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00:00No matter how abysmal a movie is, there are often some redeeming qualities.
00:04But every now and then, you'll watch a film that's atrocious from start to finish, save for one scene.
00:10Because of how thrilling, emotional and hilarious these scenes are,
00:14it's genuinely frustrating that they're trapped in such a god-awful movie.
00:18So with that in mind then, what culture here with perfect scenes in god-awful movies?
00:23The Tripod Attack in War of the Worlds.
00:25With Tom Cruise playing the lead in Steven Spielberg's adaptation of one of H.G. Wells' most influential stories,
00:33it sounded like War of the Worlds couldn't fail.
00:36But due to the uneven tone, forced family drama and an annoyingly abrupt ending,
00:41few were bowled over by this blockbuster.
00:43Also, how did Robbie survive that explosion near the end?
00:46This plot hole still bothers me.
00:48Fortunately, the story's centrepiece, the alien invasion itself, is as chilling as you'd expect.
00:53After an EMP hits a town, Ray and his family walk towards an intersection,
00:58gawking in horror at the source of the signal.
01:01With little warning, a Martian ship bursts from the ground and begins reducing everything to ash
01:06with a high-powered energy weapon.
01:07Ray and his family dive into their car and drive off,
01:10while the tripod's lasers hurl trucks into houses and rip freeways to shreds.
01:15As delightfully well-shot and edited as this scene is,
01:18there's one simple detail that really sells it.
01:21The sound. Or more accurately, the lack of sound.
01:24Once the tripod appears, there's no dialogue, no witty banter,
01:28no monologues, no cheesy one-liners.
01:30There's barely any music.
01:32Watching this colossal automaton in pure silence,
01:35just before it obliterates the town, makes the scene far more gripping.
01:39Live Aid, Bohemian Rhapsody.
01:41While there's no real arguing against just how damn impressive Rami Malek's Oscar-winning transformation
01:46into the iconic Queen frontman Freddie Mercury was,
01:50when it comes to the film playing host to his excellent work,
01:52most would confess to the biopic being pretty bang average at best.
01:56The fact many were quick to complain about the way it was generally rather shoddily put together,
02:00with the film's editor John Oppmann even admitting to wanting to put a bag over his head,
02:05after not being satisfied with the editing seen in the moment the band meet up with their soon-to-be
02:09manager in particular,
02:11made its eventual Oscar win for best editing even more baffling too.
02:15But away from the editing and directing missteps,
02:18Malek's performance was given one hell of a moment to shine,
02:21during a sequence many would argue was up there with the 2010's most impactful,
02:25fully capturing the essence of Queen's simply iconic 1985 Live Aid showing from start to finish.
02:31Whilst brilliantly diving into the no-perfect performance given by Malek and the rest of the band throughout,
02:37the rest of Bohemian Rhapsody may be a largely paint-by-numbers and somewhat forgettable affair,
02:41but this recreation of music history was about as epic as it gets.
02:46Jay's montage is comedy gold in The Inbetweeners 2.
02:50The Inbetweeners movie was better than many were expecting.
02:53Nevertheless, it didn't need a follow-up,
02:55which is why fans of the British sitcom were dubious when The Inbetweeners 2 was announced.
03:00But after watching the sequel's first few minutes,
03:02you'd think you were about to watch a comedy classic in the making.
03:06As Will, Neil and Simon whine about their failed love lives,
03:09they receive an email from Jay, who's living in Australia.
03:13We then cut to a spectacular montage where Jay alerts the lads he has become a famed, well-endowed DJ,
03:19hooked up with dozens of models and regularly dines with famous Aussies such as Steve Irwin,
03:24despite being dead, Mel Gibson, dressed as William Wallace,
03:27and Hugh Jackman, suited up as Wolverine.
03:30There are so many great lines and sight gags sprinkled throughout,
03:33you need to watch this scene repeatedly to get them all.
03:36But it's not just hilarious, this whole sequence is genuinely well shot.
