When otherwise good movies jump the shark...

Hands down, when Sunshine turns into a slasher flick.

Most Marvel movies where they have a good story and good character development and then always end in the same CGI heavy fight in the end.

I get stories and endings sucking ...but I’m thinking of when a single scene or moment is just WAY out of place.

Another was when Ohura did the feather dance to distract the guards in one of the Star Trek movies.

I think the ending of Fury completely ruins it. A regiment of elite SS troops can’t take down a crippled tank and it’s crew of 5. bullshite

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I think the ending of Fury completely ruins it. A regiment of elite SS troops can’t take down a crippled tank and it’s crew of 5. bullshite

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Did you miss the part where they took down the crew of 5 except that 1 guy who hid at the end???....

well like my earlier reference to TFA where the giant planet weapon and solo falling off the bridge down a giant tunnel with a reactor at the bottom exactly like the movie before it and the one before it.

that movie wasnt bad up until that point where you just think, "oh come on, this is the exact same scripted action as the last two movies" when had they just had solo fall on the ground was good enough and wouldnt have been a cheesy repeated scene, same with the death planet, there was no need for it and a simple extra large imperial cruiser would serve the same purpose. especially since they only had a handful of ships to fight it.

and the same cheesy design flaw of lets create a fully exposed self destruct thingy that a few ships can come blow it up and destroy everything

no need for much creative thinking, just have something new and different then a repeat of the last 3 movies as though its the same script with just different words and actors.

i really didnt like TLJ at all but at least it did try to NOT follow the same exact script of action as all the other movies.

with TLJ they pretty much killed the entire story line and plot so unless they do all the next movies in the form of a time before TLJ to fill in the blanks, then i think we see the first of the truly star wars movies bomb big time.

it did get stupid
I've often wondered what a good ending would have meant for that movie

It's 3/4 of a masterpiece

I don't know if Ocean's 12 falls under "good", but the Julia Roberts bullshite they pulled ruined the movie for me. Lazy lazy writing.

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As much as I love the LOTR movies - Legolas single handedly taking out the big elephant (oliphant?) was a bit much.

You have a lot of leeway with fantasy but even then you can go too far .... or at least farther than you should. I guess it just depends on the style and tone of the film.

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LotR is high fantasy (as opposed to, say, GoT or the like) and that sort of thing is part of the genre. Notice how every single hero except for Boromir (and Boromir was 'fallen' when he betrayed the hobbits) went through orcs like they were Cabbage Patch Kids? They're essentially superhumans because that's how high fantasy works. Just so long as they don't do something impossible for their character -- none of them levitated and shot lightning bolts from their eyes, for instance -- they're going to get a lot of leeway.

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AI should have ended when they were underwater instead of the Disney ending which finalized 15 minutes later.

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I noted in another post here a while back that the Disney ending is dark as frick. The future robots won't create a fake mother to fool the kid, which would make sense and give the kid as many years he wants with his family. With all that advanced technology at their disposal,there's no way they couldn't have created a robot replica of her. Even worse, they essentially say that people still live on in the universe...unless they're brought back in the way the robots brought the mother back, in which case they're totally gone afterwards. So they completely annihilate what remains of the mother in order to give the kid a single day with her.