It Was Great Until....

[Skuffyshootster]

The Maximum Ride series, up until it changed from novels about genetically enhanced flying children into preachy "Stop global warming!" bullshit.

Of course, the books may be different now, but I've moved on.

 

[pauloalbatross]

Black Cat - it was a fairly decent anime about an assassin and then the main male character became good and omg he turned in to an idiot...

The manga has a decent ending - basically the anime's plotwriters came to the end of the story too soon by skipping out stuff so had to come up with several episodes' worth of plot without going to the effort of creating any major new characters - utterly dreadful idea by them

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

Splice was border-line brilliant until the 3rd act. Then it all went to shit.

Spoiler

So Adrian Brody's character bangs Dren. You know, the half-animal mutant who's only a few months old. Why? Because she kinda looks like his girlfriend. Yeah. That's really the only explanation given for his random (and very fleeting) lapse in judgment, and morality. Then Dren dies. For no reason. Then she comes back to life as a male. Why? Because some organic blobs did it earlier. But the only reason THAT happened is because the two scientists were ignoring them for Dren. So if the same process was happening to Dren, shouldn't they have noticed? Anyway, Dren comes back to life as a male, kills most of the characters, and rapes Ilsa in a scene that I jokingly referred to as "Rape, incest, pedophilia, bestiality, and masturbation all at the same time." Why does Dren want to rape Ilsa? Because it's disturbing, and it gives Ilsa a chance to (again, for to real reason) become pregnant and decide to keep the damn thing. Why? Probably for a sequel, but from a plot perspective, it just doesn't make any goddamn sense. It's like at first they set out to make a charming, heartwarming sort of movie, but 2 acts in, someone told them it was supposed to me a horror movie, so they decided to make it as horribly and morally wrong as possible. Which would have been fine, if they'd come up with a good reason for any of it. But they don't. Everyone just starts acting like doucebags to each other for no reason at all.

 

[pauloalbatross]

Code Geass was ruined by part of the ending of series 1 and R2 - it was good while Lelouch had clever plots and the writers weren't so dominated by fans, but by the point Orange got brought back from the dead it was going straight south through "I win through hax-ness" and "This atomisation bomb thing only blinded me" towns

 

[zHellas]

Shutter Island. Do I even need to say why?

I think this it's gonna be that ONE movie whose fuckin' stupid twist will haunt me for the rest of my life.

I dunno, I really liked that twist. It's pretty easy to predict, but I thought it gave the movie some character.

I liked the movie, even though because of TVTropes I already knew the twist.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

Indigo Prophecy.

I thought it was a great game and was having fun, the plot was pretty interesting.. until..

Spoiler

You get to the museum, and find out some mystical mayan prophecy super power bullshit. It just goes down hill from there, you die and come back to life? You're a fucking undead husk flying in the air fighting with some guy matrix style. It's retarded.

ruined the game for me... thankfully, the larger portion of the game was normal, so that was cool.

This a hundred times over... I was so upset when that happened.

Spoiler: Indigo Prophecy spoiler.

The whole game did have a bit of supernatural elements to it, but the fact that it went from this guy running from the police to him breaking into an orphanage and saying to this little girl "I've seen you in my dreams. You have to come with me now." ruined it for me. And then the flying around having a slap battle with some demon killed it. It could have been such a good game, too...

 

[KwaggaDan]

Indigo Prophecy.

I thought it was a great game and was having fun, the plot was pretty interesting.. until..

Spoiler

You get to the museum, and find out some mystical mayan prophecy super power bullshit. It just goes down hill from there, you die and come back to life? You're a fucking undead husk flying in the air fighting with some guy matrix style. It's retarded.

ruined the game for me... thankfully, the larger portion of the game was normal, so that was cool.

This a hundred times over... I was so upset when that happened.

Spoiler: Indigo Prophecy spoiler.

The whole game did have a bit of supernatural elements to it, but the fact that it went from this guy running from the police to him breaking into an orphanage and saying to this little girl "I've seen you in my dreams. You have to come with me now." ruined it for me. And then the flying around having a slap battle with some demon killed it. It could have been such a good game, too...

You know, I was about to post this. It turned one of my favourite PS2 games into crap. Even now I only play it up to your spolier alert...

 

[IcyEvils]

The Wheel of Time- Books 6-10 RJ couldn't see the sunlight due to the fact he so far up his own characters asses. Thankfully he relieved this for 11-12.

Thanks, I just started book 6 and now I'll have a bad review looming over it. It's seeming very busy right now to the point that I'm having to reread some things to pick up on a few points. Like which Forsaken are dead, which are only half-dead waiting for Miracle Max to revive them so they can storm the castle, and which are frolicking about with lords and ladies as footstools.

Oh I am so sorry. Someone did the same for me too. Trust me, the books are still good, with excellent character development. The action is just toned down a bit. I just started book 7 there so if you want a recap of the Forsaken/Rand/different factions I will gladly supply.

 

[Captain Pancake]

WoW, until they raised level cap and basicly destroyed everything they done before which was better then new stuff.

I tend to disagree. The ten levels I had in outland were far more fun than every ten level increment I'd had up till then. And so far Northrend is looking pretty sweet, though only the next ten levels will tell.

Everything ever made until it got too popular.

/thread

Not really a "/thread". Most of us aren't that pretentious.

OOOOHHH BURN.

Indigo Prophecy.

I thought it was a great game and was having fun, the plot was pretty interesting.. until..

Spoiler

You get to the museum, and find out some mystical mayan prophecy super power bullshit. It just goes down hill from there, you die and come back to life? You're a fucking undead husk flying in the air fighting with some guy matrix style. It's retarded.

ruined the game for me... thankfully, the larger portion of the game was normal, so that was cool.

