Redeeming scenes of otherwise lackluster or mediocre comics movies

[Gamingboy]

A friend once told me that every movie, no matter how bad, has at least one scene that is awesome. If it's in a bad or underwhelming movie, you will say "WHY COULDN'T THE REST OF THE MOVIE BE THIS GOOD!?!".

I then pointed out to him Plan 9 from Outer Space. But I know he had a point.


So what scenes from comics movies make you say "WHY COULDN'T THE REST OF THE MOVIE BE THIS GOOD?!"


I have a few (note: some of these movies are of a debatable quality, please don't flame anyone for their opinions):

Superman Returns: The Shuttle/Airplane rescue. One of the most entertaining scenes in movie history. I can remember that people in the theatre I was in actually cheered.

Fantastic Four: The scene dealing with the aftermath of Ben becoming the Thing (trying to dial a phone, getting dumped because of his appearance, etc). Chiklis was what kept those FF movies from being the most unwatchable things in history.

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: When the previous leagues are referenced.

Original Hulk: "Don't make me angry, you wouldn't like me when I'm angry".

 

[The Joker]

Spider-Man 3: Birth of Sandman, and the mansion fight with Harry.

 

[jaymes_e06]

X3: All Phoenix scense

 

[bullets]

X Men : The Last Stand

The character of Beast i thought was well done.


Spider-Man 3

I thought alot of the scenes involving Sandman ; his transformation ,the robbery and black spidey vs sandman were all good .

 

[cerealkiller182]

Yes to the scenes involving Thing, Beast, and Sandman

I also thought the Human Torch was really well done.

 

[Gamingboy]

As bad as the entire movie is, Batman and Robin does have two redeeming factors (although I still say that Clooney would've been a good Batman if, y'know, he had a serious script):

1. The nod of having Jason Woodrue give Poison Ivy her powers
2. Michael Gough as Alfred

 

[shapeshifter]

Daredevil, his costume. every other aspect of that movie sucked

 

[Gamingboy]

Daredevil, his costume. every other aspect of that movie sucked

Agreed, that costume was awesome. Stan Lee's cameo was pretty good too (aren't they all?).

 

[BLACKVULCAN]

for me it was The Punisher. I know alot of people disliked it, but i didn't think it was all that bad due to these couple scenes:

1) When Frank finds the skull face shirt he had gave his kid,after it washes up on shore.I thought that was a cool way to introduce the costume without the typical "Oh i need a costume to wear".Also wearing that didn't allow the wounds of what he had lost to ever close. great scene.
2)Frank sitting along in his apartment with booze about to empty a clip into himself.That really showed a tortured soul who would rather just be done with it all over losing his family.Really gave a heart to stone cold hearted Punisher.
3) The assassin telling Frank that this is what he would sing at his funeral and then begins to play it. That was creepy as hell.That made that guy more of a sinister villain than Travolta did throughout that whole movie.

Tomas Jane did a great job IMO being the Punisher and it sucks that the people behind it didn't see that and make a great Punisher movie!

 

[Iron_Stark]

Johnny Storm chasing Silver Surfer was the only thing watchable in that movie.

 

[co2]

3) The assassin telling Frank that this is what he would sing at his funeral and then begins to play it. That was creepy as hell.That made that guy more of a sinister villain than Travolta did throughout that whole movie.

Agreed (That was such a samurai/western movie moment. The movie made a big mistake by not having him in it more.)

Johnny Storm chasing Silver Surfer was the only thing watchable in that movie.

Agreed (That's why the teaser was that very scene).

Daredevil, his costume. every other aspect of that movie sucked

Annnnnd agreed. The leather actually worked, and it made sense too. (Though Jennifer Garner's costume was easy on the eyes as well.)


Any time this topic comes up, probably the most agreed upon scene is Clark vs Evil Superman at the junk yard in Superman III. A fun (although "make-no-sense") scene in an otherwise bad film.

I can't think of many more that stand out to me.

 

[LuiECuomo]

As bad as the entire movie is, Batman and Robin does have two redeeming factors (although I still say that Clooney would've been a good Batman if, y'know, he had a serious script):

1. The nod of having Jason Woodrue give Poison Ivy her powers
2. Michael Gough as Alfred

Hmmm...I was going to mention the (short) scene of Freeze in Arkham sculpting the ice statuette of his wife out of clock gears. A very beautiful scene with haunting music (reminiscent of Danny Elfman). The imagery looks like something out of "Batman Returns" and Arnold actually seems to emote here. The whole affair is a very poignant and respectful tribute to Batman: The Animated Series.

 

[IRON_Lad]

Hmmm...I was going to mention the (short) scene of Freeze in Arkham sculpting the ice statuette of his wife out of clock gears. A very beautiful scene with haunting music (reminiscent of Danny Elfman). The imagery looks like something out of "Batman Returns" and Arnold actually seems to emote here. The whole affair is a very poignant and respectful tribute to Batman: The Animated Series.

 

[OwlBoy]

As bad as the entire movie is, Batman and Robin does have two redeeming factors (although I still say that Clooney would've been a good Batman if, y'know, he had a serious script):

1. The nod of having Jason Woodrue give Poison Ivy her powers
2. Michael Gough as Alfred

3. Alicia Silverstone's ass shot

 

[J. J. Jameson]

Spider-Man 3:
-Peter/Harry first fight
-The Harry/Peter team-up/battle royale at the end of the movie...fantastic.

X-Men 3:
-Magneto moving the bridge. Evoked some great memories of Grant Morrison's X-Men
-"I'm the Juggernaut, *****!"

Fantastic Four:
-Jessica Alba

Fantastic Four 2:
-Jessica Alba

Hulk:
-Hulk vs. hulk-dogs

Batman and Robin:
-There is nothing redeeming about this trash.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

There is a lot of quality in B&R. The cinematography is superb. The pacing, the production design, the model work, the CGI (the opening scenes of Batman, Robin and Freeze falling through the Gotham sky line is almost Spider-Man 3 quality, ten years beforehand), the overall theme of how we cope with loss of family....

 

[November Rain]

the obvious one for me is the burly brawl in matrix reloaded but i guess this isn't open to all comic book films.

I would also defend daredevil in saying the flashback scenes of him getting his powers are amazing, not to mention seeing daredevil 'power down' and go to sleep after a hectic night of fighting.

 

[cerealkiller182]

I really liked the scene of Bullseye in the Irish Pub

 

[Chris Wallace]

The beginning of "Elektra".

 

[November Rain]

I've gotta say i rewatched teh 2003 punisher last night and there were some awesome quotes in this...

I was also thinking castle would make an awesome bruce wayne, it's actually a lot better than i originally thought but still very light in areas, if it had layed off the comedy been slightly darker and had more castle as punisher in it and less emphasis on one family (having castle doing raids on other crimelords involved with the Saints) then it could have been very very good.

'God's gonna sit this one out'

THe intent letter

'Check the papers for me....Obituaries'

these were all classic lines...

 

[Drizzle]

The scene where Alfred is in bed talking to Bruce in "Batman and Robin"

Anything with Silver Surfer in "Fantastic Four 2"

V's final showdown in "V For Vendetta"

 

[BobJM]

I loved V for Vendetta, every scene of it.

 

[cerealkiller182]

The 89 Punisher or whatever year it was:

The black cop part was great. I liked the idea of his friend trying to hunt him down.

The opening scene where he takes everyone out was cool too.

The 2003 Punisher:

The Russian fight

 

[Chris Wallace]

The development of Robin's character.

 

[Gilpesh]

The action scenes of Wanted. Other than that meh.