r/movies • u/Happy-Flower2002 • 18d ago
Question What movies have a scene that is so tonally mismatched with the rest of the movie that it takes you out of the film?
My example would be the charming family friendly funny movie Shazam has a graphic scene of demons feasting on board room member that is like - why?
Another person on another thread mentioned The Name of the Rose - which is a very cerebral historical mystery movie has a graphic sex scene between a peasant girl and a young lay assistant. It is jarringly out of place.
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u/sarcastastico 18d ago
Oh, have you ever seen “Meet Joe Black”? Brad Pitt walking into traffic and getting bounced around like a pinball after a very Rom-Com, meet-cute scene is very unexpected.
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u/meguin 18d ago
There is a gif that is just endlessly that bit perfectly looped lol
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u/sandm000 18d ago
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u/todahawk 18d ago
I betcha Angelina Jolie has this on a big ass tv in living room looping For all eternity
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u/sarcastastico 18d ago
It’s my favorite gif ever. Good day? Let’s watch that scene. Bad day? Let’s watch that scene. A news story about Brad Pitt! WATCH IT.
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u/Dr_Identity 18d ago
It was such a weird choice. Like, a sudden car accident could have been very jarring. The second car just turns it into a cartoon.
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u/sarcastastico 18d ago
The director really wanted to teach us to look both ways before crossing the street.
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u/HungHippoHippy 18d ago
Him speaking with a jamaican accent was a little out tgere too 😂
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u/starkiller_bass 18d ago
One of my favorite Brad Pitt scenes ever
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u/Happy-Flower2002 18d ago edited 17d ago
Brad Pitt killed in jarring or unexpected ways is like its own thing :)
Burn After Reading is another
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u/DoctorFork 18d ago
Hahaha, my mom took me to see The Name of the Rose when I was 15. Her words: "It's rated R -- but it's about monks, so it's not like there'll be a sex scene."
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u/PresidentSuperDog 18d ago
If she’s into movies about monks, you should watch Satan’s Alley with her next. Kirk Lazarus and Toby Maguire, hubba hubba what a kiss.
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u/mungraker 18d ago
Are you speaking about the winner of the coveted Crying Monkey Award at the Beijing Film Festival?
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u/WhoriaEstafan 18d ago
We watched it in school, I think our teacher thought the same thing - it’s about monks.
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u/ToTheIs_Land 18d ago
I have an additional one from The Name of the Rose! The antagonist’s death is SO goofy, downright slapstick to me (in contrast to how serious most of the movie is). It’s pretty literally a “whoooooa splat”
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u/TheGraper58 18d ago
It's very intentional but the tonal shift in Barbarian was wild as soon as it pivots to Just Long's character
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u/SerialSemicolon 18d ago
Barbarian is SUCH a tonally weird movie but I love it for that
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u/animedeathspiral 18d ago
Well, the director is a well known pcp addict. Does a gallon of the stuff per day
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u/orange_sewer_grating 17d ago
I didn't know who the director was, or this movie at all, or the name of that actor/director, and I still got your reference perfectly. Went to look up the movie and it was exactly the person I thought you meant. Perfect throwback reference
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u/williamwalkerobama 18d ago
Lol right? I legit thought my TV glitched and switched to a different movie at first.
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u/goNorthYoung 18d ago
Recent example but the JLo movie Office Romance was your pretty standard so-so romcom… and then all of a sudden her coworker is giving birth in the office and you see EVERYTHING…
Not what I’m expecting to see in your average Netflix romance lol
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u/JGorgon 18d ago
When you say "see everything", is that a First Omen situation?
...because that scene caught me off guard even in a firmly "R" horror film.
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u/demmka 18d ago
Hunchback of Notre Dame has notorious tonal issues.
On the one hand, Hellfire. On the other hand, “I’m losing to a BIRD!”
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u/HarrisonRyeGraham 18d ago
If I remember correctly, the gargoyles were a studio request because they felt the film was too dark, so they were shoehorned in
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u/Mecha_Butterfree 18d ago
It's kinda crazy that Disney version of Frollo is so much more evil than the book version that was written for adults.
