What movie scene was meant to be cool but turned out pure cringe?

[u/OldTimeyStrongman]

[u/limbodog]

Scorpion King was supposed to be a horrifying monster that intimidates, but well... Not so much.

[u/-PepeArown- → u/limbodog]

Technically, you could argue that it’s still scary, but only because of how bad the CGI looks

[u/Kazuma_Megu → u/-PepeArown-]

Instead of the Rock we got the Rerk.

[u/Ascholay → u/Kazuma_Megu]

An improvement if the Moana numbers are something to believe

[u/StavromularBeta → u/limbodog]

Sorry that’s a fantastic movie according to my memories from when I was 12 and I won’t stand for this nor will I rewatch it and risk tarnishing that memory

[u/j0llyllama → u/StavromularBeta]

He wasnt a monster in the scorpion king movie, he was the monster at the end of Mummy 2. The other movie was his prequel story (with maybe a few brief shots of the CGI abomination.)

[u/NateHohl → u/j0llyllama]

Those movies were also The Rock’s formal debut as a Hollywood movie actor.

It was admittedly a bit strange to first show the Scorpion King character as a monstrous villain in The Mummy Returns and then immediately do a prequel movie where he’s the hero, but oh well, I still think The Mummy Returns is just as good as the first Mummy movie.

[u/Sugar-Static → u/j0llyllama]

That's what made it so much better, the prequel let us see the character before all the CGI chaos. It gave the Scorpion King a lot more personality than just being the final boss

[u/freudian_nipps → u/limbodog]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RYHaarxQTFk

For the uninitiated.

[u/ropes34 → u/freudian_nipps]

They really should have kept him in the shadows as much as possible. Those first few seconds after the door opens actually look pretty good. But as soon as he's fully lit it looks so silly.

[u/Big-Yoghurt-9202 → u/ropes34]

I agree, the buildup was doing a lot of the heavy lifting. Sometimes leaving a little mystery works better than showing every detail right away.

[u/lord-dinglebury → u/freudian_nipps]

Dear lord, it looks like a PS2 cutscene

[u/its_justme → u/limbodog]

And then when Imhotep pops into frame to go “Noooooo!”

Pure cinema

[u/airfryerfuntime → u/limbodog]

What the Xbox 360 Rock scorpion didn't look realistic enough for you?

[u/flyingcircusdog]

Multiple scenes from Camp Rock, but mainly the marching scene.

[u/FreeMrFrog → u/flyingcircusdog]

My first thought was "she's really good!"

[u/Morgn_Ladimore → u/FreeMrFrog]

weird spasms

punches self in face

starts playing broken microwave noises

"Wow, she's really good!"

[u/fijisiv → u/flyingcircusdog]

Mitchie: Sorry. I, uh... Was that you playing? It sounded kinda different.
Shane: Than my usual stupid cookie cutter pop star stuff? Sorry to disappoint.
Me: WTF ARE YOU GUYS TALKING ABOUT?!? This is Joe Jonas literally singing the usual stupid cookie cutter pop star stuff!

[u/SympatheticFingers]

Hayden Panettiere krumping in Bring it on: All or Nothing.

For the uninitiated:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A3y1WbvwD4Q

[u/Specific-Walrus-697 → u/SympatheticFingers]

Brb, I just need to bleach my eyes

[u/cdnball → u/Specific-Walrus-697]

It’s cringe but for some reason I couldn’t stop watching

[u/m4dm4cs → u/cdnball]

It. Just. Keeps. Going…

[u/eeyore134 → u/SympatheticFingers]

"Improv the anger in you." So bad. Turns out saving the cheerleader was a mistake.

[u/GJacks75 → u/SympatheticFingers]

Goddamn, that just kept going, didn't it?

[u/ShallowBasketcase → u/GJacks75]

I tapped out one minute in, but it felt like an eternity. What the fuck do you mean this goes on for another 4 minutes?!

[u/Whatsherface729 → u/SympatheticFingers]

Marge Simpson Krumping > Hayden Panettiere Krumping

[u/ShallowBasketcase → u/Whatsherface729]

I've always been so focused on Marge krumping, I don't think I ever noticed Bart does a tiny sad little krump of his own in the middle of that

[u/Cheynanigans_12 → u/SympatheticFingers]

I'm surprised I had to scroll this far for this one! I loved that movie as a kid, but on a re-watch as an adult, that movie is just one cringe scene after another. It aged so poorly.

