20 Dumbest Moments In DC Movies

By Jack Pooley /

5. The Basketball Scene - Catwoman

There are plenty of terrible scenes in 2004's Halle Berry-starring Catwoman movie, but none were as unconscionably idiotic as the basketball game between Catwoman (Berry) and Detective Tom Lone (Benjamin Pratt) at the encouragement of a playground full of kids. The scene's set to Mis-Teeq's hit tune Scandalous, the editing is atrocious, the camera angles are constantly dutched, there's not really any actual basketball being played, and there's a "cheeky" sexual tension to the whole thing (pretty inappropriate given the setting, no?), which ends with Catwoman landing on top of Tom after sinking a shot. It's a scene that tells the audience almost nothing worth knowing, a painfully stupid 100 second abuse of a classic DC character. And then there's the rest of the film...