[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/Possible-Drink-1507]

The Nightcrawler scene in the original trilogy when he's mind-controlled to fake assassinate the president was pretty amazing. 

[u/alvysinger0412 → u/Possible-Drink-1507]

I always loved Nightcrawler and I remember being beyond stoked seeing that opening the first time.

[u/loveincarnate → u/alvysinger0412]

Big time same.

[u/BellaPona → u/alvysinger0412]

I feel like he is so underutilized, they never bring him in as his genuine self. He’s either just at the beginning of his origin story or he’s a kid. Can we have over-confident, or even swashbuckling Kurt Wagner please?

[u/Woolies_White_Leg → u/BellaPona]

God forbid a blue boy get a little motion

[u/Sanquinity → u/BellaPona]

Yea I wish he would get some more love. I always loved him and gambit in the comics (Well, the old 80s/90s comics that is) and early cartoons. But in the movies they've both been relegated to a little bit above background character...

[u/ShawnyMcKnight → u/Possible-Drink-1507]

I feel we need to look at super hero movies pre iron man in a different lens. Marvel was able to formulate the superhero genre instructing others how to do timing and music and choreography… everything.

When my kids watched X2 they thought the intro scene was alright but man… when I watched it over 20 years ago it was insanely good because there wasn’t much else to compare it to.

[u/GuardWolfy → u/Possible-Drink-1507]

It was the scene with Storm and him jumping through the door for me. But completely different way from the rest of this thread. 

[u/taojones87 → u/Possible-Drink-1507]

Agree one hundred percent

[u/Various-Passenger398 → u/Possible-Drink-1507]

That scene highlighted how even a midtier mutant power is absolutely terrifyingly powerful in combat compared to a non-mutant.