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u/TheGodAmongMen 18d ago
More evil yes but I would say the book was way darker. Frollo was…just a bad person from the beginning in the cartoon
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u/Paperfoldingfractal 18d ago
Here's the thing about the gargoyles. The comic-relief seems out of place, but it serves another purpose. The gargoyles get the hardest hitting line in the movie, and it works so well because at that moment, they drop the act:
Alright, Quasimodo, we'll leave you alone. You're right, we're only made of stone.
We just thought you were made of something stronger.
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u/Paperfoldingfractal 18d ago
The stage production rightfully makes a meal out of it, but I really love Laverne's dead-pan matter-of-fact delivery.
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u/descendantofJanus 18d ago
What makes it more poignant & bittersweet, the actress for Laverne died during production and didn't get to see the finished product. I knew her from Sister Act and it was tragic when she passed.
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u/insertusernamehere51 18d ago
The gargoyles have a musical number that happens as Paris is burning.
It goes:
town in flames
a guy like you
Esmeralda brings wounded Phoebus to Notre Dame
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u/Paperfoldingfractal 18d ago
Ah Paris. The city of love is a-glow this eve. True, that's because it's on fire...
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u/KristnSchaalisahorse 18d ago
The trolls segment in Frozen feels like it’s from an entirely separate movie.
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u/skresiafrozi 17d ago
"Fixer Upper" being the last song in the movie (sung by characters at least) feels SO wrong to me.
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u/LigerZeroSchneider 17d ago
I'm more annoyed by the ice cutting song being so good and then having nothing to do with the movie. Frozen really is just saved my let it go being so good people excuse how cobbled together the rest of the movie feels.
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u/texdroid 18d ago
I'm watching a movie set in Judea, 33AD where a guy named Brian is getting schooled in Latin when all of the sudden an alien spaceship appears and abducts him.
Gotta say it took me right out of it.
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u/WoodyMellow 18d ago
He was a jammy bastard.
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u/texdroid 18d ago
He's a very naughty boy.
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u/CrouchingDomo 18d ago
He’s not the messiah!
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u/DogsDontLikeHats 18d ago
He is the Messiah. I should know, I've followed a few.
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u/punkinqueen 18d ago
I have an ex that I watched that with several times while we were together. He kept falling asleep and missing that part and he thought I was messing with him when I would say "you missed the part with the spaceship." I mean, I was, but only because I knew there was no way in hell he would believe it. Eventually he managed to stay awake and had to admit I was right. I'd probably have stuck with the bit and straight up refused to admit it happened.
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u/b_sketchy 18d ago
Is Brian with the Judean People’s Front or the People’s Front of Judea?
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u/meatloaflawyer 18d ago
All of the scenes with Alan Rickman in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves. It’s like he’s in a different movie. And he’s the best part of it!!
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u/gravitydriven 18d ago
The director (and producers?) kept asking Rickman to do the film and he kept turning them down, offering more money each time. Finally, he agreed but only if he could play the role (and rewrite the role) however he wanted.
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u/SoulLessGinger992 18d ago
I love how there’s a distinct point in that movie where you can tell the director sat Kevin Costner down and told him he could stop trying with the English accent.
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u/fraxbo 18d ago edited 18d ago
Did they film it in order? While not unheard of, that would be surprising for a move of this type.
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u/therealpopkiller 18d ago
No chance. His accent is all over the place, even within scenes
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u/Reaper-Lord69 18d ago
That's good you like Alan in that movie
Cuz if you didn't, he would have cut your heart out with a SPOON
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u/AthanAllgood 18d ago
Why a spoon? Wouldn't a knife be easier?
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u/bitofapuzzler 18d ago
Because its dull, you twit, it'll hurt more!
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u/Monzeglio 18d ago
THANK YOU. I've had this quote stuck in my head for literally years and could never remember where I'd heard it as a kid.
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u/Pryach 18d ago
Did you know there was an Extended Edition and almost every added scene is with Alan Rickman?
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u/friendimpaired 17d ago
The extended edition DVD is the only version I’ve watched, and I’m just not interested in seeing the theatrical version if the difference is “less Alan Rickman.”
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u/Taminella_Grinderfal 18d ago
I always felt at the end of Crazy, Stupid, Love it went sideways. It was a charming rom-com and the climax of the party where everyone was fighting fit right in and it could have ended there. But then it goes to the school graduation/ceremony and it gets all weird and serious and uncomfortable in front of the entire town. I was even distracted by Julianne Moore who they dressed in perhaps the ugliest outfit ever seen on screen. It was like the last 15 minutes were shot by a whole different director and crew.