This here's my actual opinion. That game was great as a thriller when you didn't quite know what was causing his "hallucinations", but as soon as the part in the fair, it just... ugh...

 

[KwaggaDan]

Music:
Teenage Wasteland
by: The Who

The last minute of the song has a different feel than the first 4 minutes and seems to be building to something that never happens. What the hell?

I assume you are talking about Baba O'Riley? Interestingly enough the original song was almost 30 minutes long, but as you probably know a radio can't play a 30 minute song. So ultimately Townsend edited the song down to it's current 5:09... Hence the fact that some rifs just come in from nowhere or the song just falls a bit.

 

[Gaderael]

Lord of the Rings (both)- It was great until I realised Gandalf should have used those damn eagles he made friends with in The Hobbit.

This seems to be a really popular realisation. But nobody seems to remember the gigantic, fiery eye of Sauron that would stare at them and eventually subject them to an endless blizzard of wraith lords.

Fine, I'll give you that. But what if they were dropped off before they reached Mordor, somewhere near the Dead Marshes, in Rohan? The eagles could have sent scouts ahead/avoided the Ringwraiths (there were only nine). Frodo would never have been attacked by Shelob or Smeagol. Gandalf wouldn't have had to face the Balrog.

Then it's settled! The eagles can take them SOME of the way

Hang on now. Not really. I mean, the quest was not in a vacuum. The war against The Enemy was waged everywhere in Middle Earth. There is a fair chance that the Eagles were fighting of Sauron's minions in their region of the world, as were the Dwarves, the Elves, and Men. They probably would not have sent enough Eagles to protect the Fellowship and the Ring, just as the Dwarves, Elves, and Men reserved their strength for fighting in their own lands.

Plus, as Elrond said in the books, the quest had a greater chance of success if they traveled in Stealth. Flying along with gigantic Eagles does not cry stealth. With all of Sauron's and Sarumon's spies, like other birds, they would know exactly where the ring was at all times and would be able to strike them whenever they pleased. Sauron himself could even strike at them from a distance with a fierce storm of Hail or Lightning.

Yes, the Eagles would be able to fight the Nazgul and their flying mounts and win, if it was only the Nazgul they were fighting. They'd also have o contend with the arrows of the orc and whatever the Trolls can fling at them, plus the massive flocks of birds that Sauron and Sarumon controls that could easily overwhelm the Eagles in force.

Yeah, so that plot hole really isn't a plot hole.

 

[KwaggaDan]

Midi-fuckin'-chlorians!

I'm still not sure if I hate them more than Jar-Jar Moneybags... But both ruined the Prequels. Well helped significantly to ruin the prequels.

 

[PHOENIXRIDER57]

Season 11 of the Simpsons was where it started to get bad. Like, HORRIBLE.

Is that when Conan O'Brien left the show? His humor is really noticable and when he left the show it definitely lost alot of funniness with it.

 

[derelict]

House on Haunted Hill was great until the end, when they ditched the unnerving and excellent plot setup based on scary elements that at least attempted to not rely on "BOO!" scares, scrapping it in favor of....a badly rendered CG smoke monster.


Way to go. /facepalm

 

[Vhite]

WoW, until they raised level cap and basicly destroyed everything they done before which was better then new stuff.

I tend to disagree. The ten levels I had in outland were far more fun than every ten level increment I'd had up till then. And so far Northrend is looking pretty sweet, though only the next ten levels will tell.

Dungeons and raids were much more complex in orginal world. Only BC raid I liked more then classic ones was Karazhan and IMO wotlk is even worse.

 

[bak00777]

Music:
Teenage Wasteland
by: The Who

The last minute of the song has a different feel than the first 4 minutes and seems to be building to something that never happens. What the hell?

Ok, dude first off the song is Title Baba O'Riley not Teenage Wasteland, it is a tribute to Townshend's guru and some minimalist composer.

Damn, ninja'd
Also this is my favorite song of all time.

 

[Captain Pancake]

WoW, until they raised level cap and basicly destroyed everything they done before which was better then new stuff.

I tend to disagree. The ten levels I had in outland were far more fun than every ten level increment I'd had up till then. And so far Northrend is looking pretty sweet, though only the next ten levels will tell.

Dungeons and raids were much more complex in orginal world. Only BC raid I liked more then classic ones was Karazhan and IMO wotlk is even worse.

Come to think of it, Hellfire ramparts was the only dungeon I actually enjoyed in outland.

 

[Xojins]

Most Video games nowadays that try to have story lol. It usually ends up sucking. Example? Sure.

Spoiler: Gears of War 2

When the guys wife is just a broken husk and he kills her and its supposed to be really sad but from everything i heard it was ruined because most everyone who saw it thought it was good because he would finally SHUT THE FUCK UP! lol.

Soooo this. I couldn't wait for him to stop bitching about that twat.

 

[Dfskelleton]

Condemned 2: Bloodshot. It was a great game, but when you get the ability to make people's heads explode by yelling, I said "I thought I was some ex cop trying to find a killer..." and the whole evil cult thing made it kinda weird.
Also, the Doom movie I thought was moderate, not amazing, but moderate, until the fistfight at the end. I was expecting something like a Spider Mastermind or a Cyberdemon, but I got a fistfight between The Rock and Karl Urban.

 

[Pearwood]

WoW, until they raised level cap and basicly destroyed everything they done before which was better then new stuff.

I think you're in the minority with that opinion, Karazhan and Ulduar are considered to be the best instances.

My example would be Clive Barker's Jericho (made by Clive Barker), I was enjoying it loads right up until the point where

Spoiler: Ending of Jericho

Cole and Jones died. They were the best ones!