Oooh, yeah, Brian DePalma!!
In The Untouchables (not one of my favorite movies, but not awful), the entire train station scene (which DePalma does AGAIN [yawn] in Carlito's Way). Blecch. Yes, Mr. DePalma, you are a master at weaving a tapestry of blah blah with your 360 degree camera yadda yadda and the family tie-in with Elliot Ness and the weird looking overgrown baby in the crib etc etc ad infinitum.
And don't get me started on Body Double, ruined by two scenes (one of a Big Dramatic 360 Degree Kiss, the other of the Most Improbable Porn Scene Ever). Otherwise, it was A-OK, just ask Patrick Bateman.
Back to Carlito's Way for a second, and another glaringly bad scene: the interminably cheesy scene where "Charlie" goes over to Gail's house and freakin Billy Preston's "You Are So Beautiful" is playing and Carlito is driven to bust down the door because Penelope Ann Miller's ass causes Carlito to become sexually aroused, followed by...you guessed it--a 360 degree kiss scene cheesier than should be permitted in a movie.
Ultimately followed up, of course, by a train station scene.
Thank you very much, Brian DePalma.
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