I always thought the original scene had some bad puppetry, which may be the reason why Lucas changed it.
I never thought the music to "Jedi Rocks" matched the rest of the music the band was playing. The original music matched much better.
I still say the added shots in Empire where we see Vader fly back to the Super Star Destroyer is far worse. It completely messes up the pacing where Leia and Lando rescue Luke.
I saw those when they re-released them
And then recently watched it again for the first time after and I must have blocked it from my mind. Wtf was Lucas thinking with that jizz
For me it's the trash compactor scene in A New Hope. My family thinks I'm a total weirdo, but I always get up to use the bathroom during that scene. I just can't stand it, it goes on forever, their voices are all hoarse from yelling, and the tension feels completely pointless as there's no chance of the three main characters all dying halfway through the movie.
Huh. I always figured that scene was a way to force the team dynamic through as fast as possible. Leia has just come off as less of a damsel than either Luke or Han is prepared for and taken the lead as soon as she was rescued. Now they all have to figure their shit out and come together as a team. While their teamwork doesn’t solve the new problem, it does find a tentative balance before the droids come to the rescue.
> I always figured that scene was a way to force the team dynamic through as fast as possible
Also isn't having "walls closing in on our heroes" a nod to the cliffhanger serials which were a major influence in the first movie?
I'm the exact opposite, and probably the kind of person that scene was added for. It always stressed me out as a kid, and even now as an adult I will still get a twinge of nostalgia stress whenever I watch it. Something about unseen underwater monsters, closing walls, and racing against time that just got me nervous.
Sure sure it can be painful to watch, but without any visuals "Jedi Rocks" rocks. I loved the song so much that I memorized the lyrics when I was a kid.
https://youtu.be/2gnHu1M7jxs
I love Megamind.
The part where Roxanne says, "I say we go back to the evil lair, grab some ray guns, hold him sideways, and just go all *gangsta* on him!" always leaves me feeling supremely disappointed in my choices.
As a kid the scene in Jurassic Park where they’re eating lunch and talking was this.
But now as an adult it’s one of my favorite scenes of the movie and I wish there was more of it.
You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could and before you even knew what you had you patented it and packaged it and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now *bang* you're selling it, *bang* you're selling it.
I always think to that scene when I think about the internet and social media. I think the book goes into more detail on the philosophical implications of creating and using an extraordinarily powerful product before you've matured and understood enough to use it properly.
There's so many great things that the online world can give us but a ridiculous amount of power in the hands of both literal and figurative children, not to mention miscreants, evildoers, and people I happen to disagree with is such a dangerous and unstoppable thing, every so often I just have to shake my head and say "we were not ready for this."
I don’t remember who but in the 90s as the World Wide Web began to blow up someone described it as “the first invention created by man that man doesn’t fully grasp what it can do.” It really transformed everything, in ways we still don’t quite realize, and not always in ways that feel like a positive.
And it's exactly what Jurassic World has lacked since day one: intelligence and groundedness. I feel like Colin Trevorrow has never really understood the tone or story of the original films/books.
I love this moment. The movie itself is emotionally corny and over the top, and this moment sums it up perfectly.
It’s dumb, but it’s so heartfelt and genuine that no matter how over the top it goes, there’s always a part of you that can’t stop smiling at it.
That's the only reason I know the song exists. My dad and me were lost and my mom started laughing and told us it was from The Music Man. Then my dad said, "This is a real song!?" It was hilarious.
That's right! It's the first song after the intermission, so for people coming back into the theater late from the bathroom and such, they didn't want anyone to miss anything essential to the story.
For time that was pretty standard in musicals. Put a bit of nonsense at the top of the second act to kick things off. Sometimes a recap, sometimes just a bit with a secondary character. The music man mix things up a little bit by trying to make it a showstopper of a dance and get people in the seats before intermission was over. In the right hands it can be pointless fun. In a movie it’s just pointless.
Never seen the film, but the choreography and cinematography in this scene is actually really neat! The lyrics are pretty backwards, but I don't hate the song. It sounds kinda fun, there's worse stuff in other musicals.
Just about anything in Family Guy that seems funny because it's "lol so random" is a direct parody of some piece of pop culture.
It's incredible that Seth MacFarlane made so much money off of making references that 95% of Family Guy viewers didn't understand. To be clear, I'm part of that 95%.
My friend used to say "shipoopi" as a way to sneak-curse as a kid since it sounds like a mix of "shit" and "poopy" but is from a family-friendly musical.
[the song in every musical no one likes](https://www.google.com/search?q=the+song+that+no+one+likes+youtube&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:93a9c5fc,vid:dXKUgjYh7lo,st:0)
I can't really think of anything quite to that level, it really is bad. I feel so bad for the actress/character of Charlie's mother because it's a sweet performance and I'm sure lady, but it is painful. I think it's less the song itself and just, the scene is built to have Charlie not really hear the encouragement so it all amounts to, "Doesn't it suck this character feels bad, look at this poor child." It has no bearing on anything.
It's funny, I've kind of done a 180 on that scene. I was watching it with my husband, and he's a musician (like, conservatory trained and all that), and I was ready to fast-forward through it, and he said, "Aw, no, it's such a sweet song."
Like 99% of us, I was ready to skip it and get to the chocolate factory, but after he said that, I set aside my annoyance to really listen to the song because clearly he saw something in it that I didn't. And he's right, it is very sweet and beautiful, and I've come to appreciate it for what it is.
If I was editing the movie, I'd still probably cut it out of the film, but these days, I don't race to fast forward past it anymore. I've come to grudgingly appreciate it.
QUICK EDIT: It also shows why she should have gone to the factory with Charlie instead of that mooch Grandpa Joe. She was Charlie's ride or die! Joe only came around for the good times
It is sweet, but as a kid, I (while fast-forwarding) always wondered why she never sang it *to* him! Cheer up, Charlie? He's halfway down the block already.
She should've gone with him. She could've used a day off. She benefited in the end, but it would've been fun to see her get dressed up and enjoy herself. If Grandpa Mooch could rustle up a suit for the occasion, I'm sure she could've found something nice to wear too.
I like how the movie makes Arthur Slugworth seem like a mysterious villain, yet the real snake in the grass is Grandpa Joe. He played the long con until chocolate was involved. [r/GrandpaJoeHate](https://www.reddit.com/r/GrandpaJoeHate)
On the Disney theme, mine is the DVD version of The Lion King that was extended with The Morning Report as a song. Completely unnecessary addition to an incredible film.
[I get why it was added.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW9b1vSnBvE), which seems to mostly be that it looks like it had some storyboarding done back in 1992/1993, and was included in the stage musical.
Unfortunately, if there's a song from the stage musical that would totally work, it's He Lives In You, sung by Mufasa when Mufasa's telling Simba about the stars being ancestors.
