20 Awesome Moments From TERRIBLE Recent Movies

While even the very best movies aren't perfect, it's also fair to say that even most terrible movies aren't completely without some shred of merit. 

And every so often, an otherwise awful film might even stumble upon brilliance for just a single scene.

Perhaps that scene is so damn great it leaves you wondering where the hell all this energy, creativity, and enthusiasm was for the rest of the movie.

And that's definitely the case with these 20 recent films, each of which were largely panned by critics and audiences for their sloppy filmmaking and simple failure to entertain above all else.

But each has a solitary scene or one-off moment that left everyone perking up and hoping it signalled a vibe shift from this point forward.

But sadly, these scenes were just a fleeting blip of excellence before the film got back to bad business as usual. 

In the very least, they're proof perfect that even the worst-looking movie might be able to deliver something worthwhile, even if it hardly justifies sitting through the rest of the film to see it...

The live-action Moana just might be the most soulless and creatively bankrupt of all the Disney remakes - a film that matches its utter lack of "necessity" with a bafflingly sterile sense of style that feels painfully inferior to the 2016 animated original.

There's only a single moment that captures even a fraction of the original's vibrancy, and that's the spirited rendition of iconic tune "You're Welcome," as Maui (Dwayne Johnson) introduces himself to Moana (Catherine Laga'aia).

Despite so many ill-advised creative decisions working against the film, it can't help but strike gold here thanks to the song's inherent catchiness and the energetic, visually lively rendition of the number, complete with some gorgeous 2D and 3D animation.

But it's ultimately just a few minutes of respite in an otherwise inexplicably bland retelling of a classic animation nobody was really asking for. 

At least it flopped badly enough at the box office that Disney almost certainly won't attempt to remake Moana 2.