I loved the original JP trilogy as a kid and those movies still hold a special place in my heart. I recently watched TLW again after about 15 years and completely forgot about that scene, it made me burst out laughing while rewatching.
Yeah, it's really bad. There's another bit right after this that is just as bad and strangely goes unmentioned.
Harding falls off a roof, watches two velociraptors wrastle on her lap, tumbles into a completely random hole(?) in the ground(?), slams onto and slides down a florescent light, crashes through a window, and plops right into Ian and Kelly's awaiting arms. It all happens in less than a minute.
Now *that* is some serious dinos ex machina.
We're taught in the first ten minutes of JP that raptors are super smart and hunt in packs and you stand no chance against them. Muldoon's death in JP drove that home, and it's an awesome death scene because it confirms everything we know about them. It got elevated in Lost World with all the people running into the tall grass. That's a great scene.
...and then this girl goes all Olga Korbut on a raptor and I'm supposed to believe that shit. And then they fight over Harding's backpack. They went from cold, calculated death machines to nincompoops in five minutes.
Marion Cotillard's (really great actress) death scene in Dark Knight Rises. Just something about the way she blinks and twitches her head before she dies is cringe af.
I'm not trying to defend the scene, but it does happen during a sequence with a ticking time bomb. About a minute before her death we are shown that the clock is at 5 mins. So I think they kind of cornered themselves with her death. They needed it to be quick but also give her character closure whilst also explaining that Fox can't stop the countdown and this was the end result.
Since we're on the subject, the court room scene in The Dark Knight seemed a bit off to me. With a movie filled with so much gravity, that scene with Harvey Dent disarming a gunman in the courtroom was a bit hokey.
So agreed! Like I donāt mind that scene, but how showboaty it is feels like itās from a different film. Harvey Dent is such a deadly serious character the whole film and then he goes and does the action hero act playing to the crowd so randomly. āBut your honour, Iām not done!ā Probably got left in from an initial draft that Nolan thought still worked, and it barely does lol.
I think it was done to establish him as a guy that can not only hold his own in court but can hold his own physically too. Heās supposed to be better for Gotham than even Batman. Better for Rachel than Bruce. Just a guy that really has his shit together, making his fall from grace even more tragic. They could have implemented that far better though because how the fuck did that guy get a gun into a courtroom
Did you watch the rest of the movie? Corruption in the police force is a recurring theme. There are no safe places for anyone in authority. The gun getting into the courtroom is foreshadowing to the all the other times people are attacked where they should be safe.
I think it was on purpose so as to really establish him as Gotham's white knight, literally fighting crime in the courtroom and not from the shadows like Batman.
As hokey as it may be, without a scene like that, all of the later scenes of every character (including Batman), gushing over how Harvey is going to fix the city, just don't work as well.
"If you wanna kill a public servant Mr Maroni, I recommend you buy American."
It's so pandering, I almost expected an eagle to fly into the courtroom and land on his shoulder.
My favorite movie of all time is Return of the Jedi but the reveal of Lukeās sister is super underwhelming:
āI have no sister.ā
āSheās safely anonymous.ā
āLeiaā¦LEIAāS MY SISTER?!?ā
āYup.ā
What a way to reveal that.
Felt like it was thrown in just so that Han could get Leia without messy love triangle stuff. Did have a semi-decent pay-off with her mentioned being what finally triggered Luke's rage mode. Needed more polish though.
It was thrown in because when they were blocking the duel between Luke and Vader, they couldn't come up with a reason for Luke to break his Jedi frame and go into a fury attack.
The Return of the Jedi scenes on the catwalks of Ewok-town were horrible.
Leia: "I can't....I can't tell..."
Han: "Could ya tell Luke, is that who you could tell?!?!"
Leia: "HOLD ME."
(I know there's more to it, but I'm sparing myself the pain of remembering it all.)
I mean, if you mean quite literally, no - he never sets foot inside Minas Tirith.
He does enter it, however, although very briefly.
As a matter of fact, the movie scene isn't too far off, at least in terms of the dialogue.
The shattering of Gandalf's staff is obviously made up, though, and I'm actuyally rather curious who's idea that was and the reasoning behind it.
>As a matter of fact, the movie scene isn't too far off, at least in terms of the dialogue
This is technically the truth (dialogue comparison at the end of the comment), but given that they literally say one line each, this doesn't feel like a significant way to judge how similar the scenes are.
I feel like some people who loved the books - myself included - are extra salty about this scene because they felt like it was one of the top handful of moments in the books, so we might not be the most reliable witness', but it does feel vastly different.
For a start, the entire siege takes place in the dark - Sauron having blackened the sky with smoke and clouds - whereas the scenes in the film happen in broad daylight; perhaps to differentiate it from Helm's Deep, perhaps to make it easier to film, but it's a pretty big tonal shift for a setting. By this point in the books it is night-time (or more specifically, just before dawn), but it's been dark through the daylight hours for several days at this point in any case.
The book scene takes place at the gate itself (a set piece the movie gives to the armoured trolls bursting through), whereas the film confrontation takes place high up in the city - a place the Witch King is able to reach because he's on a flying Fellbeast, whereas in the books he's on his horse, by necessity, as the huge ram Grond is only able to break through the gates because he; "...rose in his stirrups and cried aloud in a dreadful voice, speaking in some forgotten tongue words of power and terror to rend both heart and stone.
Thrice he cried. Thrice the great ram boomed. And suddenly upon the last stroke the Gate of Gondor broke. As if stricken by some blasting spell it burst asunder: there was a flash of searing lightning, and the doors tumbled in riven fragments to the ground."
Then the Witch King rides in, and everyone runs, because he seems like a gigantic shadow against all the fires burning in the darkness - everyone runs except Gandalf, because unlike in the films he's certainly an individual match for the Witch King. The Witch King does the light-the-sword-on-fire thing (about the only physical detail both scenes share!), and then they're interrupted.
In the films, it's the horns right away. A very small - but imo very satisfying - detail in the books has a cockrel crowing, which is then 'answered' by the distant horns of Rohan. There's not really any reasonable way to exepect them to have worked the following stuff into the film, but just as a tangent, the book description goes like:
>And in that very moment, away behind in some courtyard of the City, a cock crowed. Shrill and clear he crowed, *recking nothing of wizardry or war*, welcoming only the morning that in the sky far above the shadows of death was coming with the dawn.
The italics there are mine, because we've just had several paragraphs describing the Witch King's magic; first he silences and immobilises the defenders on the walls so that they stop attacking his forces with the ram, then he adds magic to the battering ram so it can breach the gates, his magical aura terrifies everyone into fleeing the gates, his sword bursts into flames. Gandalf doesn't combat this with magic of his own. He's just there, blocking the way. And what's more important, the very next few lines - which describe how the city is going to be saved - are the result of Gandalf's earlier non-magical actions;
>And as if in answer there came from far away another note. Horns, horns, horns. In dark Mindolluin's sides they dimly echoed. Great horns of the North wildly blowing. Rohan had come at last.
Apart from being beautifully written (like the whole passage, hence some fan's dissatisfaction with the adapation making it a totally different scene), these lines are talking about the cavalry arriving, and Rohan's cavalry is only alive and able to come to Gondor's aid because they won at Helm's Deep and defeated Saruman, and they were only able to do *that* because Gandalf rode all over the plains gathering up the scattered remnents of Rohan's armies to come relieve the seige of Helm's Deep (and he also had a small hand in the Ents destroying Isengard).
So the cockrel crows, recking nothing of wizardry, and Gandalf - who's just sitting there stoically in the face of the Witch King's showy magic - triumphs because he tirelessly worked, unmagically, to save people and bind them together.