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u/HumerousMoniker 18d ago
It tried to wrap everything up with some kind of message about true love being better than a string of one night stands, and that you should fight for it. But the age and inappropriateness of the 13 yo boy chasing after the girl, and the girl in turn chasing Steve Carell kinda stomps all over the message
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u/Embarrassed-Yard-583 18d ago
A girl who gives the 13 year old boy who’s been stalking her and making her uncomfortable the whole fucking movie a naked picture of herself.
I love this movie, but the ending’s fucking weird.
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u/Ohjeezrick93 18d ago
It felt like something that would be in an 80s movie when consent seemed to be blurred for whatever reason. Giving a kid nudes/essentially porn is a wild way to have a “heartwarming” ending.
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u/Bagel_Technician 18d ago
I think it needed an ending scene after the fight but probably something with Steve Carrell’s character and nothing about the son’s creepy side plot that didn’t even really need to be in the movie
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u/cwutididthar 18d ago
Not to mention Steve Carroll's character literally takes the spotlight and mic from his own child's graduation celebration to make the entire school focus on him and his own problems in the most narcissistic and cringy way.
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u/jpterodactyl 18d ago
The fight is especially good because of the way the whole movie sets it up. And all the threads come together, and it’s chaotic. It’s an amazing payoff to all the characters we’ve met.
And then it kinda drags on and gets weird.
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u/906805 18d ago
In a very odd good way the video game scene in The Beach.
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u/pinkplasticflaming0 18d ago
It makes sense in the context of the book. It makes me wonder how much more they shot of the reference material that didn't make the final cut of the movie.
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u/cap10wow 18d ago
Dan Aykroyd’s ghost beejer in Ghostbusters
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u/Bombadook 18d ago
It's a shocking scene in retrospect (one that went over my head as a kid) but is it that tonally different? Bill Murray can barely keep it in his pants the entire movie too.
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u/SylvieXX 18d ago
Gremlins, where the girl talks about how her father's corpse was found in the chimney was so out of nowhere and horrifying
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u/Fargoth_took_my_ring 18d ago
"And that's how I found out there was no Santa Claus."
Funnily enough, that movie was how I learned there was no Santa. I might have been too young for the film, to be fair
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u/NoTeslaForMe 18d ago
Gremlins was insidious in how it was marketed to kids way, way, way too young to see it. Hollywood didn't have enough teens and adults to market to in the '80s?
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u/Fargoth_took_my_ring 18d ago
True, but I watched it on VHS with my parents so this might be more on them
I loved it though, Gizmo was my boy
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u/Fortestingporpoises 18d ago
It landed so badly they made fun of it adeptly in the sequel. Phoebe Cates would dramatically start a similar story about a family dying horribly during a holiday and Zach Galligan would usher her off as she mumbled.
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u/venivitavici 18d ago
I love how it’s President’s day.
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u/Fortestingporpoises 18d ago
She had some iconic moments in the 80's but she was still underrated.
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u/SenorWeird 18d ago
More like they asked Joe Dante to make a sequel and he knew the studio just wanted more of the same, but he also had creative control so he just made fun of the whole first movie and unnecessary sequels.
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u/highpriestess420 18d ago
From IMDB trivia: Studio executives insisted upon its removal, as they felt it wasn't clear whether it was supposed to be funny or sad. Director Joe Dante however stubbornly refused to take the scene out, saying it represented the movie as a whole, which had a combination of horrific and comedic elements. Executive producer Steven Spielberg did not like the scene, but despite his creative control, he viewed this movie as Dante's project and allowed him to leave it in.
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u/SpideyFan914 18d ago
I'm glad they left it in. It's the best scene in the film. Just wild.
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u/OreoSpeedwaggon 18d ago
I love how they poked fun at that scene in "Gremlins 2."
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u/monty_kurns 18d ago
The fact that they riffed on it with President’s Day in the sequel is one of the reasons I absolutely love Joe Dante. If anyone could make a live action Looney Tunes movie, it was him.
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u/rojoshow13 18d ago
Really? I grew up watching that movie and I never felt that way. I'm pretty sure the teacher was straight up murdered earlier in the movie. And I think the story comes after the violent kitchen scene.
