Bad Scenes from Great Movies

Return of The Jedi.

Yes, Gimli really gets the short end of the tick in the LOTR movies.

Also, from Rot K; the rewritten ending of the siege of Minas Tirith. It kills any epic atmosphere whatsoever in the movie, because it looks as if the armies of Mordor are drowning in jello.

@Squadala Guy:

Revenge Of The Sith? Great? Lol, no. It's just decent, which admittedly makes it look great in comparison to The Phantom Menace and Attack Of The Clones, but on its own merit? No.

lol Revenge Of The Sith no great in its own right. Ha ha ha

Greatest thing I've heard all day

No Revenge is brilliant in its own right without any comparison between the So Okay, It's Average first episode or the truly abominable second.

It has more emotion than all of A New Hope,it's less repetitive than Empire,and no silly Big-Lipped Alligator Moment s like in Return Of The Jedi.

The only sin this movie committed was the grievous mistake of General Grievous

edited 5th Oct '11 4:11:51 PM by terlwyth

It's funny how hyped General Grievous was and then he gets killed in twenty minutes. He was like Typhoid Mary in Elektra except he was actually cool.

You say it's great without comparison to the other two movies but you only establish its greatness by comparing it to other movies.

NUL: I hated that fuzball and co. so i will never watch that scene AGAIN. Fuck no.

Regarding the Return Of The Jedi scene in the pagetopper, the first time I watched that movie, my reaction to it was the following:

This thread is mostly scenes that I like... but I won't acknowledge Jedi Rocks.

Entirely the fault of the remastered version. It's the main reason I would rather watch the original movies. Everything else I can deal with, but that stupid musical scene just pisses me off. An obnoxious waste of time that completely undercuts whatever tension had been built up to that point in the movie.

North by Northwest: great edited chase scene, shitty ending WHY DOES THE HELICOPTER CRASH INTO THE GAS TANK FOR NO REASON
Vertigo: the whole ending good god why

Yeah, I haven't seen the original versions of them yet. I have the DV Ds with them, though, but I haven't gotten around to watching the non-special editions yet.

For me the scene in the 1989 Batman movie where the Joker is dancing around to Prince counts as one. Something similar would have worked in the campy Adam West version, but in this it just feels out of place and makes the movie seem dated, although the concept of Jack Nicholson dancing around to Prince is pretty hilarious by itself. Can you imagine if he did that in some other movie, like The Shining?

There was a cut scene in Hoffa where Nicholson parties like it's 1999.

Return of the Jedi is my favourite Star Wars film, but that scene is indeed unbearable.

If you ask me, the cab scene from Pulp Fiction. It's very long and boring, but I do acknowledge that it's kinda important. I mean, how else would Butch have gotten over to the other side of the city without getting killed?

Alright fine. First Revenge Ofthe Sith is gut-wrenching which is a plus to anyone who likes Darker and Edgier,secondly the actors hammed it up and had fun (Except for Mac Gregor,Jackson,and Portman). The battles were nicely choreographed [if Yoda wasn't involved in them that is].

Order 66 was very nicely shot as well,though I didn't care much for the Beauty Is Never Tarnished principle going on.

The character interactions are believable and yes even Anakin's fall is believable,if you look at it as he's stuffing down all his emotions when obeying Palpatine in hopes Padme will live and the Jedi did kind of spurn the guy as well.

And you really get to explore Palpatine a lot more,the hammy side which was only somewhat hinted at in Jedi,and the sadistic side when he makes Vader suffer the operation entirely at the end.

Not to mention the score was really good to.

The one stupid scene was when Anakin just stood there after chopping off Windu's arm off. I mean he could've done the same to Palpatine. It's not like Palpatine would be of no use limbless.

The cab scene also establishes that Butch had a plan for all of this and it eases you into the scenario. Plus the point of Pulp Fiction is to just get those moments where people talk without it necessarily being important to the plot. How much of the dialogue was plot, afterall?

The finale of Die Hard with a Vengeance.

It just seems so tacked on, I kinda wish they would've wrapped everything up on the boat.

Castle Anthrax from Monty Python And The Holy Grail. The rest of the movie is hilarious, but that scene's just "I am Zoot's twin sister Dingo" and a long line of pussy jokes.

edited 25th Oct '11 6:33:44 AM by EgregiousEric

Any of the scenes including Mose in The Searchers. Fifty-odd years ago it might've been funny but now, it kinda screams "Hey everyone! Let's laugh at the mentally disabled man!"

Maybe that's one reason why I like revisionist westerns more than the golden age stuff.

edited 26th Oct '11 10:22:22 AM by EnglishMajor

Quoted: Also, it gets it wrong with the drinking. In The Hobbit, a couple of elves get completely shitfaced. That's important because it allows Bilbo to enact his plan.

Well, that's because in The Hobbit, it's mentioned that the wine the elves are drinking is incredibly potent, brewed specially so they CAN get shitfaced (Dwarves in Tolkien's universe actually have more tolerance for alcohol than men, but elves far surpass them)

This is because they changed the ending mid-production.

The original ending on the DVD boxset jumps forward several months after the ship blows up: Simon got away with the crime and killed his girlfriend to get a bigger cut of the gold. McClane was fired from the police department because the FBI suspected him of having been collaborating with the terrorists all the while. John meets Simon in a Swiss club and plays a game called "McClane says", where he presents riddles to Simon and threatens to fire a bazooka if he gets one wrong. Eventually Simon messes up and gets killed, so McClane walks away.

Was that actually filmed? It sounds awesome.

It was. The ending tested horribly though (test audiences wanted McClane to keep his job).