[u/RedoftheEvilDead]

The basketball scene in the Halle Berry Catwoman movie.

[u/Adddicus → u/RedoftheEvilDead]

I was once told that shitty filmmakers use lots of cuts to hide their shitty film making.

I counted 111 cuts in that 94 second scene.

[u/Easy_Rider1 → u/Adddicus]

I thought you were joking, holy cow thats hard to watch

[u/mageta621 → u/Easy_Rider1]

I got nauseous

[u/WafflesAreLove → u/mageta621]

Glad I'm not the only one that got nauseous watching that

[u/Crabbb6 → u/Easy_Rider1]

It’s so much worse than you expect. Literally physically painful to sit through.

[u/Hellknightx → u/Crabbb6]

I genuinely get motion sick every time I watch it. Just horrible cinematography.

[u/GloInTheDarkUnicorn → u/Adddicus]

I didn’t even remember that scene (though I’ve only seen the movie once years and years ago) but holy hell those cuts give me a headache.

[u/RamblinWreckGT → u/Adddicus]

That's not entirely fair. I'm sure at least some of those cuts were to hide the equally shitty acting.

[u/Ancient_Bid_628 → u/RamblinWreckGT]

have you seen her accept her Razzie for this though?

She has her Oscar in hand and brings out Alex Borstein lmao it's amazing

[u/hauntedfire → u/Ancient_Bid_628]

Has anyone else ever accepted the razzie in person?

[u/_austinm → u/hauntedfire]

I think I remember reading that one other person did, but I can’t remember who

[u/PostTuringTest → u/_austinm]

Sandra Bullock: https://youtu.be/ghS98BKy29Q

[u/Beetlejuice_hero → u/PostTuringTest]

If you have not seen the film she "won" the Razzie for - All About Steve - I really cannot put into words how horrible that film is and how annoying her character is. It is one of the most annoying characters in the history of film.

It's really not a "so bad it's good" film like The Room or Troll 2 or something. But it's still kinda worth a watch - ideally with some drinks and/or weed if you partake - because you simply won't believe such a piece of shit could be made.

You may think I'm overhyping how bad it is. I'm not. You still won't believe how annoying her character is even after my emphasis.

[u/MajorNoodles → u/RamblinWreckGT]

It definitely hid the fact that except for the basket she scores at the end, nothing actually happened in that scene.

[u/BoleroMuyPicante → u/MajorNoodles]

Other than sexually charged ball fondling?

[u/datboijustin → u/BoleroMuyPicante]

In front of 20 children.

[u/aloysiuslamb → u/Adddicus]

something something Liam Neeson jumping a fence

[u/Hutcher_Du → u/RedoftheEvilDead]

I love that scene cause by the end, Halle Berry and Benjamin Bratt are basically dry-humping on the basketball court. In front of bunch of kids.

[u/Volpethrope → u/Hutcher_Du]

The old Daredevil movie did something similar. What was up with early superhero movies having the hero and his love interest borderline fucking on playgrounds?

[u/Weird-Height-9881 → u/Hutcher_Du]

😂 That scene always cracks me up. They're so into it they completely forget they're literally on a basketball court surrounded by kids.

[u/enters_and_leaves → u/RedoftheEvilDead]

I got motion sickness watching that.

[u/Brian_Corey__ → u/enters_and_leaves]

Little known fact, it was filmed by duct taping a GoPro to a squirrel's head.

[u/analogy_4_anything → u/Brian_Corey__]

Did they also happen to strap that squirrel to the back of the happiest dog on the planet who also happens to be high as kite on a speedball? Because holy motion sickness Batman…

[u/Meagasus → u/RedoftheEvilDead]

I've never been so annoyed by sleeves before.

[u/the_chin2 → u/RedoftheEvilDead]

I heard this movie was bad so never bothered to watch it. After watching this basketball scene, I now realize why it swept the Razzie awards.

[u/MachiavelliSJ → u/RedoftheEvilDead]

Wtf was that?

