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To ask what is the most ridiculous movie moment you've seen

166 replies

HumanFemale1 · 14/10/2020 16:06

Or TV

Mine is

movie - Kevin Costner shouting "We all pee the same color!" in Hidden Figures

TV - Daenerys crowdsurfing on slaves in Game of Thrones

OP posts:
Blobby10 · 15/10/2020 08:09

@Kokeshi123

Wasn't there a character in Neighbours who gave birth with her tights on?
Yes!! It was Daphne and she had dungarees on Grin

I guess any giving birth scene in a film or TV show is totally unrealistic but they couldn't really make it a more realistic 36 hour labour with stiches and suchlike Grin

ShelbyCherryBlossom · 15/10/2020 08:25

We can all agree the "teenagers" in Grease were fooling no one.

Jasmin82 · 15/10/2020 08:29

The part in Lassie Come Home where the dog has to traverse an alligator infested swamp to get from Scotland to Yorkshire.

AlsDiner · 15/10/2020 08:35

@LunaNorth

Matt Damon doing his massive space conkers moment in The Martian.

Ripley opening the door for a cat in Alien. She’d never have done that.

The whole of Face/Off.

I've seen the Martian and I really can't remember a scene with conkers Grin Is this a slang word for something I'm too old to know about?? Wink
burblish · 15/10/2020 08:39

James Bond “Die Another Day” - the cringeworthy cgi in the glacier surfing scene. As for the invisible car...

Cattenberg · 15/10/2020 08:48

I was very young in the 80s, but wasn’t there a bit in Neighbours where Harold got washed out to sea, presumed drowned, then turned up in a charity shop two years later suffering from amnesia?

sashh · 15/10/2020 08:57

Saving Private Ryan when a whole squad is sent to save Mrs Ryan from losing another son.

It's based on the story of the Niland brothers and the 'sole survivor' policy. www.history.com/news/saving-private-ryan-real-life-dday-back-story

I have a thing about zips in historical costumes. No way did Elizabeth the first wear a dews with a zip. Also Victorian beggar children always have nice shiny hair and boots.

FlyMayBe · 15/10/2020 08:59

@Saveourpeople

She literally outruns a T-Rex in stilettos...because you know...that’s possible!!
The T-Rex was wearing stilettos? Grin
Mia1415 · 15/10/2020 08:59

The wolves in 'the day after tomorrow'. What was the point of them. Utterly ridiculous.

Love Actually and The Holiday are two of my favorite films but I completely agree the jumping security and drinking red wine comments.

Saveourpeople · 15/10/2020 09:05

FlyMayBe

It would’ve been more realistic Grin

We watched the directors commentary for “The Day After Tomorrow” and the studio had paid so much for the CGI wolves,the directors were forced to use them- they thought they were ridiculous!!! They were also laughing their butts off about the protagonist jumping across icy abysses with ice pics - they were all like “ As if his arms wouldn’t have just ripped out their sockets!” In fact they seemed pretty pleased with themselves that they’d much such a bad movie!!

MyMonsteraisDeliciosa · 15/10/2020 09:14

Every scene in every Christopher Nolan film, absolute tosh

MyMonsteraisDeliciosa · 15/10/2020 09:16

Actually that's a bit unfair, Dunkirk would have been great if not for the stupid unnecessary timelines shit

ByGrabtharsHammerWhatASavings · 15/10/2020 09:18

spoilers for the book theif and World War z

My favourite thing is bad product placement in films. My top 3 are:

  1. At the end of the book theif, a sad slow intense film which ends with everyone being killed by nazis, Death is narrating the final scene by summing up the life of the little girl who survived. The camera pans slowly over her desk showing photos of her getting older, having children and grandchildren. It comes to rest on her computer and zooms slowly in on the apple logo while death finishes talking.
  1. The bridge scene in planet of the apes where the man in the car is talking on the phone and sees the apes charging towards him. He says "what is that?" then just holds his iPhone up to the camera for a few seconds.
  1. Brad Pitt smashing the Dr Pepper vending machine in the research lab at the end of World War Z so that the Dr Pepper cans roll out and trip up the zombies. Then opening one and dramatically sipping from it whilst stepping over zombie corpses to walk out, still with no idea if he's injected himself with a terminal illness or not.
loveliesbleeding1 · 15/10/2020 09:28

In world war z when brad Pitt gives the woman with the busted up arm a weapon to use and it’s a baseball bat,try swinging a heavy bat with one arm! He keeps the gun for himself.