Film dialogue:
G: Go back to the abyss. Fall into the nothingness that awaits you and your master.
WK: Do you not know death when you see it, old man? This is my hour. You have failed. The world of men will fall.
Book dialogue:
G: You cannot enter here. Go back to the abyss prepared for you! Go back! Fall into the nothingness that awaits you and your Master. Go!
WK: Old fool! Old fool! This is my hour. Do you not know Death when you see it? Die now and curse in vain!
The Breakfast Club
When the jock guy is stoned and struts around, he walks into a room surrounded by windows and yells really loud, causing the glass to shatter.
Finally one I can relate to!
Yes I totally remember thinking that it was so wild that guys could apparently do that if they were, like, buff or something?!?
Haha I was around 10 when I first saw that movie obviously.
Then I realized, thereās no way that could happen. Bummed me out, ruined a teeny bit of a perfect movie for young meā¦
Surely that would just get them more detention??
I like to think it's in his imagination, or maybe artistic license showing how he *feels* in that moment.
I'm so torn on that one. He's kind of perfect for the role but there's something about his reveal that feels so "look who it is!" If it had been filmed different it might have felt less awkward.
Love the movie though.
Like Ed Sheeran's scene in Game of Thrones. The scene is fine and he does ok but when his character is introduced it holds on a close up of his face for like 10 seconds and absolutely destroys any immersion.
Oppenheimer reading his famous quote from the Bhagavad Gita during sex with his mistress. really stole the weight from it by turning it into a goofy punchline, imo, it felt totally forced.
āļø Ask not what your country can do for you
āļø One small step for a man
āļø Speak softly and carry a big stick
āļø The only thing we have to fear
āļø Be the change you wish to see in the world
āļø Do one thing every day that scares you
āļø Excuse me while I whip this out
Yes..she just casually approached the bookshelf..out of all the books she picked that one. and somehow opened the book at that certain page and happened to point out a seemingly 'interesting' line of a language she didn't know
There are two explanations for this.
1. He just responds with that to every book someone takes off his shelf.
2. He has like a serial killer written the same quote for thousands of pages on books with false covers throughout his house.
I love his films, but he 100% is a space alien. He directs with his mind and not his heart, so a lot of his films are intellectually and philosophically gratifying, but the emotions areā¦weird.
Most film makers engage with the heart, even very thoughtful deliberate ones, so they hit the emotional core of the human experience. He hits the intellectual core.
Hes def not the best with women. Even in Oppenheimer the women were either crazy, alcoholic, or showed some masculine trait to "prove" they were as smart as the other scientists.
I totally agree Nolan sucks writing women (I recently saw Tenet and while I really enjoyed the film, it was a bit disappointing to see the woman have to be a victim of abuse. She was a badass in the end but why is every Nolan woman battered in some way???) But I did find Kitty to be a very compelling character in Oppenheimer. Initial scenes set her up as an alcoholic, bad mom, but I came to really care about her and loved how she was the only one talking sense into Oppenheimer, telling him to get a grip, don't indulge people who have screwed you over, etc. And I really felt for her when the affair came up in the interrogation sessions. I found her to be one of, if not the most compelling Nolan woman-- which isn't saying much still
That's kind of how the women in his life that were portrayed in the film actually were, though. While the sex scene was dubious, both his wife and mistress had emotional/substance issues.
Totally forced and for the life of me I canāt sort out why. Like, sure, you have to have him say the line at some point in the movie. But in the middle of a sex scene?
My hot take is that this worked for me. To hear the voice of the woman he cared for but felt he "killed" say this as he creates a bomb that will literally kill thousands of people was haunting. The recurring theme of him indirectly killing/hurting others all while being just a scientist doing a job was haunting.
But I agree with everyone, the initial taking of the book off the shelf, saying it during sex scene was very, very bizzare
I totally agree. It was actually quite a laughably bad scene. They couldāve had her combing through his his bookshelf and you mightāve just seen the title of the book or maybe she flipped open and was like oh you can read this, but having that line read, it was so bad.
For me, Oppy was the opposite (no pun intended)
I didn't like the movie that much, but the one scene I loved was when he was in that room having hallucinations of all the happy, cheering people dying from a nuclear explosion.
I loved that scene.
Itās weird how that song slows down the whole film. It wouldāve worked better if it had a montage of Charlie working hard to spend what little he could for candy and just failing. But then I guess that would just promote gambling.Ā
I don't really like that idea either, cause Charlie being so poor he could only afford a couple was a huge point of the movie too.
Just take out that whole scene. It's such a quick, funny satire leading up to it. Really kills the pacing. Still one of my favorite movies, but such a terrible scene and song.
Now that I remember, this scene happens before the fake winner is announced. Right?Ā
Maybe, this song wouldāve worked better if it happened after Charlie is under the impression he lost and if maybe it was a group song from his family, which is used to successfully comfort him in his lowest point. It could remind him itās not about winning and couldāve reinforced the point that heās not a spoiled kid who needs to get what he wants to be happy. But yeah, as is the song and scene needs to go.Ā
The "baby" in _American Sniper_
The anal sex line in _Kingsman: The Secret Service_
George Lucas re-editing for the special edition _Star Wars_ scene so Greedo shoots at Han Solo first (and despite being right next to him, misses _badly_)
George Lucas's special edition scene change of _Return of the Jedi_'s "Jedi Rocks" scene
You know what, let's say every special edition change George Lucas did for the original Star Wars saga
I will never understand why Lucas tried *so hard* to scrub all the copies of the original Star Wars trilogy with the original practical effects out of existance, he seems so ashamed by it for some reason. If I had done those practical effects, I would have been really proud with what I was able to accomplish at the time.
That would be awful. A New Hope was totally saved by the editing. Without her input Star Wars would have never become a trilogy, let alone a franchise which still has passionate fans 4 decades later.
Not every. I really like that they made Cloud city into an actual city and those extra scenes at the end of Return of the Jedi.
Edit: And that they changed the emperor's actor in Empire.
The very last scene in Groundhog Day. I love that he gets out of the time loop, but when he and Rita are leaving the bed and breakfast, he tells her āLetās move here!ā Yesā¦for him, he loves this town after living there for 10,000 years, but she has only been in town for a day and only known him for maybe two days. Even if she really enjoyed his company the previous day, she should be incredibly weirded out by him saying they should move there together.
Not a scene, but I really do like the movie "Yesterday." Not an all time classic or anything but a fun movie I really enjoy.
But the Kate McKinnon character is terrible. If I could skip the scenes with her character, I would enjoy the movie so much more. Her character just does not fit in with the tone of the movie. It takes me out of the fantasy.
My biggest complaint with the movie was the utterly lazy writing. The choices the characters made were such an obvious means to an end to propel the story, none of it seemed natural. I wanted to love the movie so much, but there are some egregious writing choices that make it hard to rewatch.
She was added when Richard Curtis of all people did a massive rewrite on the original draft where the lead does not immediately become an overnight sensation.
I hated how the wifeās infidelity was swept under the rug and still blamed on the husband. His own son saying he didnāt āfightā for his wife as an excuse for why she fucked another guy.
Exactly! The messaging was terrible, she didnāt even apologise she just blamed him for it and he had to do not 1 but 2 grand gestures for HER to take him back??? It was a funny movie but the way it ended irritated me immensely.
Yep, literally came here to say the same thing.
Her trying to give them to Steve Carells character sort of made sense - she's a kid trying to be an adult and thinks that's what adults would do to get the attention of someone. But to give them to the child? Nahhhhh
Last yearās Saltburn is a good, pulpy movie in my opinion; itās fun and well-done. I severely disliked the āhow he pulled it all offā montage at the end, however. I really, really think it would be a much better movie without it.
