1 Scene that makes a good film bad or bad film good?

ziedth

Are there many films that are saved/ruined by one scene?

I can think of one each anyway,

Good film bad: I was enjoying the Desperado 2: Once Upon a Time In Mexico until out of nowhere Enrique Iglesias turns a gutiar case into like a remote control racecar bomb. I was in a state of shock for the rest of the film.

Bad film good: Hard to pick but I'd go for the ending of that film "Outlaws" with Danny Dyer when he

just smiles and shoots ya man who they were after

. I always hated those you haven't got the balls to shoot me scenes in films.

SpitfireIV

Good film (or so I'm told) to bad: Pirates of the Carribean, heard so much hype about it so finally decided to watch it, but at the beginning when the boat was sinking and it just happened to conviently sail up to a peer (whilst he was standing on the only bit of the mast above water) and hop off onto the peer. That was it, I literally turned it off!

Otacon

CroppyBoy1798 wrote: »

Good film (or so I'm told) to bad: Pirates of the Carribean, heard so much hype about it so finally decided to watch it, but at the beginning when the boat was sinking and it just happened to conviently sail up to a peer (whilst he was standing on the only bit of the mast above water) and hop off onto the peer. That was it, I literally turned it off!

You missed a good film there... the other two were crap though.

Good film to bad: Spiderman 3 - I was enjoying this up until Emo Peter and the dancing... oh God, the dancing!

Bad film to good: Death Race - was not expecting much from this, but the car races made it reasonably watchable.

UpTheSlashers

Good Film to Bad: Pineapple Express, Hilarious film until Dale's (Seth Roegen) anti-cannabis rant, never thought Appatow & co. could get so self-righteous, come to think of it, similar thing happened in Knocked Up.

TheIrishGrover

The one with the voiceover from Harrison Ford.

Batty's monologue at the end:
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at TanHauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain. Time to die.

Wonderful speech. Followed STRAIGHT AWAY. (Amost overlapping the word die) with this hamfisted VO:

I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last moments he loved life more than he ever had before. Not just his life, anybody's life, my life. All he'd wanted were the same answers the rest of us want. Where did I come from? Where am I going? How long have I got? All I could do was sit there and watch him die.

Well f****** DUH!!!

Almost as bad as : I knew the lingo. Every good cop did

speedboatchase

Swordfish. The opening monologue and bullet-time are fantastic, then fast forward to Halle's boobs and eject

Tusky

Sunshine...attack of the out of focus man, shot with shaky cam. Ok, maybe its a bit harsh to say this scene ruined it, but I certainly didnt like it and it did spoil the ending some what.

pipeliner

good film bad: the dancing during the credits of slumdog. I felt that it was taking the piss out of bollywood.

chalad07

pipeliner wrote: »

good film bad: the dancing during the credits of slumdog. I felt that it was taking the piss out of bollywood.

I totally disagree - i thought this made a good film even better. It's was a homage to Bollywood, wasnt taking the mic,

tony1kenobi

Bad film good:

Four Rooms when Tim Roth cut's off Normans finger. Whole film is sh1te until that action right at the end.

ztoical

Not sure if it really made a bad film good but there is one scene from While you were sleeping that almost made it worth sitting through. There's a quick scene about half way through, something has happened the night before and now we have one of those quick scenes to establish that it's the next morning, we have a typical american street, covered in snow and a kid is ridding a bike and throwing newspapers as they go and out of no where the kid goes flying off the bike and crashes to the ground. It has nothing to do with the film at all but I was laughing for like 10 mins after [only time I laughed during that whole film]

ziedth

ztoical wrote: »

Not sure if it really made a bad film good but there is one scene from While you were sleeping that almost made it worth sitting through. There's a quick scene about half way through, something has happened the night before and now we have one of those quick scenes to establish that it's the next morning, we have a typical american street, covered in snow and a kid is ridding a bike and throwing newspapers as they go and out of no where the kid goes flying off the bike and crashes to the ground. It has nothing to do with the film at all but I was laughing for like 10 mins after [only time I laughed during that whole film]

Is that with Ricki Lake in it? god an ex made me watch that one time. Truly painful stuff.

I also thought of another bad film made watchable: Doom, the Firsf person sequence was very good in an otherwise poor film.

foxyboxer

Good Film Bad
Andie McDowell in Four Weddings and a Funeral
"Is it still raining, I hadn't noticed?"

ztoical

ziedth wrote: »

Is that with Ricki Lake in it? god an ex made me watch that one time. Truly painful stuff.

Its Sandra Bullock and Bill Pullman but Ricki lake could have been in it, honestly don't remember much else about the film cept that one scene.

Pigman II

Bad film to good in one scene .... Steven Seagal in Executive Decision.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdM2EqDn-tU

ztoical

Man you really can find everything on youtube - While you were sleeping paperboy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRR4to6KcOQ

Fringe

Bad film to good

The Usual Suspects. It was an alright film but the ending really brought it together. The whole plot was a bit bland but the last scene made such a good impact.

BopNiblets

speedboatchase wrote: »

Swordfish. The opening monologue and bullet-time are fantastic, then fast forward to Halle's boobs and eject

Wait what?

I think the exact opposite of that!

Sam Vimes

One film that went from being the worst film ever made to one that people talk about all the time because of one scene is Wild Things. I'm sure I don't have to mention the scene because it's the only scene anyone remembers from it. I was talking to someone about it last week and he didn't even remember that Bill Murray is in it, just that one scene.

One that went from very good to not quite as good was american beauty with Ricky going on about the bag. The film could have done without it

ziedth

ztoical wrote: »

Its Sandra Bullock and Bill Pullman but Ricki lake could have been in it, honestly don't remember much else about the film cept that one scene.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001442/

Ya your right mate,

This is the film I was thinking of. Had to laugh at the clip though.:)

Blazer

Sam Vimes wrote: »

One film that went from being the worst film ever made to one that people talk about all the time because of one scene is Wild Things. I'm sure I don't have to mention the scene because it's the only scene anyone remembers from it. I was talking to someone about it last week and he didn't even remember that Bill Murray is in it, just that one scene.

One that went from very good to not quite as good was american beauty with Ricky going on about the bag. The film could have done without it

2 scenes actually...the threesome and the pool scene..and damn i forgot Murray was in it.

Blazer

Pigman II wrote: »

Bad film to good in one scene .... Steven Seagal in Executive Decision.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdM2EqDn-tU

we have a winner

Armin_Tamzarian

Topgun....

We're sitting there enjoying some of the best dogfight / aerial combat scenes ever
and next thing they just hit us with it.

Topless Beach Volleyball :eek:

Sorry, to be clear, Topless Male Beach Volleyball
(the bad kind of Topless Beach Volleyball)...

Jumpy

Dont click play if you havent seen it.

This scene - 38 seconds in. Line of the century.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9UF1HsP0K0

BopNiblets

Armin_Tamzarian wrote: »

Topgun....
We're sitting there enjoying some of the best dogfight / aerial combat scenes ever
and next thing they just hit us with it.

Topless Beach Volleyball :eek:

Sorry, to be clear, Topless Male Beach Volleyball
(the bad kind of Topless Beach Volleyball)...