Redeeming moments in otherwise "bad" movies...?

[west3man]

What's your movie and what's your moment?

Movie: Ms. Congeniality

Not a horrible flick, but not really worth a trip to the theater.

Redeeming moment: Ms. Bullock in that hip-huggin' dress. Yum.

Sorry. Nothing "deep," here. Just some good old-fashioned droolin'... as long as she didn't turn to the side, anyway.



The movie doesn't have to be total crap, just something you would've had a relatively poor opinion of, had it not been for one or two redeeming moments.


(toss in similar moment in "Heartbreakers.")

[Pól Rua]

In Mission Impossible 2, Anthony Hopkins is briefing Tom Cruise.
At one point, Cruise looks a little disgruntled.
Hopkins: "What's the problem."
Cruise: "This is going to be very difficult."
Hopkins: "Well, it's a good thing we're not Mission: Very Difficult."

Everything else is piss.

[bannermanonemillion]

Superman III

If you care about Superman OR Richard Pryor this movie HURTS.

However, the sequence where Clark/Evil Superman physically seperate and fight fight fight? Almost, ALMOST makes up for the crap before and after.

Almost.

[Calamas]

I was once forced to watch Two of a Kind. Yes, the John Travolta/Olivia Newton-John movie. And, yes, I went kicking and screaming. And though I would never admit it later, as bad as it was, it worth it for that one brief scene with Oliver Reed and Charles Durning by themselves, winking at each other in character and in reality, two professionals having realized what they had gotten themselves into. Money well spent after all.

[west3man]

I was once forced to watch Two of a Kind. Yes, the John Travolta/Olivia Newton-John movie. And, yes, I went kicking and screaming. And though I would never admit it later, as bad as it was, it worth it for that one brief scene with Oliver Reed and Charles Durning by themselves, winking at each other in character and in reality, two professionals having realized what they had gotten themselves into. Money well spent after all.
I'm not familiar with that situation. What HAD they gotten themselves into?

Mmmm. The scent of the 80's. Olivia Newton-John was an ooooold school crush. Yum.

[west3man]

The last action scenes in Equilibrium made it a flick worth seeing, despite its other flaws.

[Sanagi]

In the B-movie The Touch of Satan, whenever one of the characters talks to Satan, Satan talks back to them in an echo of their own voice. I thought that was a nice touch.

[west3man]

In the B-movie The Touch of Satan, whenever one of the characters talks to Satan, Satan talks back to them in an echo of their own voice. I thought that was a nice touch.
Neat idea.

[Bouncing Boy]

In the Corman produced, never officially released, Fantastic Four Film, the moment where Ben first says, "It's Clobberin' Time!" is pretty damn cool. The rest of the movie sucks.

[Bouncing Boy]

I was once forced to watch Two of a Kind. Yes, the John Travolta/Olivia Newton-John movie. And, yes, I went kicking and screaming. And though I would never admit it later, as bad as it was, it worth it for that one brief scene with Oliver Reed and Charles Durning by themselves, winking at each other in character and in reality, two professionals having realized what they had gotten themselves into. Money well spent after all.

Personally I thought any scene with Scatman Corothers in it was worth the price of admission.

[Bouncing Boy]

Superman III

If you care about Superman OR Richard Pryor this movie HURTS.

However, the sequence where Clark/Evil Superman physically seperate and fight fight fight? Almost, ALMOST makes up for the crap before and after.

Almost.

Yeah that was the best part of the movie, hands down. Some of the scenes in Smallville with Annette O'Toole as Lana were good too.

That actually makes me think of what I thought was the redeaming scene in Superman IV: The Quest for Peace. The Scene where Clark is trying to do a double date with Clark on a date with Mariel Hemmingway and Superman's on a date with Lois.

[Legato]

Fantastic Four

The interactions between The Thing and Human Torch was spot on from the comic. That's just about the only thing from the comic that they got right.

Jessica Alba looked hot as usual. Somtimes no matter how bad a movie is, when you have Jessica Alba appear in less clothing, you can sometimes overlook the badness in the film.

