Movies that Suck Except for a Couple of Great Scenes

[Scarecrow Joe]

Pearl Harbor (2001).....the scene of the attack is awesome, the rest of the movie that is basically a cheap soap opera, not.

 

[CessnaDriver]

Laser scene in Congo was cool.

 

[AJTaliesen]

Network.

I think the one scene everyone knows "mad as he'll" is one of the great scenes in movie history. The rest of the movie feels like a punishment for enjoying that one scene too much.

 

[StevenBills]

Crystal Skull had a lot of potential. A few cool scenes sprinkled throughout, but otherwise just mush.

SB

 

[Richard Baker]

Crystal Skull had a lot of potential. A few cool scenes sprinkled throughout, but otherwise just mush.

SB

'The Crystal Skull' to me seemed to be a number of 'cool scenes' somebody came up with and the movie was an afterthought to string them together. The ending also seemed to be tacked on, like "we finally get to the end of this epic search, now how can we find an end to it?" I always had a bit of a problem with the aliens gathering artifacts for so long and then destroying them all when they left- what was the purpose in the first place?

 

[Strikerkc]

... I always had a bit of a problem with the aliens gathering artifacts for so long and then destroying them all when they left- what was the purpose in the first place?

Cause Aladdin and The Mummy did it, so it must be a good idea to include in your plot, right?

Maybe just just out of spite towards the character of Indiana Jones, because every other Indiana Jones movie ultimately ends with Jones having found a great treasure or wondrous thing, but having to give it up because of [insert reason]?

Uhg, that movie belongs over in the "bad casting thread" for at least an honorable mention on account of Shia LaBeouf... though, it may be less the actor, and more the inclusion of the character at all...

 

[Darth Lars]

'The Crystal Skull' to me seemed to be a number of 'cool scenes' somebody came up with and the movie was an afterthought to string them together.

I believe that is literally how George Lucas works. How he wrote Star Wars and the previous Indiana Jones movies too.

 

[Richard Baker]

I believe that is literally how George Lucas works. How he wrote Star Wars and the previous Indiana Jones movies too.

'American Graffiti' seems that way too...

 

[GirlyGothicGeek]

I kind of feel like the Scott Pilgrim movie is entirely composed of great scenes, yet stays as an "eh" movie overall. I can't think of any particular scene that I dislike (and I enjoyed many scenes), but something about how those scenes fit together just didn't sit right.

 

[Clutch]

As I mentioned above, it is a well made film. I just do not care for the family stuff and Roy falling apart.
I jump to the UFO scenes and I can watch those all day.
There is a difference between films you can watch and enjoy every moment of and films where you reach for the remote to get to the spots you like.

The encounter at the end is icing on the cake.

 

[The Searcher]

I absolutely love the rock climbing scene and the motorbike scene at the end of Mission Impossible II, but if you want my thoughts on the rest of the movie, I’d prefer not to discuss. Who knows what kind of movie it would have been if over an hour hadn’t been cut out by the studio.

 

[CT1138]

Solo: the Mimban scenes were great but the rest of that movie...

 

[Henkka]

In Death Proof the first car crash was clever (nova vs civic).