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Post by Ass_E9 on Mar 22, 2017 19:08:36 GMT
Name otherwise awful films that have random, awkward, weird or just plain strange scenes that are eminently watchable. Post pics or vids if you can.
[Companion thread to Takeshi-K's original]
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Post by Nalkarj on Mar 22, 2017 20:26:52 GMT
Name otherwise awful films that have random, awkward, weird or just plain strange scenes that are eminently watchable. Post pics or vids if you can.
[Companion thread to Takeshi-K's original] Interesting idea for a thread here, and one it takes some time to think about. I'll start with a horror film because that's what I was discussing a few hours ago on Takeshi's thread. I sometimes feel that I'm the only person on planet Earth who feels that Horror of Dracula (1958) is wildly overrated, but I've got to agree with the majority that the ending, in which Peter Cushing's Van Helsing (Cushing being the best thing, besides this scene, in the movie!) tracks down Christopher Lee's Dracula, is the greatest climax a Dracula film has ever had. It's exciting, well-filmed, clever, inventive... Masterfully done. How I wish the rest of the film were that good! This may be an obvious choice, but the scene in which Paul Newman has to kill the spy in Torn Curtain is incredible, especially for an only halfway-decent, rather middling Hitchcock. To that I would add the Salvador Dali dream sequences in Spellbound, which I find on the whole a slow, dull kind of a movie. (There's nearly always something positive even in a weak Hitchcock.) I'm trying to think of others, but nothing else comes to mind at the moment. |
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Post by filmfan95 on Mar 22, 2017 21:14:28 GMT
The giant marshmallow man from Ghostbusters.
I'm in the minority in that I don't think this movie is very funny. I actually think its kind of stupid. But the ending scene with the marshmallow man had me laughing my guts out. Just the fact that the cute marsmallow guy was walking around with a jolly smile, and everyone was screaming in terror, tickled my funny bone. I laughed so loud that my youngest brother came into the TV room all annoyed at me.
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Post by CoolJGS☺ on Mar 22, 2017 21:50:29 GMT
Batman vs. Superman
Batman's dystopia vision with a Dark Superman
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Post by moviemouth on Mar 23, 2017 2:04:08 GMT
Name otherwise awful films that have random, awkward, weird or just plain strange scenes that are eminently watchable. Post pics or vids if you can.
[Companion thread to Takeshi-K's original] Interesting idea for a thread here, and one it takes some time to think about. I'll start with a horror film because that's what I was discussing a few hours ago on Takeshi's thread. I sometimes feel that I'm the only person on planet Earth who feels that Horror of Dracula (1958) is wildly overrated, but I've got to agree with the majority that the ending, in which Peter Cushing's Van Helsing (Cushing being the best thing, besides this scene, in the movie!) tracks down Christopher Lee's Dracula, is the greatest climax a Dracula film has ever had. It's exciting, well-filmed, clever, inventive... Masterfully done. How I wish the rest of the film were that good! This may be an obvious choice, but the scene in which Paul Newman has to kill the spy in Torn Curtain is incredible, especially for an only halfway-decent, rather middling Hitchcock. To that I would add the Salvador Dali dream sequences in Spellbound, which I find on the whole a slow, dull kind of a movie. (There's nearly always something positive even in a weak Hitchcock.) I'm trying to think of others, but nothing else comes to mind at the moment. I agree with you about Horror of Dracula. I think it is highly mediocre. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2017 4:09:38 GMT
I really liked this scene in Suicide Squad. I liked most of the characters, but the story in this film was just a mess for me.
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Post by Nalkarj on Mar 23, 2017 16:53:17 GMT
Interesting idea for a thread here, and one it takes some time to think about. I'll start with a horror film because that's what I was discussing a few hours ago on Takeshi's thread. I sometimes feel that I'm the only person on planet Earth who feels that Horror of Dracula (1958) is wildly overrated, but I've got to agree with the majority that the ending, in which Peter Cushing's Van Helsing (Cushing being the best thing, besides this scene, in the movie!) tracks down Christopher Lee's Dracula, is the greatest climax a Dracula film has ever had. It's exciting, well-filmed, clever, inventive... Masterfully done. How I wish the rest of the film were that good! This may be an obvious choice, but the scene in which Paul Newman has to kill the spy in Torn Curtain is incredible, especially for an only halfway-decent, rather middling Hitchcock. To that I would add the Salvador Dali dream sequences in Spellbound, which I find on the whole a slow, dull kind of a movie. (There's nearly always something positive even in a weak Hitchcock.) I'm trying to think of others, but nothing else comes to mind at the moment. I agree with you about Horror of Dracula. I think it is highly mediocre. Nice to have you in agreement with me on this one! "Highly mediocre" is probably the most apt way to describe it, in fact, this coming from a Hammer fan who loves both Cushing and Lee. To be perfectly honest, though, I don't know a single critic who has criticized it since--er--possibly since Everson? Really, has it been that long? Obviously, it was criticized at the time of its release, for censorship grounds more than anything, but re: its merits as a film, I think Everson was the last person really to criticize it. I wonder if it has something to do with those who watched it when it was first released. I'm too young to have seen it in theaters, so I watched it long after it had been released and greatly enjoyed it that first time ("New! In Color! Blood! Girls!...Girls!...Girls!")