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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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4 years ago
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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Maxence_G
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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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ferry_silitonga
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4 years ago
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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Hoekkie
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imdbmember
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4 years ago
And nothing was ever great about Disney's latest Alice in Wonderland.
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MykolaYeriomin
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4 years ago
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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Brijesh
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4 years ago
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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Pencho15
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4 years ago
Stephen, will you add Ardan's choices?
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