Parts in movies that you hate.

[Woodsey]

That part in Inception

Spoiler

At the end where it may or may not all be a dream.

That really felt far below the rest of the movie. It was like "C'mon, you're going to pull this cheap cliche after all that!?"

I think a film built around questioning reality had to end like that.

 

[Darkgoosey666]

The moment Hitgirl arrives in Kick-Ass and completely fucks up the rest of the film.

What didnt you like about hit girl? i thought she was awesome, the only part i didnt like with hit girl in is when she is leaving kick ass's house with big daddy and she says ' sweet dreams' and blows him a kiss. It was just weird seeing like a 10 year old girl being....sexual? if thats the right word? im sure you get what i mean, it just made that scene uncomfortable for me though.

Rest of the film was great though.

Hitgirl was a shiny object that was dangling infront of the audience, nothing more. There was nothing interesting or unique about her other than "it's a ten year old girl who kills people and swears". I get why people like her, but I just don't buy into these gimmicks. To me, watching Hitgirl was like watching one of those Little Miss competitions; little girls all dressed up and acting like adults.

It's not like I found it to be immoral, I just found it to be a complete counter weight to the first half of the movie. I was under the assumption this movie was about trying to be a superhero in the actual world. And the first half does this beautifully were you have this very earnest kid trying to help people. And eventhough all he can do is jump between the attacker and victim and get beat up untill the cops arrive, he still does it and with a lot of heart. Everytime Kick-Ass confronted a gang of thugs you could feel the tension in the air of him being way out of his league.

But as soon as Hitgirl enters the fray all that tension just dissolves as she buthers people left and right to the sound of catchy pop tunes.

Plus, I hate smart-mouthed little kids trying to act cool by saying words like 'cock' and '****'.

well fair enough, thats your opinion. I found her a great addition to the film,

also i like the way you say "There was nothing interesting or unique about her other than "it's a ten year old girl who kills people and swears". So she is pretty unique then, i havent seen many ten year olds butcher people and swear. If you take that aspect of hitgirl away its not really hitgirl any more.

 

[arcstone]

That part in 2012.

"Wheres the landing gear?"

"We lost it all... ...in vegas."

...

DOHOHOHOHOHOHO!

 

[Vrex360]

The ending of Splice.

Subtlety. Done (sort of).
A villain so sympathetic that she isn't really a villain. Done.
Good characters. Done.
Interesting themes. Done.

Then the ending comes and... whoops! Let's throw all that out the window because it's monster time!.

Ugh. Dame shame.

Yeah, I hear ya. For the most part I thought Splice was fantastic, it didn't go as far as it could have with the themes and such but as a creature feature it was very beautifully made and performed and quite intelligent.
And then suddenly in the third act it just forgoes everything it had been going for and becomes resolved with a random monster encounter, that just kind of ruined it. While the movie overall was good, the ending seemed to scream of some kind of desire to make it more appealing to a wider audience, even though that kind of negates the point of low budget art house films of which Splice most certainly was.

The Butterfly Effect.

The part where the protagonist is in jail and he lost most of his notebook. He has a page left and he uses it to go back in to to when he was a kid so that he can put holes in his hands and convince his cellmate he's Jesus.

That part ruins the entire movie for me, honestly. They just throw everything they established about how the time travel thing works, and about how one event can significantly alter the future, out the window. Somehow, him jabbing holes in his hands not only doesn't alter the future, but it happens in real-time and surprises his cellmate. What?!

I agree, that really was stupid. You'd think he would have altered history so that he now always had those scars, or maybe made a massive change because of his new tendency to self mutilate. Possibly meaning he's now living much closer to home and being constantly monitored.

Worse still, as the Butterfly Effect series progressed it dropped the idea of time travel and new timelines in favor of trying to be more like a gritty ultra violent horror movie (i.e Butterfly Effect: Revelations). It was silly.

Anyway, my pick is one cliche and one direct ending:

1. 'The Shock Ending'.
You know what I mean, in monster movies, demon movies and movies about serial killers there's always that moment where enough firepower has been delivered to kill the beast, or the incantation has been spoken on the night of the Harvest Moon on the sacred hill that sent the cursed demon back to hell, or the main character has escaped the home of the family of killers and is driving away to safety.
All examples of the hero winning and... it never lasts.

As the hero is walking away from the bullet ridden monster corpse it suddenly regrows it's internal nervous system and mauls him to death, even after being up into a crypt of the damned for another bajillion years when the woman protagonist goes to bed suddenly the demon lunges out and drags her into the bowels of hell and when the young teenage protagonist has escaped the madness of the house of killers, suddenly the crazed murderer appears in the back seat, having somehow teleported ahead of the teenager and gotten into the car before she did.

I am calling it out right now. It's bullshit. It's a screw to the audience and serves as nothing but one final cheap scare with no closure. It's not shocking anymore, it's expected. It's shocking to see someone actually genuinely triumph against evil and have a victory.
I hate these because it makes the entire third act of getting ready to fight the monster, pointless.

Okay, now for the scene from a movie. This is the ending of a movie so spoilers will be put up.