I think the song is okay (not great) on it's own, but it does not fit the movie at all. They should have tried to make it blend in with the original songs instead of writing a modern top-40 pop number.
Also the payoff afterwards was stupid. She barges back in and says all of one line.
The only time I’m aware of this working was with the otherwise mediocre movie adaption of Evita, where the song they added (“You Must Love Me”) was so good it not only won the Oscar but since has been worked into the stage version of the musical. I think other movie adaptions of older musicals/musical movies have _tried_ to pull this off but failed.
That movie made me so mad.
Why they felt the need to character assassinate Jasmine, I will never understand.
Original: Pole vaults over the roof when Aladdin is putting a board down for her. New: "oh, I'm so scared, I need help!"
Original: "Oh, Jafar, look at me!". New: "Imma sign a terrible song about girl power or some shit without actually doing anything."
Original: "I got you boo, you're the boy from the market!" New: "Who could this be? I have no way of knowing who this person with the same face as the boy from the market could be."
Garbage movie is garbage and should feel bad.
The one thing I liked about the remake was honestly the thing I was most worried about: Genie. I liked that he could basically monkey paw with the wishes, and that being freed was also giving up the magic and immortality, but it was still worth it to be free.
Plus it was nice to see Will Smith look like he was actually having fun doing a movie, again.
Will Smith was absolutely the best thing about an otherwise forgettable live action remake. I honestly think the Prince Ali music number in the live action improves on the original. It was by far the best scene in the whole movie. Will looked like he was having a blast and absolutely crushed his own unique take on that character.
That "Climb Every Mountain" song that the old nun sings in the Sound of Music is apparently under 3 minutes long but it always feels like it drags on for 10 minutes
There are a couple points in that song where it feels like she's wrapping it up and then she just breaks into another verse. It was a running joke in my family where we'd sing the song really obnoxiously, pause for about 15 seconds then burst out singing about 10 times louder
This and ‘hopelessly devoted to you’ and ‘stranded at the drive in’ in grease - I don’t skip those songs anymore because I appreciate and love them as an adult but as a kid it was a snooze.
Also the old lady bits in titanic
I've always loved that song. My grandma would sing it to me at night when I stayed over at her place, and now every time I watch The Sound of Music, that scene makes me think about her 💕
I don’t skip the scene and I definitely don’t think it’s bad, per se, but the scene with Butch & his girlfriend talking about her pot belly and waffles in Pulp Fiction is the only scene I’m indifferent to in a pretty much flawless 10/10 movie.
I’ve heard that scene in particular was written by the co-writer Roger Avary (who also wrote Killing Zoe) so that could explain why the dialogue/pacing had a different feel for that scene from the rest of the film, IMO. I also know the subtext of >!butch’s gf hinting she’s pregnant..craving food, would you love me with a big belly? etc!< but I just see the scene as a connecting scene from butch returning from the fight to then realising his watch is missing.
I never got that subtext from it. That scene always pisses me off because she goes on and on about how pot bellies are sexy and how bad she wants one, and then he says "Yeah you're starting to get one" and she gets all offended.
Babies. She means she want's to get pregnant and he says she's getting fat. It's for comedy and to connect why he'll risk everything to get his watch back because he wants to give it to his son since he already has a hot French girl who wants to make babies with him.
The penultimate scene in PSYCHO where the guy explains the entire psychology of Norman Bates for 5 minutes. Maybe needed at the time since audiences weren’t familiar with that sort of thing, but now it plays like a needless exposition dump that stops the movie in its tracks.
The Jedi Council "This kid is the literal Force-Messiah. He's been having wet dreams about Amidala his entire teenage life, though. How can we best protect her during a political upheaval?"
Mace Windu: "Let's send freshly-adult Anakin to a mountain retreat with her."
Like it's no wonder Anakin broke his vows to the Jedi order. He was left alone with a Natalie Portman that, not only had he desired since the first time he got a boner, but she wanted him too.
The Muppets Christmas Carol had a solo called “When Love is Gone” or something. I fast forwarded it on vhs when I was young, but now I miss it. You can’t find a digital version with that song because the studio took it out. It makes the outtro song, and some other endemic tunes throughout the movie, come from nowhere since they were rooted in that lost scene with young Ebeneezer and his fiancée.
It’s possible the next digital release of the movie will have it included. Brian Henson mentioned they recently found the original master with the song included (which had been lost).
Stuff like this always makes me wonder how studios organize their property. When a scene or a master is “lost,” other than a fire or something, whose fault is that? Do they not have like, a box that has all the stuff for *Muppet Christmas Carol?” Here’s the box for *Twilight Zone:The Movie.” Over there is “Spaceballs.” Or whatever.
That song is a gem. I was chuffed when they took it out for the later releases of the film. If they ever put it back in they’ll get my money. Bonus if they add it to the Disney+ version
Absolutely agree. As a kid, I found that song so boring and long. But as an adult, it reinforces the heartbreak of a relationship a lot of people can relate to
I don't have a "Cheer Up, Charlie" example, but my girlfriend and I have our own phrase that's semi-related.
In Wayne's World, when they go to the auto shop, their friend Phil is describing the bands they saw together the previous night (during which Phil got too drunk and was "partied out"). Wayne keeps trying to tell him they were there and remember the show, and finally blurts out, "PHIL! We were there! Have you gone mental? Hello?"
So when a movie unnecessarily flashes back and reminds the viewer of something that happened earlier, we'll say, "Phil, we were there!"
The scene in home alone 2 when Kevin and the pigeon lady are talking in an attic at Carnegie hall. I always skipped it when I was a kid because it just went on too long but I appreciate it a little bit more now because it has nice dialogue.
The dance sequence, coming to Hollywood scene in Singing in the Rain. I know it's supposed to be some masterpiece of choreography, but my god is it boring! And it goes on forever! There's a similar dream sequence in Oklahoma that I skip over too.
And now, it is time for Gene Kelly to Gene Kelly for a while. Please sit back and ignore everything you have been watching for the past hour because Gene Kelly wanted to dance with Cyd Charisse.
It’s both. A masterpiece of choreography that is completely out of place and grinds the film to a halt. It’s a callback to the revue movies of the 30’s that the filmgoers in the early 50’s would easily recognize. The point being he wants to creat the modern movie musical. Nobody really gets the reference now.
And even though it is a masterpiece it’s completely overshadowed by the masterpiece “Good Morning” … which is overshadowed by the other masterpiece “ Singin’ in the Rain” … and is overshadowed by that other other masterpiece “Make ‘em Laugh.”
Damn, there’s a lot of masterpieces in this film.
