Just this scene alone must have taken forever to film. For each second of the scene the angle changes like 3 times lmao. Im getting a headache just watching it, AND its not even good
The Director's name was Pitof Coomer so draw your conclusions from that. Jon Favreau took inspiration from Pitof when he asked ScarJo to put his face in her thighs.
It's wild to think that a professional real world Director made this and thought... Yep, this is it, this is the perfectly done scene.
Like, I cannot fathom in any way how this makes it into an actual movie released to actual people.
It was his second directing job after a French low-budget scifi movie, and apparently his last.
The writers previously wrote Transformers (one of them) and Terminator 3 and 4 (the other two) and not much else of note, and haven't worked on anything I've heard of since.
The herpaderp who hired them is still working, but happily their two most successful movies since then appear to be Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2.
I met the woman who did the basketball stunts for Halle Berry in this scene, she was extremely good at dribbling and such. Could spin a ball on another ball, all legit stuff. But the fact that this movie, and specifically this scene, is what she used as her credentials was just hilarious.
(It was an education conference, I believe she was selling some basketball themed fitness program for kids)
It is pretty obvious that the actress has zero - *absolute zero* - ball skills. The editing is used to disguise that, by stitching together half-second bits of ball movement. The editor is a god for being able to disguise the utter lack of basketball skill to the casual viewer.
Can confirm worked in the cinema and this scene was on when we had to do the screen checks! Rock, paper, scissors to see who had to deal with that shit for 5 mins.
Honestly mostly we talked about the post production whitening of Halle Berry! Was so fucked up, for the staff screening all of us broke our shit laughing in a wtf way when she appeared on screen before she even opened her mouth
> The legend say's that those who saw this scene in the cinema tore out their eye's and mailed them to the Warner Bro's. office's
semi-fixed it for you
To me, the inconsistency is the insane part. I would understand it if you erroneously thought that *all* plurals need an apostrophe. You'd be wrong, but in a normal way that rational people can be wrong. But it's like they just flip a coin and sometimes use an apostrophe ("extra's") and sometimes not ("deaths"). That's just bonkers.
In Dutch words that end in "long" vowel get an apostrophe when pluralized and words that end with a consonant or "short" vowel don't (I'm simplifying a bit here). The reason has to do with pronunciation. The apostrophe basically indicates that the vowel before it is long.
So for Dutch people when writing in English, writing "extra's" with apostrophe and "deaths" is a very common mistake. And one can see why.
Why other people do it, no idea. But I think in English apostrophes are also sometimes used for pronunciation (Not officially, but I mean, people often use them for that purpose in fantasy names, so the association is clearly there even in English), so perhaps it's the same reason.
op might be dutch. 's is the way nouns ending in vowels are pluralised in dutch. extra is also a dutch noun, so autocorrect could’ve added the apostrophes.
I still don't understand how Halle read this script and thought it was a role to take on.
Surely *while* filming everything there must have been a sense of how terrible it all was. I realize by then it was probably too late anyway but... just... she'd won an Oscar before this; this absolutely wasn't necessary.
[At least she was a good sport about it all later](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-7s_yeQuDg).
> Surely while filming everything there must have been a sense of how terrible it all was.
I'd argue that you can re-edit the footage and make a film that doesn't inspire suicide.
Imagine the editor who was given 7 seconds of footage of hollywood actors struggling to dribble while they think about lunch, and told to turn it into an action packed scene with sexual tension
Some say on quiet nights, you can still hear him crying
And that cinematography! The filmmakers pondered the quality of the script and went “Well, if it’s gonna be on the level of Battlefield Earth, we might as well visually reference it…”
Most of those shots lasted less than a second, they break the 30 degree rule at least a few times, and are so frequently super close in and panning in any direction constantly. No way people didn't want to barf watching this in theaters, and not just because they saw the concept of film be victimized like this.
You lie! Production of Catwoman actually halted due to the test audiences' deaths from cringe, and thus further editing was done. The one you saw is the best they got out of the re-edits. So imagine what the test audiences saw...
>The one you saw is the best they got out of the re-edits. So imagine what the test audiences saw...
In the original scene, she gets down on all fours and bats the ball around for a few minutes until she gets bored, then starts making horking noises and everyone gets all worried until she stands up and says "just a hairball".
Then she grabs the ball and takes the shot.
Dude looks at her and says "just an air ball, haha".