[u/quanoey → u/RedoftheEvilDead]

The first ten seconds are actually not bad, they should’ve showed off more powers then had the cop start getting sus

[u/Dracomortua → u/quanoey]

She does juggling with a single large ball and then jumps at a wall.

Everyone? Floored. How did she do that?

[u/relevant_hashtag]

Was the rap battle in Teen Witch supposed to be cool? Because I can’t think about it without cringing

[u/sugartrouts → u/relevant_hashtag]

The whole movie of Teen Witch surpasses normal 80s/90s cringe by such a massive amount that it loops around and becomes awesome again. It's one of my favorite movies to watch with someone whose never seen it.

[u/OGcrayzjoka → u/relevant_hashtag]

Top that!

[u/TheNonCredibleHulk → u/OGcrayzjoka]

I didn't really give a about trying to top that

[u/Jackandahalfass → u/relevant_hashtag]

It went so cringe it folded in on itself to cool.

[u/wet-leg → u/relevant_hashtag]

It’s so bad but I love it. I think about that scene way too much because it still makes me laugh then I do the little arms cross part of the dance

[u/MayoMark → u/relevant_hashtag]

But can you top that? I don't think you should criticize that scene unless you can too that

[u/AiReine]

Look. All of Cats (2019) is a visual disaster of impressive magnitude but the one thing that should have been hard to fuck up is the song “Memory”. It’s a beautiful, effective song even divorced from the chaos of the rest of the play. Jennifer Hudson is a beautiful, wonderful performer. Even with CGI ears and fur, all you have to do is have her perform this beloved song. And they… Do. But the whole time she has a highly visible, continuous stream of snot pouring down her upper lip. A hilarious detail in a sea of baffling choices.

[u/CowboyNinjaD → u/AiReine]

Both Cats and "live-action" Lion King would have been better if they had just used actors in practical costumes like the Broadway plays.

Who gives a shit if the animals look like people in costumes? Lean into the surreality of it, and make something interesting, instead of a boring, CGI mess.

[u/Zuwxiv → u/CowboyNinjaD]

Live action Lion King also had the minor issue of real lion faces not having as much capability for expression as animated ones. But I'm sure it was only a minor problem. It's not like Simba's expression was basically identical when singing joyously or watching his dad die in front of him. Right? Oh, wait.

It's almost like there's a reason animated films don't go for photo realistic looks. Almost.

For Christ's sake, The Lion King is one of the best animated movies of all time. It had three separate songs nominated for best original song. If you want to watch The Lion King, just watch the good one.

[u/waywardsherry → u/AiReine]

It's because she was a feral street cat! Of course she would have an upper respiratory infection and FIV.

[u/dumbinternetstuff → u/AiReine]

When they first made the movie, all the cats had visible buttholes. Knowing that, I am unsurprised by Jennifer Hudson’s snot nose. 

[u/WateredDown → u/dumbinternetstuff]

Release the butthole cut!

[u/TheAIisFACKED]

Idk what the movie is cause i saw it a long time ago. But it's a dude doing his laundry and like spinning his socks like nunchucks and slapping them mfs over a clothes line to like intense ass music. Very cringe.

[u/hermesheap → u/TheAIisFACKED]

Batman forever

[u/SinkHoleDeMayo → u/hermesheap]

Holy, rusted metal, Batman!

[u/User_Says_What → u/SinkHoleDeMayo]

The ground, it’s all rusted. Full of holes!

[u/TheseMenArePawns → u/User_Says_What]

That was actually a funny line, lol

[u/Greywalker82 → u/hermesheap]

I don’t know man, I loved it as a kid. Felt like a throwback mix between Burton and the Adam West goofy era. I ate it up. Though 89’ remains my favorite

[u/HankSteakfist → u/TheAIisFACKED]

Karate laundry by Robin the Mid-20s Man Wonder.

[u/duffeldorf → u/TheAIisFACKED]

Ah yes, the Joel Schumacher era of Batman movies……

[u/Artistic_Panda_7542]

The mod squad moped chase scene in the new Boba Fett show.

[u/UrdnotZigrin → u/Artistic_Panda_7542]

I don't understand how they made that scene, saw how slow and lame everything was, and decided to keep it in with 100% seriousness. Even if they would've at least played it intentionally funny, it might have been salvageable

[u/Hail-Hydrate → u/UrdnotZigrin]

The trick is to imagine the sequence being in a Spy Kids movie. It'd fit in there right?

