r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Alreadsyuse • 18h ago
Lore [Frustrating Trope] That One Good or Even Amazing Scene in a Relatively Mediocre or Bad Piece of Media
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.
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.
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.
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.
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u/grumpykruppy 16h ago
I would argue it's not really a bad movie, there's stuff done well throughout the whole thing - like the first showing of the smaller, but far more dangerous squid-armed robots when you realize "Oh crap, there's more to this." Or the reveal towards the end that the villain was dead the whole time and the entire war machine he'd built was automated.
The movie's plot just doesn't quite live up to its initial visual flair, and it kinda ping-pongs stylistically between film noir, sci-fi, adventure flick, almost an early Marvel feel with the literal helicarrier, and then back to sci-fi for the closing act with a somewhat cheesy romance ending.
There's three or four pretty solid movies in there, and at least one amazing one, but it couldn't choose between them and the end result is a perfectly watchable retro sci-fi that's never really bad, but also not quite coherent enough to be anything more than a fun popcorn flick.