Spiderman 2 was a great movie, but the number of people who discovered his identity in that movie just became comical.
That one scene that ruined a movie.
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It wasn't a good movie by any stretch, but the scene in which the villains of the movie were getting their "Just Desserts" in Van Wilder was so awful that any enjoyment I might have wrung from that wretched film were irreversibly tainted.
Except in the book ends with them driving and the hope of a happy ending rather than silly suicide followed by a "WHAT HAVE I DONE!" moment when the problem magically goes away.DiMono said:
Taken straight from the wikipedia entry on the novella (I don't happen to have the book any longer - it was discarded in a move long ago:
David and Ollie attempt to lead their remaining allies in a covert exit from the market, but are stopped by Mrs. Carmody, who orders her followers to seize her chosen victims: Billy and Amanda. Ollie shoots Mrs. Carmody in the stomach with a revolver found in Amanda's purse, killing her, causing her congregation to break up. En route to David's car, Ollie in turn is bisected by the claw of a very large creature looking similar to a giant lobster or crab. David, Billy, Amanda, and an elderly, yet tough, school teacher Hilda Reppler reach the car and leave Bridgton, driving south for hours through a mist-shrouded, monster-filled New England. After finding refuge for the night, David listens to a radio, and through the overwhelming static possibly hears a single word broadcast, "Hartford". With that one shred of hope, he prepares to drive on into an uncertain future.
The scene where the cinema owner is painting her nails before the premiere.
Nail varnish makes me sick, and I wretched while writing this.
Nail varnish makes me sick, and I wretched while writing this.
Amen to that. I thought the ending was perfect since I finally watched a horror movie and didn't know every plot development ahead of time. The ending to the short story is OK but this truly stuck with me. It's not about angst, its about the trauma of making having to live with making the right decision at the time even though it turns out to be wrong in the long run.DiMono said:
Casino royale.
Sucking her(covered in blood from the guys james bond just killed) fingers in the shower.
What????????????
Sucking her(covered in blood from the guys james bond just killed) fingers in the shower.
What????????????
The part in Apocalypse Now
irectors Cut, where the crew of the boat encounters those French people still holding onto their land in the jungle, that whole sequence is thirty minutes long adds nothing to the story and really takes you out of the surreality that the rest of the movie had been building up.
There were some good scenes that had been left out of the original version that were in the directors cut but that one was so dumb that it ruined them for me.
irectors Cut, where the crew of the boat encounters those French people still holding onto their land in the jungle, that whole sequence is thirty minutes long adds nothing to the story and really takes you out of the surreality that the rest of the movie had been building up.There were some good scenes that had been left out of the original version that were in the directors cut but that one was so dumb that it ruined them for me.
I'll name a movie, then name a game for extra credit.
Movie: Resident Evil Apocalypse. I enjoyed the movies for their camp factor, but Alice getting powers made me fan rage for months.
Game: Dante's Inferno. Beatrice screws the devil. I am still pissed about that. That moment ruined the entire premise of the game and the book trilogy. Beatrice was supposed to be the impossibly pure ideal that Dante was chasing, incorruptible. I liked how the game showed Dante as the ultimate sinner in need of redemption and I know it would've been boring following a poet around, but I'd like a LITTLE continuity.
Movie: Resident Evil Apocalypse. I enjoyed the movies for their camp factor, but Alice getting powers made me fan rage for months.
Game: Dante's Inferno. Beatrice screws the devil. I am still pissed about that. That moment ruined the entire premise of the game and the book trilogy. Beatrice was supposed to be the impossibly pure ideal that Dante was chasing, incorruptible. I liked how the game showed Dante as the ultimate sinner in need of redemption and I know it would've been boring following a poet around, but I'd like a LITTLE continuity.
It's one of those things where the entire point of the Scott Pilgrim franchise is to parody video games and pop culture. In this case, look to JRPGs where a lean/scrawny character wields a sword or gun bigger than the hero's body. He's not supposed to be convincing, and you're never supposed to understand where he gets his skills. He just can, in the same manner that Mario can jump into a second-story window from a standstill. And if he didn't look like a pathetic hipster with no self-confidence, we wouldn't get the impression he was one, which would've killed the movie.tomtom94 said:
Then again, maybe I like this movie a little too much to safely comment without bias. Oh well. I'll go play the Scott Pilgrim game now.
Perfect example: Some Dogs Bite.
Non spoiler: A completely fucking stupid scene where a completely out of the blue and fucking stupid thing happens that not only scared me shitless, but also broke an otherwise great flow.
Spoiler:
Non spoiler: A completely fucking stupid scene where a completely out of the blue and fucking stupid thing happens that not only scared me shitless, but also broke an otherwise great flow.
Spoiler:
The main character of the film is talking to a guy whose place they're crashing at. The guy is talking about being a dad to his child out of a relationship he's just gotten out of. After his epiphany of being a better father, he gets hit by a fucking truck. No lie. And then the truck just carries on, since it's on a quiet road. There's more to it that makes it even fucking worse, but i can't be bothered going into it. It's bad enough.
It was a while ago I read it admittedly but in the novella isn't the ending is left ambiguous, with the last few surviving characters hearing a message about a certain town on the radio? That's hardly bleaker than killing your own son in order to save him from being eaten only to find out it was unnecessary and they both could have survived along with the elderly couple.Gwynplaine said:
