Least favorite part of a good movie

[Guest evenflowDDT]

In the "movies you just can't stand" folder, I remarked that there was at least ONE enjoyable scene in every movie, as no movie is -100% imperfect, it's just not possible.  Anyway, this is sort of an off-shoot on that.

 

We all have our favorite movies, or movies that we at least think are really good.  Are there any parts of these movies that you just can't stand, that keep them from being 100% perfect? (just as there's no such thing as an imperfect movie, I think there's no such thing as a perfect movie, or perfect anything for that matter)

 

My example to start off the thread is Silence of the Lambs.  There's no denying that its a pretty good movie, I haven't seen enough thrillers to call it the best, but its one of the best I've ever seen.  However, I just couldn't stand Jodie Foster's accent, it bothered me throughout the whole movie.  Anyone else not like her accent?

[Guest goodhelmet]

I love Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. One of my favorite movies of all time. But I HATE when Charlie's mom is singing "Cheer Up Charlie". The song makes me cringe.

[Guest]

I thought The Lost World was a decent movie, but it has probably the most idiotic, embarrassing scene ever.

 

When main characters are being attacked by Raptors, the black girl does this stupid gymnastics routine on some pipes before yelling "Hey You!" and kicking a Raptor off a ledge. It was so embarrassingly bad. People in the theatre were BOOING when she did it. If she had just grabbed the bar and kicked it, it may not have been as bad, but to a whole set of flips and yell out a comment before doing so was just plains stupid. What was Spielberg smoking when he added that scene?

[Guest TUS_02]

In Wet Hot American Summer (FUNNIEST MOVIE OF 2001... WATCH IT!) there is quite a graphic male to male sex scene (without actually showing much), most people are turned off after the scene, but it actually connects to rest of the movie.  Eh..

[Guest razazteca]

The happy Speilberg ending to AI was horrible.   The movie was a very dark emotional rollercoaster in the Stanly Kubrick's visionaire style.  But Speilberg destroyed Kubricks dream with the stupid ET happy ending that lasted too long....what 20 minute dream sequence!!!  It should of ended with the kid talking to the Blue Fairy.

[Guest Karnage]

Toy Story 2 should not have had that Sarah Mclaughlan song but that isn't a big complaint.

 

Jurassic Park 3's ending was way too simple.

[Guest supersalvadorian]

I really liked Ali and thought it should have had better reviews. But the whole part between Ali's arrival in Zaire and his fight with George Foreman was SO unbelievely boring.

 

 

Supersalvadorian

 

 

Sexier than the average bear.

[Guest Spaceman Spiff]

I'm a HUGE Star Wars fan, but for some reason I've never been into the Luke-training-on-Dagobah scenes in ESB.

[Guest pinnacleofallthingsmanly]

I don't want to ruin your thread, but I have to include the part in Smooth Criminal where everything stops and Michael Jackson starts wailing and nodding his head. Every time I see it I laugh my ass off.

[Guest dreamer420]

I love Pulp Fiction but for some reason I can't stand the scene where Butch is riding in the cab after killing the other boxer and he has a long discussion with the lady driving.

 

The scene drags and doesn't really do anything for me.

[Guest areacode212]

I turn the volume down every time I watch the part in Chasing Amy outside the hockey arena, where Alyssa gives her "if you wanted to know, you could've just asked" speech, then punches someone's car. The speech itself wasn't so bad--it was more her SCREECHY, wailing delivery. Jeez, shut the fuck up!

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

I'm a HUGE Star Wars fan, but for some reason I've never been into the Luke-training-on-Dagobah scenes in ESB.

 

Those are actually my favourite scenes.  From ESB I would have to say the stuff with Chewbacca & C3PO at Cloud City.

[Guest cabbageboy]

The epitome of this to me is in Singin in the Rain believe it or not.  I have always been bored by the Broadway Melody number...it is so gratuitous and stops the film dead in its tracks at a point where we want to see the resolution.  It's also a ripoff of Lullaby of Broadway (from Gold Diggers of 1935).

[Guest goodhelmet]

"From ESB I would have to say the stuff with Chewbacca & C3PO at Cloud City."

 

And those were some of my favorite scenes... when I was a kid. IN Return of the Jedi, I hate the Solo-Leia interaction when Han keeps pestering her about Luke and Leia replies "Hold me". WORST LINE EVER IN A Star Wars flick.

[Guest]

I loved the movie Pi, but I can't stand the scenes where the black lady and her two bodyguards are following Max.  They're extremely boring, and it doesn't even tie into the whole theme of the movie at all.  I don't even know why those characters ere even in the movie in the first place.

[Guest evenflowDDT]

Jurassic Park 3's ending was way too simple.

Hahahaha I agree fully.  I joked that it was a '70s-sitcom ending.

 

"Dad, look, the Pteranadons are flying away!"

"As long as they don't fly to MY backyard!"

"Dad, [insert witty-but-annoying sitcom catchphrase here]!"