"Why would you expect a cat to be good at basketball?" she says, and then doubles over and licks her crotch.
I’m in tears, fam. This is so bloody ridiculous. I love how this was in a film in cinema and not even a tv show.
What splendour and ambition to submit this to the silver screen.
Times were so different back then. Every piece of shit you could imagine was being made and put in cinemas. And now a great movie like Furiosa completely bombed at the box office. Times have changed.
*extras
The real cringe in the normalization of using apostrophes inappropriately for pluralization when they're only supposed to be used for contractions and possessives.
In my experience, and many other people's anecdotal experience, it's the English as an additional language speakers that tend to have better grammar than the native speakers. I'm willing to wager that OP is a native speaker due to this.
She didn't even really do anything all that impressive. I could probably do all that and I don't even play basketball, let alone have the powers of a cat.
The kids are cheering and hollering and then Halle Berry does the most insane dunk they have ever seen and then the kid asks for his ball back with all the enthusiasm of soggy milk.
Someone make that make sense to me.
The good thing about this movie to me, is that made me value my time . Up to that point I always finished every movie I started watching, unless external forces interfered. I rented this movie because I didn’t get to watch it on theaters, but mid movie I just couldn’t keep going… it broke me… I still remember thinking “why am I watching this? Why do I keep doing this I’m not enjoying?”… it wasn’t worth it… up to that point I never care if the movie wasn’t good, but after it make me question everything I watched from then on, and that it was ok to stop watching if it wasn’t appealing
The extra's what, op? What belonged to the extras?
Fucking putting apostrophes before an S is not how you make anything plural. Get your shit together.
The editing and the angles is so weird. Just adds to how bad it is and the part where she's just wiggling her butt and dribbling.. what's going on
Just this scene alone must have taken forever to film. For each second of the scene the angle changes like 3 times lmao. Im getting a headache just watching it, AND its not even good
I'm guessing Halle Berry had no basketball skills so they had to do a bunch of fast cuts and long shots to disguise that.
maybe she could've actually learnt adequate ball handling in that time
You are not the first, nor will you be the last, to suggest ball handler tutelage for Halle Berry..
The [Taken 3 method](https://youtu.be/gCKhktcbfQM?feature=shared)
And what a success that was!
It felt like death from 1,000 cuts!
It's like watching a fucking Indian drama soap.
Ain't you ever seen a cat play basketball?!
This checks out- everything cats do is 90% butt
Well, ain't no rule says a cat can't play basketball
The Director's name was Pitof Coomer so draw your conclusions from that. Jon Favreau took inspiration from Pitof when he asked ScarJo to put his face in her thighs.
If my surname was Coomer I would’ve straight up jump from the bridge
Tangential but pito means dick in Spanish.
Some would say he was a Pitof a Coomer.
It's wild to think that a professional real world Director made this and thought... Yep, this is it, this is the perfectly done scene. Like, I cannot fathom in any way how this makes it into an actual movie released to actual people.
It was his second directing job after a French low-budget scifi movie, and apparently his last. The writers previously wrote Transformers (one of them) and Terminator 3 and 4 (the other two) and not much else of note, and haven't worked on anything I've heard of since. The herpaderp who hired them is still working, but happily their two most successful movies since then appear to be Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2.
I dont know but all the 11 year old boys were sure liking it. No need to question anything. Alls good here.
I don't think I hit puberty by 11, this would have been awkward as hell.
I don't think anyone on that set had ever played basketball.
can't decide if it's worse than this [basketball scene in a movie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQOp_D4O5z8&ab_channel=JomBrady)
I met the woman who did the basketball stunts for Halle Berry in this scene, she was extremely good at dribbling and such. Could spin a ball on another ball, all legit stuff. But the fact that this movie, and specifically this scene, is what she used as her credentials was just hilarious. (It was an education conference, I believe she was selling some basketball themed fitness program for kids)
I think the music is what really makes it cringe. Along with everything else.
I watched it on mute and still had to look away
Maybe we should try cutting our eyes out and ice picks in our ears? Then it might not be bad.
I just swiped to the next post, but you do you Boo Boo
It is pretty obvious that the actress has zero - *absolute zero* - ball skills. The editing is used to disguise that, by stitching together half-second bits of ball movement. The editor is a god for being able to disguise the utter lack of basketball skill to the casual viewer.