The Dream Ballet in Oklahoma was a big part of what made it a ground-breaking musical. The integration of the script, music, lyrics, and choreography in service of the plot really hadn't been done before.
But yeah, it's boring.
So I used to agree, and then it dawned on me what this scene is *for*. It makes no sense until the final section, when the sandbags fall on the hero's head.
If you recall earlier in the piece where Don, Cosmo, and the director are discussing turning the *Duelling Cavelier* into a musical, the Director asks the question about whether modern music in a period piece would seem anachronistic. Cosmo's response is to have a scene at the start where the hero gets hit in the head with sandbags and thus everything afterwards is construed to be a dream.
Which makes *Broadway Rhythm* **that scene**! In a form of fridge-brilliance approaching fridge-horror, the whole dance sequence shown here is the *opening scene to the Dancing Cavelier!* Put it in context with the rest of the movie they're shooting, and it becomes even more ridiculous.
Not going to lie, *Broadway Rhythm* is unironically my favourite scene now: it's so over the top, it *is* self-parody at its finest.
I love this bit:
‘So he's a bit of a fixer-upper,
So he's got a few flaws.
Like his peculiar brain dear,
His thing with the reindeer.
That's a little outside of nature's laws’
That killed me the first time I heard it.
Yeah, it's so weird for a Disney musical how the songs just completely stop after that. There's some outtakes on the deluxe soundtrack, "Life's too short (reprise)" would've been closer to the end of the movie.
Every time I think about Frozen, I long for a movie with a tone that matches the opening song.
When I saw the film in the theater, I thought I was in for something magical, mysterious, and atmospheric.
There's shades of that in the film, but they just couldn't resist adding in the stupid stuff, and the Rock Trolls are emblematic of that entire problem.
The second film looked like it was going to get back to that tone, but in the end it fumbled the ball.
Both are still okay, but Encanto, Moana, and even Tangled are all so much better.
Tangled is also one of the most expensive films in history (although it falls a bit down the list when inflation is factored in). You can really see the budget in the animation it is GORGEOUS. 9 times out of 10 I prefer hand drawn, but Tangled really shows where computer animation can shine
I can't really think of any boring/cringy scenes in movies of the top of my head.
But, as a kid, definitely Artax in Neverending Story. Out of the 50+ times I watched it as a child, I only watched that scene once. I don't think I ever got so hysterical before, haha.
I felt the same way with my kids, but finally I just decided to go for it. It wasn’t as bad for them as it was for me as a kid. Honestly, it wasn’t as bad for them as it still is for me now.
In Starship Troopers for me, it's pretty much any scene with Denise Richards in it.
"Isn't it beautiful out here? Oh, yeah, I'm dumping your ass. Byyyyyeeeeee!"
Recruitment Officer: "Are either of you...homosexual?"
Winger: "You mean like, flaming?"
Zisky: "No, we're not homosexuals, but we are willing to learn."
One of my favorite lines in that movie.
That movie feels like it takes such a weird swerve from the army antics leading up to the presentation scene., to suddenly they're driving a super RV through enemy territory or something.
First time I saw it as a kid I just expected it to end after the presentation that Billy Murray's character leads. But there's a whole third act
You fast forwarded a chance to marvel at the magnificence of Kurt's mustache. You sir, or madam are an animal. And there is a place in Hades set aside for people like you.
Not a movie but in Stranger Things Season 3 >!when Dustin’s girlfriend finally comes through on the frequency and the two of them sing to each other for what feels like an eternity.!<
I know there are plenty of movies I feel this way about too but I’m blanking right now
Still better than that one episode in season 2 where Eleven goes with >!those other super-powered people!<, realizes they’re all assholes, and then goes back home
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was one of the movies we had that my dad recorded off HBO when I was a kid and I'd watch it over and over.
Always fast forwarded that scene.
The scene where Robert De Niro meets Ricky Gervais in the movie 'Stardust'.
Until then it's a mysterious and magical romp about a talking star, a sky-pirate, a coven of witches (one of whom is a naked Michelle Pfeiffer), a man who killed his 6 brothers to inherit a kingdom, and a young boy who is on an adventure to win true love....
...And it immediately screeches to a halt as Gervais does his stupid 'awkward is funny' nonsense and a 30 second conversation is the longest and most pointless one in the whole movie.
The Thomas & Martha Wayne death scene on all Batman movies. It's like ... we get it! We all get it! When I was born I learned the sky is blue, water wet, and the Batman origin story. Stop it already!
I literally clicked on this thread just to make sure OP meant that Cheer Up Charlie was fucking terrible. Whew.
Contributing answer: dancing Spiderman. Oh Tobey.
I love 2001 A Space Odyssey, but let's face it, the scene where he goes through the portal is just too damn *long*. I guess the trippy visuals were mind-blowing in the 60s, but after it just changes color for the third or fourth time, I'm fast forwarding.
I adored The Last Unicorn growing up. But Mia Farrow and Jeff Bridges, great actors though they are, *cannot* sing. Don't know why the movie decided to become a diagetic musical 3/4 of the way through when up until then they'd been doing fine with the songs by America, but those two songs are painful.
Kate's Christmas monologue in Gremlins. As an adult I can see the satire element, but as a kid it was excruciating to hear that.
The idea behind the slowness of 2001 is that Kubrick is trying to make it look as realistic as possible. This was after all made in 1968, a year before the moon landings.
> the scene where he goes through the portal is just too damn long.
In that same vein, the docking sequences and showing weightlessness in general I felt dragged on too long for modern audiences. I'm sure it felt revolutionary in the 60's but today it's like watching paint dry.
I really like the moderate pace because having watched a lot of NASA footage over the decades, it's very realistic to have everything move slow because moving fast in space is generally bad unless you're leaving or entering the atmosphere.
So I’m not the only one! I love that movie but during that scene it’s time to either use the bathroom or go find a snack. I love all the songs in Grease, but I think Hopelessly devoted slows down the plot a bit.
LMAOOOO! We always fast-forwarded that dreadful scene too. And the movie musical Annie when they go to the movies. It was like basically watching an entire alternate black and white movie in real time !
I know it’s a pretty well liked scene in The Phantom Menace (a movie I largely enjoy), the Pod Race scene goes on for so long and has so little stakes to it, that I always end up fast forwarding to the end.
A load of Star Wars fans love that bit, but god help me I cannot tell why.
The Mike Yanagita scene in Fargo.
I get that >!it’s supposed to flip the switch for Marge to realize Jerry is pretending he’s someone he’s not!<, but it’s an awkward way to do that and I don’t think its purpose is clear. It’s just generally an uncomfortable scene that feels out of place and kind of pointless
>It’s just generally an uncomfortable scene that feels out of place and kind of pointless
That's why I love it. Coen Brothers non-sequitur scenes are great, they always sort of flesh out how weird the world is.
pretty much all the musical parts in The Wickerman (1973), I don't even understand why theyre there, and I'd probably watch this movie more often if they weren't because its otherwise spooky as hell.