03:39If you took all the gags out,
03:41you'd still be impressed by the phenomenal camera work and all the long takes.
03:45But because the rest of The Inbetweeners 2 is filled with idiotic jokes about poo and animal cruelty,
03:49no one would blame you for switching it off after this scene wraps up.
03:52Spider-Man Returns, The Amazing Spider-Man 2
03:55The Amazing Spider-Man 2 definitely had a great movie hiding in there somewhere.
04:00It's just a shame it was consistently suffocated by dubstep-wielding villains
04:04and a detrimental obsession with sequel baiting.
04:07Now sure, the unquestionably agonizing demise of Gwen Stacy still ranks right up there,
04:12as one of the most heartbreaking and masterfully performed moments of superhero tragedy ever committed to screens.
04:17But that wasn't the only perfect occurrence to be found in this hugely disappointing one-time end to Andrew Garfield's
04:23time in the legendary suit.
04:25After suffering that life-changing loss late on,
04:27an understandably devastated Peter Parker seemingly opts to bring an end to his web-slinging days.
04:33But in a moment that perfectly captures the heart and soul of this adored superfigure,
04:37and the reason he continues to inspire and remain relevant all these years later,
04:41Spidey simply can't help but throw back on the mask when his city needs him most.
04:46Motivated by his beloved's moving graduation speech,
04:49Spidey resumes looking out for the little guy in triumphant fashion,
04:53protecting a small child with his typical charm,
04:55as he collides with the Rhino to bring the General Dud to an end,
04:59with one of the Spider-Man movie world's greatest closing shots.
05:02The intro in Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
05:06Although Luc Besson hoped Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets would be a sci-fi extravaganza,
05:13it was completely forgettable.
05:16In fact, it's very possible you watched it and already forgot the plot and the characters' names.
05:20You probably don't even recall Rihanna had a whole song and dance number.
05:24But one thing that should be locked in viewers' memory banks permanently is how Valerian begins.
05:29In the preamble, we see the world leaders have made peace with one another,
05:33encouraging every space agency to attach their satellites to the International Space Station,
05:38allowing astronauts from all nations to work together in harmony.
05:41As humanity comes into contact with alien life, extraterrestrials merge their spaceships with the ISS as a sign of peace.
05:48After several centuries, over a thousand worlds have meshed their vessels to Earth's satellite,
05:53transforming the ISS into a galactic city populated with millions of species from across the cosmos.
05:59Even though it's difficult to devise a fictional universe in sci-fi without relying on exposition dumps,
06:04Valerian's intro executes it perfectly without a word of dialogue.
06:08Sadly, this is a perfect example of a director who put his best ideas in one scene.
06:13Once the plot kicks off, Valerian becomes another bland schlockfest,
06:16failing to emulate one-tenth of the prologue's artistry.
06:20Bond vs. Batista Spectre
06:22Between its general poor usage of the brilliance of Christoph Waltz in the lead Bond villain role,
06:27and desperately lacking the emotional weight of the prior masterful Skyfall entry,
06:31the attempt to infuse the shadowy Spectre organisation into this particular 007 arc
06:36felt like an all-round step in the wrong direction.
06:39There was a glimmer of what fans had come to adore about Craig's hard-hitting iteration of the iconic MI6
06:44agent
06:45to be found in the middle of the often unimaginative 2015 flick, though.
06:48And it all came whilst enjoying a tipple on a train.
06:52Ambushed by one of the feature's only real consistent highlights in the form of Dave Bautista's silent force of nature,
06:57Hinks,
06:58Bond well and truly meets his physical match on the speeding locomotive.
07:02The entire brawl bursts into the scenario like an unexpected brick to the skull,
07:06and every subsequent brutal thump, knee and throw feels like something properly capable of breaking the average civilian in half.
07:13It's gritty, uncompromising and legitimately feels less stylish choreographed skirmish,
07:18and more genuine struggle for survival.