[laugh-track, Pteranadons wink, fade out]

[Guest KOR420]

Apocolypse Now,I love this movie but what the hell is with the just talking for the last 45 minutes of the movie? that sucked

[Guest 5_moves_of_doom]

The happy Speilberg ending to AI was horrible.   The movie was a very dark emotional rollercoaster in the Stanly Kubrick's visionaire style.  But Speilberg destroyed Kubricks dream with the stupid ET happy ending that lasted too long....what 20 minute dream sequence!!!  It should of ended with the kid talking to the Blue Fairy.

Hehe and I thought I was the only one. Ahem.

 

Narrator: "And the little boy stared at the blue fairy, pleading, and pleding, never looking away, from the blue fairy."

(screen goes black, everyone starts leaving the theatre.)

Me: "Wow, what a good movie."

Narrator: "2000 years later..."

Me: "What the hell?"

 

 

Hehe, I hated that.

 

Also, in Clerks I can't stand the whole scene with Silent Bob's Russian cousin singing, can someone explain why that's funny? And on the subject of Kevin Smith, it JASBSB, I hate that fart joke in the beginning when Jay and Silent Bob are getting arrested in front of the shop.

 

Also, in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, right around Robert the Shrubber, and in the very beginning when Arther is talking to the guy about government, I noticed the movie really starting to SLOOOOOOOOWWWW DOOOOOOOOOWWWWNNNN.

 

I know you're sick of me by now, but I have to mention "The Man Who Wasn't There." Great movie, but the enire third quarter sucked. It started out good, then just blew, and then got better towards the end.

[Guest Karnage]

Also, in Clerks I can't stand the whole scene with Silent Bob's Russian cousin singing, can someone explain why that's funny?

 

Well, if you look real carefully in JSBSB, Jay is wearing a Berserker shirt.

I had no problem with that scene, but the only thing I didn't like in any of Kevin Smith's film was that he shouldn't of had diamond thieves in JSBSB, he could of put something else.

[Guest 5_moves_of_doom]

Also, in Clerks I can't stand the whole scene with Silent Bob's Russian cousin singing, can someone explain why that's funny?

 

Well, if you look real carefully in JSBSB, Jay is wearing a Berserker shirt.

Well, that still doesn't tell me what Smith was thinking when he wrote that seen. Even though that is kinda funny, JSBSB didn't come out until recently so it wouldn't have been funny until just now when they made that movie.

[Guest]

The Crow is awesome but the part when they keep showing the sucky band playing to a crowd of faggets in that club gets annoying as hell.

[Guest Some Guy]

In Terminater 1, I hate the climax scene when the Terminater is all metal, sooooooooo fake looking.

[Guest dreamer420]

I turn the volume down every time I watch the part in Chasing Amy outside the hockey arena, where Alyssa gives her "if you wanted to know, you could've just asked" speech, then punches someone's car. The speech itself wasn't so bad--it was more her SCREECHY, wailing delivery. Jeez, shut the fuck up!

I felt the same way before but then I really listened to every single word that she says during that speech and I like that scene now.  It is a very emotional scene that can be taken away from due to Joey Lauren Adams annoying voice.

[Guest cabbageboy]

"I want you to suck my cock....berserker!"

 

Yeah that scene was pointless but those lyrics made me crack up.  I think Kevin Smith has an obsession with dick sucking jokes.

[Guest]

Taxi Driver was a great flick, but I hate the scene where Harvey Keitel is dancing with Jodie Foster and telling her how shell always be his girl and so on. it wasnt very entertaining and damaged the whole structure of the movies by straying from Travis' perspective

 

and I agree that JSBSB could have done without the closeup of Jays ass farting

[Guest CoreyLazarus416]

I give a third notion to AI's ending.

 

I didn't really like the first 5 minutes of Evil Dead II, because it can be totally ignored and it makes the movie that much better. It looked like Sam Raimi tried to go a Phantasm route by having the first 5 minutes of the sequel sum up the previous film(s), and then start off where the previous movie ended, but the entire pace of the movie changed drastically.

 

From now on, people, if you watch Evil Dead II, fast forward through the movie until Ash is out in front of the house and "The Force" comes after him.

[Guest TUS_02]

If you haven't seen the First Evil Dead... then you'll have no clue what the hell is going on if you fast forward to that part.  I mean, you need some idea of why Ash is in that cabin in the first place.

[Guest Spaceman Spiff]

I think Kevin Smith has an obsession with dick sucking jokes.

Gee, ya think?

 

As said in Chasing Amy (paraphrasing) "The real money's in dick & fart jokes"

[Guest]

The Bond movies are great, but they All slow down at some point where you just want to get the end. That always sucks.

 

I like Fast & The Furious except for some of the stupid little things they say, that makes it corny.

Like some of Michelle Rodriguez's lines, and the overuse of 'racing terms'.

[Guest]

Also, in Clerks I can't stand the whole scene with Silent Bob's Russian cousin singing, can someone explain why that's funny?

 

Well, if you look real carefully in JSBSB, Jay is wearing a Berserker shirt.

Well, that still doesn't tell me what Smith was thinking when he wrote that seen. Even though that is kinda funny, JSBSB didn't come out until recently so it wouldn't have been funny until just now when they made that movie.

What how is a Berserker shirt only funny now? And you mean the WWF Berserker? I never knew he had a shirt!

 

In Terminater 1, I hate the climax scene when the Terminater is all metal, sooooooooo fake looking.

That was going to be my pick.