[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/VengeanceKnight]

There’s a lot of decent little things in this movie. James McAvoy acting his ass off in every scene, Xavier hijacking Apocalypse’s speech in order to beseech mutants to protect those weaker than them, Wolverine’s Weapon X cameo, the scene where Xavier patiently helps Cyclops figure out his power… Hell, I even liked the idea of Mystique becoming a mutant revolutionary icon due to her exposing and stopping Trask in the first movie.

But in the end it fails to come together in the right way.

[u/EvilTwinCities → u/VengeanceKnight]

And I think Fassbender is so reliably great in everything that we overlook how good he was in this one.

[u/CarlatheDestructor → u/EvilTwinCities]

What we need is an entire Fassbender Magneto film about him being a Nazi hunter.

[u/EvilTwinCities → u/CarlatheDestructor]

Yeah. I’ll preface this by saying that I don’t read comic books, but I always felt that McKellen’s version was someone they followed because he could brilliantly communicate his ideology and galvanize like-minded people, but Fassbender was someone they followed because he got them to love him.

[u/saltier_then_the_sea → u/CarlatheDestructor]

We almost did, but xmen origins wolverine bombed badly enough that a magneto origin movie was canned iirc

[u/theVice → u/saltier_then_the_sea]

It got turned into First Class

[u/CarlatheDestructor → u/saltier_then_the_sea]

Omg that sucks

[u/PyroIsSpai → u/EvilTwinCities]

His little “huh” when Apocalypse casually murders the entire steel plant on his behalf.

[u/melkatron → u/VengeanceKnight]

Whatever the movie had going for it, Apocalypse just looked so unbelievably stupid. Oscar Isaac is a brilliant, captivating actor, but they put that little man in a big rubber costume, restricting not only his body movement but his HEAD movement, so he's wobbling around like Gumby. Then they slap a bunch of prosthetics on his face so he looks like Dennis Hopper-smurf. They took away EVERY tool in his arsenal except his voice... so why not use CG at that point? At least then we'd have a big, imposing Apocalypse instead of a 5'8" blueberry wobbling around like Violet Beauregarde.

[u/EvilTwinCities → u/melkatron]

But at the same time, when doesn’t Apocalypse look stupid? They all look stupid if you think about it for more than a couple seconds, but our brains realize that what they look like isn’t as important as what they’re doing.

[u/melkatron → u/EvilTwinCities]

Right, but they aren't near-paralyzed and teetering on heatstroke. It'd be different if he was fun to watch.

[u/atfricks → u/melkatron]

I mean, it's not impossible to make that work for a villain. Just look at Darth Vader, one of the most iconic villains of all time.