What do you think is the stupidest movie scene ever?
If I had to choose the stupiest movie scene EVER, it would have to be from Battlefield Earth.
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It was the scene where that blond human has a gun to the Chief Psychlo villian and he says something like “If you had the gun pointed at me, I have no doubt that you would have killed me” or something like that. AND HE KNEELS DOWN AND GIVES THE GUN TO THE CHIEF PSYCHLO!!! I couldn’t even begin to comprehend why ANYONE would do that…I can only guess that that human knew that he couldn’t have won against the psychlo or something. GAH! I don’t know. The whole movie was stupid, it’s just that particular scene stood out in terms of stupidity.
I just saw my answer a few hours ago on HBO:
EXit Wounds:
First Steven Seagal blows up a helicopter with 3 - 4 shots from a 9 mm (I think that was the gun.)
Next, Steven Seagal and Some Druglord have a SWORDFIGHT in the middle of the drugfactory. During the fight the druglord somehow manages to do a flip attack out of Mortal Kombat or some other video game, and block a sword thrust with his bare hands.
Then he chases someone who is trying to climb up a rope ladder to a helicopter. But the ladder gets caught on a sprinkler pipe and the helicopter is stuck, until the badguy is halfway up the ladder, at which point the rope breaks and he conveniently lands on a pipe directly and gets impaled.
Meanwhile, DMX rigs a shotgun and some tape (I think it was tape) so that he can throw the gun in the air, and pull the tape down to fire the gun! Idiotic. Then, he impales bad guy #2 on a spike that is also conveniently in the house o’ cliches.
Did you watch the whole scene? He explains that he’s doing this so he can learn more about the Psychlos so that humans can exploit their weakness and drive them away from Earth. Other then that the whole movie was pretty much one stupid scene after another.
Hmmm…I don’t remember if I have. I do remember a speech being given and people cheering and then the guy giving the gun to the psychlo. Maybe I should watch it again. Eh…maybe…ehehe.
There was a scene in the movie “Species” with Natasha Henstridge that stands out in my memory; the alien woman is escaping, and they’re chasing her through the sewers; they reach a junction in the sewers, they look down one way, see a mess of body parts all over, and one of the guys exclaims, “I think she went this way!”. The whole movie theatre cracked up (it wasn’t intended as a joke).
In the thoroughly terrible Stallone movie (redundancy?) Cobra: the army of maniacal killers aerobicising using axes as free weights.
In Planet of the Apes: the huge roket explosion that blows the Apes hundreds of feet into the air. There’s a pause. The Apes get up, shake their heads and resume the attack. Then the humans attack them. Actually, there’s a lot more holes in this movie, but I’m getting ill thinking about it.
yojimboguy: Interesting trivia about how that Stallone flick Cobra came about. The producers of Beverly Hills Cop asked Stallone if he wanted to do their little action comedy. He said sure, but I need to rewrite the script. They said okay. Stallone went away and came back a couple of minutes later with a script laden with elaborate action and absolutely no comedy. He also wanted Axel Foley renamed Axel Cobretti. The producers said, um, thanks, but that’s not exactly what we were going for. Stallone said fine and left. The producers then went back to the old version, and hired Eddie Murphy on a whim. Stallone took most of the action scenes he had invented and built an entirely new movie, Cobra, around them. Eddie Murphy went on to become one of the biggest movie stars in the world, whereas Stallone is still trying to climb out of the toilet. Anyway, the point is, given that provenance – trying to build a storyline around pre-existing action scenes – there’s no wonder Cobra sucked as hard as it did. Thought you’d be interested…
I’d vote for Helen Hunt’s character in Twister shouting “RIGHT! LEFT! RIGHT!” as they’re getting farm equipment rained down on them.
Duh.
I kept waiting for Bill Paxton’s character to say “Really? Ya think? A *&^%$#@! combine just landed eight feet in front of us and I should swerve to avoid it? Thanks honey! Without you shrieking idiotic directions in my ear, I would never have thought to avoid that tractor in front of us.”
Main Character is fleeing the army base in a jeep, with other jeeps in hot persuit. Finally, it’s just down to him and one other jeep.
Main character somehow manages to force the other jeep off the road, where it rather slowly (no more that 20 MPH) drives out of controll through the brush, and makes contact with a small young tree that it could easily have driven right over had it been going faster.
Can you guess what happens?
Yup. The moment the front bumper makes contact, the jeep goes up in a huge fireball/explosion, not unlike Hanz Moleman’s Gremlin did in that episode of the Simpsons. I laughed out loud when I saw that.
Also in the same movie: Hero fights a whole team of Ninjas near the end of the film. Suddenly, one of them grips his own fists, makes a straining kind of look, and turns invisible!
Actually, I am seriously thinking of writing a long detailed review of American Ninja, since the stupidity factor is pretty darn high throughout.