# Awesome moments in horrible movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 20, 2008, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-moments-in-horrible-movies/464389 "2008-09-20T00:54:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dosipede](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dosipede](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dosipede)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2008, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-moments-in-horrible-movies/464389/1 "2008-09-20T00:54:12Z")
Sometimes a movie is remembered for one moment. The rest of the movie is forgotten, pulled under by bad writing, bad acting, bad directing, just pitiful everything, but that one moment stands head and shoulders above the water, declaring triumphantly that this piece of prairie-dog poop will not be forgotten. In the movie _Congo_– a wretched excuse for a film-- there is one such moment, when Tim Curry and Delroy Lindo, two actors with no business having their decent, upstanding reputations tarnished by this inexcusable attempt at filmmaking, share the screen. “Mr. Homolka,” says Lindo. Curry looks up with shit-eating grin and a mouthful of cake. “Stop eating my sesame cake.” Curry’s smile disappears, and he looks around in confusion. “STOP, EATING, MY SESAME CAKE!” bellows Lindo, as only [Lindo](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSvU8a_hn2Q) can. I don’t remember (or care about) anything else in this godforsaken wasteland of cinematic excrement\*, but this moment is absolutely fantastic. Anyone ever have a similar experience? \*As P. Opus once wrote, “OK, maybe it wasn’t that bad, but lord, it wasn’t good.” ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2008, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-moments-in-horrible-movies/464389/2 "2008-09-20T01:08:17Z")
The Enterprise crash in _Star Trek Generations_. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2008, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-moments-in-horrible-movies/464389/3 "2008-09-20T01:36:49Z")
Rodney Dangerfield reading Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night in Back To School ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2008, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-moments-in-horrible-movies/464389/4 "2008-09-20T01:41:20Z")
I thought the movie _Daredevil_ was barely watchable, but I loved the scene on the rooftop in the rain where the blind Ben Affleck is able to “see” Jennifer Garner by mentally assembling a pattern derived from the sound of the raindrops as they fall on her face. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2008, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-moments-in-horrible-movies/464389/5 "2008-09-20T01:59:20Z")
> [@Dosipede](#): > > Tim Curry and Delroy Lindo, two actors with no business having their decent, upstanding reputations tarnished by this inexcusable attempt at filmmaking, [hijack]I like Tim Curry well enough, but take a look at his very long IMDB page and you’ll see that he hasn’t been very discriminating in his choices of roles, before or since Congo. 🆒 [/hijack] I thought the very last scene in The Blair Witch Project was very creepy and scary. Too bad it was preceded by 85 minutes of absolute crap. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2008, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-moments-in-horrible-movies/464389/6 "2008-09-20T02:33:54Z")
Are we counting the bit in _Deep Blue Sea_ where the shark eats Samuel L. Jackson just as he’s getting warmed up on his patented Samuel L. Jackson speech? I figured spoilers should be boxed in this; if you wish otherwise you should have the title changed. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2008, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-moments-in-horrible-movies/464389/7 "2008-09-20T02:51:01Z")
The final minute of **Queen of The Damned** is really cool filmwork. It’s the only minute in the entire movie worth watching, though. ---
**Author:** ![Erasmus\_Darwin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@Erasmus\_Darwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erasmus_Darwin)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2008, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-moments-in-horrible-movies/464389/8 "2008-09-20T03:30:08Z")
The beginning of **Ghost Ship** is pretty darn good. It shows the horrific event that led to the ship being haunted. The rest of the movie is unwatchable crap. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2008, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-moments-in-horrible-movies/464389/9 "2008-09-20T05:51:14Z")
“Define irony. Bunch of idiots dancing on a plane to a song made famous by a band that died in a plane crash.” ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2008, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-moments-in-horrible-movies/464389/10 "2008-09-20T06:19:28Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > “Define irony. Bunch of idiots dancing on a plane to a song made famous by a band that died in a plane crash.” Don’t forget- “Put. The. Bunny. Down.” Another good one was _Executive Decision_. Maybe it wasn’t a completely horrible movie, but it wasn’t great… and it was totally redeemed in the first ten minutes when Steven Segal falls out of the plane and dies. And doesn’t come back later on, surprisingly enough. Dead, dead, dead. ---
**Author:** ![Sr\_Siete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Sr\_Siete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sr_Siete)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2008, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-moments-in-horrible-movies/464389/11 "2008-09-20T08:43:50Z")
My favorite has to be one from I movie I was forced to sit through… I can’t even remember the title. It was a scene so utterly silly that actually completes a full circle and crashes into the “awesome” zone. Wait, I seem to remember that Carmen Electra made a cameo. Let me imdb it. Yes! “Full of it” (2007) The movie was seriously Rob Schneider-dumb, and it was centered around a short, pudgy kid that tries to become popular at his new school by lying his teeth out… only for whatever reason (I think that a magic mirror is mentioned at some point) all his lies become reality. One of his claims had been previously the old joke about being hung like a baby (9 pounds and 25 inches) and once all the kids are at the shower after gym class he looks down and… surprise! He starts prancing and dancing around with the happiest smirk on his face while all the other kids look below his waist astonished and disgusted, bracing the walls while trying to avoid that thing from approaching them. But it’s the look on the main character’s face that really makes it great. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2008, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-moments-in-horrible-movies/464389/12 "2008-09-20T10:12:00Z")
