Topic: Dumbest Scene in a Movie

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SPOILERS AHOY!

John Reid's absolute wussification and unwillingness to become a man until the final half hour of Gore Verbinski's The Lone Ranger (it would be fine if it weren't two and a half hours long). That was dumb; but then, so was the damn movie! Everything's come full circle!

The Bodyguard - there is an absolute pointless scene where Whitney Houston's other bodyguard scuffles with Kevin Costner bodyguard because the other got left behind in a riot. But, being the movie that it is, Kevin outdoes him with a knife fight and once it's done Kevin's all like, "Don't do that again" and the movie acts like it never happened! What the hell was the point? To show that Kevin is an able bodyguard?

Rocket Man - Heh heh, speaking of things that were absolutely pointless: the movie's really bad, but there is a scene that takes place in a bar that really gets to me. The main character is taken advantage of, takes all these drinks from shot glasses, stacks all said glasses in a pyramid with fire on all of them (I'm surprised the table cloth did not catch on fire), then the main character "acts" all drunk going wild, the love interest of the movie shows up, he accidentally falls on top of her to the ground, she gets upset, tells him to "grow up" (because the main character is offensively annoying), and... that's it! We cut to a scene where he's in bed, and then the rest of the movie acts like it never happened (not even a single reference towards it). You know, sometimes I question the inclusion of pointless scenes that are never brought up again; maybe it was to pad out the running time. Makes sense to me!

Prometheus - "Hey, look! Isn't she beautiful?" "I don't think you want to do that." "Hey, it's okay, it won't hur------- ARRRRGH, IT'S HURTING ME, IT'S BREAKING MY AR-------------ARRRRRRRGH!!!!" Even before I acknowledged that the movie as a whole was terribly unfocused, this scene just offensively made me feel embarrassed because it just felt out of place in a movie like this, and I felt embarrassed for the director (because he had to rely on a script like that for this movie). No scientist would do anything this stupid; you see a dangerous-looking creature you don't try to pet it! And what's worse, Ridley Scott directed Alien - that movie was a hundred times better than this so-called "prequel" (I'm hoping that the sequel will be less painful to sit through).

Superman II - the scene where Zod, Ursa, and Non literally blow people away; it drags on too long.

Superman III - now I don't hate the movie like a lot of people do, but it doesn't mean that I'm blind to its issues. There's the whole slapstick-laden title sequence (the title gets offscreen as soon as it gets in; funny thing: the mime in that sequence is played by a man called "Justin Case"... I'm convinced that he was only hired because of that inconsequential name), and one of the problems with the movie is that a lot of the comedy is not funny (leave it to Richard Lester to throw every gag he can at you). There's one moment when Richard Pryor's Gus Gorman is about to say something to Robert Vaughn's Webster, but he accidentally slides down the snowy slope, falls off the balcony, several dozen stories, landing on the downward slanted glass ceiling, and after he falls off that he lands on the skis, unharmed. Now that scene is not so much dumb so much as not funny, he could've been killed. What is dumb is a scene later on when the three bad guys go down on parachutes but Gus declines instead going down to the hideout on a mule because "I just don't believe a man can fly!" Whabejabe, you do know that Superman can fly right, have not heard of him before this movie??? I get that Gus is afraid of heights, but he doesn't have to express it outwardly like that. That was just dumb to me (and before anyone says he might be referring to humans that cannot fly, I don't care, that line still gets to me).

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 - Jamie Foxx's Max Dillon. Also, the theme that plays whenever he's onscreen, it is just too silly to take seriously.
Chester A. Bum: "COMEDY!!!!"

The Last Airbender - can you guess how many Earthbenders it takes to lift a ball-sized rock off the ground? I'll give you a hint: it's not one, but six.

Godzilla's Revenge - oh man, this movie's just incredible! It's got everything you could want from a Godzilla movie: bullies, children, wild fantasies, stock footage, poor dubbing, lots of literally quiet atmosphere, little Godzilla in it, short running length, bank robbers. Truly this movie's a classic! Seriously though, the original and newest Godzilla movies were more engaging than this.

Krull - now I love this movie, it's one of my favorites (even as a clear cheesefest), but there is one thing that's always bothered me whenever I watch it. Whenever Princess Lyssa speaks, it's not really the actress that is speaking, but a much older woman, and I find this sad because Lysette Anthony has a very good voice. Damn you producers who backed up on this dumb decision! shakes fist

Insidious: Chapter 2 - the fact that it was made and released after the excellent The Conjuring. James Wan should've ended his horror directorship on a much better note than this. Completely devalues the first Insidious.

Hey Arnold! The Movie - every single thing imaginable; like the fact that Arnold, Gerald, Helga, and Scheck are the only characters who are shaded while everyone else is flat! Flat!!! That's lazy! There is a pointless scene where Bob turns into the Incredible Hulk but is cut short, there is a sexual innuendo (two, technically) that comes right out of nowhere near the end, the pacing is uneven, the climax is unexciting, a lot of the things that happen are dumb, and it is just a dumb dumb movie overall! There was no care or consideration at all to make the story or the movie remotely good. Nickelodeon should've outright said "No!" to Paramount after they suggested to turn it into a theatrical release; because it's worked so well with the Rugrats movies, why not give this one the same treatment?

Batman and Robin -

To each their own