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Post by dph on Jul 22, 2010 8:00:34 GMT -5
I had to go with the teleportation scene. I actually had to rewind when I first saw it. After that I was rolling with laughter.
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Post by inlovewithcrow on Jul 22, 2010 8:05:11 GMT -5
The teleportation is just an editing problem, and I always got Bowler Hat guy, so not those. "Watch out for snakes" as a bit of ADR could have worked--they just didn't bother to do it right It wouldn't be such an odd thing to say in that situation. I voted for the Hitler Building. I like the additions people have offered.
Some movies, I'm WTF-ing as if I have Tourette's. Like...what's with the giant Q-tip fighting scene in Quest of the Delta Knights? Why does Coleman Francis strangle his producer in bed in RZC? (Okay, I know that one, but it still is WTF for me because of the delay in his reaction and the bad acting all around, so that it feels like it doesn't follow logically.) Coleman Francis is the King of the WTF, isn't he?. The Scotsman dancing in Skydivers, WTF?
The "magic" scene in Pod People. Blind guy saying "Help me" in Rocket Attack USA. When "Chinese" begins to come out of the radio in Batwoman.
And much bad science makes me say WTF, as do scenes that are attempting to sexually titillate but halt the plot to do so, like many of the dance numbers. Cuts to puppets that looked nothing like the full-size version, as in Werewolf. When in Touch of Satan, the girl says "This is where the fish live," WTF kind of flirting line is that? In Phantom Planet, the "good and beautiful" speech--I love the philosophy, but whyTF then and there? In Werewolf, when the soundtrack gets flipped off by the hero turning off the radio.
Thinking about this too hard makes me really appreciate the quite bad movies that at least made sense all the way through. In comparison, something like Final Justice or Revenge of the Creature seems competent.
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Post by stevehadcrackers on Jul 22, 2010 10:57:06 GMT -5
^^ I almost added the warping time and space scene from Pod People, as well as "This is where the fish lives" from Tough of Satan. The "OTCHKA!" scene from Incredible Melting Man is up there for me too, as well as the "You know I'm not married, Ted" line. The "good and beautiful" speech from Phantom Planet is great; maybe someone should make a poll about our favorite bits of bad dialogue.
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Post by mrsphyllistorgo on Jul 22, 2010 12:00:26 GMT -5
I have to go with a couple of my own:
The Snoopy car scene from Blood Waters of Dr. Z. Dog Ear Hair scientist guy gets on his little car, drives it into the river, tips it over, gets bitten by a water moccasin, and climbs onto the bank to start flailing around. This was all shot in one take, no cuts, and used intact in the movie. WHY IN THE HOLY HELL DID HE DRIVE INTO THE WATER IN THE FIRST PLACE??? There was no reason to! The Snoopy car clearly was either not meant to be an aquavehicle or DEH guy had no idea how to drive in water. He literally isn't in for one second before he wrecks the damn thing! Was it all to set up him getting bitten by the snake? Why? That's never referenced again either!! WHY? WHY?
My other WTF moment is from Time of the Apes, when all our protagonists are tied up to a tree by the evil apes of the future. The head ape orders them untied, than tells them to get out of there, and fires a few shots in the air to motivate them.
The second, THE VERY SECOND, they take off, he orders his men to capture them at any cost! The hell??? You had them captured! You had them tied to a tree!!! YOU LET THEM GO AND CHASED THEM OFF!! How the hell are you in charge of anything, you moron?
Sorry, I get emotional. Your poll is very nice.
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Post by Nuveena on Jul 22, 2010 12:04:24 GMT -5
Either "Watch out for snakes!" or the disembodied voice reading the out-of-context incorrect Biblical quote at the end.
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Post by inlovewithcrow on Jul 22, 2010 12:21:15 GMT -5
Nothing comes close to the Hitler Building, in my opinion. Has anyone figured out what the heck that was about, in any case? Okay, I have this theory which is complicated and probably wrong, which I'll shorten a great deal here, about the nature of these invasion-type Japanese pictures (as well as the monster movies) being an emotional cultural response to losing WWII and getting nuked (notice how, in that movie, they think for awhile that the US is behind all this--or is that in Prince of Space? Well, same movie anyway, so does it matter?) And I think the shot of the Hitler building is a conscious jab at Allies, as in, "We in the Axis powers should won nyah nyah nyah." I'm sure this isn't an original idea, and I've truncated it here, but that's how I read it.
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Post by Afgncaap5 on Jul 22, 2010 12:34:49 GMT -5
PIG! LICKER!
That wasn't just a moment. That lasted the entire song. And to this day, no one's entirely sure why.
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Post by Blue Raja on Jul 22, 2010 12:58:18 GMT -5
Would it be possible to also nominate the "Rake Fight" from Hobgoblins? (Though the others mentioned are just as deserving here, the "Rake Fight" made my jaw drop like no other scene has...)
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Post by lilacetoile on Jul 22, 2010 14:46:19 GMT -5
"Watch out for snakes!"
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Post by solgroupie on Jul 22, 2010 15:04:44 GMT -5
if i go by the poll, i'd have to choose the final shot of the watch in danger! death ray. it was so completely WTF for me and still is every time i watch it, even when i know it's coming.
off the poll, i'd have to go with "chinese" scene in batwoman. that was just surreal.
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Post by fathermushroom on Jul 22, 2010 18:43:40 GMT -5
Of those listed, I vote for Hitler Building. It seriously made me rewind and pause many times back in the day, trying to determine if it really was what it appeared to be. And I just couldn't reach any conclusion except yes, that's der Fuhrer all right. There he is, right there. Ka-Blam!
As to "what was that about?," I think it was just shabby handling of stock war footage. "Nobody will notice."
But Inlovewithcrow (who I remain inlovewith myself) has called out a bunch of other worthy nominees. The Chinese thing in Batwoman is certainly a contender.
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Post by crowschmo on Jul 22, 2010 21:32:45 GMT -5
Other. The underwater scene in The Magic Voyage of Sinbad. The Russo-Finnish movies are good for this topic. The walking house in Jack Frost. The woman talking to the road in The Day the Earth Froze. Yeah, lady - that'll help. How 'bout the chick that was killed in Space Mutiny then shows up again later? That's dedication to one's job, eh?
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Post by mrsphyllistorgo on Jul 23, 2010 12:47:41 GMT -5
Sadly, there is an explanation for the walking house in Jack Frost. The character of the wierd old witch is a very well known figure in Russian Lit, Baba Yaga. She lived in a walking house with chicken legs, and flew around causing mischief in a giant ladle. (Remember when she flies in to enlist the incompetent theives? That's a ladle she's sitting in.)
In Soviet Russia, Bizarre elements of film make SENSE!
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Post by inlovewithcrow on Jul 23, 2010 13:04:36 GMT -5
Sadly, there is an explanation for the walking house in Jack Frost. The character of the wierd old witch is a very well known figure in Russian Lit, Baba Yaga. She lived in a walking house with chicken legs, and flew around causing mischief in a giant ladle. (Remember when she flies in to enlist the incompetent theives? That's a ladle she's sitting in.) In Soviet Russia, Bizarre elements of film make SENSE! Totally true! But wasn't that kicking thing she did in the argument (and whatshisname's kicking response) pretty WTF? I'd take a walking house over that choreography any ol' day.
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Post by inlovewithcrow on Jul 23, 2010 13:05:31 GMT -5
But Inlovewithcrow (who I remain inlovewith myself) . He's forever sending me pm's saying "I know where the fish live" It's a little weird.
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