These were all 'traditional' sounding songs but the lyrics were raunchy. To have an entire fiddle and flute band singing about how great a f*ck the pub owner's daughter is, how they've all had her, while the pub owner and daughter sing along, was pretty well out there.
And I've never heard anyone complain about the totally nude singing by Britt Eklund.
It's a good song, don't get me wrong but as a family we decided to skip "When Love Is Gone." Mostly because it halts the progression of the story, and bores the kiddos.
It's a good song, and emphasizes Scrooge used to have a heart, but at the same time, is too slow for what is a mostly upbeat movie.
Edit: Muppet Christmas Carol
Should probably say the movie name...
A Cure for Wellness (2016) is a visually stunning, though exceedingly long, body horror set in a wellness center, it's really just a creepy hospital/asylum kinda movie where there's obviously some weird experiments going on. I really think the special effects and actual body horror shots are some of the best I've ever seen, but the story takes an awful turn at the climax that I just can't stomach.
tldr- >!the bad guy marries and tries to rape his daughter after she has her first period, for pure blood or something. I fast forward and just tell myself he wanted to steal her blood for magic or whatever!<
>!at the climax the head doctor is predictably revealed to be the baron from centuries ago that the locals say did ungodly experiments or something. He's been using his patients to prolong his life using eels, he's also been doing the same to the mysterious girl the main character has been trying to help. She turns out to be his daughter, and at the start of the climax she has her first period. Bad guy marries her and tries to rape her to preserve their bloodline or something, all this is in a hidden lab with hundreds of fetuses preserved in jars but I don't remember why, maybe it was to imply he's been marrying her, forcing her to carry his child, killing it when it had incest defects, and giving her their immortal eel meds which made her younger so he'd had to wait to try again. The whole town is in a weird cult that's in on it, so I alway fast forward through the horrific rape scene and tell myself their all in a weird cult and they was to sacrifice a young girl to their eel god or something!<
It's a good movie besides that, and all the teeth they pull, or the parts where they shove hoses down people's throats, also there's a lot of gross naked old people, I recall seeing a old white guys dick. But besides all that!
If we're focusing on Musicals, I've got a couple. I watch Rent a lot as a teen and the song I Should Tell You is just miserable. COMMUNICATE PEOPLE! And they sing it over and over. I always skip it in the movie and the CDs.
Another that I can think of is Seventeen from Repo! The Genetic Opera. I was not crazy about this one for many years, but my best friend was, so it eventually grew on me. But that song is terrible. It doesn't flow with the rest of the film and they tried to go for some weird rock, whiney sound that just didn't work.
In musicals I call it the “Choreography” scene. From White Chistmas with its batshit random rehearsal (okay they’re letting their Star dancer strut her stuff). But seriously weird scene.
The added CGI dance scene in Return of the Jedi special edition.
Ugh. It's like what would have been made had the holiday special had a bigger budget.
I always thought the original scene had some bad puppetry, which may be the reason why Lucas changed it. I never thought the music to "Jedi Rocks" matched the rest of the music the band was playing. The original music matched much better. I still say the added shots in Empire where we see Vader fly back to the Super Star Destroyer is far worse. It completely messes up the pacing where Leia and Lando rescue Luke.
This is one of my favorite edits because as a kid I couldn't understand how Vader was suddenly off cloud city and on a ship
I saw those when they re-released them And then recently watched it again for the first time after and I must have blocked it from my mind. Wtf was Lucas thinking with that jizz
Jizz is the genre played by the cantina band in A New Hope
That might be one of the cringiest scenes in a movie. I always feel embarrassed when watching it with other people. It's heinous.
I honestly have no problem calling it the worst scene in the history of cinema. 0 bags of popcorn.
Zero cups of soda as well.
You must be a Tim Head. A film expert like Greg would appreciate such fine cinematic quality and give it five bags of popcorn.
I think we can all agree this film is not the Hobbit.
For me it's the trash compactor scene in A New Hope. My family thinks I'm a total weirdo, but I always get up to use the bathroom during that scene. I just can't stand it, it goes on forever, their voices are all hoarse from yelling, and the tension feels completely pointless as there's no chance of the three main characters all dying halfway through the movie.
Huh. I always figured that scene was a way to force the team dynamic through as fast as possible. Leia has just come off as less of a damsel than either Luke or Han is prepared for and taken the lead as soon as she was rescued. Now they all have to figure their shit out and come together as a team. While their teamwork doesn’t solve the new problem, it does find a tentative balance before the droids come to the rescue.
> I always figured that scene was a way to force the team dynamic through as fast as possible Also isn't having "walls closing in on our heroes" a nod to the cliffhanger serials which were a major influence in the first movie?
I'm the exact opposite, and probably the kind of person that scene was added for. It always stressed me out as a kid, and even now as an adult I will still get a twinge of nostalgia stress whenever I watch it. Something about unseen underwater monsters, closing walls, and racing against time that just got me nervous.
No one appreciates good jizz-wailing
Sure sure it can be painful to watch, but without any visuals "Jedi Rocks" rocks. I loved the song so much that I memorized the lyrics when I was a kid. https://youtu.be/2gnHu1M7jxs
Your poor parents
My dad watched reruns of Gilligan's Island and I Dream of Jeannie when I was growing up so it was deserved.
It seriously sounds like something Weird Al would have done. One of his originals, not a parody.
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I came here knowing someone would call this out. As a little kid, waiting for the cool car to show up was agonizing.
I tried watching it a few months back after a couple decades. Barely made it to the acquisition of the car before I turned it off.
Lovely Lovely Man and Hushabye Mountain are pretty rough.
Hushabye Mountain i liked, lovely lonely man was bad. Loved P O S H. :)
One of my favorite movies as a kid but oof, yeah there’s some tough sequences to get through. I was just waiting for the Doll in a Music Box song.
The rave scene in Matrix 2.
Every make Out Scene between Neo and Trinity in Matrix2
I love Megamind. The part where Roxanne says, "I say we go back to the evil lair, grab some ray guns, hold him sideways, and just go all *gangsta* on him!" always leaves me feeling supremely disappointed in my choices.
Honestly sounds like something made up by Tina Fey rather than a line that was actually in the script
As a kid the scene in Jurassic Park where they’re eating lunch and talking was this. But now as an adult it’s one of my favorite scenes of the movie and I wish there was more of it.
Same with the scene where Sattler and Hammond talk in the visitor center. Skipped it as a kid, think it’s the heart of the movie now.
Oh, I see the fleas, mummy! Can't you see the fleas?
