6. McDonald's - Mac & Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdvO0tmNjGo Mac & Me was created as a way to cash in on the success of Steven Spielberg's E.T. That's not something I've thought up by myself to sound like I know about the movie biz: even the director of Mac & Me has openly acknowledged that they set out to create a rip-off. Which makes it... better, I guess? No. Worse. I think it makes it much, much worse. Anyway, the movie itself is a awful as hell. Almost every single scene is guilty of at least eight to fifteen crimes against cinema itself. It's also kind of funny, in that "it's so bad it's good" sort of way. I think. One of the most interesting things about Mac & Me, though, is that it was bought and paid for by the McDonald's corporation. Seriously. Look at the title of the movie, for Christ's sake. Is there a word in there that seems like something you might be able to order in one of their many, delicious, fairly-priced and superior fast food outlets? (I was not paid to write that, I swear). But as a result of this cruel sponsorship, McDonald's presumably asked the writer to ensure that there was at least one scene that took place entirely inside a McDonald's restaurant The sequence in the video above is what they came up with. It has no context, no reason to exist - worst of all, it goes on for what feels like an age. It's hard to derail a movie as bad as Mac & Me. You'd need a scene so out of place and so insane that the rest of the movie begins to feel like it might've been constructed by Robert McKee. And this is absolutely that scene. Absolutely, it is.