The legend says that those who saw this scene in the cinema tore out their eyes and mailed them to the Warner Bros offices.
*Event Horizon* was a documentary on how the first test screening went.
If you listen to the original recording it says, *”Liberate tutemet ex cattus domina (MMIV)”*.
“Save us… from DC film contracts!”
Do you see? DO YOU SEE?!
ID RATHER FUCKING NOT THANK YOU VERY MUCH
This is me at Mt. Rushmore. Do you see?!
Someone needs to merge [this scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8YObV6i_Yc) with the catwoman scene.
This movie was in fact directed by Shibriri
May chaos take the world!
It already has, and I blame this scene particularly!
Can confirm worked in the cinema and this scene was on when we had to do the screen checks! Rock, paper, scissors to see who had to deal with that shit for 5 mins. Honestly mostly we talked about the post production whitening of Halle Berry! Was so fucked up, for the staff screening all of us broke our shit laughing in a wtf way when she appeared on screen before she even opened her mouth
My eyes actually hurt from the amount of cuts and wiggling around of the camera
Correct, I’m blind now
yes, however, some of those people did not think ahead and neglected to address the package *before* tearing their eyes out.
Years later, David Zaslav got rid of them for a tax write-off.
I, too, need a new set of eyeballs after watching this. Is there a website that allows you to uncringe?
r/eyebleach
Thanks. I needed this.
> The legend say's that those who saw this scene in the cinema tore out their eye's and mailed them to the Warner Bro's. office's semi-fixed it for you
I don’t know why so many people do this nowadays. It’s so cringe, especially when I see “hero’s” or something like that I just want to scream in agony
To me, the inconsistency is the insane part. I would understand it if you erroneously thought that *all* plurals need an apostrophe. You'd be wrong, but in a normal way that rational people can be wrong. But it's like they just flip a coin and sometimes use an apostrophe ("extra's") and sometimes not ("deaths"). That's just bonkers.
In Dutch words that end in "long" vowel get an apostrophe when pluralized and words that end with a consonant or "short" vowel don't (I'm simplifying a bit here). The reason has to do with pronunciation. The apostrophe basically indicates that the vowel before it is long. So for Dutch people when writing in English, writing "extra's" with apostrophe and "deaths" is a very common mistake. And one can see why. Why other people do it, no idea. But I think in English apostrophes are also sometimes used for pronunciation (Not officially, but I mean, people often use them for that purpose in fantasy names, so the association is clearly there even in English), so perhaps it's the same reason.
sexual tension in front of the 11 year olds kinda wild
In honour of the awful grammar that op used, I killed myself. Thrice
[A classic](https://imgur.com/egZ8ziH) Source: toothpastefordinner
OP is a greengrocer. Mustn't judge them too harshly.
Ill bee shure too doo thet mai gye/ eye dunnae hau toe taip proopar anglic
People who don’t know how to use apostrophes: just don’t use them. It’ll be better for all of us.
Id be fine with that honestly, but in some cases itll be very weird.
op might be dutch. 's is the way nouns ending in vowels are pluralised in dutch. extra is also a dutch noun, so autocorrect could’ve added the apostrophes.
Freaky deeky Dutch bastard
Literal child: "can we have our ball back" Catwoman and whoever tf the dude is in a textbook sex position in the middle of a basketball court:
it's javier delgado. modern family and catwoman (2004) share a cinematic universe where the only common thread is javier delgado.
It's wild right. And the kids are cheering. She's shaking her ass in front of him and the kids are all "yeaaaaah". So disturbing
A different age. / checks modern media Ha. Nvm.
She’s part cat. She was obviously in heat.
I also died from cringe just now.
RIP buddy, I'll make sure you're remembered by reposting this clip on your cakeday.
No! Don’t kill anymore!
Oh god... the cringe! The kids stop playing and tell 2 adults "one on one? come on". Yeah sure, kid do that all the time...
I died from fucking nausea. Jesus that camera work is eye cancer
Rip in peace
Me too, I couldn't finish it. It was causing too much pain
I'm trying not to but ahit is looking bleak rn
Cut them a break. They were trying to tweak the format of a formulaic genre.
Jesus, those cuts...
And that unnecessary wall jump…. Why????
Unnecessary pretty much describes this entire movie.
