Which one scene should you skip to improve the movie tenfold ?

[revilal]

Hi,
We've all seen a movie where we wish 'that' scene was never in it, and one you always forward when you spin it in your dvd player.

Well, Ive made a list of mine here:
Which one scene should you skip to improve the movie tenfold


Can you suggest any similar type of scenes you personally hate and why ?
Plus any comments on any of mine would be appreciated !

 

[Darth Waller]

Jar Jars introductory scene (which went on forever) in Phantom Menace. It did nothing but slow the story to a screaching halt.

I heartily agree with your wiggling toe scene from Kill Bill I.

 

[dekadentdave]

No, it's because I'm SO in love with you.

 

[TheObsoleteMan]

I don't get all the hate for Katie Holmes in Batman Begins, she did about as much as could be done with that role.


-Doc Ock's "I will not die a monster" scene in Spider-Man 2

-Merry and Pippin lembas bread scene in FOTR extended cut. LOTR doesn't need fart jokes.

-The whole rave sequence, Neo/Trinity love scene, Morpheus speech from Matrix Reloaded. That literally felt like it went on forever.

-The sex scene in Highlander. I want swordfights and decapatations, not cheesy softcore porn.

-The spying scene from Superman Returns. I actually squirmed a bit in my seat at the theater. Very creepy vibe to that one.

-Anakin and Padme discussing the complications of their relationship in AOTC. The dialogue is so atrocious and the delivery of it so stilted and awkward, it's just painful to watch.

 

[King Darkness]

The scene were Kurgan gets his head chopped off..............








































Like I would have had any other answer

 

[Darth Loki]

That stupid song in the 'new' version of ROTJ at Jabba's palace.

Why? Why, George, why?

 

[mfoga]

Every single scene that GL added or changes in the OT. I want to see the movie that I loved as a kid.

 

[JSA]

In Se7en, one of my favorite films of all time, there is ONE scene, one LINE,
that just bugs me every time I hear it. When John Doe is taken to the desert
and they step out of the car there is a dead dog carcass there, and he says:
"I didn't do that" It just throws me every time the way he says it. If I could
change it, I'd have him say in an honestly compasionate tone: "poor thing"

It would make a big difference to me, John Doe taking compassion on an animal,
considering his other actions to people in the film.

JS

 

[revilal]

In Se7en, one of my favorite films of all time, there is ONE scene, one LINE,
that just bugs me every time I hear it. When John Doe is taken to the desert
and they step out of the car there is a dead dog carcass there, and he says:
"I didn't do that" It just throws me every time the way he says it. If I could
change it, I'd have him say in an honestly compasionate tone: "poor thing"

It would make a big difference to me, John Doe taking compassion on an animal, considering his other actions to people in the film.

Thats actually a very good point, and I agree, it would have been in keeping with Doe's character if he had said that.

 

[Darth Madden]

I'm gonna go a little old school but the scene in Caddyshack where Noonan's girlfried tells him she is pregnent... UGH.

 

[LOTRFan]

No, it's because I'm SO in love with you.

Good one!

How about everything in ROTS except the Mustafar sequence. :emperor

 

[darthviper107]

Yeah, most of the Matrix Reloaded and Revolutions, it had too much "Hey, let's make a weird, random, and nonfunctional part here."

Hard to say it, but yeah, there's too much politics in the Star Wars prequels and sometimes I skip that stuff.

Sometimes I skip the first hour and ten minutes of King Kong.

 

[Mookeylama]

i agree w/ topic creator about the scene in Kong. didn't need that stampede scene at all.

 

[Lembas Eater]

As much as I hate Brett Rattner, he managed to use the right actors and the right script to put together a decent film of Thomas Harris' RED DRAGON.

EXCEPT


The very last scene of the movie where Chilton tells Dr. Lecter that there's a girl here to interview him, an out of place ham-handed reference to Clarice Starling in THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS.

RED DRAGON is supposed to be a prequel! In theory new viewers should watch it first and not have a stupid joke at the end of the movie that they wouldn't get! It irks me to no end. It tasks me. It vexes me. Did I mention that I hate this scene?

 

[Buttmunch]

Every single scene that GL added or changes in the OT. I want to see the movie that I loved as a kid.

OK, here is something I've never understood. Why when George adds to his films, everyone hates it, but when Peter Jackson adds half an hour to his already 3 hour movie, people love it and think its the best thing ever

 

[dekadentdave]

Are you kidding? I HATED the extended versions of the LOTR trilogy! Watching them is like watching paint dry, and I have painted figures that have dried faster than it takes to watch those!

 

[galactiboy]

OK, here is something I've never understood. Why when George adds to his films, everyone hates it, but when Peter Jackson adds half an hour to his already 3 hour movie, people love it and think its the best thing ever

Ah, but both versions are available... so no harm no foul. And I don't think PJ is quite as big a cheeseball as Lucas. Having said that though, I'm dumbfounded by the idea of an extended Kong!

 

[LOTRFan]

OK, here is something I've never understood. Why when George adds to his films, everyone hates it, but when Peter Jackson adds half an hour to his already 3 hour movie, people love it and think its the best thing ever

Because for the most part the additions are enhancements, i.e. they develop the story or characters more. I can't think of a single example in which the additions (in PJ's case) were a CG booger to a character's uvula! Not to mention he hasn't (yet) been futzing with them since the 70's.

 

[Deadly Dagger]

I think it you removed 30 mins from Kong...it would still sux.

 

[DouglasMcc]

Because for the most part the additions are enhancements, i.e. they develop the story or characters more. I can't think of a single example in which the additions (in PJ's case) were a CG booger to a character's uvula! Not to mention he hasn't (yet) been futzing with them since the 70's.

Well, I hate to burst your bubble, but adding a fart joke to the LOTR extended cuts is MUCH worse than any booger could be. True, Lucas changed more, and more often, but the fart wins this contest.

P.S. I can only agree with one movie obmission so far ... the Rave scene in Matrix Reloaded. Now, I get the meaning, showing that humanity is going to keep on living no matter what, but the way the scene is shot sets the wrong tone. I would change its delivery, not the idea.

But I have never understood the concept of "removing a scene" from a beloved film. You have to take the good with the bad with these things. Amazing how many of you crucify Lucas for changing his own movies, when you could fill a couple of seasons of Nip/Tuck with your scalpel jobs. Just one of those things that makes you go .... DOH!