Now look at who was directing.

[u/nu24601]

THIS IS KATANA

[u/Toby_O_Notoby → u/nu24601]

My favourite bit is that they're also escorted by a bunch of Navy SEALs. And later in the movie it's decided that someone has to go through the sewers and self detonate a bomb under the Enchantress.

Which is a "suicide mission". And on the "Suicide Squad" there's a guy called Killer Croc whose power is that he's part crocodile and lives in sewers.

So they send the Navy SEALs.

[u/cap1206 → u/nu24601]

I would advise not getting killed by her

[u/Infinityskull → u/cap1206]

A REAL fan of Suicide Squad (2016) would know the actual next line is “She’s got my back.” 

[u/cap1206 → u/Infinityskull]

That would require being a "real fan"

[u/Zovort]

The Indiana Jones movie where he Tarzaned on the vines. The whole theater laughed and not in a good way.

[u/HankSteakfist → u/Zovort]

It wasnt Indy who did that though at least.

It was Shia Lebouf. People misremember it because Indy swings on his whip a bit in the first act Area 51 chase

[u/Thunder-Fist-00 → u/Zovort]

I think you’re mistaken. I’ve seen all three Indiana Jones films and that wasn’t in any of them.

[u/Doustin → u/Thunder-Fist-00]

Three shall be the number of Indiana Jones movies, and the number of Indiana Jones movies shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out.

[u/jtho78]

Batman & Robbin & Nipples suit up scene

[u/Eric848448 → u/jtho78]

Adam West didn’t need molded plastic to improve his physique.

Pure. West.

[u/Sirtopofhat → u/Eric848448]

While we're on the subject why does Batman dance anymore?

[u/skwerrel → u/Sirtopofhat]

In this day and age the word "batussi" would have very different connotations than it did in the original TV show

[u/TObuz → u/jtho78]

I dunno, the suit up scenes in this and Forever were pretty cool to me.

I don't even pay attention to the nipples.

[u/DixiePiggy → u/jtho78]

The zoom in on the butts always gets me 

[u/FrancoManiac → u/jtho78]

Hey now, that was a sexual awakening for gay millennials across America!

[u/YinzaJagoff]

The pool scene in Showgirls.

It’s not sex, it’s a seizure.

[u/FFDuhvid522 → u/YinzaJagoff]

That was anti boner material

[u/HyperlinksAwakening → u/FFDuhvid522]

She was just so excited!

So excited!

So excited!

[u/eking85 → u/HyperlinksAwakening]

And so scared

[u/_-Broken-Swagger-_ → u/eking85]

I think we need to talk about your caffeine pills :(

[u/toomanymarbles83 → u/YinzaJagoff]

If you think any part of that movie was intended to be sexy, Paul Verhoeven would like a word with you.

[u/falsesleep → u/toomanymarbles83]

Yeah. As I said above, it’s the same people who thought that Starship Troopers was a pro-war action movie.

[u/Commanderkins → u/YinzaJagoff]

I remember almost nothing of that movie but still say 'Ver-Sace' lol

[u/Lady_Scruffington → u/YinzaJagoff]

She is so aggressive throughout the whole movie. Especially her dancing.

[u/LyraStygian]

Literally everything in Morbius.

One of my favorite scenes is when he jumps in front of a speeding train, on a hunch that he could (sort of) fly.

Let me say that again. IN FRONT OF A SPEEDING TRAIN, ON A HUNCH.

This is why Morbius remains one of the funniest movies I've ever seen (in terms of how hard I was laughing).

The whole movie is scene after scene of hilarious bits.

[u/cheeznapplez]

The Juliard audition in Save the Last Dance. Honestly, that entire movie.

[u/saltynotsweet1 → u/cheeznapplez]

High school me thought that was the coolest shit ever. When she did her thumb against her nose? Straight up gangster.

[u/gaqua → u/cheeznapplez]

My girlfriend at the time LOVED Julia Stiles. I had no love or hate for her, in fact I thought almost nothing positive or negative about her at all. She dragged me to see that movie and I was like "is this supposed to be an impressive dance sequence? I can't dance for shit and I could have done this with a couple hours practice..."

I think it's so bizarre they didn't hire a body double to do the dance and then film it in a way that made it look impressive. Like...guys Hollywood is FULL of dancers and they're cheap. You can get a professional dancer with years of experience to do the exact Napoleon Dynamite dance for your best friend's 30th birthday to make him cringe in embarrassment for like $150 total. Or at least you could in like 2008.

[u/SM_Lion_El]

Wonder Woman 84. Pretty much the whole movie but the specific scene where everyone in the world renounces the wishes they had granted. Just ridiculous.

Also Wonder Woman totally raped a guy in that movie. I’m just saying.

[u/clubby37 → u/SM_Lion_El]

Sometimes the writers' personality traits accidentally shine through in the script, and that wish renouncing thing is a good example. The writers would've wished for an enemy to suffer, or to have extravagant wealth, or something equally shallow and petty, so renouncing the wish seems like a personal growth moment, but you gotta figure a non-trivial amount of people are wishing their kid never died, or that bone cancer can't happen anymore, or that they'd never raped that guy several times. It didn't even occur to the writers that someone would make a wish that's noble or selfless or benefits all of humanity.

[u/MajorNoodles → u/SM_Lion_El]

Party Jenkins said that renouncing the wish made it so that it never happened, which means it's okay.

Which means that when Pedro renounced his wish, none of the wishes he granted happened So Diana and Kristen Wiig were the only other people who had to renounce wishes.

[u/HarrumphingDuck → u/MajorNoodles]

What a fun typo/autocorrect. She's Party Jenkins to me now!

[u/MajorNoodles → u/HarrumphingDuck]

I'm not going to fix it

[u/DynamiteDuck]

Not a movie but the fucking spin shot in Book of Boba Fett

[u/Funkpuppet → u/DynamiteDuck]

Or the slow-paced scooter chase, wasted potential all over that show :(

[u/cheeseburgerwaffles → u/Funkpuppet]

The scooter episode killed me dude.

[u/madogvelkor → u/Funkpuppet]

It felt like something from Spy Kids...

[u/OutsideIndoorTrack → u/madogvelkor]

Well, I have insane news about who made the Book of Boba Fett show

[u/Arendious → u/Funkpuppet]

I really wanted that scene to be played for laughs - with Boba watching with increasing frustration, or to set up how unserious the underworld is on Tatooine without Jabba.

But no, played completely straight.

[u/sidewayseleven → u/Arendious]

That would actually have been good. After seeing THAT spin blaster shot and the slow motion chase, having it pull back to see Boba facepalming about their antics. Then having him jump in to take care of business.

[u/PopkinSandwich → u/DynamiteDuck]

had to look this scene up and this edit did not disappoint

[u/Seoulja4life]

Rebel Moon, slo-mo farming.

[u/Infinityskull → u/Seoulja4life]

The scene where they go pick up a new guy as an ally and he does something cool and then goes with them and never does anything again.

And the scene where they go pick up a new guy as an ally and he does something cool and then goes with them and never does anything again.

And the other scene where they go pick up a new guy as an ally and he does something cool and then goes with them and never does anything again.

Oh, and you can’t forget the scene where they go pick up a new guy as an ally and he does something cool and then goes with them and never does anything again.

[u/AlekBalderdash → u/Infinityskull]

Hey now, two of those were women. I think. The entire movie is a blur now.

I just remember the wood burning heater in a room with electric lights and a powered sliding door.

[u/samno7]

I said forget about it, cuh

[u/strange_invader]

Martha. Why did you say that name!?

[u/prophaniti → u/strange_invader]

Don't you call your mom by her first name?

[u/ActualWhiterabbit → u/prophaniti]

I use a telephone

[u/foxynon]

Marion Cotillard death scene in "The Dark Knight Rises".

[u/ChestSlight8984]

"Let's finish this the way we started it Tom... together!"

Eughhhhh

[u/RedCaio → u/ChestSlight8984]

It always seems like Harry is trying to kiss Voldemort.

[u/smidgit → u/ChestSlight8984]

I just don’t get how they got his entire death scene so wrong. He’s supposed to slump over dead like a regular human to show that in the end after all his evil deeds and magic breaking, he was, in fact, just a normal 60-odd year old who couldn’t outrun what he most feared.

