10 God-Awful Scenes In Otherwise Perfect Movies

A director wiggling their way in front of the camera during the making of their own movie isn't exactly a shocking occurrence at this point.

Everyone from Peter Jackson to M. Night Shyamalan to Zack Snyder have found a way to write themselves into the action for a brief cameo appearance over the years. But there's popping up in a coffee shop for a blink-and-you'll-miss-it showing, and then there's sticking out like a sore thumb for an uncomfortably long amount of time in the middle of a stellar piece of work.

And that was most definitely the case when it came to Quentin Tarantino's baffling cameo in Django Unchained back in 2012, with the director's god-awful Australian accent and odd performance as LeQuint Dickey Mining Company employee Frankie being the worst sort of one-scene outing.

The entire sequence involving Jamie Fox's Django convincing his captors that he's actually a bounty hunter before tricking them into handing him a loaded weapon already felt like it was going on for an age. And likely would've done even without Tarantino's unwanted presence.

But with it, the never-ending and seemingly self-indulgent scene very nearly sank what had otherwise been one of his most compelling pictures to date.