9 Insanely Misjudged Moments That Totally Ruined Movies
6. The Stripper's Death - Rough Night
Rough Night was a movie that attempted to replicate The Hangover formula, with a group of friends going on a wild night out that ends in disaster.
In this case, it's a group of ladies who decide to take Scarlett Johansson's Jess out partying, a sort of "one last ride" boozefest before she gets married. At first, the film is an adequately entertaining and harmless comedy that shows the ladies dancing, drinking, and generally just having a good time, but things take a much more uncomfortable turn when the stripper they hire (who turns out to be an impostor) ends up getting brutally murdered after hitting his head on the corner of a fireplace.
The movie was clearly going for black comedy here, but it actually ends up feeling way too dark instead: the thudding sound when his head smacks the fireplace, the massive streak of fresh blood wiped across the tiles... it's just too much, and you can't help but feel like the movie would've been better off toning things down a bit, or perhaps just hospitalising the poor guy instead of spilling his brains all over the floor.
2018's Game Night was a comedy that proved far better at balancing darker elements with a ridiculous plot, something that Rough Night just couldn't pull off.