Great Scenes from Movies You Disliked

The archery tournament in Brave. It was so cool that the third trailer was just this scene. And man, did it make this So Okay, It's Average flick look badass.

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I didn't care much about Blade Runner, but the climactic chase through the apartment complex kept me on the edge of my seat.

The wedding speeches to the new couple in Breaking Dawn Part 1, particularly Charlie's: "I know Edward's a good guy. I'm a cop, so I know things. *looks at Edward* I also have a gun." A rather liked scene, even among people that don't really like the series.

"With hard work and dedication, I will become a splendid ninja!"

In a Year of 13 Moons. The core of this film is actually a strong, tragic, dramatic story. The problem is: it takes roughly half an hour of screen time in a two hour film to tell that story. So, the scenes with the main character and his/her family are strong, but this film gets bogged down by superfluous, arty B.S. big time. The slaughterhouse scene was particularly gratuitous and unnecessary.

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The bit with Quaritch escaping the Dragon in Avatar. That is about half the reason he get the Draco in leather pants treatment, that scene makes him come across as an 80s action hero at best and a bigger badass than Jake at worst.

I bought a spaghetti western/horror film as it sounded cool, it wasn't. The Revenge of Ringo or Ringo, it's Massacre Time, releases have been very sporadic and varied. It was a terrible film, the main actor left filming half way through and they replaced his character with his brother. It wasn't a horror film, in fact it was more of a detective story. But the ending was perfect, the natural result of a spaghetti western showdown meets detective story summation. The two heroes storm the villain's cave, shoot them dead, rescue the love interest who turns out to be a villain as well so they shoot her when she tries to shoot them and then leave the love interest's mother (also a villain) crying over her daughter in a burning cave. Terrible, terrible, film, great ending.

How has The Wicker Man not been mentioned?

Truly sublime acting.

edited 26th Nov '12 5:44:10 AM by Alma

You need an adult.

The scene from Insidious where Fireface shows up right behind one of the characters. It has absolutely no build-up and comes straight out of nowhere, thus taking you completely off guard. That's the only kind of Jump Scare that I really like.

"We're home, Chewie."

The truck chase in The Dark Knight. It's the only time I found the Joker to truly enjoy being his Axe-Crazy self.

The shower scene in Freddy Got Fingered makes me laugh every time I see it.

"Get out of my goddamn scuba gear, you imbecile!" *SMASH*

In the otherwise mediocre Iron Man 2, The opening scene in Congress. The acknowledgement that Stark's actions had consequences and the world was changed forever. Hope Iron Man 3 acknowledges the effect that an Alien invasion has to mankind.

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First, lets reiterate Al Pacino's epic monologue in The Deil's Advocate. Also, any scene with Schwarzenegger in Batman and Robin. It's like he's the only one who understood that the movie was stupid and ran with it. That may not have been on purpose, but it was fun, which is more than I can say about Chris O'Donnell and George Clooney.

This scene from Robocop 2. The only scene that captured the tone and humor of the first film perfectly.

The Peter Pan sequel Return to Neverland is mostly terrible and not worthy to follow the original (one of my favorite Disney movies). However, the scene where Peter Pan sees a grown up Wendy is genuinely touching.

edited 18th Feb '13 12:02:59 AM by Waterlily

I also liked the Pirate Ship over wartime London scene from Return to Neverland.

POTC: At World's End strikes me as a flawed movie rather than an awful one, but Norrington's death and the wedding at the end definitely deserved a better movie. So did the epic wedding of Elizabeth and Will.

edited 18th Feb '13 8:58:45 AM by odadune

The briefcase scene from Collateral, and the Doolittle Raid launching in Pearl Harbor.

edited 21st Feb '13 3:19:16 PM by Achaemenid

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Thought of a couple more: Grace Jones’ two big scenes as insane supermodel Strangé in Eddie Murphy’s bloated ego-trip Boomerang. They made me wish she’d get her own spin-off movie.

Also: the early appearance by Carrie Fisher in the otherwise unbearable Warren Beatty vehicle Shampoo.

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Edward muttering, "Doesn't [Jacob] own a shirt?"

I'm a skeptical squirrel

Honestly, any scene with Charlie in those movies is bound to be gold.

Though, to be honest, I still say nearly the entirety of the film franchise is enjoyable in its cheesiness, especially when you consider how by the end of it, everyone seems to just be reveling in the material.

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The fart joke in The Master Of Disguise,...and the Dubya impression at the end.

Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter

I don't necessarily dislike Revenge of the Sith, but it's not great. The first half hour or so, the rescue mission, now that's gold. Especially the very beginning, with the long tracking shot and the awesome space battle.

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Not really a movie, but I've always disliked Family Guy, except for this one joke:

It's the kind of thing that'll only really make you crack up for the right reasons if you're huge into the Beatles.

edited 13th Aug '13 11:47:59 PM by 0dd1

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I thought most of World War Z was So Okay, It's Average at best, but brought down by way too many contrivances. And then the third act kicked in and the hospital scene started, and I thought "Wait a second, what right does this movie have to suddenly get nail-bitingly intense?" Great example of the importance of sound design.

Subverted Trope; everyone hated the 2nd HP film (Chamber of Secrets) but I liked it. But I wanted to share a funny great scene in the film where Ron and Harry are in the flying car, getting fucked by the Whomping Willow. Ron says in a REALLY voice-breaking high-pitched dog-whining like voice:

What's happening?!?!

ROFLORLFOFLROFL!!!!

MY EYES ARE SO CUTE THEY WILL KILL YOU

The only good thing about Mona Lisa Smile is the scene when Julia Stiles character tell her teacher, "You're the one who said I could do anything I wanted. This is what I want." She was referring to choosing to get married over going to law school.