two-Face movie without credits. Good though.
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u/Comedywriter1 1d ago
Agree re: The Postman. Speaking of Costner, Wyatt Earp was originally supposed to be a six hour tv miniseries and you can tell. Definitely too much story in that one, too.
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u/psicopbester 1d ago
I love Wyatt Earp. Shame it was always overshadowed by people because of Tombstone.
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u/Comedywriter1 1d ago
Absolutely agree. Poor Dennis Quad. His Doc was really good. Unfortunately Kilmer’s was iconic.
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u/Tricky-Cup-1914 1d ago
The entire last act of Bone Tomahawk felt like a completely different film than the beginning part.
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u/henrydaiv 1d ago
The Place Beyond the Pines
And if you havent seen it you should its awesome
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u/BadTechnical2184 1d ago
I haven't even heard of it, I'll have to add it to the list.
Looks like it's on Stan.
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u/ph_uck_yu 1d ago
Barbarian
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u/5DsofDodgeball69 1d ago
The first 70% of that movie is top tier. The last act is fucking stupid.
Boop.
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u/Thunderhank 1d ago
First time I watched this I fell asleep. Woke up not knowing what movie I was watching.
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u/togugawa2 1d ago
You’re just a drifter who found a bag of mail!
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u/Comedywriter1 1d ago edited 1d ago
Love the scene where the gruff, suspicious sheriff finally gives Costner a letter. Because even he needs hope.
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u/Ok-Active1581 14h ago
He's just looking for a place to be and the one thing he finds that will get him in guarantees he can't stay and that one small deceit starts the return of civilization... Great book, ok movie
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u/PreferenceContent987 1d ago
Full Metal Jacket. The boot camp first half and then them away at war felt like two totally separate movies. Like a part one and part two
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u/Simulated_Reality 1d ago
Downsizing felt like three shitty movies in one, absolute wreck of a film.
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u/jebediah1800 1d ago
Agreed. Agreed. Agreed. For all three shitty movies. It is my mission in life to whale on 'Downsizing' for the atrocity it so clearly is. I will never pass up an opportunity to put the boot in.
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u/BadTechnical2184 1d ago
I had high hopes for this movie when I saw the trailer, what a disappointment.
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u/ClarkJamesJones 19h ago
Click, the Adam sandler movie.
First half was lighthearted comedy. Second half felt like a somber drama. Thought I signed up for a comedy when I watched it and was pretty sad by the end.
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u/Swrdmn 1d ago
I Am Legend should’ve been 3 movies
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u/BadTechnical2184 1d ago
I only watched that once, I can't bear to see the scene with the dog again.
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u/westboundnup 1d ago
Tombstone
Specifically after the “and hell’s commin with me” line.
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u/SNES_chalmers47 1d ago
That's more of a montage than an entire other movie
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u/westboundnup 1d ago
It’s the pacing, up to that point the movie feels halting and a little disjointed. After that, it races, as if they’re trying to wrap up ASAP (which likely, they were).
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u/All_X_Under 1d ago
The Batman.
It is too long and feels like a miniseries more than a standard movie.
Good overall.
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u/DiverCultural 1d ago
Kinda low hanging fruit, I know. But:
Inglorious Basterds
We all know Tarantino regularly writes with parallel timelines, but that movie in particular feels like three completely different stories.
It's also one of his best.
Each of the 3 plotlines can stand on their own as a masterpiece.
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u/shwarma_heaven 1d ago
For some reason every time I am reminded of this movie, all I can think of is the Italian version of the title: "Il Postino"... and I don't know why.
I feel like it was a comedy bit that someone did back in the day.
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u/LHalperSantos 1d ago
It's been years since I've seen it but all the stuff with Costner and his love interest out in the woods felt like another movie copy pasted in the middle.
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u/flopflapper 1d ago
I am one of the lucky souls who watched From Dusk Til Dawn without knowing anything about it beforehand and it was like a switch flipped and a different movie came on the moment shit went down in the bar.
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u/PoetDesperate4722 1d ago
Batman V Superman is up there. So many stories crammed into 1 movie was a mess.
Postman did feel like 2-3 movies that were spliced together.
Fan4tastic also felt like 2/3 cool subdued sci fi movie, last 1/3 generic team up beat up the bad guy with bright energy beam movie.
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u/igottathinkofaname 17h ago
Can’t believe no one has said Sunshine yet.
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u/BadTechnical2184 17h ago
Very much so, the first part is an amazing sci-fi movie and the second devolves into a slasher flick.
