Most offensive scene in an SF or fantasy film...
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Wednesday, November 23, 2022 03:34
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Aeon Flux. Not the Cartoons, which were good and thoughtprovoking in a cyberpunk kinda fashion, but the horrible, terrible, sucky, so bad that I wouldn't wish it upon Reavers so that they wouldn't have to suffer through it, film. No point, not kinky or disturbing, etc. etc. and so forth.
The Secret Window. The part where Johnny Depp is eating the corn that he planted the dead body((ies)) under. Ughhh shudder shudder.
"I'm not going to say Serenity is the greatest SciFi movie ever; oh wait yes I am." - Orson Scott Card
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Question to my fellow Browncoats and this seems a perfect thread to put it in. Battlefield Earth. Worth a rental?
One movie I remember going to as a kid that was so bad my mother had to come (on a bus) and bring me home. I was seeing it with my older brothers (who were only a few years older than me) and they and she warned me that it might be too scary for someone my age. But as all kids do I told them I'd be alright, I wanted to go, I didn't think it would be so bad. Boy was I wrong.
It was called Grizzley and it was about this huge grizzley that was running around the woods killing people. I was young, neive, stupid. I didn't think there would be blood, I thought it was about a sweet bear.
I was only a little rattled during the movie, till it came to a point where a small boy only a little younger than me was hugged(crushed) by the grizzley and his head either popped off or he was split in two (I know body parts were involved) I screamed and cried and my bro's had to call my mom to come get me (in between I told you so's) because I didn't want to stay. My bro's didn't want to leave because they were enjoying themselves and thought it wasn't fair they had to leave just because their stupid little sister couldn't handle a little violence (Asshats) but really at that point you want the one who'll comfort you most and I wanted my mommy.
So I waited (by myself) in the lobby, my bro's OCCASIONALLY coming to check on me waiting for my mom. And stupid me as if I didn't get enough I popped my head in occasionally to see what was happening. My mom showed up after a long wait (bus) and by then the movie was over and we all went home and from that moment if certain movies appealed to me I'm warned off them.
Till it came to Event Horizon. My bro warned me (one of the two I saw Grizzley with years ago) I should have listened.
*whew* Haven't thought of that in years.
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Originally posted by Misstressahara:
Question to my fellow Browncoats and this seems a perfect thread to put it in. Battlefield Earth. Worth a rental?
No...run from Battlefield Earth. If you must watch it, I think it's playing on HBO through next month. That way you can save your money and be able to change the channel when it gets really bad.
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Originally posted by Zengrrl:
That way you can save your money and be able to change the channel when it gets really bad.
Having never seen this myself I feel compelled to ask. Are you suggesting there are some good parts?
On topic, many scenes in the extended version of Dune are quite nasty. The Baron spitting on Jessica, Raban crushing some helpless creature then sucking up the juice, and who can forget that wonderful heartplug scene.
I can't believe so many of you have such an aversion to Event Horizon. It's a simple, touching story about a man who loves his ship. I mean, as Browncoats, can we not all identify with that?
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Originally posted by Misstressahara:
Question to my fellow Browncoats and this seems a perfect thread to put it in. Battlefield Earth. Worth a rental?
To paraphrase Dawn: Some movie experiments are doomed before they begin.
Hey, I'm all up for bad movies (Ballistic: Ecks VS. Sever, anyone?), but Battlefield Earth is
in a class of it's own. Too much money behind it to be cheesy- not enough plot or character to be interesting. I think we've hit the bottom with this one- it's a movie I might want to view during the act of suicide.
Think like a really REALLY bad and more boring Waterworld, minus Costner, Hopper, the OK musical score and decent editing.
I think they were forceably showing it to prisoners at Abu Gharib....
And I saw Grizzly in the movies, it grossed me out, worse than Jaws! Arms flying all about- EEEEWWWWWWW!!!!!
But I was, like, 10.
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Humm...
