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Poll Suggestion: IMDb Poll Board's Great Starts to Utterly Terrible Movies
Which of these utterly terrible movies* start off with a great opening scene before devolving into a hot mess of a trashy garbage film?
LIST: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls099964992/
POLL:
*Chosen by members of the IMDb Poll Board. Nominated films rated by the respective member with 4 or fewer stars.
REQUIREMENT: If submitting a film for inclusion, please find a corresponding image in the film's respective IMDb image page to add to the list. The scene must take place in the opening 5 or so minutes of the film (give or take opening credits if the opening credits do not involve the depiction of the film's plot/narrative).
LIST: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls099964992/
POLL:
*Chosen by members of the IMDb Poll Board. Nominated films rated by the respective member with 4 or fewer stars.
REQUIREMENT: If submitting a film for inclusion, please find a corresponding image in the film's respective IMDb image page to add to the list. The scene must take place in the opening 5 or so minutes of the film (give or take opening credits if the opening credits do not involve the depiction of the film's plot/narrative).
MyCatDuffyTookMyLaptop
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Tim Burton's 'Alice in Wonderland' starts off pretty well, depicting Alice as an underappreciated imaginative young girl who discovers the rabbit hole... but it soon evolves into nightmarish signature Burton mess.
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ElMaruecan82
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Here's the link to the gag, if you don't speak French, you won't get it...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cc1aiu2WtzE
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cinephile
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dan_dassow
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This may not exactly fit your criteria. However, Penny Serenade (1941) starts out well but towards the end becomes infuriating.
A childless couple pray for a baby boy. Eventually, they adopt a baby girl. The film shows the baby girl grow into a young girl who dies from a sudden illness. The couple's tears of sadness are turned into tears of joy when the adoption agency provides them with the baby boy that they originally prayed for.
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Pencho15
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The closest I can find to your parameters is Alexander's Ragtime Band. But I must say I don't find it utterly awful, but simply mediocre. All the terrible films I have seen don't have a promising start I can remember.
Alexander's Ragtime Band started strong, while it is nothing original and it follows the structure of many musicals, it presents the two lead characters and lovers to be, puts a rivalry between them as they both want to have the spot in a musical number, and they end playing the title song together. We know what follows but it can be done right or bad, and this films odes it bad as the rest of the film has little substance, not great perfomances and never again has a great musical number like the first one.
Picture is of the main characters, is not of the first scene, but I think there isn't one.
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Its actually really good opening, but later I think this is the most selfish movie about disaster I've ever seen. And the part later found in the movie's story, scientifically wrong, land earthquake don't trigger tsunami.
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And nothing was ever great about Disney's latest Alice in Wonderland.
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From the depths of what I've seen and from the top of my head, Hitler Kaput (2008) is the case if good title sequences count. It starts with a really impressive and creative title sequence which I can easily compare to a great main-on-end title sequence in Suicide Squad (2016), however, what follows is a very messy and unfunny Russian absurdist comedy with fewer jokes landing anywhere near funny.
Here's an official screener on YouTube, if anyone wonders, first 2-5 minutes will do to understands the scale of the situation:
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ndbportmanfan_1
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1077368/mediaviewer/rm2326698241
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In the opening sequence, RDJ is talking to his wife over phone and going to airport, but then his car gets hit by a taxi with Jack coming out of it. They have a devilish eye contact and began talking I just felt it was another Hangover fun! But, it turned out be snoozefest with no jokes, no fun and less emotion.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1231583/me...
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ardan_tuzunsoy
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I watched Nemesis a couple of days ago, and thought the opening sequence wasn't nearly as good as I remembered. So that leaves Stargate alone as my choice.
I also think the non-stop action opening of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) was great, but the rest of the movie was somehow below expectations. I don't think it's an "utterly terrible movie" as the topic suggests, but there's still a contrast with how promising it starts and how it turns out to be average slapstick.
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Pencho15
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Stephen, will you add Ardan's choices?
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