10 EXACT Moments Movies Self-Destructed

10. The Video Game Scene - The Beach

Danny Boyle's The Beach is a plenty flawed movie and not-particularly-good adaptation of Alex Garland's novel, but it well and truly loses itself at the end of the second act, when protagonist Richard (Leonardo DiCaprio) finds himself being pursued through the jungle by Thai farmers.

This might sound like the sort of taut set-piece that Danny Boyle could knock out in his sleep, but Boyle decided instead to get real weird with it - and not good weird.

Suddenly, Richard imagines himself in a low-poly video game, running through the jungle complete with a HUD containing lives and points, while he attempts to avoid awful CGI animals.

Though the intent was clearly to show Richard's descent into madness, the end result is ultimately more goofy than unsettling, largely due to the horrible effects and Leonardo DiCaprio's exaggerated movements and facial expressions.

It feels embarrassingly like what somebody who's never played a video game in their life thinks games are, and though games are also mentioned by Richard in the novel, this nevertheless smacks of something a studio exec insisted be shoved into the movie in an attempt to seem "down with the kids."

Even when the movie released back in 2000, people found it soul-destroyingly cringe-worthy, and that sentiment has only grown over the near-quarter-century since.