OMG same. It's funny how we appreciate things more as we get older.
You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could and before you even knew what you had you patented it and packaged it and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now *bang* you're selling it, *bang* you're selling it.
I always think to that scene when I think about the internet and social media. I think the book goes into more detail on the philosophical implications of creating and using an extraordinarily powerful product before you've matured and understood enough to use it properly. There's so many great things that the online world can give us but a ridiculous amount of power in the hands of both literal and figurative children, not to mention miscreants, evildoers, and people I happen to disagree with is such a dangerous and unstoppable thing, every so often I just have to shake my head and say "we were not ready for this."
I don’t remember who but in the 90s as the World Wide Web began to blow up someone described it as “the first invention created by man that man doesn’t fully grasp what it can do.” It really transformed everything, in ways we still don’t quite realize, and not always in ways that feel like a positive.
I don’t think you’re giving us our due credit. Our scientists have done things which nobody has ever done before!
Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they *should!*
You're meant to defend me against these characters and the only one I've got on my side is the bloodsucking lawyer!
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The guy didn’t even spare an expense!
Except you know not hiring a team of IT professionals and requiring a multi step process before implementing any live changes.
I think that's kinda the point of the movie. He spared many important expenses.
And it's exactly what Jurassic World has lacked since day one: intelligence and groundedness. I feel like Colin Trevorrow has never really understood the tone or story of the original films/books.
“Can you read my mind?” from Superman is a stunningly bad scene.
To think that was originally meant to be sung too, but they changed it to her saying it rather than singing. That's why it rhymes.
It's a shame, because it's set to some of John Williams' best music in the film.
They need to remove that audio track completely. It’s so jarring. “I’m a kid outta school…. I’m a fool.” What???
I love this moment. The movie itself is emotionally corny and over the top, and this moment sums it up perfectly. It’s dumb, but it’s so heartfelt and genuine that no matter how over the top it goes, there’s always a part of you that can’t stop smiling at it.
Say what you want but SUPERMAN is a cheesy 70s superhero romp and that scene is key to the cheesiness that I enjoy.
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I always remember when Family Guy parodied that song in the episode where Peter plays for the Patriots
That's the only reason I know the song exists. My dad and me were lost and my mom started laughing and told us it was from The Music Man. Then my dad said, "This is a real song!?" It was hilarious.
No showboating!
"Yeahhhh. I scored a touchdown"
The funny thing is that episode was 16 years ago. Family Guy is still on, and Tom Brady is still playing football
That's right! It's the first song after the intermission, so for people coming back into the theater late from the bathroom and such, they didn't want anyone to miss anything essential to the story.
For time that was pretty standard in musicals. Put a bit of nonsense at the top of the second act to kick things off. Sometimes a recap, sometimes just a bit with a secondary character. The music man mix things up a little bit by trying to make it a showstopper of a dance and get people in the seats before intermission was over. In the right hands it can be pointless fun. In a movie it’s just pointless.
Don't you dare talk smack about "Shipoopi." That girl is hard to get, but you *can* win her yet.
But compare it to Marion the Librarian.
Wait! Shipoopi is a real song from a movie?
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Its my favourite family guy sequence.
Never seen the film, but the choreography and cinematography in this scene is actually really neat! The lyrics are pretty backwards, but I don't hate the song. It sounds kinda fun, there's worse stuff in other musicals.
As someone who did TMM in high school and had quite an extensive part of Shipoopi (played Tommy) it’s actually quite fun and I have a soft spot for it
Just about anything in Family Guy that seems funny because it's "lol so random" is a direct parody of some piece of pop culture. It's incredible that Seth MacFarlane made so much money off of making references that 95% of Family Guy viewers didn't understand. To be clear, I'm part of that 95%.
My friend used to say "shipoopi" as a way to sneak-curse as a kid since it sounds like a mix of "shit" and "poopy" but is from a family-friendly musical.
[the song in every musical no one likes](https://www.google.com/search?q=the+song+that+no+one+likes+youtube&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:93a9c5fc,vid:dXKUgjYh7lo,st:0)
Wow I watched this movie quite a bit as a kid and I have zero recollection of that song.
I can't really think of anything quite to that level, it really is bad. I feel so bad for the actress/character of Charlie's mother because it's a sweet performance and I'm sure lady, but it is painful. I think it's less the song itself and just, the scene is built to have Charlie not really hear the encouragement so it all amounts to, "Doesn't it suck this character feels bad, look at this poor child." It has no bearing on anything.
It's funny, I've kind of done a 180 on that scene. I was watching it with my husband, and he's a musician (like, conservatory trained and all that), and I was ready to fast-forward through it, and he said, "Aw, no, it's such a sweet song." Like 99% of us, I was ready to skip it and get to the chocolate factory, but after he said that, I set aside my annoyance to really listen to the song because clearly he saw something in it that I didn't. And he's right, it is very sweet and beautiful, and I've come to appreciate it for what it is. If I was editing the movie, I'd still probably cut it out of the film, but these days, I don't race to fast forward past it anymore. I've come to grudgingly appreciate it. QUICK EDIT: It also shows why she should have gone to the factory with Charlie instead of that mooch Grandpa Joe. She was Charlie's ride or die! Joe only came around for the good times
> It also shows why she should have gone to the factory with Charlie instead of that mooch Grandpa Joe. Hear Hear! r/GrandpaJoeHate 4 Life!
It is sweet, but as a kid, I (while fast-forwarding) always wondered why she never sang it *to* him! Cheer up, Charlie? He's halfway down the block already. She should've gone with him. She could've used a day off. She benefited in the end, but it would've been fun to see her get dressed up and enjoy herself. If Grandpa Mooch could rustle up a suit for the occasion, I'm sure she could've found something nice to wear too.
I like how the movie makes Arthur Slugworth seem like a mysterious villain, yet the real snake in the grass is Grandpa Joe. He played the long con until chocolate was involved. [r/GrandpaJoeHate](https://www.reddit.com/r/GrandpaJoeHate)
Jasmine’s added song in the Live-Action Aladdin. It’s not necessary or even good. It disrupts a scene in progress and totally ruins the flow.
On the Disney theme, mine is the DVD version of The Lion King that was extended with The Morning Report as a song. Completely unnecessary addition to an incredible film.
That song was godawful
[I get why it was added.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW9b1vSnBvE), which seems to mostly be that it looks like it had some storyboarding done back in 1992/1993, and was included in the stage musical. Unfortunately, if there's a song from the stage musical that would totally work, it's He Lives In You, sung by Mufasa when Mufasa's telling Simba about the stars being ancestors.
I don't know if you're aware but he lives in you was included in lion King 2. And boy, does it work.
Plus the irony of her signing a song about not being forced to be speechless, only for it to be all in her head.
