6 Terrible Movies With One Incredible Scene
6 Terrible Movies With One Incredible Scene
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00:00 Bad movies are often terrible from start to finish, but sometimes even a 4/10 director
00:05 has one 10/10 idea, and manages to strike gold in just a single fleeting scene, as is
00:12 absolutely the case with these following movies which are otherwise not remotely worth your time.
00:17 So with that in mind, I'm Josh from RockCulture.com, and these are 6 terrible movies with one incredible scene.
00:24 Number 6. Johnny's Room Servers Rant - Johnny Mnemonic
00:27 Johnny Mnemonic is a classic example of Hollywood desperately attempting to cash in on the techno
00:32 thriller trend in the mid-90s. Despite a strong concept and some solid visuals, this is a
00:37 haphazardly directed, scarcely logical piece of storytelling, led by, and it pains me to say this,
00:43 mostly wooden Keanu Reeves, ensuring it's best watched through the lens of So Bad It's Good
00:49 filmmaking. And that's because in any conventional sense it, wait, it stinks. Yeah, slap that on the
00:54 back of the box, just wait, it stinks I guess. 2/5. Well, it stinks apart from the meme-worthy
01:00 scene in which Reeves' titular protagonist launches off an unhinged rant about, of all things,
01:06 room service. As Johnny rants to Jane about the sorry predicament he's found himself in, he screams,
01:11 "I want room service. I want the club sandwich. I want the cold Mexican beer. I want a 10,000 a
01:18 night hookah." Obviously, my rendition of this is like a 2/10, but Keanu ramps it up to 11,
01:23 it absolutely sells the scene. For as much as his performance is far too subdued to be
01:29 interesting throughout the rest of the flick, in this single scene he absolutely knocks it
01:32 out of the park and manages to be both genuinely captivating and totally hilarious.
01:37 5/5. The Final Battle. The Twilight Saga - Breaking Dawn Part II. Beyond the craven greed of
01:44 pointlessly splitting the final book into two movies, Breaking Dawn Part II is par for the
01:49 course for the IP. Packed with shoddy melodrama that's impossible to take seriously, a problematic
01:55 central romance to say the least, and eyesore-inducing visual effects, namely a CGI baby
02:01 that is quite simply a crime against humanity. I mean, what the hell is this? Don't show me it!
02:07 But director Bill Condon and writer Melissa Rosenberg pulled off one undeniably ingenious
02:12 sleight of hand for the film's finale. Basically, the climax to the Breaking Dawn novel is, well,
02:18 a bit of an anti-climax in that there isn't a final battle and everything just ends on a whimper.
02:23 So how do you end a movie adapted from a book that has a total non-event of an ending? Well,
02:28 you make up a new one, but with the clever get-out-of-jail-free clause.
02:32 So, Breaking Dawn Part II ends with a totally insane and surprisingly brutal battle as the
02:38 various heroic factions team up to battle the evil Volturi, with beloved characters being
02:43 violently dismembered and beheaded left, right and centre. Fans, understandably, were utterly
02:49 shocked and distressed at what they were seeing, given that this sequence and these deaths never
02:54 occurred in the novel. Yet, as this glorious fight comes to an end, we pull back and it's revealed
03:00 that the battle was really just a vision being shown to the Volturi leader by Alice, which then
03:05 convinces him to walk away. Now, this is honestly one of the few times in cinema history that the
03:10 "it was all a dream" twist actually worked in the movie's favour, because it gave us an extra action
03:15 scene that was denied by the source material. You won't find many people sticking up for the
03:25 daft legacy sequel, Space Jam A New Legacy, which attempted to update the formula of the 1996
03:30 Michael Jordan-starring sports comedy by doubling down on all things meta. Sadly, the end result
03:36 wasn't all that great and cynicism dripped from every pore of its creation. Well, except for that
03:42 glorious cameo from Michael Jordan. In the movie, at half-time during the climactic basketball match
03:48 between the Toon Squad and the Goon Squad, Sylvester the Cat gleefully announces that he's
03:53 found Michael Jordan to help them pull back a victory. But as the original film's star makes
03:58 his apparent appearance, he's actually revealed instead to be Michael B. Jordan, the beloved
