10 Great Movies With ONE Terrible Element
Black Panther's inexplicably awful CGI sinks the third act.
A great movie can be great for many different reasons, though generally stems from a winning combination of skillful filmmaking, sharp writing, and strong performances.
Yet no movie is perfect, and even the very best ones aren't above being admonished for their mistakes, especially if there's one particular element that just sticks out like a sore thumb.
That's absolutely true of these 10 movies, which for all of their tremendous accomplishments majorly dropped the ball in one key department.
The result is films of flawed brilliance - works of cinema with so much going for them that fell down hard in a way that proved distracting for many viewers.
Perhaps an ill-advised cameo was all anyone could think about when the movie ended, maybe the editing or cinematography fell far short of the mark, a corny musical score killed the mood, or there was a glaringly obvious mistake the audience couldn't help but notice.
Whatever the terrible element might be, it managed to draw attention away from each movie's general greatness, at least for a little while. Everyone makes mistakes, of course, though these filmmaking gaffes are most unfortunate indeed...
10. Tarantino's Cameo - Django Unchained
Quentin Tarantino has of course appeared in many of his own movies, and while the majority of his performances are entertaining if not at least passable, there's one toe-curlingly bad exception.
Django Unchained is a remarkable piece of work and one of Tarantino's most confident filmmaking efforts - overconfident, even, given that the director gives himself a cameo he's so horribly ill-suited for.
Tarantino makes a cameo late in the movie as an Australian slave trader, with the director rocking perhaps the worst attempt at an Australian accent ever committed to film.
While you can argue that Tarantino wasn't really trying to be convincing and was just playing the cameo for a campy laugh, it's ultimately more of a cringe-worthy distraction than entertaining, especially coming as late in the movie as it does.
The only solace is that his character gets a pretty epic death - being blown to exclusive pulp when Django (Jamie Foxx) shoots him right in the dynamite.
All the same, it's a scene that aggressively obliterates the audience's immersion and rips them out of what they're watching, which thankfully isn't the case for most of Tarantino's other cameos.