šÆ shouldāve ended with him slashing the tyre and leaving everyone going āoh shit! It was planned all along!ā And definitely didnāt need the total blow by blow.
Amd they didn't even do that right: they left out a few ones where you really wondered how he did it (like the poisoning of the wife at the end, iirc).
Yeah. The Matrix Reloaded was one of my biggest film dissapointments ever. I loved the first one so much as a teenager, watched it over and over, then Reloaded was just such a 6/10 kind of film. Annoys me I can't get an HD version of The Animatrix, that's better than any of the sequals.
I recall leaving the theater and overhearing a group of friends meeting up and asking how the movie was. "Keanu Reeve's pasty white ass!" was the summation of their assessment.
There are only two scenes in films which I will rewatch which I fast forward through. One scene is Anakin and Padme on their little lover's get away. The other is the rave scene in Matrix Reloaded. Just doesn't need to be so drawn out.
And the thing about the Endgame one, is that they had done the same scene in Infinity War so much better.
They established Natasha looking out for Wanda, which was something that had been kind of hinted at in previous films. Then they set up Nat and Okoye working together on the battlefield, with Wanda coming to their defence part way through. So there was established connections between all three characters who were close to each other's positions.
Endgame on the other hand made no sense. Most of the characters didn't know each other, they were all coming to the defence of Captain Marvel, but because of the Snap the only two who would have known her were Nebula and Pepper, neither of which had any actual scenes with her anyway. Plus Captain Marvel is the one character there who didn't need backup, as she had literally just rammed a ship with her body a couple minutes before. And to top it off the preceding scenes had made it seem like all the characters were all over the battlefield, nowhere near each other for such a moment to take place.
>Plus Captain Marvel is the one character there who didn't need backup
This annoyed me so much. Like Peter saying "I don't know how you're gonna get through all that" referencing a bunch of ground troops. Carol should have just been like "Bitch, did you not see my entrance?" And then after the 'girl power' members take out a few guys (with Wanda and Valkyrie doing to heavy lifting), Carol just effortlessly bulldozes through 3 times as much shit as they "helped" her with.
I think the funny part is after that scene overall the girls had little impact or screen time in the end so it really did just feel like a forced āwomen can be strong tooā scene.
Yeah, as a contrast the scene in the Mandalorians storming the battlecruiser was done right. It wasn't until the second watch that I realized his whole storming team was women, it didn't matter and all of them were 100% top of their tier professionals when it came to fucking shit up.
I came here to say this. I'm a woman and I hated this "see! Women can be badass too!" moment. They've been in all the avengers movies, we already know women can be badass. It felt like they were mansplaining female empowerment
There were a lot of bits in *The Dark Knight Rises* that bothered me. The one that stands out the most is the charge of the unarmed police officers at the literal wall of automatic weapons. Even Batman doing a scary fly by isn't going to prevent a mass casualty event.
Love JP Lost World, but it has a few scenes I can't believe Spielberg wanted to use as is. The one that bothers me the most is the scene where they're being pushed over the cliff by the T-rexes. Not the whole scene, but starting at the specific parts when they lose grip of the rope (I think it happens twice in a row) and slide to the end of it, bashing full weight into eachother without anyone falling or even appearing effected by it at all, it just looks so ridiculously staged that it ruins the rest of that scene for me now. Same problem as with the kid kicking the raptor.
I'm in the weird camp of actually really enjoying the unnecessary San Diego section at the end. I don't even mind the plothole surrounding how a T-Rex could be trapped inside the ship by someone who clearly was eaten while they were still holding the button that trapped it. I just assume he pressed the button Thing style like Addams Family after the rest of him was eaten.
I especially don't understand why she felt the need to fling around and call attention to herself like live bait before said kick when the raptor was a single jump away from reaching her the whole time. Did the raptor pause on eating anyone out of respect for gymnastics or something?
The calling unnecessary attention to oneself has a long history in Hollywood. People sneak up on a bad guy, then tap them on the shoulder and then punch them when they turn, or someone is able to run up someone whose back is turned, but then they yell, completely giving away their element of surprise. So annoying.
The Departed
When the psychiatrist just gets guilted into writing a prescription for Leoās character. Sheās like āfine, hereās drugs, take it.ā Such an awfully written scene. I feel like the writer has no idea what doctors do
Then also has sex with her patient.
I love the first Ringu. The sequence where the doctor hits Sadako in the head...it has the worst sound effect.
Sounds very stock/comedic
Edit: that one really dorky 3D shot in Fury Road. I don't even remember what it was..maybe a steering wheel flying right toward the camera
YES! This was my first thought too. It sounds like a punch youād hear in a video game. THWACK! Knocked me completely out of the movie. I was stunned by how terrible it was.
I agree with you that the steering wheel in Fury Road looks weird and cg, but I think it was actually practical (an overlaid shot or something.. I don't know the terms). Which is why it is so weird that it looks so much like a rendering.
Tbf, if they didn't outright tell us, you'd have over half the people who watched it debating that it wasn't all in his head. Which doesn't mean it was a good scene, but.
I've never realized it but you're right, if they didn't outright *tell* us that it was in his imagination, there would be debates. There would be "theories." And you'd say "Yeah wasn't it obvious?" And a third of the room would look at you like you're nuts
No because heās in her apartment and sheās completely freaked out. She makes it very clear that they barely know each other. The flashbacks were really unnecessary.
Pretty much everytime Jude Law's character, Dan, opens his mouth in Closer. The first few minutes are OK when he is with Alice but any other time in the film I just want to slap him senseless.
And another part is when Alice and Larry are at the strip club and she says something like, "Do you want me to stop being cheeky?" That line grates on my nerves.
Interstellar.
When they go to the first planet and are shocked that the data is "bad" because of the black hole. Even though it should be obvious because they all know how black holes affect time.
Matilda telling the hotel clerk that Leon is her lover. Also the Marilyn Monroe dress up. Probably some other sexualization scenes I'm not remembering with the different versions of the film.
I watched the American version, thought it was a good movie with a young girl who wanted to love Leon like an adult as a way to act out about her trauma. But Leon is a good guy and acts like a decent father figure.
Then I saw the European version when I downloaded it and showed it to a girlfriend. I deeply apologized because I had no idea there were different cuts floating around online.
Imdb:
"New scenes found in the International Cut include:
Mathilda asking Leon to have sex with her and Leon refusing;
Leon explaining why he had to leave Italy and go to New York when he was 19 years old;
Mathilda and Leon sleeping together in a bed;
Mathilda threatening to shoot herself playing Russian roulette.
Leon and Mathilda hitting the home of a tattooed drug dealer, and setting fire to his supply of drugs;
New training missions where Mathilda learns the ropes of becoming an assassin.
Leon and Matilda going to a restaurant to celebrate her first hit"
Fair. I guess the news was always out there but it seemed it didn't get talked about a lot until recently. But that might be just not knowing until recently.
For reference, he was 32 when they started dating and actually got married.
They broke up because started fucking 21 yo mila jovovich when he was 38.
Dude is gross.
Why'd you call it "the European version", when the name is "full version"?
I live in Europe, I've seen the movie a bunch of times, and never have I seen these scenes mentioned below in another comment.
I really wonder what my dad thinks about my movie taste. Firstly, i watched The Whale with him, which starts with a masturbation scene. Then The Lighthouse, again, masturbation. Then after, Oppenheimer and it had THAT scene
Youāre going to need to start screening your movies for sex scenes before you watch them with your dad.