[Glaucon]

Star Wars Episode One

Redeeming aspect was Darth Maul. Everything else was avoidable.

[Corrina]

"Bye, Bye, Love."

The movie stars Paul Reiser and Matthew Modine and is about divorced men and their struggles to connect with their kids. It's okay (Reiser is annoying) but Randy Quaid and Janeane Garafola steal the show with the Worst.Date.Ever which also turns into the funniest date ever.

And the conclusion of their date is the funniest, as Quaid tracks down a talk show host (played by Rob Reiner) to talk about what's it like being divorced. As Garafola hears Quaid on the radio, she says "I love that man!"

Worth seeing this movie, just for the two of them.

[west3man]

I like all of these flix, now, but...

Fantastic Four - Alba in that outfit. LAWD

Ice Age - The sabretooth trying to cheer up the baby. HiLARious.

Madagascar - The penguins and "the king."

[StoneGold]

Doc Hollywood. Tepid Michael J. Fox comedy. But oh my god, TITTIES OUT OF NOWHERE!!!

[estee]

Superman III

If you care about Superman OR Richard Pryor this movie HURTS.

However, the sequence where Clark/Evil Superman physically seperate and fight fight fight? Almost, ALMOST makes up for the crap before and after.

Almost.


This entire movie is a guilty pleasure for me...I liked the over-the-top "Patton" impersonation Pryor did. Fricken hilarious.

[Loren]

Disney's "Home on the Range" was pretty disappointing, especially when considering that it's supposed to be the studio's last traditionally-animated feature. It wasn't bad, but it was basically dull.

The highlight of the film, though, is the villain's solo number (it's also the only song in the film that's sung by a character). It's Randy Quaid, voicing a cattle rustler named Alameda Slim. I don't want to spoil it too much, just in case anyone ever actually watches it, so I'll explain between the tags:

The song starts off kind of slow, deep, and ominous, and then turns into an upbeat yodeling song. Slim, it turns out, steals cattle by hypnotizing them with his yodeling. The song is called "Yodel-Adle-Eedle-Idle-Oo," and it's probably Alan Menken's best song on the soundtrack. It's all the more fun because this fun number is the villain's big number.

Equally importantly, when the yodeling starts, the animation turns very technicolor and wild, and can best be described as very similar to the old Winnie the Pooh "Heffalumps and Woozles" number. No other scene in the film quite lives up to this one.

And fun fact: Randy Quaid could sing well enough, but he can't yodel. So Disney brought in two professional yodelers to assist, and they spliced their voices together. What you hear in the end product is Quaid's consonants and the pros' vowels.

[SlightlyMad]

Jay & Silent Bob's 10 second appearance in Scream 3 is the only bit of that movie that is in any way entertaining, just because you get to go: "Oh look, it's Jay & Silent Bob" and forget about the rest of the crapfest for a few seconds. :eek:

[davids]

Batman, "This is why Superman works alone!" Rest of the movie major crap fest!

[Kolgrim]

For me it's gotta be the second Conan movie with Arnold. The entire movie is pretty brutal...however it does have one redeeming moment...

When Conan and his buddy are entering the city at the beginning of the movie, he pets a camel. This makes the camel pretty happy, and Conan's buddy says the camel probably remembers him from last time (the first Conan movie). Conan agrees and is also enjoying it...until the camel spits on him...Conan then punches out the camel! When I first saw this I thought I was going to die laughing.

[Grant]

I remember this crappy Geena Davis/Michael Keaton romantic comedy where they play politcal speech writers for two rival canidates and Christopher Reeve plays Geena Davis boyfriend. There's a part where he sings the "Hey Little Girl is your Daddy Home" line from Springsteens "I'm On Fire" to Geena Davis. It's one of the creepiest funniest things I ever seen.

And Propellor Guy in Titanic.

[GozertheGozarian]

Titanic has two redeeming spots. Kate Winslett getting wonderfully naked, and DiCaprio dieing.