07:20And I challenge you to find a better fight-ending piece of dialogue than Mr. Hinks' defeated s***
07:25as he suddenly yanked off the vehicle at full speed.
07:28Sub-Zero Kills Scorpion's Family in Mortal Kombat
07:31After the Mortal Kombat trailer blew us all away,
07:35any cynicism for this video game adaptation seemed to vanish overnight.
07:39Just when the fanbase thought they couldn't be more pumped to see this gore-riddled reboot,
07:43the opening scene was released online just before the film's official launch.
07:48This overture shows retired ninja Hanzo Hasashi trying to live in peace with his wife and child.
07:53But after his old clan track him down, Hanzo engages in a mercilessly bloody battle,
07:58which concludes with himself and his family being murdered by his rival, Sub-Zero.
08:03This seven-minute scene is filled with enough blood and guts to whet our appetite,
08:06and yet it's Hanzo's heartbreak after discovering his family's frozen corpses that leaves us reeling.
08:12Because of how flawless this scene is, many went into Mortal Kombat expecting more of the same.
08:17Instead, we were met with a weak story, ridiculous plot holes, and a boring protagonist.
08:22Also, the fact that there's no Mortal Kombat tournament in a movie called Mortal Kombat is false advertising.
08:27The bloodshed is deservingly creative, and Josh Lawson steals the show as Kano,
08:32but the movie takes a noticeable dip in quality after the prelude.
08:36The opening, Batman v Superman Dawn of Justice
08:39The way Zack Snyder got his Batman v Superman Dawn of Justice picture underway back in 2016
08:45was the epitome of affecting.
08:47Recalling the world-shaping events of Man of Steel from street level,
08:50Superman's city-leveling duel with General Zod
08:53brings with it the foundations of the subsequent super-battle of the Titans.
08:57Ben Affleck absolutely shines as a Batman behind the Bruce Wayne mask
09:01driving right into the thick of the destruction.
09:03With Snyder forging some of the strongest visuals in DC big-screen history,
09:07as the billionaire sprints into the clouds of smoke and battles to save everyone he can as Metropolis falls.
09:13The sheer size and scale of the devastation caused by Kal-El's battle with Zod
09:17is impressively captured as the human Supes is trying to save pay the ultimate price
09:22for his catastrophic attempts to take down the General's world engine.
09:25And the look of simmering rage plastered all over Affleck's batface
09:29was enough to make you believe that you were about to take in an all-time classic of a super
09:33flick.
09:33Then the rest of the overstuffed 29% on Rotten Tomatoes disaster happened.
09:38The Elevator in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
09:41Although Jonathan Liebesman was the director of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot,
09:47you can tell it was produced by Michael Bay.
09:49The film is riddled with so much product placement and juvenile jokes,
09:53it was obvious the Transformers director had a firm grip on the production.
09:57But that's just the tip of the iceberg.
09:59Due to the atrocious redesign of the Turtles, the absurd plot and the distracting reshoots,
10:04the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles failed to please the biggest fans of the heroes in a half-shell.
10:09However, there's one scene that perfectly captures the essence of Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael and Donatello.
10:15While the reptilian siblings take the elevator to face the Shredder,
10:19Mikey starts drumming with his nunchucks.
10:21At first, you assume his brothers will scold him.
10:24Instead, they gradually join in,
10:26beatboxing and clanging their weapons to harmonise with MC Mikey.
10:30If this moment was mishandled, it could have come across as pure cringe.
10:34Instead, it demonstrates how the Ninja Turtles still act like playful teenagers,
10:38even before charging into the biggest fight of their lives.
10:41Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles definitely had some funny moments and innovative battles,
10:46but it's this 39-second snippet that people remember most fondly.
10:50The Pirate Lords are summoned, Pirates of the Caribbean at World's End.