When I visit my parents I usually take my mom to go see āArthouseā movies, on *Poor Things* I was just like āLol, no, not seeing it with you.ā
I hate the moment at the end of Die Hard where the blonde villain gets off the gurney and tries to shoot John, only to get blasted by Al. I get that Al got his courage back to use his firearm, but how'd blondie survive the roof explosion when we last saw him hanging motionless moments before detonation? How'd they recover his body? Was he faking unconsciousness the whole time? Where'd he get the gun and how'd he hide it in the gurney? None of it makes sense in an otherwise flawless action film.
Edit: I recalled the scene incorrectly; he's not on a gurney or in a bodybag, but in a blanket, apparently. It's not possible to determine if he is being carried or helped out, as the cut to him throwing off the blanket and knocking aside a first responder is immediate. Either way, none of the logical holes I presented are repaired. Having his Australian assault rifle on his person is still ludicrously convenient. As to his pretending to hang dead by the chains; he remained there as the hostages flee back down stairs and passed his apparent body. Even if he could survive hanging by his neck for several minutes as John rushes to the roof and disrupts their whole plan, it's a stupid strategy. His reappearence is dues ex machina levels of illogical writing, and I'm a huge fan of this movie. Hell, the first gun I bought was a Beretta 92 because of this movie, but I can't defend Karl's survival.
The Martha scene in Batman v. Superman. It was a narratively important moment - it humanized Superman for Batman, snapping him out of the single-minded rage heād been in since Metropolis - but the execution was sloppy and very poorly done.
Yeah. I think itās the music that makes it so bad honestly. If it was played darker and less romantic I would give it the benefit of the doubt, cause Deckard is kind of a thug in that movie, and isnāt really meant as an upstanding moral character. But that fucking saxophone really throws me off.
Exactly! The fucking saxophone! I always tell myself that he is mentally wrestling, in that scene, with how he should treat her. Then the saxophone comes in and Iām thinking, āDid the director intend this scene to be hot? The dude just forced himself upon her.ā
I mean, it could be argued to show that Deckard, deep down, still sess Rachel as any other replicant: not human. Just a robot that doesn't have true feelings or emotions.
But the scene still sours my mood for sure. Even with that explanation, it feels unnecessary.
The Bladerunner movies are continually drawing analogies between how we would treat androids we think have no souls and how men objectify women. Deckard has no moral qualms about killing replicants in cold blood so it is consistent with his character that would have no qualms about raping one. So to me the scene is highlighting how when men objectify women they are removing their soul and so removing moral implications for their actions.
This is also explored in the second one with the sex scene with Joy, K and the hooker. It shows another way men can objectify women. In this case K literally projects his perfect woman over the hooker. So the hooker loses her soul and becomes an object in the interaction. Money also being another mechanism of objectification.
Not that the rest of the movie wasn't a mess, but that excessively long sex scene in the middle of The Watchmen was more awkward than seeing a whole lot of blue penis.
yall, that scene is supposed to be embarrassing and awkward. Their romance is a weird result of their attachment to and their relationship with their vigilante side. especially Nite Owl.ā
Finally someone who gets it.
Snyder completely missed the point of every character, specially Dan and Laurie.
The alley fight scene comes to mind as well, Moore depicted it in the comics as Two old friends brutalizing random thugs because they want to relive their younger days, they don't care about justice at the moment, they're just trying to impress each other because they're both undergoing a mid-life crisis and of course it ended with rebound sex, that was the entire point... And Dan can't even get it up, it's supposed to be sad and pathetic.
But Snyder for some reason thought it was both badass, erotic and even romantic? The fuck?
Watching Roy selfishly abandon his family in CLOSE ENCOUNTERS. It was perfectly set for him to grow and choose to stay with his family. But no, F āem. Literally no growth. No message. No reason for an otherwise stellar movie to exist.
Even Spielberg has said that when he directed Close Encounters he didnāt have kids yet, and his perspective would have been entirely different if he had had kids at the time.
Itās funny. I grew up watching that movie and thought it was a brilliant classic. My friend watched it for the first time in his 20s and went on this whole rant about how Dreyfusās character is a terrible person.
Love Lord of the Rings, but as a Tolkien nerd there are a handful. Mainly all my complaints are from the extended edition scenes which is why I prefer the theatrical versions. I also donāt mind most of the changes and actually like a lot of the changes. But the Witch King owning Gandalf in RotK and making him look like his bitch was pretty bad.
Gymnastics vs raptor, The Lost World
I loved the original JP trilogy as a kid and those movies still hold a special place in my heart. I recently watched TLW again after about 15 years and completely forgot about that scene, it made me burst out laughing while rewatching.
"I know gymnastics!"
"This is a gymnastics system... I know this!"
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Yeah, it's really bad. There's another bit right after this that is just as bad and strangely goes unmentioned. Harding falls off a roof, watches two velociraptors wrastle on her lap, tumbles into a completely random hole(?) in the ground(?), slams onto and slides down a florescent light, crashes through a window, and plops right into Ian and Kelly's awaiting arms. It all happens in less than a minute. Now *that* is some serious dinos ex machina.
We're taught in the first ten minutes of JP that raptors are super smart and hunt in packs and you stand no chance against them. Muldoon's death in JP drove that home, and it's an awesome death scene because it confirms everything we know about them. It got elevated in Lost World with all the people running into the tall grass. That's a great scene. ...and then this girl goes all Olga Korbut on a raptor and I'm supposed to believe that shit. And then they fight over Harding's backpack. They went from cold, calculated death machines to nincompoops in five minutes.
Hey! YOU!
Raptor: āWho, me???ā
Marion Cotillard's (really great actress) death scene in Dark Knight Rises. Just something about the way she blinks and twitches her head before she dies is cringe af.
Apparently even she hates it. I read an interview where she said she was surprised that was the take that made it into the movie.
I'm not trying to defend the scene, but it does happen during a sequence with a ticking time bomb. About a minute before her death we are shown that the clock is at 5 mins. So I think they kind of cornered themselves with her death. They needed it to be quick but also give her character closure whilst also explaining that Fox can't stop the countdown and this was the end result.
They weren't on a literal timer though, and we know she can act and he can direct.
I'm going to die now....blehhhhh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFzOOXl2bbM
Haha beat me to it. This sketch cracks me up every time.
Since we're on the subject, the court room scene in The Dark Knight seemed a bit off to me. With a movie filled with so much gravity, that scene with Harvey Dent disarming a gunman in the courtroom was a bit hokey.
So agreed! Like I donāt mind that scene, but how showboaty it is feels like itās from a different film. Harvey Dent is such a deadly serious character the whole film and then he goes and does the action hero act playing to the crowd so randomly. āBut your honour, Iām not done!ā Probably got left in from an initial draft that Nolan thought still worked, and it barely does lol.
I think it was done to establish him as a guy that can not only hold his own in court but can hold his own physically too. Heās supposed to be better for Gotham than even Batman. Better for Rachel than Bruce. Just a guy that really has his shit together, making his fall from grace even more tragic. They could have implemented that far better though because how the fuck did that guy get a gun into a courtroom
Did you watch the rest of the movie? Corruption in the police force is a recurring theme. There are no safe places for anyone in authority. The gun getting into the courtroom is foreshadowing to the all the other times people are attacked where they should be safe.
I think it was on purpose so as to really establish him as Gotham's white knight, literally fighting crime in the courtroom and not from the shadows like Batman. As hokey as it may be, without a scene like that, all of the later scenes of every character (including Batman), gushing over how Harvey is going to fix the city, just don't work as well.
