# Great moments in crappy films **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 25, 2010, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-moments-in-crappy-films/530368 "2010-02-25T05:46:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-moments-in-crappy-films/530368/1 "2010-02-25T05:46:08Z")
I’m sure this has been done before, but I didn’t want to bump a zombie. Watched the first live-action Scooby Doo again recently, the one with Sarah Michele Gellar and Mathew Lilliard. There’s a great moment toward the end when their spirits keep randomly switching bodies and Shaggy switches into Daphne’s body. In his most plaintive whine, Shaggy says: “Oh, Daphne, what’s wrong with you? Don’t you ever eat?” Great line. Cracks me up every time. ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Hen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@Small\_Hen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Hen)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-moments-in-crappy-films/530368/2 "2010-02-25T06:13:12Z")
So I married an axe murderer. " 'EED! Move! NOW!" ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-moments-in-crappy-films/530368/3 "2010-02-25T09:49:32Z")
They Live, the alley fight scene. ---
**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:** [February 25, 2010, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-moments-in-crappy-films/530368/4 "2010-02-25T12:10:23Z")
**Scooby Doo** , **So I Married an Axe Murderer** , and **They Live** are crappy movies? Tough crowd! I loved every one of them. **Billy Jack**. 99% of the movie was unadulterated shit, but _damn_ that fight scene in the park . . . That scene was worth the price of the DVD in the discount rack. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-moments-in-crappy-films/530368/5 "2010-02-25T13:14:48Z")
I didn’t care much overall for “Duets.” But the film does have a lot of great little moments, especially Andre Braugher’s acapella rendition of Freebird at the end. That always chokes me up a little. Also the freeway chase scene in “The Matrix Reloaded” where the two semis ram each other at the end - friggin’ awesome. ---
**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:** [February 25, 2010, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-moments-in-crappy-films/530368/6 "2010-02-25T13:33:09Z")
**The Day of the Triffids**. A terrible movie (from a book that should have made a perfect horror film), but there is one scene that works brilliantly: “Is the captain blind?” ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-moments-in-crappy-films/530368/7 "2010-02-25T13:37:06Z")
> [@EvilTOJ](#): > > They Live, the alley fight scene. Whoa! Don’'t forget the infamous improv, “I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass… and I’m all out of bubblegum.” ---
**Author:** ![LiveOnAPlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@LiveOnAPlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiveOnAPlane)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-moments-in-crappy-films/530368/8 "2010-02-25T13:42:07Z")
> [@Linty\_Fresh](#): > > … > > **Billy Jack**. 99% of the movie was unadulterated shit, but _damn_ that fight scene in the park . . . That scene was worth the price of the DVD in the discount rack. Was that the scene where he says “I’m going to put **this** foot on **that** side of your head, and you know what? There isn’t a damn thing you can do about it.” ? Yeah, awesomeness. ---
**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:** [February 25, 2010, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-moments-in-crappy-films/530368/9 "2010-02-25T15:01:17Z")
Tom Baker’s scene in Dungeons & Dragons. The movie had a bad script, bad acting and was thoroughly awful. Then, Baker shows up and demonstrates what a good actor can do with just his body and voice. The look on his face does more to evoke magic than all the CGI in the movie. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-moments-in-crappy-films/530368/10 "2010-02-25T15:07:51Z")
> [@EvilTOJ](#): > > They Live, the alley fight scene. Wow. While not a great film that was definitely the crappiest moment in it. The never ending alley fight scene that ground the movie to a screeching halt. I loved the opening scene of the _Highlander_ movie. The rest of the movie I forgot cause it was, well, forgetable. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-moments-in-crappy-films/530368/11 "2010-02-25T15:36:04Z")
“On Deadly Ground” was pretty bad, but is still worth a viewing to watch Michael Caine chew the scenery as a corrupt, Indian jacket-wearing oilman in one of his “I know this movie is bloody awful, but care so long as they give me a paycheck” roles. It also contains one of the unintentionally funniest moments in '90s action cinema when R. Lee Ermey, playing a mercenary, waxes poetically about what a badass Steven Seagal’s eco-warrior is. Here’s the quote: > [@](#): > > My guy in D.C. tells me that we are not dealing with a student here, we’re dealing with the Professor. Any time the military has an operation that can’t fail, they call this guy in to train the troops, OK? He’s the kind of guy that would drink a gallon of gasoline so he could piss in your campfire! You could drop this guy off at the Arctic Circle wearing a pair of bikini underwear, without his toothbrush, and tomorrow afternoon he’s going to show up at your pool side with a million dollar smile and fist full of pesos. This guy’s a professional, you got me? If he reaches this rig, we’re all gonna be nothing but a big goddamned hole right in the middle of Alaska. So let’s go find him and kill him and get rid of the son of a bitch! ---
