Scenes That Piss You Off

[Jeff Beachnau]

There was a recent article I saw posted on IMDb that talked about this so I figured it would be a good thread to share one's frustration.

I'll have to come up with some later, but here are a few recent ones that really got to me:

Flight - The hotel room at night - I mentioned this in my review and I won't give away much of the "spoilers", but the framing, the editing, and the writing in this scene in particular was just so obvious and over the top and horrible. The audience was extremely into this scene filled with gasps and applause and groans. I mainly just groaned.

Dark Shadows - Chloe Moretz's reveal at the end - I saw a test screening for this a couple months before the film was released and haven't seen the movie since, so I don't know if the scene has changed since then (I'm guessing it's exactly the same), and man, it was such a throwaway twist, and the line delivery was so awful.

Lovely Bones - Lord of the Rings poster - While the entire movie was extremely absurd and rancid, this scene in particular was so horrible. I don't mind when directors pay homage to their previous films if it's cleverly done, but man, Peter Jackson might as well have had the camera zoom in on the poster Lord of the Rings to reveal Golum inside the bookstore buying a copy of King Kong on DVD.

Saving Prive Ryan - the cemetery bookends - I know this has been discussed before in great length on this site (I think I may have started the conversation once before in a Bookends List thread), but yeah, this was just so tacked on and shoved the emotion down your throat. I'm surprised they didn't have a scene after the end of the character dying and him getting a 21 gun salute at the very same cemetery with his grave right next to other gravestone while all of the relatives place stones around it.

[BTN]

The whole ending of The Prestige. Why take sides at all?
Life as a House and the ending blackmail scene over the building- so contrived.

[Zuranthium]

The whole ending of The Prestige. Why take sides at all?

[Lonnie]

Peter Parker's bad dancing in Spider-Man 3.

[crazyfists3600]

Peter Parker's bad dancing in Spider-Man 3.

[Melllvar]

This:



On it's own, this song is just bad (no pun intended), but considering they took one of the most sad parts of the book (the destruction of the home of the Lorax), and reduced it to a brief montage while this piece of shit song, which lyrically is absolutely atrocious (you'd think a movie with songs based off a Dr. Seuss book would have some clever lyrics, but nope. Not here), is playing completely infuriated me. It's like the studio was afraid of even approaching anything that might upset children, so they sugarcoated it and treated them like attention-derived idiots. The absolute low point for one of the worst movies I've seen all year.

[Ceilidh-ann]

The final scene of Parenthood, where Ron Howard just gives up and smothers the audience in OTT saccharine sweetness. I love the film, it's one of my favourites, but I can't watch the ending, it spoils it a bit.

[OscarsFan 2.3]

The scene in "The Dark Knight Rises" where Daggett talks about the Clean Slate program to Catwoman. Exposition like that drives me nuts. Yes, Nolan has done exposition before in his scripts, but the way he did it in those felt natural whereas here, it was terribly worded and delivered and took me out of the story at that moment.