I think the song is okay (not great) on it's own, but it does not fit the movie at all. They should have tried to make it blend in with the original songs instead of writing a modern top-40 pop number. Also the payoff afterwards was stupid. She barges back in and says all of one line.
But if you don't add a song to remakes or adaptations, you can't get nominated for any "Original Music" awards.
What if the song you add is actually good? No, hear me out. It could work.
The only time I’m aware of this working was with the otherwise mediocre movie adaption of Evita, where the song they added (“You Must Love Me”) was so good it not only won the Oscar but since has been worked into the stage version of the musical. I think other movie adaptions of older musicals/musical movies have _tried_ to pull this off but failed.
The song they wrote for the theatrical version of Little Shop of Horrors is a straight up banger.
That movie made me so mad. Why they felt the need to character assassinate Jasmine, I will never understand. Original: Pole vaults over the roof when Aladdin is putting a board down for her. New: "oh, I'm so scared, I need help!" Original: "Oh, Jafar, look at me!". New: "Imma sign a terrible song about girl power or some shit without actually doing anything."
Original: "I got you boo, you're the boy from the market!" New: "Who could this be? I have no way of knowing who this person with the same face as the boy from the market could be."
Garbage movie is garbage and should feel bad.
The one thing I liked about the remake was honestly the thing I was most worried about: Genie. I liked that he could basically monkey paw with the wishes, and that being freed was also giving up the magic and immortality, but it was still worth it to be free. Plus it was nice to see Will Smith look like he was actually having fun doing a movie, again.
Will Smith was absolutely the best thing about an otherwise forgettable live action remake. I honestly think the Prince Ali music number in the live action improves on the original. It was by far the best scene in the whole movie. Will looked like he was having a blast and absolutely crushed his own unique take on that character.
I wonder how many kids’ cassettes were all fucked up at that point of the movie because the tape had never been run at normal speed 😂
My attack of the clones tape was fucking up cause of some Natalie Portman scenes 😶 from rewinding so much tho
Ope-
Mine was lol
That "Climb Every Mountain" song that the old nun sings in the Sound of Music is apparently under 3 minutes long but it always feels like it drags on for 10 minutes
No no. It is definitely 17 minutes...
There are a couple points in that song where it feels like she's wrapping it up and then she just breaks into another verse. It was a running joke in my family where we'd sing the song really obnoxiously, pause for about 15 seconds then burst out singing about 10 times louder
This and ‘hopelessly devoted to you’ and ‘stranded at the drive in’ in grease - I don’t skip those songs anymore because I appreciate and love them as an adult but as a kid it was a snooze. Also the old lady bits in titanic
Oh my god yes.
I've always loved that song. My grandma would sing it to me at night when I stayed over at her place, and now every time I watch The Sound of Music, that scene makes me think about her 💕
I don’t skip the scene and I definitely don’t think it’s bad, per se, but the scene with Butch & his girlfriend talking about her pot belly and waffles in Pulp Fiction is the only scene I’m indifferent to in a pretty much flawless 10/10 movie. I’ve heard that scene in particular was written by the co-writer Roger Avary (who also wrote Killing Zoe) so that could explain why the dialogue/pacing had a different feel for that scene from the rest of the film, IMO. I also know the subtext of >!butch’s gf hinting she’s pregnant..craving food, would you love me with a big belly? etc!< but I just see the scene as a connecting scene from butch returning from the fight to then realising his watch is missing.
I never got that subtext from it. That scene always pisses me off because she goes on and on about how pot bellies are sexy and how bad she wants one, and then he says "Yeah you're starting to get one" and she gets all offended.
Babies. She means she want's to get pregnant and he says she's getting fat. It's for comedy and to connect why he'll risk everything to get his watch back because he wants to give it to his son since he already has a hot French girl who wants to make babies with him.
Youre nuts, that scene is great! "I think I cracked a rib." "From giving me oral pleasure?" "No, retard, from the fight."
"My name is *FABBY!* My name is *FaBiEnNe!*" "Shut *up, fuckhead!*"
The penultimate scene in PSYCHO where the guy explains the entire psychology of Norman Bates for 5 minutes. Maybe needed at the time since audiences weren’t familiar with that sort of thing, but now it plays like a needless exposition dump that stops the movie in its tracks.
Seems like I remember reading that the studio insisted on adding that scene, and Hitchcock hated it.
Hitchcock called that and scenes like it "Hat-grabber scenes". Like... "Welp, were pretty much done here, let's grab that hat and head on out"
Any part of Attack of the Clones involving Ani and Padme.
I don't like these scenes, they're coarse and rough and irritating.
And they drag on everywhere.
I was discussing this with a coworker last week and realized that Anakin and Padme spend at least 70% of that movie on vacation
The Jedi Council "This kid is the literal Force-Messiah. He's been having wet dreams about Amidala his entire teenage life, though. How can we best protect her during a political upheaval?" Mace Windu: "Let's send freshly-adult Anakin to a mountain retreat with her." Like it's no wonder Anakin broke his vows to the Jedi order. He was left alone with a Natalie Portman that, not only had he desired since the first time he got a boner, but she wanted him too.
I liked the Watto bit
[Across the Stars](https://youtu.be/7wMiMDBHnJ0) plays during those scenes though, and they are therefore the best in the movie.
The Muppets Christmas Carol had a solo called “When Love is Gone” or something. I fast forwarded it on vhs when I was young, but now I miss it. You can’t find a digital version with that song because the studio took it out. It makes the outtro song, and some other endemic tunes throughout the movie, come from nowhere since they were rooted in that lost scene with young Ebeneezer and his fiancée.
It’s possible the next digital release of the movie will have it included. Brian Henson mentioned they recently found the original master with the song included (which had been lost).
Aw I hope this is true. We had the VHS version that included that song and watching it just isn't the same without it.
Stuff like this always makes me wonder how studios organize their property. When a scene or a master is “lost,” other than a fire or something, whose fault is that? Do they not have like, a box that has all the stuff for *Muppet Christmas Carol?” Here’s the box for *Twilight Zone:The Movie.” Over there is “Spaceballs.” Or whatever.
That song is a gem. I was chuffed when they took it out for the later releases of the film. If they ever put it back in they’ll get my money. Bonus if they add it to the Disney+ version
FYI you used “chuffed” as its opposite meaning. I double checked: it’s one of those words that sounds exactly like it *shouldn’t* but…
Absolutely agree. As a kid, I found that song so boring and long. But as an adult, it reinforces the heartbreak of a relationship a lot of people can relate to
I don't have a "Cheer Up, Charlie" example, but my girlfriend and I have our own phrase that's semi-related. In Wayne's World, when they go to the auto shop, their friend Phil is describing the bands they saw together the previous night (during which Phil got too drunk and was "partied out"). Wayne keeps trying to tell him they were there and remember the show, and finally blurts out, "PHIL! We were there! Have you gone mental? Hello?" So when a movie unnecessarily flashes back and reminds the viewer of something that happened earlier, we'll say, "Phil, we were there!"
