10 Terrible Scenes From Awesome Recent Movies

10. "I Am Become Death" - Oppenheimer

Christopher Nolan's Best Picture-winning epic biopic Oppenheimer is an incredible cinematic achievement any way you slice it, though like most of Nolan's films, it's not without its unintentionally goofy moments. And by far the most infamous scene from Oppenheimer takes place early on, when Nolan decides to invoke the title character's iconic one-liner in a wholly unexpected context.

It was inevitable that Oppenheimer's "I am become Death, destroyer of worlds" quotation from the Hindu scripture Bhagavad Gita - which he quoted in an interview reflecting on the Trinity Test - was going to be featured in the film, but did anyone expect it to show up during a sex scene?

Mere seconds after Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) and Jean Tatlock (Florence Pugh) stop their lovemaking, she grabs the Ghagavad Gita from his bookshelf and encourages him to read it, at which point he speaks the line, and the duo then resume their amourous activities.

It feels like Nolan knew he had to include the quote in the film but didn't want to do it in the most obvious way possible, but why a sex scene? It comes off totally unnatural, even silly, to shove the quote into the movie mid-coitus. It's by far the worst, most distracting moment in an otherwise outstanding film.