# Tell us about scenes you love from movies you hate. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 4, 2011, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-scenes-you-love-from-movies-you-hate/598566 "2011-10-04T16:20:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sam\_A.Robrin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sam_a.robrin/32/14497_2.png) [@Sam\_A.Robrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_A.Robrin)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-scenes-you-love-from-movies-you-hate/598566/21 "2011-10-04T21:17:44Z")
_Straight Time_, with Dustin Hoffman, is terrific, and well worth the rental if you just watch up to the part where he deals with his parole officer. After that, it’s a thorough waste of time, one damned thing after another leading up to a 1970s-era pseudo-profundity. Except maybe for a remarkably appealing Theresa Russell, from before she developed the flavorless taint of Hollywood glamour. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-scenes-you-love-from-movies-you-hate/598566/22 "2011-10-04T21:18:34Z")
[QUOTE=Skald the Rhymer;14323590 \ I can’t say I disliked _Avatar_, as I was so bored by it I couldn’t finish. I bailed out after about 30 minutes, when I realized that I simply didn’t care what happened to the lead character.[/QUOTE] The Rifftraxed version of Avatar is far better than the one without the rifftrax enhancement, makes an overly preachy movie much funnier ---
**Author:** ![runcible\_spoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc29f/32.png) [@runcible\_spoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/runcible_spoon)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-scenes-you-love-from-movies-you-hate/598566/23 "2011-10-04T21:21:27Z")
As fond as I am of John Cusack, America’s Sweethearts was just painful. However, the scene where he meets Zeta-Jones’s character on the hill, and she asks, “Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?”, and he says, “No, it’s a gun” and shoots her like ten times? Brilliant. Even if it is just a stupid dream ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-scenes-you-love-from-movies-you-hate/598566/24 "2011-10-04T21:22:03Z")
I imagine the opening scene of “_The way of the gun_” will be a popular choice here. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-scenes-you-love-from-movies-you-hate/598566/25 "2011-10-04T21:29:50Z")
Pretty much all of Christopher Walken’s scenes in “Balls of Fury.” The movies sucked, well, balls, but he was fuckin’ hilarious in it. ---
**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-scenes-you-love-from-movies-you-hate/598566/26 "2011-10-04T21:31:17Z")
I’ll put up with parts of Pirates 2, 4, & even 3 if I can just skip to some of Johnny Depp’s brilliant moments ---
**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:** [October 4, 2011, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-scenes-you-love-from-movies-you-hate/598566/27 "2011-10-04T21:33:10Z")
I pretty much loathe the entire Matrix trilogy. The verbal doubletalk nonsense gives me a migraine and the hand to hand combat is cheesey. But I will stop to watch the freeway chase scene from the second film. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-scenes-you-love-from-movies-you-hate/598566/28 "2011-10-04T21:36:56Z")
> [@MacTech](#): > > The Rifftraxed version of Avatar is far better than the one without the rifftrax enhancement, makes an overly preachy movie much funnier I don’t know what rifftrax is. Anyway, I stopped watching when what’s his name (Sully? the wheelchair guy) went into the forest. ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-scenes-you-love-from-movies-you-hate/598566/29 "2011-10-04T21:38:24Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > Well I don’t really like the movie _Up_ at all, but the first 4-5 minutes is absolute genius. From childhood to old age in that remarkably sweet, tender, but not saccharine manner. Beautiful. I liked the whole movie though. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-scenes-you-love-from-movies-you-hate/598566/30 "2011-10-04T21:40:18Z")
_Bottle Shock_ is a terrible movie except for any scene that has Alan Rickman in it. Which is only about 20 minutes total. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-scenes-you-love-from-movies-you-hate/598566/31 "2011-10-04T21:41:44Z")
_Alien: Ressurection_ was a horrible film, but it had two great scenes: the lab full of failed clones, and the xenomorphs swimming under water. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-scenes-you-love-from-movies-you-hate/598566/32 "2011-10-04T22:46:18Z")
> [@](#): > > I don’t know what rifftrax is. Is this serious, or is it another **Rhymer** affectation? ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-scenes-you-love-from-movies-you-hate/598566/33 "2011-10-04T22:49:59Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Is this serious, or is it another **Rhymer** affectation? I know what it is now. I looked it up on Google. But I didn’t when I wrote that, and I didn’t Google it first because if I had I wouldn’t have been able to go all Temperance Brennan on y’all. I also do not know what the big deal about the infield fly rule is and how it is distinct from the designated hitter rule, which I understand from overheard comments at work sucks eggs. ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-scenes-you-love-from-movies-you-hate/598566/34 "2011-10-05T05:29:49Z")
