Great Movie, Bad Aspect

[Aclea]

Originally Posted by Monterey Jack

Aside from the blonde assassin dude, you're pretty much right. Joe Don Baker and Jeroen Krabbe are simply not threatening or charismatic.

It's a recurring problem with Bond movies casting actors who have shown they can do menace - Charles Gray (The Devil Rides Out), Krabbe (No Mercy), Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men), Jonathan Pryce (Something Wicked This Way Comes), Walken (almost everything) - and then having them camp it up or play for laughs. It was a real surprise that Waltz resisted the trend.

[trevanian]

Originally Posted by Aclea

It's a recurring problem with Bond movies casting actors who have shown they can do menace - Charles Gray (The Devil Rides Out), Krabbe (No Mercy), Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men), Jonathan Pryce (Something Wicked This Way Comes), Walken (almost everything) - and then having them camp it up or play for laughs. It was a real surprise that Waltz resisted the trend.

Two other proven baddies who deliver the goods:
Davi didn't camp it up either, though with the iguana around to potentially upstage him, that thought might have crossed his mind. I actually like Davi a lot in LTK, and also (assuming NSNA even counts) Brandauer, who seems both credibly grounded and OTT. The meta aspect, where it seems like he knows stuff only the audience knows (like turning to look up at Bond while Bond is i/p of escaping), kinda works against the reality, but does so in a charming way IMO.

[PipesDonatello]

Julianne Moore's acting in Magnolia, especially that cringeworthy pharmacy scene. I don't know, just didn't work for me. Everyone else was great though.

[Alister_M]

Originally Posted by Drake2222

Saruman being turned into a ridiculous comic book road runner character covered in bird doo in Lord of the Rings.

That was Radagast in The Hobbit.

[jess1581]

War of the Worlds 2005- The implausibly hallmark ending with his son already being at his mom's, even though he ran off towards what looked like the seventh level of hell. I can take Indy's fridge escape more than that scene.

[CompleteCount]

Originally Posted by Monterey Jack

Die Hard 2 had a terrifyingly realistic plane crash scene seven years earlier, and that used an actual physical model.

Originally Posted by trevanian

According to a Cinefex article, the DIE HARD 2 crash was originally even more horrific, going on and on with cuts back inside the fuselage as the plane burns and breaks. But they felt they'd never win the audience back from something that extreme (probably right, too.)

The effects on the plane really are superb, as using scale models still give a weight and mass which isn't quite there in CGI.

The only problem I have is that the flight is running on "petrol fumes", but when it crashes, the plane explodes in a massive ball of fire, of a size which would only have been caused if carrying a large amount of fuel. But a plane just crumpling in a heap with some minor fire from the wings isn't cinematic enough, and would have possibly left survivors.

[GoneJoel]

The fake baby scene from American Sniper.

[BladeRunner2007]

Bvs - Jesse Eisenberg

[DeadLikeMe]

I really like Annabelle Creation, but this here scene is just so poorly set up. It's like they had an idea for a cool scene but had no idea how to fit it into the movie. "Let's have this scared little girl go demonic doll fishing alone in the dark." "Sure, but WHY????" "Nevermind why, it'll look cool"

Annabelle Creation - Ball Gun - YouTube

[Aclea]

There's an alien that's already killed one crew member on the loose in the ship, so you go off in your own into that dark storage bay to look for the cat...

[Alister_M]

Originally Posted by Aclea

There's an alien that's already killed one crew member on the loose in the ship, so you go off in your own into that dark storage bay to look for the cat...

As far as they knew, it was still small. They had absolutely no reason to suspect it would grow into an 8-foot killing machine in such a short span.

[Monterey Jack]

Originally Posted by CompleteCount

The only problem I have is that the flight is running on "petrol fumes", but when it crashes, the plane explodes in a massive ball of fire, of a size which would only have been caused if carrying a large amount of fuel. But a plane just crumpling in a heap with some minor fire from the wings isn't cinematic enough, and would have possibly left survivors.

That's actually a common fallacy...it is the fumes that are explosive far more than actual jet fuel or gasoline.

[Damon1281]

Originally Posted by Monterey Jack

Name a movie that you really like or love that has an element that is distractingly bad. That hilarious scene in Let The Right One In where a woman is attacked by a swarm of horribly-animated CGI cats comes immediately to mind.

Originally Posted by Monterey Jack

Even before the whole Cancel Culture thing started, I found Mickey Rooney's ghastly performance in Breakfast At Tiffany's to be akin to seeing a cockroach skittering across the surface of an immaculate wedding cake.

Even putting the "yellowface" issue aside, it's a terrible, obnoxious character who drags the movie to a halt every time he appears. Even if he were played by an actual Japanese actor, it would have been terrible as written and performed. Shame, as the rest of the film is sophisticated and charming.

Originally Posted by BreakfastClub211

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective - The intense vomiting after finding out Einhorn is a man. Didn't age well.

Originally Posted by GoneJoel

The fake baby scene from American Sniper.

Those were all great or hilarious scenes.

Originally Posted by jess1581

Avengers Endgame- Hulk got totally robbed of a rematch with Thanos.

Why should he get a rematch when he got crap beat out of him the first time?

[Aclea]

Originally Posted by Alister_M

As far as they knew, it was still small. They had absolutely no reason to suspect it would grow into an 8-foot killing machine in such a short span.

Regardless, it had already killed one person and they'd made a point of forming two teams with improvised weapons to find it for safety. And then just send him on his own to get the cat.

[Alister_M]

Originally Posted by Aclea

Regardless, it had already killed one person and they'd made a point of forming two teams with improvised weapons to find it for safety. And then just send him on his own to get the cat.

Yeah, it killed Kane by ripping its way out of him. There was no logical reason to expect it to be a significant physical threat to a fully grown human in a fair fight if it was still the size it had been when they first saw it. Sure, they still should have stuck together, but people don't always behave in a logical manner, especially when they're little more than interstellar truck drivers who haven't been trained to deal with such a scenario.

[hasslein]

Barbara Hershey cringing when kissing Hackman in Hoosiers.

Amy Madigan in the school scene in Field of Dreams

[Monterey Jack]

Originally Posted by hasslein

Amy Madigan in the school scene in Field of Dreams

Them's fighting words, you Nazi cow.

[Monterey Jack]

The way Toht's glasses jump halfway down his face when it's melting off in Raiders Of The Lost Ark.



It's an otherwise marvelous effect, but that always gives away the trickery.

[Martoto]

The spectral BJ in Ghostbusters

[Monterey Jack]

Originally Posted by Martoto

The spectral BJ in Ghostbusters

Dan Aykroyd would disagree.