Bad Moments in Great Films - Page 4

Dids · #31 09-01-2007, 12:52 AM

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In Rounders, when Gretchen Mol's character checks Mike's money wad while he's in the shower, and sees he is STACKED with cash.

She is pissed.

Whatever. Why would she be mad he is succeeding at making money?

If my woman checked my wallet and found it EMPTY she would be pissed. Not full of green.

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1- This scene makes perfect sense

2- Rounders is far from a great movie

PokerAmateur4 · #32 09-01-2007, 03:54 AM

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In Rounders, when Gretchen Mol's character checks Mike's money wad while he's in the shower, and sees he is STACKED with cash.

She is pissed.

Whatever. Why would she be mad he is succeeding at making money?

If my woman checked my wallet and found it EMPTY she would be pissed. Not full of green.

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This actually makes sense. She saw poker and nothing but gambling which could not be won in the long run. She saw Mike as having a gambling problem which he was supposed to be over. It didn't matter that he had won that night, to her he was gambling again and he had lied to her.

[/ QUOTE ]Agree with dids and also it wasn't that she neccesarily thought he couldn't win in the long run, she just didn't want him to be a hustler etc.

Michaelson · #33 09-01-2007, 04:06 AM

Neither Seven or American History X do that much for me, but they both have incredibly lame scenes involving characters coming together by having a good, uncontrollable belly laugh at something just not very funny. The dinner scene in Seven and the scene in the laundry with Ed Norton and the black guy in AHX.

So trite.

silver book · #34 09-01-2007, 04:09 AM

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2- Rounders is far from a great movie

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Ban please

suzzer99 · #35 09-01-2007, 04:18 AM

Scene where Bruce Willis catches himself by his fingertips while in a 2 story freefall. I don't like it when supposedly reality-based movies defy the laws of physics.

I liked Return to Paradise a lot except for the last line - "I know Beth. I know" ugh.

In Aliens, when Sigourney Weaver says "Leave her alone you bitch!" Or something like that to the mother alien.

FlyWf · #36 09-01-2007, 05:11 AM

Ban for saying anything bad about Aliens.

Pulp Fiction is the best movie that has _two_ of these, anything with Tarantino and anything with Willis' girlfriend.

People mostly remember Denzel's Oscar, but Training Day is a [censored] fantastic movie until the scene where Denzel Washington says "King Kong ain't got nothing on me". If you graphed Training Day's quality by running time it's a cliff right there.

Another Oliver Stone movie with Charlie Sheen-
Platoon's Sheen voiceover has some incredibly banal and obvious [censored] where Sheen talks about how Elias and the other guy were fighting over his soul. Really, director?

You can't just have your characters say how they are feeling! That makes me so angry!!!

john voight · #37 09-01-2007, 06:48 AM

Beer Fest when the fat black lady gets shot. I just felt sad for her.

Rushmore · #38 09-01-2007, 07:38 AM

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Neither Seven or American History X do that much for me, but they both have incredibly lame scenes involving characters coming together by having a good, uncontrollable belly laugh at something just not very funny. The dinner scene in Seven and the scene in the laundry with Ed Norton and the black guy in AHX.

So trite.

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Oh yeah--that dinner scene is hard to watch. Morgan Freeman's laugh in that scene is really bad.

And American History X, while not a "great" film, is a good example. Again, that laundry scene is just embarrassing. The voiceover at the end of the movie is pretty bad, too. Furlong sounds awful, there's this hokey montage of the ocean, and what he's saying is just dreck, quoting Lincoln, etc.

Blecch.

Genz · #39 09-01-2007, 08:19 AM

*grunch*
The end of the remake of "The Ring" with Naomi Watts. I like the whole movie but I hoped that the end would have some scientific touch and not include some kind of ghost that comes out of the TV.

Genz · #40 09-01-2007, 08:24 AM

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From The Godfather: The wedding scene where the women are sitting at a table, discussing the size of Sonny's dick. It's just tacky and out of place and goofy.

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In the book there is much more going on about the size of his schlong. Not just a little table talk. There is only one woman that can actually handle his tool because she has some misproportion and she gets a plastic surgery after Sonny is killed to "tighten up" etc.pp. Sonny's condition plays a major role in the book for some reason. IIRC in the book the conversation about not wanting to come close to his dick takes place in the kitchen. But I'm not sure about that.