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Greenhornet
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
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 Posted - 03/03/2009 : 7:11:11 PM
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There are some scenes in movies that make you scream "Wiskey Tango Foxtrot?!". These are the scenes that make no bloody sense, even by the standards set up in the movie!
Here are a couple of examples:
Dungeons and Dragons
After spending several reels treating the "hero" like the jerk he is, the leading lady confesses her love for him even though she was pointing out his incompetence just seconds ago.
Teen Witch
This was a musical, so we expected to see several kids suddenly start singing and dancing. Yet the cast would look at the three guys who would RAP at the drop of a hat as if they were INSANE. In fact, they would comment about it, even though they acted as if the other musical numbers never happened.
"The Queen is testing poisons." CLEOPATRA, 1935 |
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Capt. Nemo
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
630 Posts |
Posted - 03/03/2009 : 11:31:49 PM
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Blues Brothers 2000
There was a scene were the Bluesmobile was supposed to drive underwater without oxygen. I remember thinking to myself at the time that it was a special kind of hubris to think that an audience would accept this.
But that was nothing..
When the time came to have the police car pileup(we, myself and the audience I was with, knew it was coming), we were in for a nasty shock.
When the police cars started to pile up, people in the audience were beginning to yell "Yeah" and there were a few whoops. But as the scene went on and on and on, the audience fell silent. And everything was thinking the same thing: "This is STUPID!"
In the original movie, a fig leaf was given that the cops couldn't see the pileup they were getting in to because it was happening behind the crest of a hill. So they didn't have much time to hit the brakes. In the Blue Brother 2000 movie, people were wondering why the hell the cops weren't using their brakes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EZZSlY2bYs
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"Ward, the Beaver blew up the 7-11 again."
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hbrennan
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Philippines
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Posted - 03/04/2009 : 02:54:59 AM
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I've noticed that a lot of nonsensical scenes have resulted from poor editing.
"...yet it hadn't destroyed his brain."
re: Charles "The Butcher" Benton (1956)
http://www.henrybrennan.com/
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Ericb
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
648 Posts |
Posted - 03/04/2009 : 06:49:05 AM
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Star Crystal. This move transforms from an Alien ripoff into an E.T. ripoff so fast that it will give you whiplash. What, it doesn't make any sense for the two surviving crewmwmbers to become buddies with the creature that slaughtered all their companions? Who knew?
http://www.coldfusionvideo.com/archives/star-crystal-1986/
"I am Temujin ... Barbarian ... I fight! I love! I conquer ... like a Barbarian!" |
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Neville
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Spain
1590 Posts |
Posted - 03/04/2009 : 08:00:05 AM
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Tank girl. The whole movie is very wild, so at the very end of it you'd pretty much think you've seen it all and that nothing can surprise you anymore. But no. The final battle starts, Tank Girl inside her tank and Malcolm McDowell and his big mech arm. But Tank girl runs out of shells, and she starts loading the tank's main cannon with beer cans. No kidding.
Ghost rider. This has been discussed before, but being a big Hollywood film increases the WTF factor a lot. The Ghost Rider has met a previous encarnation of the Ghost Rider, an aging cowboy (Sam Elliot). They both ride to the site of the final battle, which allows for some beautiful western-ish imagery. But then, when they both arrive to their destination, the cowboy refuses to help the Ghost Rider anymore, leaving him to face his enemies on his own. |
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Capt. Nemo
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
630 Posts |
Posted - 03/05/2009 : 12:22:56 AM
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The ending of Femme Fatale.
I can't belieeeeve that somebody thought that ending was clever.
If ever the term "out of left field" ever applied, that would be it.
No wonder Brian De Palma is on the outs.
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"Ward, the Beaver blew up the 7-11 again."
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andy80
Diocesan Ecclesiarch of the Sacred Order of Jabootu
81 Posts |
Posted - 03/05/2009 : 01:23:46 AM
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| This is about the book not the movie, but the very end of Stephen King's It where all the boys gangbang the girl. Ya thats just wrong. |
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Cannon Fodder
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
Australia
176 Posts |
Posted - 03/05/2009 : 03:56:58 AM
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| Jaws: The Revenge There's a lot that's baffling in this movie but the exploding shark in the climax takes the cake and runs with it. |
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The Rev. D.D.
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
203 Posts |
Posted - 03/05/2009 : 09:29:13 AM
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Just about every minute of Funky Forest is like this, but the one in particular that is really a "WTF!?!" moment is the one where some guy plugs a girl's belly button into a TV, then yanks off the back panel and pulls a foot-high sushi chef from what, for all intents and purposes, appears to be a rather large rectum in the back of the TV.
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Seriously, what the f--- do you say after seeing that? |
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BT
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
USA
168 Posts |
Posted - 03/05/2009 : 09:43:13 AM
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2 that come immediately to mind. Obviously spoilers ensue:
"The Prestige", where the mystery of how a magician accomplishes a seemingly impossible trick is explained by the fact that he is using.... a magical device that doesn't really exist.
"No Way Out" in which a fake Russian mole name "Yuri" is invented to be the fall guy for an accidental murder perpetrated by the Secretary of Defense. Since Kevin Costner knows what really happened, the SOD's assistant spends the movie trying to frame Costner as "Yuri". At the end of the film, everything is sorted out, and the bad guys get what's coming to them. Then it's revealed....Costner is a Russian mole named "Yuri". So the bad guys create a random bad guy out of thin air, but just HAPPEN to be correct when they try to hang that description on Costner. It was as if they decided to blame the murder on a midget trombone player, and at the end Billy Barty walks up playing a trombone.
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Neville
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
Spain
1590 Posts |
Posted - 03/05/2009 : 2:46:38 PM
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| It's a good movie... I think. But watching James Woods making out with a TV in Videodrome is something I don't wish to revisit anytime soon. Gross! |
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RossM
Holy Cardinal and Five Star General of the Righteous Knighthood of Jabootu
USA
427 Posts |
Posted - 03/06/2009 : 09:17:16 AM
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The tag at the end of No Way Out is truly strange and cuts against everything we just saw. We know who the killer is, we saw him do it. Even if Costner was a spy its irrelevant to the movie. Its a true WTF moment. Were the film makers just trying to be cute? Anyway The Big Clock did a lot more with a lot less and is far better.
A favorite of mine is in Basic Instinct when Michael Douglas races all across San Fransisco in a matter of seconds. I drove that route once just to see how long it would take. It actually took about 50 minutes with rather light traffic. Superman could not have gotten there that fast. Actually all the red herrings and false starts and false stops in that movie make the entire movie a WTF moment.
In Batman and Robin Mr. Freeze crashes his car into a penthouse party. As the boys over at Rifftrax point out: Its a penthouse party! How did the car get up there? |
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BT
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
USA
168 Posts |
Posted - 03/06/2009 : 10:15:15 AM
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| This holds true for a lot of his movies, but I was REALLY enjoying M. Night's "The Village" until the EXACT moment when Bill Hurt opens the door to show us the monster outfits. I'm not 100 percent sure it's a WTF moment, but I went from loving the movie to hating it in 5 seconds. This was exacerbated by the ending when Ron Howard's daughter is left sounding like a really committed Medieval Times waitress when she is speaking Olde-Timey English to the park ranger. |
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