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That part where Freddy's arms are fishing rods


In A Nightmare on Elm Street, this is the only effect in the entire film that I feel is not up to snuff. It really takes me out of it, and scary quickly becomes silly. However, it's early enough in the movie, and the rest of the film contains pretty top notch effects considering the budget, that it recovers and it is truly a classic of horror. I love Nightmare, Freddy, the whole series really (not the remake,) but this moment always stands out to me. Are there any other movies that have one and only one moment that tarnishes their otherwise flawless reputation?

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I'll go with the final chapter - mod5 you can give a warning for this - Alice vs Isaacs : she got her fingers severed by the laser beem,then she drives a motorbike!?! Bloody hell!?

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Beauty and the Beast is pretty much my favourite movie, but there are two small moments I really dislike.

First is some lame joke during the battle in the castle in which a villager ends up in a living closet and then gets thrown out dressed up in a bikini, a tutu and a big red wig and screams. Simply immature and not funny.

Second is the argument between Belle and the Beast after he has rescued her from the wolves. Belle's final comeback is the worst ever. Pretty much the same one she used earlier. I could've come up with tons of better ones!

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You have to refresh me, what was the lame comeback?

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"Well you should learn to control your temper!"

One, that's no explanation for why she went into the West Wing while he forbade it.
Two, she already used that one when she said "Well, if you hadn't frightened me, I wouldn't have run away!"
Three, she should've said "And you shouldn't imprison people!". Bam!, she would've won the argument.

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Yeah that is pretty lame, the living closet thing is too. Otherwise good movie, good example.

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Also, The Mummy, which I think is a pretty perfect adventure comedy. Although the CGI is a bit dated at times, nothing is as bad as the moment Imhotep is defeated and dissolves in the river of death or whatever that black goo is. I already hated it at the time.

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Keeping it arm/hand themed. Dick Jones's arms at the end of Robocop.

Personal annoyance. The severed hand at the end of Evil Dead 2 that can climb a person while holding a dagger.

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The surfing scene in "Escape from LA"

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Yes! Great example

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Four Weddings and a Funeral is such a great movie. There is only one thing I dislike intensely. The casting of Andie MacDowell. The woman can't act! Most of the lines she utters just feels as though she's reading from cue cards!
Such a charming movie otherwise. Every time I watch it I think, There were thousands of American actresses they could have cast. Ones who could act. Ones who had some sort of chemistry with Hugh Grant!
OK. Rant is over.

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Is that the one where she's like "is it raining?" Um yeah Andie. I have always disliked her acting so much. She strongly enunciates the Ls in "walk" and "talk." Just wrong. Groundhog Day is the only movie I can tolerate her in.

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YES! "Is it raining? I hadn't noticed." I wonder if she looped those lines.
She was just so distracting in the middle of an otherwise great cast!

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It's so non sequitur that it feels like a line is missing, or an editing error. The writer was probably like, this will make so much sense when I get a great actress to say it, and then he didn't.

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I believe it was definitely the way she delivered it. She could have paused after she said,"Is it raining?" She could have looked around, then looked at him and smiled before she said,"I hadn't noticed."
Where was the directer? Ah well....

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