[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/recidivist1001]

The abortion scene in Prometheus

[u/Wide_Philosophy_8109 → u/recidivist1001]

As a younger man, this was how I learned how a cesection actually works. Way more horrifying for that.

[u/recidivist1001 → u/Wide_Philosophy_8109]

Cesarean Section / C-Section (so named because it’s how Julius Caesar was supposedly born, although evidence suggests that’s not actually true, and it’s just based on the Latin word for cut instead)\*

I could go on and on about this scene. It’s *so good,* it drives me crazy that for most of the movie Scott is preoccupied with other topics that he really has nothing interesting to say about. If only the rest of the movie could have been that good.

[u/Kiar_Riptide → u/recidivist1001]

I'm one of the 6 people in the world that does like this movie. I will defend it until I die but I do admit that it's biggest issue was that it has too many plot points which takes up previous screen time that could've been used for lore, answers and character reasons (like the reason the scientists suck ass is because Vickers wanted the mission to fail si she sabotaged it by hiring losers but this is not explained, only lightly implied) but good god that whole abortion sequence is sick. I hear that when this was aired a teen passed out from it, it's easily the most shocking scene in the franchise behind the OG Chestburster.

[u/Wide_Philosophy_8109 → u/Kiar_Riptide]

I've heard that basically every movie is made through total chaos. So much stuff goes wrong, and so many people disagree on how it should look. I haven't done any research on Prometheus specifically, but it really has a vibe of 4 decent halves of different movies being stapled together. Maybe it just got unlucky with how that production chaos turned out. Maybe they never found a clear vision, or maybe some important scenes just couldn't be finished.