Nah, let’s have him magically disintegrating into ash instead, show that he really was some otherworldly demon….

[u/strip_club_dj]

That scene in Pan where they're singing Smells Like Teen Spirit for some reason.

[u/MuchMuch1]

"from my point of view, the Jedi are evil!" Ok philosopher Anakin. Socrates and Plato are over there, why don't you sit with them?

[u/unidentifieduser451 → u/MuchMuch1]

The sentiment is good but the writing is bad.  Change it to, "Every one of you was happy to leave my mother in slavery, and everyone like her, and everyone almost like me.  Just not me, because you could use me, and have me call you master.  From my point of view the jedi are evil!"  5 more seconds of dialogue to call out the slavery and the anger makes more sense.

[u/The_Onion_Life → u/unidentifieduser451]

"Every one of you was happy to leave my mother in slavery, and everyone like her, and everyone almost like me.  Just not me, because you could use me, and have me call you master.  From my point of view the jedi are evil!"

Damn, I want to watch this movie!

[u/grendus → u/unidentifieduser451]

It's a bit wordy, but the sentiment works. Doubly so because he's wrong, but that reflects on how warped his perception is.

Qui-Gon tried to get both Anakin and Shmi's freedom. He was only able to get Anakin.

Padmae sent agents to free Shmi as soon as Naboo was stable. By the time they found her, she was a free woman and married to a wealthy trader.

And as far as freeing all the slaves on Tatooine, it's a noble thought, but that was Hutt territory. It was outside of the Republic, not really much they could do about it.

But Anakin would believe that embracing the Dark Side would end all of that. Instead he created a galaxy full of slaves, and wound up calling Palpatine master...

[u/Lennon__McCartney → u/unidentifieduser451]

Every one of you was happy to leave my mother in slavery, and everyone like her, and everyone almost like me.  Just not me, because you could use me, and have me call you master. 

That is... amazing

[u/SteveRogests]

Guys, if you’re making a movie do NOT have anybody flip unless it’s completely necessary.

All my homies hate flipping in movies.

[u/Excitedly_bored → u/SteveRogests]

Or you get Jackie Chan; that's ok too

[u/skwerrel → u/Excitedly_bored]

Jackie Chan's flips are always necessary so that doesn't count

[u/Expert-Effect-877 → u/Excitedly_bored]

Bad news, Jackie, the suits have been watching us over our shoulder, during this whole shoot, and it looks as if you've got three bones in your body that haven't been broken this week, so we're gonna need you to do a spinning backflip off a motorcycle twenty feet in the air over a tank of man-eating sharks and into a giant blender. Don't forget to make funny faces for the outtake reel when we shut the blender off and three stunt guys drag you to the ambulance.

Seriously, how is this guy still alive?!

[u/jumpinjahosafa → u/SteveRogests]

Or if youre doing a scene like the fence jump scene in hot fuzz

[u/aleqqqs → u/SteveRogests]

Yoda

[u/Darth__Continent]

"Somehow, Palpatine returned." 🙄

[u/SnooCats5701]

It's Morbin' Time!

[u/NorthernRealmJackal → u/SnooCats5701]

Yeah but which scene? Did you just mean all of them ..?

[u/Walking_the_dead → u/NorthernRealmJackal]

I nominate the fucking giant glass tube full of bats not the dumb parkour, the dumbass bat cyclone this mfer had in his cave lab or whatever the fuck. 

[u/Kazuma_Megu → u/Walking_the_dead]

Yo it's a batnado.

[u/Lexilogical → u/Walking_the_dead]

Why.... Why does he believe the bats would tear anyone else apart?

Bats aren't aggressive. Or carnivorous, generally speaking. And they're actually pretty good at not running into things....

[u/Bluedude487]

Pretty much all of Rise of Skywalker. I always think of that stupid scene with the horses riding across the star destroyer though

[u/MadStorkMSU → u/Bluedude487]

Why did the 2 former Storm Troopers not lead some sort of revolt? Wouldn't it have been awesome to see Finn and Jannah lead a group of recently-freed Storm Troopers against the First Order?

