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9 Movie Scenes That Went Completely Over The Top
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00:00Hollywood is known as many things, but above all, it's a luscious parade of riches.
00:05Excess to the extreme and embarrassingly flashy things moving at 24 frames a second.
00:10With this in mind, the following moments are where directors were clearly let loose to go mad,
00:15free to go as over the top as they wanted, almost certainly to the annoyance of the producers.
00:20I'm Josh from WhatCulture.com and these are 9 movie scenes that went completely over the top.
00:25Number 9, Mickey Rock explodes with a tiger, double team.
00:30The 90s was a vastly different time, one in which audiences could see a trailer for a buddy action film
00:35starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dennis Rodman and not think they had fallen into an alternate dimension.
00:41In 1997, it was just another in a long line of oddball pairings.
00:45Rodman at this point was at the height of his success as a player and a paparazzi show-off,
00:50a controversial figure even then.
00:52Then he got it in his head that he wanted to venture into the movie business,
00:56seeing as how well that turned out for Michael Jordan and Shaquille O'Neal.
01:00So he took on the role of Yats, an arms dealer who pairs with Van Damme's CIA agent
01:04to take down a terrorist planning to sell plutonium to Iraq.
01:08Every line of the film feels as if it were from an action script template
01:12made on some screenwriting software somewhere.
01:16Complete with personal vendettas, you-know-him-better-than-anyone speeches,
01:19and the unlikely friendship that films between Van Damme and Mickey Rourke's character,
01:24it's all just played worse in this flick.
01:27That is, except for the aforementioned Rourke's character and his death.
01:31See, the actor was miles away from Sin City and credibility in general at this time,
01:36so he's settled for crap like this.
01:38As a result, the end of the film finds him standing on an active landmine in a Greek stadium,
01:43which explodes just as he's attacked by a marauding tiger.
01:48It's best not to question such a slice of cinematic heaven, so I'll just leave it there.
01:53Number 8, Finn Dives Into a Shark's Mouth, Sharknado.
01:57Sharknado jokes started going around the water cooler before even the movie premiered.
02:01But it did do something for the sci-fi network that no other show had done before.
02:06It actually got an audience.
02:08Many tuned in to vibe on the first entry So Bad It's Good Spirit,
02:12and for the most part, weren't disappointed.
02:14Though its diminished returns upon sequels do make audiences forget just how much goodwill
02:19the original earned, and there is still plenty to get a kick out of in Sharknado.
02:23But it's also a bit of a bore, with almost a half hour of character development that goes
02:29nowhere, and a lot of actors clearly there just to cash a paycheck.
02:33What makes it exceptional though is how much payoff there is there in the final act when
02:36that finally comes, from the insane junk science to the perfectly timed fall from helicopter
02:42to flying shark's mouth, but nothing stands out as much as the epic chainsaw finale.
02:48See, after all the Sharknado's are extinguished, a falling shark heads towards our hero.
02:52He was literally called Finn, by the way.
02:55Like, do you get it?
02:56Finn?
02:56Finn liking a shark, Finn?
02:58No one said this movie was subtle.
03:00Well, as the shark is falling, he's also running towards it.
03:03So, he leaps towards it, trusted chainsaw in tow, only to be swallowed whole by a poorly
03:09rendered CGI grey-white.
03:11Seconds later though, he's cutting through its innards and rescuing himself.
03:15We've seen so bad it's good done wrong with snakes on a plane, and this was how it was
03:20meant to be.
03:21Number 7, Stop Motion Hamburgers, Better Off Dead.
03:24Four years before John Kujak forever became everyone's favourite awkward crush in Say Anything,
03:29he was your average teen in standard 80s teen comedies, often as a second or third character.
03:35The exceptions, One Crazy Summer and Better Off Dead, were both handled under the sage
03:40guidance of director savage Steve Holland, and you know he's reliable because he's
03:45willing to include his nickname right there in the credits.
03:48The latter of these, Better Off Dead, finds Kujak in a typical suburban teen environment,
03:53except for when he's challenged to take part in a drag race.
03:56There's more lunacy, like the unfunny running joke of the newspaper boy who stalks Kujak
04:01relentlessly just for a bill of two dollars, but the moment you know studios became afraid
04:05of savage Steve and just handed him the camera, is the fast food stop motion dance sequence.
04:11At this point, Kujak's character begins to suffer from hallucinations after being dumped
04:15by his girlfriend, and while working he imagines himself as a Dr. Frankenstein figure, and the
04:21meat as a corpse.
04:23The burger, reanimated, finds a family of hamburgers, some with instruments, and hilarity ensues.
04:30I say hilarity because it's not really funny, it's just kind of, well it's absurd isn't
04:35it?
04:35This was a long, long time before a sausage party.
04:38Number 6, Lip Syncing to Roy Orbison.
04:40Blue Velvet.
04:42Audiences only vaguely knew what to expect out of Blue Velvet at the time, as it was directed
04:46David Lynch's first trip into modern American suburbia after his work in arthouse projects
04:51like Razorhead, and due to Mel Brooks' insistence, big budget Hollywood films like The Elephant
04:56Man.
04:57After his failure adapting Doom though, something he did after turning down an opportunity to
05:01helm Return of the Jedi, Blue Velvet on paper looked like an interesting thriller.
05:06A young all-American boy is walking through a field in any town USA when he suddenly finds
05:11an ear.
05:12Where did said ear come from?
05:14Well, the film turns out to be less interested in that, as the camera pans down under the
05:19perfectly cut grass lawns to the seedy, insect-filled underbelly.
05:23And welcome to where we're spending the rest of the movie with people replacing insects.
05:28And leading our descent into Sado's sexual madness is Dennis Hopper, snorting nitrous
05:33oxide and expounding on his love of Pabst Blue Ribbon.