Blerg · 15/10/2020 09:28

Every moment of Don’t Mess with the Zohan. DH and I use it as a yardstick for if a film is bad.

Varenne · 15/10/2020 09:55

Outlander spoiler alert!

How Jamie is able to go from being an outlaw on the run in Scotland to landing in France and immediately becoming best a rich merchant and mates with** / advisor to the king. He also goes from being a Generally Nice Bloke to being a bit of a twat...the whole BJ in a brothel thing and Claire is just fine with it after a bit of a rant? Ugh. I really struggled with season two Hmm

Funnyface1 · 15/10/2020 10:23

Anything and everything from The Happening with Mark Wahlberg. So incredibly bad.

Oceans 11 when Julia Roberts emerges on the staircase in a casino. She's supposed to look fabulous but she hulks down those stairs like a sumo wrestler.

Otherwise I do like Julia Roberts and that film.

LockdownLump · 15/10/2020 10:34

I was very young in the 80s, but wasn’t there a bit in Neighbours where Harold got washed out to sea, presumed drowned, then turned up in a charity shop two years later suffering from amnesia?

I think that was actually mid to late 90's 😂

Also before he drowned, Harold was a kindly, staunch vegetarian. Post drowning, he was a very unkind meat eater 😂😂😂

I still watch Neighbours. Habit I haven't been able to break since I was a schoolkid, when we were allowed to go home for dinner.

Hobbesmanc · 15/10/2020 10:36

It's the bit in the original Christpher Reeve Superman (otherwise an amazing childhood memory with a score that makes me cry) when Superman brings Lois back to life after she's been slowly crushed in a trapped car by turning the world back on its axis thus turning back time. Just to save Lois. See also the time stopper in Harry Potter. Used by Hermione to make more time to revise! Not to potentially stop a mass murdering psycho

Rapunzathepenguin · 15/10/2020 11:00

Indiana Jones in that stupid fridge at the start of the fourth film. That's before you get to the dodgy crystal aliens. I think that was when I realised the wonderment of cinema was well and truly over.

Mochudubh · 15/10/2020 11:18

William Wallace shagging Princess Isabella in Braveheart.

The whole of Braveheart plays fast and loose with history but that was beyond ridiculous.

Cattenberg · 15/10/2020 11:38

I think that was actually mid to late 90's 😂

Oh dear Blush

I gave up on Neighbours a while ago. At one point, Mark Brennan was shot dead and Kate Ramsey mourned him. Then Kate was shot dead and it turned out that Mark wasn’t really dead after all, but in Witness Protection. And then Mark came out of Witness Protection and mourned Kate. WTAF? If I watched Neighbours after missing a few episodes, I felt as though I was going mad.

yetanothernamitynamechange · 15/10/2020 11:50

That bit in the stupid film about the plague where the crazy president gets ill and doesnt tell anyone and then when they find out he takes loads of steriods and dsicharges himself from hospital and drives about waving at people and then goes back to the white house in a helicopter and tells everyone its a good thing he has the virus and hes immune now and then he holds loads of rallies even though hes still infectious!
No way that could actuallly happen!

yetanothernamitynamechange · 15/10/2020 11:50

Oh crap, I just remembered that wasnt a film. I think I need to drink more.

Carouselfish · 15/10/2020 11:59

'No, not the bees!! Bitcheeesss!!' from Nicholas Cage in the remake of The Wicker Man. So bad it's classic.