I don’t know of many who like Full Metal Jacket beyond the boot camp scenes. One however must admire that leather-miniskirted hooker (“Me so horny!”) and that crazy door gunner (“Anyone who runs… is a VC! Anyone who stands still… is a WELL-DISCIPLINED VC!”). What do we get for ten dollars? ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-scenes-you-love-from-movies-you-hate/598566/35 "2011-10-05T06:45:42Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > I’d never seen him in anything other than the _Downfall_ parodies, but now I really want to see more movies with him. _Wings of Desire (Der Himmel über Berlin)_. One of the top 5 films ever made. He’s the lead. Watch it. I hated _Attack of the Clones_, but all the solo Obi-Wan scenes were cool. I think the prequels should have been all about Obi-Wan, I could watch Ewan McGregor for hours. I didn’t like _Gangs of New York_, but I liked the opening gang fight. ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-scenes-you-love-from-movies-you-hate/598566/36 "2011-10-05T07:41:17Z")
Karate Kid (1984) I hate the movie, especially the main protagonist. He’s a whiny passive-aggressive little sh#t who pretty much invites the bullying. First he picks a fight with the main bully on the beach by injecting himself into what is obviously an emotionally charged argument between a couple he doesn’t even know. At soccer practice he gets tossed off the the team for throwing a punch at one of the other kids who had fouled him. Then at the dance our Genius-san decides to prank the head bully dude with a hose. And running away! You know, by this point I was pretty much rooting for the Cobra Kai. Anyway, I love, love, love the scene with Mr. Miyagi (Pat Morita) on the anniversary of his marriage to his late wife who died in a California internment camp while he was off fighting with the 442nd RCT: What are we celebrating here? Anniversary. Whose anniversary? (looking at picture) Is this your wife? I didn’t know you were married. Damn beautiful, don’t you think? Yeah, she’s pretty. First time I saw her was cane field, Hawaii. Beautiful! Damn good cane cutter, too! Where is she now? Drink, drink, Daniel-san. Look, look. (picture of pregnant wife) First American-born Miyagi waiting to be born. Drink, drink. (Miyagi talking to himself): _"Sergeant Miyagi! “Yes, sir! Sergeant Miyagi reporting. Killed many Jerry Germans, sir.” “Sergeant Miyagi.” “Yes, sir.” “Regret to inform wife have complications at birth.”_ Complications. No doctor came. Land of free, home of brave. No doctor came. (Miyagi passes out) ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-scenes-you-love-from-movies-you-hate/598566/37 "2011-10-05T08:41:26Z")
I didn’t hate Revenge of the Sith, but the montage where the clones all suddenly turn on the Jedi is FAR better than the rest of the mostly mediocre movie, and most of the final fight scene is brilliant. ---
**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:** [October 5, 2011, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-scenes-you-love-from-movies-you-hate/598566/38 "2011-10-05T11:31:22Z")
Star Trek: Generations is a bad movie all round, but the crash of the Enterprise is a beautiful piece of cinema. The 1967 version of Casino Royale is bad, apart from Burt Bacharach’s music. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-scenes-you-love-from-movies-you-hate/598566/39 "2011-10-05T12:42:17Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > I didn’t care much for that either. Pulled me right out of the movie. I’m willing to accept a lot in a movie, a fantasy/adventure movie especially, but seriously I’m supposed to believe there are people living on the summits of some of the tallest mountains keeping watch 24/7 waiting for the once-in-several-generations chance that the other beacons are lit? > > I’m aware it’s different in the books, but the portrayal of the beacons in the movie were ludicrous. At least one of them was above the cloud level! 😕 But… I’ve seen beacon towers set up like that. Mind you, most of them wouldn’t have the same people all the time, but it was a very common setup on mountain ridges and rocky shores in Spain throughout the Middle Ages and later. They were like lighthouses, but used to give warning of attack rather than to provide ships with guidance. One of the first “grown-up” duties of elder children, and one of the duties left to maimed men, was lookout on beacon towers. The movie’s setup is exaggerated but hellOOOOO, the whole thing is! ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-scenes-you-love-from-movies-you-hate/598566/40 "2011-10-05T13:09:05Z")
I’ve mentioned this before here but Levon Helm’s scene in the otherwise cut-rate _Shooter_ absolutely crackles. Mark Wahlberg is decent, Danny Glover and Ned Beatty phone it in and Michael Pena needs to be punched in the face repeatedly for a terrible performance but Helm, who is onscreen for all of about four minutes, is fantastic. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-scenes-you-love-from-movies-you-hate/598566.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-about-scenes-you-love-from-movies-you-hate/598566.md?page=3)