05:36And the rabbit hole just gets deeper, until we get to the point where Al from Quantum Leap appears
05:41and lip-syncs to Roy Orbison's In Dreams.
05:44Oh, and all the while, Dennis Hopper's character is just kind of going nuts in the background.
05:49This is the scene where Blue Velvet truly goes bonkers and ratchets the insanity up to the
05:54next level.
05:55Number 5, the sex scene shootout, Shoot'em Up.
05:59The opening scene of Shoot'em Up finds Clive Owen chewing on a carrot as he witnesses a
06:03woman about to give birth fleeing from a hitman.
06:06Cartoonishly, he dispatches the thug by stabbing him in the face with the vegetable, which is
06:10intentionally goofy, and the carrot was an intentional reference to Bugs Bunny.
06:15As you can probably tell from this scene, if nothing else, Shoot'em Up is a bloody,
06:19gory, fast-paced video game slash cartoon in live action, with every actor chewing the
06:24scenery, particularly villain, Paul Giamatti.
06:27But the kicker comes about halfway through the never-ending shootout with Owen and Damsel
06:31in Distress Monica Bellucci having sex as killers burst through the door.
06:36The thing is, Owen's character doesn't stop shooting, or screwing, throughout this
06:40whole scene.
06:41It's so over-the-top goofy that it was actually just flat-out ripped off in the trying-too-hard
06:47Nick Cage romp, Drive Angry.
06:49Number 4, death is a pre-teen murderer.
06:52Final Destination 2.
06:54Final Destination was a perfectly decent little horror movie with a small cast and a premise
06:58tailor-made for a standalone X-Files episode.
07:01In fact, screenwriter Jeffrey Reddick first pitched it as such, but the studio adopted
07:06his idea and then franchised it.
07:08The second film, from late former Stuntman and Shark Knight director David R. Ellis, upped
07:13the ante on gore and spectacle and even broke a rule or two along the way.
07:17Most notably, offing a child in an explosion of blood early on in the film, just to let
07:22audiences know that it wasn't screwing around.
07:24Now, future films in the series, apart from maybe three, felt like tired retreads of this
07:30one, always trying to outdo the blood and viscera on screen, but this was the rare moment
07:35where a mainstream horror felt properly shocking.
07:38Number 3, give me the elephant, Darkman.
07:41Oddly, the most comic book-like director Sam Raimi ever got was with a film that had no
07:45comic book source material.
07:47Frustrated with his inability to secure the rights to the shadow, in 1940s radio character
07:52voiced by Orson Welles, Raimi and his brothers set out to create their own comic hero origin
07:57story. And everything that you'd later see in his Spider-Man movies is actually kind of
08:02present in Darkman. I mean, the scene in which Spidey beats the mugger who killed his uncle Ben
08:07is pretty much shot for shot the scene in which Liam Neeson's Peyton Westlake is beaten by the
08:12mafia here. After this scene, once Westlake is burned beyond recognition and impervious to pain,
08:17he goes on a revenge spree, imitating his killers with artificial skin and turning them
08:22against one another. As you might have guessed from this director, there are plenty of zany
08:26moments along the way, most of them dealing with Westlake's homicidal glee, but the best
08:31is when he actually tries to be normal. After perfecting his skin for up to 99 minutes in the
08:36sunlight before it melts, he starts courting his former fiancée, eventually taking her to the
08:41amusement park. Here he falls into the weirdest fight ever, but Raimi shoots the entire event
08:46with all the flair and energy of a panel from Tales of the Crypt or something, much in the
08:51way the Creepshow did a decade previous.
08:55Number 2, The Opening Scene, Femme Fatale. Femme Fatale is probably the most misunderstood
09:00film in Brian De Palma's filmography, and while some see it as a sleazy Cinemax director
09:05slumming it, others praise it as one of his very best. One thing is certain though, it's
09:10not what it appears on the tin. It plays to all the director's greatest strengths and
09:14interests, you know, complex plotting, voyeurism, and an excellent climax, and constantly has the
09:20right audience second guessing everything. As you might guess, to give away too much is to spoil
09:25the film, but just know that it begins with two women making out during a heist at the Cannes Film
09:30Festival. In this scene, everything is in place for the heist to go off. Every player has their role.
09:36There's the lead, who seduces the model wearing the diamond-crested clothing meant to be thieved,
09:40there's the scuba diver with the blowtorch, the guy in the van, etc, etc. But very quickly,
09:47the film betrays convention when none of the characters actually do their job, and instead
09:51are screwed over by the lead. Now it may not always make literal sense, which is why it ends
09:56up on this list, but it does always make cinematic sense, even when it's subtly screwing with its
10:02audience. Number 1, Rambo, Conan, and Gandhi, UHF. Nothing serves as convincing evidence that
10:09everyone was doing cocaine in the 1980s than Weird Al Yankovic's feature film UHF. At least Weird Al
10:16here had the coherency to write a script that did make sense while still including side clips that
10:20would work equally well in an era-appropriate Saturday Night Live skit. And it was the producers,
10:26presumably also out of their minds, that gave him the green light for this movie.
10:30Now a cult classic, Yankovic's work has time to indulge his every whim, from conning the librarian
10:36to an ultraviolet Gandhi who orders steak medium rare before gunning down his opponents. And to
10:42its credit, pretty much every clip tops the one preceding it, allowing a bit of flow to what could
10:47have been just a disjointed crazy mess. Still, it's hard to believe that this got made.
10:53So that's our list, I want to know what you guys think down in the comments below. What do you think
10:56about these surprising scenes, and are there any interesting ones I missed off here? While you're
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11:08though, I've been Josh, thank you so much for watching, and I'll see you soon.
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