10:54The third outing for Captain Jack, Sparrow and Co.,
10:57and ultimately the most disappointing of the initial trilogy,
11:00sets sail with one of the most gripping opening sequences you'll ever likely find in a Disney summer blockbuster,
11:06setting the rest of the eventual hit-and-miss 169-minute swashbuckler in motion.
11:11This first scene sees Lord Cutler Beckett going out of his way
11:14to execute each and every person in Port Royal,
11:17who is associated with anything to do with piracy.
11:20And it's that chilling scenario which gives birth to the equally unsettling sound
11:24and sight of these doomed souls singing a song by the name of Hoist the Colors,
11:28as they ask the Pirate Lords to come together and take down the East India Trading Company.
11:33At World's End may be missing much of the unexpected charm of the earlier Pirates' adventures,
11:38and suffers from an often far too convoluted plot.
11:40But this utterly eerie opening stretch,
11:42one equipped with the harrowing visual of a young child
11:45kicking off the sea shanty in question pre-hanging,
11:48is the Caribbean series at its provoking and poignant best.
11:51Burn Unit Scene in Shallow Howl
11:54In Shallow Howl, Jack Black plays a hopeless romantic
11:57who won't settle for any woman who isn't drop-dead gorgeous.
12:00When life coach Tony Robbins sees how deluded Howl is,
12:04he hypnotises him to only see women's inner beauty.
12:07Shortly after, he falls for a wonderful woman called Rosemary,
12:10oblivious to the fact that she's 300 pounds, which is fine.
12:14Shallow Howl has a nice premise,
12:16but is let down by uncreative jabs at the plus-size community.
12:20No matter how creative the jokes are,
12:22it gets tiresome since most of them boil down to,
12:25you're fat.
12:25However, there's one moment that isn't just touching,
12:28but heart-wrenching.
12:29When Howl visits Rosemary at the hospital she volunteers at,
12:32he meets a little girl called Cadence.
12:34He immediately warms to her, telling Cadence how beautiful she is,
12:38joking that she shouldn't be at the hospital
12:40since she's pretending to be sick.
12:42But after the hypnotism spell wears off,
12:44he sees Cadence again, only to realise she's a burn victim.
12:48Not only is this a clever twist,
12:50it's this moment where Howl realises
12:52how wrong he's been to judge people for their appearance.
12:54If the movie had more harrowing scenes like this,
12:57Shallow Howl would have been better remembered.
13:00Wolverine gets his adamantium claws.
13:03X-Men Origins Wolverine.
13:04The complete misfire of a picture that was X-Men Origins Wolverine
13:08sits alongside the likes of Dark Phoenix and New Mutants
13:11as one of the worst received mutant movies of all time.
13:14But there were a few beats amidst the regularly painful experience
13:17that reminded folks why they were so damn excited
13:19about this supposed Wolverine solo story coming in.
13:22Alongside the outstanding brothers battling through the ages opening sequence,
13:26which is still among the greatest superhero openings of all time,
13:29the birth of an adamantium-sporting Logan
13:31is about as pitch-perfect a sequence as the X-Men series has ever produced.
13:35After seeing the odd glimpse of a feral wolvie being let loose
13:38with his new toys for the first time in prior entries,
13:41the agonising procedure involving this indestructible metal
13:44being drilled into his skeleton
13:46is finally realised in all its brutal glory.
13:49And it does not disappoint.
13:50Then, once the wince-inducing skull-piercing is finally done,
13:54the mighty Hugh Jackman is afforded yet another captivating berserker moment of madness,
13:59unleashing a magnificent slow-mo roar
14:01before taking a bullet to the head like a champ
14:04and quickly slicing his way out of dodge.
14:06From there, it's back to dodgy CGI and mouthless Deadpools naturally.
14:09Silver Surfer's arrival in Fantastic Four Rise of the Silver Surfer
14:14It sounds impossible to direct a boring movie about a quartet of superheroes
14:19battling a planet-gobbling alien.
