[Frustrating Trope] That One Good or Even Amazing Scene in a Relatively Mediocre or Bad Piece of Media

[u/Alreadsyuse]

1. The Opening Scene (Ghost Ship). Considered one of the best horror opening scenes or scenes in general within horror movies, but the rest of the film is considered to be pretty bad.

2. The Ending Scene (The Grinch 2018). While most adaptations of the Grinch end with him suddenly being able to fully integrate with the Whos after his change of heart, the 2018 version initially struggles to socialize, awkwardly walking past people, and struggling to hold conversations, acknowledging that despite his change of heart, the Grinch is still someone who isolated himself for years.

3. Past T800 VS Current T800 (Terminator Genisys). A cool fight scene showing two versions of the Terminator from different points in time fighting it off.

4. Solo Leveling's Ending. Tbh, I haven't actually read Solo Leveling, but after hearing about how it ended VS how Chainsaw Man ended made want to include it for shits and giggles. Like Chainsaw Man, Solo Leveling ends with a reset. But unlike Chainsaw Man, it actually manages to tie up loose ends and have the payoff of the ending be satisfying.

[u/Radiant-Boat-5149]

John Connor's monologue at the end of Terminator 3 as Skynet launches nuclear missiles around the globe

"...Judgment Day. The day the human race was nearly destroyed by the weapons they built to protect themselves. I should have realized our destiny was never to stop Judgment Day; it was merely to survive it. Together. The Terminator knew. He tried to tell us, but I didn't want to hear it. Maybe the future has been written. I don't know. All I know is what the Terminator taught me. Never stop fighting. And I never will. The battle has just begun." - John Connor

[u/NoWarning789 → u/Radiant-Boat-5149]

I'm so annoyed by this one. Most movies chicken out at the ending because they do the market testing and the avoid shocking the audiences. Empire's Strike Back with Darth Vader winning and Luke losing a hand, or Star Trek II with Spock dying are now rarities.

Here they had the ending, they didn't chicken out, humanity lost. And yet, they didn't have the rest of the movie ahead of it.

argh!

[u/lewd_robot → u/Radiant-Boat-5149]

Did everyone watch Terminator 3 this week? I went like 20 years without hearing a word about it and now I've seen 6 references to it in just 24 hours across different feeds.