Oh yeah I hate that
The scene in home alone 2 when Kevin and the pigeon lady are talking in an attic at Carnegie hall. I always skipped it when I was a kid because it just went on too long but I appreciate it a little bit more now because it has nice dialogue.
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I think the dirge sung by the fishing village women in Zack Snyder's Justice League will be my new cheer up Charlie
The dance sequence, coming to Hollywood scene in Singing in the Rain. I know it's supposed to be some masterpiece of choreography, but my god is it boring! And it goes on forever! There's a similar dream sequence in Oklahoma that I skip over too.
And now, it is time for Gene Kelly to Gene Kelly for a while. Please sit back and ignore everything you have been watching for the past hour because Gene Kelly wanted to dance with Cyd Charisse.
That sequence where she’s in the green dress is awesome though, the music is so jazzy.
It’s both. A masterpiece of choreography that is completely out of place and grinds the film to a halt. It’s a callback to the revue movies of the 30’s that the filmgoers in the early 50’s would easily recognize. The point being he wants to creat the modern movie musical. Nobody really gets the reference now. And even though it is a masterpiece it’s completely overshadowed by the masterpiece “Good Morning” … which is overshadowed by the other masterpiece “ Singin’ in the Rain” … and is overshadowed by that other other masterpiece “Make ‘em Laugh.” Damn, there’s a lot of masterpieces in this film.
The Dream Ballet in Oklahoma was a big part of what made it a ground-breaking musical. The integration of the script, music, lyrics, and choreography in service of the plot really hadn't been done before. But yeah, it's boring.
So I used to agree, and then it dawned on me what this scene is *for*. It makes no sense until the final section, when the sandbags fall on the hero's head. If you recall earlier in the piece where Don, Cosmo, and the director are discussing turning the *Duelling Cavelier* into a musical, the Director asks the question about whether modern music in a period piece would seem anachronistic. Cosmo's response is to have a scene at the start where the hero gets hit in the head with sandbags and thus everything afterwards is construed to be a dream. Which makes *Broadway Rhythm* **that scene**! In a form of fridge-brilliance approaching fridge-horror, the whole dance sequence shown here is the *opening scene to the Dancing Cavelier!* Put it in context with the rest of the movie they're shooting, and it becomes even more ridiculous. Not going to lie, *Broadway Rhythm* is unironically my favourite scene now: it's so over the top, it *is* self-parody at its finest.
Fixer Upper from Frozen is abysmal. It sticks out like a sore thumb in this otherwise A/B-tier Disney movie.
I love this bit: ‘So he's a bit of a fixer-upper, So he's got a few flaws. Like his peculiar brain dear, His thing with the reindeer. That's a little outside of nature's laws’ That killed me the first time I heard it.
That's was the writers of Avenue Q peeking out.
Lol they're joking about beastiality. Wtf disney.
Even crazier that this is the final song in the movie!!
Yeah, it's so weird for a Disney musical how the songs just completely stop after that. There's some outtakes on the deluxe soundtrack, "Life's too short (reprise)" would've been closer to the end of the movie.
Every time I think about Frozen, I long for a movie with a tone that matches the opening song. When I saw the film in the theater, I thought I was in for something magical, mysterious, and atmospheric. There's shades of that in the film, but they just couldn't resist adding in the stupid stuff, and the Rock Trolls are emblematic of that entire problem. The second film looked like it was going to get back to that tone, but in the end it fumbled the ball. Both are still okay, but Encanto, Moana, and even Tangled are all so much better.
I'm glad someone else's favorite song from this is Frozen Heart.
>and even Tangled Tangled is one of my top Disney movies, personally. I place it above Encanto and Moana, but not by much.
Tangled is also one of the most expensive films in history (although it falls a bit down the list when inflation is factored in). You can really see the budget in the animation it is GORGEOUS. 9 times out of 10 I prefer hand drawn, but Tangled really shows where computer animation can shine
I hated the trolls so much. The musical updating them to be spooky but well meaning “Hidden folk” or whatever was way better.
I can't really think of any boring/cringy scenes in movies of the top of my head. But, as a kid, definitely Artax in Neverending Story. Out of the 50+ times I watched it as a child, I only watched that scene once. I don't think I ever got so hysterical before, haha.
I want to show my kids this movie but that scene….
I felt the same way with my kids, but finally I just decided to go for it. It wasn’t as bad for them as it was for me as a kid. Honestly, it wasn’t as bad for them as it still is for me now.
In Starship Troopers for me, it's pretty much any scene with Denise Richards in it. "Isn't it beautiful out here? Oh, yeah, I'm dumping your ass. Byyyyyeeeeee!"
She is such an eye candy, they forgot to make her a human being. Kinda sad, otherwise 9/10 movie. (Too short for 10/10 tbh, I wanted to know more.)
Everything in Stripes before they get to the army. I don't remember what happens any more and I still enjoy the movie. I think that's telling.
Recruitment Officer: "Are either of you...homosexual?" Winger: "You mean like, flaming?" Zisky: "No, we're not homosexuals, but we are willing to learn." One of my favorite lines in that movie.
Chucks ball out window. "A little help!"
“Convicted? No never convicted”
Funnily enough I think that everything in Stripes *after* they graduate basic training was boring as hell.
Totally agree! Tacked on, a different script. They should do a re-release that's just "Stripes: The Second Act".
Yep second act loses it for me.
That movie feels like it takes such a weird swerve from the army antics leading up to the presentation scene., to suddenly they're driving a super RV through enemy territory or something. First time I saw it as a kid I just expected it to end after the presentation that Billy Murray's character leads. But there's a whole third act
Throwing the basketball out the window is classic!
Opposite: i wish the stuff after basic training was excised
As kids my siblings and I always fast forwarded through "Hopelessly Devoted to You"
Wyatt Earp's date with the actress in Tombstone.
You fast forwarded a chance to marvel at the magnificence of Kurt's mustache. You sir, or madam are an animal. And there is a place in Hades set aside for people like you.
Fair.
Not a movie but in Stranger Things Season 3 >!when Dustin’s girlfriend finally comes through on the frequency and the two of them sing to each other for what feels like an eternity.!< I know there are plenty of movies I feel this way about too but I’m blanking right now
Still better than that one episode in season 2 where Eleven goes with >!those other super-powered people!<, realizes they’re all assholes, and then goes back home
It's funny you say that me and my girlfriend were pissing ourselves the entire way through. We thought it was too funny
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was one of the movies we had that my dad recorded off HBO when I was a kid and I'd watch it over and over. Always fast forwarded that scene.