**Author:** ![cactus\_waltz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@cactus\_waltz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cactus_waltz)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-moments-in-crappy-films/530368/12 "2010-02-25T15:38:33Z")
I’m not sure I would it a “great moment”, but for a movie that is so notoriously bad as Gigli, one forgets that both Christopher Walken and Al Pacino each have a monologue in it. Christopher really gets to show that there are actors and then there are _actors_ - there are the people who who are living the rich lifestyle and are globally famous and then there are self-earned people with actual talent, who perform with a presence and a sense of artistry. Gigli makes the distinction absurdly clear: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64Ut9ZemvGE) The door in the scene makes it especially symbolic. In goes talent, out goes talent. In the room remains Ben Affleck in a bowling shirt, Jennifer Lopez on a sofa and a guy who’s supposed to be mentally challenged but more comes across as somebody who makes fun of handicapped people. The three of them compete for who can dumb down the movie the most. It’s an even fight. ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-moments-in-crappy-films/530368/13 "2010-02-25T16:54:10Z")
Re: **cactus waltz** ’s link- Oh my word! I’d never seen the film, I never -want- to see the film, and the pie line is a bit goofy, but beyond that… Wow. Walken comes in, owns the scene completely, and then leaves. It’s staggering how charismatic he is. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-moments-in-crappy-films/530368/14 "2010-02-25T17:02:38Z")
The Labyrinth isn’t the greatest movie of all times. I like it because I can see the potential in Jennifer Connelly. But the scene where she first enters the maze and meets the worm still cracks me up. > [@](#): > > Who, me? No, I’m just a worm. Say, come inside, and meet the missus. ---
**Author:** ![Telperion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telperion/32/509_2.png) [@Telperion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperion)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-moments-in-crappy-films/530368/15 "2010-02-25T17:32:07Z")
The 90’s remake of _Godzilla_ was almost uniformly awful, but the scene where Jean Reno bluffs his way into an American military base by doing the world’s worst Elvis impersonation was hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Arglefraster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3bc359/32.png) [@Arglefraster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arglefraster)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-moments-in-crappy-films/530368/16 "2010-02-25T20:40:25Z")
This may not count as a crappy movie. It’s possible I just didn’t “get” it, but I hated Blue Velvet. However, there’s a scene with Dean Stockwell playing someone who is magnificently drunk, but still trying to act “smooth”. His facial expression in the scene is just _perfect_. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-moments-in-crappy-films/530368/17 "2010-02-25T21:37:45Z")
That is one of the best scenes ever filmed. But it never occured to me that he’s drunk. He’s just Ben. Here’s to Ben! ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-moments-in-crappy-films/530368/18 "2010-02-25T21:45:21Z")
Every moment Michael Moriarty has onscreen in [_Q._](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_(film)) ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-moments-in-crappy-films/530368/19 "2010-02-25T21:48:44Z")
My answer to this question is always the generally forgettable **Honey, I Blew Up the Kid** , in which Rick Moranis has accidentally embiggened his toddler son to 100x normal size or so. The poor kid is wandering around, not recognizing anything, quite upset, throwing a very destructive tantrum. The solution they come up with, which I have to give them credit for being genuinely clever and logical in the absurd situation, is to embiggen his wife, the toddler’s mother, to the same scale. The toddler will then recognize her and she will be able to comfort and control him until they can be shrunk. A witness to this dramatic event speaks the immortal words: Look at the SIZE of that mother! ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-moments-in-crappy-films/530368/20 "2010-02-25T21:52:19Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > Wow. While not a great film that was definitely the crappiest moment in it. > The never ending alley fight scene that ground the movie to a screeching halt. The excessiveness of the fight was what made it so wonderful. All he wanted him to do was put on the glasses. That’s it! Put on the pair of glasses. Take a second. No. (cue 10 minutes of awesome smackdown). My nominee is _Valentine’s Day_, which still in the theaters. Luckily, it happens in the first 10 minutes, so you can leave and go see something good in the theater next door. The weather girl. I fell on the floor laughing. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-moments-in-crappy-films/530368.md?page=2)