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9 Most Awful Movie Scenes That Ruined Great Movies

  • 8:52 pm September 20, 2022
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It's seldom that a picture genuinely deserves to be described as "perfect." While the word is frequently used in the film industry, how many films genuinely manage to survive two hours without a single dubious beat? There aren't too many. Even excellent films occasionally have a scene that doesn't ring fully genuine, or a subplot that allows your attention to wander a little. From Star Wars: A New Hope to Martin Scorsese's The Irishman, there are a plethora of excellent films that could have been wrecked by a single misstep.

10 Cloverfield Lane

10 Cloverfield Lane is a tense, fascinating psychological thriller for the overwhelming duration of its length, starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead as a young woman trapped in an underground bunker alongside John Goodman and John Gallagher Jr. While she is told that an alien onslaught has wrecked the earth above, we never know if Goodman's malevolent bunker-dweller is speaking the truth. Until the ending, that is, when the film suddenly morphs into a full-blown disaster movie. It’s a good watch nonetheless, but one that is nearly derailed by the needlessly literal ending.



American Sniper

OK, the flaws of American Sniper extend beyond one bad sequence. Despite its dubious politics, Clint Eastwood's 2014 war movie was a polished, well-made production with one stunningly poor moment. When the film was released, the scene in which Bradley Cooper and Sienna Miller converse while cradling a clearly, obviously artificial baby was widely mocked made fun of.

Django Unchained

Django Unchained features some absolutely outstanding performances. There's Christoph Waltz as a bounty hunter-dentist (a part that earned him a second Oscar), Leonardo DiCaprio as the villainous Calvin Candy, and a rarely-better Jamie Foxx at the Centre of it all. But there is one obvious outcast in the cast: Quentin Tarantino, who plays an Australian slave trader. The director is terrible - so terrible that if he had appeared for more than a few seconds, the entire film would have been jeopardized.



Jurassic Park III

While it was never going to be a match for the original, Jurassic Park III was a tremendously fun dinosaur romp that outperformed all three Jurassic World films. But remember the moment with the talking velociraptor? Of course, it turned out to be a dream sequence, but the brief period of dino-loquaciousness was so ridiculous that you couldn't help but be taken out of the experience.

Kingsman: The Secret Service

Something about Kingsman truly resonated with fans; its bombastic, far-fetched take on the espionage genre seemed to harken back to a bygone era of James Bond. The film leaned heavily on comedy throughout, but the last sequence, which involves a filthy joke about anal sex, left many with a foul taste in their mouths.



Licorice Pizza

Paul Thomas Anderson's latest film, There Will Be Blood, proved divided; to some, it was a work of pure genius, while to others, it was an unpleasant endorsement of an unsuitable relationship. However, there was one point on which almost everyone agreed. A sequence in which John Michael Higgins plays a white restauranteur who speaks to his wife in a grotesquely caricatured Japanese dialect - intended as a playful anti-racist satire - dropped like a lead balloon, turning off several viewers.