# 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:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2010, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-moments-in-crappy-films/530368/41 "2010-02-28T00:21:05Z")
> [@Telperion](#): > > 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. I loved that part. “Thank ya, thank ya verruh much” 😃 But I’ve liked Reno, ever since The Professional. I just saw a budget vampire movie “Desert of Blood”. One line made the movie. The heroine rounds up some friends to defeat the vampire and the blonde says “shouldn’t we go find Shaggy and Scooby?” ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2010, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-moments-in-crappy-films/530368/42 "2010-02-28T16:47:06Z")
The Invention of Lying wasn’t a _crappy_ movie, but it wasn’t a great movie. However, there is one line that makes me lose it. Ricky Gervais’ character has invented Heaven and is telling people about all the wonderful things that happen there. One of the things is that there is every flavor of ice cream you could think of. Well, one person in the crowd says, “What about the bad flavors?” Ricky Gervais says “Don’t think about the bad flavors.” Then, a random man in the crowd says, “I just thought of vanilla and skunks!” A random woman then says, “And the chocolate sauce is diarrhea!” Hilarious. I had to stop the movie and rewind because I was laughing so hard, I missed the next five minutes of the film. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-moments-in-crappy-films/530368/43 "2010-03-02T16:44:22Z")
Peter Lorre’s final scene in _The Invisible Agent_. The sequence in the third X-Men movie where Kitty Pryde uses her brain to defeat the Juggernaut’s brawn. The fight between Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris in _Return of the Dragon_. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-moments-in-crappy-films/530368/44 "2010-03-02T18:56:02Z")
Racing in the rain, and the totally implausible Chicago chase scenes, in _Driven_. ---
**Author:** ![Rafe\_Hollister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/fbc32d/32.png) [@Rafe\_Hollister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rafe_Hollister)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-moments-in-crappy-films/530368/45 "2010-03-02T19:03:56Z")
Is it possible to have a crappy film that’s filled with great moments? If so, I nominate _Napoleon Dynamite_. ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-moments-in-crappy-films/530368/46 "2010-03-04T18:35:05Z")
The Meg Ryan comedy _French Kiss_ wasn’t totally crappy, but certainly forgettable. There was one scene, though, that struck me as being incredibly out of place simply because it was so good. It was the scene where Kevin Kline’s character has Meg sample the aromas of the various flowers that grow in his family vineyard before tasting the wine. Sublime. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-moments-in-crappy-films/530368/47 "2010-03-07T05:39:57Z")
The Morgan Freeman voiceover gag during the opening moments of _ **The Love Guru** _ is pretty funny. Also, the “What is it you can’t face?” line (which you have to hear in order to get it), but everything else? Hoo boy. It’s bad. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Shine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr_shine/32/464_2.png) [@Mr\_Shine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Shine)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-moments-in-crappy-films/530368/48 "2010-03-07T11:03:59Z")
The Phantom Menace, utter rubbish except for the lightsabre duel at the end. (Possibly the best one in the saga) ---
**Author:** ![Hellestal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3ab097/32.png) [@Hellestal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hellestal)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-moments-in-crappy-films/530368/49 "2010-03-07T13:17:49Z")
**The Last Samurai** has two scenes of excellence, surrounded by the pablum of the rest of the movie: 1. After the ninja assassins attack, and are repulsed, the remaining samurai look around with this unutterable look of… ecstasy on their faces. They are _alive_. And they give out a scream of pure exhilaration in that fact. Incredible. 2. The putting on the armor scene. Woof. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-moments-in-crappy-films/530368/50 "2010-03-07T14:13:53Z")
Another crappy movie with multiple great scenes is “Christmas Vacation.” In fact, “Christmas Vacation” barely qualifies as a movie at all, inasmuch as it doesn’t really have any sort of story or plot. It’s just a bunch of scenes, mostly from “Christmas '57”, pasted together. It looks as if it was shot on a budget of three hundred dollars plus Randy Quaid’s beer and pills money. In fact, you often get the sense that there isn’t even a director on set, that the actors and camera operator are just sort of following the script as best they can without any oversight. It’s as dated as an Atari 2600. Since there’s no story and no plot, almost every scene is effectively pointless. But a lot of the scenes are frakking hilarious. Clark’s rant “Hallelujah, holy shit, where’s the Tylenol?”, the turkey, “Shitter was full,” the reveal when the lights finally work, Aunt Bethany, and half a dozen more. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-moments-in-crappy-films/530368/51 "2010-03-07T15:31:58Z")
I don’t want to defend _National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation_ particularly, since I didn’t much enjoy it, but saying that it’s as outdated as an Atari 2600 is a strange analogy. The Atari 2600 lasted from 1977 to 1992, although arguably it had ceased to be important by 1986. The movie came out in 1989. So it wasn’t outdated at the time the movie came out. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2010, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-moments-in-crappy-films/530368/52 "2010-03-07T17:13:42Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > I don’t want to defend _National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation_ particularly, since I didn’t much enjoy it, but saying that it’s as outdated as an Atari 2600 is a strange analogy. The Atari 2600 lasted from 1977 to 1992, although arguably it had ceased to be important by 1986. The movie came out in 1989. So it wasn’t outdated at the time the movie came out. But today is March 7, 2010. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-moments-in-crappy-films/530368.md?page=2)