10 Moments That Ruined Amazing Movie Scenes
9. Magneto Switches To English - X-Men: First Class
X-Men: First Class features one of the most badass scenes from any X-Men movie, when Erik Lehnsherr aka Magneto (Michael Fassbender) is shown hunting down a pair of Nazis in an Argentinian bar.
The very Tarantino-esque sequence features dialogue spoken entirely in German, and after Magneto cleans house, the one remaining Nazi asks him who he is.
At this point we dolly in beautifully as Magneto suddenly switches to English and says, "Let's just say I'm Frankenstein's monster... and I'm looking for my creator," before finishing the Nazi off.
It's such a cool, well orchestrated scene, and yet the random switch to English makes no sense at all. Why would he do this when talking to a German?
It was merely a theatrical flourish for the audience's benefit, perhaps because director Matthew Vaughn thought the line sounded cooler and more emphatic in English. But it's also distractingly nonsensical, because nobody talks like this in real life.
And that's without even getting into Fassbender's accent, which inexplicably becomes American the moment he reverts back to English. Baffling.