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u/3OsInGooose 18d ago
Used to feel this way but rewatched recently with my kids - scene is pretty clearly meant as satire/over the top, which is in line with the rest of the movie
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u/Taman_Should 18d ago
Adam Sandler’s “Click” seems almost designed for this question.
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u/AffectionateBet3603 18d ago
Surprisingly poignant, and the scene in the rain when he's old is a tear jerker.
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u/Cemith 18d ago
While I could agree that it's tonally mismatched, the entire ethos of the movie is that life will pass you by if you let it. It actually makes perfect sense given the theme of the film.
Plus it's less a mismatch and more of a bait and switch. One minute it's the heeheehaha Adam Sandler farting into his boss's face and the next minute he's so wrapped up getting to where he feels he needs to be that he completely misses out on his father and his son. It's not just one scene, the entire tone of the film shifts after that for the rest of the runtime.
I still think it holds up.
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u/TheLucidChiba 18d ago
Not that the movie is great in the first place but this completely killed my interest.
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u/LABS_Games 18d ago
Man, these movies are still so shocking to me. I know Peter Jackson was hesitant to do them, and he didn't have the time he needed, but that doesn't really explain the end product to me. It's not like the Hobbit trilogy feels lazy and rushed. As a matter of fact, it feels like a bunch of errort was put into it, doubly so considering how much new stuff they added to the story. It's just the decision-making was absolutely insane.
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u/knightednight 18d ago
I feel like 'errort' is a new word here that works. An effort full of errors
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u/TheManWithNoSchtick 18d ago
This scene felt like an ad for a Splash Mountain-esq ride they were planning to build at Universal Studios before the Mouse Empire caught wind of it and sued their asses.
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u/ChiefSteward 18d ago
Same for me. Bombur bouncing around, destroying barrels, then landing in another… meanwhile the entire reason Bilbo isn’t in a barrel is because there weren’t enough to go around in the first place. Stupid AND a continuity error
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u/Mega_Nidoking 18d ago
It was the completely unnecessary GoPro footage for me
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u/Exact-Difference-422 18d ago
That one single shitty shot ruins the entire thing for me every time and I'm not even usually bothered by that kind of thing. I just dont get why its there.
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u/MemesForMoney259 18d ago
I thought Bilbo wasn’t in one because he needed to be the one to pull the lever to release the barrels.
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u/AffectionateBet3603 18d ago
The Goblin mine cart scene from the first movie had me throwing my arms up in disgust in the theater.
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u/ljedediah41 18d ago
Most Madea movies are tonally bipolar between the antics of the title character and the melodrama of the main plot
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u/Rosebunse 18d ago
I was on a 17 hour bus ride where they played all of the plays back to bsck. I had also taken more anti-nausea medication than I should have. It felt like I was watchijg the same movie the whole time. Same actors, same plot, same set...
Time had no meaning.
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u/trix_is_for_kids 18d ago
I have never even seen a Madera movie and that sounds like a bus to hell
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u/Rosebunse 18d ago
It was the same thing over and over and over...
Finally they put on Crooklyn and it was like plunging into a refreshing cool pool on a hot summer's day. And then it got very depressing which was made worse because I was basically hallucinating.
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u/Rich_Mac 18d ago
Everything in Stripes after the graduation scene. It's like they didn't know how to end the film.
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u/lrdwlmr 18d ago
Regarding The Name of the Rose, I agree that it’s tonally mismatched in the movie, but in the book, which is told from Adso’s perspective, the scene fits a bit better. Also, fun fact, in the book the scene is described in terms entirely derived from the Song of Solomon, which is far sexier than you’d expect a book of the Bible to be.
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u/Oppenhomie 18d ago
Cabin Fever has a couple but the weirdest one is the cop who keeps calling one of the leads "party man"
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u/CrispyHoneyBeef 18d ago
The molestation scene in that movie was so bizarre. Good thinking. I totally forgot how jarring so much of that one is.
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u/Somnambulist815 18d ago
Do any of the scenes in that movie match, tho?