"If you wanna kill a public servant Mr Maroni, I recommend you buy American." It's so pandering, I almost expected an eagle to fly into the courtroom and land on his shoulder.
But it's such a perfect politician line! It's exactly the kind of thing a DA would say to create a soundbite.
Ha ha ha! Reminds me of Frank Castle running around with an AK in one of the Punisher comics and complaining about Chinese Ammo.
Thats the point of it, he's playing to the crowd in the courtroom. Its showing what a shrewd (or manipulative) political operator he is.
It's a character being pandering, not the film maker
But it works because 90% of being a politician is just pandering
Pretty sure that was the point.
My favorite movie of all time is Return of the Jedi but the reveal of Lukeās sister is super underwhelming: āI have no sister.ā āSheās safely anonymous.ā āLeiaā¦LEIAāS MY SISTER?!?ā āYup.ā What a way to reveal that.
Felt like it was thrown in just so that Han could get Leia without messy love triangle stuff. Did have a semi-decent pay-off with her mentioned being what finally triggered Luke's rage mode. Needed more polish though.
It was thrown in because when they were blocking the duel between Luke and Vader, they couldn't come up with a reason for Luke to break his Jedi frame and go into a fury attack.
Letās also not forget Chewieās Tarzan cry while swinging from a vine
The Return of the Jedi scenes on the catwalks of Ewok-town were horrible. Leia: "I can't....I can't tell..." Han: "Could ya tell Luke, is that who you could tell?!?!" Leia: "HOLD ME." (I know there's more to it, but I'm sparing myself the pain of remembering it all.)
I think thatās the acting of the era kicking in as well. Seems like a move that would have fit in an earlier time
Swordfish starring Hugh Jackman. The hacking scene when he is dancing in front of his super computer was very high cringe for me.
Doesn't a character have to hack something while getting a blowie in that movie?
Yeah but Travolta had long hair so it was easy for Jackman to pretend it was a chick.
The visual representation his coding and āthe hackā is stupefying
When Gandalf's staff is broken in LOTR extended edition. That shit really bugs me every time I see it.
Thatās why they chose to remove it. The theatrical editions are Jacksonās cuts. The extended editions were gifts to hardcore fans
I mean fair play, but it's probably the only scene that grinds my gear in the extended ones.
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Book spoiler: >!Absolutely not. The Witch King never sets foot inside Minas Tirith. The forces of Mordor are stopped at the door.!<
I mean, if you mean quite literally, no - he never sets foot inside Minas Tirith. He does enter it, however, although very briefly. As a matter of fact, the movie scene isn't too far off, at least in terms of the dialogue. The shattering of Gandalf's staff is obviously made up, though, and I'm actuyally rather curious who's idea that was and the reasoning behind it.
>As a matter of fact, the movie scene isn't too far off, at least in terms of the dialogue This is technically the truth (dialogue comparison at the end of the comment), but given that they literally say one line each, this doesn't feel like a significant way to judge how similar the scenes are. I feel like some people who loved the books - myself included - are extra salty about this scene because they felt like it was one of the top handful of moments in the books, so we might not be the most reliable witness', but it does feel vastly different. For a start, the entire siege takes place in the dark - Sauron having blackened the sky with smoke and clouds - whereas the scenes in the film happen in broad daylight; perhaps to differentiate it from Helm's Deep, perhaps to make it easier to film, but it's a pretty big tonal shift for a setting. By this point in the books it is night-time (or more specifically, just before dawn), but it's been dark through the daylight hours for several days at this point in any case. The book scene takes place at the gate itself (a set piece the movie gives to the armoured trolls bursting through), whereas the film confrontation takes place high up in the city - a place the Witch King is able to reach because he's on a flying Fellbeast, whereas in the books he's on his horse, by necessity, as the huge ram Grond is only able to break through the gates because he; "...rose in his stirrups and cried aloud in a dreadful voice, speaking in some forgotten tongue words of power and terror to rend both heart and stone. Thrice he cried. Thrice the great ram boomed. And suddenly upon the last stroke the Gate of Gondor broke. As if stricken by some blasting spell it burst asunder: there was a flash of searing lightning, and the doors tumbled in riven fragments to the ground." Then the Witch King rides in, and everyone runs, because he seems like a gigantic shadow against all the fires burning in the darkness - everyone runs except Gandalf, because unlike in the films he's certainly an individual match for the Witch King. The Witch King does the light-the-sword-on-fire thing (about the only physical detail both scenes share!), and then they're interrupted. In the films, it's the horns right away. A very small - but imo very satisfying - detail in the books has a cockrel crowing, which is then 'answered' by the distant horns of Rohan. There's not really any reasonable way to exepect them to have worked the following stuff into the film, but just as a tangent, the book description goes like: >And in that very moment, away behind in some courtyard of the City, a cock crowed. Shrill and clear he crowed, *recking nothing of wizardry or war*, welcoming only the morning that in the sky far above the shadows of death was coming with the dawn. The italics there are mine, because we've just had several paragraphs describing the Witch King's magic; first he silences and immobilises the defenders on the walls so that they stop attacking his forces with the ram, then he adds magic to the battering ram so it can breach the gates, his magical aura terrifies everyone into fleeing the gates, his sword bursts into flames. Gandalf doesn't combat this with magic of his own. He's just there, blocking the way. And what's more important, the very next few lines - which describe how the city is going to be saved - are the result of Gandalf's earlier non-magical actions; >And as if in answer there came from far away another note. Horns, horns, horns. In dark Mindolluin's sides they dimly echoed. Great horns of the North wildly blowing. Rohan had come at last. Apart from being beautifully written (like the whole passage, hence some fan's dissatisfaction with the adapation making it a totally different scene), these lines are talking about the cavalry arriving, and Rohan's cavalry is only alive and able to come to Gondor's aid because they won at Helm's Deep and defeated Saruman, and they were only able to do *that* because Gandalf rode all over the plains gathering up the scattered remnents of Rohan's armies to come relieve the seige of Helm's Deep (and he also had a small hand in the Ents destroying Isengard). So the cockrel crows, recking nothing of wizardry, and Gandalf - who's just sitting there stoically in the face of the Witch King's showy magic - triumphs because he tirelessly worked, unmagically, to save people and bind them together. Film dialogue: G: Go back to the abyss. Fall into the nothingness that awaits you and your master. WK: Do you not know death when you see it, old man? This is my hour. You have failed. The world of men will fall. Book dialogue: G: You cannot enter here. Go back to the abyss prepared for you! Go back! Fall into the nothingness that awaits you and your Master. Go! WK: Old fool! Old fool! This is my hour. Do you not know Death when you see it? Die now and curse in vain!
The Breakfast Club When the jock guy is stoned and struts around, he walks into a room surrounded by windows and yells really loud, causing the glass to shatter.
Finally one I can relate to! Yes I totally remember thinking that it was so wild that guys could apparently do that if they were, like, buff or something?!? Haha I was around 10 when I first saw that movie obviously. Then I realized, thereās no way that could happen. Bummed me out, ruined a teeny bit of a perfect movie for young meā¦
John Hughes movies always have absurd /cartoonish little moments like that.
Surely that would just get them more detention?? I like to think it's in his imagination, or maybe artistic license showing how he *feels* in that moment.
That part is hilarious, get outta here.
Bob Odenkirk jumpscare in Little Women (2019)
MY LITTLE WOMEN
"THAT'S SO *RANDOM*!"
I'm so torn on that one. He's kind of perfect for the role but there's something about his reveal that feels so "look who it is!" If it had been filmed different it might have felt less awkward. Love the movie though.
Like Ed Sheeran's scene in Game of Thrones. The scene is fine and he does ok but when his character is introduced it holds on a close up of his face for like 10 seconds and absolutely destroys any immersion.