Ultraviolet definitely goes down as one of the worst movies ever (Wimmer should have been happy with Equilibrium... Ultraviolet was a cinematic travesty in every way)
Underworld: Evolution was also dreadful. Kate Beckinsale in leather was the only saving grace. And even then, I found my attention wandering.
Aeon Flux. Ugh. No amount of lithe women in form-fitting vinyl kicking ass is gonna save this piece of crud.
Dungeons and Dragons. This is probably why folks who play the game get laughed at. Jeremy Irons, what the hell were you thinking when you agreed to be in this?
^-- Four movies that made me actually regret paying five bucks to rent 'em.
Other notables for cinematic crud-fests:
All of the Star Wars prequels (unfortunate, since I like most of the actors)
Both Matrix sequels (unfortunate, since I'm a fan of Fishburne and Weaving... but apparently the Wachowskis had been licking toads when they made these stinkers)
Bram Stoker's Dracula. What's worse than Keanu Reeves trying to act? Keanu Reeves trying to do an English accent. Only saving graces to this one is Gary Oldman and Tom Waits' performances.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Why in god's name did I actually buy this?
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. Unless you're fired up by CGI to the point of sexual ecstasy, or if you're a devout Final Fantasy fanboi, AVOID THIS AT ALL COSTS. Plot, story, character motivation, character introduction... y'know, all the stuff that they tell you to do in any first-year writing class? You won't find any of it here. Seriously. You know how the main character's allies are introduced? They literally just drop in during the midst of a fight. Literally drop in. From this zeppelin/plane thingy (no, we don't know what it is or where it came from). That's it. We're expected to know who the hell they are. I am so happy I downloaded this one rather than renting it. I'm not so happy that I actually watched it all the way through.
Is it so much to ask that film-makers nowadays, I dunno, take a bloody film course or two?
The movie that had the most shocking moment, in my opinion, was the climax to Caché. Not a sci-fi/fantasy movie, but if you watch the movie and see this scene, I guarantee you'll jump.
Assuming you stay awake through the movie. It may have cleaned up at Cannes, but it should have been about twenty minutes shorter, and a lot of the symbolism either isn't clear, or isn't carried through.
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I guess it was inevitable that this thread turn into a general movie critique, veering away from the original idea; Most offensive SCENE.
How about RoboCop 2? Offensive to our intelect in so many ways... When RoboCop 2 gets high on the Nuke... A cyborg with a drug habit? Sure, I believe it.
I was also deeply offended by the producers' use of a CHILD as one of the lead baddies. Every scene he was in offended me in a lot of ways. Shooting at cops, selling drugs, watching as RoboCop is dismantled. And when he's bleeding to death in a pile of money... Good taste, Hollywood.
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On the topic of offensive/traumatizing to children, I'll list Transformers: The Movie. I love my Transformers as much now as I did then, and seeing a whole bunch of your heroes massacred right in front of you, with no real consequence to the killers and no noble sacrifice, is pretty horrifying.
I've watched it with my 6-year-old nephew a few times, and it doesn't really have that affect anymore, since he wasn't watching the series as it aired. But it still makes me cringe a little.
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I find it ironic that Ultraviolet is the name of a really terrible movie when it's also the name of a brilliant TV show that aired in the UK.
The show was nothing to do with the movie. It was about vampires actually, but written very much as a cop show/crime drama. There were only about six episodes - UK TV series tend to be much shorter than the US as there are fewer writers - and it was never renewed or even repeated as far as I saw, but it was very well written and great to watch.
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Originally posted by patsrule:
If you genuinely think he was talking about Leonardo DaVinci (or a modern day version), you are deluding yourself. He was talking about Grammy winners, Academy Award Winners, Tony Award Winners, Emmy Award winners, etc. Hollywood is a self applauding entity and they were taking another chance to self applaud.
I honestly don't think the writers were bright enough to take the apportunity. I'm pretty sure they were just regurgitating what they'd learned in Humanities class about who the important people are: the intelligensia.
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