I still don't understand how Halle read this script and thought it was a role to take on. Surely *while* filming everything there must have been a sense of how terrible it all was. I realize by then it was probably too late anyway but... just... she'd won an Oscar before this; this absolutely wasn't necessary. [At least she was a good sport about it all later](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-7s_yeQuDg).
The check that came with the script was written much better
> Surely while filming everything there must have been a sense of how terrible it all was. I'd argue that you can re-edit the footage and make a film that doesn't inspire suicide.
She showed up to receive the Razzie, she knew it was dogshit, but money's money.
I can think of fourteen million reasons.
Oh my gosh that’s awesome that she went to the razzies
I mean, the wall jump is the only thing she did that was actually anything remotely outside the capabilities of a normal person.
Not the almost dunk where she jump's at the free-throw line and then just kinda warp's through s'pace to the hoop?
She pressed B to dash
i see you and OP studied under the same apostrophe master
Imagine the editor who was given 7 seconds of footage of hollywood actors struggling to dribble while they think about lunch, and told to turn it into an action packed scene with sexual tension Some say on quiet nights, you can still hear him crying
Phenomenal job in that case. Inspirational.
And that cinematography! The filmmakers pondered the quality of the script and went “Well, if it’s gonna be on the level of Battlefield Earth, we might as well visually reference it…”
Wha\\ \\ ............\\ \\ ..............\\ \\t cu\\ \\ ..............................\\ \\ts? I've barely noticed them.
It's a desperate attempt to distract you from the fact that she's actually not doing anything cool
Not just not anything cool. She likely doesn't have enough basketball skill to do even the simplest ball control.
Its so funny that despite their best efforts you can still see her fumble the ball multiple times lmao
Even Watching Indian Drama can make me feels this dizzy
This is what you get when the editor is paid per cut.
Gave me multiple seizures
It'd probably look even worse without them
Fair
Kim, go to my hotel room and hide in the closet, our dignity is about to be Taken
Most of those shots lasted less than a second, they break the 30 degree rule at least a few times, and are so frequently super close in and panning in any direction constantly. No way people didn't want to barf watching this in theaters, and not just because they saw the concept of film be victimized like this.
Editor: Edward Scissorhands
I’m a knife. Knifing around….
You lie! Production of Catwoman actually halted due to the test audiences' deaths from cringe, and thus further editing was done. The one you saw is the best they got out of the re-edits. So imagine what the test audiences saw...
>The one you saw is the best they got out of the re-edits. So imagine what the test audiences saw... In the original scene, she gets down on all fours and bats the ball around for a few minutes until she gets bored, then starts making horking noises and everyone gets all worried until she stands up and says "just a hairball". Then she grabs the ball and takes the shot. Dude looks at her and says "just an air ball, haha". "Why would you expect a cat to be good at basketball?" she says, and then doubles over and licks her crotch.
>doubles over and licks her crotch And just like that, it becomes Oscar material.
This scene is competing with "Requiem for a dream" for the greatest number of cuts. This scene. Against the whole movie
You forgot about this masterpiece: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gCKhktcbfQM
Lmao I just knew this was going to be Liam Neeson jumping a fence. Knew it!
His face plant is so funny
Will never cease to amaze me that we needed 13 cuts just to see Liam Neeson *fail* to jump a fence
What the actual fuck
19 cuts in 6 seconds of film.
..to show an old man strugle to go over a fence
Yeah but at least requiem is a real one.
With all these cuts I’m surprised there wasn’t another Porygon incident
CutWoman
And this shit is why he was paralysed in Doctor Strange.
The camera cuts or smacking his head on the pavement?
Have to wonder of the basketball scene at the end of dr strange was because Benjamin bratt *had* to tell people he actually knows what basketball is
He is the same guy? IN THE SAME SETTING?
I'm getting seizures from the camera cut.
Damn you OP. Why did you make me watch this? Also, thank you for making me watch this.
If you look closely there’s actually a pretty clever reference to the sport of Basketball
Complete with a charging foul at the end
You killed me bro
Ah yes… the “Urban Basketball Court” movie setting.
I really hate that this exists
I genuinely don't know how anyone involved with that scene got work afterward.
This scene was edited by the Jonkler.
Even the Ham Aslume inmates would sooner turn sane than watch this
what do you think the purpose of an apostrophe is?
