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Movie you love--sequence you hate.

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Grant

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Anybody really love a movie but hate one sequence?

For me it's Superman 1.

I love almost everythibg about the movie, but despise the 'reprograming the missles' sequence.

The idea that they could stage ridiculous mishaps and fool the guards into disregarding their job---WATCHING THE THERMO-NUCLEAR MISSLES!! Two times no less.
And then assumiing that the miltary would launch LIVE THERMO-NUCLEAR MISSLES without rechecking the targeting coordinates !!!

It is beyond stupid and moves to the 'insulting the audiences intelligence' territory.

Why not just say that genius Lex has developed a device that can over-ride the targeting computor of the missles? Save five minutes of film time and some location budget and not be so god-damn stupid.


Anybody else have a sequence from a beloved movie they hate?

Please not a line of dialogue or one short shot (like Scott bringing Preston to the bridge) but a whole sequence.
 
I love the first Tim Burton BATMAN flick, but the Prince music video segments are not aging well . . . .
 
Hermiod said:
Pretty much everything on Endor in Return of the Jedi.
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Oh yeah, wow. I could have used that one for myself.

The whole 'Empire storm troopers beaten by teddy bears" was the low point of the first trilogy. No doubt.

As for '89 Batman..I kind of think the whole movie hasn't aged well.
 
I really like The Fifth Element, but if I could buy an edited version that erases Chris Tucker from the entire film I'd get it in a heartbeat.
 
Ah yes.....

'The Movie you love----One character you hate' thread is not a bad idea.

Jar Jar Binks ears must be burning.
 
Star Trek, I love the movie to pieces but:

- the Enterprise has faster than light sensors, how could it not detect the broken armada ships when they arrived in Vulcan? Why did it take them by surprise when they dropped out of warp?

- if the ship has raised shields why did the broken ship hull scrape the hull plating off the Enterprise nacelles?
 
I liked both Hulk and The Incredible Hulk, but found their climatic fight sequences to be very anticlimatic and more like a video game than a movie, the former especially.
 
The climax to Batman Begins, most notably the old guy who makes damn well sure we know "ITS GONNA BLOW!"
 
I liked the new Star Trek movie OK, but felt it would have been a stronger film had it not shown Kirk's dad dying. That whole sequence felt unnecessary and awkward.
 
I love every second of Matrix Reloaded... except for the rave scene. Completely unnecessary and dragging the film through an already slow portion.
 
Star Trek-The Kobayashi Maru
The writers really dropped the ball on this. It would've made more sense for Kirk to have loaded a patch that had one of the Klingons' cloaks malfunction and give away their position so he could blow them away. Then he could've gotten his commendation and Spock could get lectured by the head of the Academy that stuff like that (the malfunction Kirk put in) happens in real life, so Spock's sim wasn't realistic. This gives Spock a reason to dislike Kirk even more because he cheated and got rewarded for it, instead of being punished like Spock would logically expect. And Kirk just happens to be assigned to the Enterprise when the fleet goes to Vulcan, so everything would work out.

Transformers (don't love it, but it's ok)-
Bumblebee peeing on Simmons. Utterly unnecessary and not funny in the slightest.
 
bullethead said:
Star Trek-The Kobayashi Maru
The writers really dropped the ball on this. It would've made more sense for Kirk to have loaded a patch that had one of the Klingons' cloaks malfunction and give away their position so he could blow them away. Then he could've gotten his commendation and Spock could get lectured by the head of the Academy that stuff like that (the malfunction Kirk put in) happens in real life, so Spock's sim wasn't realistic. This gives Spock a reason to dislike Kirk even more because he cheated and got rewarded for it, instead of being punished like Spock would logically expect. And Kirk just happens to be assigned to the Enterprise when the fleet goes to Vulcan, so everything would work out.
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I loved the version of Kirk's third test and the events surrounding it which featured in the novel The Kobayashi Maru. The approach he used there was classy, elegant, and just slightly arrogant. I wish we'd something more like it in the film.

(Kirk reprogramed the simulator to make only one change - he made himself a legend. Thus, when the Klingons learned that they were facing "The Captain Kirk," they stood down their weapons and offered to assist him. It was very neatly portrayed in the novel, which I recommend for both this story and several excellent stories featuring Chekov's, Sulu's, and Scotty's encounters with the simulations and other elements of Commmand School - including an entirely different simulation which one of them fails miserably, but to which Kirk had found the one, brilliant solution.)
 
The giant, falling, flaming dummy/cloud heads sequence from TVH.

It's out of place, weird, and down-right pretnetious.
 
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the Paris flashback scenes in CASABLANCA are unnecessary and slow down the plot.

We don't need to know exactly how Ilsa broke Rick's heart in Paris. Just that she did.

His expression when, of the gin joints in all the world, she walks into his, says it all.
 
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