And thusly they were no longer known as little girls, but instead they were LITTLE WOMEN.
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THAT'S SO RANDOM!
Oppenheimer reading his famous quote from the Bhagavad Gita during sex with his mistress. really stole the weight from it by turning it into a goofy punchline, imo, it felt totally forced.
In another discussion thread someone said āIt was like she was a time traveler with an erotic bingo cardā and I canāt get that out of my head.
āļø Ask not what your country can do for you āļø One small step for a man āļø Speak softly and carry a big stick āļø The only thing we have to fear āļø Be the change you wish to see in the world āļø Do one thing every day that scares you āļø Excuse me while I whip this out
Yes..she just casually approached the bookshelf..out of all the books she picked that one. and somehow opened the book at that certain page and happened to point out a seemingly 'interesting' line of a language she didn't know
There are two explanations for this. 1. He just responds with that to every book someone takes off his shelf. 2. He has like a serial killer written the same quote for thousands of pages on books with false covers throughout his house.
3. They fool around a lot and she always makes him read a passage, we just didn't get to see the other 1,587 times she's done this with other lines.
I feel bad, I didn't even realize you had mentioned it in the OP. but you are 100% right.
It is the only sex scene in any of Nolan's films and it is one of the most stoic and bizarre things I've seen.
I donāt think Christopher Nolan fully understands human beings.
I love his films, but he 100% is a space alien. He directs with his mind and not his heart, so a lot of his films are intellectually and philosophically gratifying, but the emotions areā¦weird. Most film makers engage with the heart, even very thoughtful deliberate ones, so they hit the emotional core of the human experience. He hits the intellectual core.
Hes def not the best with women. Even in Oppenheimer the women were either crazy, alcoholic, or showed some masculine trait to "prove" they were as smart as the other scientists.
I totally agree Nolan sucks writing women (I recently saw Tenet and while I really enjoyed the film, it was a bit disappointing to see the woman have to be a victim of abuse. She was a badass in the end but why is every Nolan woman battered in some way???) But I did find Kitty to be a very compelling character in Oppenheimer. Initial scenes set her up as an alcoholic, bad mom, but I came to really care about her and loved how she was the only one talking sense into Oppenheimer, telling him to get a grip, don't indulge people who have screwed you over, etc. And I really felt for her when the affair came up in the interrogation sessions. I found her to be one of, if not the most compelling Nolan woman-- which isn't saying much still
That's kind of how the women in his life that were portrayed in the film actually were, though. While the sex scene was dubious, both his wife and mistress had emotional/substance issues.
Didn't Dark Knight Rises have a sex scene?
Not really, one of those "kiss and then fade out" scenes where the sex is implied to have happened.
Yea but it didnt show none of talia al ghuls puhh
Totally forced and for the life of me I canāt sort out why. Like, sure, you have to have him say the line at some point in the movie. But in the middle of a sex scene?
But he does think it during the test scene too so it's just become an odd callback.
My hot take is that this worked for me. To hear the voice of the woman he cared for but felt he "killed" say this as he creates a bomb that will literally kill thousands of people was haunting. The recurring theme of him indirectly killing/hurting others all while being just a scientist doing a job was haunting. But I agree with everyone, the initial taking of the book off the shelf, saying it during sex scene was very, very bizzare
I totally agree. It was actually quite a laughably bad scene. They couldāve had her combing through his his bookshelf and you mightāve just seen the title of the book or maybe she flipped open and was like oh you can read this, but having that line read, it was so bad.
For me, Oppy was the opposite (no pun intended) I didn't like the movie that much, but the one scene I loved was when he was in that room having hallucinations of all the happy, cheering people dying from a nuclear explosion. I loved that scene.
Cheer Up, Charlie.
I think my VHS knew that this scene was going to get fast forwarded
Probably the most fast fast forwarded part of any tape ever made
Yeah, that's the golden ticket.
Itās weird how that song slows down the whole film. It wouldāve worked better if it had a montage of Charlie working hard to spend what little he could for candy and just failing. But then I guess that would just promote gambling.Ā
I don't really like that idea either, cause Charlie being so poor he could only afford a couple was a huge point of the movie too. Just take out that whole scene. It's such a quick, funny satire leading up to it. Really kills the pacing. Still one of my favorite movies, but such a terrible scene and song.
Now that I remember, this scene happens before the fake winner is announced. Right?Ā Maybe, this song wouldāve worked better if it happened after Charlie is under the impression he lost and if maybe it was a group song from his family, which is used to successfully comfort him in his lowest point. It could remind him itās not about winning and couldāve reinforced the point that heās not a spoiled kid who needs to get what he wants to be happy. But yeah, as is the song and scene needs to go.Ā
The "baby" in _American Sniper_ The anal sex line in _Kingsman: The Secret Service_ George Lucas re-editing for the special edition _Star Wars_ scene so Greedo shoots at Han Solo first (and despite being right next to him, misses _badly_) George Lucas's special edition scene change of _Return of the Jedi_'s "Jedi Rocks" scene You know what, let's say every special edition change George Lucas did for the original Star Wars saga
The bad CGI head shift for Han always makes me laugh.
Han stepping on Jabbaās tail is even worse
I will never understand why Lucas tried *so hard* to scrub all the copies of the original Star Wars trilogy with the original practical effects out of existance, he seems so ashamed by it for some reason. If I had done those practical effects, I would have been really proud with what I was able to accomplish at the time.
The long-standing rumour is that itās a way to screw his ex-wife (who edited the first film) out of receiving royalties.
That would be awful. A New Hope was totally saved by the editing. Without her input Star Wars would have never become a trilogy, let alone a franchise which still has passionate fans 4 decades later.
Maklunkey!
Not every. I really like that they made Cloud city into an actual city and those extra scenes at the end of Return of the Jedi. Edit: And that they changed the emperor's actor in Empire.
This is low hanging fruit but any scene with Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffanyās
His arrival on screen was a hell of a time for the edible to hit.
Braveheart. When he kills Mornay then jumps out the window with the horse. Cmon man.
"You don't have any cats. I like that." (Cue sex scene and a live version of Comfortably Numb)
What's that from
The Depahted
The Departed
A Van Morrison cover at that š¤®
Pink Floyd is my favorite band and I don't know if that makes the scene better or worse but I can tell you I hate that scene, it's fucking bizarre
The very last scene in Groundhog Day. I love that he gets out of the time loop, but when he and Rita are leaving the bed and breakfast, he tells her āLetās move here!ā Yesā¦for him, he loves this town after living there for 10,000 years, but she has only been in town for a day and only known him for maybe two days. Even if she really enjoyed his company the previous day, she should be incredibly weirded out by him saying they should move there together.
āWeāll rent to startā softens it a bit. Highlights the absurdity. Perfect film, btw.
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Not a scene, but I really do like the movie "Yesterday." Not an all time classic or anything but a fun movie I really enjoy. But the Kate McKinnon character is terrible. If I could skip the scenes with her character, I would enjoy the movie so much more. Her character just does not fit in with the tone of the movie. It takes me out of the fantasy.
Agreed. She's great in sketch comedy, and she seemed like she was doing sketch comedy in a movie where no one else was.
My biggest complaint with the movie was the utterly lazy writing. The choices the characters made were such an obvious means to an end to propel the story, none of it seemed natural. I wanted to love the movie so much, but there are some egregious writing choices that make it hard to rewatch.
She was added when Richard Curtis of all people did a massive rewrite on the original draft where the lead does not immediately become an overnight sensation.