[u/TheBurningEmu → u/MadStorkMSU]

The tonal whiplash of building up "look, stormtroopers are just indoctrinated kids and are capable of free thought and rebellion" into "We just killed literally all but like 3 stormtroopers and are cheering wildly about it" was pretty insane.

[u/the2belo → u/Bluedude487]

With me it was the cutout knife thing.

[u/BestGoShoeless → u/Bluedude487]

I haven't managed to forget Rise of Skywalker, but at least I had until this moment successfully forgotten that scene. And now it's back. And I'm sad.

[u/LaGrrrande → u/Bluedude487]

horses riding across the star destroyer

Oh fuck you dude, I had completely pushed that scene out of my consciousness until now.

[u/Common_Wrongdoer3251]

Jurassic Park 2, the girl doing gymnastics to kick a velociraptor through a window. The entire movie was pretty bad, but that really stood out to me.

[u/All_This_Mayhem → u/Common_Wrongdoer3251]

If a child in an action movie has some special talent or interest that gets brought up at any point, it will probably be used in a pivotal moment where having that exact skill or interest is apparently the only way to solve a problem.

[u/Acceptable-Bullfrog1 → u/All_This_Mayhem]

First Jurassic Park had the hacker girl

[u/Pvt_Lee_Fapping → u/Acceptable-Bullfrog1]

Literally about to say.

"I'm a hacker."

"That's what I said: you're a nerd."

[u/Wachowskiii → u/All_This_Mayhem]

Someone once described "The Predator" from 2018 simply as "Autism Vs Predator" and I knew everything I needed to know.

[u/betazoid_cuck → u/All_This_Mayhem]

My favorite is in Bumblebee where it is mentioned at the start that the protagonist used to be a champion high diver but gave it up after her mom died.

Half the fun of that movie to me was anticipating how they were going to get her to a high position over water so she could heroically dive into it. and you know what? it did not disappoint.

[u/cutcss → u/All_This_Mayhem]

"Your explosive diaharrea Noah! Use it now to blind that damn dinosaur that is chasing us!" ~ Jurassic Park Michigan (2026)

[u/its_justme → u/Common_Wrongdoer3251]

Spielberg really shit the bed with Lost World. As an avid Crichton reader (for reference I was 12 and had read both JP and Lost World) I was very disappointed of the treatment of the story.

The T-Rex in San Diego made for a cool spectacle but I thought the books material was so much better.

Sure Kelly and Arby were rehashes of Lex and Tim, but at least they had identity. They mashed them both together and made em into Ian Malcolm’s whiny daughter who sucked.

[u/Romnonaldao]

"You know what happens to a toad when its struck by lightning? same thing that happens to everything ELSE!"

[u/Charlie_Brodie → u/Romnonaldao]

Apparently Toad had a bunch of similar lines throughout the movie, but they all got cut, so it just didn't make any sense.

[u/Quarksideofthemoon → u/Charlie_Brodie]

It was also meant to be said like an off hand comment, like a joke with an anticlimactic punchline. She says it way too serious

[u/EugeneVictorDabs]

I'm surprised I haven't seen "Mary Poppins Leia" in this thread so far

[u/sexwiththebabysitter]

Top That from teen witch

[u/ijbrekke]

Growing up, Ender’s Game was my favorite book. When the movie came out I remember it being not great (have not re-watched since), but there was a particularly bad scene where Ender was in the battle room and, holding two blasters, was spinning in zero g and shooting. I laughed out loud in the theater.

[u/someguynamedg]

The dirt bike riding in Star Trek Beyond. What are we doing here man?

Also the scooter bike slow motion chase in Book of Boba Fett was one of the most cringey things I have ever seen.

[u/Queef-Elizabeth]

I lot of you guys are really ignoring the 'badass' part of the question hey

[u/duffeldorf]

The bit in The Irishman with 80 year old DeNiro beating a guy up. I mean honestly if they’re gonna cgi de-age him they might as well have just gotten a body double at that point

[u/JacobStills → u/duffeldorf]

PERFECT! You can tell it was supposed to be extremely violent and shocking but DeNiro could barely walk. It looked so bad. The guy was flopping around while DeNiro waddled after him. Then he lightly steps, not STOMPS...steps on his hand to crush it.

[u/Messijoes18]

Revenge of the Sith.