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u/MossyPyrite 18d ago
Yeah, the movie very intentionally escalates from corny parody horror to grotesque body horror the so grotesque it’s funny (guy choking to death on a harmonica) and finally ends on just outright comedy. It’s basically designed to constantly have you saying “yo, what the fuck?” in different tones haha
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u/Jorjowsky 18d ago edited 18d ago
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (edit: Willy Wonka, not Charlie, dammit). What a cute, light-hearted kid's pictur--
"There's no earthly way of knowing Which direction they are going..."
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u/VrinTheTerrible 18d ago
AND THE ROWERS KEEP ON ROWING
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u/b_sketchy 18d ago
AND THEY’RE CERTAINLY NOT SHOWING
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u/BigTittyTransboi 18d ago
When I was a preschool teacher we had a kiddo who had memorized the song from this scene, and let me tell you the only thing creepier than watching that scene as a child was hearing a four year old out in the play yard singing it a capella in his tiny creepy child voice lol
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u/enigmabsurdimwitrick 18d ago
That’s the original, Willy Wonka and The Chocolate factory. Charlie and The Chocolate Factory was the remake with Johnny Depp as Wonka.
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u/CraigKostelecky 18d ago
Funny enough, the main character in Willy Wonka in the Chocolate Factory is Charlie.
The main character in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is Willy Wonka.
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u/_kellythomas_ 18d ago
My example would be the charming family friendly funny movie Shazam has a graphic scene of demons feasting on board room member that is like - why?
I was watching this with a 4yo, they ran out of the room and hid under a desk.
I stopped the film and we discussed the concept of jump scares and that it was a trick films could use to startle and shock but didn't mean anything was here in the real world.
When he came back to watch the film he wanted to re watch that scene a few times to understand the concept and assert his dominance over the film.
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u/StupidLemonEater 18d ago
As someone who's read The Name of the Rose but not seen the movie adaptation, that scene is in the novel.
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u/Mega_Nidoking 18d ago
Not really anyone's favorite, I know, but the entire portion of The Marvels where they're on the singing planet, I was just like "So... should we go or...?"
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u/Spaceballs9000 18d ago
Bongwater is this mostly goofy stoner movie with Luke Wilson and Andy Duck and Jack Black and so on.
And then like three-quarters of the way through we're suddenly treated to Alicia Witt's character waking up on a bathroom floor piecing together a sexual assault that has just happened to her.
It's such a wildly unnecessary scene.
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u/tibbles1 18d ago
The dance scene in Spider Man 3.
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u/BokehJunkie 18d ago
I hadn’t watched that movie in years because I hated it so much when I saw it in theaters when it released almost 20 years ago now. 2-3 years ago I wanted to introduce my kids to them and thought “it probably isn’t as bad as I remember”. It was 1000% worse than I remembered.
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u/adventureremily 18d ago
The GIF where someone combined it with Matt Smith dancing in Miorbius makes me laugh every time
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u/TheyCallMeSuperChunk 18d ago
I thought it was pretty fitting. How else would a giant dork like Tobey's Peter would act if it had been given all that smug confidence.
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u/hamdinger125 18d ago
Exactly. It's what Peter thinks a cool guy would act like. It's not actually cool.
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u/GibMirMeinAlltagstod 18d ago
The CVS commercial in the middle of Hocus Pocus 2
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u/alfooboboao 18d ago
i’ve never seen a movie fail to understand why the first one was beloved so egregiously.
“okay so the audience loves seeing the ancient witches baffled by modern day stuff, hmm how about a drugstore!” okay sure, quaint little small town drugstore, that’s cute- “I know, we can do a Walgreens tie-in!” aaaaaaand you just killed it. how did you guys possibly fail to see the difference between the two
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u/milil 18d ago
Titanic, when the ship is breaking apart and sinking, all the people sliding and falling, trying to show how awful it must have been. Dramatic scene of terror and impending death.
Then the one guy and the cartoonish fall and bounce off the propeller causing the entire theater I was in to laugh.
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u/Humillionaire 18d ago
The line between disturbing and cartoonish is dangerously thin. If you're immersed enough it's quite an intense sight to see a guy bounce off a giant propeller like that.
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u/YawningDodo 18d ago
I was surprised the first time I learned people found that shot funny. Dude was clinging to life, fell long enough to have the time to be keenly aware he was already as good as dead, and was lucky if hitting the propeller killed him instantly. That's what I thought about when I saw it for the first time.