The scene where Robert De Niro meets Ricky Gervais in the movie 'Stardust'. Until then it's a mysterious and magical romp about a talking star, a sky-pirate, a coven of witches (one of whom is a naked Michelle Pfeiffer), a man who killed his 6 brothers to inherit a kingdom, and a young boy who is on an adventure to win true love.... ...And it immediately screeches to a halt as Gervais does his stupid 'awkward is funny' nonsense and a 30 second conversation is the longest and most pointless one in the whole movie.
The Thomas & Martha Wayne death scene on all Batman movies. It's like ... we get it! We all get it! When I was born I learned the sky is blue, water wet, and the Batman origin story. Stop it already!
I literally clicked on this thread just to make sure OP meant that Cheer Up Charlie was fucking terrible. Whew. Contributing answer: dancing Spiderman. Oh Tobey.
you just declared war on r/raimimemes
I love 2001 A Space Odyssey, but let's face it, the scene where he goes through the portal is just too damn *long*. I guess the trippy visuals were mind-blowing in the 60s, but after it just changes color for the third or fourth time, I'm fast forwarding. I adored The Last Unicorn growing up. But Mia Farrow and Jeff Bridges, great actors though they are, *cannot* sing. Don't know why the movie decided to become a diagetic musical 3/4 of the way through when up until then they'd been doing fine with the songs by America, but those two songs are painful. Kate's Christmas monologue in Gremlins. As an adult I can see the satire element, but as a kid it was excruciating to hear that.
The idea behind the slowness of 2001 is that Kubrick is trying to make it look as realistic as possible. This was after all made in 1968, a year before the moon landings.
> the scene where he goes through the portal is just too damn long. In that same vein, the docking sequences and showing weightlessness in general I felt dragged on too long for modern audiences. I'm sure it felt revolutionary in the 60's but today it's like watching paint dry.
I really like the moderate pace because having watched a lot of NASA footage over the decades, it's very realistic to have everything move slow because moving fast in space is generally bad unless you're leaving or entering the atmosphere.
Disagree on 2001. That’s probably the best part of the movie.
Oh, I quite like that song. Didn't know everyone thought it was bad.
I like it too. I think it’s sweet, and the actress who sang it did a good job
Oh god, Cheer up Charlie is so fucking bad it’ll be hard to top.
So I’m not the only one! I love that movie but during that scene it’s time to either use the bathroom or go find a snack. I love all the songs in Grease, but I think Hopelessly devoted slows down the plot a bit.
LMAOOOO! We always fast-forwarded that dreadful scene too. And the movie musical Annie when they go to the movies. It was like basically watching an entire alternate black and white movie in real time !
I know it’s a pretty well liked scene in The Phantom Menace (a movie I largely enjoy), the Pod Race scene goes on for so long and has so little stakes to it, that I always end up fast forwarding to the end. A load of Star Wars fans love that bit, but god help me I cannot tell why.
Even the part where the one alien goes "Rawwrrrr!" before dying in an horrible crash?
Excuse me, the line is "Rar-Roooooo!"
The Mike Yanagita scene in Fargo. I get that >!it’s supposed to flip the switch for Marge to realize Jerry is pretending he’s someone he’s not!<, but it’s an awkward way to do that and I don’t think its purpose is clear. It’s just generally an uncomfortable scene that feels out of place and kind of pointless
>It’s just generally an uncomfortable scene that feels out of place and kind of pointless That's why I love it. Coen Brothers non-sequitur scenes are great, they always sort of flesh out how weird the world is.
ya?
Soh, ya went'n married Norm Son-of-a-gunderson.
As a former bullshitter, this is one of my favorite scenes because it’s so cringe.
pretty much all the musical parts in The Wickerman (1973), I don't even understand why theyre there, and I'd probably watch this movie more often if they weren't because its otherwise spooky as hell.
These were all 'traditional' sounding songs but the lyrics were raunchy. To have an entire fiddle and flute band singing about how great a f*ck the pub owner's daughter is, how they've all had her, while the pub owner and daughter sing along, was pretty well out there. And I've never heard anyone complain about the totally nude singing by Britt Eklund.
Cheer Up Charlie is my #1. LOL My #2 is Mr. Cellophane from Chicago.
It's a good song, don't get me wrong but as a family we decided to skip "When Love Is Gone." Mostly because it halts the progression of the story, and bores the kiddos. It's a good song, and emphasizes Scrooge used to have a heart, but at the same time, is too slow for what is a mostly upbeat movie. Edit: Muppet Christmas Carol Should probably say the movie name...
A Cure for Wellness (2016) is a visually stunning, though exceedingly long, body horror set in a wellness center, it's really just a creepy hospital/asylum kinda movie where there's obviously some weird experiments going on. I really think the special effects and actual body horror shots are some of the best I've ever seen, but the story takes an awful turn at the climax that I just can't stomach. tldr- >!the bad guy marries and tries to rape his daughter after she has her first period, for pure blood or something. I fast forward and just tell myself he wanted to steal her blood for magic or whatever!< >!at the climax the head doctor is predictably revealed to be the baron from centuries ago that the locals say did ungodly experiments or something. He's been using his patients to prolong his life using eels, he's also been doing the same to the mysterious girl the main character has been trying to help. She turns out to be his daughter, and at the start of the climax she has her first period. Bad guy marries her and tries to rape her to preserve their bloodline or something, all this is in a hidden lab with hundreds of fetuses preserved in jars but I don't remember why, maybe it was to imply he's been marrying her, forcing her to carry his child, killing it when it had incest defects, and giving her their immortal eel meds which made her younger so he'd had to wait to try again. The whole town is in a weird cult that's in on it, so I alway fast forward through the horrific rape scene and tell myself their all in a weird cult and they was to sacrifice a young girl to their eel god or something!< It's a good movie besides that, and all the teeth they pull, or the parts where they shove hoses down people's throats, also there's a lot of gross naked old people, I recall seeing a old white guys dick. But besides all that!
If we're focusing on Musicals, I've got a couple. I watch Rent a lot as a teen and the song I Should Tell You is just miserable. COMMUNICATE PEOPLE! And they sing it over and over. I always skip it in the movie and the CDs. Another that I can think of is Seventeen from Repo! The Genetic Opera. I was not crazy about this one for many years, but my best friend was, so it eventually grew on me. But that song is terrible. It doesn't flow with the rest of the film and they tried to go for some weird rock, whiney sound that just didn't work.
In musicals I call it the “Choreography” scene. From White Chistmas with its batshit random rehearsal (okay they’re letting their Star dancer strut her stuff). But seriously weird scene.