Nooooooooooooo!

[u/weluckyfew → u/Messijoes18]

But also, IIRC the robot doctor giving the diagnosis of "She's lost her will to live."

Really? What is the reading on the will-to-live-ometer?

[u/Kirikomori → u/Messijoes18]

Do not want 

[u/Often_Giraffe]

The scene in Revenge of the Nerds where the hero raped a woman by deception with a Darth Vader mask. When I was a kid, watching that movie way too young, I thought it was a win for the underdog. Turns out, it's rape.

[u/Moal → u/Often_Giraffe]

I remember watching that as a girl and thinking that scene was upsetting for some reason I couldn’t articulate. 

[u/CourtBarton → u/Moal]

Elder Millennial woman here. That's a lot of my teenage media consumption.

[u/BearWrangler]

Dave Filoni's closeup cameo in Mandalorian & Grogu. It's played like he's supposed to have an aura farming moment but it's just so goofy

[u/Forgotthebloodypassw]

Four Weddings and a Funeral: Is It Still Raining?.

Also, "Is it still raining? I hadn't noticed." A lousy ending to a wonderful film.

[u/Skalkeda]

"Kal-El, no..."

[u/The_Daviator → u/[deleted]]

Probably the same thing they were going for in the Andor scene with Mon Mothma dancing at the wedding. People fully aware that irrevocable change and probable death await them, surrendering themselves to the moment for a brief respite from the dread of what’s to come.

That’s my guess, anyway

[u/RAWainwright → u/The_Daviator]

I fully agree with this take. It was just handled very oddly in the Matrix.

[u/A_Furious_Mind → u/RAWainwright]

I think they were trying to emphasize the juxtaposition between man and machine / Zion and The Matrix as hard as they possibly could and it just wasn't something the audience was not used to not associating with sex. And then it was intercut with a sex scene.

[u/DepartureElegant9314 → u/[deleted]]

An end of the world party? It was quite obviously a pep rally for an impending war.

[u/ItalianDragon → u/DepartureElegant9314]

Yeah, plus given how lopsided things are at that point against Zion, it basically also was a "let's have one last party because we likely won't be alive within 24 hours" moment. Morpheus straight up says "I remember that for 100 years we have fought these machines. I remember that for 100 years they have send their armies to destroy us. And after a century of war, I remember that which matters most. We are still here! Tonight let us send a message to that army. Tonight let us shake this cave! Tonight let us tremble these halls of earth, steel, and stone! Let us be heard from red core to black sky. Tonight, let us make them remember. This is Zion! And we are not afraid!". For short, it's both a rally and a big "they're coming so let's have a blast while we're still alive !".

[u/Ghostspider1989]

That "girl power" scene from avengers endgame.

[u/kazh_9742 → u/Ghostspider1989]

That was right after Annihilation like the year before. It had a nearly full cast of women as competent, flawed, and interesting characters doing scary and awesome stuff and got almost none of that hype.

[u/xclame → u/Ghostspider1989]

They did the scene much better in Infinity War with Black Widow, Okoye and Scarlett Witch. In that one the two women happen to end up together made sense because they were both just melee combatants and being just two women with no power they actually needed help from SW.

In Endgame, Captain Marvel did NOT need help from anyone. All 20 women ending up in one spot even though they all have vastly different skills made no sense.

Nothing wrong with the idea (again, it worked in IW), execution was terrible.

[u/Santa_Hates_You → u/Ghostspider1989]

‘Girl’s Get it Done’ in The Boys was nicely inspired by it though.

[u/Flat-Sun-1359 → u/Ghostspider1989]

It felt like a ham fisted attempt to shove just enough feminism in a movie that they can claim they give women the spot light. We want consistency, not one girl boss scene

[u/Basil_Box]

That fucking pointless backflip in Superman where the girls head comes out her ass

[u/Deserana12 → u/Basil_Box]

Hahaha I think I know exactly what you're on about. Where she does a backflip when she could have just.... Turned around? 

[u/Upror69]

Chris Pratt riding his motorcycle with a pack of velociraptors

[u/Andytjr → u/Upror69]

That’s not as cringe as his Raptor Handler pose with his hand ✋. I can just picture him doing that without the CGI raptors.