The scene in Crazy Stupid Love where the babysitter gives the kid her nudes
I despised the way they ended that film. Feel like it gave the audience all the wrong messages and this one was the most egregious.
I hated how the wifeās infidelity was swept under the rug and still blamed on the husband. His own son saying he didnāt āfightā for his wife as an excuse for why she fucked another guy.
Exactly! The messaging was terrible, she didnāt even apologise she just blamed him for it and he had to do not 1 but 2 grand gestures for HER to take him back??? It was a funny movie but the way it ended irritated me immensely.
Yep, literally came here to say the same thing. Her trying to give them to Steve Carells character sort of made sense - she's a kid trying to be an adult and thinks that's what adults would do to get the attention of someone. But to give them to the child? Nahhhhh
Last yearās Saltburn is a good, pulpy movie in my opinion; itās fun and well-done. I severely disliked the āhow he pulled it all offā montage at the end, however. I really, really think it would be a much better movie without it.
šÆ shouldāve ended with him slashing the tyre and leaving everyone going āoh shit! It was planned all along!ā And definitely didnāt need the total blow by blow.
Amd they didn't even do that right: they left out a few ones where you really wondered how he did it (like the poisoning of the wife at the end, iirc).
The rave scene in Matrix Reloaded.
That was the exact moment I realized this film was in trouble.
Yeah. The Matrix Reloaded was one of my biggest film dissapointments ever. I loved the first one so much as a teenager, watched it over and over, then Reloaded was just such a 6/10 kind of film. Annoys me I can't get an HD version of The Animatrix, that's better than any of the sequals.
I wonder if that was meant as a Dune homage/reference.
I recall leaving the theater and overhearing a group of friends meeting up and asking how the movie was. "Keanu Reeve's pasty white ass!" was the summation of their assessment. There are only two scenes in films which I will rewatch which I fast forward through. One scene is Anakin and Padme on their little lover's get away. The other is the rave scene in Matrix Reloaded. Just doesn't need to be so drawn out.
Anakin and Padme's Lover's Getaway should be its own stand-alone movie. On the Hallmark Channel.
The "Girl Power" scene in *Avengers Endgame* Also, *The Dark Knight Rises*, Talia Al Ghul's death.
And the thing about the Endgame one, is that they had done the same scene in Infinity War so much better. They established Natasha looking out for Wanda, which was something that had been kind of hinted at in previous films. Then they set up Nat and Okoye working together on the battlefield, with Wanda coming to their defence part way through. So there was established connections between all three characters who were close to each other's positions. Endgame on the other hand made no sense. Most of the characters didn't know each other, they were all coming to the defence of Captain Marvel, but because of the Snap the only two who would have known her were Nebula and Pepper, neither of which had any actual scenes with her anyway. Plus Captain Marvel is the one character there who didn't need backup, as she had literally just rammed a ship with her body a couple minutes before. And to top it off the preceding scenes had made it seem like all the characters were all over the battlefield, nowhere near each other for such a moment to take place.
>Plus Captain Marvel is the one character there who didn't need backup This annoyed me so much. Like Peter saying "I don't know how you're gonna get through all that" referencing a bunch of ground troops. Carol should have just been like "Bitch, did you not see my entrance?" And then after the 'girl power' members take out a few guys (with Wanda and Valkyrie doing to heavy lifting), Carol just effortlessly bulldozes through 3 times as much shit as they "helped" her with.
>like "Bitch, did you not see my entrance?" He may not have, he was dodging attacks from all sides
I think the funny part is after that scene overall the girls had little impact or screen time in the end so it really did just feel like a forced āwomen can be strong tooā scene.
Yeah, as a contrast the scene in the Mandalorians storming the battlecruiser was done right. It wasn't until the second watch that I realized his whole storming team was women, it didn't matter and all of them were 100% top of their tier professionals when it came to fucking shit up.
Scenes like that done right would be that scene from the last episode of the second season of The Boys.
I came here to say this. I'm a woman and I hated this "see! Women can be badass too!" moment. They've been in all the avengers movies, we already know women can be badass. It felt like they were mansplaining female empowerment
There were a lot of bits in *The Dark Knight Rises* that bothered me. The one that stands out the most is the charge of the unarmed police officers at the literal wall of automatic weapons. Even Batman doing a scary fly by isn't going to prevent a mass casualty event.
Love JP Lost World, but it has a few scenes I can't believe Spielberg wanted to use as is. The one that bothers me the most is the scene where they're being pushed over the cliff by the T-rexes. Not the whole scene, but starting at the specific parts when they lose grip of the rope (I think it happens twice in a row) and slide to the end of it, bashing full weight into eachother without anyone falling or even appearing effected by it at all, it just looks so ridiculously staged that it ruins the rest of that scene for me now. Same problem as with the kid kicking the raptor. I'm in the weird camp of actually really enjoying the unnecessary San Diego section at the end. I don't even mind the plothole surrounding how a T-Rex could be trapped inside the ship by someone who clearly was eaten while they were still holding the button that trapped it. I just assume he pressed the button Thing style like Addams Family after the rest of him was eaten.
Gymnastics raptor kick is so terrible
I especially don't understand why she felt the need to fling around and call attention to herself like live bait before said kick when the raptor was a single jump away from reaching her the whole time. Did the raptor pause on eating anyone out of respect for gymnastics or something?
The calling unnecessary attention to oneself has a long history in Hollywood. People sneak up on a bad guy, then tap them on the shoulder and then punch them when they turn, or someone is able to run up someone whose back is turned, but then they yell, completely giving away their element of surprise. So annoying.
It's just so stupid to set up camp there, too. Muddy ground right beside a sheer cliff wall! Literally anywhere else would be a better camp spot.
The Departed When the psychiatrist just gets guilted into writing a prescription for Leoās character. Sheās like āfine, hereās drugs, take it.ā Such an awfully written scene. I feel like the writer has no idea what doctors do Then also has sex with her patient.
Has sex with her patient while cheating too
He's actually not her patient at that time. She transfers him to another psychiatrist after their very first appointment.
I love the first Ringu. The sequence where the doctor hits Sadako in the head...it has the worst sound effect. Sounds very stock/comedic Edit: that one really dorky 3D shot in Fury Road. I don't even remember what it was..maybe a steering wheel flying right toward the camera
YES! This was my first thought too. It sounds like a punch youād hear in a video game. THWACK! Knocked me completely out of the movie. I was stunned by how terrible it was.
I agree with you that the steering wheel in Fury Road looks weird and cg, but I think it was actually practical (an overlaid shot or something.. I don't know the terms). Which is why it is so weird that it looks so much like a rendering.
The scene in Joker that shows us >!Arthurās relationship with Sophie was all in his head!< right after we infer it.
Tbf, if they didn't outright tell us, you'd have over half the people who watched it debating that it wasn't all in his head. Which doesn't mean it was a good scene, but.
I've never realized it but you're right, if they didn't outright *tell* us that it was in his imagination, there would be debates. There would be "theories." And you'd say "Yeah wasn't it obvious?" And a third of the room would look at you like you're nuts
No because heās in her apartment and sheās completely freaked out. She makes it very clear that they barely know each other. The flashbacks were really unnecessary.
Not hearing Sophie's laughter in the background when the recording of Arthur's standup was played on TV was a big enough clue.Ā
unpopular opinion but I loved Matrix Reloaded... except the Zion rave scene and Morpheus speech
Mutt swinging in trees like Tarzan, in Indiana Jones 4
Pretty much everytime Jude Law's character, Dan, opens his mouth in Closer. The first few minutes are OK when he is with Alice but any other time in the film I just want to slap him senseless. And another part is when Alice and Larry are at the strip club and she says something like, "Do you want me to stop being cheeky?" That line grates on my nerves.
