Things that bug you about your favorite movies... - Page 4

lol. fortunately thats not even close to a favorite film of mine otherwise i would be here all day.


Re: the Halloween head tilt- when i first saw this in the theater- before the deluge of slasher flicks that followed, this was the scene that most creeped me out. i thought it was brillant. Mike Meyers just 'hung up' his artwork and he's showing child-like fascination with his work- i've seen the movie so many times since, so its lost its edge a little, but that little bit was inspired.

Spider-man

from "i surrender!"
"oh boy"
to trying to strafe a running spider-man with the gliders machine guns- this whole sequence really drives home
what a horrible decision it was to try to give the goblins costume a realistic rationale- the costume may be more logical (in a film about a boy bitten by a spider and becoming a superhero ) but it completely lacks an essential element of what made the comic goblin such a great comic book character- a creepy, menacing, character design that had a sense of panache about it.

and the strafing run just looks lamely executed.


the hospital scene.
i thought it was originally just a case of bad/no chemistry
between Dunst and Maguire, but the writing is not very good either. every single time i've watched this scene i've caught myself thinking ahead to what i'm going to do when the movie is over- this happens again in the graveyard scene.

The Howling Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show)

Re: The Howling
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And, also, let's not forget the "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" song in Star Trek V! Or perhaps we should.......

THE LION KING... The entire "Hakuna Matata" sequence can go. Each time I watch it, it leaves me pissed off for the next several minutes while I try to put it out of my head and enjoy the rest of the film. Even the lighter musical numbers before it have a certain reverence and don't break the mood, but this one sucks IMO. I despise the Timon character to begin with because I find Nathan Lane insufferable. The lyrics to the song referring to the warthog's flatulence seem like nothing more than a easy grab for laughs from little kids and immature adults. The head wagging to the rhythm of the music as the characters cross the spanning log (transition from childhood to adulthood) looks stupid as hell and brings the film down a notch. I truly admire the rest of the film (excepting the first two lines of lyric in Jeremy Iron's song with the hyenas, which are imbecilic...shame on you, Mr. Rice!), so this five minute sequence annoys the crap out of me. When this film first came out, kids everywhere were singing that moronic song, so I suspect I'm in the minority here.

The howling: Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show)

What bugs me about many of my favourite films, e.g Sansho the Bailiff, Andrei Rublev, Paris Texas, Sunrise, Alice in the Cities, Maborosi, The Green Ray, Seven Samurai, Mirror, La Regle du Jeu, Story of the Late Chrysanthemums, Abraham Valley, Tales of the Taira Clan, Letter from an Unknown Woman, The Band Wagon, Late Spring, Night of the Hunter, Tokyo Story, The Searchers.. is that relatively few people have seen (or properly appreciate) them! Many of the greatest films are shamefully neglected for no other reason than they are older classics or in a "foreign language". Imagine if we adopted such an attitude towards great paintings!

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon - the infamous desert love scene. Crop out that sequence that is out of place with the rest of the film and you have near perfection in a movie.

RE: blade runner
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Personally I'm going to have to go with Neo's really dumb "kung fu" poses in the Matrix, especially the one when he's fighting Smith in the subway and he looks like he wants to be the "Y" for the Village People.

From Star Trek: First Contact: "Assimilate this!"

That line was really out of place, particularly for the character who spoke it.

Star Wars:ANH

When the trash compactor starts up, and Han Says:

"One thing's for sure, we're all going to be a lot thinner!"

Man, I hate the line way more than Luke's whiny Toshii station line!

You've got that right! Very poor storytelling move there. Totally interrupts the flow. That and the opening scene is too dialogue heavy. Lotta exposition handled in a very dull way.

Mine main would have to be Terminator 2. I just couldnt stand the going through puberty voice John Conna had.

In the The Matrix and Reloaded:
The way Neo's punches and kicks seem to have absolutely no force behind them.

T2:
The night driving scene with that horrible screen backdrop.

Star Wars: Episodes 1 and 2:
The general lack of snap and wit to the dialog.

Big Trouble in Little China:
The thick plastic knife Burton puts between his teeth when sliding down the hole.

No particular movie:
Being able to blatantly tell the stuntman from the real actor - "You idiots! These are not them. You've captured their stunt doubles!"

No Way Out...what was with Costner eating bugs off the windshield? I never got that...

John-Lee-

That's awesome, too funny!

