Bad parts of good movies

[King Kamala 0]

I was watching Trading Places for the first time today and it inspired me from starting this thread. I think the thing that holds it back from being an undisputed comedy classic is the entire scene on the train. It just seemed like a big excuse for the actors to put on silly costumes and speak with accents. And Jim Belushi completely aping his older brother's schtick (pun intended) is really annoying in this one. Though I guess the whole the villain getting sodomized by an animal schtick was probably a lot more novel back then.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

That part in Bad Timing when Art Garfunkel and Theresa Russell meet each other after a lengthy absence and the camera turns on soft focus while all background action goes out of focus and the soundtrack fills with syrupy strings. I suppose Nicolas Roeg was going for something there—considering it comes in the middle of this supremely black, twisted tale of sexual obsession—but I don't like it.

[Brocklock 0]

I didn't like the first section of Pulp Fiction at all. Uma's acting was really grating to me for some reason. "The Gold Watch" and The Winston Wolfe stories were awesome though.

[Nighthawk 0]

I hated Uma in that part as well, but I thought I was supposed to, so I didn't really consider it bad.

 

I'd have to say the first thing I thought of was the first of the recent Spider-man movies. I don't really betray how big of a geek I am on here, but the departure from the original Green Goblin/bridge dynamic pissed me off to no end. Also the lame ass 9/11 fueled "You fuck with one NYer, you fuck with all of us!" bullshit.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

Have you seen Bad Timing, Milky? Have we talked about it before? One of the most disturbing, fucked up movies I've ever witnessed.

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080408/

[Nighthawk 0]

No on both counts, but I will check it out by this weekend (providing it's available from my local dvd seller... likely, considering they still sell Traci Lords porn from when she was 15).

 

fake edit: Oh yeah... Criterion Collection. I'm all over it.

[cd213 0]

The pie scene in Dawn of the Dead. I love that film and it is a horror masterpiece, but that scene just seemed forced.

[cabbageboy 0]

Yeah but that is followed the the biker gang robbing the rich zombie woman. Not sure the pie part is even a scene really, just a throwaway bit.

 

As far as Pulp Fiction goes, I'll say some of the Willis scenes are a bit dull. The scene with his French girlfriend is a snoozer, at least before he finds out about the watch a bit later. And the cab scene is too long as well, though that scene is at least needed.

 

 

[Jingus 0]

A lot of the deleted stuff from Apocalypse Now that they put back in the Redux version was pretty lame, especially that ENDLESS, godawful sequence at the French plantation that just stopped the movie's momentum cold at the worst possible time.

 

My brother and I use "Snake Eyes Syndrome" to describe a movie which starts off really good, but falls completely to shit by the end.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

The gauzey love scene in the Redux was so unintentionally hilarious.

[cabbageboy 0]

This goes more in the category of a bad ending, but how about the last part of Fight Club? The first two hours of it was great and then suddenly David Fincher morphed into M. Night Shyamalan.

[DrVenkman PhD 0]

I didn't care for Katherine Heigl keeping her bra on during the sex scenes in Knocked Up, if that counts for anything. Not like I expected her to show anything though.

 

Not a fan of Dr. Evil / Frau Farbisina love scenes either, if the second Austin Powers film counts as "good" (I like it).

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

This goes more in the category of a bad ending, but how about the last part of Fight Club? The first two hours of it was great and then suddenly David Fincher morphed into M. Night Shyamalan.

Considering the source material and that the release of The Sixth Sense predated the film version of Fight Club by only a couple of months, that is a bad comparison.

[Black Lushus 0]

plus Fincher pulls it off a lot better.

[Ripper 0]

Plus the last part of Fight Club is what made it awesome.

 

I think the "King Kong ain't got shit on me" line made me groan in Training Day.

 

 

[Black Lushus 0]

yeah but "muuuuuthafuckaaaaaa, you shot me in the ass!" was a great start to his rant.

[Ripper 0]

The rant was fine. That line lowered the whole thing.

[Youth N Asia 0]

28 Days Later was great...until they got to the soldiers. Movie just came to a halt for a bit after that

[Ripper 0]

Ironically, I think the soldiers were the best part of 28 Weeks Later.

[cabbageboy 0]

Further irony: I actually quite like the soldier stuff from 28 Days Later.

 

By the way, I wasn't saying that Fincher was influenced by M. Night in any way. I'm just saying that the ending just seems like some goofy shit Shyamalan would come up with. I just hate nearly every ending where a major character isn't real, or someone is dead and doesn't know it, etc.

 

Oddly enough one of the few movies where that sort of twist was kinda fun was Secret Window.

[PUT THAT DICK IN MY MOUTH! 0]

By the way, I wasn't saying that Fincher was influenced by M. Night in any way. I'm just saying that the ending just seems like some goofy shit Shyamalan would come up with. I just hate nearly every ending where a major character isn't real, or someone is dead and doesn't know it, etc.

 

Oddly enough one of the few movies where that sort of twist was kinda fun was Secret Window.

 

You do know that both of those movies are based on books that came out well before The Sixth Sense, right?

[Nighthawk 0]

Sixth Sense made a lot of money, it could have played a part in getting them made. Probably not, though.

 

I didn't like Secret Window. It was a pretty good story, two good actors. It just didn't come together well.

 

Of course, the Sixth Sense was pretty clearly a rip off of this Goosbumps book. Still, R.L. Stine was writing one of those every two weeks (literally, that's what he said), so probably no original ideas.

[2GOLD 0]

 

The entire house scene in Transformers killed a lot of the momentum the film had going for me. Two pee jokes and a Transformer pulling a Bender by getting a buzz from being shocked turned it from a great film into an good film.

[Ripper 0]

Oh please. The entire ANthony Anderson shit and that M-5(or whoever the military group was) were the killers of this film. The house scene was fine. It was that unnecessary shit that could have been used for more character development with the Autobots or the Deceps.

[King Kamala 0]

I think Anthony Anderson and The Australian chick were the worst part of the movie but that scene at the house with the robots killed the movies momentum and it never really recovered IMHO.

[Guest Smues]

Transformers sucked long before the whacky GIANT FUCKING ROBOTS hide from the parents scene, although it is quite possible that that scene was where I first tried to find a razor to slit my wrist with.

[Jericholic82 0]

isnt the australian chick in transformers the same girl from kanes movie "see no evil?"

[Jingus 0]

Yeah, but not the main chick, she was one of the other random victims.

 

Personally, I think it would take much less time to make a Good Parts list for Transformers than spend the hour or so I'd need to talk about all the Bad Parts.

[Black Lushus 0]

the hour or so I'd need to talk about all the Bad Parts.

 

I'd love to see this list. I'm pretty confident I can shoot holes all through it.

[Ripper 0]

Oh yeah, Tarentenos part in Planet Terror...the whole get my dick wet part....that shit just brought a fun movie stand still.