Bad/stupid/improbable scenes of other wise good movies

[Rushmore]

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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.

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This is a good one, even though I don't think it was supposed to have spanned so long a time as you mention.

Yeah, those guys need a better union. No way should he have had to play that damned game for that long.

[Phoenix1010]

He should have played poker instead. Talk about DERB.

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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.

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SPOILER-When they are prisoners, Mike talks about willing an empty chamber into the gun or something like that. I think russian roulette is supposed to represent force of will. Which is why Mike wins when he plays Nick. Of course I could just be an idiot.

[flatline]

I don't know if this exactly qualifies, but I thought Changing Lanes was a great movie for the most part. It went completely hardcore until the end when they just kiss and make up. The final scence should have been Samuel J. taking a drink.

[thatpfunk]

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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.

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The frog thing is an actual documented phenomenon, just in case you didn't know.

I can understand disliking the significance however.

[Jules22]

end of die hard 3 where he looks at the aspirin and then they go to quebec city. worst ending ever

[david050173]

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

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The preqeuls should have show Jar-Jar putting on Boba Fetts armor. Watching the fan boys cry when they learn who thier hero was would have made them worthwhile....

[pryor15]

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Or the scene in Traffic where Del toro and his partner are digging their own graves knowing their gonna die. Why would they?

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i always thought that was pretty much standard practice in the wild west (or wherever the hell people get executed in the desert)...then again i've never had that come up personally, so i can't be sure.

[pryor15]

** all the news footage in "Boondock Saints", especially the montage of people at the very end. it's so dumb and so poorly done that it lowers my opinion of the entire movie. i'm convinced the studio added it.

** while the movie isn't all that good, every single scene of drew barrymore and her friends in "Fever Pitch"

** i could have done without parts of "Easy Rider", particularly the slow pan around the circle of hippies. or maybe i'm missing something there

** i have a friend who hates the "raindrops keep falling on my head" scene in "Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid"...i have no idea why.

[craig r]

They should have stuck with the original ending to True Romance.

craig