20 Most WTF Movie Moments Of 2020
The year's most insane and unforgettable movie moments.
Though it's fair to say that Hollywood couldn't even begin to match the sheer WTF moment that was real life in 2020, the year's slate of cinematic offerings nevertheless delivered their own share of things to be baffled by.
Whether intentionally messed up or a simple failure of creative intent, these 20 movie moments represent the most disturbing, shocking, hilarious, and downright weird scenes to pass before moviegoers' eyeballs over the past 12 months.
From insanely controversial moments which left audiences heavily debating a movie's merits, to brutal death scenes, insane cameos, and endings that burrowed themselves deep into our brains, cinema didn't get much more memorable than this in 2020.
No matter the genre or whether you saw it on a screen big or small, these are the definingly oddball, creepy, riotous, and gnarly scenes that got everyone talking, and won't leave our memories for the foreseeable future.
Even if cinema struggled to keep up with the weirdness of real life this past year, these 20 films all took a hard swing for the fences regardless...
20. The Controversial Sound Mixing - Tenet
Ever since The Dark Knight Rises, Christopher Nolan's movies have been noted for their unconventional sound mixes, where dialogue clarity is far from Nolan's focal concern, leading to considerable audience frustration.
This reached its apex in Nolan's new film Tenet, where the director intentionally drowned much of the dialogue out by boosting the environmental sound effects and also Ludwig Göransson's booming musical score.
Given the film's considerable narrative complexity, it ensured many audience members were left more irritated than thrilled, desperately trying to make sense of the scarcely audible exposition dumps, with key dialogue often simply mumbled underneath gas masks.
Nolan defended the sound mix following the public outcry, noting that he prefers his movies to sound "impressionistic" above all else.
Yet for anyone trying to make sense of the director's heady action film, the soupy sound mix made it far more of a chore than anyone expected.
More to the point, for a film supposedly sent to cinemas to "save" the global box office, actively designing it to work against audience comprehension wasn't the smartest idea.