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'Vertigo' is the ultimate. About 4 films in one really.
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One obvious example that strikes me is From Dusk till Dawn - one half gangster heist thriller, second half insane vampire horror.
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The Forgotten has a classic "oh for fuck's sake" shift. A movie to definitely "forget."
More problematic for me (because it's a film I like for the most part) is Noah Baumbach's While We're Young in which the initial "40-somethings becoming friends with early 20s hipsters" story shifts focus onto documentary-making. The film still works, but the shift in emphasis threw me the first time I saw it.
Another film that threw me at first (or maybe the first three times) is David Lynch's Blue Velvet. I could not get a handle on its tone - offbeat detective thriller? A look behind the facade of a seemingly quaint little town? A black comedy? A Freudian drama? I finally realized it was all these things happening at once.
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'Heather's' gets darker and more serious as it goes on, but ends with the most delightful dialog: 'Heather my love, there's a new sheriff in town.'
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Sep 20, 2017 - 6:33 AM
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Tall Guy
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I occasionally watch 2006's Casino Royale up to the point where the little bomb goes off in the bad guy's pants, about an hour in. It's pretty evocative of a 60s Bond up to that point, lots of action, a bit of exposition and colourful characters, several of whom die in amusing ways. After that it all gets a bit serious and slower with the introduction of Vesper, the card game, the beating and the climax in Venice. Still a perfectly good film, but for me a different feel after Miami International.
And I can still wonder if it wouldn't have been better pacing if the Venice scenes were removed from CR and tacked on to the start of Quantum of Solace. Yes, I know that they wanted to bring in the full Bond theme during the scene with Mr White, but even so...
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Can someone remember the one that came out, oh, in the mid 90's or later, that started out as a hetero rom-com, then turned into a serious AIDS movie?
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PERFORMANCE (1970), which starts out as a hard-boiled British gangster flick but then morphs into a trippy psychodrama.
good one ess.
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GIU, LA TESTA
Starts out as a typical Leone film with two antagonists trying to outsmart one another Laurel and Hardy style.
Then war, torture, suicide, loneliness...
brm
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