14:21But somehow, director Tim Story found a way to make Fantastic Four Rise of the Silver Surfer
14:26more dreary than its predecessor.
14:29Even though Galactus is one of the most powerful entities in Marvel,
14:32the movie screwed him up.
14:34Beloved supervillain Doctor Doom is reduced to a pantomime baddie who churns out one-liners.
14:39The only saving grace this Doom sequel has to offer is the Silver Surfer.
14:43Even though the cosmic being's powers are god-tier,
14:45the character could have been ruined if the film didn't demonstrate his abilities appropriately.
14:50Luckily, we got to see what the Surfer is capable of in his first scene.
14:54After the Intergalactic Herald crashes the wedding of Reed Richards and Sue Storm,
14:58Johnny Storm flies after him.
15:00As the Chrome Dome alien effortlessly wades through the city,
15:03Johnny tries to keep up.
15:05As the Human Torch is about to reach him,
15:06the Silver Surfer catches him by the throat,
15:09soars into space and tosses his body back to the Earth.
15:12This scene was so awesome, it was used for the film's teaser
15:14and is regarded as one of the best trailers ever.
15:18Duel of the Fates, Star Wars Episode I, The Phantom Menace
15:21For every frustrating spell spent squabbling within the Galactic Senate
15:25or watching Jar Jar Binks bumble through a battlefield,
15:28there was at least the odd epic lightsaber duel in The Phantom Menace
15:31that reminded you precisely why you fell in love with this world of space wizards
15:35and stormtroopers in the first place.
15:37The frankly superhuman displays practically brought to life throughout
15:40in Ewan McGregor, Liam Neeson and Ray Park's explosive battle
15:43between the forces of good and evil was already pretty damn spellbinding.
15:47Add into that the musical masterpiece that is John Williams'
15:50mesmerizing Duel of the Fates tune,
15:52and you have one of the most iconic sequences ever to grace the galaxy far, far away.
15:57And if the out-of-this-world swordplay and generational scoring wasn't enough for you,
16:01the emotional and literal gut punch slash stab that is the sight of Qui-Gon Jinn
16:05being suddenly cut down before his helpless padawan's eyes
16:08is the sort of undeniably traumatic occurrence that also helped elevate
16:12this great climactic battle to the level of all-timer.
16:15The titular fight is genuinely amazing in Godzilla vs. Kong.
16:21After the success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe,
16:24Legendary Pictures was inspired to create their own shared universe series,
16:28centering around iconic monsters like Godzilla and King Kong.
16:31Sadly, the first three installments of this monsterverse underperformed,
16:35financially and critically.
16:37Because these movies were all building to Godzilla vs. Kong,
16:40the studio hoped this monstrous crossover would turn the tide of the franchise.
16:44But due to terrible writing, plot holes galore,
16:46and an absurd story revolving an alien skull that mind controls a robot,
16:51it was no surprise the sequel was a letdown.
16:53But man did Godzilla vs. Kong deliver with its titular fight.
16:56You can imagine how hyped Kaiju fans were to see this showdown.
17:01And yet it exceeded all expectations.
17:04Although we were expecting an epic brawl,
17:05we weren't prepared to be this emotionally invested.
17:08Because Kong is the underdog for the entire fight,
17:11you can't help rooting for him.
17:13Even though it's marvellous to watch the towering lizard and gigantic ape
17:16smashing neon skyscrapers while they wail on each other,
17:19it's the desperation in Kong's face,
17:22as he barely dodges his rival's assault,
17:24that makes this battle a wonder to behold.
17:27Venom Sizes Up Spidey, Venom Let There Be Carnage
17:30It tells you all you need to know about the quality of a superhero sequel,
17:34when the most captivating element on show pops up
17:36once the main portion of the action has mercifully come to an end.
17:40And that's precisely what went down during 2021's clunky CGI-stuffed follow-up
17:44to Tom Hardy's first Venom outing.
