Bad Moments in Great Films

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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.

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IMO The momentous skinhead v. blacks basketball scene was pretty terrible too. Especially Edward Norton's game-winning dunk.

[xxThe_Lebowskixx]

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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.

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American History isn't even a good film, but there are tons of these moments. The basketball game where Norton can barely dribble, Norton pretending to be a teenager being interviewed outside his house with a backwards hat.

[xxThe_Lebowskixx]

"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."

Ive seen The Godfather a thousand times and I have no idea what you are talking about.

[Anacardo]

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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."

Ive seen The Godfather a thousand times and I have no idea what you are talking about.

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Right at the beginning when the one chick holds her hands up about a foot from each other, while the other women at the table look impressed. Notice more imo.

Also, Tarantino's scenes in Pulp Fiction are awesome wtf [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[Toro]

The scene in Rounders that made no sense was Mike turning down sex from Petra. When the Producer or maybe it was the director, I can't rmember which, was asked about that, he said yeah that they blew that.

[Rushmore]

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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.

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IMO The momentous skinhead v. blacks basketball scene was pretty terrible too. Especially Edward Norton's game-winning dunk.

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"Momentous." Exactly...abysmal.

But we have digressed, as it really wasn't even good, much less great.

Points off us both.

[Rushmore]

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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.

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I have always meant to read the book, but, well...

Anyway, regardless--someone should have noticed that in the final cut, it wasn't right at all.

Here's one, from Godfather II:

Oh wait--there aren't any. Never mind.

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American Beauty - the scene where Lester's daughter and the boy next door watch his film following the plastic bag being carried by the wind

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Col. Jessep: You [censored]' people. You have no idea how to defend a nation. All you did was weaken a country today, Kaffee. That's all you did. You put people's lives in danger. Sweet dreams, son.

Kaffee: Don't call me son. I'm a lawyer and an officer in the United States Navy. And you're under arrest, you son of a bitch.

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omfg, this is the best answer ever. that line was horrific.

[xxThe_Lebowskixx]

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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!!!

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1. Oliver Stone is like the least subtle director of all time. All he does is a shove a message down your throat for the entire film.

2. I didn't think the King Kong line was bad, but I did think that the Mexicans finding the wallet was silly, and so was EH jumping onto the hood of Alonzo's car. Also, why is Alonzo going to the Russian meeting point without the money? He thought they'd give him an extension?