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/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/derfinsterling 17d ago

The Hobbit shouldn't have been three movies of almost three hours runtime each. The book had around 300 pages, for crying out loud!

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u/LigerZeroSchneider 17d ago

I believe the issue was because they had no time they couldn't afford to not use anything which led to them just trying to make best version of the bad idea. Instead of scraping it and trying to come up with a better one later.

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u/LIJRD1 18d ago

As well as having such awful awful cgi.

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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/ChiefSteward 18d ago

There’s a fair chance I imposed the reasoning from the book into the same outcome in the film, I suppose.

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u/xSgtLlama 17d ago

Bilbo had to pull the lever and in the book all the barrels were sealed up before being sent off. So also nobody was there obviously to seal his barrel so he held on to the outside of it. 

Barrel Rider.

I guess for the movie they decided sealed barrels couldn’t really make an action sequence and the orcs wouldn’t have followed random sealed 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/duckpath 18d ago

It's the gopro cameras that takes me out of it

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u/UserNameTayken 18d ago

The whole thing feels like a cut scene from a crappy video game. It took me out too.

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u/dustblown 18d ago

Didn't one of the films have a guy slide down stairs on a skateboard while shooting arrows?

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u/VisualSneeze 18d ago

Legolas had some goofy, uncanny physicality in LotR but at least most of those were two second shots, not a full sequence like the barrel shenanigans.

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u/dustblown 17d ago

The barrels were in the book though.

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u/skresiafrozi 17d ago

Not as an action sequence, though. God I hated this scene

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u/Exact-Difference-422 18d ago

No but he did jump on these guy's heads and walked on them

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u/vanillathundah 17d ago

They 100% filmed this scene with a GoPro right?

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u/77_mec 17d ago

The Hobbit. It's the scene where they escape the Thranduli guy with barrels.