04:03 Creed and Black Panther star. Given that a cameo from THE Michael Jordan seemed like a very real
04:09 possibility, this was an absolutely hilarious subversion of expectations. A ruck pull that
04:15 overcame the disappointment of Jordan's absence by arguably giving us something greater. And to
04:20 top it all off, the brief cameo ends with Daffy Duck asking Sylvester "We couldn't get Michael
04:25 A. Jordan, so we got Michael B. Jordan?" In a largely miserable, creatively devoid exercise,
04:31 this was pretty good, I'll give it that. Number 3. He sh*t everywhere. Dumb and Dumberer
04:36 When Harry Met Lloyd. For most people, Dumb and Dumberer is an unpleasant half-remembered dream
04:42 of a film. Released back in 2003, this prequel to the legendary 1994 Jim Carrey/Jeff Daniels comedy
04:49 succumbed to basically every imaginable prequel pitfall, desperately attempting to cash in on the
04:54 original's success, and in turn feeling like a pale imitation of it. The filmmakers made one
05:00 unequivocally smart call, hiring the late great Bob Saget to play Mr. Matthews, the father of Harry
05:07 and Lloyd's love interest Jessica. Saget plays a small but unforgettable role in the film,
05:12 culminating in the immortal scene where he understandably freaks out after Harry smears
05:17 a melted chocolate bar over his bathroom. Upon entering the bathroom, the actor's reaction
05:23 is priceless, blurting out a hilariously expletive-filled rant as he believes that
05:28 Harry has annihilated his bathroom in fecal matter. So yeah, thanks for giving us some
05:34 temporary much-needed relief, Bob. That was awesome. Number 2. Grizabella Sings Memory. Cats
05:40 From the moment the first trailer for Cats dropped, audiences were left unsettled by the dubious
05:46 decision to have the film's all-star cast be digitally composited into CGI cat costumes.
05:51 This resulted in a deeply queasy Uncanny Valley look, with the characters appearing neither quite
05:57 human nor feline, but rather an eerie hybrid of the two. There is a single scene that manages to
06:04 mostly break through the nauseating visual effects and deliver something approximating
06:09 the intended emotion of Andrew Lloyd Webber's source material. When Grizabella belts out the
06:14 haunting tune "Memory", it's such a profound rendition of unarguably the musical's best song,
06:19 that you might, temporarily anyway, forget how bad the rest of the movie is, and maybe even get a
06:25 little teary-eyed in the process. In the film where so much effort is being made in the wrong
06:30 direction, Jennifer Hudson at least brought her A-game and managed to turn in an affecting
06:35 performance, even while fighting against the distracting VFX. Number 1. Max's Drug Trip - Max
06:41 Payne Max Payne should have been among the easier video game properties to adapt into movie form,
06:46 because while it certainly owes a lot of its style to cinema itself, it also brings enough
06:51 of its own noir-ish sensibility to the table to not feel like a pure rip-off. But 2008's Max Payne
06:57 movie was a sure-fire dud, hampered by workman-like direction from John Muir, a script that listlessly
07:03 cycled through the first game's narrative beats, and the dual miscasting of Mark Wahlberger's Max
07:08 and Mila Kunis as femme fatale Mona Sax. There's not even that much action in it for a Max Payne
07:14 game which is like 99.9% action, though Muir does strike fleeting gold near the end of the film,
07:20 when Max is almost drowned and in an attempt to prevent himself from dying from hypothermia,
07:25 takes a dose of a hallucinogenic drug. As Max rejuvenates, he sees intense visions of Valkyries
07:32 flying all around him, before he heads off and uses the drug's sense-enhancing properties to
07:36 mow down fleets of bad guys before finally killing the villainous BB. It's the one sequence in the
07:42 film that gets anywhere close to the mile-a-minute thrills and striking visuals of the video games,
07:47 yet you have to sit through like 80 minutes of pure garbo to get to that point.
07:51 So that's our list, I want to know what you guys think down in the comments below,
07:55 what did you think about these scenes in terrible movies, and are there any hidden gems I missed off
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08:06 Even if you don't though, I've been Josh, thanks so much for watching, and I'll see you soon.