10 Awesome Movie Scenes Trapped In Awful Movies
Fantastic Four isn't all bad.
Imagine you've just sat through your least favourite film of all time. No matter how poorly acted, badly paced, messy, cringey, or boring it might be, the people behind that movie worked their socks off to try and make it good.
Absolutely nobody sets out to make a bad piece of entertainment, and even the most derided cinematic efforts came from a place of love, care and hard work; as a result, it's not unusual to find one or two flashes of quality in even the most terrible of movies. Some films don't click together overall - whether that's because of a flawed concept, an overstuffed plot, or any other in a long list of potential issues - but more often than not, there's at least a bright spot or two.
While these moments don't save their movies overall, they're proof that even the worst flicks can do some good. Whether the filmmakers poured an extra amount of effort into them, or they simply got lucky and produced something memorable, these standout sequences deserve to be commended, despite the awful movies they're in.
10. The Fist Fight (Fist Fight)
Fist Fight is yet another passable blockbuster comedy in a seemingly endless line of them, joining the likes of Baywatch, Dirty Grandpa and Rough Night in recent years.
The idea of having two movie stars (Ice Cube and Charlie Day) beat the lights out of each other is a funny one, but it just couldn't sustain a full-length feature. That's evident by looking at the movie itself, which is pretty boring and tepid for the first 80 minutes, but contains a fun, lively final section in which the two lead actors engage in a spot of fisticuffs, absolutely battering each other for a solid ten minutes.
It's clear that the movie was pitched on this idea alone, given that it's the only good thing in it: there are some genuinely painful-looking punches and kicks, and Cube and Day do not hold back, beating each other senseless with tennis rackets, fire extinguishers, and school books.
It's hardly comedic genius, but the fight's surprising level of brutality gives the movie a much-needed jolt, and the hundreds of chanting onlookers give the showdown the vibe of a big wrestling event. Plus, the scene redeemed Day's character - who'd been a whiny pushover up until this point - since it saw him finally stand up for himself.