Current Events > Has catching the wrong scene ever kept you from watching a film?

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I held off on watching Tron (1981), The Thing (1982), and Sherlock Holmes (2009) because I caught the wrong scene and it made the film look disinteresting. I eventually saw and enjoyed all three of them. The Thing in particular immediately became a favored horror movie of mine.

Tron

Because the final fight was dull, I assumed the film was dull. I only just saw this movie two nights ago and it's incredibly underrated. The final confrontation is still weak, but everything else is legit. The film had an influence on Transformers: The Movie and I'm pretty sure it had one on the original Star Fox as well.

The Thing

Once again, a seemingly bad final confrontation lead me to assume the worst about the film itself. The monster shows up, looks menacing, and gets blown away with a stick of dynamite. Out of context, it's a weak confrontation. In context, it's another argument in favor of the strong possibility of Childs being the Thing in the final scene. Something that fought that hard throughout the film isn't likely to die that easily.

Sherlock Holmes

I caught the scene where he's captured and details how he knows exactly where he is despite the blindfold because he could smell bread and recognized the bump the carriage drove over. It made him look like a Mary Sue that'd make Batman blush. The scene is still silly, but it's out-of-place in an otherwise fairly down to Earth adaptation of Sherlock Holmes.

I can't remember the last time I've watched a movie where I didn't see the first scene first.
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PMarth2002 posted...

I can't remember the last time I've watched a movie where I didn't see the first scene first.

It's not so much about starting a movie in mid action. It's more about happening to catch a certain scene.


The scene from Sherlock Holmes was playing while I was in a video store. The fight scene from The Thing was because that film happened to be on when I turned on the TV. And the fight from Tron was because I was 14 and I was still at that point where I would watch the last part of a film, then go back and watch everything leading up to it.

I still haven't watched Inception because of a scene where the heavy exposition left a bad taste in my mouth, and after hearing a good chunk of the movie is like that I'm in no hurry.
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