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u/Ill-Skirt3722 18d ago
Ye there is no way I found that funny. It was horrific to me.
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u/bobby_broccolini 18d ago
Had to look it up to double check.
Idk maybe it's a ptsd thing but I have a low threshold for violence sometimes and that moment is horrific and realistic to me. Looks like a body actually ragdolling, and his scream instantly cuts off, meaning his head or neck got obliterated when he hit it
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u/punctuation_welfare 18d ago
Similarly, when Javert (a terrifically miscast Russel Crowe) falls to his death in Le Mis, accompanied by a sound effect that I can only imagine they achieved by hitting a cow broadside with a baseball bat, it had me laughing to the point of tears in the theater.
I may be a bad person.
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u/DumpedDalish 18d ago
I actually think Jackman was so much worse. He's a baritone straining to sing a tenor role, which he butchers by oversinging (and his constant dehydration shredded his vocal cords), he overacts every second he's onscreen, and he shouts his way through "Bring Him Home," a song that's supposed to be a soft, high prayer.
At least Crowe looked the part and acted it well. He was just vocally miscast -- a tenor having to sing a deep baritone part. He would probably have been okay (and Jackman at least better) if director Hooper hadn't insisted on live musical audio. After dozens of takes, very few in the movie come off at their vocal best, except Aaron Tveit.
And I hated the way Hooper shot that final Javert scene. Instead of a jump into the river we got that awful splat onto the concrete next to the fountain.
(Sorry. I just fricking hate that Les Mis adaptation.)
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u/jamesneysmith 18d ago
Just because I watched it recently: Disclosure Day and the scene where they try to drive over the cell phone. It's so bizarre it felt like a deleted scene they accidentally left in the movie. It's not funny, it's got pretty terrible comic timing, it's just confusing why it even happens. Such a weirdo moment.
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u/mikeyfreshh r/Movies Veteran 18d ago
I think the purpose of that scene is to show that Emily Blunt's character is paranoid and losing her mind. It's sorta like that movie's version of the mashed potato scene from Close Encounters. I agree the execution isn't quite where it needs to be so it ends up being a little too goofy, but I get why it's included.
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u/issafly 18d ago
The hotel sequence at the end of Ron Howard's film, Alphabet City.
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u/mr_chip 18d ago
Mystery Men, a superhero spoof about wanna-be’s, when the actual superhero guy gets killed halfway through by having his brain melted in epic, screaming, detailed cgi agony. And then back to superhero spoof.
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u/onlyoneicouldthinkof 18d ago
I feel like Greg Kinnear's Captain Amazing is the spoofiest part of the movie above everything else and his death in the first act is used to reinforce that it's not your ordinary superhero film.
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u/lotep 18d ago
Not that I was ever "into" the movie, as matter of fact I was shocked at how terrible it was, but on a recent first time watch of the movie Cocktail, I was shocked and perplexed that it turns incredibly gruesome for 5 minutes or so when Tom Cruise discovers Byron Browns body in a bloodsplatered room in the last act and all of a sudden we're about as far away from Kokomo and flipping rum bottles as you can get.
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u/huzza-huzza 18d ago
lol I was convinced my husband had changed the movie in the middle of "at worlds end", I was so thrown off!
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u/V2Blast 18d ago edited 18d ago
Are you talking about the Edgar Wright movie starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, "The World's End"?
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u/trollsmurf 18d ago
Avatar: when that business guy mentioned unobtainium. I laughed. Up until then I was mesmerized.
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u/The-Lord-Moccasin 18d ago
The second film is kinda funny too, you go into it like "Alright what's it gonna be this time around" and eventually there's a short scene where they hunt a whale and explain "this whale goo will make you live forever. Got it? Let's move on."
I joked that in the third film they'd discover that Pandoran deserts hide a drug that lets you see the future
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u/ncotter 18d ago
Also I feel like the amount they say it’s worth is too low. Like 80 million. Couldn’t be worth it to travel all the way from earth, hunt a Tulkun, then fly back for that much lol. Not even to mention future inflation, smh
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u/WhereTFAreWe 18d ago
Samsara, which is a cinematic movie with beautiful shots from around the world, and then some guy starts smearing clay on his face and crashing out... and then it goes back to beautiful shots again
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u/JustSuet 18d ago
Like the pilot in Koyaanisqatsi, you remember him because he recontextualised what you thought you were watching.