[+](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My6oGvkHnfY)
**Extras**. Never use an apostrophe to pluralize a word *in English.*
Well not never. You can use an apostrophe to pluralize single lowercase letters. That’s the ONLY exception Mind your p’s and q’s
Interesting. I went to refute your statement and realized that Chicago Manual of Style agrees with you. TIL.
I recently learned it myself and thought I could chime in finally lol
Do those count as words? Thank you for sharing.
You’re welcome! And it depends on the context. I think “a” is a word
Not upper case too?
Nope, uppercase doesn’t need it
So you would just write "Ps and Qs"?
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I feel like I’m watching some lame ass 90’s pop music video
Why did I enjoy this clip? 😭😂
It was like a cringey early 2000's Videoclip
I’m in tears, fam. This is so bloody ridiculous. I love how this was in a film in cinema and not even a tv show. What splendour and ambition to submit this to the silver screen.
Times were so different back then. Every piece of shit you could imagine was being made and put in cinemas. And now a great movie like Furiosa completely bombed at the box office. Times have changed.
Back then? What do you mean that was just a few years... wait.. fuck.
It is the single most 2004 thing I have ever seen
Cats, man. You know they can ball. Because they like yarn I think. What's the Fanduel line on Berry's Catwoman vs Fox's Teen Wolf one on one to 11?
Kino
Wow, that was hard to watch
If this subreddit allowed gifs I would post the "Jetstream Sam Dies of Cringe" one.
[You can just link images inline](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/002/523/107/f1a.gif)
Overshadowed by the cringe, people often forget actor Ben Bratt succumbed to a head bleed due to the impact with concrete at the end of this scene.
Apostrophes don't make things plural.
Extras* with no apostrophe! Three strikes, you're out.
PSA: you don’t need apostrophes for plural words
> P'SA: you don’t need apo'strophe's for plural word's
Ah yes. Pitof's directorial debut
So being hot as fuck DOES have its limits.
The real cringe is repeatedly spelling extras as "extra's". The public school system has failed us.
*extras The real cringe in the normalization of using apostrophes inappropriately for pluralization when they're only supposed to be used for contractions and possessives.
The real cringe is that we had to read it three times in the title.
Can it be that English is not OPs’ first language?
In my experience, and many other people's anecdotal experience, it's the English as an additional language speakers that tend to have better grammar than the native speakers. I'm willing to wager that OP is a native speaker due to this.
She didn't even really do anything all that impressive. I could probably do all that and I don't even play basketball, let alone have the powers of a cat.
What did you expect, cats aren't exactly known for their basketball prowess.
...but all the extras are children.
You're saying as if children are incapable of dying of cringe.
No, it's just that children are unable to die.
Children are our future, and the future... is inevitable. They are coming. No one will be spared.
Literally the creation of Gen Z right then and there An entire generation scarred from this film smh
Any brave soul wanna count how many cuts there were?
136
It looks like a joke scene that would be in one of the scary movies movies.
The kids are cheering and hollering and then Halle Berry does the most insane dunk they have ever seen and then the kid asks for his ball back with all the enthusiasm of soggy milk. Someone make that make sense to me.
"How many cuts do you want?" "Yes"
The cuts between the talented dribbler stunt double to Halle Berry trying to dribble are amazing. She’s smacking the ball straight down.
Sure its abysmally cringe but this film and the clip should have an epilepsy and seizure warning for flash photography. Jesus.
I'm sure all the boys didn't die of cringe but fapped very well that night thinking about the day's events.
I almost died watching this.
The good thing about this movie to me, is that made me value my time . Up to that point I always finished every movie I started watching, unless external forces interfered. I rented this movie because I didn’t get to watch it on theaters, but mid movie I just couldn’t keep going… it broke me… I still remember thinking “why am I watching this? Why do I keep doing this I’m not enjoying?”… it wasn’t worth it… up to that point I never care if the movie wasn’t good, but after it make me question everything I watched from then on, and that it was ok to stop watching if it wasn’t appealing
The extra's what, op? What belonged to the extras? Fucking putting apostrophes before an S is not how you make anything plural. Get your shit together.
Didn't realize Benjamin Bratt was in this, but there's a decent chance I saw this movie literally one (1) time.
Challenge: Every cut = shot tequila
This bodied Hallie's career as well
I feel sick
Add my death to the list
The SLEEVES
The editing in the movie gives me an aneurysm
All those jump cuts made my eyes hurt, and not in a funny haha hyperbole way. This is in the most ong fr fr no cap way