At the end of Daybreakers:

Spoiler

They work out that the sun cures vampirism and by extension drinking cured vampire blood makes you human again. In the final scene a recently cured vampire gets tackled by a bunch of starved vampire soldiers who then turn human, they then get fed on by a second group of vampires, who then get fed on by the next until finally there is an epic blood stained parade of feeding frenzy madness. That was awesome.
But then, nothing happens. The remaining 'Cured' all get killed by a submachine gun and we remember that just recently a blood substitute had been made, which means that humans and vampires could co-exist. Provided they didn't just destroy it when they killed all the CEO's of the company in question.
So basically, they get a cure for Vampirism, don't hand it out to anyone, it doesn't get used and the few people who get cured, die anyway. Nothing has been resolved, nothing has been changed, nothing has been accomplished and then they all just drive away. It seems like, what with the lack of closure, that they were planning to make a sequel. I'd welcome such an idea, but there's not much evidence to suggest it at this point.
So while it's still overall a good movie, the ending was quite anti-climactic.

So yeah, between Daybreakers and Splice what is it about high concept science fiction movies with disappointing endings lately?

 

[Soxafloppin]

When Batman/Superman refusses to kill the joker/lex even though he knows that killing him will save 100's of good lives in the process.

I know they have a no killing rule, but seriously just be sensible about it.

 

[rokkolpo]

That part in Inception

Spoiler

At the end where it may or may not all be a dream.

That really felt far below the rest of the movie. It was like "C'mon, you're going to pull this cheap cliche after all that!?"

it was still obvious though.

 

[latenightapplepie]

The third act of Sunshine. The film was interesting when there wasn't an identifiable villain. When the only thing stopping the crew was their mental states, morale and technical problems on the ship.

 

[Willem]

Every single second of Emma watson screen-time in any form of media beginning with Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. (Before that it's not too bad)

I hope you meant Emma Thompson, 'cause then I agree.

 

[Casual Shinji]

well fair enough, thats your opinion. I found her a great addition to the film,

also i like the way you say "There was nothing interesting or unique about her other than "it's a ten year old girl who kills people and swears". So she is pretty unique then, i havent seen many ten year olds butcher people and swear. If you take that aspect of hitgirl away its not really hitgirl any more.

Well, I've seen ten-year olds kill and swear before, just not in a live-action movie.

But the thing is, I usually hate child actors, period. And I especially hate Hollywood's obsession with them. With every child actor, from Macaulay Culkin to Haley Joel Osment to Dakota Fanning, after their first succes they're paraded around like performing monkeys. I know they have little say in the matter since they're just kids, but whenever I see a movie with a kid acting like an adult for no other reason than for the audience to go gaga, it just makes me cringe.

Now given, I thought the whole Big Daddy/Hitgirl story arc was a little stupid. There just wasn't anything about her besides killing and swearing; no real sense of motivation or even the impact that killing has on her. This wouldn't matter if the movie started out like this from the getgo, but it doesn't. It starts of as a pretty realistic portrayal of being a superhero in real life then suddenly shifts into Kill Bill territory.

It'd be the same as Rambo showing up half way through Saving Private Ryan.

Maybe I'm exaggerating, but I just hated Hitgirl.

 

[Erja_Perttu]

That part in Inception

Spoiler

At the end where it may or may not all be a dream.

That really felt far below the rest of the movie. It was like "C'mon, you're going to pull this cheap cliche after all that!?"

THAT'S NOT AN ACTUAL INTENTION OF THE MOVIE. IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE A METAPHORICAL END TO HIS TROUBLES AND HER HAUNTING IMAGE IN HIS MIND. The dream is over literally because he isn't holding on to her in his mind, and also that his life is alright now. I'm sorry, but I'm oh so pissed off about everyone trying to make the best out of that single part of the movie when the actual deep meaning is the "simple" one.

Otherwise, any love subplot that seems shoehorned in. I love love subplots, but I detest the near-required love scenes that exist in every movie. If you have a movie that's going to delve into relationships and emotion to some degree, then fine. But if you're just sticking it in for the heck of it, it degrades from the movie; it's distracting, and seriously breaks the flow when the movie can't bring images back to what happened then.

As Yahtzee sort of said "What if in every movie, there had to be a subplot regarding line dancing?!?"

Now, line dancing I don't get, but I do love movies where there is a completely random dance at the end, for no reason. That's nice.

I hate any parts in movie played by Christian Bale.

 

[SilentBobsThoughts]

It'd be useless to point out any movie and it's cliché'd flaws because...

Near enough EVERYTHING'S a cliché nowadays. XD

:O Frieza! [/NerdyGasm]

Um.. Don't really get why the good guys win all the time.. It's not like that in real life and I find it hard to immerse myself in a film that isn't representative of real life situations and people.

 

[Yermenko]

The sex scene in Watchmen! Just terrible from start to finish.

 

[Private Custard]

Independence day.

Everything is suffering a horrible fiery death, yet the dog is smiling....not a care in the world!

 

[Kuchinawa212]

The "let's be artsy and revolve the camera around to show it's action y"

 

[Jamiemitsu]

That one part in casino royale where bond gets captured, and they strip him naked, cut the seat off a chair, get a rope, and... Yeah...

 

[gigastar]

Well for me its the one piece of foreshadowing thats going to give away the rest of the movie.

Case point is the second tranformers movie, 'Only a Prime can defeat the Fallen' seriously why not just get it over with instead of telling us how its going to end half way through.

 

[Scarim Coral]

I generally sick and tired of a zombie movie or setting were it seen the concept of a zombie had never exist in that universe.
So I hate the whole part of the first encounter of a Zombie like
"Stop or I will shoot you!" or
"Their weak spot is shoot them in the head" or
"Omg they are eating people!" etc.