> [@pinkfreud](#): > > I thought the movie _Daredevil_ was barely watchable, but I loved the scene on the rooftop in the rain where the blind Ben Affleck is able to “see” Jennifer Garner by mentally assembling a pattern derived from the sound of the raindrops as they fall on her face. I might be biased—I’m one of the minority of people who _liked_ Daredevil—but I thought the scene towards the beggining, showing our hero coming home after a “night on the town” and the toll of lifestyle was taking on his body and mind, really stood out. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2008, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-moments-in-horrible-movies/464389/13 "2008-09-20T10:20:58Z")
I haven’t seen this shot in a long time, but in the Eddie Murphy film _The Golden Child_ there’s a fantastic shot of the bad guy sitting cross legged on the top of a thin spire of rock, then the camera pulls back, and back, and back, and back, and back, revealling fire and huge space and falling rocks. It’s quite a spectacular shot, especially for 80s level visual effects. ---
**Author:** ![Vihaga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Vihaga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vihaga)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2008, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-moments-in-horrible-movies/464389/14 "2008-09-20T11:37:34Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#): > > I might be biased—I’m one of the minority of people who _liked_ Daredevil—but I thought the scene towards the beggining, showing our hero coming home after a “night on the town” and the toll of lifestyle was taking on his body and mind, really stood out. I like that bit, too. It was a realistic part of an otherwise silly movie. (I didn’t _hate_ Daredevil, but it should’ve been so much better than it was. Oh, well.) ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2008, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-moments-in-horrible-movies/464389/15 "2008-09-20T12:10:44Z")
“I’m here to kick ass and chew bubblegum… And I’m all out of bubblegum!” ---
**Author:** ![shy\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@shy\_guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shy_guy)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2008, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-moments-in-horrible-movies/464389/16 "2008-09-20T15:31:29Z")
> [@Erasmus\_Darwin](#): > > The beginning of **Ghost Ship** is pretty darn good. It shows the horrific event that led to the ship being haunted. > > The rest of the movie is unwatchable crap. This is what I came in here to post. The first few minutes are awesome and had me really excited for the rest of the movie, which turned out to be a nonsensical snooze-fest. ---
**Author:** ![Linty\_Fresh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Linty\_Fresh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linty_Fresh)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-moments-in-horrible-movies/464389/17 "2008-09-21T21:56:50Z")
**Billy Jack** was total shit overall, but _damn_, Billy squaring off against a dozen townies in the park was a great scene. What’s even better is if you were as dumb as I was when I bought the DVD just for that one scene, you can slow it down enough to see Tom Laughlin’s stunt double. There’s just something awesome about watching a 200-pound townie get his ass handed to him by a little Korean guy in a jean jacket and cowboy hat. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-moments-in-horrible-movies/464389/18 "2008-09-21T22:01:48Z")
In the otherwise forgettable Emilio Estevez/Mick Jagger schlockfest _Freejack_, there’s one of my favorite moments ever captures on film: > [@](#): > > You keep lookin’ at me like that…you’ll see me kill you. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-moments-in-horrible-movies/464389/19 "2008-09-21T22:16:19Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > [hijack]I like Tim Curry well enough, but take a look at his very long IMDB page and you’ll see that he hasn’t been very discriminating in his choices of roles, before or since Congo. 🆒 [/hijack] Well, maybe not, but i bet he never missed a rent or car payment, and never starved. Paycheck is where it is at. What good is holding out for the perfect roles when you have to wait tables to pay the rent. Get your face onscreen, get your voice in cartoons and get that $$$ in the bank. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-moments-in-horrible-movies/464389/20 "2008-09-21T22:30:45Z")
The 1962 film version of **Day of the Trffids** was a truly terrible film, all the worse due to the fact that the book it was based on would have made a perfect little monster movie if they didn’t change a thing. But in among the garbage was one scene. The plot involves a “meteor” display (it’s implied it might have been man made), that everyone watches – and everyone who watches it goes blind. The scene is set in an airplane that flew at night. The pilot is desperately trying to figure out how to land the plane without seeing the runway. Meanwhile, in the back, the flight attendants are urging calm, and it’s working. Most of the passengers are blind, but they are accepting the reassurance that they will be landing soon. Then a little boy asks the obvious question: “Is the pilot blind, too?” It’s a chilling moment as the people realize their situation. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/awesome-moments-in-horrible-movies/464389.md?page=2)