Bad/stupid/improbable scenes of other wise good movies

[Hamish McBagpipe]

Bad Scene - good movie.

"What's in the box? Awwwwwww, c'mon, what's in the booooxxx?!?"

Almost movie destroying crappy scene from Pitt.

[Malone Brown]

I always hated the video game sequence in "The Beach"

Other than that I liked the movie.

[DeezNuts]

I always hated the montage part in Scarface where they fast forward Tony's rise to the top, showing him buying new clothes, cars, etc. The music is so cheesy. It kills me.

DN

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I always hated the montage part in Scarface where they fast forward Tony's rise to the top, showing him buying new clothes, cars, etc. The music is so cheesy. It kills me.

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[Rushmore]

Yes, this sort of sh*t bugs the hell out of me.

I thought Magnolia was a great, GREAT movie.

But Goddamnit, no matter how much I want to, I cannot accept the frogs at the end. It's actually genuinely annoying to me, especially since I thought every other second of that movie was great. I don't like anything about the frogs--the plot significance, the visual, and particularly the point Anderson was making.

Here's another: Wild At Heart, the entire Wizard of Oz theme. Blecch. Annoying. Otherwise, I really enjoyed the movie.

Uuuhh, what about Shakes The Clown, when they totally ruined an otherwise brilliant movie by getting all serious at the end, when Shakes is having DT's and ends up in AA? Please. Totally inconsistent with the rest of the movie.

Uuummmm...Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, when, at the end, George Segal's character realizes there is no son, and starts saying "Oh my God, I think I understand this" over and over again, while Richard Burton does some last rites in Latin while Sandy Dennis is crying and says "Amen."

Arg. Go back to the part where the picture has a "quietly noisy relaxed intensity" or where George Segal is preparing to "plow pertinent wives," but leave all of the uber-maudlin stuff for the stage, kids.

Another, another...hmmm...ok, here's a small one:

In Goodfellas, after Jimmy tells them all not to buy anything at all whatsoever with the loot from the Lufthansa job, a couple of guys get their ears pinned back in the club for buying a car and a fur coat. Henry is right there. Jump-cut to Henry coming through his front door with a huge white Christmas tree, saying "I got the most expensive one they had!"

What was the point of that? First of all, clearly, this could not be seen as a transgression of Jimmy's rule. Secondly, what the hell does Karen care about a f*cking Christmas tree? She's a Jew. Whatever. Ultimately, my point is that sequence never made any sense to me, to be honest.

I got a million of 'em, but there's a couple.

[Uethym]

Raiders of the Lost Ark, when Indy is wheeling around on the German submarine as it prepares to dive, and then suddenly he's on Secret Nazi Island.

Honestly, I thought that's what this thread would be about when I opened it.

[Diplomat]

Han Solo shoots first.

-Diplomat

[Rushmore]

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.

[Phoenix1010]

Not really a scene: The Deer Hunter, we're led to believe that Nick has been in Southeast Asia playing Russian Roulette for money for however many years that section of the movie spans, and he stays alive until Mike gets there? He wins thousands of dollars to send back Steven flipping coins with his life without ever losing? It's not like it's a game of skill. Just a gross stretch of the imagination.

[The Ocho]

Boba Fett getting killed slap-stick-style. He deserved better.