No matter how great a movie might be, the perfect one doesn’t exist, as there’s always something that doesn’t quite hit right or perhaps could’ve been done a teensy bit better. That’s the nature of art, and there’s nothing wrong with that.
All the same, it can be jarring when an otherwise smoothly controlled, genuinely terrific film lets a single duff scene slip through the cracks, enough that you have to wonder how the filmmakers involved fell so blatantly asleep at the wheel. And that’s certainly the case with the following 10 films, which, while widely acclaimed by critics and fans, nevertheless served up one woeful scene that fell totally flat.
From misplaced fan service to egregious use of AI, an ill-conceived credits sequence, or a misguided happy ending, these otherwise fantastic movies all whiffed it in a single scene.
While it hardly ruins each of the films overall, it does nevertheless taint the experience, as proves frustrating considering how easily avoided it all was in most cases. But again, such is the nature of filmmaking – even as directors strive for perfection, there are always going to be rough edges that just don’t work.
Christopher Nolan’s Best Picture-winning epic biopic Oppenheimer is an incredible cinematic achievement any way you slice it, though like most of Nolan’s films, it’s not without its unintentionally goofy moments. And by far the most infamous scene from Oppenheimer takes place early on, when Nolan decides to invoke the title character’s iconic one-liner in a wholly unexpected context.
It was inevitable that Oppenheimer’s “I am become Death, destroyer of worlds” quotation from the Hindu scripture Bhagavad Gita – which he quoted in an interview reflecting on the Trinity Test – was going to be featured in the film, but did anyone expect it to show up during a sex scene?
Mere seconds after Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) and Jean Tatlock (Florence Pugh) stop their lovemaking, she grabs the Ghagavad Gita from his bookshelf and encourages him to read it, at which point he speaks the line, and the duo then resume their amourous activities.
It feels like Nolan knew he had to include the quote in the film but didn’t want to do it in the most obvious way possible, but why a sex scene? It comes off totally unnatural, even silly, to shove the quote into the movie mid-coitus. It’s by far the worst, most distracting moment in an otherwise outstanding film.
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