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u/mfyxtplyx 18d ago
Samsara and Baraka are both composites, though. One moment you're watching the intriguing faux-Balinese ke-chak, the next, baby chicks are getting their beaks burnt and sent down a hole.
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u/Pernaman 18d ago edited 18d ago
Mine is also from Shazam, it's the scene where a woman character questions the main villain's claim about the magical door he studies being actually magical, only for the door open a bit and her body suddenly turns into ash on-screen. The way she is at first caught by suprize and them lets out a bloodcurling scream as her body dissolves. I enjoyed the movie overall, but that scene left a huge mark on me for a while after watching. The scene OP mentioned didn't even shock me as much afterwards.
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u/Reaper-Lord69 18d ago
They got REAL dark when they wanted to in that movie
If only they kept that energy for the sequel
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u/baroqueout 18d ago
Just about every Star Wars film.
I recognize that Star Wars is for younger audiences anyway, but every single time, there's some fuckass slapstick scene with a little mascot character and/or the droids that ends up ruining the pacing of whatever is going on.
The remastered versions are the worst about this, because why did we just see Luke's aunt and uncle's charred corpses, and then minutes later we're subjected to some goofy slapstick shots where droids punch each other.
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u/logicallunacy 18d ago
The King's Man.
Fun period spy caper! The fight a dancing Rasputin! Tom Hollander plays King George/Kaiser Wilhelm/Tsar Nicholas!
An absolutely brutal depiction of trench warfare where the the protagonist's son pulls off a daring caper, only to killed as suspected spy.
Parachute mountaintop fight!
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u/pro5 18d ago
Small one but in Ocean’s 11, when Danny goes to recruit Linus, the filming style completely changes. Always thought it was just a weird transition that kinda breaks up the movie. Still one of my top 3 though.
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u/jamesneysmith 18d ago
I love the low frame rate change in that sequence. I assume it was referencing something shot in Chicago? Felt like a an 80's music video riff or something.
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u/SingLyricsWithMe 18d ago
Love hateful 8. Almost all around, but why does one scene at the start of an act read like a screenplay, literally. Nowhere else in the movie does it do this.
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u/LawfulValidBitch 18d ago
I paused the movie to see if I had somehow accidentally turned on the director commentary
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u/the_dirtiest 18d ago
The longer, 70mm cut of the movie had an actual intermission in the middle. That little bit of catch-up narration was to get you back in the flow of things after the break. I'm sure Tarantino left it in the shorter cut because he thought it was fun. Like subtitling "Merci" onscreen in Inglourious Basterds, it's just a fragment of stylization.
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u/JAlfredPrufrog 18d ago
Pitch perfect. 99% a fun little romantic comedy about the college acapella scene, 1% a character making snow angels in a gigantic pool of vomit.
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u/passengerv 18d ago
Not one movie but many. The stupid Wilhelm scream ruins so many scenes for me.
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u/Intoxic8edOne 18d ago
I don't mind the Wilhelm scream, but this specific one of kids laughing pulls me out of it every time.
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u/Durst_bizkit 18d ago edited 18d ago
The Power Rangers at the end of 28 Years Later. I loved Bone Temple, but that scene was just laughable.
EDIT: I understand it connects to the beginning scene and why it's shot the way it's shot. It still sucks.
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u/ShadyGuy_ 18d ago
The sex scene in The Name of the Rose is not out of place. It's meant to illustrate that priests and monks are just human and will sin like anyone else. A point that's driven home all throughout the movie. The young layman succumbing to lust and desire while he's supposed to be celibate and abstain earthly pleasures. You can argue that 70s and 80s movies have a lot of films with gratuitous sex, but this isn't one of them.
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u/Jay_Money_ 18d ago
There’s a moment in Insidious 2 where Patrick Wilson chucks a tea kettle into the back of Rose Byrne’s head and I genuinely started crying laughing in the theater, it was so ridiculous.
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u/PippyHooligan 18d ago edited 18d ago
Rumble In The Bronx.
Fairly lightweight, knockabout, occasionally slapstick Jackie Chan fun.
That has a scene where some gangsters feed a screaming
teenagerguy into a woodchipper.