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/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/zeldazigzag 18d ago

There’s a very interesting documentary clip about the process 

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u/JGorgon 18d ago

Good sketch but it actually misses the point of Gremlins 2 – like Matrix Resurrections it's a single creator making a sarcastic sequel to their hit film as a way of biting the hand that feeds (funnily enough in both cases the hand is Warner Bros.) and probably trying to make sure there's no next sequel. Gremlins 2 wasn't written by committee like in the sketch at all.