Any war/gangster film where a Thompson SMG is fired with one hand ala "Windtalkers." Although I like the movie, there is no way to fire a Thompson SMG full auto with one hand and not have it jump out of your grasp. I fired one of these in the early '70s before they were banned here in California and trust me the thing twists violently in your hands due to the rifling in the barrel and the sheer size/weight of the 45 caliber slug ; the one I fired even had a Cutts compensator on it to minimize the twisting action.

Worst example for me - the end of Face/Off where the boat flips up and crashes and "Travolta" and "Cage" go flying and you see them both front on and it's like they didn't even try to hide the fact that it was two different guys.

My favorite stunt performer is the burly man dressed as Princess Buttercup in the roll down the hill at the entrance to the fire swamp. Of course, I deeply apologize if that was a burly woman, but it sure as hell wasn't Robin Wright.

Brad

One of the most ridiculous stunt doubles sequences ever is the one where Jackie Chan has to fight 3 voluptuous kung fu women at the climax of one of his films, forgot which one, anyway during the fight the women keep changing into 3 burly, muscular, unshaven men in womens clothing and high heels. Hysterical.

Armor Of God?
The scene is indeed ... weird...

Yeah, Face/Off is unusually sloppy about covering things up. Like when Cage leaps off the prison platform into the ocean and it's very clear that it's not him. And IIRC it's at the beginning of the movie, but there's a part where a guy gets blasted with a shotgun and blown backwards a far distance, but in the shot with him running before the gunshot, you can clearly the wire sticking out of the back of his coat.

Seeing Owen Wilson in his undies in the Royal Tenenbaum. And seeing Kevin Bacon naked in the shower in the Wild Things.
Seeing nude women in movies is distracting enough. Seeing nude men, ugh. No more naked old people, PLEASE.

Some of these are my favorites, some are not. (and some may have been mentioned before)
First of all, logic/scientific errors and bad dialogue do not bother me very much...because sometimes I do not even notice them Yes, I am an idiot...

Home Alone: Why does Kevin need the fireworks to scare off Daniel Stern, when he didn't need the fireworks to scare the pizza delivery guy?

Home Alone 2: In the first film, Kevin says he is 8 years old. In Home Alone 2, it is mentioned that it is one year after the events of the first movie...but he later says that he is 10 years old! Does Home Alone 2 take place one or two years after the first film? This error is inexcusable.

Star Wars: After Leia tells Tarkin the rebel base is on Dantooine (sp?), he does not believe her. A few minutes later, when he is told that Dantooine is empty, he acts surprised: "She lied to us!"

Superman III: Just after Richard Pryor creates those storms, he tells Robert Vaughn how Superman stopped the storm and saved everyone, and we see Superman doing these things via flashbacks. I have always felt that showing Superman saving the day through flashbacks was a way to cut a long sequence from the movie.

Attack of the Clones: The 50's Diner.
Any scene of C3P0 in the conveyor belt and battle of Geonosis sequences.

Titanic: Rose's reason for freeing Jack from the handcuffs.
Jack saying "I'll be right here" when Rose looks for an axe.

Terminator 2: The 1st film establishes that you can't change the past. The 2nd film says you CAN change the past. (I like consistency in my franchises)

Alien: When Brett is killed, how do Ripley and Parker know the alien grew up to be so large and it took him away? (I know this was a cut scene, the reason why it was cut, and that it was reinstated in the recent Director's Cut)

Pearl Harbor: the tone changes from 'Serious Historical War Drama' to 'Rousing Action Film' after the attack sequence

Flight of the Navigator: the first half is like an episode of the X-Files, the second half is a lame kids film

The best thing bout T3 is that it invalidates this sttement from T2, the entire premise is that everyone is wrong. You can't truly change the past or the future

Actually, I think PH goes from "Romantic Fluff" to "Rousing Action Film" - I recall little in the first half that would qualify as "SHWD"...

Maybe I should have said "Attempt at a Serious War Drama"... (I never said it was good. I DID forgot about the romance part of the film :b )

I'll continue things that bug me:

The China Syndrome: the scene where the media and the SWAT team convene at the nuclear power plant takes way too long. This sequence could have easily been cut in half, IMHO.

Wild Things, We see just about everyone in this film naked, Hell we are even subjected to the horror of seeing Kevin Bacon's bacon. But when the big 3-way scene unrolls, we never see anything more of Neve Campbell than her back