5. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - Douchebag Overkill
There's no denying that The Good, The Bad and The Ugly is a classic slice of cinema, superbly directed by Sergio Leone, amazingly acted by Lee Van Cleef, Clint Eastwood and Eli Wallach, with a superb score from Ennio Morricone. It is the quintessential Western that most people think of when the word comes up in conversation, but there's one scene that spoils the lot, and that's early on when Angel Eyes is seen assaulting a woman in order to obtain some information. Her character is depicted by Leone as if she is going to be somehow relevant later, yet she is never seen again, and it appears that the only point of the scene was to paint Cleef's Angel Eyes as the villain of the piece, which we already believed him to be anyway. Besides, we get to see him doing far more savage stuff later; do we really need this scene to get people on-side and think of him as a baddie? It's not only superfluous but in poor taste, feeling exploitative, which is especially telling given its 1966 release year.