10 Perfect Scenes In God-Awful Movies

1. Quicksilver - X-Men: Apocalypse

X-Men Apocalypse
Fox

By introducing the X-Men's deadliest adversary, X-Men: Apocalypse looked like it had the potential to be the most epic superhero movie ever. But due to aching run-time, excessive CGI, and awful looking villain, we got another disappointing X-Men threequel (which is a joke the movie itself points out.)

If it wasn't for the scene revolving around Quicksilver (Evan Peters), Apocalypse would've been a 144-minute snoozefest. Although we've seen fastest mutant alive save the day at break-neck speed in X-Men: Days of Future Past, this dull follow-up dials everything up to 11.

After En Sabuh Nur aka Apocalypse (Oscar Isaac) blows up the X-Mansion, it looks like the X-Men are done for. But a few milliseconds before the building goes up in smoke, the silver-haired speedster zips through the X-Men's home, hurling the students outside to safety.

As creative as this premise is, it's Evan Peters' playful charisma that makes this scene iconic. While watching the young actor moonwalking, surfing on a table, and rescuing a pizza-chomping dog while fire flurries around him, it's impossible not to be wowed over. With Eurythmics Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) playing throughout, you can't watch this scene without a smile on your face.

But as soon as this rescue sequence comes to an end, the film goes right back to being a forgettable, bloated mess.

At least it was good while it lasted.

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