17:46With this instantly forgettable entry,
17:49seeing Eddie Brock and his symbiote mate
17:50going through a rough patch before locking horns with Woody Harrelson's
17:54kooky Cletus Kasady slash carnage.
17:56While the climactic battle of the gooey forces may have been a bit of a drag,
18:00and a lot of the campy charm wasn't quite as unexpectedly funny this time around though,
18:04Let There Be Carnage did at least come with one of the most exciting mid-credit teases
18:08in superhero movie history.
18:10With both Eddie and Venom enjoying a bit of time out on vacation,
18:13their room suddenly begins to shake and flicker.
18:15And before they know what in the holy hell is going on,
18:18Venom soon clocks a rather familiar spider on the TV screen,
18:21slapping his iconic tongue on the set,
18:24in what likely mirrored the reaction of many a spider fan
18:26licking their lips at the concept of Hardy's Venom
18:29finally colliding with Tom Holland's web-slinger.
18:31That disappointingly didn't ultimately come to pass in No Way Home, of course,
18:35but that doesn't change the fact that this masterfully executed post-credit sequence
18:39managed to conjure up a frankly absurd amount of hype for the Spider-Man film
18:43Pteranodon Cage Chaos Jurassic Park 3
18:46Jurassic Park 3 provided the blueprint of exactly what not to do
18:50when unleashing prehistoric chaos on the big screen.
18:52Gone was the wonder and genuinely unsettling moments involving everything from gigantic T-Rexes
18:57to raptors hunting down our protagonists.
19:00In its place were surreal moments of unintentional hilarity
19:03in the form of talking animatronic dino heads
19:05and generally predictable scares for the most part.
19:08That being said, there was actually a single sequence contained within the 90-minute Golden Raspberry nominee
19:13that did feel like the Jurassic franchise was hitting some of its frightening form of old.
19:17I'm talking about that horrifying sequence which finally sees the series embrace the sky somewhat,
19:22with the likes of Alan Grant and co. being forced to come face-to-face with some Pteranodons
19:27when attempting to pass through an Avery.
19:29The way the misty bridge quivers the second the group realise they're not alone
19:32evokes the similar unsettling feeling that came about
19:35after seeing the unforgettable glass of water shake back in 1993,
19:39and the silhouette of the terrifying winged dino slowly wandering towards a spooked Eric,
19:43combined with Billy ridiculously parasailing in to save the day,
19:47helped forge a moment that is equal parts perfectly outrageous
19:50and legitimately disturbing as the latter is picked at by the pissed-off dino birdies.
19:55Quicksilver in X-Men Apocalypse
19:58By introducing the X-Men's deadliest adversary,
20:01X-Men Apocalypse looked like it had the potential to be the most epic superhero movie ever.
20:07But due to aching runtime, excessive CGI, and an awful-looking villain,
20:11we got another disappointing X-Men 3quel.
20:14Which is a joke, the movie itself points out.
20:16If it wasn't for the scene revolving around Quicksilver,
20:19Apocalypse would have been a 144-minute snoozefest.
20:23Although we've seen the fastest mutant alive save the day at breakneck speed in X-Men Days of Future Past,
20:29this dull follow-up dials everything up to 11.
20:32After Apocalypse blows up the X-Mansion, it looks like the X-Men are done for.
20:36But a few milliseconds before the building goes up in smoke,
20:39the silver-haired speedster zips through the X-Men's home,
20:42hurling the students outside to safety.
20:44As creative as this premise is,
20:46it's Evan Peters' playful charisma that makes this scene iconic.
20:50While watching the young actor moonwalking, surfing on a table,
20:53and rescuing a pizza-chomping dog while fire flurries around him,
20:57it's impossible not to be wowed over.
21:00With Eurythmic Sweet Dreams are made of this,
21:02playing throughout, you can't watch this scene without a smile on your face.
21:06But as soon as this rescue sequence comes to an end,
21:09the film goes right back to being a forgettable bloated mess.
21:12At least it was good while it lasted.
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