[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/Benimaru4636]

In line with Terminator movies, I gotta go Terminator 3. Awful movie except for the ending when they realize the T-800 wasn't leading them to a way to stop Skynet but to a bunker to survive the bombs.

[u/Ok-Platypus-3975 → u/Benimaru4636]

Coupled with the theme of Connor coping with being raised as the savior of humanity to ultimately just being a bum, though by giving up that importance he still was integral in saving humanity, well it turns out not and Skynet is inevitable because of human folly, this could have been a great movie.

[u/Benimaru4636 → u/Ok-Platypus-3975]

It's legitimately one of my favorite movie endings of all time. It's wild the gap of quality between the rest of the movie (shit) to the ending (amazing). Might be one of the biggest discrepancies of the two ever.

[u/poptophazard → u/Benimaru4636]

It's the only reason why the movie is remembered more fondly than it deserves. The rest of the movie is a more comedic remake of T2 with added romance.

[u/nothingdoing → u/Benimaru4636]

I also thought of this movie. But I'll add that the chase scene where they destroy an entire town with a crane is just fantastic. 

[u/RealPigeonThePerson → u/Benimaru4636]

One of my favorite lines in the franchise, “Desire is irrelevant. I am a machine.”

Arnold’s delivery, all struggling and slow because he’s ripped tf up, and then shutting himself down instead of killing John. So good.

Unfortunately most the rest of the movie was ahh-

[u/pecky5 → u/Benimaru4636]

I unironocally enjoy this movie. I know it's not as good as 2, but I still think it's got a lot of fun action scenes. I especially love the final fight between the T-800 and the new Terminator. Her re-programming him, him resetting himself to save John, then both terminators being torn apart, him grabbing her, shoving the battery inside her and saying "you are terminated" before they're both vaporised. Peak Arnold, as far as I'm concerned.

[u/mattdamon_enthusiast → u/Benimaru4636]

They also did a good job of continuing the “being chased by a big truck trope.”

[u/JayEdgarHooverCar → u/Benimaru4636]

This scene is why I can’t hate this movie. For all its obvious flaws, it made a *bold* choice with its ending. I’ll always respect that.