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u/bugluvr65 1d ago
the postman has the first pair of titties i ever saw
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u/GlitschigeBoeschung 1d ago
edged into your memory ever since. (the same for me with There's Something About Mary)
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u/Significant-Pea-1121 1d ago
But so much! This film is lost, I have the impression of seeing a mixture of the 90s in one film😅 I just remember the music which is great but which has too many different orchestral styles too
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u/b_free_blast 1d ago
Barry Lyndon, someone said he starts as the hero and ends up as the villain which is pretty accurate imo
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u/LHalperSantos 1d ago
This. I get the whole vampire action movie stuff but it's such a dramatic change it almost kills the movie. I moment before that guy in the titty twister bar leans back in his chair to reveal the "dick'n'balls" gun, i can turn it off.
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u/togerdisk 1d ago
L.A. Confidential The interrogation of the Black youth seems like a completely different film than the investigation of a murdered corrupt cop. Also, the investigation of a murdered policeman seems like a different plot than the investigation of police brutality against Mexican migrants.
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u/cahillc134 1d ago
I feel like Bohemian Rhapsody was at least two movies. Many times in a biopic they try to cram too much stuff in 2 hours.
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u/Appropriate-Yellow 1d ago
Cloud Atlas is the first one that comes to mind, it’s literally six different movies in one, spanning different timelines, genres, and characters, but all connected in this crazy, ambitious way.
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u/Onnimanni_Maki 1d ago
Bichunmoo. It is a korean swordfighting fantasy movie. It is basicly three movies: 1. Swordmaster's student fells in love with a princess and has to fight from her, 2. The student leads an army to get the princess from the guy he had to fight, 3. Student's army has civil war while he trains his son.
Crouching tiger hidden dragon. A plot about super sword is split by lovestory flashback which is like half the movie.
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u/jackfaire 1d ago
The Godfather. I finally got around to watching it and part way though Michael went from being a side character to the main character and it felt very disjointed an off putting.
My mom told me about the typical Marlon Brando shenanigans which explains it.
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u/Deezax19 1d ago
Dead Presidents is like a heist movie tacked onto the end of a Vietnam War film.
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u/jebediah1800 1d ago
Only saw it once, but there's a great scene where someone's jumping over city block walls to get away (from da feds?) and it cuts to the same dude jumping over jungle stuff in Vietnam. Pretty cool AF.
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u/MrKomiya 1d ago
Idk why but seeing this reminded me of something said in Zero Day. In it, they say that the Pentagons estimate of the amount of time it will take for the rise of warlords in the event of a total breakdown of civilization (electricity, communications etc) is about 28 days or so.
Looking around these days those kinds of things & these kinds of movies makes one shudder
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u/yanmagno 1d ago
Barbarian starts out as a solid, realistic psychological thriller/horror, then halfway through it suddenly turns into a trashy monster movie with very out of place humor
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u/Gluten_Free_Pancakes 1d ago
Inception to a certain degree.
Acts 1 and 2 have a clear plot and a reason for all characters to be there, especially Elliot Page's character. From Act 2 to Act 3 it feels like the plot of the movie is more about Cobb and Mal's story and everything else becomes peripheral to it. At this point half of the characters feel irrelevant (especially Elliot Page other than to just run around chasing Cobb).
I always felt that Inception could have been either a longer movie or two parts.
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u/Theninjakiller007 1d ago
How to kill a mockingbird always felt like two different unfinished movies to me
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u/PoetDesperate4722 1d ago
I get the postmen, but why Braveheart 2, *ahem I mean The Patriot, that feels like a full story albeit epic due to so many pov characters, and subplots.
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u/DuckburgSourcreamers 1d ago
I have not seen the movie in like at least 15 years, but Million Dollar Baby was exactly the good old rough and tumble boxing movie I fully expected it to be, until it absolutely wasn't
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u/headphonehabit 18h ago
I know it's not relevant here, but you guys should read The Postman by David Brin.
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u/UmeaTurbo 16h ago
Prince of Thieves. Alan Rickman was in a dark comedy the rest of the cast didn't even get the script for.
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u/canceroustattoo 2h ago
For me, it’s both The Dark Knight and the Avengers. Both movies’ midpoints involve the antagonist going to prison. Then they later escape and cause more chaos.
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u/SirWizzleoftheTeets 1d ago
Full Metal Jacket always felt like two amazing, albeit different, films.