Movie you love--sequence you hate.

[Greg Cox]

Singing in the Rain. The entire Cyd Charisse dance number just brings the movie to a screeching halt.

I absolutely agree. I love SINGIN' IN THE RAIN, but that whole sequence feels like it was spliced in from another movie. It's also at odds with the tone of the rest of the film. Most of SINGIN' is bouncy and fun--why do we suddenly get a noirish mini-ballet about a naive country bumpkin who gets his heart broken by a slinky, big-city vamp?

 

[LutherSloan]

I love V for Vendetta to death. But there's one bit while Evey is in prison, where the story comes to a halt to give us this sub-story about a lesbian actress that was persecuted & imprisoned by the Sutler administration. It just feels a bit out of sync with the timing of the rest of the movie. I think it may have been better if they had broken up the story a little bit and crosscut with another plotline involving V or the detectives or Sutler yelling at people.

I thought this was a strong scene. It gave us some examples of how things deteriorated in the past before the film takes place.

 

[Hermiod]

^Agreed, I thought it was excellent too.

 

[Grant]

The giant, falling, flaming dummy/cloud heads sequence from TVH.

It's out of place, weird, and down-right pretnetious.

Again, 100% right.

It just seems so pretentous. Like a last minute addition because someone said, "What's it like to go through time?"

It IS out of place in a light-hearted movie as well. Maybe in a serious movie about time travel itself, but in a comedic movie---pointless.

 

[Pat]

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.

Oh yes; this could've been an "all time" movie if not for Tucker.

 

[Goliath]

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.

*Saws off Greg Cox's limb*

The second playbunny sequence in Apocalypse Now Redux.

Really? I would have kept that, and edited out the French Plantation scenes, myself.

But the first thing that came to mind when I saw this thread was:

Return of the King--everything between the people of Minas Tirith kneeling before the hobbits, to Frodo writing in his book, preparing to depart for the Grey Havens.

Worst. Anticlimax. Ever.

 

[zakfa]

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory - The Cheer Up Charlie part.

 

[Candlelight]

[Return of the King--everything between the people of Minas Tirith kneeling before the hobbits, to Frodo writing in his book, preparing to depart for the Grey Havens.

I agree on the principle that the film did have a long drawn out ending, although considering how the book finished I'm glad we got what we got!

It does feature some beautiful dialogue, such as Frodo's "how does one pick up the ways of their old life" speech, and the "you kneel for no one" was very powerful.

The eagles I think should've been better thought out. Why Gandalf didn't use them to get further in Middle Earth was quite a big plot hole.

Unless Gandalf could only control them at certain times.

 

[TGTheodore]

STIV.

One of my favorite movies but I HATE the time travel "dream sequence" with the clouds, fog and really bad images of the characters. It seemed so "cheap-ass beginner" in an otherwise pretty sharp-looking film.

--Ted

 

[wew]

The use of eagles have been discussed by many who find plot holes with LOTR, of course it would have been a much shorter movie.

 

[TGTheodore]

Singing in the Rain. The entire Cyd Charisse dance number just brings the movie to a screeching halt.

I absolutely agree. I love SINGIN' IN THE RAIN, but that whole sequence feels like it was spliced in from another movie. It's also at odds with the tone of the rest of the film. Most of SINGIN' is bouncy and fun--why do we suddenly get a noirish mini-ballet about a naive country bumpkin who gets his heart broken by a slinky, big-city vamp?

Well, it IS explained (it's a pitch for a dance number in their next film), but I also agree. Especially for where it is in the movie. Really bad move for the pacing.

--Ted

 

[Data Holmes]

The pottery wheel scene in Ghost...

 

[Skywalker]

The eagles I think should've been better thought out. Why Gandalf didn't use them to get further in Middle Earth was quite a big plot hole.

Unless Gandalf could only control them at certain times.

Gandalf can't control them at all. The Eagles were servants of the Valar, like Gandalf, and answered only to them. Since the Valar refused to take direct action against Sauron, and instead only sent less-powerful beings like Gandalf and Saruman to guide the peoples of Middle-earth, it's likely that the Eagles were told not to interfere too much.

 

[Goliath]

It does feature some beautiful dialogue, such as Frodo's "how does one pick up the ways of their old life" speech, and the "you kneel for no one" was very powerful.

Oh, I liked "you kneel for no one."

But the movie should have faded to black at that point.

Then, fade in on the Shire, years later.

On screen, the words: THE SHIRE--YEARS LATER

And then show Frodo finishing the Red Book of Westmarch, and proceed as in the film from there.

 

[Samurai8472]

Transformers: The backyard scene.

Same movie but the police interrogation scene(listing off of the drugs) and Anthony Anderson scenes.

 

[Sparky]

Superman: The Movie. Lois Lane and Superman flying around Metropolis " Can you read my mind?" ugh.

 

[mostly_nameless]

I agree on the ROTK. I liked the suspense version of the army-of-the-dead better and wished the movie had just ended after the bows to the hobbits.

I love The Mummy Returns, right up to the "reveal" of the Scorpion King. The rest of the movie has such good CGI (especially the battle between the Majai and the warriors of Anubis) and the title character just looks like some lame cartoon. It just about ruins the movie.

I also hate the happy ending of the new War of the Worlds. It just doesn't belong with the rest of the movie.

 

[Mr Light]

The Eagles couldn't just fly the Ring to Mount Doom because the Nazgul on the Fell Beasts would have intercepted them and torn them to shreds. If you want to be more metaphyical about it, they're servants of the Gods who wanted the whole 'testing of Job' bit to be going on in the first place.

 

[Gaith]

The Return of the King (Extended Edition)

Good example. The RotK EE is the only one of the trilogy where I felt most of the scenes added in detracted from the film rather than added to it.

True, true.

Weird Science - the second Lisa creation attempt (makes the boys look stupid), and Lisa turning Chett into a sludge-troll (pace-killer, and if anyone was to stand up to him, it shoulda been Wyatt).

 

[Trevacious]

I love the first Tim Burton BATMAN flick, but the Prince music video segments are not aging well . . . .

Haha, they weren't even Born well...!