10 Awful Scenes In Amazing Movies
It’s very rare that you can claim a movie is absolutely perfect.
Sometimes even our most beloved movies can contain scenes that for one reason or another
just don’t seem to gel with the rest of the film.
These are the scenes you take a bathroom break during, fast forward, or just sit there wondering
what the filmmakers were thinking.
You’ve seen our 10 Amazing Scenes In Terrible movies, now here’s 10 Awful Scenes in Amazing
Movies.
The Breakfast Club
Considered by many to be one of the best high school films of all time, 1985’s The Breakfast
Club was marketed as a realistic look at the lives of teens in the 80s.
In one scene, several of the characters get high in the library, but the pot has a strange
effect on Emilio Estevez’s jock character who for some reason decides to hot box a room
on his own before going into a high energy dance, complete with gymnastics and shadow
boxing.
He caps this odd sequence by shattering a window with his powerful scream.
I’ll have what he’s having.
Django Unchained
By the third act of Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, several of the film’s
main characters have been killed off and we expect the former slave’s final revenge
to be imminent, instead a narrative detour is taken to make room for the director’s
worst cameo to date.
Taking Django away from Candyland not only stops the film’s action dead in its tracks,
but it also contains a highly questionable Australian accent from Tarantino who should
have left this sequence on the cutting room floor.
Interstellar
Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi epic prided itself in being more science than fiction, but one
of the film’s key emotional moments contained a bit too much whimsy for most viewers.
Doctor Brand’s speech about love transcending time and space seemed a little out of place
in this largely cerebral thriller and rubbed a lot of audiences the wrong way.
Ultimately the speech didn’t really contradict the film’s themes, the writing was just
a little too on-the-nose for most of us to stomach.
Star Wars
In 1977, audiences didn’t yet know the full history of Obi Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader,
nor had they ever seen a lightsaber duel, so when the two faced off there was little
in the way of expectations to be met.
Looking back at the blockbuster classic, this fight does not hold up, but seems stiff, lifeless,
and completely lacking in the action and emotion that even the following film, The Empire Strikes
Back, was able to achieve with its lightsaber duel between Vader and Luke.
Lord of the Rings -The Fellowship of the Ring
In the first Lord of the Rings film, the hobbits had their own little adventure before the
fellowship had even formed.
While on Weathertop, Frodo receives a wound from a Ringwraith that almost kills him.
When he comes to in Rivendell, he believes his journey has come to an end, and Peter
Jackson treats it like an epilogue, one that will later be echoed in the many epilogues
of Return of the King.
The hobbits have a gleeful reunion and talk of going back to the Shire, but with two and
half movies remaining we know their journey is just beginning and watching them celebrate
feels as redundant as second breakfast.
The Master
P.T.
Anderson’s last few films have been anything but straightforward.
The director likes to challenge his audiences with complicated characters behaving strangely.
The Master depicts the unlikely friendship between a troubled world war II veteran and
the leader of new religious movement.
The dialogue in their final meeting has all the meaning of a nonsensical dream and concludes
with the master inexplicably singing lyrics to the jazz standard ‘(I’d like to get
you on a ) Slow boat to china”.
Ambiguity is one thing, but this is just confusing.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 1
The trend of breaking up popular franchise conclusions into two parts can often result
in some pretty blatant filler scenes.
Perhaps the best example of this is Harry and Hermione’s awkward dance in Harry Potter
and the Deathly Hallows part 1.
It’s a grim point in the film for the characters and this is Harry’s attempt to lighten the
mood, but Harry’s goofy dance moves paired with Nick Cave’s brooding music make for
a strange and uncomfortable moment.
Clearly Hermione doesn’t know how to react to this either.
Thanks for the Grade 8 dance flashback Harry.
Drive
Despite its art film proclivities, most of Drive follows a somewhat rational logic that
seems to go out the window when the driver sets his sights on Nino, the despicable gangster
played by Ron Pearlman.
For no apparent reason, the driver dons a creepy mask and stares at Nino through the
window of a crowded restaurant for an extended period of time as if he were a character in
a horror film.
He doesn’t enter, but instead walks back to his car so he can use it to ram Nino’s
off a cliff.
Still masked, the driver confronts his bloodied victim on the beach and stares him down for
a few moments before Nino decides to help him finish the job by running into the ocean
where he can be easily drowned by the driver.
Thanks for not making this weird Nino!
Gangs of New York
Martin Scorsese’s 2002 flick attempted to depict gang warfare as it was in mid-19th
Century New York.
The opening sequence sees Bill the Butcher’s gang face off against Priest Vallon’s gang
of Irish immigrants, and begins with promise as we feel we’re in the competent hands
of a master filmmaker.
Then all of a sudden the character known as “Hellcat Maggie” literally flies through
the air, pounces on a victim and bites off his ear.
At this point the scene becomes something else entirely.
The music changes to a synthy modern rock soundtrack and what follows looks like the
man who gave us Raging Bull decided to let his teenaged nephew direct for a day.
It was an odd choice to begin a film that would contain no further scenes shot, edited
or scored using this style that looks more like an ultra violent music video than a feature
film.
Captain America: Winter Soldier
Captain America: Winter Soldier is one of the highest rated Marvel movies to date.
One of the reasons for this was the plot’s many twists and turns.
One red herring involved Nick Fury faking his death.
Just so there’s no doubt left in the audience’s mind, we’re made to witness several minutes
of characters wordlessly watching doctors try to revive him.
They even ran out of reaction shots and felt it necessary to include this one where Black
Widow is clearly speaking but her dialogue has been cut.
Once he’s been pronounced dead, Black Widow decides she needs an even closer look, you
know, to poke him and make sure he’s not faking it.
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