-- but, after that, found it severely lacking and, in fact, rather dull for a picture that's supposed to be all action every minute. (So much talking in elaborate drawing-rooms!) It also severely neglects any kind of atmosphere, which, while very much on purpose (Hammer trying to differentiate it from the '31 version as much as possible), divorces the production's intent from that of the original book and expects us to think that--how does the expression go?--blood and bosoms make up for care for the characters and/or actual filmmaking. Also (how's this for going on and on? Mea culpa), Lee, an excellent Dracula, has nothing to work with to make a character, his dialogue and even scenes cut after the first few moments--and that early dialogue isn't any more than vague, non-disquieting mutterings like "my housekeeper is away at the moment." The irony is that Lee is far better in Scars of Dracula, a cheaply-made, otherwise lousily-acted (i.e., no Cushing) production that fans, because of those factors, have understandably underrated. In the end, I find it inferior even to the '31 version(s) (i.e., both the English- and Spanish-speaking versions, with Bela Lugosi and Carlos Villarias as Dracula, respectively) and especially to the 1977 miniseries, with Louis Jourdan as the Count, which I find the best filmed version of them all. |
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Post by LeWildPlatypus on Mar 23, 2017 17:10:09 GMT
The first 10 minutes of 'Guardians of the Galaxy'. Two scenes in particular, the opening and the dance sequence. Lovely and heartfelt scenes, shame about the rest of the movie.
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Post by politicidal on Apr 4, 2017 16:08:02 GMT
The runaway train chase in The Lone Ranger (2013). That was the best action scene I saw in years. Too bad I had to wait two hours to get there.
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Post by Nalkarj on Apr 11, 2017 17:18:02 GMT
The runaway train chase in The Lone Ranger (2013). That was the best action scene I saw in years. Too bad I had to wait two hours to get there. I liked The Lone Ranger more than you did, Politicidal, but I agree with you about that scene. By far the best thing in the movie. |
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Post by filmfan95 on Apr 11, 2017 23:40:58 GMT
The runaway train chase in The Lone Ranger (2013). That was the best action scene I saw in years. Too bad I had to wait two hours to get there. I liked The Lone Ranger more than you did, Politicidal, but I agree with you about that scene. By far the best thing in the movie. My favorite part of the movie too. And I actually liked the movie,despite being a Lone Ranger fan. |
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Post by Nalkarj on Apr 11, 2017 23:46:17 GMT
I liked The Lone Ranger more than you did, Politicidal, but I agree with you about that scene. By far the best thing in the movie. My favorite part of the movie too. And I actually liked the movie,despite being a Lone Ranger fan. I quite liked the movie too. At the very least, it's one of the most underrated pictures I've seen in recent years. As Matt Zoller Seitz wrote on the late Roger Ebert's website, "...for all its miscalculations, this is a personal picture, violent and sweet, clever and goofy. It's as obsessive and overbearing as Steven Spielberg's 1941 — and, I'll bet, as likely to be re-evaluated twenty years from now, and described as 'misunderstood.'" I completely agree, and I was amused at its incredible number of references: not only to such big-name movies as The Searchers, The General, and Blazing Saddles, but also to such (now) little-known pictures as Little Big Man and Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson! |
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Post by jammer81386 on Apr 23, 2017 20:46:47 GMT
Public Enemies
This movie got decent reviews, but I did not care for it much. That said I thought the wood pistol escape, which was cleverly shot so the deception was sold to everyone but the audience, and the Little Bohemia gunfight which was very intense.
Kong: Skull Island
Another movie that got decent reviews that I didn't care for. But I did like the battle between the soldiers and the giant spider. I was a unique concept and the spider was genuinely creepy.
Godzilla (1997)
I thought the way Godzilla was killed was cool. Having the monster get trapped in the suspension bridge leaving it vulnerable to missile fire.
Batman v. Superman
Though I think there is more that one good scene in this. The only really great one was the scene where Batman rescue MArtha Clark. Best Batman Action in cinematic history.
RoboCop (2014)
The scene where Murphy is introduced to his new mechanical body. He asks to see what is left only for him to be taken apart piece by piece until all that is left is a head and lungs. It was quite unnerving and Kinnaman's performance was very believable.
Highlander: Endgame
The fight between Connor and Duncan was both well choreographed and the dialogue was very emotional. The actors really sold the friendship between these two characters.
Speed II: Cruise Control
The crash scene was fun. Pure wanton Destruction
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Post by moviemouth on Apr 27, 2017 0:41:03 GMT
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Post by moviemouth on Apr 27, 2017 0:46:59 GMT
The runaway train chase in The Lone Ranger (2013). That was the best action scene I saw in years. Too bad I had to wait two hours to get there. I agree. I didn't hate the movie and it certainly had it's moments but it isn't very much fun, it's ugly looking and Johnny Depp is distracting as hell. |
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Post by Stuart "2-D" Pot on Jun 8, 2017 11:50:09 GMT
The email scene from BvS
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