Interstellar. When they go to the first planet and are shocked that the data is "bad" because of the black hole. Even though it should be obvious because they all know how black holes affect time.
Matilda telling the hotel clerk that Leon is her lover. Also the Marilyn Monroe dress up. Probably some other sexualization scenes I'm not remembering with the different versions of the film.
I watched the American version, thought it was a good movie with a young girl who wanted to love Leon like an adult as a way to act out about her trauma. But Leon is a good guy and acts like a decent father figure. Then I saw the European version when I downloaded it and showed it to a girlfriend. I deeply apologized because I had no idea there were different cuts floating around online.
What happens in the European version?
Imdb: "New scenes found in the International Cut include: Mathilda asking Leon to have sex with her and Leon refusing; Leon explaining why he had to leave Italy and go to New York when he was 19 years old; Mathilda and Leon sleeping together in a bed; Mathilda threatening to shoot herself playing Russian roulette. Leon and Mathilda hitting the home of a tattooed drug dealer, and setting fire to his supply of drugs; New training missions where Mathilda learns the ropes of becoming an assassin. Leon and Matilda going to a restaurant to celebrate her first hit"
Recent news about Besson make it extra awkward too
*Recent*? Didnāt he impregnate his 15-year-old girlfriend in the 90s?
Fair. I guess the news was always out there but it seemed it didn't get talked about a lot until recently. But that might be just not knowing until recently.
For reference, he was 32 when they started dating and actually got married. They broke up because started fucking 21 yo mila jovovich when he was 38. Dude is gross.
Why'd you call it "the European version", when the name is "full version"? I live in Europe, I've seen the movie a bunch of times, and never have I seen these scenes mentioned below in another comment.
It's to illustrate how screwed up mathilda is. She'll never be normal or have normal relationships.Ā
That sex scene in Oppenheimer was awkward as hell
I really wonder what my dad thinks about my movie taste. Firstly, i watched The Whale with him, which starts with a masturbation scene. Then The Lighthouse, again, masturbation. Then after, Oppenheimer and it had THAT scene
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Youāre going to need to start screening your movies for sex scenes before you watch them with your dad. When I visit my parents I usually take my mom to go see āArthouseā movies, on *Poor Things* I was just like āLol, no, not seeing it with you.ā
I am going to see Poor Things with my mom next week ;-; (it only got to my country right now)
I hate the moment at the end of Die Hard where the blonde villain gets off the gurney and tries to shoot John, only to get blasted by Al. I get that Al got his courage back to use his firearm, but how'd blondie survive the roof explosion when we last saw him hanging motionless moments before detonation? How'd they recover his body? Was he faking unconsciousness the whole time? Where'd he get the gun and how'd he hide it in the gurney? None of it makes sense in an otherwise flawless action film. Edit: I recalled the scene incorrectly; he's not on a gurney or in a bodybag, but in a blanket, apparently. It's not possible to determine if he is being carried or helped out, as the cut to him throwing off the blanket and knocking aside a first responder is immediate. Either way, none of the logical holes I presented are repaired. Having his Australian assault rifle on his person is still ludicrously convenient. As to his pretending to hang dead by the chains; he remained there as the hostages flee back down stairs and passed his apparent body. Even if he could survive hanging by his neck for several minutes as John rushes to the roof and disrupts their whole plan, it's a stupid strategy. His reappearence is dues ex machina levels of illogical writing, and I'm a huge fan of this movie. Hell, the first gun I bought was a Beretta 92 because of this movie, but I can't defend Karl's survival.
"Sir, I'm going to need you to get ALLLL the way off my back about how the blonde guy survives until the end."
"They put a gun in the body bag?" "Heyshutup"
So that the movie can happen
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Alright let me get off that thing!
The Martha scene in Batman v. Superman. It was a narratively important moment - it humanized Superman for Batman, snapping him out of the single-minded rage heād been in since Metropolis - but the execution was sloppy and very poorly done.
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The prison scene in Butterfly Effect.
The scene in Bladerunner when Deckard makes Rachel kiss him. It's aggressive and nonconsensual, and I feel really uncomfortable watching it.
Yeah. I think itās the music that makes it so bad honestly. If it was played darker and less romantic I would give it the benefit of the doubt, cause Deckard is kind of a thug in that movie, and isnāt really meant as an upstanding moral character. But that fucking saxophone really throws me off.
Exactly! The fucking saxophone! I always tell myself that he is mentally wrestling, in that scene, with how he should treat her. Then the saxophone comes in and Iām thinking, āDid the director intend this scene to be hot? The dude just forced himself upon her.ā
I mean, it could be argued to show that Deckard, deep down, still sess Rachel as any other replicant: not human. Just a robot that doesn't have true feelings or emotions. But the scene still sours my mood for sure. Even with that explanation, it feels unnecessary.
The Bladerunner movies are continually drawing analogies between how we would treat androids we think have no souls and how men objectify women. Deckard has no moral qualms about killing replicants in cold blood so it is consistent with his character that would have no qualms about raping one. So to me the scene is highlighting how when men objectify women they are removing their soul and so removing moral implications for their actions. This is also explored in the second one with the sex scene with Joy, K and the hooker. It shows another way men can objectify women. In this case K literally projects his perfect woman over the hooker. So the hooker loses her soul and becomes an object in the interaction. Money also being another mechanism of objectification.
Not that the rest of the movie wasn't a mess, but that excessively long sex scene in the middle of The Watchmen was more awkward than seeing a whole lot of blue penis.
yall, that scene is supposed to be embarrassing and awkward. Their romance is a weird result of their attachment to and their relationship with their vigilante side. especially Nite Owl.ā
Finally someone who gets it. Snyder completely missed the point of every character, specially Dan and Laurie. The alley fight scene comes to mind as well, Moore depicted it in the comics as Two old friends brutalizing random thugs because they want to relive their younger days, they don't care about justice at the moment, they're just trying to impress each other because they're both undergoing a mid-life crisis and of course it ended with rebound sex, that was the entire point... And Dan can't even get it up, it's supposed to be sad and pathetic. But Snyder for some reason thought it was both badass, erotic and even romantic? The fuck?
Oh lord that part is so unintentionally funny for being set to the absolute poorest choice of (a fantastic) song.
Basically any scene with Tarantino in any Tarantino film
Sheddep bleck.
Watching Roy selfishly abandon his family in CLOSE ENCOUNTERS. It was perfectly set for him to grow and choose to stay with his family. But no, F āem. Literally no growth. No message. No reason for an otherwise stellar movie to exist.
Even Spielberg has said that when he directed Close Encounters he didnāt have kids yet, and his perspective would have been entirely different if he had had kids at the time.
I find it kinda funny that it took having kids for him to think "ah man, abandoning the people who love is actually not very cool".
Itās funny. I grew up watching that movie and thought it was a brilliant classic. My friend watched it for the first time in his 20s and went on this whole rant about how Dreyfusās character is a terrible person.
My sense was divorce and a family coming apart was the entire subtext of that movie. Watch The Fablemans.
The nude scene in Do the Right Thing.
Love Lord of the Rings, but as a Tolkien nerd there are a handful. Mainly all my complaints are from the extended edition scenes which is why I prefer the theatrical versions. I also donāt mind most of the changes and actually like a lot of the changes. But the Witch King owning Gandalf in RotK and making him look like his bitch was pretty bad.
>But the Witch King owning Gandalf in RotK and making him look like his bitch was pretty bad. That bugs the crap out of me and i love those movies
The scene where Carol strips in Star Trek Beyond is tonally off and unnecessary.